Darkness gives way to light. The stage is set. We see mountains in the distance, vast desert and a wall made from large boulders. A group of people, young and old, male and female stand in a large circle. One man, a leader of the community, picks up a large stone. Other men follow suite. The leader lifts the stone over his head with both hands and hurls it with great force at the object of sin, a young man, laying in the dirt at the center of the circle. The rest of the men do the same. Over and over and over until the man on the ground is an unrecognizable mass of bloody pulp. Deuteronomy 21:21
The sin this young man committed? Gluttony. The greedy excessive overindulgence in something that becomes an idol. It’s referred to as “the lust of the flesh”. Gluttony goes hand in hand with food, drink and laziness. It’s a wasted life.
Galatians 5:19-21 “Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, indecent behavior, idolatry, witchcraft, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
1 Corinthians 6:19–20 “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies."
Pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth. The 7 deadly sins.
Jude 1:7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
In His Name
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