Spring Gospel Meeting

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The Eastside Church of Christ Cordially Invites
You to Our
Spring Gospel Meeting
Overcoming Worldliness
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday April 17-19, 2009
Day Time Topic Friday 7 p.m. Overcoming
Worldliness Saturday 10 a.m. Gambling 11
a.m. Alcoholic Beverages Sunday 10 a.m. Christian
Recreation 11 a.m. Controlling Appetites
Eastside Church of Christ 89 S Main
Street Manchester, NY www.teachuslord.com
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Controlling Our Appetites

• All things are lawful for me but not all things
  are expedient. All things are lawful for me but
  I will not be brought under the power of any. (1
  Corinthians 612)?

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Controlling Our Appetites

• Appetite
• 1 a any of the instinctive desires necessary to
  keep up organic life especially the desire to
  eat
• 2 a an inherent craving

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Controlling Our Appetites

• God Is the Author of Our Appetites
• Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats but
  God shall bring to nought both it and them. But
  the body is not for fornication, but for the
  Lord and the Lord for the body
• (1 Corinthians 613)?
• Two Main Appetites
• Food
• Sexual Relations

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Controlling Our Appetites

• God Is the Satisfier of Our Appetites
• For he satisfieth the longing soul, And the
  hungry soul he filleth with good.
• (Psalms 1079)?
• There is nothing better for a man than that he
  should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy
  good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is
  from the hand of God.
• (Ecclesiastes 224)?

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Controlling Our Appetites

• We Are to Control Our Appetites
• All things are lawful for me but not all things
  are expedient. All things are lawful for me but
  I will not be brought under the power of any.
  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats but
  God shall bring to nought both it and them. But
  the body is not for fornication, but for the
  Lord and the Lord for the body
• (1 Corinthians 613)?

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Controlling Our Appetites

• Never forget that when we are dealing with any
  pleasure in its healthy and normal satisfying
  form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemys ground.
  I know we have won many a soul through pleasure.
  All the same, it is His invention, not ours. He
  made the pleasures all our research so far has
  not enabled us to produce one.
• Screwtape to Wormwood in
• The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis

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Controlling Our Appetites

• We Are to Control Our Appetites
• Examples
• Israelites Nehemiah 920-21
• Solomon Ecclesiastes 21-11
• Daniel Daniel 15-20, esp. 12
• Jesus Matthew 42-3 1721
• Paul 1 Corinthians 612

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Controlling Our Appetites

• We Are to Control Our Appetites
• Admonitions
• Solomon
• When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider
  diligently him that is before thee And put a
  knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to
  appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties
  Seeing they are deceitful food.
• (Proverbs 231-3)?

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Controlling Our Appetites

• We Are to Control Our Appetites
• Admonitions
• Solomon
• Remove far from me falsehood and lies Give me
  neither poverty nor riches Feed me with the food
  that is needful for me
• (Proverbs 308)?

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Controlling Our Appetites

• We Are to Control Our Appetites
• Admonitions
• Jesus
• Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your
  life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink
  nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is
  not the life more than the food, and the body
  than the raiment?
• (Matthew 625)?

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Controlling Our Appetites

• We Are to Control Our Appetites
• Admonitions
• Paul
• but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage
  lest by any means, after that I have preached to
  others, I myself should be rejected.
• (1 Corinthians 927)?

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Controlling Our Appetites

• We Are to Control Our Appetites
• Admonitions
• Jesus
• For there are eunuchs, that were so born from
  their mother's womb and there are eunuchs, that
  were made eunuchs by men and there are eunuchs,
  that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of
  heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let
  him receive it.
• (Matthew 1912)?

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Controlling Our Appetites

• We Are to Control Our Appetites
• Admonitions
• Paul
• Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote It is
  good for a man not to touch a woman. But, because
  of fornications, let each man have his own wife,
  and let each woman have her own husband.
• (1 Corinthians 71-2)?

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Controlling Our Appetites

• We Are to Control Our Appetites
• Admonitions
• Hebrew Writer
• Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let
  the bed be undefiled for fornicators and
  adulterers God will judge.
• (Hebrews 134)?

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Controlling Our Appetites

• All things are lawful for me but not all things
  are expedient. All things are lawful for me but
  I will not be brought under the power of any. (1
  Corinthians 612)?