1 Corinthians 6:12-20: "Just because something is technically legal doesn't mean that it's spiritually appropriate. If I went around doing whatever I thought I could get by with, I'd be a slave to my whims. ...It may be true that the body is only a temporary thing, but that's no excuse for stuffing your body with food, or indulging it with sex. Since the Master honors you with a body, honor him with your body! ...Or didn't you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don't you see that you can't live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body."

What does the bible say about alchohol? God tells us that the drink...

• “Cheapens your life” (Ephesians 5:18)
• Dulls your expectation of the coming of God/day of the Lord (Luke 21:34).
• “Take[s] away the understanding” and “wisdom” (Hosea 4:11)
• “Rob[s] [you] of [your] senses” (Hosea 4:11)
• “Leave[s] my people in a stupor” (Jesus, Hosea 4:11)
• Results in faulty judgment (Isaiah 28:8)
• Makes it so you don't know right from wrong (Proverbs 31:__)
• Leads to poverty (Proverbs 23:21)
• Leads to sorrow “Who are the people who are always crying the blues?” (Proverbs 23:29)
• Leads to self pity “Who do you know who reeks of self-pity?” (Proverbs 23:29)
• Damages your body and makes you sick “Don't judge wine by its label, or its bouquet, or its full-bodied flavor. Judge it rather by the hangover it leaves you with—the splitting headache, the queasy stomach. Do you really prefer seeing double, with your speech all slurred, Reeling and seasick, drunk as a sailor?” (Proverbs 23:31-34) They “stagger from drink, weaving, falling-down drunks, besotted with wine and whiskey, can't see straight, can't talk sense." (Isaiah 28:8)
• Makes a fool of you (Proverbs 31)
• Leads to mocking/scorn (verse)
• Leads to fights, quarrels/quarrelsomeness, meanness and strife (Proverbs 23:29-30, Isaiah 28:8, Hosea 7:5, Proverbs 20:1).
• Hurts the people who depend on you (Proverbs 31)
• Is a disgrace. (Habakukk 2:15)
• Leads to contempt of/having nothing to do with God’s work and "pay[ing] no mind to what he is doing.” (Isaiah 5:12)
• “Keeps you from performing at your peak potential and stops you from having the kind of reliable energy you need to best serve your Creator. ....Dietary poisons...irritate your system, affect your moods, cloud your mind, and rob your body of strength and health. As a result, your effectiveness, your relationship with others and with God and your length of time on this planet are negatively affected.” (Body By God)
• Dishoners God (2 Corinthians 6:12-20)
• Squanders your life. “Don’t squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us. ...We can't afford to waste a minute, we must not squander these precious daylight hours in frivolity and indulgence, in sleeping around and dissipation, in bickering and grabbing everything in sight. Get out of bed and get dressed! Don't loiter and linger, waiting until the very last minute. Dress yourselves in Christ, and be up and about!” (2 Corinthians 6)

Instead, Jesus challenges us to behave “decently”, “honestly”, “properly” and “becomingly.”

”Wild parties, drunkenness, sexual immorality, promiscuity, rivalry, and jealousy cannot be part of our lives.“ (Romans 13:13).

"Whether you eat or drink, whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31).


"Flee from sexual immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18).

"Honor marriage, and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband. God draws a firm line against casual and illicit sex." (Hebrews 13:4)

"God will judge as guilty those who take part in sexual sins." (1 Corinthians 6)

"We must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever - the kind of sex that can never 'become one.'" (Hebrews 13)

"There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for 'becoming one' with another." (1 Corinthians 6)

"The Bible clearly teaches that all sexual relations outside marriage are wrong in God's eyes. The Bible bluntly says, 'Flee from sexual immorality' (1 Corinthians 6:18). This includes any kind of sexual activity apart from marriage." (Billy Graham)

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If you love somebody...have expressed your love for each other...make love.

"There's a vast difference in the bible between word 'love' and 'lust. You think you're in 'love' but actually it's a physical attraction/desire." (Billy Graham)

"We have to have rules to live by. And what you're saying is we're going to play a baseball game without any rules, we're going to play a football game without any rules, we're going to live a life without any moral rules. Well God has laid down certain rules and said 'If you want the best of life, if you want complete happiness and fulfillment, live by these rules.' And one of those rules is that 'thou shalt not commit immorality.'

"Most pychologists today and most psychiatrists I think would agree with the Bible, that there are very serious problems involved. God did not say 'thou shalt not commit immorality before marriage in order to keep you from having a good time or having fun.' He said that to protect you. To protect you psychologically, to protect your body, because today venereal disease is at an all time high dispite all of our problems and illigeitmacy is at an all time high inspite of all our medical science...And all of these things God has said 'I want to make you happy, I want to help you, and I've given you some rules to live by and this is the rules." (Billy Graham)

"'Thou shalt not commit adultrery.' I believe we need another Moses today, that says once again 'thou shalt not'...John the baptist would not compromise with that law. He said to the king, you're living in sin, it's wrong....[Sexual immorality is] wrong, it's a sin, it's the breaking of the law! He would not lower the standard. Look at those who have said 'the moral law can be changed' or they say its relatiive. God's nature never changes. It's still the same. 'I change not.' God has not changed so much as an eyelash in his view toward sin. ....We think we can break God's law and get away with it. [But we have] more troubles, more boredom, more unhappiness than ever before. It doesn't solve problems it creates problems." (Billy Graham)

"Remember that God gave us the gift of sex in the first place—and He intended for it to be a source of joy and happiness for us. But He also intended for it to be restricted to marriage. Why? One reason is because it was to be a sign of the unity between a husband and wife. It was, in other words, meant to be an expression of their mutual commitment and love. But sex outside marriage easily becomes selfish, and even boring.

"God knows what is best for us, including this important area of our lives. Why ignore His way, when it is best for us in the long run? The Bible warns, 'There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death' (Proverbs 14:12) The Bible also promises, 'Blessed are they whose ways are blameless' (Psalm 119:1).

"...With God's help we can follow a far better path." (Billy Graham)

Love in Jesus