Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying. Saith the Lord. If the Lord had honoured the good things in them, how much more the Lord will honour those who are obedient to his words. What the wine and strong drink do in a person. At last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Wine stimulates the desires of the flesh or stimulates the physical nature.
Anything that stimulates destroys the balance and serenity of the mind, a priest inevitably require in the service of the Lord. He must be in the disposition of the heart to discern the holy and the unholy and the clean and the unclean. He could only able to explain it to his brethren. Against this, anything can be a hindrance in his ministry as a priest. We must know what are the wine and the strong drinks in each ones life.