Words Matter! Kelly Durant
Scientists have
studied how many words we speak a day. They have determined that men speak
about 10,000 per day and women speak about 20,000. The problem is when men get
home from work they usually have already spoken their 10,000 so that will
explain why when the woman asks the man questions, he just gives one word
answers. How was your day at work? Fine.
Did you talk to your boss? Yes. What did he say? Nothing. Ha! Words
are real things! They have the ability to lift up, or to knock
down, to inspire, to encourage, or to discourage! Open your
Bibles to:
Matt 12:36-37
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word
that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For
by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Every single word
we speak is very important! (repeat) Let’s contrast man’s
words to the words that God gave us through Jesus, which give us love,
faith, and hope! Not even money can buy that! Open your
Bibles to:
John 6:63
63 It is the
spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak
unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
What we all must do
is strive everyday to spend our time with these words of God so we will
be full of life and full of the Spirit! Comparing words to food,
God’s Word is like meat, solid protein, but man’s words are often like a
sweet dessert that is laced with bacteria that will make you sick.
Lets now see how Our Lord reacts sometimes to our
words, the words we speak when we are defending our wants and thinking
about our own selves. Look up:
Matt 16:21-23
21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew
unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things
of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again
the third day.
22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke
him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get
thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the
things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Any of us often
can become the very mouthpiece of Satan if we are not careful. It seems so
easy to open our mouth when things are not exactly the way we want them.
According to the Word, we should not judge a person on the surface by
his words only, but we should know their motive and we also must
remember God takes into account they will answer to Him on the judgment
day. But amongst our selves here I want you to please feel the freedom
to correct with love and patience any brothers and sisters in the Lord when
you perceive there are words coming out of their mouths that are just of
their own selfish interest, and not in the overall interest of winning
souls and building God’s Kingdom! Especially when there is
criticism, gossip, and negative things being put into words. The word says:
Prov 27:5
Open
rebuke is better than secret love. The highest
expression of your love to your brother is to correct him. Jesus did
it and you must follow His example! I
know inside you may be asking yourself, is there a problem here in the church
that you are talking about this? The answer is I don’t really
see that there is a serious one but the Lord laid this message on my
heart to be like a purging fire. You know in order to prevent a
forest fire, the foresters will make a controlled fire burn the
brush on the ground so that way if a real fire comes it will not be able
to stay lit. Also, always there have been many churches that have
lost many people due to the words of man and in house
quarrelling. Why do you think the mega churches with 5,000 members are so
popular? People would rather sneak in, then sneak out, no responsibilities
and no commitments, but also there is no maturing on the part of
those that choose that way because more than half of the New
Testiment is all about relationships and how to get along with each
other and with God and He wants us to deal with it. In a small place like here we are all
family and families have their disagreements, but they later hug and
they forgive because they have the same blood, the blood of Jesus to
unite them!
Let’s look up:
Prov 18:21
21 Death and life are in the power of the
tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Have you noticed it
is your own choice of words that determine if you are going to hell
or to heaven? I would always get a chill when I would hear
someone laugh and say they wanted to go to hell because that is where
all their friends are! You cannot get into to heaven without confessing,
using words, that Jesus is your Lord and savior. Look up:
Rom 10:9
9 That
if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine
heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For
with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation.
I believe there are too many people in this world
using about 9,900 words a day in emptiness or trash talk, saying
many things they should not be saying and only saying a little 100 word
prayer to God! We must pray to change what is in our hearts
and change what comes out of our mouths! And when you correct someone
for saying words that you know are not right, and they do not accept
it so well, don’t worry about it! You cannot be responsible
for another person’s pride, or immaturity, or whatever, but you owe
them in love to set it straight. If a person speaks evil about someone
to you, what is to stop them from later speaking bad about you too? We
must defend the correct standard God wants us to have. Look up:
Eph 4:29
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out
of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may
minister grace unto the hearers.
And speaking of
grace, how many of you here say kind words to those around you? When was
the last time you said: Thank you to those here like:
Lizbeth for
watching the kids every week…
Miquel, Joel, Rodrigo, Linda, Miquel Angel for the inspiring music…
Sonia for being a driver all these years and picking up the children…
Pedro for preparing
the Bible classes…
Thank you for
preparing the food…etc.
And if I forgot to mention you, you tell me
later, okay! I want to always encourage you because I sincerely love
each person here! Today I have a special request. Like it says in the
Word, that God will not hear your prayers if you have something in out
heart with your brother. The word says to leave the altar and go
to your brother and make it right and then come back to pray. I
want us to right now to all come to the front and pray for each other.
We can take the time we need. If there is anything you need to share with your
brother, anyone here, do it now or call them up on the phone later!
Let’s pray for our maturity, spiritual growth, honesty with one another, and
healing, and pray about every word that comes out of our month in
front of others and behind closed doors.
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