back to indexWed Bible Study (1 Peter) Lesson 4 - 02-01-17
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And you will notice on your packet that the passage has been shortened and namely it's 00:00:09.040 |
because the second half of what I asked you guys to look at in preparation for this study, 00:00:17.140 |
So I have an opportunity to teach on Sunday and I just decided to teach the next section 00:00:25.760 |
But before we jump into the passage that we're studying, I wanted to do some review with 00:00:31.560 |
And so I've got some blanks on that first section, right? 00:00:34.840 |
That last time we read, starting from verse 13, there was a therefore and a series of 00:00:44.680 |
And I summarize that as this is the high calling of God, that perhaps counter-cultural, counter-intuitive, 00:00:52.400 |
and counter to our own expectations, our God has laid forth expectations even in the midst 00:01:03.120 |
So please help me fill in some of these blanks. 00:01:05.960 |
We begin with number one, that we want to, the command was, "Hopefully in the," did you 00:01:18.760 |
So, future grace, and the grace that is going to be revealed, right? 00:01:23.960 |
That we want to set our hope, not kind of, maybe not hopefully, maybe hopefully this 00:01:31.120 |
will happen, but actually hope fully and completely, okay? 00:01:56.280 |
Then number two, sorry, the blank there is, "Be holy in all your conduct." 00:02:06.480 |
Overcoming, and this might be a little bit tricky here, there's two blanks, overcoming 00:02:28.920 |
These are the two things I said are great hurdles for us. 00:02:31.640 |
Where one, even in the Old Testament, this insatiable desire for more and covetousness 00:02:37.320 |
has always stumbled the people of God, but what's more God laments saying, "My people 00:02:56.880 |
We talked about how when we have an accurate view of God, there's going to be this perfect 00:03:00.320 |
balance where because God is God, the Heavenly Father, so merciful, we're going to run to 00:03:07.200 |
Him, but because God is God, the Heavenly Father, we're not going to just simply flippantly 00:03:15.280 |
We're not going to offend that grace, but rather we're going to have this balance of 00:03:19.680 |
fearing Him, and at the same time being embraced by the grace that He offers. 00:03:24.640 |
All of this, remember all of this, is empowered by how great a salvation we have. 00:03:30.880 |
The first major section in how Apostle Peter encouraged those who were suffering, those 00:03:35.400 |
who were at a loss, said, "Look, look how what a precious treasure you have, and this 00:03:40.600 |
is why you rejoice, and this is why you still have hope." 00:03:44.640 |
And then he gives these commandments, "And therefore, the expectation for you is high, 00:03:54.040 |
That's where we're at, and we're continuing on with the next two commandments of high 00:04:00.200 |
calling of God for those who have been given so much in the grace of the Lord. 00:04:06.360 |
I'll read it for us, starting from verse 22, all the way down to chapter 2, verse 3. 00:04:11.440 |
And he says, "Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth, for a sincere 00:04:18.560 |
brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born 00:04:24.120 |
again not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and abiding Word of God. 00:04:29.760 |
For all flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of grass. 00:04:34.960 |
The grass withers and the flower falls, but the Word of the Lord remains forever. 00:04:40.160 |
And this Word is the good news that was preached to you. 00:04:43.840 |
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 00:04:49.780 |
Like newborn infants long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation, 00:04:56.600 |
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good." 00:05:03.760 |
Our God, we continue to just ask for light as we approach your Word. 00:05:08.400 |
God, we ask for your Spirit to help illumine and continue to make sense of the Scriptures 00:05:15.280 |
But more so than that, that you would provide conviction, that God, we would be deeply affected 00:05:26.480 |
What I'd like to do is begin by taking the first section, verse 22 and 23. 00:05:33.560 |
Everything in the passage is pretty straightforward. 00:05:37.280 |
But there is a device that you can use to continue to retain, have a mechanism for you 00:05:47.280 |
So lesson one, I said I tried my best to use the PowerPoint, but it was like, fail. 00:05:56.120 |
And I decided to handwrite something and then show it to you the way I do it, right? 00:06:00.200 |
The verse simply reads, "Since you have been in obedience to the truth, purified your souls 00:06:04.640 |
for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart." 00:06:13.200 |
When you look at this, it begins with this clause, "Since you have an obedience to the 00:06:18.280 |
truth, purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren." 00:06:25.520 |
But that actually isn't the main verb of the sentence, the standalone verb that I've been 00:06:33.120 |
So you don't have to do this to every single word because again, as we're working in the 00:06:38.320 |
English, sometimes things are a little bit out of order. 00:06:42.420 |
But what helps me is to put the main clause, the standalone clause, what's called an independent 00:06:47.760 |
clause that does not depend on another clause to exist, right? 00:06:53.840 |
I put that at the very beginning to show me that that's what everything is kind of attached 00:06:58.680 |
So I have it there on my little diagram, the command, "Fervently love one another." 00:07:03.800 |
And honestly speaking, I can even take a moment to make a simple observation. 00:07:08.800 |
I have an adverb describing this command to love, and I ask a simple question. 00:07:14.600 |
How does Apostle Peter, how does the Word of God, how does my Father expect me to love? 00:07:25.280 |
And the next one is this idea of from the heart, from the heart. 00:07:31.520 |
I can make a little mini sermon, how to love fervently from the heart. 00:07:36.240 |
And as I try to unpack that more, I can retain, this is how God expects me to love, right? 00:07:44.560 |
And again, Apostle Peter is using one of these kind of methodologies, having these long run-on 00:07:53.240 |
He's using, you'll notice that with each command, he has various pieces attached to it. 00:07:58.920 |
By what power are you going to do this command? 00:08:06.960 |
So if you'll notice, I take the next little phrase, "Since you have purified your souls," 00:08:13.660 |
and I just put it under, first initially not knowing where to put it. 00:08:17.760 |
But clearly, this idea of, "Since you have purified your souls," connects to the idea 00:08:23.480 |
And it's a reason, you could almost rephrase it like, "Because you have been purified, 00:08:31.760 |
So here I can just make a simple case of, "Here's a reason, here's a reason for your 00:08:39.160 |
And then, the other phrases, the dependent clauses, start to define more so the purification 00:08:48.880 |
So again, I'm not going to go over every single piece, but what I do is, I first draw 00:08:54.880 |
out, or I guess write out the phrase, and then I ask the question, "What does this 00:09:02.320 |
And as I make that connection, I have to ask, "What is this relationship here?" 00:09:09.240 |
So this is typically how I try to diagram each section of the Bible that I preach, or 00:09:16.800 |
And honestly speaking, once I do this, I can see very clearly, or at least see the relationships 00:09:24.200 |
So again, I see, "Hmm, like he's giving a command, he's giving a reason, and how 00:09:36.580 |
And that's where I get, essentially, the points that I preach, or the points that I try to 00:09:43.680 |
I just wanted to show you, because I felt like in Lesson 1 and 2, I didn't do a good 00:09:54.640 |
Then let's continue with some of these questions. 00:10:01.680 |
What does God expect, and what is His command? 00:10:07.840 |
He just wants us to fervently love from the heart. 00:10:11.720 |
Now I want us to think about that for a little bit. 00:10:15.640 |
In one sense, this is a command that's very difficult to do, is it not? 00:10:23.080 |
Because it's one thing, let's say for example, if I was to ask you, like, "Man, there's 00:10:28.000 |
this guy who's been left out of the circle, so to speak. 00:10:44.040 |
But it's entirely another thing to say, "Can you from the heart, sincerely and fervently, 00:10:52.320 |
And the difference is, there are tasks by which we can perform and do as an objective, 00:11:00.560 |
I just want to do this, and ba-lam, I loved him. 00:11:04.720 |
But this idea of fervently, from the heart, has this idea that from the inside out, both 00:11:10.040 |
inclusive of the internal and external, you're to love. 00:11:18.760 |
In the Greek, it is a very descriptive term, where essentially, if you take your muscle, 00:11:25.040 |
you take your arm, and you stretch it out, and you start feeling that tension, that's 00:11:36.400 |
It's just like, there is a sense in which it's going to be uncomfortable loving, or 00:11:42.120 |
like I guess trying your best to really care for an individual, because the expectation 00:11:46.360 |
of God is you do it to the point where you almost feel like you're at your max. 00:11:51.800 |
So it's kind of an understatement for us to be like, "Yeah, these are general high callings 00:11:58.400 |
Yeah, they're actually really high callings of God." 00:12:01.320 |
He expects not just simply external performance, but he also desires our internal heart to 00:12:09.200 |
stretch itself to the love of the brothers and sisters around us. 00:12:14.040 |
Now to us, my question would be, does that strike us as impossible? 00:12:23.480 |
Does that strike us as like, "That's too hard for us to do." 00:12:29.200 |
I just kind of want to make a quick segue as an application. 00:12:31.880 |
It's like, there are those of us who sometimes when we have a certain emotion, it's one thing, 00:12:38.240 |
yeah, you could ask me like, "Hey, just stay calm and don't say anything." 00:12:44.920 |
But it's another thing to be like, "Just change your heart." 00:12:50.960 |
Where the command to just change your heart seems almost impossible? 00:12:56.320 |
Because then someone can come back and say like, "Man, I can try my best, but seriously, 00:13:04.240 |
Now before we say to ourselves, "That's impossible." 00:13:09.400 |
Let's make the first observation, but the scripture is commanding us here. 00:13:17.200 |
The scripture is commanding us here to have a certain heart. 00:13:25.880 |
This is a challenge to maybe what we're accustomed to. 00:13:28.920 |
That even if we feel like it's impossible, this is yet an expectation found in scripture. 00:13:35.280 |
Now let's move on and we're going to continue to get the idea more so of what God is expecting 00:13:41.680 |
I want us to take a moment to discuss in our group, the two questions are, why does God 00:13:52.360 |
And if you would, just take time together to fill in what do you find as reasons that 00:14:02.620 |
And then I asked you guys as a homework assignment last time, can you explain how being born 00:14:09.600 |
again from an imperishable seed implies the command for you to love? 00:14:15.200 |
So it's kind of like, he's making the case like, "You've been born of this imperishable 00:14:23.600 |
So please take just a couple minutes to talk about that. 00:14:31.760 |
Well, let's walk down together to answer or fill in some of these blanks first. 00:14:38.960 |
So these are just, again, observation exercise, taking time to observe what are some of the 00:14:44.480 |
Verse 22a, what did you find as a reason to love there? 00:14:56.840 |
So again, sometimes observations, I know it's like so obvious and it's meant to be. 00:15:05.760 |
When you first do your observation, before you start interpreting, it's good to just 00:15:12.060 |
So don't be afraid to just say it because I know I'm asking for the obvious. 00:15:16.520 |
So, but being purified, essentially he says, "You have been purified." 00:15:27.600 |
In saying, "In obedience to the truth purified your souls." 00:15:37.520 |
That that in of itself is a motivation to love. 00:15:41.280 |
So the whole idea is by the cleansing of your heart, right? 00:15:45.720 |
By the divine work of sanctifying you, this is a grounds for you to have the ability to 00:15:53.160 |
Verse 22b, this might have been a little bit more tricky. 00:16:06.240 |
I'm going to put together this idea of obedience to truth. 00:16:11.000 |
You could actually like kind of dissect it more, so to speak. 00:16:15.600 |
So the whole idea is if you're conforming to the truth, then you should be loving. 00:16:20.800 |
And then I had another one, which is the whole idea of when he says in that passage, "For 00:16:28.760 |
Whenever I see the word "for," I'm actually thinking like this is a purpose. 00:16:32.760 |
This is an end or a goal or a result or whatever the relationship there might be in context. 00:16:37.320 |
And I'm sitting here thinking, okay, so first we had this is your grounds, you've been purified. 00:16:43.120 |
And then the other thing is because you've obeyed, so in consistency with the truth and 00:16:50.680 |
And then lastly in verse 23, we have, because you've been born again. 00:17:02.760 |
This is to say that your love will be consistent with rebirth. 00:17:10.460 |
Your love will be consistent with your new life. 00:17:16.080 |
Your love would be consistent in your new life, new life with Christ. 00:17:19.720 |
So there I could have, we could have actually sat and just kind of dissected it even more, 00:17:25.080 |
I know we had three blanks, but I just listed four. 00:17:28.440 |
But we have several different reasons and cases by which we're supposed to love because 00:17:36.320 |
Because of what's spiritually true, what God has done for us, because what's spiritually 00:17:39.760 |
true with the truth, because what's spiritually true in our faith, because the spiritual is 00:17:48.280 |
Now in asking the question, okay, so how do all these connect though, especially this 00:17:54.660 |
idea of the fact that you've been reborn, not by a perishable seed, but by an imperishable 00:18:05.960 |
How does this motivate and move you to say, yes, that's right, because of his imperishable 00:18:18.200 |
Well I'm going to kind of walk with us with several steps of thinking about this. 00:18:24.480 |
So I just finished saying, look, you've been born again, not by perishable, but imperishable 00:18:34.240 |
And then if you look just down, you'll see that he starts quoting the Old Testament passage. 00:18:39.180 |
And that passage comes from Isaiah 40 verse eight. 00:18:50.480 |
So, in asking the question, how does that truth motivate us to love? 00:19:01.520 |
We have to look at how does he use his proof, his evidence for it. 00:19:06.520 |
And here, this is the passage I want to start reading from. 00:19:10.560 |
Let's just start reading from verse six and I'm going to work towards verse nine. 00:19:20.680 |
All flesh is grass and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. 00:19:24.640 |
The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it. 00:19:31.840 |
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. 00:19:38.640 |
And then verse nine, go up to the high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. 00:19:44.040 |
Lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem. 00:19:56.040 |
So in context, what he's highlighting is the power of the word. 00:20:03.680 |
The power of the word, perhaps we underestimate, perhaps we don't appreciate as much, but this 00:20:09.540 |
incredibly powerful word that never fades, that never perishes, but it is imperishable, 00:20:15.760 |
immortal, so to speak, is that which has given you new life. 00:20:23.200 |
So he's going back to the same theme and concept that I asked you guys the question of, do 00:20:30.560 |
There's this running theme, look at what you have, look at what you've been given. 00:20:35.440 |
And once you realize the power in which what you've been given, it should motivate you 00:20:40.080 |
so that now when you say, oh, I don't know if I can love, he's saying, yes, you can. 00:20:47.240 |
Think about the power that is contained in the word. 00:20:50.360 |
You think about, maybe it doesn't connect for us, but you think about what's really 00:20:55.440 |
Every time you see one of those cheesy movies, whether it's like Wolverine, Kung Fu Panda, 00:21:10.920 |
Well, the fact of the matter is saying, look at the word. 00:21:14.480 |
Everything, all flesh, everything created, the field that's beautiful, the hills, the 00:21:29.080 |
And through that imperishable word, it's given you life. 00:21:32.640 |
And when it calls it a seed, it's saying, this is the source. 00:21:43.520 |
For us, God is expecting us not to be a people of like, man, these people are being mean 00:21:49.320 |
and these people are so stubborn and it's frustrating and it's so hard, but I'm going 00:21:56.000 |
He expects us to be people who have so much love to give. 00:22:00.520 |
Because we've been given so much power, so much grace, so much in terms of the wealth 00:22:09.440 |
That he wants you to be those individuals where you're not looking at the person saying, 00:22:18.840 |
All day today I've been thinking about fences and I watched a YouTube video about how to 00:22:24.520 |
It was so funny because this guy was like, lay down your one post at one end and lay 00:22:30.240 |
And then you eyeball it to see if it's straight. 00:22:35.240 |
You know, if I close this eye and then if I open that eye, all of a sudden it's not 00:22:40.600 |
Have you ever done that where you're like looking at something and if you, depending 00:22:47.800 |
Well, the fact of the matter is when we have a hard time to love, we're looking with the 00:22:53.280 |
We're looking at the person and say, I don't know if I can love you. 00:22:57.880 |
God expects us to look at what we have and say, I have so much love to give. 00:23:07.880 |
You know, I don't know why every time I was thinking about this, I thought about like 00:23:14.280 |
It's sad, but they have a lot of marital strife. 00:23:16.000 |
The people they're supposed to be in so love with covenant relationship. 00:23:19.200 |
They have a lot of marital strife, but without fail, a lot of Korean parents will die for 00:23:23.960 |
their kids, will pay for whatever the kids need. 00:23:27.200 |
They'll sacrifice their old, they'll work years without ever taking a rest and they'll 00:23:31.320 |
just love on their kids to the point where it's not even healthy anymore. 00:23:49.200 |
They're looking expectantly at the other person thinking like, why have you done for me? 00:23:54.520 |
And they're looking at the kid like, I've got so much to give you. 00:23:59.840 |
So when we say, I don't know if I can love that person, maybe it's not even just looking 00:24:07.320 |
Maybe it's just truthfully, we're not willing. 00:24:17.240 |
That's how the scriptures describe us to the point that in first John, the scriptures say, 00:24:22.160 |
apostle John says, if you say, you know God, but you cannot love your brother. 00:24:31.840 |
You probably don't know God because God is love. 00:24:35.400 |
And if you say you know him to a degree where you have the wealth of his grace and you have 00:24:38.440 |
the wealth of his love, then you have so much love to give. 00:24:48.560 |
It's the high calling of God that although it feels like we can't, we have to remember 00:24:55.520 |
And we have to challenge ourselves, man, if I really know the power of the word and seed 00:25:00.880 |
given to me, the truth of the gospel given to me, then I have now a wealth, well of love 00:25:13.520 |
So then that's the first command that we're looking at today of the series of commands 00:25:20.720 |
that we should love one another fervently from the heart. 00:25:25.360 |
The next segment we have, we can just summarize it by calling it long for the word. 00:25:38.360 |
Let's take a moment to read that together or I'll just read it for us. 00:25:41.560 |
This is verse one through three of chapter two. 00:25:45.200 |
And he says, therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy 00:25:50.720 |
and all slander like newborn babies long for the pure milk of the word so that by it you 00:25:58.400 |
may grow in respect to salvation if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. 00:26:08.360 |
Again, if you were to ask what is the main independent command, it's to long for the 00:26:16.320 |
But prefacing that command, he has this idea of constantly be putting aside all and he 00:26:26.520 |
So let's talk really quickly about what do you think it means to be putting aside something? 00:26:40.040 |
Because that kind of emphatically captures the sense of the word. 00:26:43.520 |
The word really talks about like when you have a filthy garment that you just take it 00:26:49.240 |
You know, for example, if you guys, you know, sometimes like there's this like insect or 00:26:58.200 |
You know, in the long time ago when they had baptism ceremonies to even kind of symbolically 00:27:02.920 |
the gesture, they would have people wear dark robe and then before they get baptized, they 00:27:08.680 |
And then when they come out, they give you like a white robe that the church gives you. 00:27:13.400 |
You know, our church just gives you a cool BCC shirt, you know. 00:27:16.640 |
But back then they made it like a drama so you can see like I'm putting off the old, 00:27:24.880 |
Now I just want us to think about that for a moment because here's this idea for us. 00:27:30.160 |
He's saying before I even tell you to long and receive the word, we have to do a put 00:27:42.040 |
Do we put off of the things that are contrary, especially to what we just talked about, things 00:27:50.560 |
You know, I remember when I was in college, I had a wildly germaphobe roommate. 00:28:01.080 |
So he'd be one of those guys who use chopsticks to eat snacks so that his fingers, dirty fingers 00:28:06.800 |
I'm like, wow, that's another level, you know? 00:28:09.880 |
And then if you want to go over and talk with him and then you go sit down, he's like, what 00:28:20.960 |
You go, you know, sit, sit at the school and all this kind of stuff. 00:28:24.200 |
And one time I made the mistake of putting my backpack on his bed. 00:28:29.840 |
I know you put your backpack on the floor, you put your backpack here. 00:28:39.040 |
But the whole idea is, I mean, even though that's an extreme, but I'm bringing that up 00:28:42.480 |
because he would demand, put that somewhere else. 00:28:50.380 |
But sometimes we do stuff like that where, I know some of you guys do this, you guys 00:28:55.440 |
play basketball, you go out to dinner with your friends, you come home, you're all tired, 00:29:03.720 |
I know you've done it because you're shaking your head. 00:29:08.480 |
Sometimes you do that when you get all like lazy or whatever. 00:29:14.360 |
But then can you imagine it's not just playing basketball and you're all still sweaty. 00:29:19.920 |
But if you're working out in the field, you got mud on you, you're working with chemicals 00:29:24.320 |
or something, you had to church clean day or whatever, you're like cleaning the bathroom, 00:29:27.880 |
you just go home and you just jump in your bed. 00:29:37.560 |
You guys do this stuff and I say you shouldn't. 00:29:44.440 |
There are things that we have to take off in order for us to really take upon what God 00:29:52.160 |
And here again, I want to make a mention, as I sat there observing and as I sat there 00:29:55.440 |
thinking about it, he's talking about things where again, it's not simply external behavior 00:30:08.960 |
I mean, you can because externals matter too. 00:30:12.800 |
But here he's talking about internal ideas when he starts listing the stuff that we're 00:30:19.160 |
supposed to take off about malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. 00:30:27.600 |
As we take a look at this, do you see any commonalities or maybe patterns or like same 00:30:35.480 |
category when we talk about malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander? 00:30:43.640 |
Let's first take this laundry list and let's go down and describe each one of these. 00:30:48.080 |
And as I do it, I'll commend every single one of us to take a moment to do one of those 00:31:04.040 |
Well, the English dictionary, I just looked it up on the online. 00:31:14.480 |
The Greek term, like it's used many, many times in the New Testament and it refers to 00:31:18.480 |
like just general wickedness and general like, you know, treachery and evil. 00:31:24.240 |
But the English dictionary says when you have a desire to inflict harm on an individual, 00:31:31.040 |
And when someone like, you know, playing basketball and then they throw elbows, whatever, like 00:31:39.000 |
But then when you say like, dude, that was malicious, right? 00:31:44.800 |
And then, so there's this hard condition where maybe because of a vengefulness, maybe because 00:31:52.200 |
of a kind of grievance where we want to get back at somebody, it's a very, very wicked 00:31:59.040 |
And we have to catch ourselves when perhaps we would delight in the harm of another person. 00:32:09.080 |
We have little ways where we do that and we have big ways we do that. 00:32:12.040 |
We have big ways where we just lash out, we vent, and then we just rip somebody apart. 00:32:16.640 |
Or we have like cold shoulder days where we're like, I'm just going to make you feel cold 00:32:21.040 |
You have lots of different ways where we want to inflict harm. 00:32:29.840 |
Is there deceit where there's this manipulation, dishonesty. 00:32:38.520 |
It actually means to like have a bait on a hook and be like, come on. 00:32:44.960 |
But this again, I mean, although yes, it is an action of lying, deceit, but we realize 00:32:51.320 |
that the heart that is deceitful has this selfishness that is desiring to manipulate 00:33:13.800 |
When you look at somebody else's prosperity and then the immediate response is, what about 00:33:19.480 |
You look at someone's prosperity and maybe it's not, what about me? 00:33:23.360 |
It's like, I can't stand to see that person do well. 00:33:27.160 |
Where it's a resentment of another individual's well being. 00:33:30.720 |
And this often leads to a sense of bitterness. 00:33:33.040 |
This often leads to a sense of resentment and a competitive spirit. 00:33:39.880 |
Now there's a healthy kind of competitive where you're just trying to do your best. 00:33:44.880 |
And the people around you are spurring you on. 00:33:47.080 |
And then there's another kind of competitive where you're just like, I don't care if I 00:33:50.320 |
step on your toe or your face, I'm getting above you. 00:33:58.160 |
It's a competitive spirit that's in our hearts. 00:34:05.160 |
Whether it be whispers of gossip, whether it be tattletales of like, oh, did you hear 00:34:15.760 |
And then we know, scripture says in James, that our mouths, when we speak ill of people, 00:34:22.720 |
It can cause more harm than physical attacks. 00:34:26.040 |
I mean, truthfully speaking, how many people at church have been physically attacked by 00:34:31.960 |
And how many of you have been hurt because of things people said? 00:34:36.440 |
These are the things that Apostle Peter, interestingly enough, pulled together and said, I want you 00:34:42.280 |
to put your hope, I want you to sober your mind, I want you to be holy, I want you to, 00:34:56.300 |
So we go back to this question of like, but I wonder why he kind of lumped these together. 00:35:00.920 |
And to tell it truthfully, there isn't no like, one explicit answer to that. 00:35:06.640 |
But can you guys share a little bit of what you guys said? 00:35:15.720 |
I'm not supposed to ask you to talk about it. 00:35:19.440 |
Well does anybody want to just take a shot at it? 00:35:21.600 |
Because again, there isn't like a specific right answer that the Bible is so explicit 00:35:26.120 |
But I just, I thought it was helpful to ask, like, why? 00:35:32.400 |
Or not why list these kind of sins we need to put away? 00:35:40.600 |
Well, the commonality is that they're inflicting harm or retribution on someone. 00:35:41.600 |
That would be something that would be very tempting for them because of how unjustly 00:35:42.600 |
they were persecuted by people around them or near them or their followers.