Many Christians these days indicate that we should not drink any form of alcohol as Christians. They appear to believe that either Jesus was not the sinless sacrifice that the Bible claims He was, or else, He somehow managed to get His hands on non-alcoholic wine, which didn’t exist.
An interesting point that I considered this morning while listening to Alistair Begg was that when the apostles were speaking in tongues, (actual languages…not babbling incoherently, people) some of those gathered thought that the apostles were drunk. Peter stood up and said, “These men are not drunk.” Why aren’t they drunk? Because they didn’t drink wine? No, they very well COULD have been drunk on the wine they were drinking. Because the wine they drank did not produce the effect of drunkenness? No, the wine they drank could have produced that effect. No, the reason these men were not drunk was because it was too early in the day for them to be drinking at all. THAT is what Peter said.
Consider that.
I love Alistair Begg. Yeah, you shouldn’t be drunk early in the morning. That’s bad.
Well, there’s also the fact that drunkenness is pretty strongly opposed at all times in the Bible, but what Peter was saying was that it was too early for them to be drinking at all, which is something that the masses assembled would have understood.
Alistair Begg is way cool, though. :) Enjoy your drinking. ;)