Wine, Weed, & The Regulative Principle

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May 5-7, 2023 | Georgetown, TX
SPEAKERS: Dr. James White, Gary DeMar, Dr. Joe Boot, Dale Partridge, and Pastor Joel Webbon


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[brandenfredericks]

Dear Pastor Webbon. I just want to encourage you. For several months, I have probably spent more time watching your youtube content than any other channel. From you, the guests you've had on, and the topics you address, I've learned so much more about "practical Christianity" watching this channel than perhaps any other channel I watch. I thank God for His work in your life, your industriousness, and your faithfulness. Keep fighting the good fight.

PS - so glad you're still a Reformed Baptist lol God bless

[NEW_INSITE]

I'm 65 years old. I had two accidents in the military one causing traumatic brain injury, the other causing spinal injury. I'm on disability due to these injuries and I've been on morphine for the last 30 years, I spent most of my early life in pain all the time because I couldn't get a prescription for it. Had to jump through hoops with a pain doctor, and I didn't have insurance in my earlier life after I got out of the army. And the army itself didn't hardly want to recognize my injury or my pain when I was active duty, so they gave me no medicine. The morphine makes me sleepy all the time, I'm sure it's probably not good for my liver. I have quit it a few times but had to go back to taking it because the pain just became so bad that it radiates into my body as a ball of pain starting in the center of my chest and spreads out to the whole body until I'm down on my knees. As a teenager I smoked some marijuana, it was very low in THC at that time and it gave me a feeling of gladness, I won't say h i g h, to someone having a glass or two of wine. I actually felt more in touch with God as a teenager, and at peace with the world when I just smoke a little of the low THC marijuana back then. I don't smoke it now because without a medical prescription for it here in Georgia in the area that I'm in it would be illegal. And through the VA where I get my pain medicine if I have any THC in my bloodstream they will make me discontinue the pain medicine, the morphine, that I'm taking. I do not know how well the marijuana will control the pain from the injuries that I have. The DEA have made regulation so strict, that both the military and the civilian doctors are leery about prescribing opiates. They have reduced the amount you're allowed to take daily, and I had been given the choice by the VA of a certain amount that I could take per day. They didn't care if it was instant or sustained release they counted the total milligrams per day. I selected a certain amount of instant in a certain amount of sustained release morphine. Later on I tried to change it to all sustained and no instant and the doctor said oh no we can't do that. We're worried that you will have too much morphine in your system if you went to all sustained. I told the doctor that when I was offered the choice of picking sustained or instant, that there was no problem if I picked one of the other. Now there's a problem. They will not let me change the instant for the sustained release morphine. It is just another way of trying to cut us down. If I said okay I didn't want the instant, then I'd lose that forever. So if I asked to voluntarily stop the morphine, which would require me detoxing from the morphines to get rid of the side effects of withdrawal, and then tried the marijuana for a while, and then the marijuana didn't work, then I'm worried that the VA may not reinstate my morphine for me. They may say oh no you quit it you can't have it anymore. I don't know if that's how it would work out, but I'm really leery of all the doctors nowadays because of the dea. In a way I hate that the government has gotten involved in our Healthcare in such a way as to use the DEA to deny people who are in real pain, relief from the Pain by controlling the medications and the amounts of the medications we can have. So because of all these concerns, I will continue taking the morphine, it doesn't get me high, It just relieves the pain. But the side effects I hate. So at this point in time I guess I'll never know if the marijuana could relieve my pain. And I guess I'll just have to live with the devastating effects that the morphine has on me and my liver and the rest of my body and my mental health that the morphine causes a depression and extreme sleepiness. Sure they may have stopped a few people from getting opiates because they wanted to get high. But the morphine doesn't get you high, I don't know why they bothered to include this in their control system. Sometimes I think the government just wants us to suffer. Anyway God bless everyone, good luck in your future to come.

[Rogue_-chsw]

“Good rule of thumb. If your a single male and your back hurts… get a job!” 😂 love it!

[kathyheavner]

Seems like a biblical stance to me.
God bless you and your family

[buckaroobonsaitree]

I have used cannabis for about 20 years, so I think I have a good idea of what it's about. I've used it for recreation as well as a painkiller. I happen to have some serious chronic pain. Cannabis helps the pain, but at what cost? On this very comment section, I have in the past tried to defend my use of it. Because I hurt, and it makes me hurt less. God is not mocked. The word classifies it as pharmakiea. Sorcery. I would rather identify with my Lord and suffer, carry my cross, and have a sober mind. It sucks. I am not mincing words here. Pain is horrible, but eternal separation from God is worse.

[ArchDLuxe]

As an advocate of the regulative principle of worship, do you take the Lord's Supper on the 14th of Nissan as prescribed in scripture?

[MansterBear]

What about things like CBD or the newer stuff that's legal in most states? For sleeping or pain, or whatever else it's supposed to be for?

Also, I'm curious about caffeine. I never think twice about it, because it's so commonly accepted in our culture, but someone having some caffeine who isn't regularly exposed to it can definitely feel the stimulant effects. I used to drink Mt Dew all the time. Now I have a couple cups of coffee every morning. Is that comparable to someone who does the CBD/THC gummies (or vapes or tincure oils) nightly to sleep?

This isn't coming from some pro-weed guy like "well what about caffeine?!?!?!". Just an honest question.

[Chirhopher]

Marijuana is not unScriptural for Brothers to use for medicinal purposes and to Glorify GOD!
By General Equity it is even "prescribed", if one is to remain consistent. i am a Paralyzed Veteran with many issues that marijuana does treat. This is Scriptural and Glorifies GOD.

[tb]

I have to disagree for the first time with you a bit here on marijuana, but possible you mentioned this in your other, more in depth discussions. The Bible forbids drunkenness. When you smoke marijuana, even for pain, you are getting a high “drunkenness”. When a doctor prescribes pain meds, it does not give you a high. Only when abused it does. When you take it safely, for a safe period of time, it helps with pain and doesn’t give you the euphoria feeling. Taking too much absolutely does.

It’s like saying if a doctor prescribes you enough alcohol to be buzzed for your pain, it’s ok because it’s medical.

People don’t sit down and smoke a joint for the taste or gladness like they do wine. They do it to get a high. Getting a high even to remove physical pain is still sin. Physical or mental pain shouldn’t require a “drug” that gets your high/drunk.