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The Wages of Drink

Name: The Wages of Drink
Brand: GoodSalt
SKU: smdas0116
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A grim saloon allegory shows a bartender drawing a great scythe across the foreground while the skeletal figure of Death stands behind him like a silent patron. Below, men gather around tables and a bar lined with liquor bottles, including one collapsed over a table in drunken ruin. The posted license on the wall intensifies the moral indictment: the trade is legal, but its harvest is destruction.

The image speaks directly to biblical warnings against drunkenness and the bondage of appetite. Scripture does not treat intoxication as harmless pleasure, but as a path that dulls wisdom, wounds households, and leads souls toward judgment. The scythe becomes a visual sermon on sowing and reaping, making this artwork useful for temperance teaching, addiction ministry, repentance themes, and sermons on sin’s hidden cost.

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Keywords	bartender death drunkenness liquor saloon scythe temperance
Secondary Keywords	addiction judgment license prohibition repentance ruin sin warning
Tertiary Keywords	addiction ministry destruction harvest moral lesson reaping sermon illustration temperance movement
Scriptures	Ephesians 5:18 Galatians 6:7-8 Habakkuk 2:15 Isaiah 5:11-12 Proverbs 20:1 Proverbs 23:29-35 Romans 6:23 Ephesians 5 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, Galatians 6 7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. Habakkuk 2 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! Isaiah 5 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! 12 They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the LORD, or see the work of his hands. Proverbs 20 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise. Proverbs 23 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. 31 Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. 32 In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. 34 You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. 35 “They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.” Romans 6 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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The Wages of Drink

Ephesians 5

Galatians 6

Habakkuk 2

Isaiah 5

Proverbs 20

Proverbs 23

Romans 6

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