8-5-2023-TONGUE-CAN NO MAN TAME
"REMARKS"
I WAS RAISED IN A HOME OF DEAF AND MUTE PARENTS AND ALSO WITH GRAND PARENTS WHO WERE NOT DEAF MUTES, AND WITH THIS COMBINATION I LESRNED FROM TWO DIMENSIONS OF LIVING. WITH THE HANDS OF MY PARENTS UNLIKE THE TONGUE OF GRAND PARENTS BOTH COULD EXHIBIT CRUEL AND HURTFUL WORDS WHETHER BY HANDS OF COMMUNICATION OR WITH TONGUES OF THE NORMAL ATTRIBUTES OF HEARING AND TALKING.
IT IS A POWERFUL AND LASTING THING THESE WORDS WE SPEAK WHETHER FOR GOOD OR FOR EVIL SPEECH. WE MUST REMEMBER TO GUARD OUR MOUTH ABOUT WHAT WE SAY TO OTHERS.
HERE ARE SCRIPTURES TO PROVE IT.
- 1 PETER 3:10=FOR WHOSOEVER WOULD LOVE LIFE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, MUST KEEP THEIR TONGUE FROM EVIL AND THEIR LIPS FROM DECEITFUL SPEECH.
- PROVERBS 15:4=THE SOOTHING TONGUE IS A TREE OF LIFE, BUT A PERVERSE TONGUE CRUSHES THE SPIRIT.
- PROVERBS 21:23=THOSE WHO GUARD THEIR MOUTHS AND THEIR TONGUES KEEP THEMSELVES FROM CALAMITY.
- PSALMS 34:13=KEEP YOUR TONGUE FROM EVIL AND YOUR LIPS FROM TELLING LIES.
- PSALMS 141:3=SET A GUARD OVER MY MOUTH LORD; KEEP WATCH OVER THE DOOR OF MY LIPS.
- PROVERBS 18:21=THE TONGUE HAS THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH AND THOSE WHO LOVE IT WILL EAT ITS FRUIT.
- 1 PETER 3:10-11=FOR WHOSOEVER DESIRES TO LOVE LIFE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, LET HIM KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT; LET HIM TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD; LET HIM SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT.
THESE ARE BUT A FEW BUT THEY ARE STRONG IN THEIR WARNING ABOUT THE TONGUE AND THE HURT IT CAN CAUSE TO ANOTHER SO, LET US THINK BEFORE WE SPEAK AND SAY THINGS THAT ARE FOR THE BUILDING UP OF OUR NEIGHBORS AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN MESSIAH.