BITTERNESS THE CAUSE OF CANCER
1. Bitterness Deadens Our Senses, Our Ability To Feel
Proverbs 5:4, NIV – “but in the end she is bitter as gall…”
2. Bitterness Kills Our Soul
Job 21:25, NIV – (25) Another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.
3. Bitterness Is Contagious, Like A Plague
Hebrews 12:15, NIV – “(15) See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.”
4. Bitter People Attract Each Other Like Magnets
Lamentations 3:5, NIV – “He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.”
Proverbs 22:24-25, NIV – “(24) Do not make friends with a hottempered man, do not associate with one easily angered, (25) or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared.”
5. Bitter People Tend To Wander Through Life
Luke 24:13-14, NIV – (13) Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. (14) They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.
Emmaus was known as a place of hot mineral springs, or “bitter springs”, and so Emmaus is symbolic of a bitter place, that 2 discouraged men were wandering to
6. Bitterness Will Impair Your Vision, And Cause You To See Things Inaccurately
Luke 24:15-16, NIV – (15) As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; (16) but they were kept from recognizing him.
Jeremiah 17:5-6, NIV – (5) This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD. (6) He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity [a good or beneficial thing] when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.”
7. Bitterness Affects Your Countenance
Luke 24:17, NIV – He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their faces downcast.
8. Bitterness Causes Cynicism
Luke 24:18, NIV – One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
9. Bitterness Causes Presumption
People don’t decide to become bitter, they become bitter because of their false or wrong conclusions
Bitterness is actually a sign that you don’t get it, that you don’t understand
