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Welcome to the Potter's House Salmon Arm podcast. We are a Bible-Believing Church located

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host for this podcast. I thank you for listening today and we hope these messages are a blessing

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to you and bring you closer to God. Hello and welcome back to the channel. Today

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we're going to be looking at a message that I've put together. It's part of a series

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and this one is called Habits Part 2. We're going to be looking at gluttony. The interesting

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illustration here is something a lot of us are probably pretty aware of or you've probably

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heard of called the seven deadly sins. You probably don't really understand the history

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that goes behind that or exactly what that is. Before we jump into that, I have a quote

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from Frederick Buechner. I believe that's how you pronounce his name. He says, a glutton

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is one who raids the icebox in search of a cure for spiritual malnutrition. I like that

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quote. It's pretty poignant to the point that oftentimes with any of these habits, with

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any of these vices that we fall into, it's to feed a spiritual need that we're not getting

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from the proper source. The text that we'll be looking at today will be in Proverbs. We'll

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be looking at a couple different verses within Proverbs 22 and Proverbs 23 and 19. With that

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though, the seven deadly sins were first compiled by Pope Gregory the first. Now I know you're

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probably thinking, wow, the seven deadly sins are in the Bible. Well, no, not specifically

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in the Bible in sort of a list form. Pope Gregory the first, around 600 AD, compiled

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a list of what we consider to be the seven deadly sins. They are pride, greed, lust,

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wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. Gregory also compiled a list of seven virtues, faith,

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hope, charity, justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude. The Bible does validate these

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concepts but nowhere is it recorded like this in a list form, as I've mentioned. Nowhere

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in the Bible are they specifically referred to as the seven deadly sins or seven virtues.

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They do not predate the Ten Commandments, which were given in Mount Sinai in around

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1450 BC. It's probably true that they were used extensively to teach principles from

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God's Word, particularly in the centuries before the invention of the printing press

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when the Bible was not available in a form common for someone to read and study themselves.

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These kind of lists made it easy for a largely uneducated populace during the Dark Ages to

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be able to have some semblance of moral teaching. But this brings me to a story from the Marine

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Corps. In basic training, there was this one time when we went to the Chao Hall. This is

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one of my favorite Marine Corps stories. It just kind of exemplifies the Marines in and

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of themselves. So we went to the Chao Hall and we should have known something was wrong.

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Why do you think we should have known? Well, because they let us eat way more than they

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normally let us eat. They gave us way more time for lunch than you typically ever see

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in basic training. So that should have been our first clue. But needless to say, most

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of us, we ended up gorging ourselves on food because in basic training, you're working

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out a lot. You're not sleeping very well. So you tend to be extremely hungry. So we

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ate everything that we could. And that's when the fun began.

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So before we get into that fun, though, let's look at our text. In Proverbs 22 verses 17

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and 19, it says, Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise. Apply your

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heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have

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all of them ready on your lips so that your trust may be in the Lord. I teach today even

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to even you. And then in verse one of 23, it says, When you sit to dine with a ruler,

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note well what is before you and put your knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.

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Do not crave his delicacies for that food is deceptive. And on verse 19, it says, Listen,

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my son, and be wise and set your heart on the right path. Do not join those who drink

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too much wine or gorge themselves on me. For drunkards and glutton's become poor and drowsiness

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close them and rags. So as we look at the battle against nature, let's define what gluttony

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is. Gluttony is the excessive or ongoing eating of food, the habitual greed or excess in eating.

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It's present in old French and Middle English as the word gluttony derived from the Latin

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gluteur, to swallow, which in turn came from gula, the word for throat. And in some cultures,

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gluttony is considered an indication of a country's wealth. But in most cases, it's

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simply gross and unacceptable. Nowadays, though, gluttony is seen as an emotional cry for help.

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As succinctly put by author Peter DeVries, who said, gluttony is an emotional escape,

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a sign something is eating at us. So it's interesting how we feed ourselves to the point

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of gluttony, because something is eating away at ourselves. One of the interesting parts

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of gluttony is something is somewhat of a synonym or similar to other sins that we are

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called to avoid, like lust and greed. And what I consider these, you know, these to

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be grouped as, is like sins of excess, if you will, you know, things, things that drive

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us to do a certain act or suit a certain behavior in excess. So I would kind of group gluttony

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into that subcategory. Likewise, some of the anonyms are apathy, hate, or lethargy, because

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on the opposing sides, it's not a sin of excess, but a sin of lack would be something that

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you can see in someone who's apathetic or who's slothful, like we talked about before.

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We can see both similarities to some sins and differences to others. And I think it's

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important because it highlights God's understanding of human nature, the nature of man. After

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all, he created man and he knows that some will be tempted to live a life of sloth and

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others life of excess. Right? So other synonyms for this are craving, demand, fondness, greed,

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longing, lust, passion, penchant, weakness, yearnings and zeal. Anonyms would be like

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I mentioned apathy, indifference, lethargy, aversion, disgust, distaste, loathing, repulsion,

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revulsion. Some people buy because of their the they are opposite from gluttony, they

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will go to the point of making themselves sick from not eating anything. And again,

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it's because of something that's missing some sort of malnourishment within their own soul

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that would cause them to be susceptible to that. But some examples of gluttony in today's

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society in some ways that gluttony has become acceptable, you can see this in our culture,

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but they because they have a similar route to this gluttony, or this had this sin of

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gluttony, the bigger house, Jesus himself did not have a place to rest his head. We

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see that in Matthew 820, our Lord and Savior spent a portion of his life in ministry homeless.

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Yet most American homes could fit all 12 disciples and have room to spare. Now I'm not saying

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it's wrong to have a house. I have a house. But what I'm saying is, they're in some people's

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lives, they get to a point where it's like they need to keep getting better, you know,

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bigger houses, more toys. Right? They just keep, they keep having to get more and more

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and more. And it's like a hunger within their soul. Because they they that they can't fill.

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So you get your first condo, and then you have to like up size to get your first detached

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home and then you need a better home and more parking and more bigger garage so you can

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have more stuff. Who causes you to become somewhat of a hoarder. Even with our food

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choices often oftentimes, you know, you don't look at the calorie content of what you actually

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are going to eat. You just eat because you want more and more and more and a bigger portion

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and more. And we'll kind of rationalize it sometimes as saying, Oh, well, I need to have

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I need to get more bang for my buck, despite not actually needing, you know, a bigger portion.

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Jesus called himself the bread of life and John 648, but at a local restaurant, we might

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receive enough bread for five lives. That kind of is the same point is that we should

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be filling ourselves in the Word of God, we should be filling ourselves with like a relationship

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with Jesus Christ. And then today, we also have something that we call like binge watching

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TV, like where you you'll sit down and you'll watch like a whole, not a whole season, even

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but like a whole series of programming. And we call it binge watching TV. And that's kind

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of a gluttonous behavior, even though it's not eating, because basically, you're just

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gorging yourself on the world's entertainment. Another example that's really prevalent in

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our society today is is the hookup culture. Right. So this hookup culture is is one that

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causes people to go out and sleep around with as many partners as they can and collect a

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body count. Now, you could say that's more more of lust. But again, it's like I said,

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it's these sins of not lack, but sins of excess, where you're gorging yourself for your gluttonous

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for these behaviors. So this brings me back to my story from the Marine Corps. Now, we

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left this this chow hall experience full and for the moment happy. But it didn't take long

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before they took us back to the barracks. They lined us up. And they started to rail

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against us for for some perceived wrongdoing that I can't even remember at the you know,

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anymore what it was that we did wrong. But I certainly remember the punishment. And I

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certainly remember the cost of our gluttony. So they started to make us drink water to

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the and they we start with a you have two canteens, each one being a court. So just

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a little bit more than like a liter. And so they sit you down or a little less than a

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liter, I guess. It's so they they don't you're lined up. And they tell you, okay, drink a

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liter. So you're you're drinking your quart of water. And then you have to hold your canteen

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over your head to make sure that everybody is getting every drop of water out of that

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canteen. So then you put that canteen back and then you have to grab your other canteen

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and they make you drink that. So now you've got, you know, two quarts of water in you.

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And you almost two liters. And they make us run to the to the washroom or to the head,

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to the bathroom. And they say, fill them up. And so then you fill them up and then you

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get back online. And the process starts over again. As you can see, like, or as you can

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imagine, you know, you've got like half a gallon of water in your belly, it's starting

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to get a little uncomfortable because you just had a huge meal, half a gallon of water.

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But they wanted to make sure that we understood the cost of our gluttony, they wanted to make

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sure they understood the wrong that we had committed. So then we had to drink another

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quart of water. This process didn't stop until everybody in the unit started vomiting up

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from their from their overindulgence. It's pretty excessive, you know, story from the

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Marine Corps. And I can tell you, like, it was it was pretty surreal, pretty surreal

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when we were there. But it was definitely a an eye opening experience being in the Marine

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Corps and, and seeing and experiencing what happens when you're not aware of the sins

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you've committed. And again, I don't remember the wrongdoing we did for that event. But

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I do remember the punishment that came with it. So let's let's go back and let's take

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a look at our scripture to investigate gluttony from a spiritual context and see what wisdom

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we can pull from God's Word. So again, in Proverbs 22 17 through 19 says, Pay attention

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to turn your ear to the sayings of the wise apply to your heart what I teach for it is

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pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips so

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that you trust your trust maybe in the Lord I teach you today even you. So we need to

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have the Word of God on our lips, we need to have some understanding some wisdom of

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what we're saying, you know, moving forward in life so that we can be able to use this

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the word of the sort of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, you know, against our

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desires against, you know, things that we know to be sinful. In verse one of, of Psalm

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or Proverbs 23, it says, When you sit to dine with a ruler, note well what is before you

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and put a knife to your throat if you're given to gluttony, do not crave his delicacies for

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that food is deceptive. So with this one, we also see that it's it's on us to control

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our behaviors. So if you're prone to doing to overeating, if you're prone to doing this,

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when you're sitting down with someone important, you need to be able to control this because

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the food is deceptive and people are judging you in that situation. If you were to go sit

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down with the president or go sit down with the prime minister, sit down with the king,

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you're going to need to control these behaviors. When we pick it up again in verse 19, it says,

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listen my son and be wise and set your heart on the right path. Do not join those who drink

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too much wine or gorge themselves on meat for drunkards and glutton's become poor and

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drowsiness close them in rags.

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This is an important part too, because we see that here, you know, in the Proverbs,

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we see that there's this clear understanding that you need to be wise. Don't put yourself

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in situations that are going to cause you to falter. Don't put yourself in situations

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that are going to cause you to fall. And then because of that, because you have fallen into

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these situations, you are more likely to be poor. You're more likely to be clothed in

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rags because this is what the sins of excess can do in your life. And first Corinthians

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10 31 says, therefore, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory

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of God, because that is really the purpose of of living a Christian life, living a life

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for God is to do everything unto the Lord. So you have to really do the filter all of

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your your choices through that lens of am I glorifying God with this behavior? That

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one hurts, right? It hurts. But that's the truth. That's the reality is every action

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you do is meant to be done for the glory of God. So you have to filter all your actions,

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even how you eat, even how you live your life and every aspect through that filter of this.

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Does this bring glory to God? And Hebrews 12 14 through 17, it says, make every effort

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to live in peace with everyone and be holy without holiness. No one will see the Lord.

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See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to

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cause trouble and may defile you. See that no one is sexually immoral, sexually immoral,

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or as godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest

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son. Afterwards, as you know, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected,

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even though he sought the blessing with tears. He could not change what he done. The Bible

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is clear that many vices or sins, the root cause is the void that we have when we are

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not filled with the spirit of God, when we are not actively pursuing the will of God

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in our lives. It can creep in rather slowly. And that is why we need to be on guard all

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the time and continually examine our lives against God's word. This doesn't discount

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the grace that God has. It confirms God's grace. He gives us countless opportunities

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to repent and change our behavior, to grow closer to him and to adopt his will for our

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lives rather than fighting against his will and only seeking the easy route or only seeking

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pleasure. Some additional Bible verses we could look at are Psalm 78 verses 17 through

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19, but they continue to sin against him rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High. They

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willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved. They spoke against God.

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They said, Can God really spread a table in the wilderness? Here we have the children

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of Israel judging God because they're hungry. Their bellies are not full with the food that

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they desire. Even though the miracles that have happened in the past, it is now what

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my belly desires that drives me in my relationship with God. And Philippians 3, 17 through 21,

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join together in following my example, brothers and sisters. And just as you have us a model,

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keep your eyes on those who live as we do. For as I have often told you before and now

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tell you again, even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny

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is destruction, their God is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind

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is set on earthly things, but our citizenship is that of heaven. And we eagerly await a

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savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who by the power that enables him to bring

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everything under his control will transform our lowly bodies so they will be like his

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glorious body. This brings me to my final point, which is the godly call. So what do

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we do? How do we apply this to our lives? In Philippians 3, 20, 21, but our citizenship

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is in heaven and we eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who by

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the power that enables him to bring everything under his control will transform our lowly

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bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. So remember that quote I started off

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with, a glutton is one who raids the icebox in search of a cure for spiritual malnutrition.

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So how do we rectify this situation in our life? We have to turn to God's word. Since

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gluttony can be an idol of excess, used to fill a void in our lives that only God can

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fill, we should turn first to the word of God. I know that's not very exciting for a

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lot of people today, but I believe that that's because the sugary candy of today's the world's

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entertainment today is very palatable for a short time, but leaves you wanting. When

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you binge watch a show, you usually get up and feel like, wow, I wasted a lot of time.

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But typically when you sit and you read, even if it's hard or challenging for you to do

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so, you usually feel better after having read because you've accomplished something. And

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that's why I believe you should spend time in the word of God, because that's the best

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thing to read is the word of God. And I challenge you to do that. Displaying gratitude. King

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David tells us to give thanks to the Lord because he satisfies the thirsty, fills the

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hungry with good things. Psalms 107, eight through nine. In other words, God fulfills

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our needs. Gluttony tells us that we need more and more and more to satisfy our hunger.

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But God is the bread of life who fulfills our stomach with good things. And I do like

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this because you know, this, this Psalm from, from King David tells us to give thanks to

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the Lord because I also notice that the more you give to others, the more you spend time

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in service of others, the more satisfied you are. Because God has a powerful way of satisfying

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our thirst and filling and filling that void within us when we, yes, when we give our lives

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to him and then we serve others for his sake. Practice temperance. Temperance cures gluttony

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by implanting the desire to be healthy, therefore making one fit to serve others. And Philippians

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413, I can do all things through him who strengthens me. So we're called to be temperate with

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our behavior. And first Corinthians six 19, or do you know that your body is a temple,

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the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, you are not your own. This one right

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here shows us that it is, it is our call as Christians, as believers to be able to show

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our bodies as a sacrifice unto the Lord, we are a temple unto the Holy Spirit. So therefore

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we should treat ourselves as we would treat something that is precious, precious to the

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Lord. So we shouldn't be doing things to our bodies or doing things like, you know, with

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our bodies, that wouldn't be something that would be glorified within the body of Christ

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or within the Church of Christ. So would you, when you again, when you hold that yourself

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accountable for your behavior, and you filter that through God's word, would you be willing

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to do what you're doing in front of the King in front of the president in front of the

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prime minister? These are earthly leaders. And then even more so would you do it in front

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of the Holy being like God, the Father or Jesus, our Lord. These are these are important

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questions to ask. But as I close, I just, you know, if I could have every head bowed,

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every eye closed, if you're driving, obviously not. But the question is that we come to is

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that if you're living a life of excess, why? Why are you living this life of excess? Is

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it because of this void that's in your soul? I can tell you that that void can be filled

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instantly with Jesus Christ, and that you could come into right relationship with Him

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at any moment. All you have to do is is repent of your sin, which means turn away because

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we've all done wrong. Accept Him as your Lord and Savior. And by grace, you will be saved

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and you will be you will be made one. You'll be made a son of the Father or a daughter

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of the Father. And it's very easy. You can just repeat this prayer says Dear Lord God,

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I know that I'm a sinner. I know that I'm not perfect and I turn away from my sin. I

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repent. I accept you, Lord Jesus, to be my Lord, my Savior. I accept you into my life,

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into my heart. I thank you for your sacrifice. I thank you for washing me clean of my sin

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and for salvation through grace. In Jesus name, I pray. Amen. It's a very simple message,

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a very simple prayer today. But the reality is that that simple prayer can fill you more

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than any food can. It can fill you more than anything the world has to offer. Whether it

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is a sin of lack or a sin of excess, God fulfills the need. And I thank you for taking the time

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to listen to me today. I hope you'll come back again. And I look forward to you sharing

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another message with you soon. Amen.