SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/24/2017
10:28 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “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 will do things in a similar way as when we looked at
the first list that Paul wrote about earlier in this chapter. In the first list Paul reversed the order of
importance as we looked from the last to the first, but not so in this list as
we move from the first to the last. The
first list spoke things personal, while this second list is more social as they
are committed directly against other people.
John MacArthur states that the Greek word for “Put…aside” is from apotithemi. He goes on to talk about this word was used
for taking off one’s clothes. At the end
of the day, after a long day of hard work people will take off their dirty
clothes and get cleaned up, and so once a person is saved from their sins they
are pictured of taking off their old sinful garments and as they did in the
early church after being baptized, put on a clean white robe as they have put off
the old life and put on the new life.
We will not look at the definitions of these words that
Paul uses in these verses.
Orge
(anger): A person who is anger as
related to this word has to work at it as it is a deep, smoldering, resentful
bitterness. Now provocations do not
create this persons anger, but the merely reveal that he or she is an angry
person and will more than likely take it out on someone else. Ephesians 4:31 tells us Let all bitterness
and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all
malice.” Paul is telling us that
believers have no place having this anger.
Thumos
(wrath): This is not a deep seated
anger, but speaks of a person blowing up at the drop of a hat so to speak, like
dry straw being ignited that will flare up hot rapidly and then will be burned
out just as rapidly. Examples of this
are seen in the Scriptures “23 And He said to them, "No doubt you will
quote this proverb to Me, ’Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard was done
at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’" 24 And He said,
"Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown. 25 “But I say
to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when
the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine came
over all the land; 26 and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to
Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 “And there were
many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was
cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian." 28 And all the people in the synagogue were filled with
rage as they heard these things; 29 and they got up and drove Him out of
the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been
built, in order to throw Him down the cliff. 30 But passing through their
midst, He went His way (Luke 4:23-30).” 4/24/2017
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