Have you ever read this headline? “Man wins Nobel Prize, Alcohol use suspected” I guessing not. Because any time you read an article that says something about alcohol use suspected it is usually it a tragedy, a crime or some foolish and dangerous action. Statics bear this out. Alcohol abuse was a factor in forty percent of violent crimes committed in the U.S. Alcohol is implicated in more than 100,000 deaths annually. Forty percent of convicted rape and sexual assault offenders said that they were drinking at the time of their crime. Alcohol plays a part in up to half of water-related fatalities of adolescents and adults each year. It is no wonder the Bible speaks it against it. Proverbs 20:1 tells us what statics have borne out “Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.”
Ok, I know you have seen the image. A lion tamer enters in the cage of the beast and forces it to obey his commands using a whip, a gun and a chair. Now you can see how the whip and gun could come in handy but you might be wondering why a chair would intimidate an animal as powerful as a lion? Clyde Beatty taming a lion with a chair It's not that the lion is afraid of the chair -- it's that the lion is confused by the chair. Cats are single-minded, and the points of the chair's four legs bobbing around confuse the lion enough that it loses its train of thought. Casually put, the chair distracts the lion from wanting to claw the lion tamer's face off. The powerful creature could destroy the chair in moment’s notice but instead it is distracted into submission. It’s not too much different than how Satan controls us today. By the power of God we could overcome anything that he would use to subdue us. We can overcome the evil one (1 st John 2:13-14). ...
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