Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press.

Yeah. Yes, God, God, God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. This is episode

296. It is scarcely to be believed that we've gone through 296 of these, but

we have. I want to talk a little bit today about what I might, what might be called

the smell of resentments. The smell of resentments.

When somebody wrongs somebody else, when somebody wrongs somebody else, and that somebody

else is bruised or offended or hurt, and they are complaining to an authority or

complaining to a pastor, and this can happen when a husband mistreats a wife or when a wife

mistreats a wife or when a wife mistreat a husband or when parents mistreat kids or when an employer abuses his employees, the behavior is objectionable. And when the behavior is objectionable, people

object. But there's the objection itself, and then there is the manner that the objection is registered.

So it is possible for someone to have a legitimate complaint

and to make that complaint illegitimately. So when you become bitter, when you become resentful, let's say someone

lied about you and spread that lie all over town.

And let's say that they really did lie,

and you really weren't imagining it.

It really was a bad thing that they did,

and it really did harm you. And you become bitter. There are two things that are going on.

One of them is the lie and the other is the bitterness. Two things. Now when the person sinned against loses all their joy, they're not losing their joy because of the lie.

They're losing their joy because of the bitterness.

God doesn't, if someone sins against me, God doesn't take away my joy.

If they sin against me and then I retaliate and sin against them in return, by hating them in my

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