"Many a person is well aware that he has a violent temper and many a person claims that he cannot help it, and expects others to accept and to forgive his bursts of "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath." (Eph. "For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God." (James 1:20).Ĥ. Jesus said, "that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgement" (Matt. "Let all bitterness and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice" (Eph 4:31).Ģ. There are several scriptures that reveal to us the attitude we ought to have toward wrath: Wrath, as it is here used, is not long cherished anger, it is the blaze of temper which flares into violent words and deeds, and just as quickly dies. The Greeks said this wrath was like fire in straw, quickly blazing up and just as quickly burning itself out. The characteristic feature of the word translated "wrath" is that it is very violent but very brief. Springs not from the fact that the beholder does not possess the fine thing (a possession, an honor, a characteristic, etc) it springs from the fact that the It is destructive of personal relations and individual happiness. Jealousies, also translated emulations, is the feeling of ill will at the good fortune of another. This deterioration of zeal is not the work of the Spirit but of the flesh." - J. But if the same ambition, good at first, should provoke to a bitter resentment then zelos becomes a work of the flesh. Great thing which degenerated into a sin.' To observe the achievements of another can stir within one the desire to 'emulate' or 'imitate' with a view to achieving the same worthwhile thing in oneself. Vine says, 'jealousy desires to have the same or the same sort of thing for itself.' Barclay says, 'zelos could denote a 3:20 it is used in the bad sense - that of envious rivalry. It may have either a good or a bad connotation, depending on the context. "The root word in the Greek is zelos, from which the word zeal is derived. The state or attitude of mind toward other people and strife is the outcome in actual life of that state of mind. Strife or variance is the expression of hatred or enmity. The word translated "Strife" is also translated by the words "variance" (KJV) and "contention". James 4:4 says, "Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God." 2:14,16 reveals that Jesus abolished the enmity between man and God by His sacrifice. 8:7 we are told that the mind of the flesh is enmity with God. The word translated "Enmity" is used only five times in the New Testament. In 1 John 3:15, he who hates his brother is called a murderer, for the sin lies in the inward disposition, of which the act is the outward expression. To hate indicates malicious and unjustifiable feelings toward others, whether toward the innocent or by mutual animosity. The word translated "Enmity" has been translated by a variety of words such as: hatred, enmity, quarrels, quarreling, hostile or hostility, feud, mutual enmity,Įtc. We have looked at those things listed in 1 and 2, now we will briefly notice the sins Revellings and perhaps a fifth - and such like things. Sorcery (3) Forms of discord - enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, envyings (4) intemperate excesses - drunkenness, The sins here mentioned seem to fall into four groups: (1) Sensuality fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness (2) Unlawful things in the spiritual realm - Idolatry, Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Galatians 5:16-21 - Works of the Flesh #2 - Sin
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