Hello, this is pastor gary from first baptist church of laplata. And now in hot dog news: I love a good hot dog; in fact I had two at church Sunday night and found a cold, leftover dog in the kitchen Monday morning that I ate. I could never eat hot dogs like Joey Chestnut does, though. Joey Chestnut won the Mustard Belt in the annual Nathan’s 4th of July Hot Dog eating contest yesterday in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Chestnut ate 63 hot dogs with buns in ten minutes. During the contest, some protester in a Darth Vader mask tried to interrupt Chestnut, but Joey kept eating while placing Darth Vader in a choke hold and throwing him to the ground. Vader may had had the Force, but Chestnut had the mustard! Chestnut also earned a $10,000 prize while Darth Vader only earned humiliation. 1200 miles away, a Florida man was selling hot dogs on the street with an expired license. A police officer repeatedly told him to stop selling, but the man ignored the order. As the man was holding a hot dog that he was attempting to sell, the officer told him, “Put down the dog”; instead of putting it down, the man launched it at the officer. The officer was hit but not not injured by the flying dog. The man was arrested for battery on a law enforcement officer and multiple other charges. The Bible lists gluttony as a sin, so Mr. Chestnut may have won the contest and defeated a galactic enemy, but he still sinned. Romans 13:2 also commands us to obey those in authority stating, “Whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God, and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.” This verse is not considered prophecy by scholars and theologians, but I now consider it to be so in the case of the Florida hot dog slinger.
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