A brand new you, part 1

Dying For a Smoke?

Dr. Linus Pauling, one of the few scientists ever to win two Nobel Prizes, said that every cigarette you smoke takes minutes off your life.

A call to hope

“to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through ,” Ephesians 4:22 (ESV)

“¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? ²⁰ For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 (NKJV)

“No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of , that you may be able to bear it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13 (NKJV)

Quit to win

“Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey …” Romans 6:16 (NIV)

Fighting the Battle of the Bottle?

“Come now, and let us together, saith the Lord: …” Isaiah 1:18 (KJV )

• How can we reason with the Lord when we are drunk with alcohol?

out of every five people who use alcohol develop serious drinking problems

“³³ Your eyes will see strange sights, and your mind will imagine things.” Proverbs 23:29–33 (NIV)

Someone will ask, “Didn’t Jesus turn water into wine at a wedding feast?”

Here’s a question in response, “Have you ever considered the amount Jesus’ miracle produced?”

“Thus says the Lord: “As the new wine is found in the , And one says, ‘Do not destroy it, For a blessing is in it,’ …” Isaiah 65:8 (NKJV)

Victory

“⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, … ¹⁰ nor drunkards, … will inherit the kingdom of God.” 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 (NKJV)

“And such some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are , but ye are in the name of the Lord Jesus, and the Spirit of our God.” 1 Corinthians 6:11 (KJV)

“I can do things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 (NKJV)

Further reading

“The Christian and Alcohol” https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/book/e/63/t/the-christian-and-alcohol

“Experimental Production of Carcinoma with Cigarette Tar” https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/13/12/855/467062/Experimental-Production-of-Carcinoma-with

The United States Food and Drug Administration has been requiring health warnings on cigarette packages since 1969. There are eleven approved warnings. https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/labeling-and-warning-statements-tobacco-products/cigarette-labeling-and-health-warning-requirements