I think that there's application here let me put it that way I think you're right and I think it's probably just in all transparency it's a good good day for me to be reminded of that does Proverbs 2528 apply to coffee a lot of people are addicted to coffee and without drinking

coffee they get headaches or other problems does that mean it's sinful? I really wish

you wouldn't ask me about this. 2528.

All right, let's look at this,

and see if I need to be rebuked.

A man without self-control is like a city broken into

and left without walls.

I love this verse actually. So ancient cities to give context to ancient cities at the time a wall was not just a decorative thing

right the wall is the thing that protects you it makes it so there's only certain entry points into the city and then you can guard those or even close the gates so that

it's so powerful walls themselves are so powerful that many people who would be like they would want to attack you, steal your stuff, kill people in the city, they see the walls and they're never mind.

Let's go to a city without walls. A person without self-control, a person who's not able to

resist his own desires and impulses, that person is like a city with no walls. Every time a temptation comes he just goes right to it, he just suffers the pain of sin in his life over and over again.

Developing self-control then is an immensely important quality we have to have in life and so does this relate to coffee well let me say it relates to food in general all food because food is a self-control issue, whether you'll eat too much,

whether you will, even anorexia would be a lack of self-control as well,

actually. You might think of it as hyper-self-control, but I would say, well know this is

you're being controlled by the food

instead of you controlling the food according to what is healthy so like yeah food

definitely matters it's it's a little bit more difficult to apply it directly to coffee because coffee isn't controlling you.

Now alcohol controls you.

So when I drink too much alcohol, when I use too much of a drug that has a mind altering quality to it, then I lose self-control. So if you're doing

something where you lose your inhibitions, like that's a loss of self-control,

that's a bad thing, we don't like that. And so yeah that that applies to those things as well. So some of these people are when they get drunk, when they drink too much, they become the man without self-control, the woman without self-control. The problem is this, even though this doesn't directly apply to coffee as far as it's the caffeine, the effect of caffeine, it can apply in the sense that are you being controlled by coffee or are you controlling the

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