All right, go ahead and turn up open your bibles to Proverbs chapter 20 Proverbs chapter 20
And let's pray real quick dear Lord. Thank you for this day. Thank you for this past year, Lord
I pray that you just fill me with boldness fill me with your Holy Spirit
Help me to get across what you'd like me to get across today Lord in Jesus name. I pray amen
All right. Well today is New Year's Eve and Proverbs 21 or 20 verse 1 is a very fitting verse for this day
Proverbs chapter 20 verse 1 wine is a mocker strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived
Thereby is not wise and the title my sermon is the foolishness of alcohol the foolishness of alcohol
Like I said today's New Year's Eve and today is the number one day of the year for the most alcohol consumed in the entire year
If you look at the statistics of alcohol sales in the month of December
Doubles or triples every other month of the year for alcohol sales
according to the National Institute of Health
70% of American adults drink at least once a year and if there's one day of the year where people are gonna be drinking alcohol
It's gonna be tonight on New Year's Eve
Not only that 37% of teenagers are allowed to drink in front of their parents
That's not even including the teenagers who are hiding it from their parents who have no idea about it
So what does that tell me that tells me that more than likely over three-quarters of our country is drinking themselves drunk tonight
Excuse me. Um, so like I said more likely over three quarters of our country drinking tonight and tonight people's lives
Will be ruined because of alcohol
Oh and also just a fun fact December 25th is the second highest day of alcohol consumption in the year Christmas days
That's also really sad
So three ways tonight that people will ruin their lives by alcohol turn over to Proverbs chapter 23 just a page to your right
Proverbs chapter 23 verse 29 Bible reads who hath woe who hath sorrow who hath
Intentions who hath babblings who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of eyes they that tarry long at the wine they that go
To seek mixed wine look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it give it this color in the cup when it move
It itself or a right and so number one the first way people are gonna ruin their lives tonight is
Hundreds of people are gonna lose their lives tonight in a drunk driving accident the Bible says who has woe who has sorrow
Those that Terry long at the wine and you know who has woe and who has sorrow tonight who could have more woe and more sorrow
Tonight than a wife who's never whose husband never comes home from work because he dies by a drunk driver
Who could have more sorrow and who could have more woe than children whose parents never come home from their date night out?
Because they're killed by some drunk on the road who could have more woe and more sorrow than their wife that never comes home
From the grocery store because she's killed by some derelict drunk that gets behind the wheel of a car and kills her
you know the Bible prescribes woe and sorrow to those that tarry long at the wine and that look at the wine and that's
Why the Bible says be not among them that are given a wine don't even be among them because
Woe and sorrow is not just prescribed to those who drink alcohol
Woe and sorrow is going to be to every single person who's around them because the sin of alcohol the foolishness of alcohol
Will never just affect you and you know you think about those young kids parents die in a car crash
How long is that gonna affect them? They're gonna live as orphans the rest of their life
How long of a chain reaction is that gonna cause how much misery and woe and sorrow is that gonna cause on someone's life?
Because some idiot got behind a wheel they decided to drink alcohol turn Isaiah chapter 5, please
Isaiah chapter 5 verse 11
Woe unto them that shall rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink that continue until night till wine and
Wine and flame them woe unto them that call evil good verse 20
Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and
Sweet for bitter woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink
And you know what I say tonight woe unto the pathetic loser that would love to start and end their year by drinking alcohol
Woe unto the pathetic scum that would get behind the wheel of a car and risk other people's loved ones
Because you want to have a good time and you want to you know, have a good time, you know
It's not really a good time to destroy your vehicle. It's not really a good time to be maimed for life
You know, it's not really a good time to die and it's especially not really a good time to kill innocent people
You know, that's why the Bible says woe unto them, you know, brother
I just preached Matthew 23 and we learned that woe is extreme, you know warning. Woe is not a light word
Woe is a serious deal and Bible says woe unto them that are around this kind of stuff
You know, it's a horrible sin and it doesn't say, you know, it doesn't say woe unto them that get drunk
It says won't them that look, you know, it says look not thou on the wine
You know and Christians should not be drinking moderately Christians should not even be looking at alcohol
Not at all woe unto these derelicts next door. They're gonna start their year drinking alcohol, you know
You know how I want to start and end my year by being right here in church
I like to start my year by preaching God's Word by reading the Bible by being around God's people being around people that I love
And and by praying for God's blessing on my life for next year praying that God will bless and let us continue to do God's work
You know, that's how I want to start my year. I don't want to start my year puking my guts out in a toilet
You know around a bunch of filth. That's not how I want to start my year
I want to start my year doing the things of God, you know, but these losers out here
You know these people around us on this block
You know
The sad thing is some of them aren't even gonna make it to next year because some of them are gonna die tonight
Some of them probably will die tonight on the door on the drive home in a drunk driving accident
Some of them are gonna die tonight in a hospital from alcohol poisoning. That's not how I want to start my year
Go to Proverbs chapter 23 again Proverbs chapter 23
Proverbs chapter 23 look there again at verse 31 and my second point is people tonight will ruin their lives with fornication and adultery
Verse 31 look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth this color in the cup when it move it
This is itself a right at the last it bite it like a serpent and stingeth like an out adder
Thine eyes shall behold strange women. Let's read that again. Thine eyes shall behold strange women and hey thine eyes
Shall behold strange women and thine heart shall pervert utter perverse things
Yet thou shalt be like he that lieth down in the midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top of a mask
They have stricken me shout out saying I was not sick
They have beaten me and I felt it not when I shall awake
I will seek it yet again and you know tonight people are gonna drink alcohol and everyone knows listen up kids
Everyone knows the first thing that that goes when you drink alcohol is your judgment and tonight
People are gonna betray the people they love
People are gonna betray their husbands and their wives and the people that they promised to keep themselves only unto them so long as they shall live
They're gonna betray that tonight because they're gonna drink alcohol not all of them are gonna go out planning to do it
But I'm telling you the Bible says thine eyes shall
Behold strange women and thine eyes shall utter perverse things. These are things that not might happen to you
They will happen to you if you play around with this stuff
You will ruin your life you go out and you commit fornication
You think you're just gonna have a you know, a fun night drinking alcohol next thing
You know you wake up in the morning and you now have an STD that's with you for the rest of your life
You now have a bastard child
Congratulations for your bastard child, you know now you've betrayed those that you love and now you have God's wrath on your life, too
So that's something you also get to look forward to not only that
There's all sorts of sexual sins that happens on on New Year's Eve. And when you drink why because you're around a bunch of drunks
Hey women ladies, listen up. You're around a bunch of drunks at a party. You might just get raped
Does that sound like fun because oh you say wow, how do you say that? That's reality
That's how many women get raped every year because of alcohol who knows?
I don't even want to know and then a chain reaction to that after all the sexual perversion and sins have happened
What is a lot of people's answer to vote to that abortion all because of alcohol the very root cause of this is
Alcohol turn to Genesis chapter 19
We get a really disgusting story in the Bible of what alcohol can do to your life Genesis chapter 19
Let's see if this is the road you want to go down. Let's see if this is something you want to play around with
Genesis 19 verse 30 and lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountain and his two daughters with him for he feared
to dwell in Zoar and he dwelt in a cave he and his two daughters
So this is lots of daughters and the firstborn said unto the younger our father is old and there is not a man in the earth
To come in unto us after the manner of all the earth come let us make our father drink wine
And we will lie with him that way me that we may preserve seed of our father
And you know what it's pretty good chance that your daughter's gonna be ending up whores if you drink alcohol
So I mean I would guess that lot drink alcohol if he lived in Sodom
And what does the Bible call it the vine of Sodom you know so that's a great way to get your daughters to turn out
To be total whores is drink alcohol not only that you know their plan was to get him drunk
So that they can lay with their own father, and then it says there in verse 31
I'm sorry verse 33
And they made their father drink wine that night and the firstborn went in and laid with her father
And he perceived it not when she laid down or when she arose is that where you want to be in your life?
Where you don't even realize that your own daughter is doing this unto you. That's where alcohol is gonna take you
Just imagine that for a second. It's disgusting
Not only that like I said the Bible calls alcohol the vine of Sodom turn to Habakkuk chapter 2
Habakkuk chapter 2 towards the end of the Old Testament
Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 15 the Bible says woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink that put it thy bottle to him
That makest him drunken also that thou mayst look on their nakedness. You know, what's a great tool that sodomites
Homosexuals pedophiles used to prey on people alcohol. It's always been their MO
This has always been their game plan and you don't want to be in a situation
Where you have your guard down you have your inhibitions down so that some filthy faggot could take advantage of you because that's what happens
That's the reality of alcohol. It's not like the commercials you see on the hella vision. This is the reality of alcohol
abortion rape fornication
adultery
Homosexuality, that's the reality of alcohol and I want nothing to do with it
Hebrews chapter 13 verse 4 says marriage is honorable and all and the bed undefiled but whoremongers and
Adulterers adulterers God will judge and you know at the very least if no if none of those happens to you
God will get you in some point in this life because you know
God promised to chase in his children and if you as a child of God go out and drink alcohol
He will chase in you number three turn to first Corinthians chapter 6 first Corinthians chapter 6. My last point is that
Alcohol is ruining people's lives tonight by destroying their health first Corinthians chapter 6 verse 19
The Bible reads what know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you
Which he have of God and you're not your own for you are bought with the price
Therefore glorify God in your body which is God or in your spirit, which are God's and I just want to read to you
This is from National Institute of Health most everyone's gonna know this in here
But especially kids listen to what what is just scientific facts of what is gonna happen to your body when you drink alcohol
You know if the wrath of God isn't enough for you, then hopefully this will be too
You know it lowers your brain's ability to function. It makes you an idiot pretty much. It makes you completely stupid it
Hard it's hard enough in this world to stand against the devil and all that we have to stand up for when you're not drunk
How much the more when you ruin your brain by drinking alcohol number two it affects your mood and behaviors
On your heart it causes stretching and drooping of the heart irregular heartbeat stroke high blood pressure
Your liver it just basically causes your liver to stop working your liver isn't meant to process that much poison into your body
And that's that's what alcohol does causes your liver to basically stop working
Causes pancreas your pancreas to produce toxins it causes your pancreas to produce toxins into your body and your bloodstream
Causing your blood vessels to swell it causes cancer of the mouth esophagus throat liver breast
You're more likely to get cancer from drinking alcohol than you even are from chewing tobacco
From drinking alcohol weakens your immune system causes you to get all sorts of other illnesses. It makes you fat man
It lowers your testosterone. It makes you fat. That's where the beer belly comes from
Okay, turn to Proverbs chapter 31 Proverbs chapter 31 almost done here Proverbs chapter 31
Look down there at verse number four. It is not for Kings Oh Lemuel
It is not for Kings to drink wine
nor princes strong drink lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of
Any of the afflicted and you know what our bodies of the temple of the Holy Spirit
We're kings and priests through God in Christ Jesus, and you know what it's not for Kings. It's not for us to drink alcohol
It's not for us to be given to wine. You know who it's for it's for sodomites
You know who it's for it's for rapists and people that have such a low regard of life that they'd get behind a wheel on
New Year's Eve and kill people you know who it's for
derelict losers
Idiots scum those are the types of people that drink alcohol. It's not for Kings Oh Christian
It's not for priests Oh Christian to drink alcohol, and you know what you know maybe your parents kids
Maybe they drank alcohol because they didn't hear preaching like this or they weren't even saved
And maybe they got away with it with very little you know effects on their life
But you will not be as lucky
You will get the full judgment of God in your life, and you better be afraid of that kids
You better never even look at alcohol never look at alcohol spend your New Year's Eve from now
And from every year on with God's people not doing this filth of the world, so let's pray dear Lord
Thank you for this day. Thank you for this year God
I just thank you that we're able to spend our New Year's with the joy of the Lord and we don't have to find our joy
By drinking alcohol and committing all sorts of filthy sins God. I pray that next year
You would just bestow your blessings upon us God
I pray that you just fill the next preacher with your spirit and that you'd help none of us to ever drink alcohol in
Our lives in Jesus name. I pray amen