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  STRIFE AND SEDITION
  by Clement of Rome
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Summary: The sermon highlights how the abandonment of God's fear and the
rise of wicked lusts lead to strife, sedition, and the departure of
righteousness and peace.

Topics: "Sin And Consequences", "Righteousness And Peace"
Scripture References: Genesis 3:6, Proverbs 14:30, Romans 1:21, James 3:16, 1 John 2:16

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Clement of Rome speaks about the downfall of honor and happiness due to
envy, strife, and disobedience. He highlights how righteousness and
peace have departed as people abandon the fear of God and follow their
own wicked desires, leading to unrighteousness and envy that brought
death into the world.

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Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was
fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drink, and was
enlarged and became fat, and kicked." Hence flowed emulation and envy,
strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity.

So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation
against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young
against those advanced in years.

For this reason righteousness and peace are now far departed from you,
inasmuch as every one abandons the fear of God, and is become blind in
His faith, neither walks in the ordinances of His appointment, nor acts
a part becoming a Christian, but walks after his own wicked lusts,
resuming the practice of an unrighteous and ungodly envy, by which death
itself entered into the world.

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