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Job job number six. Speaking of the words we use,
but words are powerful, aren't they?
You know, there's the old saying, sticks and stones can
break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
That's one of the biggest lies ever perpetuated on being kind.
Because there are things that somebody might have said to you
when you were young and you can be in your elder years, but
there could be something that someone said to you while you
were young that you still remember as if they said it to
you last week. I, I remember talking to people
actually when we were in Holden going to visit some folks that
had an issue, a controversy back with a previous pastor.
And they were talking to me like it had happened maybe within the
last few months. Just trying to figure out,
because I think my brother Smith's been here for a couple
years. How is that?
And I realized as he's telling me about this, this happened
like 2025 years ago, but he was talking about it like it
happened just a few weeks ago. Because we can say that words
don't matter. We can say that words don't
hurt, but that's really just our own way of trying to maybe give
ourselves a little bit of defense and to be able to look
at, oh man, that's so close right there to to give ourselves
a little bit of cover because words do matter.
Now we often think about the words that people use towards us
and, and why not? Because there are things that
people have inflicted upon us. But yet at the same time, you
remind ourselves, we're not in control of the words that people
use with us. We are in control of the words
that we use with other people. And so Job talks about this in
Job chapter #6 a book full of words, the book of Job.
And you say, well, isn't every book of the Bible a book of
words in every book of book of words?
Well, of course it is, just by its very nature.
But at the same time, you got a lot of guys talking and a lot of
people saying stuff. And a lot of stuff that's being
said in the book of Job, honestly is just a bunch of
malarkey. There's just not a lot that's
being said there that is really biblically based, if you will,
that honors God and is really uplifting what God wants to be
said. And so I want us to look at just
a couple words, you know, just a couple verses rather here they
are words, but couple verses and give us a place to begin this
morning. So Job chapter 6, beginning of
verse #24 where it says, teach me and I will hold my tongue and
cause me to understand wherein I have heard how forcible are
right words. But what doth you're arguing
reprove? Now look at that phrase right
there at the beginning of verse #25 it says this.
How forcible are right words? Maybe you've heard this verse
before, How forcible are right words?
I want to talk this morning to our Sunday school hour a little
bit about using the right words and the power of right words.
Now interestingly enough, that word forcible that is used there
is only used once in the Bible, either forcible or some other
version of that word. It's only really found here and
it means exactly what you would think.
The word forcible means powerful and could even mean violent.
That not necessarily the violence is being perpetuated
upon somebody, but that there is great, great power that comes
behind whatever is being spoken of.
And here it is the issue of words.
Words have power. Words have great power.
And because of that, we know that we must be careful in how
we use them. Think about the common weapons
of the day that you might have a license to be able to use.
And we think about the safety and the care that comes along
with that. As a, as a gun owner myself, now
I realize it, You can't just be casual about how you handle
something with such great power. I'm casual about a lot of things
like, oh, you know, here's just kind of the way life is, you
know, and just that's kind of the way I operate.
But I would tell you when it comes those things, oh, I'm
going to handle it properly. I'm going to use it properly.
I'm going to point it properly. I'm going to care all those
things. Why?
Because there's a lot of power here.
Think about our vehicles. What are you told?
If you're under some sort of medication, what do you not do?
Operate heavy machinery. Why?
There's a lot of power at your disposal when you're behind the
wheel. You got to make sure that you
are being careful. How?
Most people in Boston area aren't careful when they're
behind the wheel. But the general principle is you
need to make sure that you're careful.
This is what we need to do. We are careful when it comes to
the issues of weaponry. We be careful when the issues of
a vehicle, but how careful are we really with our words?
Because cars can be repaired, issues can things.
These are types of things that cannot that that can be
repaired, some of these things of life.
But yet when it comes to the words, once they're gone, it's
like toothpaste out of a tube. You can't put it back in.
There's a lot of power that comes with words, but yet we're
often very casual with the words we use.
And here's the problem. We're very careful at monitoring
the way other people speak to us, but we're not nearly as
careful in the way that we use our words as well.
Far as 1821 says this, death and life are in the power of the
tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
I've heard this said before that your tongue is a divine healer
or a devilish murderer. And boy, I could tell you that's
the truth. And that's not my quote.
That's really just coming from Proverbs 1821, that death and
life are in the power of the tongue.
We could go to, in fact, why don't we go there quickly to
James chapter #3. We can go back to Job here in
just a moment, but James chapter #3.
There are many great verses in the Bible to talk about our
words, but when you look at James chapter 3 of this
concentration of a discussion book of James near the end of
your Bible, James chapter #3. And we'll begin in verse #1 And
it says this, my brethren, be not many masters, knowing that
we shall receive the greater condemnation for many things.
We offend all. If any man offend not in Word
that same as a perfect man and also able to bridle the whole
body. Could I just give this a, a
quick explanation for you? If you think that you don't have
a problem with your tongue, then you're perfect.
Are you perfect? No.
Then you got a problem with your tongue.
You see how that kind of works around right there?
Again, we're very careful to be an inspector of other people's
tongues, but not as quick to be an inspector with our own tongue
first. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horse's mouths that they may
obey us, and we turn about their whole body.
Behold also the ships which though they be so great, are
driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about the very small
helm with a so ever the governor listed.
So a big horse and I've not been around many horses.
I've ridden a couple horses and wasn't a great experience all
things considered, but I've been around enough of them to know
this. That horse is going to go on its
own unless it has a bit in the mouth.
That little bit that's in its mouth controls that whole big
body of the horse. A ship, again, not being someone
that's been a whole lot on the sea, but I do know this, no
matter how big the boat or the ship is that in proportion, that
which is guiding the ship is very small.
Oh, sure, it might be big on a cruise ship, but in proportion
to the cruise ship, it's quite small.
It might be very small on a pontoon boat, but a pontoon
boat's also very small. It is very small compared to the
size of the ship. Now, why is Jane talking about
that? Because he's interested in horse
racing and because he's interested in sailing ships?
No, because he's about to make a comparison.
Verse #5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, boy.
It's small in proportion to our whole body, isn't it?
And boasted great things. Behold how great a matter a
little little fire kindleth. The tongue is a fire, a world of
iniquity. This is verse 6.
So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the
whole body, and set it on fire the course of nature.
And is set on the fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and a
birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea is tamed, and
hath been tamed of mankind. But the tongue can no man tame
is an unruly evil full of deadly poison.
We'll just stop right there for a moment.
That tongue is very small, but it causes a lot of problems.
It causes great problems. And James makes mention here of
the idea that there's a lot of animals that are wild that have
been tamed. And think about the fact that
pretty much every animal that you could find on earth in some
form or fashion has been tamed, even if it's still wild.
You know, you can tame a lion, but you have to have respect for
the lion. So you can tame a snake in the
sense that a snake can be used to sometimes harvest venom and
different things like that. But you better be careful around
that snake. You may have tamed it, you may
have it under control, but you better be careful.
If that is true about the animal world, understand this the
tongue no man can tank. You say, well, mine's under
control, then you've deluded yourself.
Now we can have more spirit leadership in our life than
maybe others do by the grace of God, but on our own, listen, you
cannot tame the tongue. And it continues verse 9, there
with blessed we God, even the Father, and there with cursed we
men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Could I put it this way? Don't come to church and saying
how great thou art and then go out of the church and talk in a
way that does not honor the great God.
We can't come in and talk about holy, holy, holy and use unholy
words and we leave. It doesn't make sense to be able
to do that, but this is the way that we can be if we're not
careful. Out of the same mouth proceeded
blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought
not so to be doth a fountain setting forth at the same place
Sweetwater and bitter can the fig tree, my brethren, bear
olive berries can either a vine fig?
So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Who is a wise man and dude with knowledge among you, Let him
show out of a good conversation his works with meekness and
wisdom. But if you have bitter and envy
and strife in your hearts, glory not and lie not against the
truth. You can't have these two worlds.
One has to be in control of your mouth.
And in the end, James is going to talk about, and we'll take
our leave of this text here in a moment, but James is really
talking about the issue of the mouth comes down to really the
issues of the heart. As the Bible tells us, out of
the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
Pastor, if I use, if I use my words like you're saying what?
Hold on, that's not what I'm saying.
But if I just to use the argument, if I use my words like
you are saying, Pastor, the world will run over me.
The world will walk right across my back.
I'm going to be a pushover in this world.
I don't see anywhere in this text or anywhere in the Bible
where someone cannot be able to defend their rights or to be
able to defend that which is right.
You don't have to roll over, but you don't have to act like the
world when you're doing those things.
Say, well, how on earth am I supposed to thread that needle
of making sure I defend honor or say things that are right or
make sure my rights are not being trodden over by someone at
A at a store or by someone who's trying to take advantage of me?
How do I do that? Here's the only way, by being
led by the Spirit, because it's not easy.
It's not easy at all. I can tell you stories this
morning that would be probably pretty embarrassing, all things
considered, of ways that I have spoken to somebody because maybe
I was even in the right and how I was being handled, but then I
took it wrong by using my words inappropriately.
You say, oh, pastor, did you cuss?
You know, you don't have to cuss and you could still use wrong
words. I think sometimes we just
default to the fact that as long as you don't cuss, then you must
be using right words. And there's a lot of ways to use
words wrongly and still not use coarse language.
Now, should a Christian use coarse language?
Those shouldn't be in our vocabulary.
Say pastor, I'm working them out.
And as new believers, sometimes that is the way that we have to
work them out. But I would say this, keep
working them out. Don't stop working them out.
I, I cussed like I was like a sailor when I was a teenager,
not at school, not around Steve Smith, but I did and I got saved
and I realized I'm not supposed to be doing that anymore.
By the way, no one told me that. I just realized I don't think
this is honoring to God what I'm saying.
And it was hard for a while now, not so hard.
You know why? Because it's been eradicated
from the mental dictionary that I have of words that I'm
reaching for when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
Which the way I solve that is I don't use a hammer all right,
But so it makes it a lot easier. Amen.
So, so don't get in the ID even this morning.
Well, as long as I don't cuss, as long as I don't curse, then
I'm probably doing pretty well with my tongue.
You can curse someone without using foul language.
By meaning this literally cursing is is wishing I'll upon
someone. I'm not talking about a hex.
I'm not talking about anything like that.
But you can wish I'll upon someone and not use profanity.
And So what do we need to do? Our words are powerful.
Let's go back to James James chapter 6 and we'll just kind of
give you an overview of the book of James or sorry job job
chapter 6. My apology.
If you're looking for James Chapter 6, you're going to look
a while job chapter 6. My apologies.
How forcible are right words now why is that coming up in
conversation? Well, you can go back to chapter
#1 and you would find that in chapter #1 that Job is tested,
that Satan comes before the Lord and says Job is only righteous
because you've been good to him. And God says, well, I give you
permission to do thus and thus to him.
And in chapter #1 he found out that he lost his children and he
lost almost all of his possessions.
I mean, Can you imagine in one day this is what happens to him?
And, and in chapter #1 at the end of the chapter, he basically
says, this naked came I from my mother's womb, and naked while I
return thither said the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh
away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Powerful statement. And I don't believe that he was
just saying that in a way to try to convince himself.
Now, surely he was hurting, surely he was going through
great sorrow, but he had a faith in the Lord, and that was going
to carry him through. But then you get into chapter #2
and Satan says this skin for skin, if I touch his body, he's
going to curse you. And the Lord allowed that to be
able to happen as well. Well what happened Satan rather
Job's wife comes up to him and says curse God and die.
Now a lot of people get real angry at Job's wife, but you
realize that everything happened to Job happened to her as well
that she was going through great grief.
Now there's some that have taught I don't know the
necessary I subscribe to this, but I see where they're coming
from. They believe that she said this
at a mercy to him in the sense that if you curse God, then you
will be taken by the Lord, and that would be a sweet mercy
compared to what you're going through right now.
I don't know if that's the case or not.
I know that Job's wife was a woman who was grieving herself,
and I don't stand in judgment of her other than to say that's not
the answer at that moment to curse God and die.
But then at the end of the chapter, why don't you go back
to chapter #2 I know I said chapter 6, but go back to
chapter #2 look at verse #11 chapter 2.
Verse #11 just a few pages back. It says Now when Job's three
friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they
came, Everyone from his own place.
Eliphaz the team, a knight, and Bildad the shoe height, and
Zophar the Nemethite. For they had made an appointment
together to come and mourn with him and to comfort him.
I'll stop here just a moment. Does anyone know how tall Bildad
was? This might seem like it's out of
left field, but anyone know how tall Bill Dad was?
No, he's pretty short. He was a shoe height.
Look right there, says Bill Dad. The shoe height.
All right, I've been sitting on that one for days, folks.
Come on. Give me something here.
All right. So I'm still glad you're here
today, Tom. All right.
And when they lifted up, I was hoping for more than that.
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not,
they didn't even recognize this, how much his body was filled
with these swords. They even recognize them at
first. They lift up their voice, they
wept, they rent everyone his mantle, sprinkled dust upon
their heads towards heaven. So they sat down with him upon
the ground, seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word
unto him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
The very best thing that these friends did was the seven days
they sat there with him and said nothing because as soon as they
open their mouth, things went downhill quickly.
Can I give you some free advice on how to help people?
There are times when there are people who are greatly grieving.
There are times that people are going through great sorrow.
You know, oftentimes they don't need a sermon.
They don't need a lecture. Particularly in those very raw
initial moments. You know, the very best thing
you can do is sit and listen. And these men sat and listened
and this was the best it got because as soon as Eliphaz and
Bill dad and so far and another man named Ella who that will
come later, ended up opening their mouth, things got bad very
quickly for Joe. Well, why is that?
Well, in chapter 3, Job opens his mouth and cursed his day.
Now very carefully, he does not curse God.
He curses his day. He curses the day he was born,
but he was very careful to not curse the Lord meaning this.
He spoke I'll of his own life. He spoke I'll of of the way that
he was born, but yet he refused to curse God in all of this.
Now these friends should have been discerning enough to
understand this, but yet they immediately pounced on him.
And so first of all, I wanted to see this morning that there's
the power of wrong words. There's the power of wrong
words. And these come from the friends.
Chapter 4 and chapter 5 leading up to chapter #6 Eliphaz starts
to speak. And Eliphaz basically says this.
The reason this is all happened to you is because you were in
great sin and the Lord's got you.
So all you need to do is repent and you will do better.
Now, how does Eliphaz know this? The answer is he does not know
this. It would be the equivalent of me
walking into a hospital room, and I visited a lot of you in
the hospital room over the years.
But it would be the equivalent of me going to your hospital
room and saying something like this.
You know the reason you're here. You got hidden sin in your life.
He didn't even know what it was. It was hidden sin in his life.
You had hidden sin in your life and this is the only reason
you're here now. Are there times that God brings
calamity into our life because there's hidden sin in our life?
Yes. Hebrews chapter 12.
Go read it. Later you'll find out that if
you are a child of God, He chastises his own.
But it's very presumptuous for me to be able to walk into a
hotel, hotel room, a hospital room.
I don't know why if you're sick, if you're in a hotel room, but
they walk in the hospital room and say, hey, Vince, you know
why you're here. There's some things going on in
your life. I don't even know what they are,
but I know they're there. Of course you wouldn't be here.
That's bad doctrine. That's bad teaching to be and
presumption for a pastor to be able to do something like that.
But Elifaz felt the need to be able to tell Joe, this is what
your problem is. And here's the issue.
Elifaz was wrong. We know that because.
The beginning of the book was all about how Job served the
Lord in a way that other people weren't.
So we know this is the issue. God removes the curtain of
heaven, if you will, for just a moment to allow us to know the
back story of what's taking place.
Eliphaz doesn't know, and so immediately takes a man who's
down and pounds him further. This is a problem.
Which brings us to chapter 6 where Job says this.
How forcible are right words? The old saying is true.
If you don't have anything good to say, don't say it at all.
What does Satan do? He cast doubt.
What does Satan do? His very first half.
God said questioning the Lord. Questioning could even put it
this way, questioning truth itself.
That's what he does. And we have to be careful that
we don't use the wrong words. There are many people in the
Bible who had an opportunity to take someone who is going the
wrong direction and with the right words bring them back.
I think of of Amnon, his friend Jonadab.
Remember it says, but Amnon had a friend sad verse in the Bible.
But Amnon had a friend when that friend should have said what's
the matter with you? You're not thinking right.
He said this if you want to get this done, here's what you do.
David went to his advisors. Who's that woman on the on the
roof there? They should have said, O king,
please don't, don't, don't ask any further.
Don't, don't inquire of who she is.
But what do they say? Well, this is who she is.
We'll fetch her for if you want. Later on there'd be a king named
Rehoboam. Rehoboam had the Kingdom come to
him. And they said, will you relieve
some of the taxes that Solomon has placed upon us?
And he went to the old man. I like that he went to the old
man. Especially the closer I get to
that. I went to the old man and and
the old man said this, just relieve the taxes a little bit.
You do that, they will serve you forever.
But then he went to his friends. His friends had lived in the
palace with him. His friends were insulated from
reality. And they said this.
You go to those people and say this.
You think my bad, my dad was bad, I will be worse his the
power of his loins would be like the power of my middle finger
coming upon you. Meaning this.
You thought he was strong, I'm stronger.
You thought he was bad, I'm badder.
And you know what? The people said bye, bye.
And the Kingdom was split for the next couple 100 years.
What is it? The wrong word?
It's said wrong. And something like that can last
in someone's life far beyond what you can imagine.
A few years ago, there's a young man at our at Westgate.
Both Smith and I taught in the Christian School there, and I
know he would admit the same thing, that that wasn't Our
Calling. We did it because, well, we were
told to do it. Now, I, there were times I
really enjoyed teaching. There's a lot of times I really
didn't enjoy teaching, but there were times that I enjoyed
teaching. But I remember not understanding
classroom management. I were to understand, I didn't
even know what a teacher's guide was or how to do the lessons
until like two or three years in when someone showed me, Brother
Shaw showed me, have you been doing this?
You know, if you've been following the lessons, I said,
you mean there's a book that tells us what lessons to teach
every day. I thought I was supposed to
figure that out on my own. So I was, so it was unreal.
I had no idea what was going on, but I remember probably 5 or 6
years ago, maybe somewhere around there, I went back to
Tampa and I saw a young man there who I taught and if I told
you the name, you know exactly what I was talking about.
I went to him and we're talking about the old days, you know,
back at Westgate Christian School.
He's graduated, he's in business now.
He's doing pretty well for himself.
And he says, he said, I remember something you told me when we
were in school and I immediately got, So what was that?
And he says, he said, I, I was really acting up in class and I
was acting up for a long time. I can't believe I'm telling you
this. I think I may have said this
before church. He said, I, I, I, I, I was
acting up. I wouldn't stop.
I wouldn't listen. This young man's Hispanic.
And so I went up to him and I'm also Hispanic, Rivero, you know.
And so I went up to him and I knocked him on the head like
that. And I said you speak into
English. I said, I am so sorry.
I don't know. No, it's funny.
Oh, it's funny. I only told you because I said
it's not funny. What was I, what was I thinking?
What what was going on that day of my life that I would even
think that that was something that was funny that that, that,
that I would have treated you that way.
I know it is really funny. It wasn't.
I am so sorry. And this is what came to my
mind. I didn't even think about that.
I said it, It was gone and I went about my day.
He had been thinking about it for the last five, 6-7 years.
I don't know. Wow.
The wrong words said at the wrong time.
You may not even think about it. Someone else would think about
it for a long time. And you know this is true
because the opposite is true. You've had this inflicted upon
your life. And before you get too caught up
on me, listen. We've all done this in ways that
we wish we could take back. And I wish that was the worst
thing that I ever said. I'm sure it wasn't.
But what have we done with our
mouths? That the power of right words is
great, but the power of wrong words is also great when you
take our words and line them up with Scripture.
Words that speak health. Words that speak truth but yet
that speak health. Words that help lead people to
repentance if there's problems, but words that help build people
up to become more like Christ. Words that even when there are
issues that are handled in ways that are Christ like and filled
with the Spirit. Oh, there's power and wrong
words. But #2 I also see this.
There's power and right words. There's power and right words.
Joab in chapter #6 reminds Eliphaz and his two friends
about the power of right words. And they're going to go back and
forth, chapter after chapter after chapter.
Proverbs 25, verse 11 says a word fitly spoken is like apples
of gold in pictures of silver. Think about the beauty of a
great painting. Now imagine the amount of money,
of the value of a great painting with gold and silver.
You know to have it framed in such a way, the power of words
fitly spoken or more beautiful than that, what they can do to
someone's life. The Proverbs 12/18 says the
tongue of the wise is health. Ephesians 429 says that our
words can minister grace to the hearers.
How do we give grace to someone else?
Often it starts with our mouth. Often it starts with the way we
talk to someone else. The right word spoken at the
right time could save someone's life, if not physically,
spiritually. James chapter 5 talks about the
brethren being able to watch out for one another to help one
another in our times of need. Well, how does that happen?
It happens when you come with right words, not with
self-righteous words, but words of saying, I'm not saying I'm
better than you. I have my own struggles, but
there's something that I'm kind of down the road a little bit
further in my Christian life that I, I want to, I want to
mention to you, and I've had this happen in my life before
where people have come to me. It happened when I was a
teenager. I can think of very specific
people that cared about me that would come to me and say, you're
not doing right here. This is what you need to do.
There have been people since I've been an adult and there's
been people since I've been a pastor who've come to me and
said, I don't think this is right now.
I'll be honest with you, now that I'm a pastor, if I'm not
careful, I can kind of bow up a little bit.
Well, you know who I am, You know who I am a Sinner saved by
the grace of God like anyone else and we ought to be able to
handle. Now if you come to somebody
about a need, you handle it with the right spirit yourself.
But at the same time we should be able to with one another, be
able to help with it, not in a spirit.
Again of self righteousness. Christ makes that clear.
You better take care of your own business in your eye before you
take care of someone else's business.
But when that does happen, can you use right words?
The right words can make a huge difference and, and to be clear,
how forcible our right words is not about the number of the
words. It's about the power of the
words that are used. In fact, sometimes we use so
many words we dilute the power of the words because we keep
talking. You say, well, if a 40 minute
sermon is good, then an hour sermon is better.
Actually, nobody says that, never mind.
But but think about 40 minutes of truth is good.
An hour ought to be better. Maybe not.
I've heard some pretty powerful sermons log in right at 30
minutes. Well, I mean, the pastor's not
really doing well. The power of the word is there,
and you leave it there so that people understand and not dilute
it just by speaking more and more and more and more, and by
the time you're done, people don't even remember what you
said 30 minutes ago. There's something to that.
There's power and right words. There's the power of the wrong
words that came from the friends.
There's power of the right words that comes through Job's
humility. But also Speaking of the word of
God, there's power in perfect words, the power of perfect
words. Say pastor, where were their
perfect words in Job? Well, after the four friends
so-called had their peace. Well, God said his peace and
you're likely aware of what took place next is that when God
spoke, he didn't even deal with those four guys.
He deals right with Job and he says, were you there when I and
starts asking him questions because a lot of times if we're
not careful, we can play armchair quarterback with God.
God, why are you doing this to me?
Why is this happening to me? I've been serving you.
I thought you were going to do more for me.
And God just asked him some questions.
It's almost as if God says this, I'll answer your questions if
you can answer mine. And he asked some questions that
Job's never going to answer because these are questions that
came from eternity past. And Job is so overwhelmed by the
words of God that he says at the end of the book, he says, I'm a
worm. Who am I?
Because just like Isaiah in Isaiah chapter 6, when you truly
see God for who you are, for who he is, you see yourself or who
you are. A lot of our problems are just
coming down to the fact that we don't see God like we should
because when we see him high and lifted up, we realize how low we
have gone. And Job looks at his own life
and says, I can't, I can't answer this.
Psalm 19, verse 7. The law of the Lord is perfect,
converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is
sure making wise the simple. Nothing could have been more
powerful than God. God's words, a whole book full
of words again, just people talking and talking and talking
and talking and talking and talking and God speaks and
everyone's quiet. Why?
Because God has the last word for four chapters.
Do you know, can you do this? Were you there?
Job says I was not, I cannot and I do not know.
So I leave this in your capable hands.
Lord, the words that we need every day to make sure our words
are right. Are these perfect words that we
have here, the word of God. You want to make sure that your
mouth is right. Start every day in the Word of
God, because the Word of God will remind us who we are and
what we need to be now every day when you read the Bible, it's
not going to necessarily be about your mouth, but just when
you read more about the holiness of God, you read more of
examples of people who use words rightly and wrongly.
You should start to realize I need to be careful in how I
talk. I need to be careful with what I
say. The words we need the most every
day are the perfect, never changing words of God.
What does it say in Second Timothy 316?
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and it's
probably for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction and righteousness. The man of God may be perfect,
thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
And I love that verse and the reason why those verses, the
reason why doctrine, that's what's right for reproof, that's
what's wrong for correction. That's how to make things right
when something's wrong and instruction and righteousness.
That's once you make it right, how do you stay right?
The Word of God tells what's right, what's wrong, how to get
right, how to stay right. What more do you need?
That's everything of the Christian life.
And that's why Paul tells us that that everything that we
need that pertains to life and godliness is found in this book.
The answers are all here. And if you want to have right
words, you got to be in the word.
If you want to speak rightly, you must have communion with the
one who always speaks rightly because he is right and he is
holy and he is just the powerful words of God.
It's what we need. What's the end of the story, The
book of Job, you might ask? Well, again, God does not
directly address the four men. He addresses them through Job.
And interestingly enough, he doesn't mention Ella, who at
all, because Ella, who is the young man, he kind of swooped in
and he was probably more foolish than the rest of them because he
thought he was young and he knew more than these old guys.
And God doesn't even address him.
It's like he wasn't even there. But Job, God works through Job
for the men. And he says this about the three
friends. He says this, Job, you make
sacrifice on their behalf. You help them get right.
And I believe that was for one very clear reason.
It was to show those men that God didn't approve of the way
they spoke. Job was real.
He was raw. He didn't say everything right,
but it came from a heart that wanted to be right with the
Lord. That doesn't mean because you
want to have a heart that's right with the Lord, you're
allowed to say whatever you want.
God addressed Him on those things.
We got to be careful about that. Just because we believe we're on
the side of the angels doesn't mean we get to say whatever we
want because we're on the side of the angels.
Well, I'm doing right, so I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm
going to say whatever I want, and I'm doing it for the Lord.
Well, you're probably more doing it for yourself because it feels
good, let's be honest, than doing it for the Lord.
In the end, Job received more than he had before.
Why was that? It was God authenticating the
way that he had handled a very difficult situation.
We got a lot of issues with our words.
We think about it and take inventory of it.
There are probably things we're embarrassed about with the
things that we have said over the years.
You flew off the handle of the conversation.
Someone got your goat at the store and you put them in their
place. You put that 16 year old
teenager making minimum wage in their place.
The coffee wasn't right and so you went back in and you told
them off. Someone at work had it coming
and eventually you told them what they needed to hear, quote
UN quote at home. Isn't it strange that sometimes
we're most casual with our words?
That the people we're the closest to?
That seems backwards, doesn't it?
It seems like we should probably be more casual with strangers
and more careful with the people we live with in our own home.
But sometimes we are the loosest with our lips, with the people
that live in our own home. Maybe the person you made vows
to, to love and honor and cherish.
And yet those words that come out aren't pleasing to God at
all. How forcible are right words and
every marriage that has not made it.
I will be honest with you. There's somewhere along the line
there are words that were not right.
I'm not saying that was you if that this is your situation.
I'm not saying it's all one it both sides.
What I'm saying is there were not helpful words in there
because somewhere along the line someone with helpful words
should have said we got to get this right.
We got to fix this. What I'm saying is words
destroy. But, and we'll end here this
this morning, words also build up.
They build up. They heal marriages that are on
the brink. They heal relationships with
children. They can heal a situation that
might be on the brink and they gets pulled back.
You could have somebody that's about to blow up and the right
words might help them to see how you take a breath and calm down.
How forcible are words? Yes.
That's not what the Bible says. How forcible are right words?
And whether it's in a church, whether it's in a home, whether
it's at your workplace, whether it's at the fast food place,
whether it's with the person that visits your home dropping
off mail or packages or whatever it is, wherever, whenever, use
write words. And when you don't because you
won't all the time, that's not an excuse, it's just reality.
When you don't ask the Lord to forgive you, ask Him to help you
the next time. Ask the Lord to help you.
Have your tongue to be guided by the Spirit, the fruit of the
Spirit, Lovejoy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
Against such there is no law. This should be coming out of the
mouth of those who are Spirit LED.
So let's be people who understand how forcible right
words are. Thank you for listening to the
sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church.
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May the Lord bless you as you grow in His Word.