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Ephesians chapter 4 verses 31 and 32,

let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you,

along with all malice be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,

as God and Christ forgave you. Those commands couldn't be any clearer, could they?

Let all bitterness be put away from you. Is there any bitterness in your heart

in your mind? I bring that before God and ask him to help you to put it away

and the same with wrath and anger, clamor and slander put it away, put it away,

along with all malice instead be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgive one another,

which is not always easy. Usually we have, in a sense, reason or justification to be bitter

or angry. And God says, forgive one another as God and Christ forgave you.

All of these things in the first verse and verse 31 are natural to us, bitterness, wrath,

anger, clamor, slander, malice. Just look around in the world. They're everywhere.

And sadly, you look around and even in the church, you see those things. It should not be.

That's the whole message of Ephesians 4. I think your children of light,

your people of light, you live differently. So be kind in a way that is totally counter-cultural

and tenderhearted and forgiving. Why? Because, though you deserve the holy wrath of God,

for all of eternity, he is kind towards you and tenderhearted and he,

in Christ, forgives you. So God, help us to do the supernatural here, not the natural. We pray

that you would put away from our minds and our hearts, bitterness, and wrath, anger, and clamor,

and slander, and malice. God, even as I say those words, open all of our eyes, including my own,

to any ways in which these things need to be put away from us. And just like we read earlier

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