Ancient Anglican

The men who knew and obeyed the Scriptures the best, failed to help because of their obedience. Whereas the man who was outside of the covenant people, did right.

The same teaching of Jesus immediately precedes both parables that no one knows when the second coming will be, so we should always be ready. The parables resolve these teachings.

Because the women were the only ones to be with Jesus both at his Crucifixion and Resurrection, we are going to begin the study with two parables concerning women. The first is the parable of the importunate unrelenting widow found in Luke 18:1-8 and the second is the parable of the ten virgins or bridesmaids found in Matthew 25:1-13.

Unlike the inordinate desires of Lust or Gluttony, Avarice is never satisfied because there is always more to gain. Greed is the insatiable sin.

When the very Wisdom of God came down and dwelt among us, he (unfortunately) didn’t teach as a systematic theologian, rather whenever someone would ask him a question, he would respond with “Let me tell you a story.”

In many ways, sloth is the other side of gluttony, since in satisfying our desires we neglect our duties to others.

Gluttony is the inordinate indulgence in food or drink. Sloth is the neglect of our duties.

This evening we are looking at the sin of Pride and Jesus’ reparation for that sin from the cross in his quotation of Psalm 22 (“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?).

Pride is the excessive belief in one’s own abilities that interferes with the individual’s recognition of the grace of God. It is traditionally seen as the sin from which all other sins arise for in Pride we put ourselves in the place of God. 

Lust is defeated in sacrifice and in finding a higher love than the flesh. It is defeated in the words “Woman, behold your son . . . son, behold your mother.”

Lust is the inordinate love of the pleasures of the flesh, usually, but not necessarily, of a sexual manner. 

Sheen contrasts the sin of envy with the virtue of the pity that the righteous thief on the cross had for Christ.