naughty

Are you "naughty"? Does being naughty sound like fun to you? Are you worthless? Does being worthless, does doing something worthless, sound like fun to you?

Naughty means "for naught", or for nothing, or worthless.

Still sound like fun?

Let's say it a different way...

You KNOW what you SHOULD be doing.

Are you doing it? Or are you doing something "naughty" or worthless?

Naughty means 0 (zero), lost, ruined, worthless, useless, or no importance...

There are many times where Jesus taught about seperating the good from the worthless.

The "worthless", the "weeds" are worthless, are weeds, by choice. The "worthy" (the beneficial plants) end up in heaven (the harvest) while the "worthless" (the weeds and the tares) end up in the dung heap, the garbage hill, in hell!

Matthew 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest.
At that time I will tell the harvesters:
First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”

Matthew 13:40-43
“As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age.
The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
He who has ears, let him hear.

Do you take pride in being "naughty"? Think being naughty is fun?
Do you think that God thinks being "naughty" is fun?

2 Timothy 3:6-7
They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women,
who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.

It seems that God doesn't think being naughty is fun.
God thinks that naughty (worthless) women are "weak-willed" instead of "fun".
God thinks that the worthless men that take advantage of worthless women are "loaded down with sins" and "are swayed by all kinds of evil desires".

The statement "always learning bu never able to acknowledge the truth" means nothing short of stupid.
So, men who enjoy naughty women are stupid!

Wow! Fun times?!?

James 4:17

Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

Want to see it again?

New International Version (©1984)
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

International Standard Version (©2008)
Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Whoever knows what is right but doesn't do it is sinning.

King James Bible
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

American King James Version
Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

American Standard Version
To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Bible in Basic English
The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To him therefore who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.

Darby Bible Translation
To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

English Revised Version
To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Weymouth New Testament
If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.

World English Bible
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

Young's Literal Translation
to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

Most people seem to think that they are doing good by NOT doing sin, but in reality, you can sin by sinning, but you can also sin by not doing the good you know you ought to do.
Doing worthless things is sinful.
Doing worthless things in the place of good things is sin.

One of my favorite maxims is "What you feed, grows."

If you feed the worthless (naughty) portions of your life, your worthlessness increases, stealing the space of good things.

So, does being naughty or worthless or for naught, still sound fun?

"Oh, she's just SO naughty!", really means "Oh, she's just SO worthless!"
That "naughty" valentine you just sent is a "worthless valentine", that "naughty" behavior is really "worthless" behavior.

Are you starting to get it?

I purposely chose gray for the color of this web page. Most people seem to think that the gradation between black and white is a great wide area, and that it is impossible to differentiate between different shades of gray. They may be right. That's not really the point though, is it? As Christians, we are not only called to NOT live in black, but also not to live in gray!

As I have said before, when a married man decides to take one of his coworkers out for a drink that is a woman, that's not bad is it? Yes! It is bad because it is dangerous. The last step of this mistake was caused by the first step. There are thousands of ways for us to get into spiritual trouble. Nearly all of them, however, start out with a "gray area", but the results are far from gray! Is it illegal? No, but murdering your unborn baby isn't illegal anymore either. The activities that are still illegal are shrinking every day and that is common knowledge. But many activities that are illegal still today, are not enforced by the police. If they are enforced, the liberal judges reduce the sentences to such a degree that the sentence is no longer a deterrent. Perhaps having a drink with a coworker of the opposite sex is not the end of the world, but having too many drinks, getting drunk, and having a sexual relationship with a woman other than your wife is a serious issue though. Adultery is the number one cause of divorce. The Bible is quite clear on this topic also. God HATES divorce! Is it still a trivial matter that God hates your behavior? Is this behavior still only naughty? Is it cute? Is it exciting? Or is it just worthless?

1 Corinthians 6:12 “Everything is permissible for me”—but not everything is beneficial.
“Everything is permissible for me”—but I will not be mastered by anything.

I often ask people who they think will be in heaven. It is interesting to note that many people believe in heaven but they don't believe in hell. Sounds stupid to me, but they believe it anyway... at least they say they do. Most of the time I ask this question, people respond with... "Well, I guess good people will go to heaven, and bad people will go to hell." I then ask if they consider themselves good. They almost always say yes.

Titus 1:15-16 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure.
In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him.
They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.

A naughty person—literally, “a man of Belial,” i. e., a worthless man (see the Deut. 13:13 note). This is the portrait of the man who is not to be trusted, whose look and gestures warn against him all who can observe. His speech is tortuous and crafty; his wink tells the accomplice that the victim is already snared; his gestures with foot and hand are half in deceit, and half in mockery.

Barnes Notes on the Old Testament.

We must be careful when reading the word "naughty" in the Bible NOT to assume this word means slightly evil, or just bad enough to be fun, or only slightly bad. This word means worthless, and NOT worthy of heaven! The Book of Hosea is speaking of a "worthless generation" not a generation that likes to have fun. Are we living amongst a modern-day "worthless generation"?

Proverbs 17:4 says "A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Are we giving ear to a worthless tongue when we listen to the popular voices of OUR day? I believe in many cases this is a big YES!

Do an experiment for the next week. Ask people if doing something "naughty" will interfere with their future plans in heaven. I doubt that you will find anyone that will answer yes. It is strange, but doing something naughty seems to be the gray area between good and evil, just as this page is somewhere between white and black.

Chaka Khan has an album on Amazon called "Naughty". Naughty.com is an "adult based" search engine on the internet. There is a "Naughty" skate and clothing company. Recently, a local smut store had an advertising special for "naughty valentines". The popular culture seems to embrace being "naughty" as cute, sensual, appealing, exciting and fun. It is though?

I have often read various written pieces that contain the word "naughty" and wondered about it. Yesterday I read a strange piece that was ranting about how the book of Revelation should not have been included in the Bible and how people that believe in a world-wide apocalypse were shamelessly arrogant because they wondered if the world would end "in my lifetime". Yet, this same writer can't see his own shameless arrogance in dismissing a book that has long been considered a part of the Bible for thousands of years, because he personally didn't like it.

One surprising part of this paper was that he stated that Gomorrah was a "naughty" city.

I find it strange that anyone could reduce the consequences of total destruction by God to such a simple and mindless term as "naughty".

This isn't the first time I've seen this term used in a way that grinds against my spirit though. It seems that if someone does something that goes against one's own moral code, one finds that to be a "sin". But if someone does something that one finds less offensive, than we reduce the severity of that action to something we call naughty. I've seen naughty valentine's day cards. I've seen naughty nighties, naughty children, even naughty stores that sell naughty items. We (as a people) seem to be able to trivialize sin to such a degree that we even expect that we can't have fun without a certain amount of "naughtiness" to spice up our lives. Does naughtiness really spice up our lives though? Or is naughtiness really sinfulness, and rather than spicing up our lives, does it destroy them instead?

Man is not the determiner of what sin is, God alone determines this. If God determines that something is sinful, we certainly should not reduce the importance of this designation by calling it something as silly as naughty!

2 entries found for naughty.naugh·ty (nôt)

adj. naugh·ti·er, naugh·ti·est

Behaving disobediently or mischievously: a naughty child.
Indecent; improper: a naughty wink.
Archaic. Wicked; immoral.

n. pl. naugh·ties

One that is naughty.

[Middle English noughti, wicked, from nought, nothing, evil, from Old English nwiht, nothing. See naught.]

naughti·ly adv.
naughti·ness n.

Word History: The word naughty at one time was an all-purpose word similar to bad. During the 16th century one could use naughty to mean “unhealthy, unpleasant, bad (with respect to weather), vicious (of an animal), inferior, or bad in quality” (one could say “very naughtie figes” or “naughty corrupt water”). All of these senses have disappeared, however, and naughty is now used mainly in contexts involving mischief or indecency. This recalls its early days in Middle English (with the form noughti), when the word was restricted to the senses “evil, hostile, ineffectual, and needy.” Middle English noughti, first recorded in the last quarter of the 14th century, was derived from nought, which primarily meant “nothing” but was also used as a noun meaning “evil” and as an adjective meaning such things as “immoral, weak, useless.” Thus naughty, in a sense, has risen from nothing, but its fortunes used to be better than they are at present.

naughty

adj 1: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" [syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, racy, risque, spicy] 2: badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy" [syn: mischievous]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/naughty

Just as the Catholic church invented "purgatory" as a place between heaven and hell, popular culture has reinvented the word "naughty" to mean a type of activity or a way of thinking that is between good and bad, between righteousness and evil, and ultimately between heaven and hell, much like purgatory. The difference is that people earnestly seek to escape purgatory, but they have no intention of escaping "naughty" at all. In fact, they search for naughty things.

Naughty, originally meant worthless. For naught. For nothing. Simply renaming something that is offensive to God in no way reduces or eliminates the consequences of so called naughty actions. Renaming porno movies "blue movies", "adult movies" , or claiming that they are for "mature audiences" in no way reduces their affront to morality. Adult entertainment has nothing to do with maturity unless one considers it mature to ignore morality and one's final destination after this life is done.

Popular culture would have us believe that good is boring, but that evil is also bad, so just be naughty.

I was reading about the man possessed by "legion" demons at the Gaderenes. I found an interesting thing.

The people living at the Gaderenes became angry when they found out that Jesus had cast demons out of the demoniac. They were angry that Jesus had recovered a hopelessly lost person. They were in essence angry that Jesus restored righteousness to their community. I seem to run into this type of insanity all the time. People that want to watch porno on their TV's, or at the local theater, get very angry that there are ANY standards regulating pornography at all. Planned Parenthood gets angry that there are ANY restrictions on abortion at all. They get angry for just mentioning any restrictions on abortion. You can make many people angry simply by living righteous lives. You don't have to talk to them, write to them, or change anything in their lives. All they have to do is see you carrying your Bible to your Church on Sunday. You don't have to do anything other than walk down the public street in front of their house on the way to Church!

It is because they are like the people living at the Gaderenes. They are happy in their sin, in their destroyed lives, in their complete lack of morality. THEY demand freedom, yet are completely willing to destroy all of the freedom you have to live your life in a righteous and godly way.

IS there a benefit of living a "naughty" (for naught, nothing, WORTHLESS) life? Absolutely not!

I enjoy hunting. Because of this I studied the habits of deer. Deer love to eat red acorns. Given the choice, they will eat these over any other food. If red acorns are not available, they will eat white acorns. Their preferences decline to other types of foods depending on what is available. The reason they like these foods in the order in which they do is that they know what they need (instinctively) to prepare for winter. They simply can not afford to eat worthless foods if they want to survive the winter. Bears are similar in that they have specific foods they need to eat in the summer so that they can prepare for the winter. If they do not eat the right kinds of food, they will die in the cold and harsh reality of the winter.

We are much the same. We are on this earth for a short time. Every minute counts. We, as spiritual beings, must digest only the highest quality of spiritual food. We simply can not afford to be ingesting worthless, empty, for naught - "naughty" food or we will not survive this life spiritually intact, and ready for the next life in heaven.

Before you laugh at something someone tells you is "naughty", consider if that thing or those things are really a gray activity, that is... somewhere between black and white to GOD! It doesn't really matter what your personal view is regarding that activity. We are called to run the good race. We are spiritual athletes. We simply don't have time to be entertaining "naughty" things. Not, that is, if we seriously hope to be future citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem!

The worthless are gathered together to be burned!

Luke 12:49
“I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

If we wish to be suitable for a heavenly environment, we must grow spiritually. Spiritual growth requires study, prayer, and righteous living, not participating with sinful behavior simply because some idiot renamed it "naughty".

Amen, Franz Sigel Shroy