Christ has here left us a most important lesson. He does not in His teaching encourage indolence. His example was the opposite of this. Christ was an earnest worker. His life was one of self-denial, diligence, perseverance, industry, and economy. He would lay before us the danger of making eating and drinking paramount. He reveals the result of giving up to indulgence of appetite. The moral powers are enfeebled so that sin does not appear sinful. Crimes are winked at, and base passions control the mind until general corruption roots out good principles and impulses, and God is blasphemed. All this is the result of eating and drinking to excess. This is the very condition of things which He declares will exist at His second coming. {3T 164.1}

De samme synder, frådseri og drukkenskab, afstumpede de moralske begreber hos indbyggerne i Sodoma, sådan at forbrydelser synes at være en fornøjelse for både mænd og kvinder i denne onde by. Men Kristus har givet følgende advarsel: » Eller som det gik til i Lots dage: De spiste og drak, (164) købte og solgte, plantede og byggede og på den dag, da Lot gik ud af Sodoma, regnede ild og svovl ned fra himmelen og ødelagde dem alle på samme måde skal det gå den dag, da Menneskesønnen åbenbares.«