Little Things Mean A Lot

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Little Things Mean A Lot

• Pro.3024-28
• Song of Sol. 215
• Little things destroy a lot
• Garden
• House
• I hate the foxes w. their bushy tails, which
  numerous spoil the grapes of Mecons vines when
  fall the evening shades Theocritus

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Little Foxes

• Little foxes in a spiritual vineyard can destroy
  a soul
• Most of us will not rob a bank, shoot a neighbor,
  burn down the courthouse
• We will be tempted to engage in little sins
• Little foxes spoil the vineyard of morality in
  self

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I Little Fox Of Pride

• 1. Cause of pride I am better than you!
  I have you dont
• 2. Categories of pride
• Materialistic
• Social status
• Intellectual education
• Physical
• Spiritual self-righteous. Lk.189-12

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3. Consequences of pride God hates it

• Pride focuses on self, not God, the Giver of all
  good things (Ja.117)
• Fruits of pride produce rebellion and
  disobedience
• Unwillingness to confess wrongs
• Unwillingness to change course (Pharaoh, Felix)
• Contentions. Pro.1310
• Apostasy. 1 Co.1012. Ja.46, 10

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II Little Fox Of Lying

• Some oppose the bold-faced lie
• Other types are generally accepted
• 1. White lie
• Gn. 12
• Ac. 5

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Famous American Fibs

• The check is in the mail
• Open wide, it wont hurt a bit
• I just need five minutes of your time
• Its not the money, its the principle
• Captain was sober today

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2. False impression

• To describe an inept person
• I enthusiastically recommend this candidate with
  no qualifications whatsoever
• To describe an ex-employee who did not get along
  with fellow workers
• I am pleased to say that this candidate is a
  former colleague of mine

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False impressions, contd.

• To describe an unproductive candidate
• I can assure you that no person would be better
  for the job
• To describe an applicant not worth
  consideration
• I would urge you to waste no time in making this
  candidate an offer of employment (Robert
  Thornton, Lexicon of Intentionally Ambiguous
  Recommendations, or LIAR)
• Rv.218

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III Little Fox Of Hatred

• 1 Jn.314-18, from greater to lesser
• 15, murderer sheds innocent blood of another
• The hater is a murderer who loses his own
  (eternal) life
• 16, martyr sheds his own innocent blood for
  another this lover passes from death into
  (eternal) life (14)

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1 Jn.420-21

• Brother on earth implies Father in heaven
• If the seen is unloved, this implies the same for
  the Unseen (a moral impossibility)
• Love for the brother is the test of love for the
  Father

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IV Little Fox Of Evil Thoughts

• Mk.720-21, context 1-3, traditions. Answer
  15
• Plato what enters into the mouth is perishable,
  but what comes out of it (speech) may be
  imperishable!
• Evil thoughts originate evil acts
• Pro.423. We lock doors, keep money in bank, but
  must not forget to guard the heart
• Ph.48

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Society devolves

• Society does not evolve it devolves, surrounding
  us w. immorality (on TV, computer, and newspaper)
• This constant exposure brainwashes us over time
• TV programs now _____?
• Video games ______?
• CEO of corporation ______?
• What would surprise you?

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V Little Fox Of Evil Deeds

• Mk.721-23, thirteen sins fornication . . .
  foolishness
• Rv.2127
• Just as all the filth of old Jerusalem was
  carried outside the walls and burned, nothing
  defiled will enter the heavenly city, but will be
  burned outside

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VI Little Fox Of Misrepresentation

• Some lie under oath to ruin the innocent, others
  to protect the guilty
• Pro.1217 195 2518
• Ja.51-3
• Witness against self!
• Corroded supplies, moth-eaten clothes, and
  tarnished coins prove it was not because he
  lacked means to help the poor, but because of
  greed
• Our sins witness against us

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VII Little Fox Of Faction

• Ro.1617, cause divisions, the state of being in
  factious opposition, dissension
• Ga.520, works of flesh lead to factions
• Hatred, enmity. Pharisee and Saddu-cees united
  out of hatred for Jesus
• Contentions, engagement in rivalry, especially w.
  reference to positions taken in a matter, strife,
  discord, contention

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• Jealousies, intense negative feelings over
  anothers achievements or success, jealousy,
  envy
• Outbursts of wrath, a state of intense
  displeasure, anger, wrath, rage, indignation
• Selfish ambitions, selfishness, selfish ambition
  

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• Dissensions, as Ro.1617. Even our government
  has a law against disturbing the peace
• Heresies, a group that holds tenets distinctive
  to it, sect, party, school, faction
• Pro.l617-19
• Each category appears in NT
• If you were tried for being a Christian