page number 153 how firm a foundation page number 153 to Jesus have left his face your
day demand your straight life all sufficient shall be as I assume and I go shall my peace
shall change shall still in my bush a sing everybody with apology please open us up with
a word of prayer if you want to take your hymnals we're going to turn to page number 257 page
number 257 look and live page number 257 message from the Lord to you is recorded in his word
message full of love to you oh my friend from above how to love life is offered unto you
hallelujah my soul shall to him how he may say that you love sing everybody at this time
we will have our announcements thank you everyone first of the week is Psalms 91 verse 2 Psalms
91 verse 2 I will save the Lord he is my refuge and my fortress my God in him will I trust
Psalms 91 verse 2 morning services are at 1030 our evening service is at 330 p.m. Wednesday
evening bow cities at 630 soul winning times will be 1 p.m. today and they were at who
are 1230 yesterday we had two salvations yesterday so that's a total of 7 for February 10 from
January which brings us a total of 17 for the year so far alright upcoming events the
17th I believe that's coming up here in just a couple days with the kids homeschool day
with a valentine party with games a pizza that's 11 a.m. and that's going to be right
here in the church building please let miss Kylie know if you're going to attend so she
can plan for food coming up March 6 will be the wazoo college soul winning event meeting
at Chipotle at 1045 in the morning down in Pullman please let Remy know and more details
will come out also hopefully it was an open invitation this Friday I think there'll be
a scouting as that as well so please let Remy know if you wish to attend that as well
March 8th will be the next kids choir practice it's going to be starting for Easter so we'll
have another kids music ministry that will be right after the morning service on March
8th March 27th is our church anniversary coming up Pastor Thompson will come in to preach
for us Friday night and more details of all the events that are happening will be coming
up then and also let's just give a special thanks for those that were able to attend
last night was the sweetheart banquet it was great I know everyone that came had a good
time food was good games were fun and always listening to the answers we answer what we
think we know about each other is always entertaining in a public forum so and everyone made it
so good I'm glad but um alright that was great kids your memory verse is a new memory
verse so if you can memorize this and let miss Kylie know by memory you can receive
a piece of candy as your reward but that is Romans 12 verse 11 Romans 12 verse 11 not
slothful in business fervent in spirit serving it's Romans 12 verse 11 so kids try to memorize
that uh rules are all the same we're a family integrated church which means we try to keep
parents and children always together um there is a mother's baby room uh to the side if
you need it but rules are all the same tithing information down below um actually since he
hasn't been here it's delayed but we can do it let's go ahead and sing happy birthday
he thought i see his face he thought i forgot but it's still we let's let's sing happy birthday
darren all right happy birthday so i think everyone did but let's just thank that he's
back that was a long recovery and we're just glad to have you back brother all right so
prayer requests down below. If you have any other prayer requests you'd like to add to the bulletin,
please let the Thompson know and they will add it into the bulletin. But with that, let's turn to the Lord in prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank you so much for today. Thank you so much for allowing all of us to be here.
If you want to take your blue hymn books, we're going to turn to Psalm number 81.
That's Psalm number 81. Your blue hymn books, Psalm number 81, Psalm
number 81. Sing it out on the first.
Sing aloud to God our strength, make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
Take a psalm and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant heart with the psaltery,
the trumpet, time of poor solemn feast, a harmony of thunder can unto me show no strength.
God our submission, of the spot, satisfy.
Paul would you please pray for the offering.
Let us never remember you, in the good times or the bad. Jesus. Amen.
Morning everybody, welcome to the Shur Foundation Baptist Church. If you could go ahead and
take your Bibles and turn to Matthew chapter 11. Matthew 11 and as always here at our church
we read the entire chapter before the preaching. Matthew 11 the Bible reads, "And it came to
pass when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to
teach and to preach in their cities. Now when John had heard in the prison the works of
Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said unto him, Art thou he that should come? Or
do we look for another? Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and show John again those
things which ye do hear and see. The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the leopards
are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel
preached to them. Blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me. And as they departed,
Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness
to see? A reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed
in soft raiment? Behold, they that wear soft raiment clothing are in king's houses. But
what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. For
this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which
shall prepare thy way before thee. Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of
women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist, notwithstanding he that
is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. And from the days of John the Baptist
until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if you will receive it, this
is Elias, which was fore to come. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. But where
unto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets,
and calling unto their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.
We have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. For John came neither eating nor
drinking, and they say he hath the devil. The son of man came eating and drinking, and
they say, Behold, a man gluttonous, and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
But wisdom is justified of her children. Then began he to abrade the cities wherein most
of his mighty works were done, because they repented not. Woe unto thee, Chorazin, woe
unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre
and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you,
it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for you. And thou,
Capernaum, which are exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell. For if the
mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom, it would have remained
unto this day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom
in the day of judgment than for thee. At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee,
O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and
prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in
thy sight. All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son but
the Father. Neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son
will reveal him. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and
ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
Brother Paul, could you please pray for the preaching?
Amen. You guys are there in Matthew chapter number 11. We're going to look in at verse
number 18, where the Bible says, "For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they
say, 'He hath the devil.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold,
a man gluttonous and a winebibber, friend of publicans and sinners.' But wisdom is
justified of her children. The title of my sermon this morning is "Gluttons and Drunkards."
Let's pray.
Dear Father God, thank you so much for this wonderful day. Thank you so much for everything
you do for us, God. Thank you so much for the opportunity to preach, God, and thank
you so much for the great chapter that we get to read and hear about this morning. God,
I just pray that you'd help me to do it justice, God, and to deliver the truths from this passage
and the truths of what I'm about to preach that I believe you've laid on my heart, God, to these
people in this room, and I just pray that you'd help me to keep me from saying what you don't want
me to say, help me to say boldly what you do want me to say, and I just pray you'd fill me with the
Holy Spirit and help me to help the people in this room understand this subject better. Jesus,
I'm going to pray. Amen. How about my sermon, like I said again, is "Gluttons and Drunkards."
We're here in Matthew 11, 18, and the reason I picked this topic, which Brother Paul kind of
joked about yesterday, making the joke about the dessert with a glut and stuff like that, but behold,
it really is a sermon on "Gluttons and Drunkards." I told you to watch what you were eating yesterday.
But the reason I picked this sermon, this topic, and these two sins to preach about is because,
well, for several reasons, okay? Number one is that these sins are very easy to fall into,
very detrimental to your health. Number two is that the Bible lists these as sins right here,
being a gluttonous person and as being a winebibber, which would be another word for
being a drunkard. And so I'm commanded to preach everything that's in the word of God. And so if
gluttony is in the word of God, it's going to get preached about. And if being a drunkard and being
a winebibber is in the word of God, I'm going to preach about it. Number three, though, I'm
preaching about this because both of these sins are glorified in our society nowadays. There's
high praise for people that are drunkards. There's high praise. I mean, there's a bunch
of alcohol commercials out there. And even with like, you know, the gluttony, I wouldn't necessarily
say that sin, but people take a different angle on that to praise people that are giving into that
sin. And so I don't want to get too out of myself, but I'll touch on that a little bit later on.
But lastly, the reason I'm preaching on this is because I'm sure, and let me know if you've seen
the same thing. I've seen multiple times now online and in comments as well, people that
are like either Christians or like former Christians bring up this idea and be like,
"It's amazing to me that I went to church my whole life and I heard multiple sermons
about being a drunkard or about alcohol, but I heard zero sermons about being a gluttonous
person." Who's seen something like that before? You guys know what I'm talking about? My wife,
at least, okay? There is one righteous person here, okay? Or just maybe on the same Instagram
stream, the algorithm. But there's like a belief out there and these people will push this. It's
very common. I see multiple videos that will say stuff like this, like, "How come when I was in
church I saw sermons about being a drunkard or about how dangerous alcohol is, but I never saw
any about being a gluttonous person or the sin of gluttony?" And so I figured, "Hey, I'll preach on
this sermon topic then so that nobody could make a video like that in this room, okay?" But go with
you with the Genesis 9 verse number 20. Genesis 9 verse number 20. I want to show you where these
sins are first listed in the Bible, first of all. And as I said again, if anything's listed in the
Bible as a sin, we should preach about it. So that's what I intend to do this morning. But I
want to show you where they're first listed in Genesis 9 verse number 20. It says this. It says,
"And Noah began to be in husbandmen, and he planted a vineyard. And he drank of the wine, and was
drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent." Now, I don't want to, you know, go into the rest
of the story for right now, but if you know the rest of this story, you'll know it's a very,
you know, not appealing story. What ends up happening to Noah because he gets drunken and
because he passes out and is stupor. And I think that this is the first mention of alcohol,
because it is, excuse me. It's important to realize the idea that God is trying to get us
to grasp about this concept, about getting drunk. And the first thing he brings up to us about being
drunk is a man that gets taken advantage of in his sleep because he's drunk and he can't defend
himself. And that's a pretty harsh thing, but I think that's because God wants us to realize
that this is a very dangerous subject, that it like getting drunk in this world nowadays is
something like it's like no big deal, that it's like that's what the cool people do. But hey,
God's first idea, his first thought about someone getting drunk is this grisly story right here,
which again, I'm not going to get into all the details of it right now, but you can look it up
in your own time because it's a little bit outside of the scope of the sermon. But I think that God
does that on purpose because he wants us to understand that this is serious. This is a
big deal. This is not just a nothing burger. Okay. Go view with the Deuteronomy 21 verse 18,
Deuteronomy 21 verse 18. That's the sin of being drunken. And where we're about to go in Deuteronomy
21 verse number 18, it mentions both being a drunkard and also someone is a gluttonous person.
And I don't think this is an accident. In fact, every time the sin of gluttony is brought up in
the Bible, the next thing that's always brought up in the same breath is being a drunkard or being a
winebibber, you know, something to do with alcohol. So this, the Bible is trying to show us that there
is a relationship between these two sins. So I definitely want to point that out to you this
morning. And while you guys are there in Deuteronomy 21 verse 18, I want to say this as well,
just for clarity's sake, there is a difference though between someone getting drunk and then
someone being a drunkard, okay? Hopefully you understand that. Just like there's a difference
between someone who drinks a little bit of alcohol and then someone who actually does,
you know, fully get drunk versus someone who has like what we would say like an addiction to alcohol,
like someone that's an alcoholic, these are different things. That's not to say that any
of these things are good, so understand what I'm saying, but it is to say that if someone like,
you know, had went out and got drunk out of the blue, that doesn't necessarily make them
an alcoholic, okay? Not by any definition that this world would use and not any definition that
the Bible would use either. So I bring that up just so you understand that there is a difference
between these things. But you guys are there in Deuteronomy 21 verse number 18. It says this,
it says, "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son which will not obey the voice of his father
or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him will not hearken unto them,
then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him and bring him out unto the elders of the city
and to the gate of his place. And they shall say unto the elders of his city,
this our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and hunker.
And all the men of this city shall stone him with stones that he die. So shall thou put evil away
from among you and all Israel shall hear and fear. So again, we see the first time these sins are
being brought up. It's again brought up in a pretty, what would you say, gnarly kind of story.
But people will use this passage because I want to kill two birds with one stone here, right?
People use this passage to say that the law of God is barbaric and it's like,
"And you, man, this is so cruel." And they'll be like, "God's telling you that you should stone
a little kid here." But that's not what he's telling you, is it, okay? Because a little kid,
little junior is not a glutton and not a drunkard, right? So what is this talking about? This is
talking about a grown man who's basically mooching off his parents that just refuse to go out and
work, who's just stealing their resources. And then on top of it, he just won't listen to anything
that his parents are telling him. It's a grown man that this is talking about, someone who's a
worthless person. And so God is saying, "Hey, get this filth out of the society. Get this worthless
person out of your society. You don't need them because they don't bring any kind of profit."
And truly, what they would bring is danger for this reason, that if you can't even listen to
what your parents are saying to the degree that they would have to take you before a judge and
have you stoned before them, how dangerous is that person to our society? Why would you think
that they'd listen to any of the rules that the government has in place if they can't even listen
to the simple rules that their parents have at their house? So I agree 100% with God here. I'm
like, amen. If this got voted into law, I'd be like, send it because God's law is perfect, truly,
and nothing barbaric about it. But also, like right there, it said that this was for people to hear
and fear. So there is an aspect that this is supposed to be like a deterrent from people that
hopefully a kid with a brain in his head would look at this, not a little kid, but you understand
what I'm saying. Someone's son at their house would look at this and be like, if this could happen to
me, maybe I should, you know, listen to my parents, right? And if they don't, then they get the
punishment, but it's supposed to be a deterrent. First of all, what I kind of believe is going on
right here. But again, the main purpose of having you turn here was to show you that when it comes
to the sin of being a glutton or being a drunkard, they have a relationship with each other. They're
very, they're brought up every single time together in the Bible. Whenever you see the word glutton
brought up, you always see a drunkard or something like that that's tied to it brought up right next
to it. Go to the next mention of being a glutton. Go to Proverbs 23 verse number 20 and I have a
little bit of a train of thought that I'm going through. So stick with me real quick to turn into
these verses. We're not going to turn to very many in this sermon. I don't believe. Go to Proverbs
23 verse number 20. We'll get the next mention of being a glutton. But while you had to turn there
as well, I'd say this. It makes sense that these would be related because they're basically like
the same thing. Like one is just an excess of eating, you know, food and then one's an excess
of drinking alcohol. So it makes sense. It's a lack of restraint that someone has in two different
areas of their life. Okay, so it makes sense why they'd be tied together. Part 23 verse number 20
that look what it says. It says, "Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh,
for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with
rags." Again, it's tied together. Now go to this last spot with me real quick. Go to Luke 7 verse
number 33. Luke 7 verse number 33, a point that I'm trying to show you with all these verses,
so just keep that in mind. Luke 7 verse number 33. It says in Luke 7 33, this is the parallel
passage to what we read in the beginning with Matthew 11. It says, "John the Baptist came
neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, 'He hath a devil.' The Son of Man is
eating and drinking, and ye say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a wine-bibber, a friend of
publicans and sinners.'" So basically what I've done so far is I've shown you four spots from
the Bible where gluttony is brought up, and I've shown you the entirety of the Bible bringing up
gluttony, truly, okay? There's some indirect references maybe that people could kind of pull
from the text, but as far as the word "glutton" or "gluttonous," we went to every single mention of
that in the Bible so far. So you have two false accusations against Jesus Christ, then you have
one mention of like a rebellious bum, and that's kind of like a side note to his personality,
and then you have one direct proverb that's mentioning not hanging out with these kinds of
people unless you become like them, okay? And so the reason I'm bringing that up is because I want
you to understand this, that there is no like secret conspiracy out there from, you know, fat
pharma to hide the fact that gluttony is a sin or something like that. There's no conspiracy among
pastors where it's like, oh, you know, like, we just don't want to talk about this sin because
this is just way too gnarly or it offends us as well. The reality is that most people probably
don't bring up gluttony often because it's not mentioned in the Bible very often. In fact,
we just read every single time the son of gluttony is brought up. And one of those times was it
directly applicable. Okay. So I'm bringing that up to say this is that obviously all sin should
be talked about, but when you have these people saying like, well, why did I only hear sermons
about being drunkard, but never about gluttony? It's because listen, being a drunkard and being
someone who's addicted to alcohol is brought up hundreds of more times than the sin of gluttony.
So it makes sense that you'd hear a hundred more sermons about it than the sin of gluttony. It's
not even close because again, I just told you, I showed you every reference that the Bible has
about gluttony, but do you think I've showed you even half of the verses about being drunk or about
being a drunkard or a winebipper? Absolutely not. So if God's putting more emphasis on being a
drunkard as it being more wicked and he brings it up way more times in the Bible, don't you think
that we should have certain sermons that balance that same idea that show that that you'll probably
hear way more sermons on being a drunkard than you would about being a glutton? Common sense,
right? And this is what kind of bugs me about this. Anyways, this idea that these people have,
like this attitude of why do I only hear these kinds of sermons? It's like, why would it bug you
to hear a sin like being a drunkard preached against anyways, unless that's something that
you're struggling with. You know what I mean? Like, at least with tithing, it's like, okay,
I could see someone getting annoyed if someone's only talking about money all the time, right?
They're like, you know, what's up with this guy? Why is he only talking about money? But we're
talking about a sin like being a drunkard that's brought up hundreds of times in the Bible. Why
would you be mad that someone's preaching against that subject, especially when it's a subject that
so many people struggle with today in our country? If you, if you're mad about that, it just makes me
think you must have an issue with it then. Like that sin in particular, because I wouldn't be mad
if someone brings up a bunch of random sins. It's like if someone's preaching against fornication
constantly, I'm not going to be mad about it because I'm not committing fornication, right?
And even if you were committing fornication and someone brings it up, you should be happy about
it really, because that's the point of preaching. The point of preaching is not just to get a little
pep rally when you come to church. It's to get the sin out of your life. It's for the perfecting
of the saints, is what the Bible tells us. So if you come to church and you're never having your
sins ripped on, then you're either a perfect person, which I, fat chance, okay, or the pastor's not
doing his job and explaining all of the Word of God. It's truly what it is. So like you shouldn't
be mad when someone's bringing up a sin. Like even if it's your own sin, hey, that's the preacher's
job. That's the pastor's job of the church. That's whoever's behind this pulpit's job as
Church Foundation Baptist Church. You should like this as a man too. Like I was thinking about this
like there's some women won't understand this. Okay, this is this for the bros right here that
men love ripping on each other. Okay, that's like our real love language deep down. Okay,
like if you see a guy who's getting just roasted by a guy 24/7, like you're always clowning on him.
You're always kind of poking fun at him. It just means that they're the besties. Okay, truly.
That's just how men do things. Like girls are like, what's like? Why does being mean equal
love? It's like, I don't know how you can explain it, but it's super true. But I bring this up
because like as a man, you should like to get ripped on a little bit. You should like when
someone gets up and says, Hey, this is what the Bible says. And if you're not doing it,
you need to change your life. Amen. Then that's the purpose of preaching. That's what God wants
us to be listening to preaching for. So we can hear the words of the Lord and then adjust our
life according to it. And women, you got to adopt that as well when it comes to preaching. Okay.
Like when men get offended about that, I'm like, that's like women energy. Like what are we talking
about right now? This should not be a man. Like you should like to hear things ripped on as a man.
It's a manly quality. Uh, where are you guys going though? Go to Ephesians five verse number 18,
Ephesians five verse number 18. Talk about how you want your skin to be preached on to some degree.
And also like as a caveat, again, let me make this clear. Even if something's only mentioned
one time in the Bible, it should be preached on. I'm not saying the subject shouldn't be preached
on. I'm just saying that it makes sense why being a drunker would be preached on more because it's
mentioned hundreds of more times by God himself. It's a very simple logic train to follow right
there but outside of it just being mentioned a sheer number of times more hundreds of times more
than being a glutton you also have this issue with when it comes to being a drunkard is that
being a drunkard actively and constantly to this day hurts people hurts you hurts the people around
you whereas being someone that's a glutton doesn't have that same effect on people and obviously I
preached a sermon talking about how a couple weeks ago I think where your sin that you do affects
everyone else around you this is true okay because even like putting myself like in the
story right real quick like if I'm like such a gluttonous person that I like just get super
big and fat and then I die of heart failure okay that is going to affect the people around me as
well right then you wouldn't have a church plant leader here my wife wouldn't have a husband right
the kids don't have a father to lead them so it does affect other people but when we're talking
about drunkenness you can see that it actively and directly hurts people that aren't even involved
in that sin all the time in our country it's not like it's like some rare thing we see this
a lot but this is not the case when it comes to being a glutton that your sin i mean if i kill
my being a glutton still not good and it still does affect other people not to the degree though
that someone could you know get drunk and take advantage of someone else though you understand
what i'm saying like direct harm versus indirect harm is what we're talking about the difference
right here and um like if i was even going to bring up an example for you for how how that
plays out even just last year our friend uh lola down at faithful word baptist church unfortunately
had her husband taken away from her because of a drunk driver which is like it really pisses me
off of what it does it's just like this guy's going out and working an honest job trying to
go out and labor for his family and then some bozo who is just too stupid did not get in his
car while he's drunk goes and hits him and kills him while he's providing for his wife and kids
and it's like that like and that's why it bugs me is because i'm like that's the sin that people
are complaining about being preached against like they're like why don't i hear any more sermons
about gluttony it's like because of that things like that that's why because you look at a story
like that and you're like man you have to think like there's a father that's never going to go
home and kiss his baby again at the end of the day there's a wife that doesn't have her best
friend anymore that there's um a kid that's never going to grow up and see their dad it's really uh
really hits me in the feels what it does but all for what for a stupid liquid that that doesn't do
good for anybody yeah you want to know why that being a drunkard is preached against morons because
that being a glutton doesn't do that to people's families it doesn't directly hurt people that
aren't even involved in the sin at all like you see right there and so it just makes me think like
hey this sin doesn't be preached against more than people need to hear the fact that this is a sin
contrary to what any of these dumb theologians will tell you nowadays that getting drunk is a sin and
that uh alcohol is the bible likens it to being like an adder's poison that it stings like an
adder at the last the bible and if you were to get in the car while you're under the influence
of alcohol you're unbelievably wicked for doing that because not only are you risking your life
you're risking the life of everybody else around you and your community that needs to be preached
more nowadays not less people don't need to hear that they should like cleave their alcohol nowadays
they need to hear that alcohol does nothing good for you it ruins your life it ruins your family
and it ruins the life of everybody else in your community that needs to be heard more from people
so forgive me i don't like this dumb little attitude it's like oh why isn't gluttony preached
on more why don't you get up and preach the stupid sermon then huh come up and preach it then i would
we would love to hear it but the reality is is that being a drunkard is way more applicable truly
it is truly it is for the the severity of the of the sin that happens and the harm that it can cause
and from how many times it's sheerly brought up in the bible you guys are there in ephesians 5
verse number eight another story about that as well is that even my own cousin he grew up without a
father because there was a drunken fight that happened with his dad and long story short at
the end of it all they fall in the street because they're fighting and they're drunk he gets hit by
a car they hit and run don't say anything passes away so my cousin never met his dad or never even
remembers him like i'm six months older than my cousin i don't even have any uncles or any
memories of my uncle excuse me so i know that he doesn't either it's just like what a terrible
thing to grow up without a father for what for drunkenness for something that literally only
brings pain into our society huh and i want to pause right here and just say this as well
i always say this with different kind of sins that i preach against but if this is something
that you had struggled with in the past i'm not trying to beat you up about it right now that's
not the purpose the purpose is that so that people can hear in this room and then not fall into that
same snare and so that if you have done that in the past you could realize or if you're doing
it right now hey get your life right and do what the bible actually says which is to avoid alcohol
and to stay away from being drunk because it brings nothing but pain in this life that's the
point of me bringing this all up um but where are we at here i mean you guys are there in ephesians
5 18 but like talking about alcohol killing people directly and indirectly there's also a lot of harm
that comes besides just killing people like how many women get taken advantage of because they're
too drunk to defend themselves when they're going out and you know partying which obviously is not a
good idea anyways but alcohol only makes it worse how many marriages fall apart because people just
can't give up alcohol how many kids are neglected how many people live in split households because
their mom and dad just fight the whole time when they're on alcohol how many people are are uh just
you know they they they use it to hurt their wife and to hurt their kids and to you know to lean on
more than they would for caring about their own family like alcohol seeps into so many different
areas of life that's why it's preached about way more than gluttony is okay hopefully made my point
clear on that you guys are in ephesians 5 verse number eight though there's a bunch of untold
evils that come from alcohol so it's no marvel it's preached about more the third thing i want
to bring up though with why alcohol and why being a drunkard and why being a winebibber is preached
about more is because it's a lot easier to pinpoint when someone's drunk versus when someone's
overeaten okay and you might like to think about that at first but bear with me for a second i
thought about this i'm not i'm not just yapping up here okay look at a feedings 518 it says this it
says and be not drunk with wine earn his excess but be filled with the spirit so from the bible
right there it gives a very clear definition of what it means to be drunk what does it mean
to be drunk to be filled with excess of wine yeah and i would say that it's also easy to tell
that like gluttony's definition is an excess of food but the thing is is that truly it's a lot
easier to see when someone's over drank compared to when they've overeaten in a moment especially
okay because someone might scoff at that and be like well can't you just look at someone and see
that they're fat no they're a glutton not really though because think about this for a second
because it does depend on what your level of glutton or what your uh not level but either
your definition of gluttony is but like i want to just do a little bit of a thought experiment
with you because i like i was telling you i was thinking about this a lot a lot a lot a lot i was
thinking about how the bible defines this and what we can take from this and so i just want to give
you some of these thought experiments that i was kind of performing in my head as well so go past
the surface level caveman unga booga thingy for a second and dive into the brain cells of the iq a
little bit and bear with me okay for example when it comes up someone who's a a heavy set person like
we're talking about a big body okay exclude the the my 600 pound life people for a second okay
just put them on the shelf okay if the shelf can hold them okay but but exclude them for a second
and just say if the person is what like 300 pounds is that person a glutton it's like well
i don't know if you have enough information to say that necessarily because what if a person's been
300 pounds for the last five years have they been a glutton because if you're staying at the same
weight that you've been are you over then by definition not really if you're 300 pounds or
five years straight you could maybe say that they partook in gluttony leading up to that point and
got them to where they're bigger but when you're kind of thinking about it it's like like if someone
stays the same weight for an extended period of time how could you really say that they're a
glutton they're they're not eating at an excess by literal but then also if you think about it
like this they're like what if someone's weight's like constantly fluctuating then like so say
someone who's like 250 pounds and they fluctuate 270 250 270 250 over the span of a couple years
are they a glutton or not it's like kind of hard to say yeah it's like that's kind of my point
bringing this up is that it's way harder to pinpoint what it means to be a glutton
uh because especially if you're thinking about just not like a daily event but like a um
overtime thing which i'm going to bring up a little bit more but like all you can tell about
by someone if they're overweight like extremely overweight or like you know just more you know
they that is definitely an overweight person is that they have had gluttony leading up to that
point but for a person that is big like that what if they're trying to lose weight what if they're
you know used to be 800 pounds and now they're down to 400 pounds right so you can see that just
looking at someone doesn't necessarily tell you if they are a glutton or not you guys understand
what i'm saying trying to logic it can show you that they had but not that they're currently is
what i'm trying to it's kind of get uh show to you guys from that that point also though when it
comes to being a glutton what does it mean to overeat anyways because truly like think about
this if i eat at a hundred calorie surplus would you guys call me a glutton if i'm eating a hundred
calories more than what my metabolic rate would be because just for a little bit of like a little
science on you guys you have like a basal metabolic rate which basically is just fancy words we're
saying what your body needs for its internal organs to survive on a daily basis so if you
just consistently eat below your basal metabolic rate you'd eventually die because you don't have
enough energy to sustain your organs okay and your body adjusts itself but don't even we're just
trying to make this very uh very simple up here okay so say this then my say my basal metabolic
rate is at like 2500 calories if i eat 2800 calories for the rest of the year and my glutton
what would you say 300 more calories i mean that's like maybe like three pounds that you'd gain the
year is that someone who's a glutton it's like i don't know it's kind of like it's kind of hard
to pinpoint exactly or what if i ate you know say this what if for today i ate 3500 calories
which is way over 2500 but then tomorrow i eat 1500 so i eat a thousand less was i a glutton in
that span of the day or was it like the long con the not long con the long plan that mattered you
know what i'm saying can you see though how it would be difficult for a preacher to say like
when it comes to being drunk you can just be like hey if you're drunk knock it off when it comes to
eating though you're like don't overeat okay well what does that mean exactly though you know what
i mean and i don't want to confuse and say that this isn't a sin because it is a sin but bible
says gluttony is a sin i'm just submitting to you why it's likely that someone wouldn't be able to
get up here and say with very high authority all the specifics of overeating because people's
bodies are so much different yeah even like when you think about like a bmi because that's probably
what people would go to because you think about like the breathalyzer and then you have the bmi
but even the bmi has some issues because when you take like a super muscular person
like even like jj watt if you know that is he's like a freak athlete just massive football player
he's retired now but he was a specimen in his day or for the the boomers out there the non-sportsers
like someone like arnold schwarzenegger okay just super jacked these guys would be considered obese
by the bmi scale when you're like well why is that there is some logic to it though because
sometimes people just say it's broken but it's not that it's necessarily broken it's that with
the bmi what it's registering is how much your body weight is affecting like your heart being
able to plump uh pump blood through your body so that's so to say like this if someone's 300
pounds and they're like five foot okay so they're going to be a little balloon right there okay
yeah a little butterball there you go then that's going to be hard on their heart but someone else
who's 300 pounds even when it's muscle okay you're a bodybuilder that still is hard on your heart
okay it's not as hard so don't it's not exactly a one for one but it is still hard on your heart
so i'm bringing this up to say like well so if someone is 300 pounds and they're a bodybuilder
are they a glutton then because they had to eat an extreme amount of calories to get to the point
you literally to build muscle you have to eat at an excess so are you a glutton at that point
probably not that's not what you'd say like like but even with jj watt though too as well
this dude was eating 9 000 calories in his prime 9 000 calories michael phelps was eating 12 000
calories in his prime when he was swimming are they gluttons then a lot of food it's a lot of
calories again it's a little bit hard to pinpoint huh is all gain is all weight that you gain a bad
thing is like is bulking a sin some people have been in the bowl for a long time what if you what
if you bulk up but then you're like hey i'm gonna do like a little bit of a dirty bulk and then i'm
gonna lose all that weight afterwards and cut afterwards were you a glutton then in that little
time span or what if you go to bulk and then you just never do actually cut you just live in the
bulk okay that's where i'm at okay freeze again that's that's why i say that
just this is a lifetime bulk member okay i bring it all up though because hopefully you'd see from
that it's not just black and white it's really not that simple it's it's hard to quantify truly
like i was thinking a lot about hopefully you can tell that even someone like two like with um
like an eating disorder like with bulimia someone that's like eating a ton of food and then they're
throwing up but they don't get any weight are they a glutton maybe you're doing like the hunger
game style stuff like you guys know what i'm talking about miss amanda knows what i'm talking
about okay like in the in the in this i'll defy your minds a little bit it was not bad
they're like these wealthy elites are like having these giant feasts and then they have people just
like stuffing their faces with them and then the main characters of the story are like i cannot eat
any more food how are people still eating and they're like oh you silly you got to take this
little drink right here it makes you throw up so then you can go and eat more food and that's like
it's for like the to show you how backwards our society is basically but wouldn't that be
gluttony like if you're eating just to throw up just to eat just to throw up i mean that'd be
glutty but you're not going to get any weight if you're doing all that so again things are just
interesting go back to proverbs 23 verse number 21 real quick proverbs 23 verse number 21 we were
there a little bit earlier all that to just say that it is hard to pinpoint this so it's not a
shock to me why a preacher would have a little bit of a struggle to get up and preach about this
like this is what you need to do because it would be like if the bible just said like
eating dessert to sin something clear to stand on right you can just be like hey
thus saith the lord get rid of that cake buddy no cake like hey like don't the brownies wicked
as hell just doesn't say that though yeah proverbs 23 verse number 21 it says uh because then again
i'll just say even before that as well it's like if i'm eating dessert every day but then i work
out every day as well is it a net loss i don't know a bunch of stuff proverbs 23 verse 21 it
says this it says for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness
shall clothe a man with rags outside of these thought experiments though i want to bring up
this point to you what is the bible's emphasis on gluttony when it brings it up for the one time
like because i'm obviously i showed you the other three but really the other three don't like give
you a a direct application for that i'm talking about this is the one time where he really brings
it up what's his focus though what's the emphasis what's the negative of this sin poverty is what
the bible says yeah poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags that's the one emphasis that
we get from the bible itself i'm just pointing this out because people will get this attitude
sometimes where like they'll act like being fat is like an unforgivable sin or that it's like
the wicked of the most wicked of everything in the law it's like people will go up and be like oh
these fat disgusting slobs whale pig hybrid just breathing all the skinny person's air it's like
it's like well where is that in the bible though you know what i'm saying like why would you have
why would you have such a low condescending attitude towards a sin that the bible doesn't
have itself which is to not say all sin is sin we understand this right but like people act like
this is like the end all be all like it's like the worst thing ever and that's just not what
you actually see in the bible truly it's not right be real with me for a second that's not the focus
on gluttony from the bible is not your health truly it doesn't say that it's not how you look
it's your poverty is what it says your your wealth is what it's talking about that's what
that hinders okay you can draw your own conclusion from that but i just say this that when people
have this attitude where it's just like this is just if you're a fat person you're basically
just a waste of space unbiblical and it's garbage okay and that's actually not going to convince
people to lose weight in the first place if you're just a jerk to them about things like that
i think it's so weird like that's not the attitude we see from the bible so that's not the attitude
that we should have as christians but when it comes to poverty because like you know with what
it's talking about right here okay why is it that being a glutton and being a drunker would bring
you to poverty for two reasons you know if you're spending too much money on food that would
obviously bring you to poverty like if you're even nowadays if you're just spending all your
money on fast food it's going to bring you to poverty you got to do some some home cooked meals
yeah that's like where the phrase we even get like they're eating us out of house and home
right has to be out of that yeah good for people literally back in the day eating people out of
house and home yeah but then also that's the second thing that brings up in that verse is
being lazy like the drowsiness is what it says because when you're a really big person it causes
you to be more lazy and vice versa they kind of balance off of each other so what the bible's
bringing up here is not necessarily that you looking like a supermodel it's not bringing up
necessarily even your health which i do think would be a good thing but it's not what the verse
actually brings up it brings up your poverty brings up your riches now i would know now that
someone's thinking but brother remy you're not thinking about all the other verses oh no no i
have thought about all these verses okay let me tell you i'm not bozo the clown up here okay i do
think about things before i say them and the verses that most people would go to in their head right
now is wrong they don't they don't understand the actual interpretation of them don't about
the knife to your throat verse that is not about dieting and exercise okay sorry to bring it to
you but the verses in the bible have context behind them just throwing out this little
one-liner proverb that has nothing to do with dieting and exercise and using that to shame
people is not what we should be about as christians we're looking for we'll look at it in a second
okay because i'm again i don't just say things without just thinking about them all this to say
though is this is that when people are super judgmental about this i think it's super cringe
because that's not what we see from the bible obviously no sin is good but people will be like
acting like this is like one of the seven deadly sins but hello this is catholic false doctrine
there is no such thing as the seven deadly sins yeah the seven things that we see from the bible
is six things that god hate yay seven are abomination to him that's the seven deadly
sins if you wanted to but guess what the catholic church can't even get that right it's like a copy
and paste and it still doesn't even line up with that verse here's the reality of sin all sins
deadly hello the wages of sin is death is what the bible says and sin when it is finished before
death there is no such thing as mortal sins and what are the other dumb ones carnal sin yeah they
have all these there's no none of that's in the bible that's from some stupid pope who didn't know
what he's talking about every sin is a sin that would damn you to hell truly if you didn't believe
on jesus christ that's what the bible actually teaches but again like this is one of the seven
deadly sins no it is not not even real okay go where are you guys even at you guys are in
proverbs go to uh uh proverbs 23 verse number two is where i want you guys to go proverbs 23
verse number two the seven deadly sins is right next to the pope in the bible and it's right next
to pray to the saints as well because it's not really there man that stuff it's crazy though
how much that leaks out to people because i've had so many co-workers ask me about the seven
different sins and i was just telling the same thing because not in the bible like this is just
catholic fan fiction truly is what it is um you guys are going to proverbs 23 i do want to say
as well on this because like what do we see the scribes and Pharisees even doing that's why i was
saying it's like a fair say of clouditude what do they accuse jesus for being a gluttonous person
huh maybe it's a coincidence maybe not because i'll be like i don't want to get too far in the
weeds on that but i just do think it's interesting that that's what they're trying to accuse jesus
christ of being and there was other things i want to bring you about that but i don't think i'm
gonna have time to bring it up in this sermon but i do want to say this is what haters bring up
just to dis on people because it's like such an easy thing to try to grasp for like my dad which
who mind you is a person who's six foot eight he's like a mini goliath almost okay like like
when we first started the church he was definitely heavier than he is right now and people just like
throw that in his face all the time all these haters all the trolls be like oh he's so big it's
like dude is six foot eight though like i would hope you're big or you're gonna just look like
like uh like slender man like a stick man up there like one in the world yeah like victor
women yama you know that guy looks like a skeleton it's kind of crazy okay but my dad
they're giving him all this grief for that they're oh he's big he's big he's big and then my dad
loses a ton of weight and and then i'm like oh maybe the trolls will praise him now and they're
just like they're like he probably used church funds to get on what he did but that should remind
you what we even read in Matthew 11 right that you've piped and they haven't danced and that
you've mourned and they haven't lamented there's just some people you just don't with so that's
that's what you should take from that but to be practical because you guys are there at that verse
in Proverbs 23 before i get to that i'd say to be practical and to give you a real application of
gluttony though because i've been kind of coming in at the angle that it's not as big of a deal
as being a drunkard which is true from the bible but again no amount of sin is good so practically
if you can't keep a budget because you can't control your cravings for food then maybe that
is something that you're struggling with yeah like if you have like this food budget for the
month and you just are consistently going over that it's probably because you're being gluttonous
yeah you're eating too much you're eating too much of the fancy food instead of just hey beans
and rice is pretty cheap that's what you got to do sometimes but it's your appetite that leads
you away from doing that yeah it's you're like oh i don't want beans rice i want you know a double
quarter pound or something like that maybe it's like the non-crunchies in here okay um
like mcdonald's okay hey mcdonald's has been there for me pinches that i can't explain okay
i'm just kidding uh but when it comes to like over uh eating as well here's another practical
application if you're full stop eating your food there's like uh there's like uh what is it i'm
serious though kind of about that because even though it's funny but it's like you get this idea
when you're younger sometimes we're like hey the kids are starving in africa finish what's on your
plate right but if you're full why would you because then if you're just doing that all you're
doing is kind of technically being gluttonous yeah so i don't have that rule in my house i'm
just like hey the kids in africa aren't going to eat these scraps anyways though okay so like what
what is that even relevant okay i understand the message behind it right because sometimes kids
like no i'm not going to eat anything but maybe that's not a great habit to adopt into your house
okay other practical things is that though the bible doesn't say this if your weight is affecting
your health you probably should get on that for not even just you know um like uh like what did i
say not even just for like necessarily your own sense but even for like a spiritual sense like
if you can't go out soul winning because you're too big and you just can't get upstairs anymore
probably an issue right if you like if if it's affecting your marriage your weight is and it's
affecting it negatively then you should probably fix something about that that's a real application
that we could take from that if it's affecting your job like you can't even do certain kind of
work anymore because you're too big or it's too hard on your body something you probably
need to deal with then yeah i think these are very practical and something that you can bring up
without just being like you fat slob what are you doing with your life the reality is like it's hard
to not overeat that's why there's so many people that are big nowadays yeah it's like and our food
is like so calorie dense it's not even like you know like back then you're like struggling
for the the calories and now it's like you're struggling to not get the calories it's great
we're so blessed that we have a problem with overfeeding like that my brother brought that
to me one time i thought it was so true it's like people he's like that's when you know you're
really poor when you're worried about the food actually going in your belly he's like americans
think they're poor but their poor is that they're getting bad quality food that's like super high in
calories that's a fake poor though okay this is first world country poor real poor is when you're
fasting not by choice but because you don't have any food yeah so anyways last two things i want
to go over real quick we're at uh we're about right at the end of this sermon okay go to you
guys are there in purpose 23 verse number two i want to bring this up because i see this i
throw this i see this verse thrown out all the time all the time i've seen the thrown out people
and they're like look at what the bible says right here if you're a chunky boy look what it says in
purpose 23 says and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite there we go
diet and exercise in the bible but wait a minute though what is this talking about like what is
the context of this verse go back one chapter okay i want you to see this go back one chapter
to purpose 22 verse 29 the last verse and then read this in context how you're supposed to read
the bible without just ripping a verse and abusing okay look what it says in purpose 22 29 it says
seest thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before kings he shall not stand before mean
men which leads it to when thou sittest to eat with the ruler consider diligent diligently what
is before thee and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite look what it says
though be not desirous of his dainties they are deceitful meat is this talking about diet and
exercise it's absolutely not that just goes to show you hey don't when people just rip verses out
of context that you should be like wait a minute what's going on here because truly this has nothing
to do with that and i've seen people use that over and over again online and people just post
this verse like it means anything without its context okay if you don't believe me look further
okay look what it says verse number six it says eat thou not the bread of him that an evil eye
neither desired thou his dainty meat for as he thinketh in his heart so he so is he eaten drinks
sayeth he to thee but his heart is not with thee the morsel which thou has eaten shalt thou vomit
up and lose thy sweet words so what is this talking about then in its proper context it's
talking about not letting people manipulate you with food is what it's talking about not letting
people manipulate you with the gifts that they give you that's actually the proper context here
not hey put in your throat if you're struggling to eat this big mac okay not even not even in
the same universe as this could you maybe take like a second application of that maybe okay but
that's certainly not the primary interpretation it's talking about not letting people give you
like basically like gifts and rewards so that they can use that to hang over your head and then use
that to manipulate you that's truly what it's talking about okay go to proverbs 25 verse number
15 though this is the last place i'll have you turn proverbs 25 verse number 16 again that kind
of stuff but it bugs me when people rip things out of context like that when it's obviously not
teaching because it deceives people it truly does like be real with when you're bringing things up
you shouldn't look at the bible trying to prove a doctrine that you already have in your mind you
should look at the bible and derive your doctrine from its proper context truly Proverbs 25 verse
number 16 this we're going to end the sermon it says this hast thou found honey eat so much
is sufficient for thee lest thou be filled with and vomit it so the practical real application
i give you for this verse is this is that you should realize the christian too much of anything
is a bad thing too much anything even honey though it's good he says hey eat what's what you know
what's proper for you what's sufficient for you but don't overeat it because then you're going
to vomit it back up so we should take from that and realize that even when things are good too much
of anything is a bad thing even water itself will kill you if you drink too much of it even though
water is like essential for life yeah should show you that too much of anything is a bad thing you
can apply that multiple different ways when it comes to things that are healthy even things that
are unhealthy you know like maybe drinking you know a red bull a day won't kill you i don't know
maybe maybe it will okay but if you're drinking like five a day maybe that is going to kill you
okay maybe that's like major carcinogen okay i'm not exactly sure but it doesn't sound right yeah
you like get too many drinks it's just a weird feeling it's going on something's not right
something's not adding up yeah but too much anything to kill you too much pleasure is not
good for you either as a christian hey learn to endure hardness as a christian as well life isn't
always joy life isn't always rainbows life isn't always what makes you happy that's good for you
though you need to balance out in this life you need a a difference in uh in situations and
emotions it shouldn't just always be one thing you shouldn't always just be depressed you shouldn't
always just be happy you should find balance as a christian everything must be doing in balance
because too much of anything is a bad thing is what we learn from this verse so to end this
sermon though right here is first summary number one we learn from this sermon that being a glutton
and being drunkard they're both sins but these sins are not equal and don't pretend like they're
equal because they're not okay and by the way all sin is not equal i'm sure you guys already know
that but people have all these dumb logics but no truly all sin is not equal there is a difference
there is death penalty sins and there's non-dependency there's sins like blaspheming
the holy ghost that damn you to hell permanently forever you're donezo and then there's sins like
lying that you can be forgiven of the difference in sins hello also though when it comes to that
guys talk about this oh they don't need to bring this up either though but here's here's another
difference in this in the list of sins that you kicked out of church is is being a glutton in there
no it's not but it's being a drunkard in there oh yeah it is you know why it's because it's worse
because you just be service level maybe because he didn't listen there in first corinthians hello
like maybe because the one application that we see is not like a super like what would you say
like commanding one if you will i don't even know if that's the right word for it but it's like
the one like like regular application you'd see is a proverb where it also mentions being a drunkard
so it makes sense why this would be not focused on as much okay that was the first point of this
sermon but not to say any sin that's anything that's a sin you should not allow it in your
life don't because maybe i have done a little bit too much of the other side of this let me
balance that and say this if you are being a glutton get that out of your life because no
amount of sin is acceptable truly if you're struggling with that get it out no amount of
sin is acceptable in your life we want to get every ounce of sin possible out of our life and
maybe we won't get there maybe but like at least you should die trying okay number three is that
comes to you know this thing being sinful truly too much of anything is a bad thing too much eating
is a bad thing too much fasting would be a bad thing you're killing yourself you're never eating
any at all right yeah too much water would poison you too much junk food is not good for you too
much of anything is bad for you that's what we learned from the bible so don't allow excess in
any area of your life is the message that i would leave you with with that all being said let's pray
thank you so much for a wonderful day thank you so much for the new friends god thank you so much
for your word god and i just pray that you would um help us god when it comes to the bible guys
pray that you'd help us to understand these subjects more and i pray that you'd help us
get truly all the sin out of our life god that is possible god i just pray that we wouldn't
allow things to be there because we think that they're small because every sin is a sin that
puts you on the cross god and we just need to to realize that sin is what crucified you and sin
is what separates us from you god and i just pray that you help us to uh to to have an attitude of
hating sin and of getting it out and having a vengeance and getting it out and i just pray
that we would seek to serve you fully in every area of our life would you say pray amen
we're going to turn to page number 176 page number 176 and we're going to go ahead and sing it twice
through page number 176 jesus loves the little children
And sing everybody, but the ride you please close the word of prayer