The Second Greatest Commandment

English Standard Version Chapter 4

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

1. Bullying

Sometimes what comes to our mind when we think about bullying is throwing people into lockers. At the core, of bullying is a simple definition. Pushing someone down so that you can stay up. Often bullying is beating a kid up after school. Bullying is pointing out something that you know will hurt to someone in the friend group to get a laugh from everyone. Bullying is not allowing someone to be apart of the group because there is “not enough room” at the table. Bullying is seeing a friend or classmate mess up and never letting them forget about it.

You see most of us aren’t trying to hurt someone when we say or do these unwholesome acts, we just say and do them so we feel better about ourselves. That we don’t look like that, or act like that, or are into whatever it is.

Its just like when someone who can’t swim gets thrown into the deep end of the pool. Someone that is already in the deep is trying to help them out, but in doing so the drowning individual begins to push the other down under water so that they can stay afloat.

Shadow youth, in Middle School you guys bully one another. This is where most people learn how to bully. Some just call it teasing, and that it is bot a big deal. You see God HATES BULLYING. He hates it so much that the second greatest law he ever gave was:

2. Gossip

3. Disobedience