Ezra 4:15 in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.

Yesterday Ezra was quoted using the word sedition. In the next verse sedition has been replaced with the word dissension. See Galatians 5:20  in the KJV.

Galatians 5:19-21 English Standard Version

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

The editors of the ESV apparently agree with the opinions of the International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia where they say that the word sedition should not have been used.

Allow me to offer up a real world application that we have witnessed ourselves. When the Supreme Court renders an opinion that is less than 100% agreement one justice will write a dissenting opinion. 

Perhaps one reason for removing sedition from a list of works of the flesh is that sedition is closely affiliated with rebellion. Might I offer the opinion that for one to rebel one has to belong to a ruling authority. God will not allow rebellion amongst His children, but he does allow us to have differing opinions.

Revelation 17:17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Agreeing in the spirit is not the same as agreeing in the flesh where it can be found there are dissenting opinions. That allows us to be right with God when we do not understand with perfect clarity the will of God. Dissent only becomes a problem in fellowship when it insists that it is the only right opinion.

1 Corinthians 13:5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

That is not how love acts.

Matthew 26:11a For you always have the poor with you,

That is just the way it is, not that God wants it that way but because that is how the world works.

Matthew 26:8 And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?

A woman took an expensive ointment and anointed our Lord. This was the response of his disciples. Allow me for the moment to shift the conversation from anointing the Lord to how we choose to spend our money.

No matter what we buy, someone is going to get the larger market share of the profits from the sale. Even in those things that are cheap, they could not make it to market without everyone along the supply line eking out a living. Somewhere, someone is getting a larger market share than anyone else. That is just how the market place works.

Who that person or persons are will be hidden from us and we do not make our choices with them in mind. The ones that suffer the most are the ones that are the poorest. They have no choice but to choose the least expensive product just in order to survive.

Our charity will never be enough to erase poverty because the only things available to buy  come from that same marketplace and the same people will get their share.

Jeremiah 9:12 Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

I am beginning to understand why John the Baptist preached in the wilderness where the land was laid waste and there was nothing to be offered there, no market, no buying or selling. Just the free offer of salvation.

Ezra 4:15 in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.

It is not the marketplace that ruins a city but rather sedition.

The truth is found in the records of our fathers. Read, learn and be warned.