Or are we at times so accustomed to a certain lifestyle, that we can t do without any more. I now think of many a party also in the church where alcohol must be served freely, otherwise there is no fun. But the consequence often is that there is too much drinking and the level of our language becomes also lower and lower, more rough, coarse. Is this not robbing the LORD in the same way as those wealthy women did. No, then Scripture does not forbid a good meal, or a nice glass of wine.
Scripture tells about many a festive meal which meat consisted of a fatted sheep.
The Lord Jesus Himself provided more than sufficient good wine for the wedding at Cana. And also the future of the church is pictured with the image of a wedding feast. Yet the point is how do we use the gifts God has given us, the gifts He has laid in creation. Food for thought also this second lesson which we may learn from the prophetic words spoken by Amos at the address of those wealthy women in Samaria. II I now come to the second point of my sermon in which we will listen to God s response to the unfaithfulness among His people, vss.