"Your Mouth"

August 9, 2015

“Your Mouth”

Blessings folk!

We saw yesterday that we are to consider the members of our earthly body as dead.

Col 3:5-7
Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience,
and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them.


Now, the next verse…

Col 3:8
But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.


Put aside what?
When?

Now.
The deeds of the flesh that are manifest from your mouth…tongue.

  • anger
  • malice
  • slander
  • abusive speech

Such has no part in the life of the True Believer.

Remember,

Jas 1:26
If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless.

Jas 3:5
So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!

Jas 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.

Jas 3:8
But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison.

1Pe 3:10
For,
“THE ONE WHO DESIRES LIFE, TO LOVE AND SEE GOOD DAYS,
MUST KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT.

Guard the tongue.
Guard the lips.