Neither filthiness nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather the giving of thanks. So here’s what it means to not walk in love. Now Paul was writing to a church that was in the midst of a Roman pagan culture, a very sensual culture, and a and a culture that was, you know, beyond even where we are now, although it seems like our that we are moving, we never seem to stay the same.
So if you live only for the outward things, the problem is it never satisfies, and it never obviously fills the hole that’s on the inside. So you’re caught in a trap. That which initially satisfied me doesn’t do it anymore. And so now I need more. And so the accumulation of things or the vulnerability to addictions or whatever in the flesh, it just grows exponentially out until finally you’re lost.
