{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Kootenai Church Sunday School: Christian Ethics","title":"Christian Ethics and the Old Testament - Lesson 36","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2931,"description":"Is a dirty joke automatically a sin, and is all humor off-limits for Christians? Lesson 36 wraps up the study of the third commandment with three practical topics: filthy talk, humor, and irreverence.\nTeacher Dave Rich works through the Greek behind Paul's lists of prohibited speech in Ephesians 4 and 5 and Colossians 3, unwholesome, filthy, foolish talk, and coarse jesting, and shows from several Old and New Testament examples that the Bible itself uses blunt, even bathroom language when it serves truth and clarity. The real issue is not the word itself but whether speech is truthful, loving, edifying, and appropriate.\nRich then turns to humor, arguing from Scripture's own use of absurd and funny illustrations, gnats and camels, a sluggard too lazy to feed himself, that laughter and wit are not inherently sinful and can even be commanded by God.\nThe lesson closes back at the heart of the third commandment, irreverence, whether in worship songs, careless prayer, casual preaching, or common phrases borrowed from sacred biblical language. Rich challenges listeners to speak, sing, and pray with a settled awareness that they live and speak in the presence of God.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/pmKZxVg_n19nbrImq0T4lKjdqgR3zTENgo36sKvcD1Y/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wZDEw/YTU3MWMxZjYwNzAz/OGE4Y2ZiYTc4OTY5/MGExYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}