The Seven Deadly Sins  Part 6  GLUTTONY

“A glutton is one who runs to the icebox for a cure to a spiritual malnutrition. That we use our possessions to camouflage a bankrupt emotional and perhaps…spiritual life. Because we seek status and position to camouflage our low self-esteem. We run after anything and everything to camouflage our fear of becoming nothing. “

Frederick Buechner

Joshua 7:9-16 Achan’s Sin of Gluttony not only kills him, but hurts ALL!

Isa 55:1-2 Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

Gluttony will kill us. Both PHYSICALLY and EMOTIONALLY and eventually… SPIRITUALLY.

When we think of Gluttony… immediately our thoughts go to over eating!

However… Gluttony is so much more than that! Its tied to ADDICTION.

A glutton is a person who is given to loose and excessive living. In the NT it was used to describe someone who has an uncontrolled or excessive fondness for some specified object or pursuit. Its wanting something so much that it takes control of our lives!

Eccl 2:10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

We “obsess” on things to fill the void in our lives that ONLY Jesus can fill.

John 6:35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

Hebrews 12:1-2 We have to THROW off the things that are killing us and fix our eyes on Jesus! We must FORCE ourselves to do this!