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The Third Watch with Gary & Sara: # 10: Words Matter · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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Speaker 1: Greetings listeners of Challenges of Faith Radio. This is co
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Speaker 1: host Sarah Jewel with our host Gary McCants for the
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Speaker 1: third Watch series. Once again, Gary and I are here
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Speaker 1: as watches on the tower, looking out on the horizon,
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Speaker 1: not only to keep ourselves alert to what's going on
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Speaker 1: around us, but to alert you as well, so that
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Speaker 1: we'll all take heed for signs that Jesus is coming.
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Speaker 1: We don't know when, but we want to be ready
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Speaker 1: and alert no matter the timeline. And what does that mean.
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Speaker 1: It means it's time for all of us to get
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Speaker 1: right with God, our Father, and that means to be
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Speaker 1: aware of sinful behavior, our sinful behavior that separates us
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Speaker 1: from God. It means taking an honest look at our words,
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Speaker 1: particularly what we say or even don't say. And so
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Speaker 1: we pray to God, our Father, that the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: enlighten us in these times of conflicting information and disruption
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Speaker 1: that so easily influences us. We ask that you would
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Speaker 1: help us to keep our eyes on You and not
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Speaker 1: on disruptors. Father. We admit we are easily distracted by
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Speaker 1: the social and economic trials swirling around us. But in
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Speaker 1: these current days, we see you at work and believe
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Speaker 1: that you are giving us another opportunity to come to
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Speaker 1: you and to better understand the direction you want us
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Speaker 1: to go into. We ask that you give us the
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Speaker 1: strength to keep the course toward the narrow gate. Yes,
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Speaker 1: we must enter the narrow gate. So please keep us strong, Father,
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Speaker 1: keep us focused, help us tame our tongues, help us
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Speaker 1: recognize those behaviors that are not of you. And we
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Speaker 1: pray that all in Jesus' name listeners, we all know
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Speaker 1: about taking the easy way out. In Matthew chapter twenty four,
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Speaker 1: Jesus warned us of people who will lead us astray,
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Speaker 1: and they will do so on many topics. And what
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Speaker 1: is difficult for us is that some of these people
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Speaker 1: are family, friends, colleagues, and teachers. They believe in their
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Speaker 1: hearts that their particular take on a subject or a
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Speaker 1: situation is correct, while we view it as being against
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Speaker 1: God's directives. Yet at the same time, we might be
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Speaker 1: swayed by their point of view or at least not
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Speaker 1: wanting conflict, we might go along with something we just
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Speaker 1: don't believe in, or we might respond with anger and sarcasm.
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Speaker 1: And here's where we must stop and think, how do
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Speaker 1: we react? What do we say, what's the choice? Is
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Speaker 1: it pleasing people people, angering people, or pleasing God. Think
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Speaker 1: of the apostle Paul when he writes in Galatians, chapter one,
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Speaker 1: verse ten, for am I now seeking the approval of
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Speaker 1: Man or of God? Or I am trying to please Man?
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Speaker 1: If I were still trying to please Man, I would
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Speaker 1: not be a servant of Christ. Admittedly, it's sometimes difficult
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Speaker 1: when you're trying to maintain good relations with others, especially
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Speaker 1: family and friends, and if we're not clear on what
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Speaker 1: God wants or expects, it makes it more difficult. But
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Speaker 1: often we know what God would expect of us, and
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Speaker 1: we don't do it. We take the easy way out,
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Speaker 1: less conflict and an easier gait to go through. Here's
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Speaker 1: an example. Many years ago, I was at a gathering
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Speaker 1: with some friends and a couple I didn't know. The
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Speaker 1: host was bringing out different types of alcohol for the occasion,
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Speaker 1: and some people took a beer or a wine, but
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Speaker 1: soft drinks were offered to the man I didn't know
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Speaker 1: told the host he'd been sober for about fifteen years.
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Speaker 1: I congratulated him, and I told him I hadn't been
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Speaker 1: drinking myself for several years, and I grabbed a coke
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Speaker 1: because the man was eyeing the wine. The host, who
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Speaker 1: happened to be pouring wine for the man's wife, asked
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Speaker 1: him if he wanted a glass. The man looked at
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Speaker 1: it longingly and started convincing himself. Why not one? He said,
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Speaker 1: I've been thinking about having the occasional glass. Why not?
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Speaker 1: Now the host had the glass ready, holding it up.
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Speaker 1: I was distressed because all it takes is for one drink,
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Speaker 1: and those fifteen years could go down the drain. But
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Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. I didn't want to embarrass him
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Speaker 1: or put the host on the spot. He just walked away.
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Speaker 1: We left shortly after, so I don't know if he
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Speaker 1: ultimately caved in and had a glass of wine. But
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Speaker 1: you see, listeners, I'm the perfect example of not helping
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Speaker 1: someone who was in need. I didn't speak up. The
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Speaker 1: man was an alcoholic. I should have had the courage
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Speaker 1: to warn him that even one glass wasn't a good idea,
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Speaker 1: but I didn't. I didn't say anything. Now would it
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Speaker 1: have made a difference if I said something. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but God knows, and at least it would have been
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Speaker 1: an attempt on my part to dissuade the man from
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Speaker 1: drinking and possibly losing nearly fifteen years of sobriety. When
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Speaker 1: I came across Proverbs three, verse twenty, it hit me directly,
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Speaker 1: and this is what the scripture reads. Do not withhold
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Speaker 1: good from those to whom it is due when it
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Speaker 1: is in your power to act. I simply didn't act
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Speaker 1: for fear of making for an uncomfortable moment. I was
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Speaker 1: more afraid of saying truth that could be viewed as
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Speaker 1: none of my business or sanctimonious which would have displeased
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Speaker 1: my host, or my words could have been viewed as
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Speaker 1: being critical of a potential new friend, and certainly of
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Speaker 1: a guest. So frankly, I was thinking of myself and
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Speaker 1: not thinking about anyone's overall well being. But more importantly,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't thinking about what God would have me do.
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Speaker 1: In Micah chapter six, verse eight, the prophet rights, he
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Speaker 1: has told you, old man, what is good and what
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Speaker 1: does the Lord require of you? But to do justice
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Speaker 1: and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.
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Speaker 1: Looking back, I realize silence is not always the answer.
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Speaker 1: In that situation. I should have viewed going to the
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Speaker 1: man's side the kindness by offering words of wisdom. Now
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Speaker 1: when we speak, it's about caution and about being mindful
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Speaker 1: of what comes out of our mouths. Is it of God?
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Speaker 1: If so, we can more easily follow God's intent for
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Speaker 1: how we interact with people, family, friends, or strangers. The
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Speaker 1: key I believe is being mindful by referring always to
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Speaker 1: God's teachings and his commandments, His word will be the
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Speaker 1: light on our path as we move through on charted territory.
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Speaker 1: Now you've heard this many times. It's Psaw one nineteen,
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Speaker 1: verse one oh five, and it reads, your word is
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Speaker 1: a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
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Speaker 1: So you see, it's about not only being alert to
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Speaker 1: God's guidance, but following it, not tripping up by saying
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Speaker 1: something we regret. Words and actions have consequences. How many
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Speaker 1: times have you heard that phrase? And we've all had
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Speaker 1: words that have come out of our mouths that we regret,
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Speaker 1: even though we might apologize for them and the recipient
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Speaker 1: might forgive, who really forgets? I think few do. And yes,
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Speaker 1: it's also tempting in our disagreement with others to get sarcastic,
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Speaker 1: mean spirited and righteous whip bombarded with that type of
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Speaker 1: talk about our day, it seems almost normal. All we
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Speaker 1: have to do is scroll through our news feeds of
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Speaker 1: social media. It's loaded with gossip, criticisms, judgments, and even
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Speaker 1: slander and lies, commentators, influencers, and yes, even us regular people.
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Speaker 1: We can get heated and pop off at someone who
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Speaker 1: presents some idea, trend, or political view that we disagree with.
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Speaker 1: It's truly important that we should reach out and pay
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Speaker 1: attention to what's going on. It's important that we should
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Speaker 1: all be watchers on the tower, keeping a lookout for
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Speaker 1: confrontational situations and reach out to those people in a
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Speaker 1: more kind and understanding way, because in identifying potential quarrelsome conditions,
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Speaker 1: it prepares us in how to react to as being
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Speaker 1: one of God's children, not a child out of the
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Speaker 1: world where a sharp retort is often praised for quickness
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Speaker 1: and the sting. Again scroll through social media, people applaud
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Speaker 1: sharp remarks, but make no mistake, God zeroes in on
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Speaker 1: means spirited talk. In Matthew chapter fifteen, verse eighteen, Jesus
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Speaker 1: is very clear when he says, but the things that
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Speaker 1: come out of a person's mouth come from the heart
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Speaker 1: and these defile them. Words do emanate from our hearts,
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Speaker 1: often from our untamed emotions. What we say is so critical,
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Speaker 1: and it's true. We must speak truthfully, but at the
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Speaker 1: same time kindly and with care. In the Book of
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Speaker 1: James three verse six, the apostle writes, the tongue also
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Speaker 1: is a fire, a world of evil among the parts
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Speaker 1: of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the
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Speaker 1: whole course of one's life on fire, and it is
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Speaker 1: itself set on fire by hell. And in verse nine,
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Speaker 1: James continues, with the tongue, we praise our Lord and Father,
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Speaker 1: and with it we curse human beings who have been
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Speaker 1: made in God's likeness. And all of us have been
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Speaker 1: on both sides of painful words. I always pray Psal fourteen,
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Speaker 1: verse one, set a guard o Lord over my mouth,
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Speaker 1: keep watch over the door of my lips. Because I
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Speaker 1: am human and fleshly responses rise up. I personally need
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Speaker 1: the strength of the Holy Spirit to shut me down
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Speaker 1: when I get aggravated. Unfortunately for us, all of us,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of scripture warning us about how we speak.
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Speaker 1: We know our words can bring comfort, peace, respect, love.
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Speaker 1: We can make a long list of what our words
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Speaker 1: can bring to people's hearts, but our words can also
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Speaker 1: cause intense grief. Even war, ridicule, and hatred. Words have
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Speaker 1: incredible power, power to heal, and power to destroy. In
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Speaker 1: my research for this podcast, I came across too interesting
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Speaker 1: and of course well known people where words change the
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Speaker 1: course of people's lives. The first is Martin Luther King's
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Speaker 1: I Have a Dream speech. One notable line is I
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Speaker 1: have a dream that one day this nation will rise
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Speaker 1: up and live out the true meaning of its creed.
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Speaker 1: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all
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Speaker 1: men are created equal. And here's another speech. You'll all
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Speaker 1: remember the great king nebe Canezza where he boasted, Is
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Speaker 1: this not great Babylon which I have built by my
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Speaker 1: mighty power as a royal residence for the glory of
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Speaker 1: my majesty. You can find that in the Book of
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Speaker 1: Daniel four verse thirty. Let's look at the results of
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Speaker 1: these two speeches. In Martin Luther King's speech, he hopes
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Speaker 1: in a nation that all men are equal, a positive, hopeful,
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Speaker 1: and uplifting speech that includes all people. Now, in this
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Speaker 1: day and age, we are not a perfect nation. But
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Speaker 1: if we have come so far in equality and in fairness.
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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what God has blessed our nation
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Speaker 1: with hope as we move forward in this new administration
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Speaker 1: of the year twenty twenty five. King Nebuknezza's speech he
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Speaker 1: brags only about himself, not his people, and certainly not
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Speaker 1: giving God any acknowledgment of his success and blessings. Well,
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Speaker 1: needless to say, God was not pleased. Let me read
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Speaker 1: you from the Book of Daniel, chapter four, verses thirty
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Speaker 1: one through thirty two. This is in response to the
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Speaker 1: king speech. They fell a voice from heaven, O King
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Speaker 1: nebu Canezza to you. It is spoken, the kingdom has
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Speaker 1: departed from you, and you shall be driven from among men,
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Speaker 1: and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field,
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Speaker 1: and yet shall be made to eat grass like an ox.
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Speaker 1: In seven periods of time shall pass over you. Until
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Speaker 1: you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of
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Speaker 1: men and gives it to whom he will to see. Friends,
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Speaker 1: God takes words to his heart, and we are responsible
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Speaker 1: for our own words as much as Martin Luther, King
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Speaker 1: or King Nebukanezza. And here's another observation, how do our
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Speaker 1: words align with our actions. In the Book of First John,
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Speaker 1: Chapter three, verse eighteen, the apostle writes, did children, let
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Speaker 1: us not love with words or tongue, but with actions
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Speaker 1: and in truth. What James is saying here is that
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Speaker 1: people won't believe what someone says unless they live it,
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Speaker 1: unless that person who is speaking those words actually live
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Speaker 1: those words. Now, two things to think about. Are we
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Speaker 1: living our words? Are we hateful in speech and then
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Speaker 1: out in hate and arrogance? Or are we loving in
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Speaker 1: speech and consequently behaving in kindness and in humility? Or
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Speaker 1: are we hypocrites? Are we telling people one thing but
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Speaker 1: acting in an entirely different way. Are we taking the
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Speaker 1: path of least resistance like I did, keeping quiet, not
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Speaker 1: standing for anything only with the thought of pleasing people,
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Speaker 1: whether it is against God's will or not. You know,
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Speaker 1: we're living in an environment where we know so much
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Speaker 1: of the world. We are connected and exposed to so
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Speaker 1: many different political, religious, social and economic beliefs, in attitudes,
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Speaker 1: in different levels of power. It's easy to get caught
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Speaker 1: up in the latest bit of information. Where and when
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Speaker 1: do we take a stand on the side of God?
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Speaker 1: And we don't have to question what the side of
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Speaker 1: God might be It's all in his word, and our
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Speaker 1: leanings are in our words, our speech. Speech that won't
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Speaker 1: selfishly vindicate ourselves or ridicule or hurt someone, speech that
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Speaker 1: won't cause us to lie or even lie by omission. Listen,
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Speaker 1: as time is getting short for all of us to
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Speaker 1: concentrate on truths, humility and the word of God will
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Speaker 1: keep us in line with our Lord's teaching. We want
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Speaker 1: to be spiritually prepared for when our time comes, and
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Speaker 1: we don't know when that will be. We might be
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Speaker 1: taken before Jesus comes back. Well, Gary and I are
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Speaker 1: on the tower. We invite you to join us to
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Speaker 1: see up close and on the horizon that words matter.
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Speaker 1: I'll leave you with two scriptures. This is from the
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Speaker 1: Book of James, chapter four, verse eleven. James writes, don't
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Speaker 1: speak evil against each other, dear brothers and sisters. If
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Speaker 1: you criticize and judge each other, then you are criticizing
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Speaker 1: and judging God. And from the Book of Matthew, chapter twelve,
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Speaker 1: verses thirty six to thirty seven, Matthew writes, this is
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Speaker 1: Jesus speaking. I tell you, on the day of judgment,
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Speaker 1: people will give account for every careless word they speak.
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Speaker 1: For by your words you will be justified. My friends,
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Speaker 1: I encourage you to read the Bible. I encourage you
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Speaker 1: to lean on God's word because that's where we find direction,
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Speaker 1: hope and solutions. So I thank you, my friends, and
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Speaker 1: of course a huge thanks to Gary mccantz, who's producer
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Speaker 1: and creator of Challenges of Faith Radio and also as
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Speaker 1: many broadcasts and who is also the host of the
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Speaker 1: Third Watch series. And if you would like to reach out,
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Speaker 1: you can email me at Team of God at earthlink
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Speaker 1: dot net. And so, my friends and listeners, I thank
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Speaker 1: you all, and I thank you Gary, and many many blessings.
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Speaker 2: Thanks as usual, Sarah, great, great, great message, especially about
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Speaker 2: taking a stand and words mattering. And thank you for
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Speaker 2: returning to Challenges of a radio program and lending your
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Speaker 2: powerful voice as my co host. Especially let's be prepared
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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five. Welcome back to Challenges of Faith
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Speaker 2: Radio program the Third Watch. We are discussing how words
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Speaker 2: matter one to acknowledge God, and you are listeners. There's
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Speaker 2: a little door that everyone can close, and that's the
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Speaker 2: little door just under your nose. Over in James chapter one,
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Speaker 2: verse twenty six, the word not geary if any man
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Speaker 2: among you, woman as well seemed to be religious and
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Speaker 2: bright off not his tongue, but to see this his
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Speaker 2: own heart, this man's a woman's religion is vain. If
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Speaker 2: you haven't had a chance to look in the Book
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Speaker 2: of James, you'll find that it causes both believers and
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Speaker 2: non believers to be afraid. And that Sarah was talking.
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Speaker 2: I made the inventory of my own sojourned. I'm not
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Speaker 2: saying something. You know, we believers dismissed the Epistle of
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Speaker 2: James as being unimportant. Think about it, John as the
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Speaker 2: Gospel of love, and it appeals to our hearts and minds,
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Speaker 2: and Romans and Galatians in electual wives. That presents the
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Speaker 2: great doctrines of the faith, and that appeals to our heads.
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Speaker 2: And then you got Ephesians and Collitions that go to
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Speaker 2: the heights with spiritual troops. And we like that, you
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Speaker 2: know you do. And then in the Epistle to the Hebrews,
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Speaker 2: it goes deeper than any other than the New Testament
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Speaker 2: or the Old Testament. But James, when you look at James,
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Speaker 2: do you notice how unappealing it is And the reason
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Speaker 2: why it is because it contains Christine can stays pious proverbs,
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Speaker 2: but that you also know is written by the half
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Speaker 2: brother of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ over in
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Speaker 2: Mark chapter three, verse seventeen, that says, do you know
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Speaker 2: what he said? You sure? Do you notice that James
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Speaker 2: was written by one of the sons of Thunders, or
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Speaker 2: by James, the brother of John. But it wasn't. It
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Speaker 2: was written by James, who was the half brother of
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Speaker 2: our Lord. And you remember Mary had other children as well.
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Speaker 2: In Matthew, the question was asked of our Lord, is
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Speaker 2: not this the carpenter's son. Is not his mother called Mary?
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Speaker 2: And his brethren James and Joseph and Simon and Judas
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Speaker 2: and his sisters? Are they not all with us? Matthew
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Speaker 2: thirteen fifty five and verse fifty six. Did you know
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Speaker 2: that Mary had four of the sons, and the one
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Speaker 2: who was probably next to our Lord in age was James.
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Speaker 2: It's that James who wrote this epistle, the Epistle of James.
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Speaker 2: And do you notice when you get into it, it's
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Speaker 2: a lesson and humility. Think about it. If Our Savior
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Speaker 2: had been your half brother, your half brother, your half brother,
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Speaker 2: could you have written four or five chapters and not
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Speaker 2: have mentioned it? If I had been the Lord's half brother,
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Speaker 2: I would have let everybody on this planet know in
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Speaker 2: some casual or you ready humble way. James didn't do that.
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Speaker 2: If had he called himself a servant of God and
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Speaker 2: of the Lord Jesus Christ. Over in James Chapter one,
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Speaker 2: verse one, James would have said with Paul, I know
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Speaker 2: him no longer after the flesh. He's my Lord and
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Speaker 2: my Savior, as you can see in Second Corins in
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Speaker 2: chapter five, verse sixteen. But James was also the head
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Speaker 2: of the church in Jerusalem. Over in Acts, chapter fifteen,
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Speaker 2: it records the great Counselor that was held at Jerusalem.
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Speaker 2: I know you wrote it down, and after Paul and
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Speaker 2: Barnabas and as a converted Pharisees and Peter had spoken,
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Speaker 2: Ben James do it all to a conclusion and formulated
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Speaker 2: the opinion of the group, the Holy Spirit's opinion. Do
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Speaker 2: you notice how James was also a great man of prayer.
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Speaker 2: In fact, he was called old Camblnes, and the reason
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Speaker 2: was because he spent so much time on his knees
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Speaker 2: praying that they became stiff and callous. That's to James
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Speaker 2: who wrote this epistle. James was the one who wrote
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Speaker 2: the first book in the New Testament. James had the
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Speaker 2: same subject in his epistle that Paul did, justification by faith.
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Speaker 2: And when James wrote, he was saying men are justified
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Speaker 2: by works, not the works of the law, but the
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Speaker 2: works of faith. And you notice how he wrote from
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Speaker 2: man's viewpoint. And when God sees us, he sees our hearts,
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Speaker 2: and he knows whether we have saving faith. But what
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Speaker 2: men and women see is they don't see our hearts.
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Speaker 2: They see the works of faith. And James said, if
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Speaker 2: the work of faith is not there, brother, you're not saved.
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Speaker 2: And Paul would agree with him, But Paul said practically
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Speaker 2: the same thing. Therefore they have the same subject. And
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Speaker 2: since our faith is so important, you know it is,
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Speaker 2: don't you think we should test it to see whether
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Speaker 2: or not it's genuine. So laying the groundwork as Sarah
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Speaker 2: has done, let's take a look at the tongue and
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Speaker 2: see whether our faith is genuine or not. Because he's
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Speaker 2: talking here about going through a religious service.
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Speaker 1: Is that you.
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Speaker 2: If he seems to be religious and bright of not
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Speaker 2: his tongue, but deceive of his own heart, it's really
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Speaker 2: then he may be sincere, but he's deceiving his own heart.
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Speaker 2: This man's religion is vain, meaning it's empty. Think about
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Speaker 2: our formality of going through a ritual. It doesn't worth
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Speaker 2: anything if our tongue it's not under control. And you
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Speaker 2: got to remember the tongue that is what lists man
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Speaker 2: man is not an inarticulate animal and he's not a
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Speaker 2: man can put thoughts into words, express themselves and be understood.
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Speaker 2: It's by the tongue that you and I communicate on
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Speaker 2: the highest level. You remember, it's said that the average
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Speaker 2: I taking the person ear, there's thirty thousand words every day.
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Speaker 2: Did you know that why you were communicating all those words?
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Speaker 2: And why you're communicating? Do you notice our tongues give
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Speaker 2: us away? Do you notice how the tongue identify you
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Speaker 2: and I? Oh, and by the way it betrays us
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Speaker 2: as well. Remember that this is the thing the little
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Speaker 2: maid said to Simon Peter Over in Matthew chapter twenty sixth,
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Speaker 2: first seventy three. I know you wrote it down, but
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Speaker 2: she said, thy speech betray a fee. Think about it.
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Speaker 2: Our tongue tells where we came from. It tells whether
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Speaker 2: or not we are ignorant, educated, culture or crewe, clean
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Speaker 2: or unclean, guilty or not guilty. It tells whether or
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Speaker 2: not we are a believer or blasphem. And it tells
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Speaker 2: of paper or non believer. Our tongue gives us away.
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Speaker 2: Do he knows how James dealt with the unbridled and
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Speaker 2: unrestrained tongue. Remember when James Chapter three, verse three, Behold,
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Speaker 2: we put bits in the horse's mouth that they may be,
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Speaker 2: that they may obey us, and we turn about their
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Speaker 2: whole body. And the Psalm has said in Psalm thirty two,
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Speaker 2: verse nine, bee not like the horse or like the mule,
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Speaker 2: they have no understanding whose mouth must be held in
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Speaker 2: with bit and bridle unless they come near unto the
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Speaker 2: David also wrote in the Psalms, I said I would
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Speaker 2: take heed to my ways, that I said, not with
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Speaker 2: my tongue. I would keep my mouth with a bridle
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Speaker 2: while the wicked is before me, Psalm thirty nine one.
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Speaker 2: In other words, David, because he wanted to give the
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Speaker 2: right kind of testimony, he would put a bridle, a
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Speaker 2: bridle on his mouth. David was so afraid that he
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Speaker 2: would say something that would hurt his God, that he prayed,
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Speaker 2: set a watch, oh Lord, before my mouth, keep the
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Speaker 2: door of my lips. And you can see that in
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Speaker 2: Psalm one forty one, verse three. If you heard the
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Speaker 2: story that somebody has said that it takes a baby,
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Speaker 2: that little baby two years to learn to talk, and
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Speaker 2: fifty years to learn to be quiet. And then there's
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Speaker 2: another story told of a man could have been a woman,
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Speaker 2: but I haven't been a man who was fishing, and
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Speaker 2: the lady came up to him again, scolding him. She said,
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Speaker 2: aren't you ashamed of yourself of catching a poor little fish.
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Speaker 2: The man didn't even look up. He said, lady, maybe
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Speaker 2: you're right, but if this fish they kept his mouth shut,
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Speaker 2: it would not have been caught. Our tongue is like
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Speaker 2: a runaway horse. And James said that the bits of
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Speaker 2: a bridle that'll put into the mouth of a horse
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Speaker 2: are very small, but they'll hold a horse in check
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Speaker 2: and keep them from running away. Somebody has said, you
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Speaker 2: know they have that the mind, and that little powerful
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Speaker 2: mind of our starts to tongue the wagon and then
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Speaker 2: a runaway horse, and only the spirit of God can't
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Speaker 2: control it. Like Sarah had mentioned, our Lord said, out
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Speaker 2: of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaker every
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Speaker 2: idle word that men and women shall speak. They shall
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Speaker 2: give an account of it in the day of judgment.
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Speaker 2: Matthew chapter twelve, verse thirty four and thirty sick as
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Speaker 2: I take a sip of my water, as we read,
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Speaker 2: keep thy heart with all diligence. But out of it
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Speaker 2: are the issues of life. Proverbs chapter four, verse twenty three.
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Speaker 2: We've been the household of faith, and those of you
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Speaker 2: who don't know him. If you God has listening to you,
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Speaker 2: and he's listen to me. He heard that whispered conspiracy,
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Speaker 2: He heard that word of slander. Out of the abundance
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Speaker 2: of the heart the mouth speaks. It tells you are
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Speaker 2: even James n changes his figure of speech from a
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Speaker 2: horse to a ship. Behold all the ships, which, though
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Speaker 2: they are so great and are driven by fierce winds,
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Speaker 2: generally turned about with a very small hem rudder wherever
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Speaker 2: the pilot will us. And that's in James chapter three,
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Speaker 2: verse four. Think about it. A bad storm is going
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Speaker 2: to drive a ship, but that little old rudder can
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Speaker 2: control it. Our tongue is a little rudder. It can
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Speaker 2: change the course of our lives. Think about the people
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Speaker 2: have had their reputations room because somebody says something they
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Speaker 2: of damage. Think about that tongue is more dangerous than
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Speaker 2: a runaway horse or a hurricane. The Holy Spirit of
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Speaker 2: God is the bridle for the tongue. And as we
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Speaker 2: shall see, the Holy Spirit a lung can control the
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Speaker 2: tongue of you and me too. And while the Word
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Speaker 2: of God condemned this and that, for every verse that
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Speaker 2: you'll show me in the Word of God, I'll show
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Speaker 2: you one hundred verses with the misuse of the tongue.
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Speaker 2: It's condemned. I believe that the tongue is doing more
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Speaker 2: damage in this world and hurting humans more than anything else.
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Speaker 2: It's far more dangerous in those dangerous bombs out there.
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Speaker 2: And as a writer of Ecclesiastics says, suffer not thy
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Speaker 2: mouth to cause thy flesh the stick Ecclesiasts, Chapter five,
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Speaker 2: verse six, and then Paul speaks of the fact that
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Speaker 2: one of the marks of sinners, of that with their
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Speaker 2: tongues they have used deceit. The poison of ass is
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Speaker 2: under their lips. Romans, Chapter three, verse thirteen. And the
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Speaker 2: question you got to ask and answers. Have you ever
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Speaker 2: looked at snakes? Yes, snakes who are carrying enough poison
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Speaker 2: to kill an army? Have you? But we too can
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Speaker 2: look into a mirror and take out our little tongue
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Speaker 2: and guess what we're gonna see. We're gonna see something
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Speaker 2: more dangerous than any fang fag than any serpent ever have.
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Speaker 2: Think about it, for a serpent can kill only the body,
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Speaker 2: But you and I have a tongue that can destroy
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Speaker 2: personality and destroy lives. Look inside your place of worship,
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Speaker 2: Look inside the political world, every respective where you live
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Speaker 2: it around the globe. You know, God says he hates it.
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Speaker 2: These six things as the Lord hate yeay seven are
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Speaker 2: an abomination under him, a proud look, a lying tongue,
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Speaker 2: and hands that shed innocent blood. Over in proverb Kaptysis,
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Speaker 2: Perse sixteen through seventeen, you notice he puts his hatred
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Speaker 2: for a lying tongue. To do you put other topics
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Speaker 2: ahead of what God has put the tongue can be
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Speaker 2: absolutely unbridled, and when it is, the heart is not
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Speaker 2: Christian or controlled by a Christian. An unbridled tongue is
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Speaker 2: evidence of a person who may not know the Lord.
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Speaker 2: But do you notice how James addresses the uncontrolled tongue.
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Speaker 2: He says, in the tongue is a fire a world
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Speaker 2: of iniquity, So is the tongue among our members. That
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Speaker 2: is to foul up the whole body. Instead of on fire,
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Speaker 2: the courtse of nature and it's set on fire of hell.
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Speaker 2: Chapter three, verse six. Think about it. When you think
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Speaker 2: about fire, do you notice that when it's under control,
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Speaker 2: it warms our body, it cuts our food, it heats
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Speaker 2: our homes. But when the house is on fire, it
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Speaker 2: is sad. Because when fire is under control, it generates
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Speaker 2: power to put in most in the wills of an
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Speaker 2: industry that brings work them on to two. James said
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Speaker 2: that the tongue, you know, your tongue, my tongue, every
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Speaker 2: tone on this planet, every spective of skin tone and
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Speaker 2: zip cold. I know you thought you had it gone on,
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Speaker 2: but James said, it can be a cure or curse.
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Speaker 2: When it's under control, it's a blessing. When it's out
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Speaker 2: of control. It's a blight. There's heat that speak of,
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Speaker 2: like there's piercing of a sword. But the tongue of
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Speaker 2: the wisest health. And you can see that in fire
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Speaker 2: verse chapter twelve, verse eighteen. But you know it is
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Speaker 2: what he also add on the heart of him or
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Speaker 2: her that have understanding, seek of knowledge with the mouth
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Speaker 2: of foods, feeding for on foolishness. Proverbs, chapter fifteen, verse fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Think about it. It can be a blessing or a
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Speaker 2: black You know, have you ever heard that old Arabian
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Speaker 2: proverb that says, thou art master of the unspoken words?
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Speaker 2: The spoken word is master of thee And really ponder
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Speaker 2: only if you want to. Up to the time the
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Speaker 2: tongue has said it, you have controlled. But you know
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Speaker 2: it's the money that you have said it. It goes
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Speaker 2: like a fire. You know that I can control it.
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Speaker 2: It's like a forest fire that burns over hills and mountains.
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Speaker 2: The tongue, that little tongue can be set on fire
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Speaker 2: by either Heaven or hell. Think about it. On the
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Speaker 2: day of Pentecost, there were tongues as a fire over
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Speaker 2: in act chapter two, verse three, and they's stead of
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Speaker 2: a man whose tongue was then under perfect control. He
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Speaker 2: was somebody who had blundered with his tongue, who had
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Speaker 2: always said the wrong thing. Then with his tongue under
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Speaker 2: the control of the Holy Spirit of God. Simon Peter.
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Speaker 2: You remember Simon Peter. He gave the first sermon on
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Speaker 2: the day of Pentecost, and thousands came to Christ a
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Speaker 2: tongue under control. And as Seriah's made clear, this little
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Speaker 2: tongue of ours, it gives us away. It tells whether
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Speaker 2: we're genuine or not. And it is dangerous. The little
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Speaker 2: tongue is the most dangerous thing that there is. Think
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Speaker 2: about it. For every kind of beasts, and of birds,
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Speaker 2: and of serpents, and of things in the sea is
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Speaker 2: tamed and have been tamed by mankind. James, Chapter three,
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Speaker 2: verse seven. And since you know I love stories, the
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Speaker 2: story is told of an animal trainer. That animal trainer
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Speaker 2: went into the tent with that old lion cubs was playing.
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Speaker 2: And he went to the cage and he put his
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Speaker 2: hand in and rested with them, roughly rolling them over
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Speaker 2: into their backs. And he was asked why you did that,
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Speaker 2: And he answered, these lion cubs will go into the
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Speaker 2: them without playing with them, because when I go into
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Speaker 2: the cage, I want them under perfect control. Men and women.
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Speaker 2: Women and men can train lions, Oh, those old large
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Speaker 2: elephants too. But you've never yet have seen a tongue
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Speaker 2: on display in a zoo. No one, no one on
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Speaker 2: this planet has been able to capture one yet. Think
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Speaker 2: about the circus has never been able to make one
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Speaker 2: of them perform. For you can never ever depend upon
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Speaker 2: that little tongue that's in our mouths. But the tongue
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Speaker 2: can no man or woman tame. It is an unruly evil,
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Speaker 2: full of deadly poison. Therewith blessed with God, even the
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Speaker 2: Father and therewith curse we men. And you can see
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Speaker 2: that in James chapter three, verse eight and nine. Think
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Speaker 2: about it. No man or woman containment only But guess
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Speaker 2: what God can. God contains a tongue. Think about a
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Speaker 2: regenerate tongue and a redeeming body is the way God
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Speaker 2: does it. It's with a tongue that no one think
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Speaker 2: about what I'm during saying, no one you can't tame it.
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Speaker 2: Only God can. It's our tongue that can be tamed.
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Speaker 2: But guess why it has to happen. Go ahead and answer,
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Speaker 2: somebody's got to use theirs so that someone else become
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Speaker 2: a child of the Living God. That if that ye
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Speaker 2: shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall
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Speaker 2: believe in thine heart that God has raised him from
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Speaker 2: the dead, thou shalt be saved. But with the heart,
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Speaker 2: man believe of under righteousness. And with the mouth confession
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Speaker 2: is made under salvation. Romans, chapter ten, verse nine and ten.
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Speaker 2: What Paul is saying is that the mouth and the heart,
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Speaker 2: they've got to be brought into harmony. They have to
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Speaker 2: say the same thing, because our mouth is going to
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Speaker 2: tell who we are in our hearts. When our Lord
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Speaker 2: came to the dumb man, the writer of the Gospel
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Speaker 2: is very careful to say over and Mark chapter seventh,
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Speaker 2: verse thirty three, he touched his mouth. Think about if
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Speaker 2: he's touched you, he's touched in mouth as well. And
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Speaker 2: do you notice how Mark also let us know that
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Speaker 2: when they went out, our Lord gave the commission saying
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Speaker 2: they shall speak with new tongues. Mark chapter sixteen, verse seventeen.
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Speaker 2: And it doesn't mean you're ready for what unknown tongues.
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Speaker 2: It means that you would talk of the regenerate tongue.
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Speaker 2: By your tongue, you will say who you are, and
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Speaker 2: thank God, he will ultimately bring the tongue into captivity.
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Speaker 2: But there's coming a day when the tongue will be
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Speaker 2: brought into obedience to God. You know, the scripture says
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Speaker 2: that every knee show bound, and that every tongue should
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Speaker 2: confess that Jesus Christ as Lord Pelftians, Chapter two, verse
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Speaker 2: ten and eleven. Think about it. The tongue, your tongue to
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Speaker 2: will someday be brought under control. Now the question is
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Speaker 2: you ready? Can I believe her? Can you tell a
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Speaker 2: Christian by the tongue? James said that you can. Therewith
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Speaker 2: blessed we God, even the Father, and therewith curse we
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Speaker 2: men who are made after the similar two likeness of God,
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Speaker 2: out of the same malcrocy. Blessing and cursing. My brethren,
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Speaker 2: these things are not so to be of a mountain
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Speaker 2: sent forfeit the same place does a fountain sin forfit
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Speaker 2: the same place? Sweet water and bitter? James shut the
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Speaker 2: three verse nine through eleven. Do you believe that a
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Speaker 2: fountains and forth bit a water and sweet water. If
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Speaker 2: the bottom line. But James says that man woman's religion,
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Speaker 2: even in their profession, it's empty. You give yourself away
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Speaker 2: by your tongue. It tells whether you're his or not.
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Speaker 2: And when he regenerates you, he doesn't regenerate everything except
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Speaker 2: the tongue. The tongue is the most important thing. It
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Speaker 2: tells whether or not you and I are real, are
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Speaker 2: real if you have a chance now I know you will,
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Speaker 2: especially as we enter in twenty twenty five, Lord William,
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