This our son is stubborn and rebellious,
he will not obey our voice;
he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
Deuteronomy 21:20
"All this weight of woe and accumulated suffering can be traced to the
indulgence of appetite and passion.
Luxurious living and the use of wine
corrupt the blood,
inflame the passions,
and produce diseases of every
kind.
But the evil does not end here.
Parents leave maladies as a legacy
to their children.
---As a rule, every intemperate man who rears children
transmits his 
inclinations and evil tendencies to his offspring; he
gives them disease from his own inflamed and corrupted blood.
Licentiousness, disease, and imbecility are transmitted as an
inheritance of woe from father to son and from generation to generation,
and this brings anguish and suffering into the world, and is no less
than a repetition of the fall of man.
*A continual transgression of nature's laws is a continual transgression
of the law of God.
The present weight of suffering and anguish which we
see everywhere, the present deformity, decrepitude, disease, and
imbecility now flooding the world, make it, in comparison to what it
might be and what God designed it should be, a lazar house;
and the
present generation are feeble in mental, moral, and physical power.
All
this misery has accumulated from generation to generation because fallen
man will break the law of God.
Sins of the greatest magnitude are
committed through the indulgence of perverted appetite.
The Bible declares that no
drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God." E.G.W.
