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St. Patrick's Day
A good day to get drunk?
So what is the purpose of this
holiday called Saint Patty's Day? Well if you observe most people who
celebrate it, who really are in love with this day, the purpose is quite
simple... to drink until you get drunk... to celebrate drunkenness.
But did you ever stop to consider what God thinks about all this? Do you
think that He put you here on this earth to waste time and money, to destroy
your health and your family? Just take a look at all the "blessings" and
"joy" that alcohol provided for these people: |
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1. Bob ended up in the hospital with
internal bleeding twice in the year that he died. He died at age 36 when
he threw up in his sleep and suffocated in his own vomit, just a day or
two after proposing to his girlfriend to be married.
2. Bill loved his beer so much that
he ended up having a stroke that he managed to survive and then a second stroke
that killed him. And what a fine example to his children he was. At
least one of his daughters ended up becoming an alcoholic and because of it,
losing custody of her three girls.
3. Frank loved to drink to the point
where he once sold the tires off of his car to get more booze. And this
lover of alcohol ended up having to put his two kids in an orphanage.
4. Stanley was such an inspiration
to his two sons that they both became alcoholics... just like Dad. And
what a "blessing" to all of their marriages this habit turned out to be.
And these are just some of the
examples in my own family and extended family that I am sharing with you.
No my friend, drinking is something that your friends may think is fun, but it
is something that God hates. He did not put you here to glorify yourself.
You are either here in this world to get ready to spend eternity with a Holy
God, or you are among the great multitudes, carelessly engaging in
self-indulgence, willfully ignorant of the judgment that is rapidly coming upon
you for a lifetime of rebellion against God and His commandments.
"Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." [1 Corinthians 6:9-10]
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