Jonathan Roumie
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264 appearances
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2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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One of the seven deadly sins is gluttony.
It doesn't have to be food, but it can be. Like, how are you being gluttonous in your life? Is it, or are you hoarding things? Is it food? Like, is it just not putting any kind of boundaries on your satiety? Like, you know what? And I think it's something that can fuel other sort of leeches into breaking that spiritual connection to the divine.
Not one time. Well, then you see movies. I mean, here's the power of entertainment. You see a movie like Wall Street. You got Michael Douglas, who was a superstar at that time, the height of his career. Greed is good. I mean, isn't that the phrase from that movie?
No, no. I mean, it's, yeah, but it's everywhere too. It's everywhere, which is maybe why you don't hear it.
Well, I mean, I think luckily we have, I mean, that's what repentance is for, you know, in the Christian life. It's, you know, becoming aware of your faults and the way that you've hurt people or hurt yourself even. Yes.
and if the body is truly a temple of the lord a reflection of of the creation and of the creator god and you're hurting yourself then it's like it's an affront to god which is why things like gluttony are sinful because it also dulls you it's like a long head or you know three beers or something it keeps you from experiencing anything beyond yourself kind of yeah
Yeah, you're now creating a wall around the ability to be connected to from the divine. You know, it's like you're walling yourself off from God in a way.
That's right. You know what I mean? I love that you used food as a reference.
Yeah. A hundred percent.
That's right. And your mind is just like, you sense everything.
And the longer you do it, it starts to, you know, I once, I tried, I know people who have done like, 40-day water fasts. I don't, like with electrolytes and stuff that's not, you know, where they're, it still sounds dangerous, but I don't know how. I tried it for a week, one Lent. I got through four days of it and I'm like, this isn't going to work.
your body starts to do stuff that you have no control over. I can't imagine. And it's like, I think we're dying. So let's just get rid of everything. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm at work. This isn't... I'm on a set. This doesn't work. I can't keep running to the... So I said, Lord, please forgive me.
I can't continue this if I'm going to work for the rest of the week because I just... Unless you make it stop. It's not stopping. So I got to...
It's like, eat the soup.
Yeah. Well, at that point, I would think you almost don't want to break it. You're like, how long can I go?
How far can I go with this?
I think everybody should try fasting if they've never fasted. Everybody should try fasting. I mean, you know, if you've got medical conditions, I'm not a doctor, but I think discern and pray about it. And like, I've only found it helpful. And I think it just, even if it's just like for a day, like...
see what denial denying yourself food what does that do for your mind for your spirit you know i mean if i don't know if you don't have a sense of spirituality might not mean anything it might just be like a challenge like i wonder if i can do it you know but i think the point is not to do it for the sake of doing it i think to do it for the sake of of depriving yourself and offering up
The pain and the discomfort and for some people the suffering that that might cause. Yes. Taking that pain and suffering and discomfort through the fast and offering it towards an intention, a sick person, the decision to move to a new home, problems that a child is having in school. Yes. Any kind of obstacles or challenges that seem insurmountable.
fast, fast about it, pray and fast about it and see what the Lord can do with that and with your heart because then it's, what you're doing is you're opening up your heart.
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