What would you do for a Snapple?

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Your appetites are your destruction… 12-13

 

In Leonia, New Jersey, back in 1995, a man was arrested for stealing a truck full of Snapple.  It turns out he had previously worked for Snapple, and had been fired from his job for stealing and drinking the beverages.  Undaunted, he dressed up as a Snapple delivery driver and made off with a whole truckload of it.  The police officer who reported on the crime made the statement: “He just has an uncontrollable appetite for Snapple beverages.” 

 

 

Its not “NOT WANTING GOD IN YOUR LIFE” that is the problem. Its wanting something more than wanting God in your life. 

i.e. if wanting God is at a 4 and wanting money is at  1, then you got a problem. 

 

 

 

GLUTTONY

the three edwards

Thomas Costain's history, The Three Edwards, described the life of Raynald Ill, a fourteenth-century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald was commonly called by his Latin nickname, Crassus, which means "fat."

After a violent quarrel, Raynald's younger brother Edward led a successful revolt against him. Edward captured Raynald but did not kill him. Instead, he built a room around Raynald in the Nieuwkerk castle and promised him he could regain his title and property as soon as he was able to leave the room.

This would not have been difficult for most people since the room had several windows and a door of near-normal size, and none was locked or barred. The problem was Raynald's size. To regain his freedom, he needed to lose weight. But Edward knew his older brother, and each day he sent a variety of delicious foods. Instead of dieting his way out of prison, Raynald grew fatter.

When Duke Edward was accused of cruelty, he had a ready answer: "My brother is not a prisoner. He may leave when he so wills." Raynald stayed in that room for ten years and wasn't released until after Edward died in battle. By then his health was so ruined he died within a year. . . a prisoner of his own appetite.

Raynalds job was to be a duke.  to rule and reign.  to enjoy the finest things in life, but his lust for food prevented him from a life of fulfillment.

 

 

I.  The Ungodly Appetite is for More

     Habakkuk 2: Verse 5 describes the uncontrolled appetite:  “Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man, so that he does not stay at home.  He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and he is like death, never satisfied.  He also gathers to himself many nations and collects to himself all peoples.” 

     These words describe the Babylonians, and the appetite for more that controlled them. 

 

Fleshly appetites are never satisfied and in fact only grow… voracious!