More Money Than Sense (2 of 6)
Series: The Six Sins Of Sodom
Jeff Strite
Ezekiel 16:48-50
OPEN: We showed this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpyNoA1b20g (From timestamp 0.0 to 0.35)
Just so you know, I'm pretty sure you're not going to get this at Kentucky Fried Chicken any time soon. An order of 10 of these wings will cost you $45 and an order of 50 wings (plus champagne) will set you back $1000.
When I first saw that video, the term ''More money than sense'' came to mind. Why on earth, would people do stuff like this? (Pause) Well, because they can. They have the money, they feel they deserve it, and it's all the rage in places like NYC. There's a kind of ''snob'' factor involved here. People can brag ''I ate some 24 karat chicken wings!!!!''
But what this is really all about is the reflection of a self-absorbed culture. It's a culture where some folks have money to burn... and they don't know what to spend it on. And so they end up spending their money on bizarre food fads like this one.
Now this is really nothing new. This type of thing has been happening for centuries. In fact, here in our text this morning, that may even have been what happened in Sodom: ''Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: ''she and her daughters had... (an) excess of food...'' Ezekiel 16:49
They apparently had so much food they didn't know what to do with all of it. As I was researching the text for this morning's sermon, I found that most scholars identified this sin as being the sin of
''GLUTTONY'
- Proverbs 23:20-21 ''Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.''
- Proverbs 28:7 ''He who keeps the law is a discerning son, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.''
- Proverbs 23:2 ''Put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.'' (all these verses are from the HCSB)
Now being overweight is NOT what ...
Series: The Six Sins Of Sodom
Jeff Strite
Ezekiel 16:48-50
OPEN: We showed this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpyNoA1b20g (From timestamp 0.0 to 0.35)
Just so you know, I'm pretty sure you're not going to get this at Kentucky Fried Chicken any time soon. An order of 10 of these wings will cost you $45 and an order of 50 wings (plus champagne) will set you back $1000.
When I first saw that video, the term ''More money than sense'' came to mind. Why on earth, would people do stuff like this? (Pause) Well, because they can. They have the money, they feel they deserve it, and it's all the rage in places like NYC. There's a kind of ''snob'' factor involved here. People can brag ''I ate some 24 karat chicken wings!!!!''
But what this is really all about is the reflection of a self-absorbed culture. It's a culture where some folks have money to burn... and they don't know what to spend it on. And so they end up spending their money on bizarre food fads like this one.
Now this is really nothing new. This type of thing has been happening for centuries. In fact, here in our text this morning, that may even have been what happened in Sodom: ''Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: ''she and her daughters had... (an) excess of food...'' Ezekiel 16:49
They apparently had so much food they didn't know what to do with all of it. As I was researching the text for this morning's sermon, I found that most scholars identified this sin as being the sin of
''GLUTTONY'
- Proverbs 23:20-21 ''Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.''
- Proverbs 28:7 ''He who keeps the law is a discerning son, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.''
- Proverbs 23:2 ''Put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.'' (all these verses are from the HCSB)
Now being overweight is NOT what ...
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