Gluttony refers to overindulgence and overconsumption of food and drink to the point of waste. The Bible warns against gluttony, describing those who indulge their appetites as having their minds set on earthly things rather than God. Gluttony is considered a serious sin, and parents can bring a stubbornly gluttonous child before elders. Obesity is a growing global problem, with over 1.4 billion adults overweight in 2008, including over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women who were obese. The Bible says gluttony, like drunkenness, is a work of the flesh that will prevent one from inheriting God's kingdom. Christians are called to walk properly and glorify God with their

1. +
Self-Control
Part 2

2. +
Self-Control - all around!

3. +
Gluttony

means over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink,
or wealth items to the point of extravagance or waste.
 19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in
their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

Php 3:19

4. +
Gluttony is Serious
 18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the
voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they
discipline him, will not listen to them, 19 then his father and his mother
shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the
gate of the place where he lives, 20 and they shall say to the elders of
his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our
voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

(Dt 21:1820).

5. +
The reality

Fat: 1 gram = 9 calories Protein: 1 gram = 4 calories
Carbohydrates: 1 gram = 4 calories


http://www.sugarstacks.com/beverages.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usz7pibLzgQ

6. +
Key
facts
Worldwide obesity has nearly
doubled since 1980.

In 2008, more than 1.4 billion
adults, 20 and older, were overweight.
Of these over 200 million men and
nearly 300 million women were obese.

35% of adults aged 20 and
over were overweight in 2008, and 11%
were obese.


7. +
 65%
of the world's population live in
countries where overweight and obesity kills
more people than underweight.
More than 40 million children
under the age of five were overweight in
2011.


Obesity is preventable.

8. +
The Bible and Gluttony
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident:
sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife,
jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries,
dissensions, divisions, 21 envy,
drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.
I warn you, as I warned you before, that
those who do such things will not inherit
the kingdom of God.
(Ga
5:1921)

9. +
The Bible and Gluttony
13 Let us walk properly as in

the daytime, not in orgies and
drunkenness, not in sexual
immorality and sensuality, not
in quarreling and jealousy.

(Ro 13:13).

10. +
The Bible and Gluttony
19 Or do you not know that

your body is a temple of the
Holy Spirit within you, whom
you have from God? You are not
your own, 20 for you were
bought with a price. So glorify
God in your body.
(1
Co 6:1920).