Transcript Sunday, July 27th, 2014 - Mount Albert Bible Fellowship

Topical Exposition
~ Alcohol ~
Sunday, July 27th, 2014
Nature of Alcohol
What makes a beverage alcoholic?
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A drink that contains 3% - 40% alcohol (ethanol)
3 Classes
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Beers: fermented from grain mash
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Wines: fermented from grapes
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3.
341 ml (12 oz.) = 5% alcohol content
142 ml (5 oz.) = 12% alcohol content
Spirits: produced by distilling ethanol
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43 ml (1.5 oz.) = 40% alcohol content
Effects of Alcohol
Psychoactive Drug
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Chemical substance that crosses the blood-brain
barrier and acts primarily upon the central nervous
system where it affects brain function, resulting in
alterations in;
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Perception
Mood
Consciousness
Cognition
Behaviour
Blood Alcohol Concentration
 The
amount of alcohol in a person’s body,
measured by the amount of alcohol in
blood
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‘0.05’ BAC → 50 milligrams of alcohol in every
100 ml of blood
≤ 0.1% can cause intoxication
0.3% – 0.4% unconsciousness often occurs
≥ 0.5% is commonly fatal
Warnings
 Proverbs
20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and
whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
 Isaiah
5:11-12 & 22
Woe to those who rise early in the morning that
they may run after strong drink, who tarry late
into the evening as wine inflames them!
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine,
and valiant men in mixing strong drink
Command
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Ephesians 5:18
…and do not get drunk with wine, for that is
debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit…
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1 Peter 4:3-4
…for the time that is past suffices for doing what the
Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions,
drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless
idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when
you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery,
and they malign you;