Damaging Words

Ephesians 4:29 (ESV)

29 Let no corrupting (damaging) talk come out of your mouths, 

but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Speaking damaging words may be watering bad seed that's already in people.  

Don't use your words to describe the situation.  

Ask yourself "what can I say that will help the situation?"   

Proverbs 3:5-6  (ESV)

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
    and do not lean on your own understanding.

⁶ In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

God will direct you to say words that you need to speak.  

If your words are wise and build up the hearer, they are from God.  

  

James 1:5 (ESV)

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

1 Corinthians 3 (ESV)

3 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

 

2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

You have to grow up more for God to speak to you about somethings.  

When you don't understand something in the Bible, pause to ask for understanding.

  

God might answer you ten years later waiting for you to grow enough to receive it. 

Envy, strife, and divisions reveal that you are a carnal baby.  

We have been commanded to walk in love.

Spiritual people do.  

If you get what I want before I do, I'm happy for you if I'm mature.  \

If you love God, you love what He loves, and God loves people. 

If you don't love his kids, you are carnal and shortsighted. 

4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?

None of us are black or white.  

They are man made categories.  

We are all shades of beige.  

Sin tone and completion don't make you any different than any body else.  

I don't use the terms black and white.

We must not categorizing Christians either.  

If we're born again, we've got the same Father. 

When you grow up, you don't see things through how it effects your pride.  

You see it through the eyes of love.

It's no fun being mad all the time.

What you're looking for.  You will find.  You'll see stuff that's not even there.  

Whatever you judge people for doing.  You will be caught doing it too.  

5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.

6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

You don't have to have a favorite preacher.  

They are all yours. 

8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 

9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

God's words are His seeds.  

The watering is just as important as the planting.  

It can get planted, but with no watering nothing gets harvested.   

The first time you heard it.  

It was getting planted. 

Afterward, it's getting watered.  

You can receive or reject God's seed.

  I'm either planting or watering.  

Faith for financing is not the same as faith for healing.  

You may be well watered in financing, but be in a draught for healing. 

You need a variety of teaching. 

When you get mature, you're a plant that furnishes seed.

    

Acts 17 (ESV)

17 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

 

2 And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

 

3 explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

4 And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.

5 But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. 

6 And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also, 

7 and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”

What was in Paul was coming out.  

He was planting God's word. 

What was in the crowd was coming out too which was unbelief.    

We must not reject God's seed.  

When you do, the enemy has a bunch of seed that he wants to sow.

  

10 The brothers] immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.

11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; 

they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

How you treat God's word illustrates what kind of person you are. 

1 Thessalonians 2:13 (ESV)

13 And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, 

you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Keith Moore, Faith Life Church

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