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Job job number six. 
Speaking of the words we use, 

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but words are powerful, aren't 
they? 

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You know, there's the old 
saying, sticks and stones can 

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break my bones, but names will 
never hurt me. 

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That's one of the biggest lies 
ever perpetuated on being kind. 

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Because there are things that 
somebody might have said to you 

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when you were young and you can 
be in your elder years, but 

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there could be something that 
someone said to you while you 

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were young that you still 
remember as if they said it to 

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you last week. 
I, I remember talking to people 

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actually when we were in Holden 
going to visit some folks that 

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had an issue, a controversy back
with a previous pastor. 

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And they were talking to me like
it had happened maybe within the

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last few months. 
Just trying to figure out, 

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because I think my brother 
Smith's been here for a couple 

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years. 
How is that? 

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And I realized as he's telling 
me about this, this happened 

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like 2025 years ago, but he was 
talking about it like it 

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happened just a few weeks ago. 
Because we can say that words 

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don't matter. 
We can say that words don't 

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hurt, but that's really just our
own way of trying to maybe give 

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ourselves a little bit of 
defense and to be able to look 

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at, oh man, that's so close 
right there to to give ourselves

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a little bit of cover because 
words do matter. 

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Now we often think about the 
words that people use towards us

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and, and why not? 
Because there are things that 

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people have inflicted upon us. 
But yet at the same time, you 

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remind ourselves, we're not in 
control of the words that people

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use with us. 
We are in control of the words 

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that we use with other people. 
And so Job talks about this in 

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Job chapter #6 a book full of 
words, the book of Job. 

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And you say, well, isn't every 
book of the Bible a book of 

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words in every book of book of 
words? 

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Well, of course it is, just by 
its very nature. 

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But at the same time, you got a 
lot of guys talking and a lot of

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people saying stuff. 
And a lot of stuff that's being 

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said in the book of Job, 
honestly is just a bunch of 

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malarkey. 
There's just not a lot that's 

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being said there that is really 
biblically based, if you will, 

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that honors God and is really 
uplifting what God wants to be 

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said. 
And so I want us to look at just

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a couple words, you know, just a
couple verses rather here they 

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are words, but couple verses and
give us a place to begin this 

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morning. 
So Job chapter 6, beginning of 

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verse #24 where it says, teach 
me and I will hold my tongue and

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cause me to understand wherein I
have heard how forcible are 

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right words. 
But what doth you're arguing 

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reprove? 
Now look at that phrase right 

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there at the beginning of verse 
#25 it says this. 

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How forcible are right words? 
Maybe you've heard this verse 

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before, How forcible are right 
words? 

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I want to talk this morning to 
our Sunday school hour a little 

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bit about using the right words 
and the power of right words. 

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Now interestingly enough, that 
word forcible that is used there

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is only used once in the Bible, 
either forcible or some other 

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version of that word. 
It's only really found here and 

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it means exactly what you would 
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The word forcible means powerful
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That not necessarily the 
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upon somebody, but that there is
great, great power that comes 

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behind whatever is being spoken 
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And here it is the issue of 
words. 

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Words have power. 
Words have great power. 

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And because of that, we know 
that we must be careful in how 

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we use them. 
Think about the common weapons 

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of the day that you might have a
license to be able to use. 

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And we think about the safety 
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with that. 
As a, as a gun owner myself, now

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I realize it, You can't just be 
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something with such great power.
I'm casual about a lot of things

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like, oh, you know, here's just 
kind of the way life is, you 

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know, and just that's kind of 
the way I operate. 

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But I would tell you when it 
comes those things, oh, I'm 

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going to handle it properly. 
I'm going to use it properly. 

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I'm going to point it properly. 
I'm going to care all those 

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things. 
Why? 

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Because there's a lot of power 
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Think about our vehicles. 
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If you're under some sort of 
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Operate heavy machinery. 
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There's a lot of power at your 
disposal when you're behind the 

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wheel. 
You got to make sure that you 

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are being careful. 
How? 

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Most people in Boston area 
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behind the wheel. 
But the general principle is you

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need to make sure that you're 
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This is what we need to do. 
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the issues of weaponry. 
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a vehicle, but how careful are 
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Because cars can be repaired, 
issues can things. 

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These are types of things that 
cannot that that can be 

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repaired, some of these things 
of life. 

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But yet when it comes to the 
words, once they're gone, it's 

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like toothpaste out of a tube. 
You can't put it back in. 

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There's a lot of power that 
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often very casual with the words
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And here's the problem. 
We're very careful at monitoring

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the way other people speak to 
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careful in the way that we use 
our words as well. 

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Far as 1821 says this, death and
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tongue, and they that love it 
shall eat the fruit thereof. 

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I've heard this said before that
your tongue is a divine healer 

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or a devilish murderer. 
And boy, I could tell you that's

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the truth. 
And that's not my quote. 

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That's really just coming from 
Proverbs 1821, that death and 

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life are in the power of the 
tongue. 

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We could go to, in fact, why 
don't we go there quickly to 

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James chapter #3. 
We can go back to Job here in 

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just a moment, but James chapter
#3. 

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There are many great verses in 
the Bible to talk about our 

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words, but when you look at 
James chapter 3 of this 

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concentration of a discussion 
book of James near the end of 

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your Bible, James chapter #3. 
And we'll begin in verse #1 And 

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it says this, my brethren, be 
not many masters, knowing that 

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we shall receive the greater 
condemnation for many things. 

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We offend all. 
If any man offend not in Word 

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that same as a perfect man and 
also able to bridle the whole 

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body. 
Could I just give this a, a 

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quick explanation for you? 
If you think that you don't have

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a problem with your tongue, then
you're perfect. 

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Are you perfect? 
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Then you got a problem with your
tongue. 

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You see how that kind of works 
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Again, we're very careful to be 
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tongues, but not as quick to be 
an inspector with our own tongue

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first. 3 Behold, we put bits in 
the horse's mouths that they may

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obey us, and we turn about their
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Behold also the ships which 
though they be so great, are 

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driven of fierce winds, yet are 
they turned about the very small

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helm with a so ever the governor
listed. 

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So a big horse and I've not been
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I've ridden a couple horses and 
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things considered, but I've been
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this. 
That horse is going to go on its

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own unless it has a bit in the 
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That little bit that's in its 
mouth controls that whole big 

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body of the horse. 
A ship, again, not being someone

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that's been a whole lot on the 
sea, but I do know this, no 

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matter how big the boat or the 
ship is that in proportion, that

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which is guiding the ship is 
very small. 

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Oh, sure, it might be big on a 
cruise ship, but in proportion 

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to the cruise ship, it's quite 
small. 

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It might be very small on a 
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boat's also very small. 
It is very small compared to the

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size of the ship. 
Now, why is Jane talking about 

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that? 
Because he's interested in horse

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racing and because he's 
interested in sailing ships? 

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No, because he's about to make a
comparison. 

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Verse #5 Even so, the tongue is 
a little member, boy. 

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It's small in proportion to our 
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And boasted great things. 
Behold how great a matter a 

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little little fire kindleth. 
The tongue is a fire, a world of

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iniquity. 
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So is the tongue among our 
members, that it defileth the 

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whole body, and set it on fire 
the course of nature. 

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And is set on the fire of hell. 
For every kind of beasts, and a 

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birds, and of serpents, and of 
things in the sea is tamed, and 

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hath been tamed of mankind. 
But the tongue can no man tame 

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is an unruly evil full of deadly
poison. 

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We'll just stop right there for 
a moment. 

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That tongue is very small, but 
it causes a lot of problems. 

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It causes great problems. 
And James makes mention here of 

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the idea that there's a lot of 
animals that are wild that have 

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been tamed. 
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pretty much every animal that 
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form or fashion has been tamed, 
even if it's still wild. 

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You know, you can tame a lion, 
but you have to have respect for

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the lion. 
So you can tame a snake in the 

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sense that a snake can be used 
to sometimes harvest venom and 

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different things like that. 
But you better be careful around

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that snake. 
You may have tamed it, you may 

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have it under control, but you 
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If that is true about the animal
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tongue no man can tank. 
You say, well, mine's under 

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control, then you've deluded 
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Now we can have more spirit 
leadership in our life than 

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maybe others do by the grace of 
God, but on our own, listen, you

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cannot tame the tongue. 
And it continues verse 9, there 

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with blessed we God, even the 
Father, and there with cursed we

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men, which are made after the 
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Could I put it this way? 
Don't come to church and saying 

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how great thou art and then go 
out of the church and talk in a 

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way that does not honor the 
great God. 

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We can't come in and talk about 
holy, holy, holy and use unholy 

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words and we leave. 
It doesn't make sense to be able

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to do that, but this is the way 
that we can be if we're not 

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careful. 
Out of the same mouth proceeded 

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blessing and cursing. 
My brethren, these things ought 

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not so to be doth a fountain 
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Sweetwater and bitter can the 
fig tree, my brethren, bear 

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olive berries can either a vine 
fig? 

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So can no fountain both yield 
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Who is a wise man and dude with 
knowledge among you, Let him 

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show out of a good conversation 
his works with meekness and 

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wisdom. 
But if you have bitter and envy 

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and strife in your hearts, glory
not and lie not against the 

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truth. 
You can't have these two worlds.

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One has to be in control of your
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And in the end, James is going 
to talk about, and we'll take 

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our leave of this text here in a
moment, but James is really 

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talking about the issue of the 
mouth comes down to really the 

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issues of the heart. 
As the Bible tells us, out of 

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the abundance of the heart, the 
mouth speaketh. 

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Pastor, if I use, if I use my 
words like you're saying what? 

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Hold on, that's not what I'm 
saying. 

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But if I just to use the 
argument, if I use my words like

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you are saying, Pastor, the 
world will run over me. 

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The world will walk right across
my back. 

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I'm going to be a pushover in 
this world. 

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I don't see anywhere in this 
text or anywhere in the Bible 

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where someone cannot be able to 
defend their rights or to be 

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able to defend that which is 
right. 

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You don't have to roll over, but
you don't have to act like the 

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world when you're doing those 
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Say, well, how on earth am I 
supposed to thread that needle 

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of making sure I defend honor or
say things that are right or 

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make sure my rights are not 
being trodden over by someone at

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A at a store or by someone who's
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How do I do that? 
Here's the only way, by being 

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led by the Spirit, because it's 
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It's not easy at all. 
I can tell you stories this 

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morning that would be probably 
pretty embarrassing, all things 

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considered, of ways that I have 
spoken to somebody because maybe

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I was even in the right and how 
I was being handled, but then I 

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took it wrong by using my words 
inappropriately. 

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You say, oh, pastor, did you 
cuss? 

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You know, you don't have to cuss
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words. 
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default to the fact that as long
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be using right words. 
And there's a lot of ways to use

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words wrongly and still not use 
coarse language. 

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Now, should a Christian use 
coarse language? 

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Those shouldn't be in our 
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Say pastor, I'm working them 
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And as new believers, sometimes 
that is the way that we have to 

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work them out. 
But I would say this, keep 

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working them out. 
Don't stop working them out. 

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I, I cussed like I was like a 
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not at school, not around Steve 
Smith, but I did and I got saved

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and I realized I'm not supposed 
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By the way, no one told me that.
I just realized I don't think 

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this is honoring to God what I'm
saying. 

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And it was hard for a while now,
not so hard. 

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You know why? 
Because it's been eradicated 

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from the mental dictionary that 
I have of words that I'm 

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reaching for when I hit my thumb
with a hammer. 

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Which the way I solve that is I 
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But so it makes it a lot easier.
Amen. 

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So, so don't get in the ID even 
this morning. 

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Well, as long as I don't cuss, 
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I'm probably doing pretty well 
with my tongue. 

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You can curse someone without 
using foul language. 

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By meaning this literally 
cursing is is wishing I'll upon 

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someone. 
I'm not talking about a hex. 

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I'm not talking about anything 
like that. 

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But you can wish I'll upon 
someone and not use profanity. 

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And So what do we need to do? 
Our words are powerful. 

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Let's go back to James James 
chapter 6 and we'll just kind of

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give you an overview of the book
of James or sorry job job 

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chapter 6. 
My apology. 

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If you're looking for James 
Chapter 6, you're going to look 

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a while job chapter 6. 
My apologies. 

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How forcible are right words now
why is that coming up in 

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conversation? 
Well, you can go back to chapter

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#1 and you would find that in 
chapter #1 that Job is tested, 

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that Satan comes before the Lord
and says Job is only righteous 

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because you've been good to him.
And God says, well, I give you 

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permission to do thus and thus 
to him. 

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And in chapter #1 he found out 
that he lost his children and he

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lost almost all of his 
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I mean, Can you imagine in one 
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And, and in chapter #1 at the 
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says, this naked came I from my 
mother's womb, and naked while I

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return thither said the Lord 
giveth, and the Lord taketh 

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away. 
Blessed be the name of the Lord.

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Powerful statement. 
And I don't believe that he was 

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just saying that in a way to try
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Now, surely he was hurting, 
surely he was going through 

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great sorrow, but he had a faith
in the Lord, and that was going 

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to carry him through. 
But then you get into chapter #2

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and Satan says this skin for 
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going to curse you. 
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able to happen as well. 
Well what happened Satan rather 

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Job's wife comes up to him and 
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Now a lot of people get real 
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realize that everything happened
to Job happened to her as well 

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that she was going through great
grief. 

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Now there's some that have 
taught I don't know the 

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necessary I subscribe to this, 
but I see where they're coming 

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from. 
They believe that she said this 

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at a mercy to him in the sense 
that if you curse God, then you 

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will be taken by the Lord, and 
that would be a sweet mercy 

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compared to what you're going 
through right now. 

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I don't know if that's the case 
or not. 

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I know that Job's wife was a 
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and I don't stand in judgment of
her other than to say that's not

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the answer at that moment to 
curse God and die. 

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But then at the end of the 
chapter, why don't you go back 

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to chapter #2 I know I said 
chapter 6, but go back to 

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chapter #2 look at verse #11 
chapter 2. 

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Verse #11 just a few pages back.
It says Now when Job's three 

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friends heard of all this evil 
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came, Everyone from his own 
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Eliphaz the team, a knight, and 
Bildad the shoe height, and 

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Zophar the Nemethite. 
For they had made an appointment

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together to come and mourn with 
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I'll stop here just a moment. 
Does anyone know how tall Bildad

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was? 
This might seem like it's out of

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left field, but anyone know how 
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No, he's pretty short. 
He was a shoe height. 

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Look right there, says Bill Dad.
The shoe height. 

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All right, I've been sitting on 
that one for days, folks. 

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Come on. 
Give me something here. 

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All right. 
So I'm still glad you're here 

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today, Tom. 
All right. 

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And when they lifted up, I was 
hoping for more than that. 

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And when they lifted up their 
eyes afar off and knew him not, 

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they didn't even recognize this,
how much his body was filled 

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with these swords. 
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first. 
They lift up their voice, they 

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wept, they rent everyone his 
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their heads towards heaven. 
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the ground, seven days and seven
nights, and none spake a word 

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unto him, for they saw that his 
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The very best thing that these 
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they sat there with him and said
nothing because as soon as they 

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open their mouth, things went 
downhill quickly. 

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Can I give you some free advice 
on how to help people? 

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There are times when there are 
people who are greatly grieving.

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There are times that people are 
going through great sorrow. 

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You know, oftentimes they don't 
need a sermon. 

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They don't need a lecture. 
Particularly in those very raw 

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initial moments. 
You know, the very best thing 

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you can do is sit and listen. 
And these men sat and listened 

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and this was the best it got 
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Bill dad and so far and another 
man named Ella who that will 

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come later, ended up opening 
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quickly for Joe. 
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Well, in chapter 3, Job opens 
his mouth and cursed his day. 

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Now very carefully, he does not 
curse God. 

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He curses his day. 
He curses the day he was born, 

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but he was very careful to not 
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He spoke I'll of his own life. 
He spoke I'll of of the way that

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he was born, but yet he refused 
to curse God in all of this. 

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Now these friends should have 
been discerning enough to 

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understand this, but yet they 
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And so first of all, I wanted to
see this morning that there's 

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the power of wrong words. 
There's the power of wrong 

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words. 
And these come from the friends.

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Chapter 4 and chapter 5 leading 
up to chapter #6 Eliphaz starts 

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to speak. 
And Eliphaz basically says this.

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The reason this is all happened 
to you is because you were in 

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great sin and the Lord's got 
you. 

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So all you need to do is repent 
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Now, how does Eliphaz know this?
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this. 
It would be the equivalent of me

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walking into a hospital room, 
and I visited a lot of you in 

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the hospital room over the 
years. 

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But it would be the equivalent 
of me going to your hospital 

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room and saying something like 
this. 

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You know the reason you're here.
You got hidden sin in your life.

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He didn't even know what it was.
It was hidden sin in his life. 

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You had hidden sin in your life 
and this is the only reason 

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you're here now. 
Are there times that God brings 

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calamity into our life because 
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Yes. 
Hebrews chapter 12. 

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Go read it. 
Later you'll find out that if 

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you are a child of God, He 
chastises his own. 

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But it's very presumptuous for 
me to be able to walk into a 

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hotel, hotel room, a hospital 
room. 

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I don't know why if you're sick,
if you're in a hotel room, but 

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they walk in the hospital room 
and say, hey, Vince, you know 

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why you're here. 
There's some things going on in 

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your life. 
I don't even know what they are,

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but I know they're there. 
Of course you wouldn't be here. 

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That's bad doctrine. 
That's bad teaching to be and 

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presumption for a pastor to be 
able to do something like that. 

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But Elifaz felt the need to be 
able to tell Joe, this is what 

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your problem is. 
And here's the issue. 

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Elifaz was wrong. 
We know that because. 

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The beginning of the book was 
all about how Job served the 

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Lord in a way that other people 
weren't. 

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So we know this is the issue. 
God removes the curtain of 

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heaven, if you will, for just a 
moment to allow us to know the 

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back story of what's taking 
place. 

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Eliphaz doesn't know, and so 
immediately takes a man who's 

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down and pounds him further. 
This is a problem. 

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Which brings us to chapter 6 
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How forcible are right words? 
The old saying is true. 

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If you don't have anything good 
to say, don't say it at all. 

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What does Satan do? 
He cast doubt. 

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What does Satan do? 
His very first half. 

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God said questioning the Lord. 
Questioning could even put it 

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this way, questioning truth 
itself. 

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That's what he does. 
And we have to be careful that 

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we don't use the wrong words. 
There are many people in the 

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Bible who had an opportunity to 
take someone who is going the 

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wrong direction and with the 
right words bring them back. 

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I think of of Amnon, his friend 
Jonadab. 

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Remember it says, but Amnon had 
a friend sad verse in the Bible.

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But Amnon had a friend when that
friend should have said what's 

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the matter with you? 
You're not thinking right. 

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He said this if you want to get 
this done, here's what you do. 

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David went to his advisors. 
Who's that woman on the on the 

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roof there? 
They should have said, O king, 

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please don't, don't, don't ask 
any further. 

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Don't, don't inquire of who she 
is. 

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But what do they say? 
Well, this is who she is. 

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We'll fetch her for if you want.
Later on there'd be a king named

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Rehoboam. 
Rehoboam had the Kingdom come to

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him. 
And they said, will you relieve 

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some of the taxes that Solomon 
has placed upon us? 

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And he went to the old man. 
I like that he went to the old 

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man. 
Especially the closer I get to 

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that. 
I went to the old man and and 

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the old man said this, just 
relieve the taxes a little bit. 

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You do that, they will serve you
forever. 

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But then he went to his friends.
His friends had lived in the 

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palace with him. 
His friends were insulated from 

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reality. 
And they said this. 

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You go to those people and say 
this. 

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You think my bad, my dad was 
bad, I will be worse his the 

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power of his loins would be like
the power of my middle finger 

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coming upon you. 
Meaning this. 

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You thought he was strong, I'm 
stronger. 

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You thought he was bad, I'm 
badder. 

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And you know what? 
The people said bye, bye. 

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And the Kingdom was split for 
the next couple 100 years. 

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What is it? 
The wrong word? 

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It's said wrong. 
And something like that can last

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in someone's life far beyond 
what you can imagine. 

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A few years ago, there's a young
man at our at Westgate. 

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Both Smith and I taught in the 
Christian School there, and I 

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know he would admit the same 
thing, that that wasn't Our 

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Calling. 
We did it because, well, we were

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told to do it. 
Now, I, there were times I 

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really enjoyed teaching. 
There's a lot of times I really 

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didn't enjoy teaching, but there
were times that I enjoyed 

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teaching. 
But I remember not understanding

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classroom management. 
I were to understand, I didn't 

447
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,720
even know what a teacher's guide
was or how to do the lessons 

448
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,960
until like two or three years in
when someone showed me, Brother 

449
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,240
Shaw showed me, have you been 
doing this? 

450
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:40,640
You know, if you've been 
following the lessons, I said, 

451
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,000
you mean there's a book that 
tells us what lessons to teach 

452
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:43,920
every day. 
I thought I was supposed to 

453
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:48,120
figure that out on my own. 
So I was, so it was unreal. 

454
00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:52,640
I had no idea what was going on,
but I remember probably 5 or 6 

455
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,720
years ago, maybe somewhere 
around there, I went back to 

456
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,160
Tampa and I saw a young man 
there who I taught and if I told

457
00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,720
you the name, you know exactly 
what I was talking about. 

458
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,640
I went to him and we're talking 
about the old days, you know, 

459
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,520
back at Westgate Christian 
School. 

460
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,480
He's graduated, he's in business
now. 

461
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:08,800
He's doing pretty well for 
himself. 

462
00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:12,200
And he says, he said, I remember
something you told me when we 

463
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:16,800
were in school and I immediately
got, So what was that? 

464
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,200
And he says, he said, I, I was 
really acting up in class and I 

465
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,240
was acting up for a long time. 
I can't believe I'm telling you 

466
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:24,120
this. 
I think I may have said this 

467
00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:26,680
before church. 
He said, I, I, I, I, I was 

468
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:27,800
acting up. 
I wouldn't stop. 

469
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,960
I wouldn't listen. 
This young man's Hispanic. 

470
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,040
And so I went up to him and I'm 
also Hispanic, Rivero, you know.

471
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,480
And so I went up to him and I 
knocked him on the head like 

472
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,840
that. 
And I said you speak into 

473
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:50,720
English. 
I said, I am so sorry. 

474
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:52,640
I don't know. 
No, it's funny. 

475
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,560
Oh, it's funny. 
I only told you because I said 

476
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,640
it's not funny. 
What was I, what was I thinking?

477
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,920
What what was going on that day 
of my life that I would even 

478
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,680
think that that was something 
that was funny that that, that, 

479
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,120
that I would have treated you 
that way. 

480
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:09,840
I know it is really funny. 
It wasn't. 

481
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,920
I am so sorry. 
And this is what came to my 

482
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,720
mind. 
I didn't even think about that. 

483
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,800
I said it, It was gone and I 
went about my day. 

484
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,680
He had been thinking about it 
for the last five, 6-7 years. 

485
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,760
I don't know. 
Wow. 

486
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,960
The wrong words said at the 
wrong time. 

487
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,160
You may not even think about it.
Someone else would think about 

488
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,000
it for a long time. 
And you know this is true 

489
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,840
because the opposite is true. 
You've had this inflicted upon 

490
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,000
your life. 
And before you get too caught up

491
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,120
on me, listen. 
We've all done this in ways that

492
00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:48,080
we wish we could take back. 
And I wish that was the worst 

493
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,800
thing that I ever said. 
I'm sure it wasn't. 

494
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:54,080
I'm sure it wasn't. 
But what have we done with our 

495
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,560
mouths? 
That the power of right words is

496
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:02,920
great, but the power of wrong 
words is also great when you 

497
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,160
take our words and line them up 
with Scripture. 

498
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,440
Words that speak health. 
Words that speak truth but yet 

499
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,360
that speak health. 
Words that help lead people to 

500
00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:16,480
repentance if there's problems, 
but words that help build people

501
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,800
up to become more like Christ. 
Words that even when there are 

502
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,680
issues that are handled in ways 
that are Christ like and filled 

503
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,840
with the Spirit. 
Oh, there's power and wrong 

504
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,880
words. 
But #2 I also see this. 

505
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,120
There's power and right words. 
There's power and right words. 

506
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,960
Joab in chapter #6 reminds 
Eliphaz and his two friends 

507
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,120
about the power of right words. 
And they're going to go back and

508
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:45,480
forth, chapter after chapter 
after chapter. 

509
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,040
Proverbs 25, verse 11 says a 
word fitly spoken is like apples

510
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,680
of gold in pictures of silver. 
Think about the beauty of a 

511
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,880
great painting. 
Now imagine the amount of money,

512
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,320
of the value of a great painting
with gold and silver. 

513
00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:08,600
You know to have it framed in 
such a way, the power of words 

514
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:13,040
fitly spoken or more beautiful 
than that, what they can do to 

515
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,240
someone's life. 
The Proverbs 12/18 says the 

516
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,960
tongue of the wise is health. 
Ephesians 429 says that our 

517
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,160
words can minister grace to the 
hearers. 

518
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,880
How do we give grace to someone 
else? 

519
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,320
Often it starts with our mouth. 
Often it starts with the way we 

520
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:34,000
talk to someone else. 
The right word spoken at the 

521
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,800
right time could save someone's 
life, if not physically, 

522
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,400
spiritually. 
James chapter 5 talks about the 

523
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,320
brethren being able to watch out
for one another to help one 

524
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,360
another in our times of need. 
Well, how does that happen? 

525
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,880
It happens when you come with 
right words, not with 

526
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,800
self-righteous words, but words 
of saying, I'm not saying I'm 

527
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,080
better than you. 
I have my own struggles, but 

528
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,760
there's something that I'm kind 
of down the road a little bit 

529
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,720
further in my Christian life 
that I, I want to, I want to 

530
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:09,120
mention to you, and I've had 
this happen in my life before 

531
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:12,000
where people have come to me. 
It happened when I was a 

532
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,280
teenager. 
I can think of very specific 

533
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,480
people that cared about me that 
would come to me and say, you're

534
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,240
not doing right here. 
This is what you need to do. 

535
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,800
There have been people since 
I've been an adult and there's 

536
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,240
been people since I've been a 
pastor who've come to me and 

537
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,960
said, I don't think this is 
right now. 

538
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,440
I'll be honest with you, now 
that I'm a pastor, if I'm not 

539
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,000
careful, I can kind of bow up a 
little bit. 

540
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:38,040
Well, you know who I am, You 
know who I am a Sinner saved by 

541
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,160
the grace of God like anyone 
else and we ought to be able to 

542
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,040
handle. 
Now if you come to somebody 

543
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,000
about a need, you handle it with
the right spirit yourself. 

544
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,040
But at the same time we should 
be able to with one another, be 

545
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:51,640
able to help with it, not in a 
spirit. 

546
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,160
Again of self righteousness. 
Christ makes that clear. 

547
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,880
You better take care of your own
business in your eye before you 

548
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,320
take care of someone else's 
business. 

549
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,920
But when that does happen, can 
you use right words? 

550
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,920
The right words can make a huge 
difference and, and to be clear,

551
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,760
how forcible our right words is 
not about the number of the 

552
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,440
words. 
It's about the power of the 

553
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,400
words that are used. 
In fact, sometimes we use so 

554
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,880
many words we dilute the power 
of the words because we keep 

555
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,200
talking. 
You say, well, if a 40 minute 

556
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,840
sermon is good, then an hour 
sermon is better. 

557
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:27,640
Actually, nobody says that, 
never mind. 

558
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,520
But but think about 40 minutes 
of truth is good. 

559
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,000
An hour ought to be better. 
Maybe not. 

560
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,640
I've heard some pretty powerful 
sermons log in right at 30 

561
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,320
minutes. 
Well, I mean, the pastor's not 

562
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,400
really doing well. 
The power of the word is there, 

563
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,080
and you leave it there so that 
people understand and not dilute

564
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:47,960
it just by speaking more and 
more and more and more, and by 

565
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,520
the time you're done, people 
don't even remember what you 

566
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,320
said 30 minutes ago. 
There's something to that. 

567
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,840
There's power and right words. 
There's the power of the wrong 

568
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:55,880
words that came from the 
friends. 

569
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,160
There's power of the right words
that comes through Job's 

570
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,040
humility. 
But also Speaking of the word of

571
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,840
God, there's power in perfect 
words, the power of perfect 

572
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,520
words. 
Say pastor, where were their 

573
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,680
perfect words in Job? 
Well, after the four friends 

574
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:16,680
so-called had their peace. 
Well, God said his peace and 

575
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,080
you're likely aware of what took
place next is that when God 

576
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,600
spoke, he didn't even deal with 
those four guys. 

577
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:29,920
He deals right with Job and he 
says, were you there when I and 

578
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,840
starts asking him questions 
because a lot of times if we're 

579
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,080
not careful, we can play 
armchair quarterback with God. 

580
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:37,480
God, why are you doing this to 
me? 

581
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,800
Why is this happening to me? 
I've been serving you. 

582
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,160
I thought you were going to do 
more for me. 

583
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:44,440
And God just asked him some 
questions. 

584
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,800
It's almost as if God says this,
I'll answer your questions if 

585
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,520
you can answer mine. 
And he asked some questions that

586
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,640
Job's never going to answer 
because these are questions that

587
00:30:54,640 --> 00:31:00,000
came from eternity past. 
And Job is so overwhelmed by the

588
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,040
words of God that he says at the
end of the book, he says, I'm a 

589
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,440
worm. 
Who am I? 

590
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:11,080
Because just like Isaiah in 
Isaiah chapter 6, when you truly

591
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,000
see God for who you are, for who
he is, you see yourself or who 

592
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,040
you are. 
A lot of our problems are just 

593
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,960
coming down to the fact that we 
don't see God like we should 

594
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,120
because when we see him high and
lifted up, we realize how low we

595
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,360
have gone. 
And Job looks at his own life 

596
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,360
and says, I can't, I can't 
answer this. 

597
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,600
Psalm 19, verse 7. 
The law of the Lord is perfect, 

598
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,560
converting the soul. 
The testimony of the Lord is 

599
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:41,720
sure making wise the simple. 
Nothing could have been more 

600
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,800
powerful than God. 
God's words, a whole book full 

601
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,920
of words again, just people 
talking and talking and talking 

602
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,680
and talking and talking and 
talking and God speaks and 

603
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,000
everyone's quiet. 
Why? 

604
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,160
Because God has the last word 
for four chapters. 

605
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,840
Do you know, can you do this? 
Were you there? 

606
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,760
Job says I was not, I cannot and
I do not know. 

607
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,240
So I leave this in your capable 
hands. 

608
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:15,960
Lord, the words that we need 
every day to make sure our words

609
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:20,200
are right. 
Are these perfect words that we 

610
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,800
have here, the word of God. 
You want to make sure that your 

611
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,800
mouth is right. 
Start every day in the Word of 

612
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,400
God, because the Word of God 
will remind us who we are and 

613
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,000
what we need to be now every day
when you read the Bible, it's 

614
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,000
not going to necessarily be 
about your mouth, but just when 

615
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,680
you read more about the holiness
of God, you read more of 

616
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,840
examples of people who use words
rightly and wrongly. 

617
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:50,480
You should start to realize I 
need to be careful in how I 

618
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,480
talk. 
I need to be careful with what I

619
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,840
say. 
The words we need the most every

620
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,760
day are the perfect, never 
changing words of God. 

621
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,040
What does it say in Second 
Timothy 316? 

622
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,000
All Scripture is given by 
inspiration of God, and it's 

623
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:09,080
probably for doctrine, for 
reproof, for correction, for 

624
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,440
instruction and righteousness. 
The man of God may be perfect, 

625
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,560
thoroughly furnished unto all 
good works. 

626
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,600
And I love that verse and the 
reason why those verses, the 

627
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,680
reason why doctrine, that's 
what's right for reproof, that's

628
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:25,440
what's wrong for correction. 
That's how to make things right 

629
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,320
when something's wrong and 
instruction and righteousness. 

630
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,680
That's once you make it right, 
how do you stay right? 

631
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,160
The Word of God tells what's 
right, what's wrong, how to get 

632
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,600
right, how to stay right. 
What more do you need? 

633
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,320
That's everything of the 
Christian life. 

634
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,480
And that's why Paul tells us 
that that everything that we 

635
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:49,040
need that pertains to life and 
godliness is found in this book.

636
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,960
The answers are all here. 
And if you want to have right 

637
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,680
words, you got to be in the 
word. 

638
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,000
If you want to speak rightly, 
you must have communion with the

639
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,200
one who always speaks rightly 
because he is right and he is 

640
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:10,040
holy and he is just the powerful
words of God. 

641
00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:14,480
It's what we need. 
What's the end of the story, The

642
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:18,520
book of Job, you might ask? 
Well, again, God does not 

643
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:23,000
directly address the four men. 
He addresses them through Job. 

644
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,080
And interestingly enough, he 
doesn't mention Ella, who at 

645
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,480
all, because Ella, who is the 
young man, he kind of swooped in

646
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,440
and he was probably more foolish
than the rest of them because he

647
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,080
thought he was young and he knew
more than these old guys. 

648
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:35,440
And God doesn't even address 
him. 

649
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:40,199
It's like he wasn't even there. 
But Job, God works through Job 

650
00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:42,159
for the men. 
And he says this about the three

651
00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:45,360
friends. 
He says this, Job, you make 

652
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,560
sacrifice on their behalf. 
You help them get right. 

653
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,840
And I believe that was for one 
very clear reason. 

654
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,720
It was to show those men that 
God didn't approve of the way 

655
00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:02,120
they spoke. 
Job was real. 

656
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,440
He was raw. 
He didn't say everything right, 

657
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,960
but it came from a heart that 
wanted to be right with the 

658
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,560
Lord. 
That doesn't mean because you 

659
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:11,880
want to have a heart that's 
right with the Lord, you're 

660
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,320
allowed to say whatever you 
want. 

661
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,160
God addressed Him on those 
things. 

662
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,880
We got to be careful about that.
Just because we believe we're on

663
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,120
the side of the angels doesn't 
mean we get to say whatever we 

664
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,000
want because we're on the side 
of the angels. 

665
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,440
Well, I'm doing right, so I'm 
going to, I'm going to, I'm 

666
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,920
going to say whatever I want, 
and I'm doing it for the Lord. 

667
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,760
Well, you're probably more doing
it for yourself because it feels

668
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,480
good, let's be honest, than 
doing it for the Lord. 

669
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,360
In the end, Job received more 
than he had before. 

670
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,640
Why was that? 
It was God authenticating the 

671
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,360
way that he had handled a very 
difficult situation. 

672
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,880
We got a lot of issues with our 
words. 

673
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,160
We think about it and take 
inventory of it. 

674
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,680
There are probably things we're 
embarrassed about with the 

675
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,280
things that we have said over 
the years. 

676
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,520
You flew off the handle of the 
conversation. 

677
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:09,280
Someone got your goat at the 
store and you put them in their 

678
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:10,760
place. 
You put that 16 year old 

679
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,880
teenager making minimum wage in 
their place. 

680
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,800
The coffee wasn't right and so 
you went back in and you told 

681
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,680
them off. 
Someone at work had it coming 

682
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:26,160
and eventually you told them 
what they needed to hear, quote 

683
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:30,920
UN quote at home. 
Isn't it strange that sometimes 

684
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,480
we're most casual with our 
words? 

685
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:33,840
That the people we're the 
closest to? 

686
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,280
That seems backwards, doesn't 
it? 

687
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,880
It seems like we should probably
be more casual with strangers 

688
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,200
and more careful with the people
we live with in our own home. 

689
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,560
But sometimes we are the loosest
with our lips, with the people 

690
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,440
that live in our own home. 
Maybe the person you made vows 

691
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,880
to, to love and honor and 
cherish. 

692
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,880
And yet those words that come 
out aren't pleasing to God at 

693
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:05,160
all. 
How forcible are right words and

694
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,640
every marriage that has not made
it. 

695
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,320
I will be honest with you. 
There's somewhere along the line

696
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:13,640
there are words that were not 
right. 

697
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,880
I'm not saying that was you if 
that this is your situation. 

698
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,320
I'm not saying it's all one it 
both sides. 

699
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,400
What I'm saying is there were 
not helpful words in there 

700
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,040
because somewhere along the line
someone with helpful words 

701
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,600
should have said we got to get 
this right. 

702
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,920
We got to fix this. 
What I'm saying is words 

703
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:38,440
destroy. 
But, and we'll end here this 

704
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,920
this morning, words also build 
up. 

705
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,480
They build up. 
They heal marriages that are on 

706
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,320
the brink. 
They heal relationships with 

707
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,920
children. 
They can heal a situation that 

708
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,680
might be on the brink and they 
gets pulled back. 

709
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,320
You could have somebody that's 
about to blow up and the right 

710
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:07,320
words might help them to see how
you take a breath and calm down.

711
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,360
How forcible are words? 
Yes. 

712
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,720
That's not what the Bible says. 
How forcible are right words? 

713
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:20,360
And whether it's in a church, 
whether it's in a home, whether 

714
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,840
it's at your workplace, whether 
it's at the fast food place, 

715
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,600
whether it's with the person 
that visits your home dropping 

716
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:33,520
off mail or packages or whatever
it is, wherever, whenever, use 

717
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,800
write words. 
And when you don't because you 

718
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,400
won't all the time, that's not 
an excuse, it's just reality. 

719
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:45,640
When you don't ask the Lord to 
forgive you, ask Him to help you

720
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,840
the next time. 
Ask the Lord to help you. 

721
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,960
Have your tongue to be guided by
the Spirit, the fruit of the 

722
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:56,000
Spirit, Lovejoy, peace, 
long-suffering, gentleness, 

723
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,560
goodness, faith, meekness, 
temperance. 

724
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,640
Against such there is no law. 
This should be coming out of the

725
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,840
mouth of those who are Spirit 
LED. 

726
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,840
So let's be people who 
understand how forcible right 

727
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,440
words are. 
Thank you for listening to the 

728
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,040
sermon from the pulpit of 
Liberty Baptist Church. 

729
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,680
If this message was a blessing 
to you, or if there's any way we

730
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,800
can serve you, please let us 
know by contacting us at 

731
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:25,680
info@mylibertybaptist.org. 
Or you can visit us this Sunday 

732
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,560
at 800 Washington St. in Easton,
MA. 

733
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,640
May the Lord bless you as you 
grow in His Word.