Should a Christian Drink Alcohol? | Rapp Report Daily 0045 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. All week we have been trying to answer a listener's question on whether a
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- Christian can drink alcohol. We've seen already that in the first century they did drink alcohol to kill dysentery.
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- We've seen that Christians can drink without it being a sin, and the proof of it is that Jesus Christ himself drank alcohol, and it couldn't have been a sin because Jesus cannot sin.
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- The question we want to address today is, should a Christian drink alcohol? And I think that there's two things to view with this.
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- One, the context. If a person is drinking alcohol in their own home and they feel they have that liberty and they are not given over to drunkenness, that might be fine.
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- However, we do see precautions in Scripture that if someone is around you that would be struggling with alcohol use, then you should refrain.
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- This is one of the reasons I think it is in bad taste for Christians online to be posting of their alcohol drinking.
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- Even if they believe it is a liberty, I believe that it could cause others to stumble, and we should have such love for our fellow brothers and sisters that we wouldn't want to do anything that would cause them to struggle.
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- My pastor once had someone that left a bottle of champagne in his refrigerator when he moved in the house, and just having it there caused someone to stumble.
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- He poured that out, put it into a brown paper bag, took it all the way to the dump, and threw it out there so he would never cause someone to stumble again.
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- We should take such precautions when it comes to our brothers. This podcast is part of the
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