Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Alcohol
“Wine—alcohol—as I have already reminded you, pharmacologically speaking is not a stimulant; it is a depressant . . . What alcohol does is this; it knocks out those higher centers, and so the more primitive elements in the brain come up and take control; and a man feels better temporarily. He has lost his sense of fear, and he has lost his discrimination, he has lost his power to assess. Alcohol merely knocks out his higher centers and releases the more instinctive, primal elements; but the man believes that he is being stimulated. What is really true of him is that he has become more of an animal; his control over himself is diminished. This is the opposite of being filled with the Spirit; for what the Spirit does is truly to stimulate.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Life in the Spirit, p. 19-20.
Source: Life in the Spirit
Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) was a Welsch physician-turned-preacher who served at Westminster Chapel, briefly under G. Campbell Morgan, becoming the senior pastor in 1943 during the war years when Morgan retired. Jones preached against liberal Chris …
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