This week we are starting a series on both context and showing good fruit in Biblical discussions. Grown-ups on social media often use what they consider to be “sanctioned” insults, but not knowing the context, what they meant, who they were being spoken to and why. They just sound mean and so people use them and make them mean whatever they want. We are going to talk about self-control and what it meant in the ancient world when you “lost it” in a verbal battle and got angry. This teaching will be the longest of the series because we have to cover some basics about showing excess emotion in the Bible world. I will be giving a short lesson on the good and bad about Pharisees and teaching the kids the difference between harmless traditions and the dreaded “traditions of men.”