SERMON: Wisdom and the Appetite

Thank you for subscribing to the Shepherd's Church podcast. This is our Lord's Day sermon. And we pray that as we declare the Word of God that you would be encouraged, strengthened in your faith and you would catch a greater vision of who Christ is.

May you be blessed in the hearing of God's Word and may the Lord be with you. Over the last several weeks, we've been working through what we have coined the anatomy of wisdom, which is our examination of the human body set apart by the Spirit of God and how wisdom begins working itself through the whole of the person.

We've learned that none of us are actually wise of our own accord. All of us need a miraculous conversion where God himself elects us, where Christ purchases us, where the Spirit of God regenerates us and draws us back into union with the Father.

So now that after being saved, we may begin to fear God and that fear will begin to produce wisdom in us that will inform our eyes, our ears, our mind and our feet. Now, over the last two weeks, we've been looking at the mouth, how wisdom teaches us what not to say and how wisdom teaches us what we ought to say.

And we've been talking about this most dangerous little organ, the tongue and how it, even it can come under the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit. Well, today we come to another very dangerous organ, the stomach, the seat of our appetites and our cravings.

And before we begin, I think you should know that in the ancient world, they viewed the stomach much differently than we do today. They rooted all of our desires in the belly instead of the heart as we do.

When we say things like follow your heart or I love you with all of my heart, we instinctively locate desire somewhere a couple inches beneath the ribcage. And the Bible actually can speak that way, but the Bible also speaks more bodily about desire.

It speaks more viscerally about the affections of the inner life. For instance, in Proverbs 23, 16, the word there is kidneys. It says, my kidneys rejoice. Philippians 1, 8, it says that the bowels ache with affection.

Proverbs 13, 4, the throat hungers. Proverbs 13, 25, the belly craves. And that's because desire in the ancient mind is not an amorphous emotion, it is a visceral experience. It's something that you feel, something that gnaws at you, something that is begging you to gratify it like a hunger pain or how your guts feel twisted up when you're afraid.

I remember my grandpa and I were in the Badlands in South Dakota, amazing place by the way. And I was walking on the edge of this little precipice where you could fall to the left and fall to the right.

And I remember every part of my body was just feeling like it was in a vice grip. And then I turned around and went back because I didn't wanna fall. Your emotions, your affections, your desires, you're supposed to feel them, not just be in some cardiac organ stowed away, which gave the ancients all the more reason to speak about desire in this way, especially the physical effects of it.

Now, one of the funniest examples of this in the Bible comes from the Song of Solomon. It's the greatest love poem in the Bible. Song of Solomon 5, 4 is this wonderful passage where the woman is crying out in love to her beloved.

And this is what she says. My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door and my bowels were moved within him. That's what the New King James Version says. My bowels were moved within me. She says her bowels were moved, but not in the way like you would have when you take Metamucil.

She was saying that she's having a physical yearning for him deep inside of her in the same way that you feel like your guts are being clenched. Now, you probably are not gonna receive a modern day Valentine's card, men, from your wife saying my bowels are moved because of you.

But in a way, it's surprisingly more accurate than the way that we talk about things being in the heart today. And all of that should make sense to us because hunger is not an abstract concept. We feel hunger.

We recognize the grumbles. We feel the aches from what we call a broken heart. Hunger and desire are one of the most palpable feelings, one of the most perceivable pains that we feel. And sometimes they're even more painful than broken bones or skinned up knees.

You remember when you're a child, sticks and stones may break my bones. And then they say, but words will never hurt me lies because words do hurt. They hurt in a way that even sticks and stones cannot.

And it's precisely that reason that our affections, that our desires are so visceral that they move us faster than almost anything else. They move us to the fridge to get a meal. They move us to say hello to the girl that we hope and dream one day would become our wife.

They move us out of danger to protect the ones that we love. Hunger, desire is an ache that we act on. It's a pain that we attempt to satisfy. And that is the theme that I want us to cover today. And I want us to carry through the whole of today's sermon.

The Belly as the Battleground of Human Desire

When the Bible speaks about the belly, it is speaking not about the organ that just digested your breakfast burrito. It is talking about appetites and desires. It's talking about the wanting life of the man.

It's talking about the part of you that says, I want it. I need it. Just give it to me. Just one, just one more. That's the belly. And our appetite doesn't stop at food. It goes to the cup. It goes to the wallet.

It goes to the bed. It goes to the screen. It goes to the applause. It goes to the purchase. It goes to everything in our life that gives us satisfaction. And while those things may be different objects, they all have the same organ in common, the stomach, the belly, which is telling us to pounce.

And like the mouth, the stomach is not a minor part of biblical anatomy or not a minor part of the anatomy of wisdom. It's actually the battleground for the oldest sin and rebellion. I mean, literally the first sin in the world was not a sin of the mind.

It was a sin of the stomach. Think about it. Before Adam ever pointed his finger, blame shifting at his wife, before Eve ever pointed her finger at her husband, he was and she was led away by their desire out of their bellies by perverted appetites.

Genesis 3, 6 uses the words of hunger there. The food was good. It was pleasant to the eye. It was desirable to make one wise. Those are appetite words. That's the language of craving and the belly, which means that human appetite was the very first faculty of man to fall.

And because of that is one of the first places that Satan attacks us in order to manipulate us. That's also why Paul describes the enemies of the cross, not as ideological enemies, not as religious enemies who just believe a set of dogma.

He describes the enemies of Jesus as that their God is their belly. Philippians 3, 19, because it's the belly that drives the man. It's the belly that rules the woman. It's the belly that propels them.

And that is just it. When you make your stomach your God, when you make your desires ultimate over you, you are bowing down to the oldest idol in the world, other older than Baal, older than Moloch, older than any golden calf or any fertility God.

The very first altar that man ever bowed to and the most consistent altar we still bow down today is the stomach. And it's not just Adam's problem, it's ours. And maybe even more so ours today than it was for Adam, because we're the first civilization in human history where the ordinary danger for a man is not famine but abundance.

We live in a time that is unlike and unparalleled in any time in human history. You had to, in the ancient world, work very hard for food. You had to kill it and skin it and drain it and salt it and roast it and slice it.

And maybe after 24 hours, you could eat it. Now you sit down and have someone walk up and hand it to you on a plate and all you have to do is chew it. You think about drink. You had to plant the grapes and wait for them to grow and wait for the rains and then pluck them and crush them and bottle them and wait for the fermentation so that after months of effort, then you could finally have a sip.

Today, you can stop on the way home and buy a bottle of wine without ever having to put forth an energy or a calorie of effort. You think about sex. You once had to work hard to establish yourself as an eligible bachelor.

You had to actually have a job and be going somewhere. Then you had to actually woo the woman. You had to court her and meet her parents. She had to put on deodorant. You had to actually comb your hair.

You had to treat her with dignity and love and respect. And you had to ask her father for his blessing to marry her. You had to propose to her. You had to be able to afford a ring. You had to marry her.

And then months and years after all of that effort, you finally are able to have the prize. And even after you're married, men, you will realize that intimacy with your wife is not easy. It's hard work.

They're still wooing, pursuing, loving, providing, spending your energies and efforts to selflessly care for this woman, not for the reward, but it does happen. Now you think about today. You can click on a website, skip all the steps, skip all of the process that it would take to actually care for and sacrificially love a woman.

You can go right to the website and get it right there in a perverted and sinful form. We are a society with endless food, endless drink, endless credit, endless screens, endless pleasure, and endless access, all for the price of a swipe.

We don't live in a period of scarcity. We live in a period of disgusting abundance. And just like Adam, every bit of it is aimed at your guts. All of it is trying to inflame your desire. All of it is trying to get you to act on your animalistic impulse.

And we shouldn't be surprised when for 200 years, we believe that we basically are evolved animals. It should not be surprised that after 200 years of working itself out in society, now we think we're supposed to behave like them to stop bridling our impulses and to call them our authentic self, to satisfy your cravings, whatever they are.

Solomon wrote about our desires and how to rule over them wisely in a world of scarcity, but by the grace of God, his words still apply today in our time of great abundance. And the question that I want us to consider underneath all of this is, does your desires, does your belly actually tell you the truth or does it lie to you?

Can you trust your desires? Can you trust your affections? Can you trust your gut? Well, today we're gonna look at that very thing and we're gonna look at it from five different angles. We're gonna talk about the fact that your desires are not trustworthy.

They actually lie to you and they lie to you in five different ways. Number one, your appetite lies to you about the taste of sin. Number two, your appetite lies to you about the end of sin. Number three, your appetite lies to you about when sin will be enough.

Number four, your appetite lies to you about the necessity or the needfulness of sin. And number five, your appetite lies about you and who you actually are. And when we've heard all five of those lies, you're gonna meet the man whose appetite never was gratified in sinful ways, the man who alone can be our savior.

So if you will, I'm gonna read several passages from the book of Proverbs and then we will look into this gut, this thing, this great enemy that lies to us constantly. Proverbs 27, verse seven says, a satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

Proverbs 20, verse 17, bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel. Proverbs 9, 17 through 18, stolen water is sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant, but he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Proverbs 27, 20, hell and destruction are never full. So the eyes of man are never satisfied. James 1, 14 through 15, but each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. And then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin and sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

And then Ephesians 4, 22, that you put off concerning the former conduct, the old man, which grows corrupt according to deceitful lust. Let's pray. Lord, there is certainly spiritual warfare in the world.

There are certainly many devils and demons that would seek to do malevolent activity against us, to tempt us and to harm us, to oppress us. And yet Lord, there's only one enemy that lives with us, that goes to sleep with us, that wakes up with us, that's there with us, whether we eat or drink or whatever we do.

And that's us, that's our flesh, that's our desires and appetites that have been perverted by sin, the carnal man. The greatest enemy that we have, Lord, is us. The person who lies to us more than anyone else is us.

The person who harms us, cheats us, swindles us, is us. Lord, help us as we look into the belly today to see the world of evil that is within it, the lies that it tells us to try to manipulate and trick us, but also Lord, help us to look to Christ who through His Spirit makes us into new creations.

Lord, it's in Jesus' name we pray, amen. The first thing I want you to understand is that your appetite lies to you about the taste of sin. Look at Proverbs 27, seven. A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

The Appetite Lies About the Taste of Sin

In a single verse, Solomon gives us an entire theology of human craving, of human desire. He says that there's two men. One of them is satisfied and one of them is hungry. One of them is content down in his bones and the other one is driven by an insatiable desire that exists down in his bowels.

The food in front of them is the same. And the food in front of them does not determine their judgment of it. It's not like the satisfied man would be hungry again if you put better food in front of him.

And it's also not like the hungry man would control his desires if you took away or you put something less appetizing in front of him. The difference between these two men is their belly, their guts, their appetites, their desires.

The first man has honey in front of him, which is one of the sweetest, richest, most desirable foods in the ancient world. It was a delicacy, it was rare. So when he has honey in front of him, you would think that, oh my goodness, this is something that I can't get normally.

I'm gonna eat even though I'm not hungry. I'm gonna eat and overindulge, I'm gonna be gluttonous. And he doesn't. Solomon says that he loathes it because he's content, he's full. The word for the soul in this passage, his soul loathes it, is the word nefesh, which can mean the immaterial soul that is a part of man, but also in other passages, it can mean the throat.

It can mean the part of you that lives and desires and yearns. So here it could be translated accurately that his throat is satisfied. He doesn't need the honey because he's full. Solomon says that the content man is satisfied within him.

He has enough, he's not ruled by his cravings. And because he's full, he's not gonna look at the honey, a literal delicacy and say, I need that. No, he doesn't need that. He says, I loathe that. Not because the honey stopped being sweet.

Not because there's something wrong with it as if the honeybees got into an onion patch or whatever. He doesn't need it. He doesn't want it. And he doesn't because it does not have him. But then Solomon gives us the other man.

He says a hungry soul where every bitter thing is sweet. The first man has something genuinely sweet in front of him and can refuse it out of self-control. The second man has something truly bitter in front of him.

And because his cravings are ruling him, he cannot even say no to it. I think about an example I heard one time. Forgive me if this is wrong, but I think it's true. And that's all that matters, right?

We live in the 21st century. I think it's, no, I'm just kidding. When a dog tastes antifreeze, if you leave it out, it tastes sweet to the dog. And they will lap it up until it literally poisons them.

It's a good metaphor for the man whose appetites are ruling him. He thinks that what he's eating is sweet as it poisons him and kills him. And here's Solomon's point. Your appetite does not tell you what a thing tastes like.

It only tells you that you want to taste it. A restrained appetite in that way tells you that what you need in order to live, but an unbridled appetite tells you that you must live in order to feed it.

Or to say it a different way, one man eats to live, the other man lives to eat. One man lives to enjoy the good things of God. One man is enjoying the good things of God because he lives. And once that appetite has dominion over a man, it does not stay content telling him what he wants.

Then it begins to shift. After it tells him what he wants, it begins to tell him how to think about what he wants. That's one of sin's nastiest tricks, actually, is that it's not content to get you to swallow something bitter once.

Sin wants to change you into becoming the kind of person that craves the bitter thing all the time. And then in the late stages of sin, it gets you not only to believe the lie that the bitter thing is sweet, but it gets you to begin telling the lie to say, no, this thing is actually good and sweet, which means that sin is always trying to get you to rely and to taste what is evil and then to call it and to justify it and to define it as something good.

At first, when you sin, you know it's wrong. You may agonize over wanting it. You may say, God, help me with this. Forgive me, protect me from this. Maybe you fight it for a little while. Maybe you withstand for a little while, but at some point you give into the sin and you think, okay, that's the end of it.

That's the end of the sin. That's the end of it pursuing me and chasing me. But that is not the end of it. That's not the end. That's actually just the beginning. That's the first phase of the attack.

The goal is to get you to do it again, but with greater frequency because after enough times of you agonizing and fighting and falling in the same sin, you may not realize what is happening, but only after the fact you look back and you say that I was a person who never did this.

And then I became someone who rarely did this. And then I became someone who regularly did this. And then I didn't even perceive the change before I was justifying it, lying about it and saying, this is okay.

God accepts this. Sin does not want you just rarely falling into it. That's the first part of it. It wants you regularly falling into it and then lying about what it is. That's how our appetite actually corrupts our judgment.

Because if you follow your appetite long enough, you will begin rewriting the label. Sin wants you and your appetite wants you to stop saying, this is drunkenness. And it wants you to begin saying something like, I'm just unwinding after a long day.

You see how the label has been redefined. It wants you to stop saying, this is greed. And it wants you to start saying things like, I'm just trying to provide. I have mouths to feed. I make $700 trillion a year, but I got babies.

In the same way, screaming at your child becomes, I'm just blowing off steam. Blurting with a coworker becomes, it's just friendly banter. Becoming a jerk, being a jerk, I'm just the honest guy. I'm just the guy that says it like it is, take it or leave it.

All of it is real sin, masquerading under a new, more palatable label. Because our appetites are lying to us. They're promising something sweet, but they're only giving us something bitter. And by the end of it, they're causing us to actually like it and rename it.

That's the first thing that our bellies lie to us about, is the taste of sin. And they lie to us all the way until we are actually calling it sweet. The second thing is that our appetites lies to us about the end of sin.

The Appetite Lies About Sin’s Consequences

Look at Proverbs 20, verse 17. Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward, his mouth will be filled with gravel. The most important word in that passage is not sweet because we've already dealt with sweet.

The most important word in that passage is afterward. Because that's the part that our appetite and our cravings and our carnal flesh keeps conveniently leaving out at the moment when you're faced with the decision on whether or not you will sin.

The bread of sin is sweet in the moment. No one's arguing against that. Solomon doesn't deny that. The Bible doesn't say against that. Sin is sweet in a moment. Sin can numb your pain in a moment. Sin can make you feel powerful or wanted or understood or even free for a moment.

The Bible never softens that. But afterward is the problem because the granules of sin become gravels in your throat. And there's one of the biggest difference between appetite and wisdom, between a wise man and a fool, is how you look at the word afterward.

The appetite says, how's this gonna make me feel right now? The wise man says, where's this gonna end afterward? And this habit of defining the afterward is one of the most important disciplines that we can learn, especially if we are prone to addictive kinds of behavior because it slows us down long enough to be able to bypass our impulse and our urge and to be able to look for a second and see where the road is taking us.

And this is especially important, brother and sister, because your appetite will show you the next five minutes. Wisdom will show you what it looks like over the next five years. Appetite shows you the pleasure of a single click.

Wisdom shows you what that habit is doing to your marriage. Appetite shows you the numbing power of a single drink. Wisdom shows you the father that your children remember. Appetite shows you the thrill of another purchase.

Wisdom shows you the years of crushing interest. And Solomon's great warning in all of this is this, if you keep following your appetite, eventually you're gonna discover that pleasure was never the destination, death was.

Solomon says that again and again, Proverbs nine is probably the clearest example. He says, stolen water is sweet and bread, eaten in secret is pleasant. That is folly's entire marketing scheme. And sales pitch, it comes wrapped in sweetness, dressed up as pleasant, attractive, because it's secret and then afterward, but he does not know that dead are there.

He says, stolen water is sweet, bread eaten in secret is pleasant, but he doesn't know that the dead are there. Isn't that an interesting passage? He doesn't even say that the dead will be there. It doesn't even say that you do this and you will be dead.

He says that as you're doing it, the dead bodies are all around you. Death doesn't arrive when the pleasure is finished. The dead, the death has been sitting there, stinking the entire time, you just couldn't see it.

It was kind of like the movie, The Sixth Sense. And by the way, it's been 20 years. If you haven't seen it, I don't care. It's like the movie, The Sixth Sense. They were there the whole time, you just couldn't see it.

Proverbs seven talks about this, describing how the young man following after his sinful appetites goes after Lady Folly. And Solomon describes his pursuit of her as an ox going to the slaughter, even saying he did not know that it would cost him his life.

And here's why you actually can't trust your gut. You can't trust your appetites to tell you where the decision that you are faced with right now is actually gonna lead you because your appetite is a creature of the immediate.

Your appetite is telling you to gratify what is happening now. It wants what's available now, it doesn't want later. But consequences live down the road of tomorrow and the valley of next month and the rivers of future years.

And since your appetite has never been to any of those places, nor will it ever attempt to visit any of those places, it has never seen the hangover that's coming. It has never seen the destroyed marriage that is coming.

It has never seen the son that stops talking to you. It's never seen the grave that you're bumbling towards. How often do we let five-minute appetites make 50-year decisions? We do it all the time. James gives us a picture of this.

Each one is tempted when he is drawn away, when he's dragged away by his own desires and he is enticed. Entice is the word of baits and hooks and fishing. Drawn away is associated with what happens to the fish when it is grabbed and yanked out of its habitat and brought back into the boat.

Reeling is the prize of winning the bass. I want you to think about what the fish sees. The fish sees the worm. The fish sees the cut bait. The fish sees the little shrimp on the hook. The fish sees the prize.

And yet afterward, it doesn't actually realize that underneath it all is the golden hook. The bait was wrapped in something desirable the entire time, but in the end, it drags him away. That was what the chief sin of Eden was.

Eve saw that it was good for food. Okay, that's true. It was good for food. She then says, or the enemy then says, you shall not surely die, and that's the lie. That's the hook. That was what she trusted in that dragged her and her husband out of the garden and away from God.

And I wanna make this practical. To those who struggle with alcohol, self-control with alcohol, the bottle has told you several things, thousands of things about the pleasures of tonight, but it's conveniently avoided the destruction that's coming tomorrow.

It showed you the buzz, but it did not show you the officer who's now asking for your breath. To the spender, the one who gratifies himself by spending money, appetite showed you the new truck, the new golf clubs, the new clothes, the new phone.

It showed you the pleasure of carrying it out of the store or opening the box as it comes from Amazon. It did not show you the interest. To the man who's staring at pornography, appetite caused you to crave a 30-second pleasure, but it did not tell you the ongoing offense to the holiness of God that your life is doing.

It did not tell you about the wife who's embarrassed by you. It did not tell you about the pervy sort of man that you're becoming under the light of a screen. Appetite shows you the click, wisdom shows you the chains.

Every road looks harmless in the beginning. That's what appetite gets you to think about is the now, when you're only 10 feet from it, and then the spring and the trap collapses. We have to listen to the spirit when it comes to our appetites.

We have to ask ourself, where is this thing taking us? What is it promising us and where is it taking us? Where does it actually end? Who am I gonna become if I continue walking in this way? What kind of legacy is my wife and my family gonna inherit if I keep doing this thing?

What are my children gonna remember about me if I keep doing this thing? Appetite says, what do I want now? Wisdom says, where is this taking me? That's the second thing that our appetites lie about. They give us a sense of immediacy without a sense of the consequences over the long term.

That's a lie, and we must repent of it. The third thing that our appetites lie to us about is they lie to us about that at some point it's going to be enough. And by that, I mean that our appetites lie and promise that the very next time you do it, then it's gonna satisfy you.

The very next time that you cave or gratify it, then it's gonna be enough. But what we soon discover is that desire is never actually satisfied by feeding it. In fact, desire is only ever enlarged by it like a goldfish eating and eating and eating, not satiating its hunger, but growing and growing.

The Appetite Lies About Satisfaction

Look at Proverbs 27, 20. Hell and destruction are never full. So the eyes of the man are never satisfied. Solomon says that Sheol, Abaddon, hell, the grave, the place of ruin are never full. They're always, they always have room inside of them, which is particularly striking because Solomon now is using the images of hell to compare to the human mouth that never closes.

The Canaanites pictured death as a God that they called Mat. He had one lip on the earth and the other lip in the heaven swallowing everything between them, never once ever being full. That's a picture of what the human heart looks like that is not bridled, that is not restrained, always hungry, never satisfied.

And Solomon illustrates this perfectly in Proverbs 23, 29 through 25, where he gives us a poem about indulging wine. It's the longest poem on drunkenness in the Bible and Solomon builds it as a riddle and he has six basic questions in the passage.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of the eyes? But he only gives one answer, the one who lingers long over wine. It's not that having a glass of wine is sinful.

It's not, it's a good gift, but drunkenness is when you take a good gift and you pervert it. He quotes the drunkard as saying, they have struck me, but I was not hurt. They have beaten me, but I did not feel it.

When shall I awake that I may have another drink? This man was beaten, numb, and already ready to pour the next cup. I remember when I used to work at a jail in Davie County and the guy that I was booking in was absolutely slobberingly drunk.

And he came after me and I shot him with a taser. And I will tell you that when a head, a human head hits a very hard floor, it does not sound good. It makes a sound. As soon as he was conscious again, that man was ready to drink.

This is what Solomon is talking about. The anatomy of addiction. And with 3000 years separating us before he even had a word for addiction, he's describing it pretty well. The drink did not satisfy the thirst.

It was only making plans for the next thirst. And it's not only wine. Solomon tells us that it's about even the sweetest things that are in creation. Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, lest you be filled with it and vomit.

Proverbs 25, 16. The point is that even a good gift that is used in an unrestrained, unruled, unbridled way will lead to sickness. The problem was never the honey or the wine or the money or the sex or the ambition or whatever else that was originally good, that was not bad enough itself.

The problem is that a man who is ruled by those things can never get enough of those things. He will never actually be satisfied by them. Proverbs 21, 20 says that the fool squanders his treasure. The Hebrew word underneath the word squanders is swallows.

He swallows his treasure, meaning that he wastes his own inheritance in his stomach and in his bowels, one gratified craving at a time. You may be asking yourself, why does gratifying a desire end up increasing it instead of filling it?

What desire was made for God? And God is infinite, which means that only an infinite God can satisfy an infinite sized hole. That's why Augustine says that our hearts are always restless until they find their rest in him, which means also that when you try to pour a finite thing into a craving designed for an infinite thing, it will not fill you, it will not satisfy you.

It's like the man with 10 ,000 images on his hard drive, but still wants the 10 ,000th and first. The lie is that the next one will fill you, it doesn't. Picture a sailor in the middle of an ocean without water, dying of thirst when there's water all around him.

But if he drinks that water, the salt inside of him draws the actual water out of his body and ends up withering him and killing him. He has water all around him, and if he drinks it, it will not satisfy him.

That's the man who's ruled by his appetite. He drinks to his own destruction. So how do you fight against an appetite like that, that grows every time you feed it? We actually have to learn one word, two syllables, enough.

Enough, I've had enough at this table. I've had enough at the store. I've had enough time in front of the screen. I've had enough drink out of the bottle. The way, and the way that we define enough is actually simple.