• ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐›๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“:๐Ÿ’ ๐€ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž: ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐›๐ซ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ.

  • May 14 2024
  • Length: 10 mins
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๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐›๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“:๐Ÿ’ ๐€ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž: ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐›๐ซ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ.

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  • Does your speech nourish others or cut them? King Solomon commended the helpful value of wholesome speech and condemned the damage done by perverse speech. Noble speech nourishes the lives of others, but perverse speech can break their hearts. By your speech and words, you are either a tree of life to others or you are a breach in their spirit. What do others think when you talk? Are they delighted with pleasure and rewarded with profit? Are your words the helpful words of truth and wisdom? Do you edify your hearers with kind and uplifting speech? Are family and friends strengthened by your gracious words? Do you motivate others to godliness and zeal? Are they thankful to have you around? Are you asked for advice from many quarters? Do you cause hearts to sing? Or is your speech contrary, discouraging, and offensive? Do others consider you irritating and avoid you because of your mouth? Are family and friends tired of your foolish talking, jesting, criticizing, ridiculing, or whining? Do you leave hearers bleeding from sarcastic cuts or defeated by negative comments? Are others angry about your regular backbiting and talebearing? Are you known as seldom being cheerful or thankful? You are either a tree of life to others or a breach in their spirit. You either heal and help with your words, or you hurt and injure. You either instruct and uplift, or you corrupt and offend. โ€œDeath and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereofโ€ (Pr 18:21). You can be a tree of life, providing kind and useful words to help others, or you can cause a breach in their spirit, discouraging and hurting them. A wholesome tongue is a metonym for good and helpful speech. Such a man speaks carefully for pleasure and profit of hearers. He has a healthful effect on them (Pr 12:18). Every person can benefit that hears him speak. He chooses his words carefully from a pure heart, says no more than necessary, and seeks to improve every person he addresses. He never wastes words in foolish banter or uses them to hurt. He studies before answering, and he knows the certain words of truth for answers (Pr 15:28; 22:17-21). He is a tree of life. Here is a powerful metaphor. He provides the fruit of knowledge and wisdom to others by his words (Pr 10:21; 11:30; 15:7). Wise men love him and his words (Pr 22:11; 24:26). They know his advice, counsel, instruction, reproofs, and warnings make them better. He gives knowledge to many, and men crave his words. The simple pursue him, for he teaches them wisdom; the wise seek him, for he makes them yet wiser. But a perverse tongue represents corrupt and evil speech that hurts and injures others (Pr 12:18). This critical, filthy, foolish, haughty, or whining person is offensive to all good men. He or she irritates and offends hearers, for words are poorly chosen, the occasion inappropriate, the motives selfish, the content evil, and the effect destructive. Yet he keeps on talking. He is impossible to shut up. He spouts foolish answers to questions, sows discord among friends, and promotes sin among listeners (Pr 6:19; 15:2,28; 18:13). Jesus and Paul both warned against corrupt speech. The Lord taught that calling names without a holy reason violated the Sixth Commandment โ€“ thou shalt not kill โ€“ and puts a person in danger of hell fire (Matt 5:21-22). Paul taught that the wrath of God is coming on this disobedient world for filthiness, foolish talking, and jesting (Eph 5:3-7). Therefore, all Christians should carefully guard their speech and not commit these sins.
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