Losing The Inheritance Of Christ's Kingdom Part 2

Debate (ROM 1:29). “Strife, contention, dissension, quarrelling, wrangling; a quarrel.” NOTE: There is a positive aspect to debate (PRO 25:9; ACT 15:2, 7; 19:9) and contention (JUDE 1:3). Differentiate between debating to discover truth and debating against the truth (2TI 3:8 c/w PRO 22:10) or debating solely out of a desire to gender strife (PRO 26:21). Deceit (ROM 1:29). “The action or practice of deceiving; concealment of the truth in order to mislead; deception, fraud, Losing The Inheritance Of Christ’s Kingdom 1-11-26 Page 2 cheating, false dealing.” See 2CO 11:3 c/w 1TI 2:14; MAT 24:11; EPH 4:14. NOTE: “...in order to...” Intent must be proven in a charge of deceit. An innocent error which misleads others may be corrected without being subject to prosecution (ACT 18:25-26). An honest man, when faced with valid information that refutes his position, will either change his position or cease from being an honest man. Despisers of those that are good (2TI 3:3). For example, see JOH 10:32; JAM 2:1-6. Despiteful (ROM 1:30). “Contemptuous; insulting; opprobrious.” Contempt: The action of contemning or despising; the holding or treating as of little account, or as vile and worthless; the mental attitude in which a thing is so considered. For example, see MAL 1:12-13; 2CO 10:10; HEB 10:29. Disobedience to parents (ROM 1:30; 2TI 3:2). NOTE: Circumstances would have to be taken into consideration here: the age of the child (youth or an adult), status of the child (living with parents or not, married or unmarried) or whether obedience to a parent would be a flagrant sin. Drunkenness, drunkard (1CO 5:11; 6:10; GAL 5:21). Drunkenness: The state of being drunk; intoxication; the habit of being drunken or addicted to excessive drinking. Drunk: That has drunk intoxicating liquor to an extent which affects self-control; intoxicated, inebriated; overcome by alcoholic liquor. Drunkard: One addicted to drinking; one who habitually drinks to excess; an inebriate, a sot. See GEN 9:21; 1SAM 1:13-14; ACT 2:13-15. NOTE: It is drinking alcohol in excess that is condemned (EPH 5:18). Moderate consumption is allowed. Also, the “...and such like” clause of GAL 5:21 would forbid intoxication by (recreational) drug use. Intoxicated: The action of poisoning; administration of poison; killing by poison; the state of being poisoned; an instance of this. Obs. exc. Med. 2. The action of rendering stupid, insensible, or disordered in intellect, with a drug or alcoholic liquor; the making drunk or inebriated; the condition of being so stupefied or disordered. Effeminate (1CO 6:9). “Of persons: That has become like a woman: a. Womanish, unmanly, enervated, feeble; self-indulgent, voluptuous; unbecomingly delicate or over-refined.” See JER 51:30. Also note that apparel may enter into this area, since God has required distinctions between men and women (DEU 22:5). Emulation (GAL 5:20). “The endeavour to equal or surpass others in any achievement or quality; also, the desire or ambition to Losing The Inheritance Of Christ’s Kingdom 1-11-26 Page 3 equal or excel.” NOTE: There is a positive aspect to emulation (ROM 11:14). The desire or ambition to excel is the very formula for success in life since it is the best way for one’s product or service to be favored. Emulation that is born of envy, though, is not positive advancement but pride at work. Envy (ROM 1:29; GAL 5:21). “(v.) To feel displeasure and ill-will at the superiority of (another person) in happiness, success, reputation, or the possession of anything desirable; to regard with discontent another's possession of (some superior advantage which one would like to have for oneself).” “(sb.) Malignant or hostile feeling, ill-will, malice, enmity.” Consider the gainsaying of Korah and company in grasping for parity with Moses (NUM 16 c/w PSA 106:16-17), and the accounts of Joseph and Christ (MAR 15:10; ACT 7:9). Extortion (1CO 5:10-11; 6:10). “The action of extorting or wresting anything, esp. money, from a person by force or by undue exercise of authority or power; an instance of this; an act of illegal exaction.” Extort: To obtain from a reluctant person by violence, torture, intimidation, or abuse of legal or official authority, or (in weaker sense) by importunity, overwhelming arguments, or any powerful influence. See 1SAM 2:16; MAT 23:14, 25.