Do you talk to others about our depraved nature and our desperate need for salvation in Jesus Christ? Do you say that you are no better than they are by nature; that we are all, apart from grace, sinners with a terrible record, which is a legal problem, as well as a bad heart, which is a moral problem? Do you talk to them about the dreadful character of sin; that sin is something that stems back to our tragic fall in Adam and affects every part of us, so dominating our mind, heart, will, and conscience that we are slaves to it? Do you describe sin as moral rebellion against God? Do you say that the wages of sin is death, now and for all eternity?
Joel Beeke

Alcoholism A Disease

Alcoholism A Disease

ALCOHOLISM

A Disease?

  1. If it is a disease, it is the only disease that is contracted by an act of will.
  2. It is the only disease that requires a license to propagate.
  3. It is the only disease that is bottled and sold.
  4. It is the only disease that requires outlets to spread.
  5. It is the only disease that produces revenue for the government.
  6. It is the only disease the provokes crime.
  7. It is the only disease that is habit forming.
  8. It is the only disease that is spread by advertising.
  9. It is the only disease for which we are fined for contracting.
  10. It is the only disease which brings death on the highways.
  11. It is the only disease without a germ or virus cause, and which there is no human corrective medicine.
  12. Last but not least, it is the only disease that bars the patient from heaven, for no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God (except there be repentance…), 1 Cor. 6:9-10.