Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
The Bible defines the truth about drunkenness for us.
I Corinthinans 5:11;13 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat... Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
By the Bible, we see that drunkenness is a sin, along with fornication, covetousness, idolatry, railing, and extortion.
If a man or woman professes to be a Christian, but lives as a drunkard, we are to consider that a sin and put such a person out of the church gathering. We do not pray nor counsel such as the world might do. The Bible defines that person as being wicked and tells us to put such a person away from us, away from the church.
We simply follow these instructions.
Other scripture showing a drunkard to be a sinner:
I Corinthians 6:9-11 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.
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Before God revealed Himself to us, before we were given the Holy Spirit of God to live in us, we might have done these sins. But after we have been enlightened by God, to do these sins is to crucify Jesus afresh and there is no more sacrifice for these sins.
Hebrews 10:26-29 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
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Jesus said, to the woman taken in adultery, "Go, and sin no more."
(She was saved by Jesus but she must not continue in this sin of adultery.)
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And by the following scripture, we see these are sins and not diseases as the world might teach today.
Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft (superstitions), hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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