Hello, I'm Lance Wilbur.
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I'm Dwayne Lemon.
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And we'd like to welcome
you to another edition of TKS,
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a True Knowledge of Self,
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where we get to know ourselves
from a biblical perspective.
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Now as we
continue our discussion
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regarding appetite
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but specifically
eating and drinking.
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We've covered a lot of things.
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We've talked about
what the Bible says
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generally about the matter.
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We've discussed
what the Bible says
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specifically about the matter
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and now we've even
touched upon objections,
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common objections when
people say, well, yeah,
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the Bible says this
but what about that?
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Hasn't it changed the rules,
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changed the
instruction that God has given?
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Didn't God make everything clean
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or possible for men to eat,
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or we looked at Acts 10
and saw that, that wasn't so.
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But that vision
that God gave Peter
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was actually referring
to his acceptance of men,
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non-Jewish men.
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The idea that he is not to
call any man common or unclean
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and so he went to the
Roman officer Cornelius' house
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and was able to
deliver a message
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and share space with him,
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with them which previously,
he would never have done
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because it was unlawful
for a Jew to do those things.
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And we saw some other
things about clean and unclean.
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Is it a Jewish principle? No.
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We saw that in the Bible
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all the way back
in the time of Noah.
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There was no Jewish
man existing on the earth
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but there was an understanding
of clean versus unclean.
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And we saw that those things
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are dealing with
healthy versus unhealthy.
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Now, we know in the
inner city communities
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and in the hip-hop culture,
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we're affected
by chronic illness
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and chronic disease
at a rate much higher
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than the general
population statistically,
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and I think and I
know and trust that
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if we were to follow
God's principles of health,
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God's principles of how we
are to govern our body temples
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that we would not see
the massive amount of disease
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and early death that
we see in our communities.
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So I think God has
something here for us
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and it's not
necessarily just for us,
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it's for all of humanity,
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and I think the time has
come for us to take another look
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and not only to take a
look but to actually be willing
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to make some changes,
not by our own will power
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but by the grace
and power of God.
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Now, Dwayne, we are not,
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we spend a lot of
time talking about eating.
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I remember, I
made a point early on,
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in an earlier episode
that the two main things
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that we do as human
beings in the span of our life.
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If we added up all the
hours of the average lifetime,
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we eat and drink, excuse me,
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we eat and sleep
more than anything else.
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And so, you have to
adjust the eating thing
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because people do a lot of it.
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That's right.
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And it is dramatically
affecting our health.
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That's correct.
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And not only is it
affecting our physical health
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but we understand that
it is affecting our mental
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and emotional health,
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and therefore it's
affecting our social health
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and most importantly
our spiritual health.
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That's right.
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So we've made all
these connections.
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We saw, we've
seen all these things.
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What about drinking?
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What about the other things
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that we're
putting into our bodies
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that I used to put into my body,
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you used to put it in your body.
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And in hip-hop
culture, you're not down
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if you don't do certain things.
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That's right.
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You know, there
was a time, I remember
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of course years ago.
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I'm in the world,
I'm doing everything
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that I think is
right in my own eyes
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and I found
myself at a house party.
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In at a house party, you know,
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house parties are
little different than clubs.
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You know, in the
clubs, you have a bar
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and you can just go ahead
and pay for whatever you want
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and get something
to drink or to eat.
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But in a house party,
they just have, maybe a table
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and that table will just
have food there or drinks there
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and you can just
grab whatever you want.
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Well, I remember one
time I was at a party
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and, of course, I love to dance,
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and I find myself
dancing, dancing, dancing
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and it got to a
point I was thirsty
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and I remember
that... I saw this big bowl,
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you know they use these
bowls and this is the time
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when fruit punch,
you know was still a hit.
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The punch bowl.
Yeah, the punch bowl.
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So, you know, here it is that
I'm seeing this bowl of punch
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and I'm like, okay, well,
I'm gonna get some of that
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and what they did
was they would pour cups
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and you have them set
aside so you didn't have to go
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and use the
scooper and just pour,
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you could just
grab a cup and take it.
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Yeah.
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Well, I saw one of
these cups available
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and I took it and
I began to drink it.
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When I drank it,
I realized, I said,
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you know this is
not a fruit punch.
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You know, I know a
fruit punch tasted like,
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know what a Kool-Aid taste like
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but this was
different from all of that.
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So I'm just drinking this
thing but I like it, you know,
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it had a buzz to it, you know
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it's kind of
making me feel good.
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So I start drinking it
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and as I'm
drinking, drinking, drinking,
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they used to have something
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and I'm sure they
still have it today,
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but there was
something called slow jams,
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you know, the
slow songs in this way
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everybody can dance
with their girlfriends
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and get close, you know.
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And I remember,
there was a dance style
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called the running man,
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and the running
man was a dance style,
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you know, you move
real fast, real fast
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and you know, I remember that,
they were playing a slow jam
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and I was doing the running man
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and I just started
doing the running man
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and I just started making
noise and kind of talking silly
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and everything and
walking all throughout the house
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and everybody was
looking at me like I was crazy.
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Yeah.
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Eventually, I kind of
sobered up and I realized,
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I asked somebody
a day or so later.
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I said listen, what
was that in that drink?
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And they said this, that
was something called Cisco
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and they...
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You know, there was
a term that they used
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in the
neighborhood calling Cisco,
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they said Cisco was
equivalent to like liquid crack.
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Yeah, crack juice.
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Crack juice, yeah. Now, hold on.
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Let me get this straight.
So it wasn't fruit punch.
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It was not fruit punch.
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The whole bowl was Cisco.
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The whole bowl
was filled with Cisco.
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So just about all of
us got drunk that night,
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and I can only imagine
what everybody else did
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because I just had
this one cup and I'm dancing
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and I'm going
crazy and eventually,
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I just remember
everything kind of blanking out
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and then I find myself
home and then, next thing,
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you know a day or so later.
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And this is kind of my
introduction to alcohol
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and my father, you know, he
was big on drinking alcohol.
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We would have this big
shelf in the house downstairs
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and he had a lock to it.
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And he would have
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just a lot of different
alcoholic beverages there.
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Just about all the name
brands that you can imagine.
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A liquor cabinet.
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Yeah, just a
liquor cabinet, exactly.
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And I found the
key and I found the key
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and I knew how to be sneaky.
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So I would get the key,
make sure dad wasn't looking.
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Unlock the door
and I started trying
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all these different
alcohols and before you know it,
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I found myself
enjoying these things,
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and alcohol became a
real strong part of my life
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for a period of time.
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And it's interesting
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because even when
you go to a club today,
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when you go to a party
today or what have you,
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it is almost strange
to be in an environment
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where hip-hop
culture is being demonstrated
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specifically through
the music and entertainment,
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and alcohol is not
part of the package.
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Right, and they have something,
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even people who
don't drink normally,
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they have social drinking.
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So I don't drink normally
but, hey, I'm at a party
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and so I'm gonna
have a little wine
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or, hey, I'm at a
party and I'll have a beer.
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I'm gonna have a
little this or little that.
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Even though I
don't normally do it
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but in this
context, in this environment,
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I'm just gonna do it
because that's what you do.
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Exactly.
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So, you know, at this point now,
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I'm looking at
this and I'm saying,
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you know, it's not
just the eating habits
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but it's also
the drinking habits
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that's affecting
society at large,
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specifically the
urban communities
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and definitely in
the hip-hop culture.
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Now, and do we
think it's a coincidence
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that we're talking about
the health and the food aspect.
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Now we're talking
about the alcohol.
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You know, I
watched the documentary,
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I won't mention it, you know,
it's a mainstream documentary
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looking at health in
black America, right.
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Yes.
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And they interview a
lady that lives somewhere in,
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I forget which borough,
it might have been Manhattan
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or maybe it was
Bronx, I'm not sure,
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a certain borough in New York.
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And it's an older
lady and she was explaining
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how she has to take a
two hour ride on the metro
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just to get fresh tomatoes.
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Yeah.
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Yet you can walk in
any borough, in any,
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you know, even the
poorest neighborhoods,
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you know, it seems like
almost every other block
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on some places more
than one on a block,
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liquor stores
all over the place.
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Yeah, isn't that something?
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I mean, you know, and therefore
we have to understand that,
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yes, there are powers that be,
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that are beyond even our
control to a large degree
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anyhow where
there is a debilitation
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that is consistently
being introduced to the people
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in urban
communities and what have you.
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Those things
need to be addressed,
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but there is a
decision we can make right now,
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even if the liquor store is
right down the block for me,
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and again it comes
from true education.
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It comes from
understanding the Word of God,
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because alcohol is responsible
for several accidents
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that we see taking
place throughout our world
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especially in our country,
where individuals get drunk
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and they do drunk driving.
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And then, of
course, we have alcohol
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being behind several of
the most horrific crimes,
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homicides, robberies
and things of that nature.
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So alcohol is a
very destructive drug
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quite honestly, and
yet this is something
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that has become
the regular drink
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for those of us
or those individuals
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who are in the hip-hop culture,
those who may even be involved
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in other forms of new age
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and those who are not
even religious of any kind.
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Right, and for those of
us who used to, you know,
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get into that and be, I
could say, I was alcoholic.
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I drank just about everyday,
you know, as a young child
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going all the
way into my teenage,
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late teenage years.
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You, I guarantee,
those of, you know,
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the viewers and
as in my experience,
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you found yourself doing things,
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some of the worst moments
in your life or doing things
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that you would never do
normally when you were drunk.
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That's right.
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And it almost becomes a joke,
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you say, oh, you
tell the story, oh man
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I was drunk last night and XYZ.
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And but it's, some
of the most grotesque
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and detestable
and destructive things
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that you could do to
yourself or to other people
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happen in that circumstance.
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That's right.
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And you know, we have
to understand our value
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because it's possible
that you can go to somebody
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and say, listen,
when you drink alcohol
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even in moderation, it destroys
thousands of brain cells
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that cannot be revived.
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And when a person can
hear something like that,
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they can say, well,
that's interesting fact
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but they are not moved.
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In other words, I don't care.
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I like it and therefore
I'm gonna go ahead and do it.
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So we have people who
have this kind of mindset
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and that's why
while scientific facts
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definitely hold their place,
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we want to take them
to other facts as well.
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And one of the facts
that I like to present
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to individuals is to
let them know, listen,
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first and foremost,
when God looks at us,
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He looks at us in
a very special way
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and it's found in
the Book of Zechariah 2,
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and I like to talk about this
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because when an
individual can understand
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something about their
value in the eyes of God,
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I believe it helps them
as it relates to, you know,
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how they should be
viewed and how they should,
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you know, function in life.
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Yes.
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In the Book of Zechariah 2,
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I want you to notice
what it says in verse 8.
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Zachariah 2:8.
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The Bible says, "For
thus saith the Lord of hosts:
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after the glory hath he
sent me unto the nations
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which spoiled you:
for he that toucheth you
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toucheth the apple of his eye."
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I always love to let people know
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that God when He looks at us
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and when we are willing
to receive Him in our hearts,
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He looks at us
and He says to us,
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you are the apple of my eye.
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You know, there has been songs
that have come out years ago
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that talk about you
are the apple of my eye
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in secular world.
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And that phraseology
is about you're special,
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you mean something to
me, you are dear to my heart.
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God has made it known to us
that we are dear to His heart.
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That's why He sent His Son.
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While we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
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And we find that God
looks at us and says,
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I find value in you,
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and that's why I was willing
to let My Son die for you.
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So when we look at ourselves,
we have to see ourselves
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through the eyes of God.
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We have to see
that God loves us.
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We have to see
that God looks at us
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and He says, you're
the apple of my eye,
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and not only that
but then God says,
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I also want you
to be My ambassador.
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You know, to be an ambassador,
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you're
representative of a nation.
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Right.
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You know, in this
case, we are representative
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of a heavenly
country and God says that
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I want you to represent Me
when you go to other people
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and therefore when
we go to other people,
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we want to give a
clear picture of who God is,
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so that way when they
behold us by God's grace,
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they can see Christ
in us, the hope of glory.
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We need to let our friends
know in our urban communities
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and in hip-hop
culture to say, listen,
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when Jesus came to this
earth, He had you on His mind.
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Yeah.
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And when He died,
He had you on His mind,
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and when He rose,
He had you on His mind,
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and He said when
He's coming back,
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He has you on his mind.
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So throughout the
ages, God has us on His mind,
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and as a result of that
it should help a value system
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to come into me
that says, listen,
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God has an expectation for
me and by the grace of God,
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I want to be
ready when He comes.
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I want to live for Him.
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And so that's very
important, because, you know,
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that's one of the
tenants, you know,
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that's one of kind of the hooks
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for this knowledge
of self in the street
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and, you know,
all these other groups
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that we talked about
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that, that knowing yourself,
knowing your true identity,
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your true value, your true worth
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and racial pride
and all these things.
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Yeah.
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That's not where
the security lies.
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It's not in racial pride.
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It's not in black power
or whatever other power.
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It's
understanding our true value
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in the sight of God
will give us all those things
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that every human
being needs and desires.
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That's right.
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Now when I understand
that God has called me
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to be an ambassador,
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representative of Him to others,
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then that automatically means
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that there is certain
behaviors about my life
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that should be
different from others.
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So that I can understand that
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I'm not called into
this world for a common task.
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I'm called into this
world for a special task.
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I'm a representative of God.
That's what I'm called to be.
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Now, one of the instructions
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that God gives to
His representatives
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is He says, I want
you to give Me glory.
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Remember, we talked about that
in the first angel's message,
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"Fear God and
give glory to Him."
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One of the ways we
do that practically
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is found in 1 Corinthians 10:31.
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In 1 Corinthians
10:31, the Bible says,
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"Whether therefore ye eat,
or drink, or whatsoever ye do,
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do all to the glory of God."
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So it's not that I'm
just simply to give God glory,
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God says in my
eating and drinking habits,
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I'm also to give him glory.
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Now, that has to be broken down
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because I can either go
through a private interpretation
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or I can go through a
biblical interpretation.
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Yeah.
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I believe the biblical
interpretation is better.
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Okay.
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We saw in Exodus
33:18. We reviewed it.
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And we saw that
Moses came to God and said,
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Lord, show me Your glory.
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God responded by saying,
I'll show you My goodness
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and proclaim My
name in verse 19.
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Then in Exodus 34:5-7,
Gods reveals His glory.
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He reveals His goodness.
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He proclaims His name unto Moses
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and he says the
Lord, the lord God,
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merciful,
gracious, long suffering,
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abundant in goodness and truth,
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keeping mercy for thousands,
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forgiving inequity
and transgression and sin
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and will by no
means clear the guilty,
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visiting the inequity of
the fathers unto the children,
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unto the third
and fourth generation.
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So God is
revealing His character.
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Yes. His character.
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So to give God glory is
to reflect His character.
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Well, now that
I understand that,
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then to eat and
drink to God's glory
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would be to eat and
drink things that enable me
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to reflect God's character.
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Okay.
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To eat and drink things
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that are
reflective of God's character.
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Right, so things
that help and not harm.
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That's right.
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Things that encourage,
not retard the process.
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Well, let's think
about it this way,
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an attribute of God's character.
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God says that He is life.
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Remember that,
Deuteronomy 30:19 and 20.
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Yeah. God says, choose life.
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Verse 20, He says, "I am life."
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John 14:6. John 14:6.
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Jesus says, "I'm the
way, the truth and the life."
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John 11:25, "I am the
resurrection and the life."
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So over and over
again, God says I am life.
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So watch this.
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So then whatever I
eat or whatever I drink
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it should reproduce
life in me, not death.
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Psalms 46:1 and 2,
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"God is our refuge and strength,
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a very present help in trouble."
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So therefore I look
at that and I say, hmm,
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God is my refuge and strength.
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So therefore
whatever I eat or drink,
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it should strengthen
my body not weaken it.
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Another one, God says
in 1 Corinthians 14:33,
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He says, "I am not
the author of confusion,
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but of peace, as
in all the churches."
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So if I put something in my body
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that puts my body in
a state of confusion,
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I know that I can say,
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wait a minute, this is not good.
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If I put something in my
system that causes my heart
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to begin to have
unnatural beat rhythm,
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so palpitate.
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I can say, wait a minute,
I don't think this food item
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is something I
should be putting in me.
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It puts my body in
a state of confusion.
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But God says,
I'm a God of peace,
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so therefore whatever I
put inside of my system,
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it should keep my body
in a state of peaceful,
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normalcy that my
body can function,
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the way God had designed it.
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This is eating or
drinking to the glory of God.
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So now, I look at
alcohol and I say,
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well, does alcohol fit the bill.
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Yes.
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Well, Proverbs 20
has an answer for that.
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Let's go to Proverbs
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and we're gonna
look at chapter 20
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and let's notice
what the Bible says.
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Proverbs 20
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and we're gonna look
just at Proverbs 20:1
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and here is what it says.
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It says, "Wine is a
mocker, strong drink is raging:
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and whosoever is
deceived thereby is not wise."
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The Bible is clear that wine
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and in this context
it's speaking of alcohol,
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'cause we gonna look that
word wine in just a moment.
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Yeah.
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When speaking of alcohol,
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it's talking about that
it has a mocking effect.
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Now, we know that
God does not represent
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such a character as this.
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We know, there is one
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however who was a
mocker, is that right?
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Yeah.
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So therefore wine is a
mocker, strong drink is raging
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and whosoever is
deceived thereby is not wise.
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Right, and essential that theme
there is not wise, you know,
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we've been speaking about
that almost every episode.
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That's right.
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The true wisdom
of God, the knowledge
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and the true knowledge of self,
if you partake of these things,
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it's the opposite.
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That's right.
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So this is why we
have to understand
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that God is trying to introduce
a thought process to us
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that when I drink,
I'm to drink to His glory.
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His glory is His character.
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So whatever I drink,
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it should reproduce
His character within me.
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It should have
something about it
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that helps me understand
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or tells of the
experience of God's character.
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When I drink water it
has a cleansing effect.
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That's what
water does to the body.
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It cleanses, it
hydrates and it cleanses out.
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So it is that
Jesus, in His character,
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He is one whose
blood cleanses us from sin.
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So I can look at water
and say, I can see benefits
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that come from
this that are in harmony
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with the
attributes of God's character.
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But when I look at
alcohol, it's a mocker,
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it's raging and it's deceptive.
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None of that is
reflective of God's character.
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So why would I want to
drink something like that.
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Right. Proverbs 23.
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In Proverbs 23:29-35,
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it also talks about
alcohol and its effects upon us.
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And here's what it
says, Proverbs 23:29-35.
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It says, "Who hath woe?
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Who hath sorrow?
Who hath contentions?
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Who hath babbling? Who
hath wounds without cause?
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Who hath redness of eyes?
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They that tarry
long at the wine:
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They that go to seek mixed wine.
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Look not thou upon
the wine when it is red,
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when it giveth
his color in the cup,
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when it moveth itself aright.
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At the last it
biteth like a serpent,
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and stingeth like an adder.
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Thine eyes shall
behold strange women,
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and thine heart shall
utter perverse things.
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Yea, thou shalt be
as he that lieth down
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in the midst of the sea,
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or as he that lieth
upon the top of a mast.
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They have stricken
me, shalt thou say,
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and I was not sick,
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they have beaten
me, and I felt it not.
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When shall I awake? I
will seek it yet again."
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I mean, this is
literally the story
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of the experience of alcohol.
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I know, you got experiences.
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Well, I mean, we've gone
through these experiences,
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the strange women and
finding yourself in places,
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you're saying, where am I?
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The redness of eyes. Yeah.
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All of these effects
that come upon an individual
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when God's Word all
along says, don't do this.
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And then you sober
up and do it again.
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And then you sober up
and then we seek it again.
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Where is some
more, where is some more?
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But that's because it's a drug
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and it's having
chemical reactions in us
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that creates, you know,
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an addiction
towards these things.
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And so we find that the Bible,
I believe is very clear on it
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that God does not want us
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to partake of this type of drink
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because it's not to His glory
and whatever God gives to us,
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it should be for His glory.
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Now of course,
you're gonna have people
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who will say, "Didn't
Jesus turn the water into wine?"
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Yeah.
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That's what
people are gonna say.
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They say, "Jesus turned
water into wine in John 2."
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Now this is why the word
wine has to be understood,
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because when you
look up the word wine,
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especially, if you look
it up in the New Testament,
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the Greek word oinos,
when you look up that word,
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it actually can
apply both to alcohol
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or non-alcohol
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or unfermented grape juice.
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Alcohol is basically the
fermentation of the grapes.
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It's going
through a rotting process
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and eventually the
alcohol content builds up
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and hence it becomes
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more of this
poisonous type of substance.
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But more so, grape juice,
we know is that which is fresh.
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Yeah.
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Now the question is,
which one did Jesus give
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because the word can
go in either direction.
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It can either be alcohol
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or it can also go
in the other direction.
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It can be grape juice.
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I believe, it's
very simple to find out
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which one did Jesus provide.
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Okay.
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When we study
the Bible carefully,
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we will find that Jesus
did not just come on the scene
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amongst human beings
when He was born through Mary.
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Jesus was very
interactive with humanity
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before the birth.
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The way we know that is
when you read 1 Corinthians 10.
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In 1 Corinthians
10:1-4, the Bible shows
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that when the children of
Israel were leaving Egypt,
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it says, as they left Egypt,
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you know they went
through the Red Sea.
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It says, eventually
they were going and it says,
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and there was a
rock that followed them
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and it says and
that rock was Christ.
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That's in 1 Corinthians 10:4.
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So the rock that,
that followed them,
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it says that rock was
none other than Jesus Christ.
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So Jesus was interactive
with the people of God
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because Jesus did not
begin His existence with Mary.
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He preexisted that.
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Now understanding
that principle then,
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that means that the same
Jesus who was with His people
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while they were on their journey
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from even Egypt to Canaan land,
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guiding and
instructing and so on,
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it's the same Jesus
that was with Solomon
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when Solomon was inspired
to write wine is a mocker
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and strong drink is raging.
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Yeah.
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All scriptures come
by inspiration of God.
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So as a result of that,
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would God one
minute say to Solomon,
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tell everybody
that wine is a mocker,
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strong drink is raging,
when you look at the redness,
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don't look upon
it, don't drink it,
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don't do this, don't do that.
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Would God give those
instructions in one place
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and then at a wedding,
which by the way marriage
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is a holy institutions
that existed before sin
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even touched this earth.
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Would God at such
a holy institution
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now go ahead and
literally give to the people
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the very thing
that He inspired others
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to tell them was
poisonous, I think not.
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It makes no sense.
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There is no
variableness with God,
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the Bible says in James 1:17.
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So therefore I believe
firmly that there is no way
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anyone can truly say
that Jesus provided alcohol.
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However, in Isaiah 65,
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the Bible does say
something about wine.
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Let's notice this one.
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"Thus saith the Lord,
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as the new wine is
found in the cluster
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and one saith, destroy it
not for a blessing is in it:
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so will I do for
my servants sakes
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that I may not
destroy them all."
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The Bible shows
that there is a wine
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that is definitely
a mocker and is raging
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and is deceptive and
all these other things
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that we read in Proverbs.
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That's the alcohol, that's
the fermented grape juice.
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But in this case,
this is the grape that's...
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This is the juice
that's coming out of the grape
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while it was
still in its cluster.
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So this is dealing
with the fresh grape juice.
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Yeah.
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And the Bible says that
there is a blessing in it.
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When Jesus came to the wedding,
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we find no evidence that
He wanted to condemn or curse.
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He wanted to bless and He did.
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And so we find that
consistent with Bible teaching,
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consistent with God's character,
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He would have
provided grape juice
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in comparison to alcohol.
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Another point that's
very important is remember,
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Jesus uses wine to
also reference His blood.
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Remember that the Bible
says in 1 Corinthians 11
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when Jesus, when the
Bible talks about communion
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and it talks
about how when we drink,
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the drink it was to be a
representation of God's blood
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or the blood of
Christ that was spilled.
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And so we find that
the blood of Christ,
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1 John 1:7 cleanses us from sin.
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Yeah.
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So we would dare
not use something
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that God associates
with sin like alcohol
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to suddenly say that
this is representative
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of the blood of Christ.
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So the blood of
Christ has a cleansing,
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a purifying ability
to it or a power to it
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and therefore it is
consistent that the grape juice
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would have been
that what Jesus provided
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in comparison to, you know,
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these alcoholic type of
items that many people think.
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Right.
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In fact, when we
really think about it,
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if we carefully study the Bible,
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you will find that
the Bible records history
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of individuals
who partook of alcohol
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and the detrimental things
that took place thereafter.
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You have Belshazzar in Daniel 5.
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And Belshazzar, he was
there, taking the vessels of God
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and filling it with alcohol
and then he was drinking it,
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and it was on that same
night of that festive party
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while they were all
drunk that the Bible says
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Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin.
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You have been
weighed in the balances
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and you have been found wanting
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and his kingdom was
gonna be went from him.
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You also have the story
in the Book of Leviticus 10
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specifically verses 8-10,
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and it talks about
the children of the priest
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that was supposed to
be the servants of God,
00:26:58.08\00:27:00.38
but as a result of
partaking of alcohol,
00:27:00.42\00:27:03.32
their minds
became so debilitated
00:27:03.35\00:27:05.59
that they began to profane
the very worship service of God
00:27:05.62\00:27:08.82
and they offered strange
fire in comparison to God's fire
00:27:08.86\00:27:12.69
and they were
consumed on that very day
00:27:12.73\00:27:15.30
in the sanctuary as a
result of this horrible act.
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Of course, we have
Noah in Genesis 9:21-25.
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And in that story we find also
00:27:23.51\00:27:25.57
that Noah was
partaking of alcohol
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and here it is this
deplorable thing took place
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amidst even his own children.
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Absolutely powerful, brother.
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And we want to
encourage you to come again
00:27:35.12\00:27:38.59
and see what God
is willing to teach us
00:27:38.62\00:27:42.62
if we are willing
to learn and listen.
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Thank you for watching
TKS, a True Knowledge of Self.
00:27:45.13\00:27:48.13
And remember in
Proverbs 2:6, it says,
00:27:48.16\00:27:50.37
"It is the Lord who gives wisdom
00:27:50.40\00:27:52.33
and out of His mouth comes
knowledge and understanding."
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God bless you.
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