SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/25/2017 10:18 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “Sins
of Wicked Hate”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
3:8-9a
Message of the verses: “8 But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another,”
We are talking about what the meaning of these words are
that are on this second list that Paul has written to the Colossian believers,
and we want to look first of all how closely related anger and wrath are to
each other.
John MacArthur writes “The churning, boiling anger that
often lies just below the surface gives rise to eruptions of wrath. And many unbelievers live with a deep-seated
resentment that feeds their anger. They
do not ask for their circumstances, and they do not know how to handle
them. All of that strokes the fires of
their anger and makes them even more prone to explosions of wrath when
exacerbated.”
Kakia
(Malice): This is a general term for
moral evil. J. B. Lightfoot defines it
as “the vicious nature which is bent on doing harm to others.” Now in the context that we are looking at in
this verse it could well mean that the harm is caused by evil speech.
Blasphemia (Slander): Now if we look at anger, wrath and malice they will often result in slander. Notice that the Greek word is close to and is translated “Blasphemy.” The problem is that when we slander people we are blaspheming God because all people are created in the image of God. Jesus says the following in Matthew 5:22 “"But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ’You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ’You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.”
Now we have two more of
these words to look at and we will try to do that in our next SD, which
hopefully will be done tomorrow.
4/25/2017 10:36 PM
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