Overcoming sin in Christian preaching emphasizes the necessity of decisive, total renunciation of sinful habits to achieve victory, illustrating that partial measures are ineffective. This subject often uses the picture of complete cessation or cutting off sinful behavior to highlight true repentance and transformation (Romans 6:12-14).
The clear cure for intemperance is to stop drinking entirely.
In the English Parliament, some years ago, a member moved the appointment of a committee to investigate the cause of intemperance among the people. Another member arose, and said he thought he could tell them without a committee: it was drinking. This being a clear statement of the cause, a clear statement of the cure will be, Stop drinking.
A king overcame drunkenness, valuing sobriety over money or threats.
A heathen king, who had been for years confirmed in the sin of drunkenness, by the evil practices of white men on the Sandwich Islands, had been led to forsake the dreadful habit. He said lately to a missionary, “Suppose you put four thousand dollars in one hand, and a glass of rum in the other, you say you drink this rum I give you four thousand dollars, I no drink it; you say you kill me, I no drink it.”
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