Seven Deadly Sins

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okay um so let's get into it uh like I x said hopefully we can get through all x seven if not we can x um maybe it'll be a two- Potter I don't x know so anyways let's uh let let's take x a look at what the deadly sins are um x you know we may or may not be familiar x with these but uh as we're going to find x out these these negative characteristics x these negative x behaviors x um you know are written against in x scripture so that's where they're coming x from ultimately is these types of x behaviors are not condoned by God and he x doesn't want us to do these things and x we're going to find out why U you know x and that's that's that's one of the x things that I think uh is interesting x you know God is concerned about our x Eternal x salvation and he's concerned about our x spiritual welfare but if we are to uh be x successful in this life now we we really x have to put away the these types of x behaviors because if we have these types x of behaviors in our lives our lives now x in our flesh is going to be very x difficult x relationships with people in our lives x are going to be very difficult and x ultimately as we've already said a x relationship with God is going to be x strained and quite possibly non-existent x so anyways this this was a common um you x know people talked about these things uh x people were concerned about these things x early day Christians were concerned x about you know the pressures of the x Roman world upon them um you know how do x how do we manage these things how can we x navigate all of these uh x Temptations how can I be a righteous x individual and kind of this this world x of chaos in the Roman world where a lot x of these you know behaviors uh were x winked at they were uh a lot of times x ignored as well just like just like in x today so anyways uh lust x gluttony greed x sloth wrath envy and pride and so as I x said you know the these are ideas or x behaviors that people were concerned x about ancient Christian writers like x tullian and aias uh both uh wrote about x these types of behaviors obviously in x scripture they're written about quite x extensively both in the old and the New x Testament so obviously God wants us um x to be aware of these things God wants us x not only to be aware of them but to put x away these types of behaviors in our x lives and so they're called deadly x brothers and sisters really because of x the destruction that they wrought in x people's lives ultimately um you know if x we have these you know these deadly sins x within our lives uh there's very little x chance that we are going to get into the x kingdom of God and that's just not me x saying it we know that that scripture x says that as well in a few different x places um so it's it's important you x know our Salvation is on the line uh x quality of life now is on the line as x well brothers and sisters so uh they x destroy things these types of behaviors x they destroy x ourselves we damage our own selves our x spiritual spirituality our relationship x with God we damage other people when x we're constantly uh doing these types of x behaviors and and a lot of times x brothers and sisters a lot of these x things are connected they're x interconnected like just off you know x just kind of thinking about you know x lust and gluttony and sloth greed you x know they they're all connected uh as x we're going to see now originally in the x early days there originally were eight x sins eight deadly sins um and one of x them was sadness which I thought was x interesting x sadness was a deadly sin and we we'll x revisit that in in a little bit but just x kind of think about that x sadness and we're not talking about x obviously being being sad but you know x as we're going to find out it is a x persistent sadness and so what the x writers did was you know as as these x things were refined a little bit um in x the fifth century sadness was actually x merged with x Sloth and at first that may sound weird x like why is sadness being merged with x Sloth well we'll take a look at it I x think it does make sense but it uh it x may not make sense to you and that's x that's cool so the way we'll do this um x you know I'll go through probably like a x couple of the Dead deadly sins opening x up for comments um like I said I'm not x uh you know super concerned about x getting through all of these because you x know I have I have no problem doing it x again um if you guys want me to uh next x week but anyways so um so the so aias x just a little background vas was a monk x in the second century of the third x century and a lot of these monks back in x the day and they still do this today x they would go into solitary places like x John the Baptist uh they would go in the x aans as well in the in in the land of x Israel they went out into the judan um x desert and that's they focused on God so x they isolated themselves to focus on God x AV arrius a lot of these monks were x illiterate they couldn't uh read or x write but evagrius uh was a really good x scholar and he wrote down uh you know x eight deadly or capital sins or x behaviors that he felt um were deadly to x Eternal salvation so he stated first in x one of his writings the first thought of x all is that of Love of x self after this the E so you know he x kind of starts off and you know and this x is a tenant obviously found in scripture x where I was going to find out you know x the focus on x self uh that's where pride comes in x you're always focusing on yourself x you're not looking at other people uh x you're always focusing on the things x that are concerning to you you're not x giving yourself to anybody else x everything's me me me and so that's the x first one and then afterward he says x here are the eight right the eight x patterns of evil evil thought gluttony x lust greed sadness x despondency anger vain glory and pride x and some of these as we've already x mentioned have have been merged like x vain glory and pride have you know kind x of the same deal um and so you know the x question is why were they written well x they were written to help early x Believers to examine themselves to x examine their actions their behaviors x why are these why am I doing these x things you know in a in a in a good x brother or sister in Christ that has a x good relationship with God is going to x do these things every single day we do x them you know uh on Sunday with the x bread and the wine let a man examine x himself and so let him eat of that bread x and drink of that cup and so uh we have x an obligation to do these things x brothers and sisters you know and this x is where I think the idea of sloth is x going to come in spiritual x sloth uh and there's a lot of you know x questions we can ask ourselves as far as x you know what I what is our relationship x with God and you know are these things x in our lives are these se you know seven x deadly sins in our lives on a regular x basis just this picture right here on x the right hand side these are kind of x these are some of the uh you know kind x of the caves or the dwellings that the x early monks would live in away from x everybody um and there's still x monasteries in the in Egypt today in the x Sinai desert you can actually go I think x it's called x Uh St Elizabeth's Monastery Maybe but x anyways you can go there and they have a x lot of different codexes and books and x whatnot um so anyways all right let's x get into it so first one that we're x going to mention now according to early x Christian writers um they're listed this x way x as uh from you know and again this is x kind of the thought process of some of x the early Christian writers x from the least deadly to the most deadly x all right and so x um the first one that the first one that x is talked about is lust and that's x something that obviously the Bible is x interested in about uh not being lustful x towards things and so a very simple way x to uh Define lust is uncontrolled sexual x desire is the Bible concerned about that x in people x absolutely there are um there are x commands against x fornication against adultery both in the x Old and New Testament there's commands x against disordered sexual desire such as x rape beastiality was is one as well x mentioned in the old in the Old x Testament and the law homosexual x relations as well um lust also can be x used in relation to objects particularly x money or power the love of money is the x root of all evil Christ told us uh some x examples in scripture that kind of come x to mind Tamar and amn x right remember that awful story David x and x basheba Joseph and Piper's x wife uh a story a little a little darker x is remember the Levites concubine that x was um AB abused by uh some some of the x tribe of Benjamin men of the tribe of x Benjamin uh Sodom and x gomorah also also written down for us x God is interested uh in that and he's x interested in us remaining uh clean from x these things and so on the right hand x side I thought this picture was pretty x good uh you have David kind of up on his x rooftop looking down on the right hand x side the basba who's uh kind of taking a x bath so uh James has some has some x thoughts on this that we're going to x take a look at but that's lust you know x so the qu you know we got we we have to x look at our x lives what are we lusting after are we x lusting after x things uh the world is constantly x bombarding us uh with x consumerism wanting bigger and bigger x better uh and you know we we can get x lustful for things we can get lustful x for other you know men women that type x of thing um we can be x uncontrolled our self-discipline is gone x we don't even try x we just kind of allow things uh to x happen so you know these these things x you know talking about these things can x be a little uncomfortable but you know x the Bible God has put it in the Bible x for a reason so he wants us to x understand that these things are x destructive to not only our salvation x but to our lives right now I think x sometimes we forget about that brothers x and sisters that God loves us and he x cares for us and he wants us to be x successful right now so he doesn't want x these things in our lives he doesn't x want us doing these things because it x makes our life now x difficult just think about the x destruction that some of these things x can H can can cause you know allowed to x go unchecked in our lives uh just really x destructive and then you know Jo Joseph x and parer's wife you know it was x actually part ofer's wife that was x aggressive so this isn't n just x something that men deal with um although x I think they probably deal with it more x but anyways uh you know it's something x that sisters both brothers and sisters x need to be on guard for what are we x lusting x after you know where where is our heart x in relationship to the things of x God and so here are some um you know x biblical quotes obviously that talk x about that uh Matthew 5 and the top is x kind of but I say unto you that everyone x uh let's see is you know um but I say to x you that everyone who looks at a woman x with lustful intent has already x committed adultery with her in his heart x and so Jesus is actually not even you x know he's he's addressing the action but x it's an action of thought you begin the x process within your mind the lust starts x in your mind and that's why first John x is so important for all that is in the x world world the desires of the flesh the x desires of the eyes and the pride of x life the King James version uses the x lust of the flesh the lust of the eye x and the pride of life is not from the x father it's not from God brothers and x sisters it is from the world it is from x this order of things something that is x going to be blown away like the x chaff so there's an exitation in that x for sure um Galatians but I say walk by x the spirit and you will not GL gratify x the desires of the x flesh put to death from Colossians x therefore what is Earthly in you sexual x immorality impurity passion evil desire x covetousness which is idolatry and then x lastly be sober minded Peter tells us Be x watchful your adversary the devil prows x around like a roaring liing seeking x someone to devour that is great imagery x that Peter is using for us Pro in x around looking to devour us through x lust and there is there's a lot of lust x in the world brothers and sisters and we x need to keep ourselves from it uh you x know we have to be on God we have to Be x watchful sober minded Peter tells us we x have to be in our right mind x spiritually in order to keep these x things these things that we strive x for um in in this world away from us x they're not going to do us any good x being uh you know obsessed or lustful x about you know about things in this life x I'm sure it's x exhausting um and again I think we have x to keep in mind that God wants us to be x with him eternally in his x kingdom but he wants us also to live a x good clean life now and by living that x good clean life we can serve him better x but also Al it's a blessing it's part of x God's grace to us if we follow these x Commandments he's not trying to put us x in a box you know so we can't do x anything he's telling us to stay away x from these things because they are x destructive to us they are destructive x to our families we will not live a good x life our quality of x life uh will not be what it can be we're x getting sucked into all of these dis x different lustful things all of these x material things that we x see and then we're not going to read all x of those um you know Proverbs 6:25 do x not desire her beauty he's talking about x strange women here right do not desire x her beauty in your heart and do not let x her capture you with her x eyelashes I should have read this before x my first date with Lee it's too late x though it's all right x um and then from Timothy so flee x youthful passions and pursue x righteousness Faith love and peace along x with those who call on the Lord from a x pure heart so there's a purity of heart x as opposed to lustfulness which is dirty x filthy we're letting our flesh get the x best of us wanting more and more and x more never satisfied with the things x that God has given x us I mean so um some some things to keep x in mind so that's lust what do we got x for x time definitely not going to make it x that's all right all right so x gluttony uh obesity is an epidemic in x this country in in a lot of parts of the x world 30 to 40% of uh Americans are x obese that's not overweight but obese um x in gluttony is very uh very simply an x overindulgence or an over consummation x of anything to the point of waste we x think about gluttony first we think x about food eating uh massive amounts of x food uh but there's there's other things x too there's Spirit there's a spiritual x aspect of it but also kind of a moral or x ethical aspect of it um while the rich x are oing the poor eat nothing Paul talks x about that in First Corinthians right x when he's uh he's talking about coming x together for the memorial Serv service x of of Christ um he says that the you x know the the rich are overeating and x they're drunk while they're poor they x they eat nothing have you not homes to x eat and drink in Paul ask um and so you x know Glutton they're lusting after food x primarily but also drink I think x drunkenness can be put in into this x category it's an x overindulgence uh being drunk we know x that uh you know drunkards will not x inherit the kingdom of God uhul Paul x tells us a couple couple times so um x again words words of advice words of x wisdom from our father um again the x moral and ethical concern is uh the poor x are being overlooked during that time x you know during you know the an you know x in the ancient world in Rome you know x the poor were overlooked no one cared x for them they you know so there was a x disparaging of um you know the the very x rich income uh you know disparity x between someone that is very rich and x someone that is poor and so gluttony x kind of has to do with all of those x things um greed you know gluttony is you x know greedy lust you lusting after food x so I think we can see brothers and x sisters how how thing these things all x connect x together just something for today a x little little tidbit of information kind x of put things in perspective the United x States waste 60 million ion tons of food x that is$ x 218 billion dollars of waste 25% of the x landfills in America are from food waste x so you know we really have uh you know x the opposite problem of uh you know we x we have almost too much food we we're x overindulgent we you know we can go to x McDonald's and get 3,000 calories x easy right for what 10 bucks you know x you super siize it who knows so cheap x calories in the United States cheap x calories in other parts of the world um x and it's very easily accessible we go to x the supermarket you can buy whatever you x want within your financial means x McDonald's Burger King Wendy's think x about a x chickfila um yeah x gluttony uh sometimes we don't think x about that but uh x yeah being overindulgence over over x consuming again this is a x self-discipline thing you know we we're x kind of hardwire right in our nature is x to consume as much as possible you know x to fill up you know particularly um you x know people genetically who have been x through x famines um you I'll just use the you x know Irish people and Scottish people uh x because of that pressure put upon them a x lot of a lot of times the people well x really the the people that survived were x able to overcome the fam because they x were able to retain you know any of the x you know the extra fat that they had on x their body some a lot of them didn't you x know um and so that may be a reason why x too In some cultures that uh you just x pack on weight really quick because x there's been so much famine in the in x the past you know it's almost like hard x wide into the DNA that you know if x there's extra food you got to you got to x pile up you don't know when your next x meal is coming from and that certainly x was true hundreds and hundreds of years x ago now it's not true and so we're you x know we're uh we're kind of like Joseph x where he's you know he put all the extra x corn and whatnot the wheed into silos x you know we do we do the same thing with x our bodies and we have to be uh you know x that that's unhealthy eating too much x food drinking too much alcohol is x unhealthy you're not going to have a x quality of life um if you do these x things on a regular basis ovat x overindulge um and a lot of times it's x part of our culture overindulging as x well so it's something to keep in x mind now this is pretty interesting like x medieval church leaders of Thomas x aquinus he was a you know a great writer x on Christian apologies and whatnot uh he x kind of some he he kind of did a deep x dive on gluttony which I think is pretty x pretty inter interesting um it could x also include he says obsessive x anticipation of meals like being x obsessed meals like oh can't wait for x dinner which I have I have said several x times uh overindulgence and Delicacies x and costly Foods okay that's interesting x and he also kind of listed five forms of x gluttony now again this is not found in x scripture but I just found it x interesting that um you know he he has x five forms of different types of x gluttony eating too expensively you're x spending too much on food like the x top-notch Wine and Food eating too x daintily huh x interesting uh eating too much eating x too soon eating too x eagerly you know if we're telling story x I'm G tell I'll tell a funny story about x well it's a funny story to me anyways x years and years ago when I was at I was x a graduate student at Bridgewater State x and I was a grad assistant so I work x with the professors and you know taught x a few classes um for them but we we went x out to the 99 Restaurant I don't know it x was like at the end of the semester or x whatever and you know I was trying to x make a good impression on these people I x was working with them x um and x so you know I know this is a shock to x you but I was hungry at the time was x like lunchtime was like one o'clock I x don't think I had eaten breakfast or x anything like that so I was I was hungry x and I know my way around food as many of x you know I'm not a stranger to it so x anyways we go to we go to the 99 and x there's about eight or nine of us x sitting at this big table and we're x talking and everyone's having this small x talk and whatever and so our food x eventually comes and people are eating x normally and they're having x conversations they're putting their Fork x down they're looking at people they're x taking a drink they're eating in a very x normal x fashion however I was not eating in a x normal fashion in fact I was eating too x eagerly because I was hungry and people x were like a third of the way through x their lunch and I was completely done x there wasn't anything on my flate so all x of these you know professors like uh you x know the head of the history Department x was there they're just looking at me x like x uh got a little problem what the food x though you so I I think about that you x know about you know eating too quickly x and that's something that I do I I eat x too quickly and I think it may go back x to just the environment you know that I x grew up with you got to eat the food x it's gone you know when my mother would x come with all the food after shopping x we'd go and we'd take all of the food x that we'd like sometimes someone would x hide food uh you know there's a lot of x high Jinks and shenanigans with the food x in the house so it's not my fault so x anyways um and then just with this page x right here the gout um the gout was x considered it's still around today a x rich man's disease a buildup of uric x acid um you know some of the food that x the medieval uh wealthy would eat would x be um you know the like the the insides x like the awful of uh of animals kidneys x um you know heart liver that type of x thing that has a lot of uric acid in it x and so um people would get the gout you x know very painful and we you know people x in the Middle Ages felt that the gout x was God's punishment for gluttony you x know and that you know it's it's x interesting even like Bishops even you x know very high up obviously in the x Catholic Church they would get the gout x as well and so you know kind of the x peasants would make fun of these rich x men who couldn't walk because it was so x debilitating because they had eaten so x much food and obviously we all know x today you know kind of the negative x effects of obesity it just affects x everything um in our lives and so again x I want to reiterate this because I think x it's important God is important God is x interested and concerned about our x internal our Eternal salvation but he x also cares about our welfare x now and that's why he doesn't want these x types of behaviors in in our lives maybe x have a time all right so let's let's x take a look at um you know just some and x I'm not going to read all of these uh x but from Proverbs 23 be not among x drunkards or among gluttonous Eaters of x meat for the drunkard and the Glutton x will come to poverty and Slumber will x clothe them with Rags right we spending x all our time on eating and x drinking certainly during that time x absolutely come to Poverty put a knife x to your throat if you are given to x appetite I think the context of that x verse brothers and sisters was uh kind x of like my situation uh you you know x Solomon has tell us when you go to like x the king or the or a Rich Banquet right x put a knife to your throat don't eat so x much be in control of yourself x um verse uh and then Proverbs 25 you x have found honey eat only enough for you x lest you have your fill of it and vomit x it again self-control not overindulging x in things and then lastly coron uh x Corinthians so whether you eat or drink x or whatever you do do all to the glory x of God and that's something I thought x about you know when we give thanks uh x you know we give thanks to God for the x food that we have and then in the x process of that we overindulge we're x gluttonous you know it's it's an x interesting thing we're thankful for the x food to God but then we overindulge in x the food that God has uh has given us x and so you know are we glorifying God in x that situation you know it kind of it's x It's a sensitive top topic for sure x because I think you know a lot of us x struggle with our weight a lot of us x overindulge food is x good you know I I love x food um but you know I have to work on x my x self-control because God wants what's x best for me and that's the way we have x to look at it these restrictions on x behavior isn't because God hates us he x loves us he's keeping us from harm and x evil and that's something obviously that x that's in the um in the Lord's in the x Lord's x Prayer you know to keep us from tempt x from Temptation Deliver Us from x Evil and then you know you can look at x this in your own time um but Deuteronomy x 21 and 20 about the stubborn son he's x rebellious won't listen to us he's a x glunt glutton and a drunker that those x two things again are mentioned um and x and actually the punishment for this was x death x you know if you were rebellious and x stubborn x some okay uh what do we got time here x 807 all right greed an insatiable desire x for material gain be it food money land x animate objects inan objects possessions x social x value status or power an insatiable x desire there's that word again an x uncontrolled desire x again we're out of control when we when x we exhibit these types of sins when x we're x greedy um greed is something that has x been identified down through history as x something that creates problems within x the society if you have one individual x wanting all of the Power all of the x control all of the food the possessions x the money right this is one of the x things that's actually happening Jason x mentioned um you know into the um x inadequacies in the world today where x you have a country like the United x States tremendous amount of food to the x to the point where we're wasting 25% of x it to places in Africa because of famine x and also because of breed brothers and x sisters because of the leaders in these x different African countries who are x keeping the food and the money and the x power to themselves and not sharing it x with the people so again we see an x intersection between these we see a x connection between these sins how that x one can kind of snowball and all of them x come together um and this is a great x quote from uh Christian writer Henry x Edward Manning he greed plunges a man x deep into the mire of this world so that x he makes it to be his God that's pretty x profound right greed insatiable desire x for materials you're getting in the mire x of this world you doing business with x this world um and it becomes all you you x become x insatiable for the things of this world x and It ultimately becomes your God it x becomes your idol it's what you serve x it's what you love what it's what you x give yourself to and it is x emptiness emptiness Solomon tells us x whosoever loves money never has x enough whosoever loves x wealth will never be satisfied with x their income this too is x meaningless Hebrews keep your lives free x from the love of money and be content x with what you have because God has said x never will I leave you never will I x forsake you do you remember that x brothers and sisters it's that part of x our mind it's part of our thought x process right we oftentimes we think we x have to do it oh I got a you know more x money I got I got bills right we we can x we can be stressed out by those things x and you know it's true you know we we we x go through financial difficulties x sometimes but we should never forget x that God loves us he cares for us he x will never leave us he will never x forsake us and then from Luke watch out x be on your God against all kinds of x greed life does not consist in abundance x of possessions right and he goes on I x think he tells the tells the parable of x the of the rich man right he builds x bigger and bigger x barns um and he says look at all the x stuff that look at what I have done and x that day he died and he couldn't bring x it with him brothers and sisters it was x left and then no man can serve two x masters so on and so forth so again I x don't want to I don't want to get uh x spend too much time on these but these x are you know you can go through x scripture and find um you know support x for this idea of greed not to have it in x our lives not to be a greedy x person all x right sloth sloth is uh means without x care it refers to a particular jumble of x Notions dating from Antiquity and it x includes mental spiritual and physical x states of x sloth it's a lack of attention to things x in our lives dismissing our x responsibilities have we been slothful x in our lives in these things brothers x and sisters I know I have x um you know dismissing our x responsibilities not paying the proper x attention to to the important things in x our lives and I think that's why uh x sadness is kind of brought brought in x there because of our sadness we don't x care x anymore we have you know we can get like x that brothers and sisters we go through x it's like we're beaten down you know x Solomon says oppression makes a wise man x mad and um you know we I just don't how x many people have just kind of thrown up x their hands right I just don't care x anymore it's crazy it's too x much x um I think that happens in our lives God x knows it happens in our lives he sees it x um but we we should all we should never x dismiss our responsibilities we should x never lose hope I think the lack of Hope x and sloth without care we just we've x lost x it and that's just a very very difficult x place to be brothers and sisters that we x don't think we don't care about the x things of x God what caused us to be put into that x state of mind you know x depression uh x loss you know can all cause just really x profound profound grief and x sadness and you know grief grief is in x otion that that is talked about in x scripture all the time and it's you know x it's not negative we we're grieving x we're sad about something but I think x what God is trying to tell us is we x can't be sad and x hopeless we should never lose hope in x the things of God they should x always always be important to x us um lack of attention to things in our x lives it can be spirit ual things can be x um you know physical things that we need x to get x done uh you know a physical health x that's important that's very important x what are we doing to for our physical x and mental health what's our you know x what's our prayer life like uh do we x have a daily uh contact with the word of x God are we thinking about the things of x God what is our home life like if x someone were to come into our home or x Jesus would to come into our home x would he be like oh yeah this is I can I x can definitely see you know the good x stuff going in here it's kind of like a x mini Kingdom of God in here wow or you x know the reality of the situation we x we've got some things to work on right x um so yeah x sloth and then um just again we're not x going to read all of these but the x parable of the talents right the one guy x who just like me I don't have time for x this I really care for I'm just going to x Bury Bury it in the sand right x um let's see from Proverbs 13 lazy x people want much but get x little through sloth the roof sinks in x and through x uh in what is that word indolence the x house leaks thank you sister Le despite x the desires the L the lazy will come to x ruin for their hands refuse to work x um so again you know uh we can't be lazy x people we can't be slothful people we x have to be x diligent uh you know I think Paul says x when he's talking about Windows a man x that presides not for his house is worse x than a you know an Infidel he has denied x the faith Paul says you know that idea x of providing for other people not being x slothful in the responsibilities that x God has given us Ecclesia x responsibilities family responsibilities x individual work responsibilities as x well okay uh what do we got all right x I'm going to I'm going to go through x wrath and pride very quickly and I'm x going to open it up okay I mean we could x do we could do a whole class on each one x of these um uncontrolled feelings of x anger rage and even hatred wrath often x reveals itself in the wish to seek x Vengeance and so the act of x anger um becomes the sin of Wrath when x it is direct directed against an x innocent person when it is x unly strong or longlasting or when it x Desir excessive x punishment so brother Paul uh milans he x he gave the exitation last week he x talked about you know being in his car x and having the right frame of mind um x that can be you know that can be x difficult for for some people you know x someone cuts you off or does something x moronic you know you can go from zero to x 100 x very quickly and now you're you're x wrathful you're seeking Vengeance on x somebody unduly unduly x strong or longlasting x right that's you know uh like you know x when someone does something you know x first of all you know we we have to work x on I'm talking to myself now we have to x work on being patient and kind and calm x at all times even when people do crazy x things when we're driving right we can't x go we can't be x wrathful you know it's like you know x we're coming home from meeting or going x to meeting you know we got about a 50 55 x um you know minute x drive and you know it's just like why x why am I getting so upset going to x meeting to remember the sacrifice of x Christ and I'm getting all upset because x someone's going five miles below the x speed limit you know it doesn't make any x sense it's not a great frame of mind I x know when I'm in a frame of mind like x that like very very aggressive and kind x of hopped up and not patient and not x kind uh you know wrath can be it can be x so deadly for ourselves you know they've x done they've done like kind of research x on this and people that are all that x have anger all the time it affects them x mentally but also x physically they die in early x age uh the stress of that the body you x know what happens to the body in a state x of rage right you're out of control once x again these seven deadly sins what's the x common denominator we're out of x control we're not in control of x ourselves x um so yeah and then obviously uh some x just again dearly beloved avenge not x yourselves but rather give Place unto x wrath for it is written vengeance is x mine I will repay sayeth the Lord James x 1 straight to the point brothers and x sisters for the wrath of man worketh not x the righteousness of God if you have x ever been in a state of x Wrath the righteousness of God is a x thousand miles away when you are in that x state of mind it works not the x righteousness of God we're not x glorifying God when we're in a state of x wrath and a lot of times when we get x into a state of Wrath brothers and x sisters we can't be reasoned x with you know where it's almost like x we're we're insane for a short period of x time we can't be x counseled you just we're we're out of x control we can't we can't be in a x situation like that our brother or x sister in Christ should not be known for x their wrath for their aggression right x that's we we don't we don't want to be x known for those things right let your x moderation be known to all men Paul says x right our x self-control all right x Envy insatiable desire like greed and x lust um it can be described as a sad or x resentful Covetous um Behavior towards x somebody it becomes vain x glory and sever a man from his his x neighbor if we're envious of our x neighbor right Ten Commandments we're x not to covet the things of our neighbor x his wife or any of his x possessions we're if we're always x envious or jealous of other people again x brothers and sisters what an awful way x to go through x life right again insatiable desire we're x out of control again we we become x obsessed with somebody we're envious of x that person right again here you know x you can look these up at your own x Leisure but like just from first Peter 2 x wherefore laying aside all malice and x all guile and hypocrisies and envyings x and all evil speaking put those away x Galatians let us not be desirous of vain x Glory provoking one another envying x another uh envying one another opposite x of envying x right lifting each other up being happy x the success of other x people all right now lastly um Pride x this is the worst this is the one where x all they all come from Pride x uberus x futility it is considered the original x and worst of the seven deadly sins on x almost every list the most destructive x pride is the opposite of x humility and then um you know be the x same mind one toward another mind not x high things but condescend to Men of low x estate be not wise in your own conceits x here's a direct room from God Proverbs 8 x the fear of the Lord is to hate evil x pride and arrogancy in the evil way and x the froed mouth God says I do hate he x despises those x things Proverbs 26 is great do you see a x man wise in his own conceit I'm the x modest guy in the room there is no more x hope of a fool than of him and then x we'll end with proverb 16 everyone that x is proud in heart is an x Abomination to the Lord though hand join x in hand he shall not be unpunished