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In the name of the Glorious 
Trinity. 

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Father and Son and Holy Spirit 
forever. 

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Amen. 
Glory be to the Everlasting 

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mercies which sent you to us. 
Oh, Christ the light of the 

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world and the life of all give 
us wisdom by a law and Enlighten

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our impulses, by your knowledge 
sanctify, our souls by your 

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truth and Grant that we may be 
obedient to your words and may 

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fulfill your Commandments at 
every hour. 

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O you who enlightens the 
rationale with the knowledge of 

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your greatness? 
He's doin light O My Lord. 

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Our thoughts that we made 
meditate upon your holy and 

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divine scriptures at all times. 
Oh Lord of all Father and Son 

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and Holy Spirit forever. 
Amen. 

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Double-edged sword, a Christian 
podcast Ministry presented by 

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father, jernard Lazar. 
Father, jernard is a parish 

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priest of the mud edit Parish of
the Assyrian Church of the East 

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and Turlock. 
California. 

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Here's father jernard before the
beginning of the presbyters 

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meeting with with the bishop or 
that he's the priest meeting. 

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With the Bishops, I write a part
of Psalm chapter of hundreds and

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hundred and forty-one verse 3. 
O our Lord. 

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God said a guard at my mouth and
a guard for my lips. 

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But it goes on to say that my 
heart would not turn aside to an

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evil word or do evil. 
Works with wicked men. 

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I shall not eat salt with them. 
That's the one way I can tame 

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and control my tongue. 
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1 to 10. 
We read about the threat of an 

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uncontrolled tongue. 
Let me read it and share it with

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you. 
My brethren do not allow 

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doubtful teach teachers among 
you, but know that we are under 

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a great judgment for in many 
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We are stumbled Or in many 
things we all stumble anyone who

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does not offending word. 
This one is a perfect man and 

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able also to subdue his whole 
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We put bits into the mouths of 
horses that they may obey us and

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we turn about their whole body, 
that means we steer them. 

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Basically, we control them 
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Also, the ship's great as they 
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winds, they are I turned about 
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wherever the captain or the 
pilot wishes even so the tongue 

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is a little member and boasts 
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Likewise a small fire sets, 
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The tongue is a fire and the 
sinful world like a forest that 

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very tongue while it is among 
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Whole body and set on fire, the 
records of our race, which have 

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rolled down from the beginning. 
And in the end, it is consumed 

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by fire. 
That is the tongue for James. 

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Chapter 3 verse 77, very 
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beasts and of birds and of 
creatures of the sea and of the 

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land are under the subjugation 
of the will of men, but the 

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tongue, no man can take. 
Chain. 

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It is an unruly evil full of 
deadly poison verse 9. 

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But Buy it. 
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father, and by it, we curse men 
who are made in the image of God

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out of the same mouth, precedes 
curses and blessings my 

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brethren. 
These things, ought not so to be

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Very alarming, a st. 
James is putting it not very 

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optimistic about the tongue and 
you know, as we emphasized verse

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7 that everything can be tamed 
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but not men, no man can tame the
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So what do we do? 
We just let it rip with the 

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tongue. 
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There's our justification. 
The Bible is saying that, you 

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know what, you have no control. 
So, do as you please with your 

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tongue? 
Well, no, that's not actually 

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what the Bible is telling us. 
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When Jesus says, if your hand, 
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you to sin, gouge it out, or cut
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continue and say the tongue 
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tongue is causing you to sin 
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metaphorically, not physically 
cut the tongue out as well, 

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because that's what Jesus says 
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in the eyes. 
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But there are verses, there are 
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tongue is more dangerous than a 
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floods. 
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out, its foolishness vulgarity, 
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It cannot be controlled as far 
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know, once you post something on
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seen it, you can delete. 
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there, people have seen it, you 
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the message. 
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the post, once the word has come
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you know, God praise His name. 
The father says, in the Old 

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Testament, every word that comes
out of my mouth will fulfill the

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intention that it had that I 
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of our mouths will work. 
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The effect and the Damage that 
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sometimes that it does. 
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saint. 
Same James and this is the hint 

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that one of the ways we can 
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for good rather than for evil. 
Is to be swift to hear and slow 

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to speak. 
James 1:19, we spoke about this 

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last episode. 
Be swift to listen, be quick to 

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listen and be slow to speak. 
A verbal reactions should lack 

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thoughtlessness. 
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self selfishness, especially 
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Be slow to speak in Anger, you 
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You know, when a person commits 
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sometimes is I was out of my 
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doing. 
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I was under medication. 
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comprehensive or what's going on
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So, you know, justifications of 
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When you're angry and we 
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said it in my anger but that 
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it. 
If we say things in anger and it

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causes damage and hurt. 
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how and what we say when we are 
angry when we are angry, when we

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are fuming. 
The best thing to do is to pray.

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Lord, God said a guard at my 
mouth and a God for my lips. 

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When we are angry and we are 
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speak. 
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Carefully to be fitting for that
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So that's one way you can 
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maybe, as I said, taming it the 
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hard but you can use it for good
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You see, we need to tame our 
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We need to tame our thoughts. 
Our mind in order to tame our 

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tongue so that we can speak the 
quality words that are improve 

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of 1624, a honeycomb of honey 
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to the bones. 
That's how our words should be. 

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That is the effect the outcome 
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So, if we do, if our thoughts 
are bitter as vinegar, then what

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happens with our words, they 
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thoughts, and even in our 
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verses 11 and 14. 
That salt water cannot flow out 

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of the same spring fresh water. 
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of the same spring verse 11 and 
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verse 14. 
So when we want to speak when we

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want to use this tongue we must 
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speech. 
What is it going to be is It 

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going to be bitter. 
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Is it, as we spoke last episode?
Is it going to be soothing or 

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aggravating here? 
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have control under use of our 
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We must also examine our hearts,
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Proverb 16:23. 
Writes the heart of the wise, 

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teachers his mouth and adds 
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States in Luke 6:46. 
I believe that for the abundance

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of the heart, out of the 
Overflow of the heart, the mouth

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speaks, which suggests that 
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between the mouth and the heart 
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redeem his speech must first 
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If we want our speech to be 
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comb, our hearts must be soothed
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And we should know beloved one 
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knows. 
God sees and God hears 

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everything. 
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Lord's and its fullness. 
God is everywhere. 

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God knows everything. 
God is within you. 1 Corinthians

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God the Holy Spirit Psalm 139 
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Where shall I go from your 
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Where shall I hide from before? 
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Heaven, there you are. 
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you are there also a most 93 and
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And if they will hide at the top
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search and I shall take them. 
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before my eyes in the depth of 
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The Serpent and it shall bite 
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We cannot Escape. 
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This is one of the greatest Keys
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taming or controlling our tongue
to know that each time, we say 

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something beloved, it is in the 
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God is there. 
God is within you to God, the 

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holy spirit is within us. 
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cussing before the Lord. 
What do you walk into a church 

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and cuss, you know, it amazes me
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I've been made aware of people 
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As they say, every second word 
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the Assyrian words, right? 
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person is before me conversing 
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person will refrain from using 
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Why? 
Because I'm in the presence of 

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Akasha. 
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church and they are conversing 
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Even with friends, they have 
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saying. 
Right? 

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But then again beloved they 
forget that they are constantly 

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in the presence of God and in 
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which is within us, you know I 
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many moons ago probably wasn't 
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ago that when there was a lady 
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from using vulgar language 
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The ladies, let it rip, as they 
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respect for themselves, I'm 
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But this is what I will break it
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mouth for evil, not only 
cussing, gossip hatred slander, 

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But remember, each time we do 
that, we are doing it in the 

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presence of God. 
Jesus says in Matthew chapter 

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12, verse 37. 
Here is another deterrent for by

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your words, you will be 
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Hey, justification by words, do 
not only by faith for by your 

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words. 
You will be justified and by 

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your words you will be 
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Meaning judged too. 
Eternal. 

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Condemnation, pain, Agony 
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If this is not deterring us. 
Well, I don't see how we're 

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going to overcome the timing of 
the tongue. 

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Matthew 12:36 for, I say to you.
Jesus says that Every Idle Word 

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that people will speak, they 
will give an answer for it on 

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the day of judgment. 
So we will be judged. 

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Act according to every word that
comes out of our mouth. 

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Well Every Idle every useless, 
every evil word that comes out 

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of our mouths, we will be 
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So again, beloved one of many 
ways in the most significant way

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of having control of your tongue
is to keep in mind that God. 

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Is with us. 
Everywhere we go. 

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And the result is that our 
speech becomes worthy of being 

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in the almighty's present. 
And again, pray, if this is your

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weakness, I'll go one step 
further to say if this is your 

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demon. 
AKA addiction. 

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If this is your demon, this is 
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Pray constantly. 
Oh Lord God said a guard at my 

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mouth prayed with me. 
Now. 

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Stop your vacuuming, stop your 
dishwashing, pull over to one 

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side, stop typing on the on the 
on the keyboard stop watching, 

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you know, looking at social 
media while you're listening, 

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you know, multitasking don't do 
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Stop just pray with me now. 
Oh Lord God, Sarah guard at my 

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mouth and a God for my lips. 
That my heart would not turn 

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aside to an evil word or do 
evil. 

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Works with wicked men. 
I shall not eat salt with them. 

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Praise and glory be to God the 
Father and Son and Holy Spirit. 

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