5. _Witchcraft._ Then comes the sin of witchcraft, or sorcery, which, I believe, includes what is commonly called fortunetelling. It is condemned both in the Old Testament and also in the New Testament. It is a work of the flesh. Friends, if it is wrong to practice the fraud, the craft, the art, (or whatever it is) of fortunetellers, then it’s wrong to patronize them, for when you do so you are giving them both your financial and moral support. 6. _Hatred._ Hatred is a sin of the disposition. It is an attitude of the heart. It is the state of being an enemy. This term describes aversions and antipathies which are opposed to brotherly kindness and love. I’m not sure that these words were intended to be arranged in logical order, but I do believe we can see some sequential significance in the order of the word hatred and the three which follow just as we did in the first four. 7. _Variance._ This word means contentions. It is hatred in action, manifesting itself in contests, altercations, lawsuits, and disputes in general. 8. _Emulations._ This word signifies envious and contentious rivalry or jealousy, which often are associated with hatred and variance. Jealousy is strife to excel at the expense of another. It is destructive, not constructive. When you are jealous you try to pull the other man down in order to get above him. But you can’t do it! In the effort to injure another you sink lower yourself. 9. _Wrath._ This is the climax of the last four words. Wrath is hatred in violent action. It consists of turbulent passions which disturb the harmony of mind and produce domestic and civic broils and disquietudes. (Once I used Jiggs and Maggie of comic strip fame as an example of wrath when they were throwing pots and pans at each other, but someone corrected me by saying that Jiggs never threw any, they all came from the other direction! But anyway the point of the illustration was clear.) When hatred, variance, and jealousy break out into violent action, that’s what is described by the word wrath. Herod’s jealousy became wrath when he killed the babes of Bethlehem in an effort to destroy Jesus.