and injury for the sheer joy of inflicting it. “I loved to make them squirm. I loved to watch them cry. I loved to see them removed from this earth!” We don’t usually think of Paul in these terms, but that’s the way he describes himself before Christ. And lest you cluck your tongue at Paul or wag your finger and say, “Shame, shame,” realize that the same nature is inside of you. It may not work its way out in these kinds of actions, but it comes out in other ways. Most of us can remember acts of