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Losing Your Identity Through Your Attitude. What Is Your Attitude Toward Bible Warnings?. Do We Treat Bible Warnings As Less Important Than Sin?. SIN. WARNING. Do We Treat Warnings Like A Caution Light and Speed Up!. How Should We View Warnings From God?. Disregard? Speed Up? Slow Down?
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Do We Treat Bible WarningsAs Less Important Than Sin? SIN WARNING
How Should We ViewWarnings From God? • Disregard? • Speed Up? • Slow Down? • Prepare to Stop? • Put On the Brakes?
Habitual Wine-Drinkers Prov 23:20 Do not mix with winebibbers, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat; NKJV
Wine Is A Mocker Prov 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise. (NKJ)
Wine Enslaves the Heart Hosea 4:11 "Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart. (NKJ)
Woe To Those ... Intoxicating Drink Isa 5:11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may follow intoxicating drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them! (NKJ)
Erred Through Wine ...Stumble In Judgment Isa 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through intoxicating drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through intoxicating drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. (NKJ)
Drink and Forget the Law Prov 31:4-5 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes intoxicating drink; Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the justice of all the afflicted. (NKJ)
Woe and Sorrow Prov 23:29-30 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who linger long at the wine, those who go in search of mixed wine. (NKJ)
Do Not Drink Wine Lev 10:8-10 Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, saying: "Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean, (NKJ)
John the Baptist to Abstain from Wine and Strong Drink Luke 1:15 "For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb. (NKJ)
Elders Not Given to Wine Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, (NKJ)
Deacons Not Given to Much Wine 1 Tim 3:8 Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money, (NKJ)
Older Women Not Given To Much Wine Titus 2:3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things-- (NKJ)
Timothy Told to Use a Little Wine 1 Tim 5:23 No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities. (NKJ)
Out Attitude Should Be Like Timothy. We Should Treat the Warning Like A Red Light!
Be Sober and Vigilant 1 Pet 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. (NKJ) Vine defines “sober” as “to be free from the influence of intoxicants.”
Naked and Not Ashamed(Before Eating the Forbidden Fruit) Gen 2:25 And they were bothnaked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. (NKJ)
Because I Was Naked Gen 3:10 So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself." (NKJ)
Nakedness and Shame Rev 16:15 "Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame." (NKJ)
Uncover = Shame Jer 13:26 Therefore I will uncover your skirts over your face, that your shame may appear. (NKJ)
Made Themselves Coverings Gen 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. (NKJ)
God Clothed Them With Tunics Gen 3:21 Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. (NKJ)
Naked Is Not Covered Lev 18:6 'None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to him, to uncover his nakedness: I am the LORD. (NKJ)
Noah Became Uncovered Gen 9:21-23 Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness. (NKJ)
Nakedness Exposed On Steps Exod 20:26 'Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.' (NKJ)
Covered From Waist to Thighs Exod 28:42 "And you shall make for them linen trousers to cover their nakedness; they shall reach from the waist to thethighs. (NKJ)
Uncovered Thigh Was Naked Isa 47:2-3 Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, take off the skirt, uncover the thigh, pass through the rivers. Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, and I will not arbitrate with a man." (NKJ)
Modest Apparel 1 Tim 2:9-10 in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works. (NKJ)
Lewdness Defined • Unbridled lust or sensuality • Lasciviousness (KJV, ASV) • Licentiousness (RSV)
Lewdness A Work of the Flesh Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, (NKJ)
Being Past Feeling Eph 4:19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. (NKJ)
They Did Not Know How To Blush Jer 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time I punish them, they shall be cast down," says the LORD. (NKJ)
Christians Don’t Run With Others 1 Pet 4:3-4 For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles-- when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. (NKJ)
Make No Provision for the Flesh Rom 13:13-14 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not inrevelry and drunkenness, not in lewdnessand lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. (NKJ)
“It’s Okay To Look” ??? Matt 5:28 "But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (NKJ)
Keep Unspotted from the World James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. (NKJ)
Friendship with the World James 4:4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friendof the world makes himself an enemyof God. (NKJ)