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3 Forms of Drinking
We read in 1 Pet.4:2-3, "That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:" Peter uses 3 phrases in connection with drinking booze, "excess of wine, revellings, banquetings." The first one, excess of wine, is describing the person who has drunk so much that they are throwing up; just bombed out drunk. Now everyone knows this is wrong. Then you have the fellow that is about "half looped", they can be the loud and boisterous type, he is the one guilty of revelling. Then you have the last one described, the one involved in banquetings, the NAS translates it "drinking parties". This is the person that is just "drinking a few", a "social drinker." Yet in all 3 categories of the drinking of booze, Peter says that it is a part of doing the will of the Gentiles. The child of God wants no part of this sinful lifestyle. Our desire is to spend our time in doing the God's will. We have wasted enough of our lives serving the flesh, let's spend the remainder of it serving God.
