Spiritual Gluttony

Galatians 5:19–21 KJV 1900

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Titus 1:12 KJV 1900

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

Matthew 13:15 KJV 1900

For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Deuteronomy 32:15 KJV 1900

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; Then he forsook God which made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Matthew 24:38 KJV 1900

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

Gluttony and debauchery--taking any appetite to excess. When our carnal appetites (not just the lust for sexual excess, which is what the connotation of debauchery has taken as the prime excess. Not so.

1064. γαστήρ gastḗr; gen . gastéros, pl. gastéres. The belly (Sept .: Num. 5:22; Job 40:11).

(I) Particularly the stomach (Sept .: Job 15:2; 20:23) and metaphorically, appetite, excessive eating. In the NT , a glutton (Titus 1:12), “The Cretians are always . . . slow bellies,” meaning lazy gormandizers or gluttons. Such in ancient Greece were called gastródouloi, slaves of their stomachs.1

From the most inner sensory organ---the Heart, which has grown lazy and fat G#1054? Then the spiritual eyes and ears are blinded and deafened, back to the Heart...”Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.”