God’s Design and Image
Part 15: A True and Better Deliverance

Scripture: Genesis 9:18 – 10:32.
A. Wine and Drunkenness
1. Scripture Refers to Wine in Terms of Blessing, Celebration, and Messianic Hope
Psalm 104:14-15 (ESV)
14 You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth 15 and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man’s heart.
Ecclesiastes 9:7 (ESV)
7 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
Deuteronomy 14:24-26 (ESV)
25  then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the Lord your God chooses 26 and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.
Amos 9:13 (ESV)
13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.
Isaiah 25:6 (ESV)
6 On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
2. Scripture Unequivocally Refers to Drunkenness as Sin
Proverbs 20:1 (ESV)
1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Isaiah 5:11, 22 (ESV)
11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!
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22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink…
Habakkuk 2:15-16 (ESV)
15 “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink—you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! 16 You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision!
The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!
Ephesians 5:18 (ESV)
18 …do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit…
Galatians 5:19-21a (ESV)
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21a envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10a (ESV)
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10a nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards…
Leviticus 18:6-8 (ESV)
6 “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord. 7 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.”
Leviticus 20:10-11 (ESV)
10 “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11 If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.”
B. Covering and Nakedness
Genesis 3:6-7 (ESV)
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
Genesis 3:8-10 (ESV)
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”
Genesis 3:11a (ESV)
11a He said, “Who told you that you were naked?”
Genesis 2:24-25 (ESV)
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
Jeremiah 13:22 (ESV)
22 And if you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things come upon me?’ it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you suffer violence.
Jeremiah 13:26 (ESV)
26 I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.
1. Scripture Uses Nakedness as a Reference to the Exposure of Sin and Shame
Genesis 3:21 (ESV)
21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
Ezekiel 16:4 (ESV)
4 And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.

Ezekiel 16:8-10 (ESV)
8 “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine. 9  Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil. 10 I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.”
Ezekiel 16:15-16 (ESV)
15 “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his. 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.”
Ezekiel 16:37b (ESV)
37b I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
Ezekiel 16:62-63 (ESV)
62 “I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord, 63 that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”
Isaiah 61:10a (ESV)
10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness…
Galatians 3:26-27 (ESV)
26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
2. Scripture Uses the Covering of Nakedness as a Reference to Salvation and the Removal of Shame
Genesis 5:28-29 (ESV)
28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son 29 and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”
Genesis 6:9b (ESV)
9b Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
Revelation 7:13-14 (ESV)
13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” 14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb.