NEWSTART +6 – Temperance (Part 4) Alcohol

3 John 2 – “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”

“…Disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health. In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected.” Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system.” {MH 127.1}

“Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, PROPER DIET, the use of water, trust in divine power--these are the true remedies. Every person should have a knowledge of nature's remedial agencies and how to apply them. It is essential both to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the sick and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly to use this knowledge.” {MH 127.2}

“We should educate ourselves, not only to live in harmony with the laws of health, but to teach others the better way…” (CG 361.2)

“…Become more intelligent in regard to the laws of life. . . .”  {11MR 187.3}

EDUCATE IN REGARD TO THE LAWS OF LIFE:

“…Educate people in regard to the laws of life…” {GCDB, January 30, 1893 par. 2}

WHY?

“…so that they may know how to preserve health…”  {MM 259.3)

“It is as truly a sin to violate the laws of our being as it is to break the ten commandments. To do either is to break God's laws.”  {CD 17.3}

“…It is the duty of every person, for his own sake, and for the sake of humanity, to inform himself in regard to the laws of life and conscientiously to obey them…” (MH 128.1)

“True religion and the laws of health go hand in hand. It is impossible to work for the salvation of men and women without presenting to them the need of breaking away from sinful gratifications, which destroy the health, debase the soul, and prevent divine truth from impressing the mind…”  (7T 137.1)

“You are to apply the laws of life and health to your own case. In violating the laws of health…you misrepresent your maker…” {KC 20.4}

BIBLE:

“And every man that striveth for the mastery is TEMPERATE IN ALL THINGS…” (1 Corinthians 9:25)

***Temperance is one of the fruits of the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23, 1 Cor. 6:19-20 and 1 Cor. 3:16-17)

SOP:

“God's people are to learn the meaning of temperance in all things. They are to practice temperance in eating and drinking and dressing…” {Te 138.5}

WHAT IS TEMPERANCE?

“…True temperance teaches us to dispense entirely with everything hurtful, and to use judiciously that which is healthful…” (Te 138.2)

“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge TEMPERANCE; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.” (2 Peter 1:4-9)

Proverbs 20:1 – “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”

Proverbs 23:29-35 – ²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? ³⁰ They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. ³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. ³² At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. ³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. ³⁴ Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. ³⁵ They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

#H3196 – Yayin (yah-yin) = from an unused root mean to effervesce; wine (as fermented) by impl. Intoxication

#H8492 – tiyrowsh (tee-roshe) OR tiyrosh (tee-roshe) from 3423 = in the sense of expulsion; must or FRESH GRAPE JUICE (as just squeezed out….

NOTE:  Christ would never serve fermented alcohol to people because He would never break His Father’s laws.

“Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!”  (Habakkuk 2:15 and Deut. 32:14)

EXPLAIN ITS HARMFUL EFFECTS:

“…explain the injurious effect of intoxicating drinks...” (C H 463.1}

TEACH TEMPERANCE FROM INFANCY:

See Temperance pages 269.4-270

TEACH THE YOUTH AND CHILDREN THE DANGERS OF ALCOHOL USE:

“...The youth and children should understand the effect of alcohol, tobacco, and other like poisons in breaking down the body, beclouding the mind, and sensualizing the soul. It should be made plain that no one who uses these things can long possess the full strength of his physical, mental, or moral faculties.”  {Ed 202.2}

SOME FACTS ABOUT ALCOHOL:

• More intoxicating liquors are used today than ever used before in history. (Te 23.1)
• According to a Philadelphia judge in the 1800’s, “four-fifths (80%) of crimes committed are traced to the influence of alcohol. (Te 23.2)
• The consumption of alcohol and the shedding of blood go hand-in-hand. (Te 23.2)
• Nine-tenths (90%) of those taken to prison are those who have learned how to drink. (Te 23.3)
• While intoxicated, every degree of crime has been committed. (Te 25.1)
• Houses of prostitution, dens of vice, criminal courts, prisons, almshouses, insane asylums, hospitals,
• all are, to a great degree, filled as a result of the liquor seller's work.” (Te 24.3)
• Upon those who have been given the greatest light rests the solemn responsibility of bringing the scriptures forth that show what the condition of the world will be in the last days.

      AND

• To raise their voices in protest against the sanctioning of alcohol. (Te 27.2)
• “In every phase of the liquor-selling business, there is dishonesty and violence…” (Te 27.3)
• Every year, millions upon millions of gallons of alcohol are consumed. (Te 28.2)
• Every year, millions upon millions of dollars are spent on alcohol. (Te 28.2)
• “The cries of the starving millions in our world would be hushed if the money spent on alcohol was spent in alleviating the sufferings of humanity.” (Te 29.3)
• “Moderate drinking is the school in which men are receiving an education for the drunkard’s career.”  (Te 30.4)
• Alcohol consumption destroys homes.
• Many wives abused by the husband who drinks alcohol.
• Many families hungry because the home money spent on alcohol.
• Marriage vows destroyed. (Te 31.3)
• The drunkard has no knowledge of what he does while under the influence of alcohol. (Te 32.6), YET
• He is responsible for his guilt because he chose to drink the alcohol. (Te 33.2/35.2)
• People who drink are for the moment made demons while under the influence. (Te 36.3)
• Among the victims of alcohol consumption are men of all classes and all professions. (Te 36.5-37)
• Satan is worshipped by the people consuming the alcohol.
• Those who sell alcohol to their fellow men will have to answer to God. (Te 40.2/41.2-.3)
• God needs people who will rebuke liquor drinking. (Te 35.5)
• Unless a helping hand is held out to the drunkards, they will sink lower and lower. (Te 36.5-37)
• God’s people are to remember that they are under sacred obligations to God to do his best to help their fellow men. (Te 42.1)
• We are not to advise remedies that contain Brandy or other alcohol. (Te 42.1)
• No alcoholic tinctures are to be used. {RH, February 10, 1885 par. 9}

QUESTIONS:

• WHO INVENTED ALCOHOL?

“…But here, see, the devil had invented it…” {1SAT 258.2-.3}

• WHY WAS ALCOHOL INVENTED?

“…the devil had invented it. What for?

“To consume money so that the poor should not be clothed; so that the needy and the distressed might suffer for the want of food and care and house; so that the gospel should not be carried to all parts of our world.”  {1SAT 258.2-.3)

TOUCH NOT:

“…Touch not, taste not, handle not, tea, coffee,  
WINES,  tobacco, opium, and ALCOHOLIC DRINKS…The only perfectly safe course to pursue is to stand firmly on the side of temperance and not venture in the path of danger.” {3T 488.1}

“With the awful results of indulgence in intoxicating drink before us, how is it that any man or woman who claims to believe in the word of God, can venture to touch, taste, or handle wine or strong drink? Such a practice is certainly out of harmony with their professed faith…” {Te 42.3}

“Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul,” is the language of the apostle Peter. Many regard this warning as applicable only to the licentious; but it has a broader meaning. It guards against every injurious gratification of appetite or passion. It is a most forcible warning against the use of such stimulants and narcotics as tea, coffee, tobacco, ALCOHOL, and morphine. These indulgences may well be classed among the lusts that exert a pernicious influence upon moral character…”  {CD 62.5}

WHY?

• ALCOHOL =
• A MADDENING DRUG (Te 24.1)
• A LIQUID POISON (Te 24.1)
• THE CUP OF ABOMINATIONS (Te 31.3)

“The man that is intoxicated is robbed of his reason. Satan comes in and takes possession of him and imbues him with his spirit; and his first desire is to bruise or kill some of his loved ones. Yet men will allow this accursed thing to go on, that makes man lower than the beast. What has the drunkard obtained? Nothing but a madman's brain…” {Te 288.3}

“…The deeds of the drunkard are an expression of Satan’s violence.”  (MM 114)

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SO MANY ACCIDENTS: (Te 34.1)

• Signals are made incorrectly, causing train cars to collide with one another.  (Te 34.2)
• Shipwrecks upon the high seas can be traced to the consumption of alcohol.  (Te 35.3)
• Accidents by car
• Accidents by plane

ILL EFFECTS ON THE MORAL AND SPIRITUAL:

• Animal passions bear sway (Te 161/CD 269)
• Animal passions excited ((Te 23-24)
• Awful murders (Ev 529/Te 24)
• Crime (Te 59)
• Chief source of (Te 277)
• Every degree of crime (Te 25/4aSG 125)
• Most horrible crimes committed (CH 432)
• Crimes are multiplied (GW 386) (Te 31)
• Happiness destroyed
• Injures the soul (CD 425.3)
• Morals debased (CG 404)
• Pernicious influence exerted on moral character (CD 63)
• Sense of sacred things is perverted (CD 428-429)
• Soul defiled (SL 31)
• Will power overcome (Te 60-61)
• Worship of God hindered (CD 426)

ILL EFFECTS ON THE MIND:

• Brain affected (CH 81)
• Brain beclouded (MH 328)
• Brain benumbed (Fe 428)
• Brain confused (Te 62)
• Brain diseased (Te 37.1)
• Brain injured (CD 463)
• Brain powers destroyed (9T 12)
• Brain sensibility paralyzed (CG 404)
• Clear perceptions destroyed (Te 58)
• Inability to control thoughts (Te 279)
• Intellect paralyzed (MH 329)
• Mental degeneracy (CH 49)
• Mental power ruined (MM 222)
• Mental sensibilities deadened (CH 84)
• Mind beclouded (Ed 202)
• Mind enfeebled (Te 58)
• Mind of youth decayed (Te 62)
• Mind unbalanced (9T 12)
• Nerve power of brain weakened (Te 69)
• Reasoning powers perverted (Te 36)
• Senses perverted (4T 257)

***REMEMBER: It’s with the mind (brain) that we are to serve the law of God. (Romans 7:25)

ILL EFFECTS ON THE BODY:

• Blood corrupted (5T 440)
• Body impaired (1T 548-549)
• Body of young boys dwarfed (MH 329)
• Cancer
• Digestive organs injured (CH 463)
• Diseases of every kind produced (CD 421)
• Emphysema
• Hardening of the Arteries
• Heart Disease
• High blood pressure
• Irritability (Te 60-61)
• Lips and Chin stained (4aSG-127)
• Lung problems
• Man’s spark of vitality extinguished (CD 423)
• More difficult to eradicate from the system than those of intoxicating drink (MH 328)
• Nerve irritant (CD 421-422)
• Nerves excited and paralyzed (MH 228)
• Nerves trembling (Te 60-61)
• Nervous system weakened (Te 172)
• The appetite for intoxicating liquor fostered (Te 58/3T 488-489)
• The appetite for stronger stimulants fostered (Te 228-229)
• Vital force lessened (Te 64)
• AND MUCH MORE

READ FROM BEGINNING OF:

• TEMPERANCE book Pages 23-54 and then
• Brown index book in section on intoxicating drink.

Find the quote about having the right profession not selling alcohol, etc.

HOW TO KICK THE HABIT NATURALLY:

1: READ NATURAL REMEDIES ENCYCLOPEDIA:

• Pages 608, 775-777 (5^th Edition)
• Pages 821,881, pg. 231 (right side of page) (7^th Edition)

2: NATURAL REMEDIES FOR OVERCOMING ALCOHOL:

• Eat healthy meals that contain all the elements needed for nutrition
• Take a couple of Tablespoons of Charcoal several times a day to decrease ammonia levels
• Do a charcoal poultice over the Liver/30 min. to 1 hr. each day
• Do the dripping cold sheet. Dip a sheet into a buck of cold water and wring out. Have person stand in tub undressed. Wrap person from neck to ankles completely in wet sheet. Cover with a dry blanket.. Have person rest in bed x 30 minutes to 1 hr.
• Deep breathing exercises 2 x day
• Walking a minimum of 1 to 2 hours a day
• Sunshine: a minimum of 1 hr. each day
• Take herbs to help expel alcohol from the body

HERB THAT TAKES THE TASTE OF ALCOHOL AWAY

• KUDZU HERB is excellent to HELP WITH ALCOHOLISM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu

• DANDELION ROOT helps detoxify the body by being a liver cleanser and digestive stimulant.
• MILK THISTLE (Silybum marianum): Extract of the seeds of this flowering have been shown to stimulate regeneration of liver cells and protect them from toxic injury. Take two capsules of an extract standardized to 70-80 percent silymarin) two or three times daily as the label directs. You can stay on it indefinitely.

THERE ARE TO BE NO ALCOHOLIC TINCTURES IN OUR REMEDIES:

“The work of this institution, as indicated in the various reports of the superintendent, is largely that of personal instruction to each patient upon the causes that lead to alcoholism, the effect upon the physical system and upon the mental and moral character, and the means to be used in overcoming the habit, and in antidoting this poison which has been imbibed into the system, and which permeates the whole being of man. The system of reform is not medicinal; it is not a system of drugging and purging, nor a gradual tapering off in the use of alcohol. The watchword at the portals of this institution is total abstinence from alcohol in every form. There are no alcoholic tinctures in medicines, no mild tonics, reinforced by other stimulants or narcotics, but total abstinence from the use of alcohol in any form, whether mixed with malt, quinine, ginger, eggs, milk, cider, or lemonade.”  {RH, February 10, 1885 par. 9}

Have those who drink any form of alcohol sign the temperance pledge. (Te 203.2-.4)

“…Give prominence to the temperance reform, and call for signers to the temperance pledge. Everywhere call attention to this work, and make it a living issue…” {Te 203.4}

“…We should present to the people the principles of true temperance and call for signers to the temperance pledge. Careful attention should be given to those who are enslaved by evil habits. We must lead them to the cross of Christ.” {CH 433.1}

“…Let no excuse be offered when you are asked to put your name to the temperance pledge, but sign every pledge presented and induce others to sign with you. Work for the good of your own souls and the good of others. Never let an opportunity pass to cast your influence on the side of strict temperance.” {CH 441.2}

THE TEMPERANCE PLEDGE

I hereby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain from all distilled, fermented and malt liquors, including wine, beer and hard cider, and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic in the same.

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