Welcome back to the podcast on this Monday. We hope you're reading the Bible with us

this year and benefiting from the discipline. We're using the Navigator's

Bible reading plan and if you are reading along with us you may

already know that today is scheduled reading includes 1st Corinthians 6 verses 12 to 20

a key text on how we glorify God with our bodies. How do we steward this body for God's glory?

Specifically, we have a lot of questions about caffeine and energy drinks like this email today

from a listener named Jose. he writes in to ask this.

Pastor John Hello and thank you for this podcast.

Caffeine and specifically energy drinks are controversial in our youth group.

As someone who likes them, I was wondering if there are any

negative effects or reason to not drink them. They help me focus and have

energy during my work shift. I only drink one every two or three days but I would like to have

some spiritual insight in order that I might run this race without being. Slow down.

And then he ends his email with a smiley emoticon.

Pacharan, how should we think about energy drinks and how would we know if we are abusing our bodies with caffeine?

Well, it might be helpful to take our starting point from Paul's words in First Corinthians

about how he navigates the whole area of appetites, whether food or energy drinks or sex,

and what foods mean to Paul, what he takes into his body.

So here's the pivotal text for me.

It's First Corinthians 6.

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful, all things are lawful for me, but I will not

be dominated, I would say, or mastered or ruled or enslaved by anything.

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