1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:04,300 It's good to see all that have come to be with us this morning 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:08,000 as has been already mentioned. It's a Wonderful privilege to 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,700 come together as God's people and worship God in spirit and in 4 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:14,600 truth were very grateful for that opportunity. 5 00:00:15,100 --> 00:00:17,700 As always is the case I do consider it an honor to speak 6 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:20,100 concerning the word of God. And I hope what we have to 7 00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:24,700 consider would be helpful in edifying to you this morning. 8 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:29,800 I'm filling in for Wade, who's at Oakdale and yesterday. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,600 I just sat down in my office and I wrote a little sermon on this 10 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,000 one verse. It's a verse that is very very 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,800 well known. And sometimes it's 12 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,000 misunderstood. So I thought what we would do is 13 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,400 we just take this one passage. This is our sermon and we'll 14 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,800 discuss the context in which Jesus spoke these words so long 15 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,900 ago, during his Masterpiece of The Sermon on the Mount and what 16 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:56,000 can we glean from it? Moving forward, in our life, 17 00:00:56,300 --> 00:00:59,800 Matthew Chapter 5 and verse 22. But before we do that, I want to 18 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:05,000 read for you verse 21. You have heard it. 19 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,800 Had been said to those of old, you shall not murder and whoever 20 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:14,300 murders will be in danger of the Judgment right after the Lord 21 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:17,000 said this. He said this in Matthew 5 and 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,300 22, but I say to you, that whoever is angry with his 23 00:01:21,300 --> 00:01:26,600 brother without a, cause shall be in danger of the judgment and 24 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,500 whoever says, to his brother Raca shall be in danger of the 25 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:36,100 council, but whoever says, you fool shall be in danger of Hell, 26 00:01:36,100 --> 00:01:39,100 Fire. You know, sometimes we look and 27 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:43,200 we compared to the Old Testament and we say it was okay for at 28 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:47,200 perhaps to hate under the old law, but you just couldn't take 29 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,700 somebody's life. You just Couldn't murder, but 30 00:01:49,700 --> 00:01:53,400 that's not true. Under the law of Moses, hatred, 31 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,500 of one's brother was condemned, but it didn't have the same 32 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:02,000 consequence or the same penalty or punishment as murder in 33 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,300 Leviticus chapter, 19 and verse 18. 34 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:08,600 It says you shall not hate your brother. 35 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,700 In your heart. You shall surely rebuke your 36 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:18,600 neighbor and not bear sin, because of him hatred regarding 37 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,800 hatred. Jesus makes hatred equal to 38 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,000 murder because both of them, come from an evil heart. 39 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:29,100 In fact, in Matthew chapter 5, verses 43 and 44, he said, you 40 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:31,800 have heard that it had been said, You shall love your 41 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,500 neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your 42 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:39,500 enemies, bless those who curse you and do good to those who 43 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:41,900 hate you. And pray for those who 44 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:46,600 spitefully use, you and persecute you to illustrate, 45 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,600 that anger makes one guilty as murder in the eyes of God. 46 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:54,500 Jesus uses a very familiar analogy, something they would 47 00:02:54,500 --> 00:03:00,200 have understood, he uses the Jewish judicial system and in 48 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,300 each situation, and before each Court, anger, ultimately Leads 49 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:08,200 to guilt and conviction. We go back to our passage in 50 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:13,000 Matthew 5 and 22. But I say to you that whoever is 51 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,700 angry with his brother Without a Cause Thank you know, if you 52 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:22,700 look at this, it seems to imply that there's a time when it's 53 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:25,900 okay to be angry with your brother. 54 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:30,400 And as we look at this phrase, we might say, all he's saying is 55 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,600 you can be angry with your brother. 56 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Just don't be angry with him without a cause another words. 57 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,100 If he gives me a reason, it's okay. 58 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,000 But this phrase Without a Cause most Scholars would agree was 59 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,800 not found in the original. In fact JW McGarvey and also mr. 60 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:53,200 Broaddus would say and write that it wasn't found in the most 61 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,800 reliable and oldest manuscripts. In fact other translations 62 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:01,300 render it this passage without those words it's actually taken 63 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:08,200 out it's not in that passage in fact in that's found in the the 64 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,500 American Standard Version the American Standard Version and 65 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:16,899 the revised Standard Version. So Without a Cause does not 66 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:20,100 insinuate that anger is acceptable under certain 67 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:26,000 conditions. Now I want to say this when the 68 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Bible says be angry and sin, not It literally means don't be 69 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:38,200 angry that it causes you to sin. Wasn't giving us license to be 70 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:42,200 angry. The passive says, don't be angry 71 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:46,900 that it causes you to sin now. Is it possible to be angry and 72 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:48,300 not sin? Absolutely. 73 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:53,000 How do I know that the Lord was angry in Matthew chapter 23, as 74 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,200 we look back in Our Minds Eye as he's preaching to those 75 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:00,000 Pharisees, as he's preaching to the Hypocrites, he was angry. 76 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:03,200 When the Lord came into the community. 77 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,400 Overturned. The tables of the moneychangers. 78 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,900 He was obviously. SLI angry. 79 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,500 But he did not sin and the reason that he did not sin as he 80 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:17,500 didn't allow the anger to change his heart, he never had an angry 81 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:22,300 or vengeful, or spiteful or hatred in his heart. 82 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:28,300 So the kind of hate though and the kind of anger that the Lord 83 00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:34,000 is talking about In this passage is something that is not to be 84 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,400 done. There are no conditions when 85 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,400 this kind of anger is okay, and this is what he says, if you're 86 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:45,700 angry with your brother. You're in danger of the judgment 87 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:49,300 and what's that talking about? You know, when I was younger I 88 00:05:49,308 --> 00:05:50,800 thought, well, what that's talking about. 89 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:55,200 That's the Judgment Day in it. That's the judgement day. 90 00:05:56,300 --> 00:06:02,200 No, the Lord is referring to the judicial system, the judicial 91 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,600 court system under Judaism under Mosaic law. 92 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:08,100 He is using this as an illustration. 93 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:11,800 So what does he mean? When he says the Judgment, it is 94 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:16,600 in reference to local municipal courts of the Town Elders. 95 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,200 In fact, we can read about that. And Deuteronomy chapter 16 96 00:06:20,300 --> 00:06:25,100 verses 18 through 20 Numbers chapter, 35, verses, 15 through 97 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:27,500 32. It's talking about the local 98 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:32,600 Municipal Court of town Elders. Jesus here, warns that anger has 99 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:37,700 the potential of leading to guilt even before the local 100 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:42,900 court system, now we know that he's just using this as an 101 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:46,100 illustration. He's using this as an 102 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:50,200 illustration of the dangers of having anger and hatred in your 103 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:56,100 heart. It even leaves to judgment in 104 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:59,400 the local court system. Now, I think we all understand, 105 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,400 he's using that as an illustration to show what God 106 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,300 thinks about that. What does God think about such 107 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:10,300 anger in your heart toward your brother and reality. 108 00:07:10,300 --> 00:07:12,300 That's what the Lord's talking about. 109 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,100 Then he says this, in addition to that, whoever says to his 110 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:22,500 brother raka now, what's raka raka is a Aramaic term for 111 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:26,700 contempt or scorn. Actually, the meaning, if you 112 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:29,500 look at the direct meaning, it actually means empty-headed. 113 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:35,500 It means Blockhead or senseless. And Jesus, says, in the first 114 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:38,700 one, if you're angry with your brother, you're in danger of the 115 00:07:38,700 --> 00:07:41,100 Judgment of the local courts, then he says this. 116 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:46,800 But if you say rocket to your brother, you're in danger of the 117 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,200 council. What's that? 118 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,500 Well, the council there is the Sanhedrin Israel's Supreme 119 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:55,600 Court. Are you kind of getting the 120 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,000 point? This is the court by the way 121 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,300 that tried the most serious offenses. 122 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,900 It pronounces, the severest penalties including death by 123 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:07,600 stoning. The Lord's Point here is the 124 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:12,400 same as before Jesus uses the court system of Israel to show 125 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,500 that God judges the man who resorts to verbal scorn, just as 126 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:22,000 guilty as if he were judged guilty of a capital offense. 127 00:08:22,500 --> 00:08:23,600 I'm going to tie all this together. 128 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,000 I promise and just a few minutes. 129 00:08:25,300 --> 00:08:32,299 But then he says this but whoever says you fool Whoever 130 00:08:32,299 --> 00:08:36,200 says you fool. Let me ask you something. 131 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:41,299 Is the word fool in itself. A bad word. 132 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,700 No. In fact, I got to tell you 133 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:50,000 something, you know, times have changed and you can just look at 134 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,300 different generations of young people and they have their own 135 00:08:53,300 --> 00:08:56,300 little language. I remember back in my day, 136 00:08:56,700 --> 00:08:59,000 everybody called everybody dude, dude. 137 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:03,000 And then say something or hey, dude, that was kind of our word, 138 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,100 you know what it is now different. 139 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:10,000 It's yo and bro and even fool. Hey fool. 140 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,200 Is the word fool in itself wrong, is it sinful to use words 141 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,200 like fool? Well, no, because the Bible 142 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,400 actually talks about that and I'll get to that later on, but 143 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,200 what is he talking about? When he says, you fool, it 144 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:30,500 actually means to be dull or stupid with reference to moral 145 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:34,200 worthlessness, That's what that actually means. 146 00:09:34,500 --> 00:09:38,300 So, the context determines whether it's right or wrong to 147 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:41,800 call this term or call somebody by this term shows, utter 148 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,000 contempt for God. One scholar said to criticize, 149 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,800 the creature is to slander the Creator. 150 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:53,400 That's why it's wrong to call. Somebody a fool in this manner, 151 00:09:54,100 --> 00:09:57,400 Jesus shows that when an angry person demonstrates, such an 152 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:02,300 attitude toward his fellow man. He's not far from the actual Act 153 00:10:02,300 --> 00:10:04,800 of Of murder. And then he says this. 154 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:08,200 And if you are guilty of all this, and you're guilty of 155 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:15,400 saying fool, you're guilty or in danger of Hell Fire, You know, 156 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,600 Health fought fire in the original language. 157 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,900 Here is in reference to the valley of hinnom, it's gehenna. 158 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:25,300 And by the way, that was a ravine, it was a literal place 159 00:10:25,300 --> 00:10:29,400 was a ravine south of Jerusalem. And it's where the Pagan God, 160 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,700 Molech was worshiped in Second Kings, 23, and verse 10. 161 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:37,800 When Josiah abolish, those Pagan practices, the valley was turned 162 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:42,600 into a fiery Dumping Ground for Filth and corpses of criminals, 163 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,300 you remember, I've even preached on this Do you remember when I 164 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:50,100 said about the Lord that his grave was to be assigned among 165 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:53,100 wicked men, but he would be with a rich man in his death. 166 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:56,700 What an amazing passage. What he was saying is it was 167 00:10:56,700 --> 00:11:01,200 prophesied that there were those that assigned his grave among 168 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,600 wicked men. Where was the grave among 169 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:04,400 Wicked? Man. 170 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,300 It was in the valley of hinnom, it was a place called gehenna. 171 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,300 It was the Valley waste dump, and that's where they took the 172 00:11:11,300 --> 00:11:14,500 bodies corpses of those that were guilty. 173 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:16,600 Criminals. And they threw them there. 174 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:20,500 That's the literal place called The Valley Of hinnom called 175 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:26,000 gehenna. However, Jesus borrows this term 176 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:31,600 to denote the final Eternal punishment of the wicked. 177 00:11:32,300 --> 00:11:33,700 And you know what's interesting here. 178 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,500 Some people believe that judgment. 179 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:45,200 Council and hellfire represent different degrees of punishment. 180 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,100 Next heard it explained that way before. 181 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,200 In other words, you got this stuff going on but the worst 182 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:58,500 ones calling somebody a fool. Designed to illustrate degrees 183 00:11:58,500 --> 00:12:00,200 of punishment. I don't think that's right. 184 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:04,700 Death by sword, by the way, was inflicted by the lower Court's 185 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:09,700 death by stoning was inflicted by the Sanhedrin and obviously 186 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:12,300 the fire of gehenna. So some people look at that and 187 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:14,400 they say, oh, wait a minute, see that's just the degree of it. 188 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,300 The worst thing you could ever do is say full to somebody 189 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:19,800 because if you are, you're guilty of Hellfire, you're 190 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,600 guilty of losing your soul in Hell. 191 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,900 Let me ask you this. If it's talking about the end of 192 00:12:24,900 --> 00:12:28,900 time in the word judgment, what's different between being 193 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:32,000 in guilty of the judgment and guilty of Hellfire. 194 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,900 There's no difference. It makes no sense. 195 00:12:34,900 --> 00:12:36,800 So that's not what he's talking about. 196 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:41,800 That's not what the Lord meant. The verse is more likely 197 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:46,200 understood. If each of the infractions and 198 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:51,000 subsequent punishments are viewed as being equal. 199 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:56,800 In other words, notice Anger leads to guilt. 200 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:04,100 Rocket leads to guilt. And somebody calling somebody in 201 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:08,300 the context, in which we said, fool leads to guilt. 202 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:13,800 And the reason for this is because the evil thought begins 203 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:18,200 the process. The thought in the heart begins 204 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:22,700 the process. So when interpreted correctly as 205 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:26,900 brought us wrote, he said these verses Show, Jesus saying that 206 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:32,400 God's law, not only forbids murder, but also anger, with all 207 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,900 of its oral manifestations every infraction. 208 00:13:35,900 --> 00:13:39,800 Even those of the heart is liable to judgment before. 209 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:42,100 God. What are they again? 210 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:46,800 Angers your emotional distaste for another Raucous corns, a 211 00:13:46,808 --> 00:13:51,600 man's mind and calls him stupid fool, scorns, a man's heart, and 212 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,900 a man's character. So the point of this verse is as 213 00:13:55,900 --> 00:14:02,100 follows No one has the right to emotions that lead to 214 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:06,500 contemptuous speech or harmful, Deeds or actions against his 215 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:10,600 fellow man there for Christians. Should avoid calling others 216 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:15,200 terms, that demean them as they were created in the image of 217 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,800 God. I got to make a point and you 218 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,400 all will relate to it. I know you will. 219 00:14:23,500 --> 00:14:26,100 Because you know why, we've all done it. 220 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,000 I'm going to say something we've all done, okay? 221 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:36,500 But let me preface it by saying this. sometimes we think we have 222 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:41,400 the right to say whatever we want to say because after all 223 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:46,300 freedom of speech, if I want to say that I get to say it No, you 224 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:49,700 don't. The laws of the land may say 225 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:52,700 that you're allowed to say it but there are things we 226 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:54,700 shouldn't say to each other. There are still things that are 227 00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:56,100 Christians, shouldn't say it all. 228 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,300 So we should never think that we have the right to say it just 229 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:04,500 because we feel it and just because we want to, let me tell 230 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:07,100 you something, here's what we all have done. 231 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:13,900 Sometimes we also justify poor behavior and we justify saying 232 00:15:13,900 --> 00:15:17,800 things that anger by saying, well, I was just mad. 233 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:23,100 You ever done that? I have I was angry but you know, 234 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:25,400 what happens when you say things when you're angry? 235 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,300 I think there's two things that are possible. 236 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:33,300 Number one, you say things, you do not mean and sometimes you do 237 00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:36,400 that as a weapon lashing out because you're angry. 238 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,100 So sometimes number one, you say things when you're angry that 239 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:44,700 you do not mean. But number two you say things 240 00:15:44,700 --> 00:15:49,900 that you do mean, but shouldn't say, did you get what? 241 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:52,200 I just said. You can actually mean something 242 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,200 and doesn't give you the license to say it. 243 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,800 So I think two things are. I think it applies to all of us? 244 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:02,600 We say things in Anger, that we don't mean, and we say things in 245 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,000 Anger, that we do mean, but shouldn't say, should keep to 246 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,700 our self. You ever said something when 247 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:12,600 you're angry and think, man. I wish I hadn't said that I 248 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,000 can't tell you. The number of times I've had to 249 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,100 go to somebody and apologize and everybody that's married 250 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:21,100 understands this. Sometimes the gloves come off 251 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:23,100 and we say things we shouldn't. And then what do you got to do? 252 00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:25,700 You got to apologize to your spouse but you know what here's 253 00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:28,400 the problem. The problem is the damage is 254 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,000 already done. If you say something the damage 255 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,900 can be hurtful things that are said in anger and those things 256 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:36,600 build up and you can be forgiven. 257 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,600 But sometimes The damage doesn't go away. 258 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:44,100 And it affects relationships. So there are things that we just 259 00:16:44,100 --> 00:16:46,900 should not say. I think that's what the Lord was 260 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:48,900 talking about and it begins with the heart. 261 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,800 Jesus was often angry though, let me just say this, as I wrap 262 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:57,100 up my remarks, he was angry with the Pharisees, and on occasions, 263 00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:00,300 he already called them. He called them fools. 264 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:04,400 The conclusion drawn is that such language might not be 265 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,400 essentially wrong in every situation. 266 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:12,500 The terms however are reserved by Jesus for the hardest hearts 267 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:15,300 and not to be spoken in flippant anger. 268 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:17,400 Are you seeing the point? You might say this, if I do 269 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,200 something that is foolish, you could say you know what, Frank 270 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:25,800 did something that was foolish. Therefore he was a fool in doing 271 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,200 that. Anything wrong with that? 272 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:29,000 No, not at all. All. 273 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:34,500 Because my behavior was foolish. There's a difference between 274 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:39,100 saying something, describing, a foolish Behavior or act and 275 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:41,200 calling. Somebody something in flippant 276 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,700 anger, that is hurtful. There's the difference and 277 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:48,600 that's what the Lord condemned when you call somebody, you fool 278 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:53,300 in that way. Okay, couple other examples. the 279 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:57,200 Bible even talks about the word fool, in fact, in Psalms 14 and 280 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:02,800 verse 1, It says the fool says in his heart, there is no God. 281 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,000 It describes somebody that says there is no God, you know what, 282 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,600 he's a fool in his heart. Remember when Jesus was dealing 283 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:14,900 with that, that rich man. When he was dealing with the 284 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:17,600 rich fool, he was talking to him. 285 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,600 And he said, this man said I got all this stuff. 286 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,600 I'm going to do all this. Here's my plans and all that, 287 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,400 but he didn't leave God in his plan to do what Jesus says, Thou 288 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,900 fool. This night, thy Soul shall be 289 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:32,700 required of Thee. See, the point, the word fool in 290 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:36,500 itself is not wrong how it's used in the context in which is 291 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:38,900 described. That's what's in question, 292 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,800 that's what the Lord condemned. So, from this passage that we 293 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,800 learn, we learn this, we learned that things that we say, matter, 294 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:53,000 and all of the things that Jesus said and spoke of all the things 295 00:18:53,100 --> 00:18:57,200 were guilty of judgment and we put ourself in line for being 296 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,700 judged or condemned as a result of that. 297 00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:03,700 So we need to watch what we say. Begins in the heart, sometimes 298 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:06,300 that's difficult. I've always been one of those 299 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:08,500 quick speaking, guys. In other words, quick 300 00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:10,200 responders. But the Bible says, I need to be 301 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,900 slow to respond. I'm better now than I've ever 302 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:14,700 been, but it's a work in progress because you want to say 303 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:18,300 something right back, sometimes it's better to just sit back. 304 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,800 Take a deep breath swallow. As my dad would say, and then 305 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:24,800 use your words and season them with salt. 306 00:19:26,300 --> 00:19:29,000 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 307 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:34,700 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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