Many pentecostals believe that any drinking is sinful/wrong which is clearly not biblical. Drunkeness is a sin, drinking is something Jesus did every day of his physiccal life on earth beyond infancy, and He turned water to WINE not grape juice.
That's where I'm at ... balance in all things ... wine included. The verse about a couple glasses of wine for what ails the stomach comes to mind ...
Something I've witnessed a number of times ... spirits not of the Lord using the drunken one. I think we forget that it's not always about raw invited sin ... it's often about sin coming in the back door. Sometimes it's about what and how the enemy can use us ...
When the Lord taught me about spirits not of Him, I learned that confusion is not of Him ... but a spirit He uses. King Nebuchadnezzar is an example that comes to mind. I watched one person be taken over by the spirit of confusion at a birthday party where there was plenty of alcohol ... I wondered at it, but know better than to speculate. This person is one of those pot stirrers ... going here to there ever, stirring the pot ... after a while as he got drunker just in an instant he started speaking babble the rest of the day ... and I don't mean like drunk babble ... just plain babble.
I saw another person the Lord showed me had no spirit residing have a spirit go right through him when he was drinking and enter into someone else who for a period of time was completely blinded and barely hanging on ... his eyes rolled back in his head and when he looked at us they were snow white ... totally trippy ... and he had actually had maybe three beers over a good while ... I prayed over him with my hand on his knee with my right hand on his left knee facing me ... I just knew it would stop the spirit from moving to the next person ... for a very long time while he kept saying 'I can't see' ... when the spirit left he was completely weak and listless and had to be taken home ...
another I witnessed came to a camping trip ... he was in his late twenties and had been really struggling and had a bit of an attitude ... some kids that were camped at another camp had a lot of hard alchohol and pretty rowdy and had wrecked their vehicle. The cops were coming and they asked him if he wanted their alcohol ... he took it and as he began drinking it he became a totally different person ... completely out of control and angry before he barely got started ... I will always maintain spirits came attached to the booze ... in short order he could have been one of the other group ... just bizarre
the enemy always knows who to send and at just what moment ...
anyway, there are more but the picture is what happens when we do get drunk ... and it's not always about committing sin as in the drunkenness, itself ... it very often is a wide open door to spirits running amok ... and the coat of armor is usually the last thing on the embibers mind ...
so while the door is open many will show up ... seduction ... pride ... ego ... perversion ...infirmity ... fear .... divination ... jealousy ... lust or whoredom ... bondage ... lying ...depression or heaviness ... anti-christ ... the list is very, very long ...
we should never reach a place that leaves our minds wide open ... drunkenness is one of those ways that happens ...