GLUTTONY PART FOUR

Proverbs 26:9
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools.

By which he hurts both himself and others.

A thorn - As a thorn is in a drunkard's hand, which he cannot manage cautiously, but employs to his own and others hurt. So - As unprofitable, and, by accident, hurtful to himself and others.

Wise sayings, as a foolish man delivers and applies them, lose their usefulness.

I Corn 6:9-10
9) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10) Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
The Corinthians are warned against many great evils, of which they had formerly been guilty. There is much force in these inquiries, when we consider that they were addressed to a people puffed up with a fancy of their being above others in wisdom and knowledge. All unrighteousness is sin; all reigning sin, nay, every actual sin, committed with design, and not repented of, shuts out of the kingdom of heaven. Be not deceived. Men are very much inclined to flatter themselves that they may live in sin, yet die in Christ, and go to heaven. But we cannot hope to sow to the flesh, and reap everlasting life.

Joel 1:5
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
It is just with God to take away the comforts which are abused to luxury and excess; and the more men place their happiness in the gratifications of sense, the more severe temporal afflictions are upon them. The more earthly delights we make needful to satisfy us, the more we expose ourselves to trouble.

Proverbs 26:11-12
11) As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
12) Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
The dog is a loathsome emblem of those sinners who return to their vices, 2Pe 2:22. We see many a one who has some little sense, but is proud of it. This describes those who think their spiritual state to be good, when really it is very bad.

2 Peter 2:22
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. (This is the scripture where the old timey saying, "you can take the pig out of the pen, but you can't take the pen out of the pig" comes from).
Such a repulsive course can be compared only with the most disgusting habits of unclean animals.

Such are all men in the sight of God before they receive his grace, and after they have made shipwreck of the faith. Prov 26:11.

To bring an evil report upon the good way of God, and a false charge against the way of truth, must expose to the heaviest condemnation. How dreadful is the state here described! Yet though such a case is deplorable, it is not utterly hopeless; the leper may be made clean, and even the dead may be raised. Is thy backsliding a grief to thee? Believe in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved.

There are many more excesses like jewelry, wearing 14 ear rings in each ear, well maybe not that many, but you know what I mean, clothes, gossiping, gambling, tattoos, and many other vices that create sin in our lives.

We see from the study of God's word what some of our EXCESSIVE APPITITES are and what continuing in them will happen to us. Lets begin to pray to God to remove these sin from our lives.

God's Blessing to each of you,
rECj/LJG

SOURCE: King James Bible, Easton's Bible Dictionary