Preaching on Alcohol
Billy Sunday emphasizes the need for righteousness and a call to God in America, rather than focusing on repeal or revenge.
This sermon emphasizes the need for righteousness and the importance of turning to Jesus for true fulfillment and purpose. It highlights the consequences of seeking satisfaction in material things like alcohol, luxury cars, or fame, and the emptiness that follows. The message calls for a shift in focus towards God and righteousness rather than worldly desires.
Full Transcript
... or a high school girl has the same effect as when it's sold to an automobile thief or a horse thief. Congress has passed a law putting $2 a tax on whiskey, and they expect to realize $300 million. That means that the American people have not to buy and drink 150 million gallons a year.
They have to put $5 a barrel tax on beer. That means the people have not to buy and drink 32 million barrels of beer a year. It doesn't take a lawyer to figure out that if you do that, you take that much money out of the legion of a channel to trade.
You spend that much less for food and clothes and boots and shoes and education and automobiles. Oh, America didn't need repeal. She needed revenge.
She didn't need wrong. She needed righteousness. We don't need Jags.
We need Jesus. We don't need Ward Brock. We need more God.
In Winona Lake, Indiana, not far from the tabernacle that bears his name, is his house, a veritable museum of tokens of esteem from the mightiest and the least. On the wall of his study are signed portraits of the great men of his time, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Teddy Roosevelt, Cecil B. DeMille, General Pershing, the Mayo Brothers. And the room is filled with mementos from some of the thousands of people who shed tears at his departure from their town.
A clock from the employees of Wanamaker's in Philadelphia. Trophies and loving cups, one given him by the chauffeurs of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Another clock from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Gifts given to Billy Sunday from the people whose language he spoke, the people of the country he loved. Billy Sunday's funeral service was held in the great Moody Church in Chicago. It seats 4,000 people and was crowded in the afternoon, but all through the day, a rainy day, people came, walking through, to look into the face of the man who had meant so much to them, to their families,
Sermon Outline
- The Effect of Prohibition
- America's Need
- A Call to God
- We don't need Jags, we need Jesus
- We need more God
Key Quotes
“Oh, America didn't need repeal. She needed revenge.” — Billy Sunday
“We don't need Jags. We need Jesus.” — Billy Sunday
“We need more God.” — Billy Sunday
Application Points
- We should strive for righteousness in our lives and communities.
- Taxation can have a positive impact on the economy by reducing consumption and allowing for more spending on essential items.
- We need to prioritize our relationship with God and seek more of Him in our lives.