Drinking or not drinking wine!

Drinking or not drinking wine!

Interesting! Wine, my brothers, since Noah time, who planted a vineyard and from the grapes made wine always made people drunk if they drank much! 

I am amazed at the discussion about what you can do and what you can't do is still going on among believers around the world.

Life with Jesus is not made by rules, regulations and laws. You don't need to tell someone who is filled with the Holy Spirit to stop getting drunk with wine! That is not their issue! Though I know many people filled with the Holy Spirit that drink wine and don't get drunk! Like Jesus who drank wine and not just drank but Made 800 liters of wine in a wedding where people were already very drunk!

Let me repeat! Wine is wine, 5%, 8%, 11% or port wine with more than 23% alcoholic content make people get drunk! If they drink to much! 

Jesus drank wine! We don't know the alcohol content of the wine He drank, but it had alcohol content for sure, as all types of wines. Wine is not grape juice! 

Read these verses! What makes people sin besides getting drunk is when you offend your brothers and sisters by eating or drinking something that offend them, or make them stumble! 

If I come to Burundi I would probably never had a cup of wine with anybody because my brothers and sisters there think that it is a sin! Why would I do that offending them? 

And also what it is not wise is to make a whole teaching about this and oppress people with it! People don't drink wine but gossip. People don't drink wine, but hate one another. What is the point of emphasizing forbidden food and drinks if people have more serious character problems?   

To follow Jesus is not measured by what you eat or by what you drink, but by your freedom in doing what pleases both of you! 

“What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

“Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.””

Matthew 15:11, 17-20

“Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.

The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.

You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.

If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval. Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall. So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.”

Romans 14:1, 3, 10, 15-22

Here it is:

““To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: “ ‘We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking wine, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking wine, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.””

Matthew 11:16-19

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