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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Talk This Way

July 28, 2025 | 27:40

Greg Laurie - Talk This Way
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
#WordofGod #Family #Control #Faithfulness #Strength #Gossip #Responsibility #Encouragement #Praise

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Talk This Way | July 28, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: you know, during worship, you've got your hands
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  • In your pockets or your arms are folded.
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  • You're not singing even though we put lyrics on screens, and we
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  • Encourage you to worship and you look at someone with their hands
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  • Lifted up, you say, "fanatic."
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  • And then you go to the football game and you paint your face in
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  • The colors of your team.
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  • And when your team scores a touchdown, you flip out,
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  • Screaming, yelling, setting yourself on fire, everything.
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  • And then you look at someone who lifts one hand to the lord and
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  • You call him a fanatic?
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  • Come on now.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: our words really matter.
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  • What we say impacts people.
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  • What others say to us affects us in a great way.
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  • It's been said, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but
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  • Words will never hurt me."
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  • Actually, that's not true.
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  • Words really can hurt you.
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  • You can be deeply wounded by words, can't you?
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  • Some of us remember maybe in our childhood that something was
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  • Said to us it could have been by a parent, could have been a
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  • Teacher, or somebody else.
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  • They told you, "you're unattractive, you're overweight,
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  • You're a failure, you'll never amount to anything," and we sort
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  • Of carried that with us even into our adult years.
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  • Then again, someone might have said to us, "i see potential
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  • In you.
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  • I think you're special.
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  • I believe in you," and then those words of encouragement
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  • Carried us on.
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  • Maybe there were words from a parent, a grandparent, a
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  • Teacher, a coach, a pastor.
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  • Words matter.
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  • Proverbs 18:21 says, "death and life are in the power of the
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  • Tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."
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  • Even the president of the united states needs encouragement.
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  • I read a story about abraham lincoln, who many regard as our
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  • Greatest president.
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  • But he was in the ford theater and tragically was assassinated.
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  • But when they were recovering items from his clothing, they
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  • Found some spectacles, his wallet, and a little newspaper
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  • Clipping that was old and folded over, and on it, it said,
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  • "abraham lincoln is one of the greatest statesmen of our time."
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  • So, even president lincoln would pull that out of his pocket
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  • Every now and then and read it because he needed a word
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  • Of encouragement.
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  • Proverbs 25, verse 11 says, "the right word at the right time is
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  • Like precious gold set in silver."
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  • And i would add to that fact the wrong word at the wrong time can
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  • Be devastating.
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  • We've all heard stories of young people who've literally taken
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  • Their own lives because they were bullied online where people
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  • Said horrible and cruel things to them after they posted a
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  • Picture or something else.
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  • Let me just say young people, if you post something and people
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  • Hate on you, these people don't matter.
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  • Who cares?
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  • They live in their mother's basement, okay?
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  • They don't even use their real names.
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  • Who cares what some random person says about you?
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  • But anyway, but it shows the power of words.
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  • Don't listen to their words, listen to the words of god who
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  • Loves you and not the words of people who don't.
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  • By the way, one of my greatest pleasures in life, i've told you
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  • This before, is to block people.
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  • Not just delete comments, block people.
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  • I love it.
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  • You know, they come in with this hateful vitriol in their posts,
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  • I say, "goodbye."
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  • I wish i could do it in real life.
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  • Wouldn't that be cool?
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  • Just blocked and they disappear.
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  • I don't know.
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  • Okay, more people have died by words than any weapon ever
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  • Devised by man.
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  • I mean, think about this, dedicated to god, our words can
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  • Be a powerful force for good.
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  • Left unchecked and especially when yielded to the enemy, the
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  • Devil, our words can do great harm.
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  • So, let's see what the bible says about our words and
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  • Our tongue.
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  • James chapter 3, verse 1. i'm reading down to verse 7.
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  • This is the new living translation, "dear brothers and
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  • Sisters," i would underline that.
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  • I'll come back to it.
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  • "dear brothers and sisters," or another way to translate it,
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  • Dear fellow christians, so these words are addressed
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  • To believers.
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  • He goes on, "not many of you should become teachers in the
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  • Church, for we who teach will be judged more strictly.
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  • Indeed, we all make mistakes.
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  • For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and
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  • We could also control ourselves in every other way.
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  • We can make large horses go wherever they want by means of a
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  • Small bit in their mouth.
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  • And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot
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  • Chooses to go, even though the winds are strong.
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  • In the same way," writes james, "the tongue is a small thing and
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  • It makes grand speeches.
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  • But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.
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  • And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame
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  • Of fire.
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  • It's a whole of wickedness, corrupting your entire body.
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  • It can be set on fire or set your whole life on fire, and it
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  • Is set on fire by hell itself.
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  • People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and
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  • Fish, but no one can tame the tongue.
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  • It's restless and evil, full of deadly poison."
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • So, what do we learn about the tongue?
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  • Point number one, if you're taking notes, what you say
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  • Reveals who you are.
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  • What you say reveals who you are.
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  • Verse 2, "if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect
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  • And control ourselves in every other way."
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  • In many ways, the tongue, or your words, is a barometer of
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  • Your spiritual maturity.
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  • Socrates once said to a young student, quote, "speak friend,
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  • So i might see you," end quote.
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  • Effectively socrates is saying, "speak, and i'll be able to
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  • Evaluate you."
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  • If your life is transformed as a follower of jesus and your words
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  • Will be transformed as well.
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  • The reality of your faith is demonstrated in what you say and
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  • Also what you don't say.
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  • Jesus says a good person produces good things from the
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  • Treasury of a good heart and an evil person produces evil things
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  • From the treasury of an evil heart.
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  • What you say flows from what is in your heart.
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  • So, whatever is in your heart will ultimately come out in
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  • Your words.
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  • And the fact of the matter is one day we will be judged by
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  • What we said, according to the scripture.
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  • Matthew 15:19 jesus says, "every careless word that people speak,
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  • They'll give an accounting of it--for it on the day of
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  • Judgment, for by your words you'll be justified and by your
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  • Words you will be condemned."
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  • In fact, the first sin committed after the fall was a sin of
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  • The tongue.
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  • When questioned about eating the forbidden fruit, adam quickly
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  • Blames god and says, "well, it's the woman you gave me,"
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  • Effectively slandering god.
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  • Now, i ask you to underline this first.
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  • Let me return to it.
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  • Notice that james is directing these words to christians, "dear
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  • Brothers and sisters."
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  • You know, christians may pride themselves on the fact that they
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  • Don't do certain things anymore.
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  • "i don't do those sins any longer, i'm a christian
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  • Now," fantastic.
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  • You would never think of assassinating somebody now that
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  • You're a christian, but would you assassinate their character
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  • Over sunday brunch?
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  • You would never think of putting a knife in someone, but would
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  • You put a knife into someone to the blade of slander as you stab
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  • Them in the back?
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  • See, this is a problem with christians.
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  • We like to talk and we like to make it sound spiritual when it
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  • Isn't spiritual at all.
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  • Bringing me to point number two, we need to control what we say.
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  • The bible says let every man be quick to listen, slow to speak,
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  • And slow to anger, but the reality is we're often quick to
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  • Speak and slow to listen and quick to anger as well.
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  • But we need to be quick to listen and slow to speak.
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  • By the way, there are inside and outside thoughts.
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  • Did you know that?
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  • Some things are best left unsaid.
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  • You think them, but that doesn't mean you should say them.
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  • And other things need to be said as well.
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  • Verse 6, "the tongue is set on fire by hell."
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  • James is telling us the uncontrolled tongue
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  • Has a direct pipeline to hell.
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  • One word foolishly spoken can be set fire by the devil, one
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  • Rumor, one lie.
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  • Mountain climbers say that the vibration of one whisper can
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  • Bring down an avalanche.
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  • Number three, our words used right can do so much good.
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  • Just one word said can alter the course of your life.
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  • A judge with one word or one statement can decide your guilt
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  • Or your innocence.
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  • Point number four, our words used wrongly can do so
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  • Much damage.
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  • They can do so much damage.
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  • Look at verse 5. the tongue is a small thing.
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  • Think about this.
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  • This mere two ounce slab of mucous membrane can do so much
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  • Evil or good, depending on who it's controlled by.
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  • As an example for evil, think of adolf hitler.
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  • This man through his demonic rhetoric sent a nation to ruin.
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  • His words were responsible for the death of 6 million jewish
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  • People in the holocaust, and many christians were sent to
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  • Those concentration camps as well.
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  • Truly, as james says in verse 6, hitler's tongue was set on fire
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  • By hell itself.
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  • Now contrast him with another person who used his words well,
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  • Billy graham, a farm boy born in charlotte, north carolina.
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  • He aspired to be a baseball player one day and god put his
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  • Hand on billy, and through his preaching around the world
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  • Millions of people changed their eternal destiny.
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  • Indeed, death and life are in the power of the tongue, and i
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  • Ask you, who is your tongue dedicated to?
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  • There are many ways we can use our words to hurt others.
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  • One is through gossip and backbiting.
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  • Gossip, the very word hisses, gossip.
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  • Like a snake, right?
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  • So sneaky.
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  • We can make it sound like it is important, but it's
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  • So destructive.
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  • Proverbs 20, verse 19 says that "gossip betrays the confidence.
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  • Avoid a man who talks too much."
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  • How practical is that?
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  • Gossip is like junk food.
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  • You know it's bad, but you eat it anyway.
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  • Like a translation of proverbs 26:22 that's modern puts it
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  • This way, "listening to gossip is like eating cheap candy.
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  • Do you want junk like that in your belly?"
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  • What a great translation.
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  • So, when i go to the movie, i like to get milk duds and
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  • Popcorn, and i don't know what's going on and i don't know if
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  • You've noticed this, but a lot of movie theaters, if not most,
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  • Are not carrying milk duds anymore.
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  • What is going on?
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  • I love milk duds.
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  • It's the only time i eat candy.
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  • I don't really eat candy at all, but when i got that popcorn, i
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  • Want some milk duds.
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  • I think maybe because they stick to everything.
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  • I'm not really sure, but the other day i was at the drug
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  • Store and i saw they had milk duds.
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  • I haven't seen milk duds anywhere, and i bought like four
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  • Boxes of them, and they're really big boxes too.
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  • I came home, cathy said, "well, why did you buy all those
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  • Milk duds?"
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  • I said, "because i can't find them anywhere."
  • 00:12:33.796 --> 00:12:35.164
  • She said, "you shouldn't have bought them.
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  • You're gonna eat them."
  • 00:12:37.032 --> 00:12:38.367
  • "no, i won't.
  • 00:12:38.367 --> 00:12:39.735
  • I won't eat that many."
  • 00:12:39.735 --> 00:12:41.070
  • And then that night who's making popcorn and milk duds?
  • 00:12:41.070 --> 00:12:43.606
  • Cathy.
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  • She's the one eating them, but i had some too.
  • 00:12:44.974 --> 00:12:47.843
  • But you don't feel good after you eat candy, do you?
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  • It's good going down, and that's what gossip is like.
  • 00:12:50.780 --> 00:12:54.717
  • Gossip will often veil itself in acceptable ways with phrases
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  • Like, "have you heard," or, "did you know?"
  • 00:12:59.922 --> 00:13:02.825
  • Or how about this?
  • 00:13:02.825 --> 00:13:04.160
  • "i don't know if this is true, but," okay, hold on.
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  • If any statement you make begins with the words, "i don't know if
  • 00:13:07.930 --> 00:13:11.333
  • This is true," stop and don't make that statement because you
  • 00:13:11.333 --> 00:13:15.437
  • Don't know how devastating that could be.
  • 00:13:15.437 --> 00:13:17.940
  • But we rationalize it and say spiritual things like this, "i'm
  • 00:13:17.940 --> 00:13:23.979
  • Only telling you this so you can pray."
  • 00:13:23.979 --> 00:13:27.516
  • Oh, shut up.
  • 00:13:27.516 --> 00:13:29.752
  • You're gossiping.
  • 00:13:29.752 --> 00:13:31.120
  • Don't give me this so you can pray business.
  • 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:34.056
  • "no, i just--that's the only reason i'm sharing it."
  • 00:13:34.056 --> 00:13:37.526
  • No, here's another way we can gossip: through innuendo.
  • 00:13:37.526 --> 00:13:42.865
  • Innuendo, a cousin of gossip is innuendo.
  • 00:13:42.865 --> 00:13:47.136
  • That's where you don't say it exactly, but you imply it.
  • 00:13:47.136 --> 00:13:51.707
  • Then there is a subtle misuse of our words and
  • 00:13:51.707 --> 00:13:54.210
  • Flattery, flattery.
  • 00:13:54.210 --> 00:13:56.745
  • Flattery is really lying.
  • 00:13:56.745 --> 00:13:58.881
  • Why?
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  • Because when i flatter somebody, i'm basically telling them
  • 00:14:00.249 --> 00:14:02.651
  • A lie.
  • 00:14:02.651 --> 00:14:03.986
  • Gossip is saying behind a person's back what they would
  • 00:14:03.986 --> 00:14:05.754
  • Never say to their face, flattery is saying to a person's
  • 00:14:05.754 --> 00:14:09.158
  • Face what i would never say behind their back.
  • 00:14:09.158 --> 00:14:12.261
  • Does that make sense?
  • 00:14:12.261 --> 00:14:13.662
  • So gossip, i say it behind your back.
  • 00:14:13.662 --> 00:14:16.098
  • I would never say it to your face or ask you if it's
  • 00:14:16.098 --> 00:14:18.634
  • Even true.
  • 00:14:18.634 --> 00:14:20.002
  • Flattery, oh, i'll say it to your face, but if someone asked
  • 00:14:20.002 --> 00:14:23.405
  • Me about you, i would never say that behind your back.
  • 00:14:23.405 --> 00:14:26.842
  • Number five, if you can control your tongue, it's a sign of
  • 00:14:26.842 --> 00:14:31.080
  • Spiritual maturity.
  • 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.115
  • Look at verse 2, "if we control our tongues, we would be perfect
  • 00:14:33.115 --> 00:14:36.218
  • And control ourselves in every other way."
  • 00:14:36.218 --> 00:14:39.655
  • The word perfect here means full grown.
  • 00:14:39.655 --> 00:14:42.691
  • So, it's not meaning flawlessly perfect, but what it means is
  • 00:14:42.691 --> 00:14:45.995
  • You're mature.
  • 00:14:45.995 --> 00:14:47.363
  • If you can control your words, it's a sign of maturity.
  • 00:14:47.363 --> 00:14:51.901
  • I heard about a little boy that went to a pastor's house who was
  • 00:14:51.901 --> 00:14:54.403
  • Doing some carpentry.
  • 00:14:54.403 --> 00:14:55.804
  • Little guy just standing there staring at the pastor as he was
  • 00:14:55.804 --> 00:14:59.275
  • Working away.
  • 00:14:59.275 --> 00:15:00.643
  • Finally the minister turned and said, "sonny, you're trying to
  • 00:15:00.643 --> 00:15:02.811
  • Pick up some tips on carpentry?"
  • 00:15:02.811 --> 00:15:05.214
  • The little guy said, "no, i just wanna see what a preacher says
  • 00:15:05.214 --> 00:15:08.117
  • When he hits his thumb with a hammer."
  • 00:15:08.117 --> 00:15:12.421
  • And i think there are people who are not believers who are
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  • Watching us maybe in some ways hoping that we will do
  • 00:15:15.824 --> 00:15:20.396
  • Something wrong.
  • 00:15:20.396 --> 00:15:21.730
  • So, we wanna be very careful.
  • 00:15:21.730 --> 00:15:23.098
  • And by the way, some of the greatest saints in the bible had
  • 00:15:23.098 --> 00:15:26.268
  • Trouble with what they said.
  • 00:15:26.268 --> 00:15:28.637
  • Job is a good example.
  • 00:15:28.637 --> 00:15:30.673
  • God himself said of job he's a perfect and upright man, one
  • 00:15:30.673 --> 00:15:33.542
  • That fears god and shuns evil, but yet at the end of job's
  • 00:15:33.542 --> 00:15:37.146
  • Book, he writes in chapter 40, verse 4, to the lord, he says,
  • 00:15:37.146 --> 00:15:41.083
  • "i'm unworthy.
  • 00:15:41.083 --> 00:15:42.418
  • How can i reply to you?
  • 00:15:42.418 --> 00:15:43.786
  • I put my hand over my mouth."
  • 00:15:43.786 --> 00:15:46.121
  • I wish more people would put their hand over their mouth.
  • 00:15:46.121 --> 00:15:49.024
  • One of the greatest uses
  • 00:15:49.024 --> 00:15:50.893
  • Of our words is to proclaim the word of god.
  • 00:15:50.893 --> 00:15:55.531
  • But with that comes great responsibility.
  • 00:15:55.531 --> 00:15:57.499
  • Look at verse 3, "dear brothers and sisters, not many of you
  • 00:15:57.499 --> 00:16:00.803
  • Should become teachers in the church, for we who teach will be
  • 00:16:00.803 --> 00:16:04.373
  • Judged more strictly."
  • 00:16:04.373 --> 00:16:06.642
  • Now james is not wanting to discourage us from sharing our
  • 00:16:06.642 --> 00:16:10.212
  • Biblical insights.
  • 00:16:10.212 --> 00:16:12.081
  • Fact of the matter is, you should share the things you
  • 00:16:12.081 --> 00:16:15.684
  • Discover in the word with others.
  • 00:16:15.684 --> 00:16:18.120
  • 1 corinthians 14:26 says, "hey brothers and sisters, when you
  • 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:21.824
  • Come together, each one of you has a song or a word
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  • Of instruction."
  • 00:16:24.493 --> 00:16:25.828
  • So, it's awesome to say, "i just read this in the word today, and
  • 00:16:25.828 --> 00:16:28.330
  • This verse really spoke to me."
  • 00:16:28.330 --> 00:16:29.765
  • Great, do that.
  • 00:16:29.765 --> 00:16:31.233
  • James is not discouraging that, but what he is saying is when
  • 00:16:31.233 --> 00:16:36.105
  • You share, when you speak for god, you know, be prepared.
  • 00:16:36.105 --> 00:16:39.208
  • There's responsibility that comes with that.
  • 00:16:39.208 --> 00:16:42.211
  • I remember the first time i shared in a public setting.
  • 00:16:42.211 --> 00:16:46.749
  • There was a small group of believers.
  • 00:16:46.749 --> 00:16:49.218
  • I was still in high school, they were in high school, and
  • 00:16:49.218 --> 00:16:53.422
  • Different people were sharing things they read in the bible,
  • 00:16:53.422 --> 00:16:55.424
  • And i'd read something that morning and i was thinking,
  • 00:16:55.424 --> 00:16:58.260
  • "should i share this?"
  • 00:16:58.260 --> 00:16:59.628
  • My heart's beating.
  • 00:16:59.628 --> 00:17:01.230
  • You know that feeling.
  • 00:17:01.230 --> 00:17:02.564
  • Finally i said, "i read something in the bible today."
  • 00:17:02.564 --> 00:17:05.834
  • My voice is all shaking.
  • 00:17:05.834 --> 00:17:07.903
  • After i was done it people went, "oh, that's great."
  • 00:17:07.903 --> 00:17:10.873
  • And then the lord started opening doors for me to speak.
  • 00:17:10.873 --> 00:17:15.044
  • I never aspired to be a speaker or a preacher or a communicator
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  • Like that.
  • 00:17:19.748 --> 00:17:21.116
  • I was a more behind the scenes kind of a person.
  • 00:17:21.116 --> 00:17:24.853
  • But as i began to do that more, i realized there's a
  • 00:17:24.853 --> 00:17:27.423
  • Responsibility that comes with this.
  • 00:17:27.423 --> 00:17:30.559
  • 1 timothy 3:1 says, "it's a trustworthy statement if a man
  • 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:34.196
  • Aspires to the role of overseer or a preacher teacher.
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  • It's a fine work he desires to do."
  • 00:17:37.800 --> 00:17:40.636
  • So, it's a good thing.
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  • If god has called you to do this sort of thing, that's great.
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  • Make sure you're prepared.
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  • And when i stand up, i wanna be prepared and be able to back up
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  • What i say by the scripture.
  • 00:17:50.712 --> 00:17:53.682
  • That's why the bible says, "study to show yourself approved
  • 00:17:53.682 --> 00:17:57.052
  • Unto god, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly
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  • Dividing the word of truth."
  • 00:18:00.089 --> 00:18:02.291
  • You know, people have asked me, "what is it like to stand up in
  • 00:18:02.291 --> 00:18:04.426
  • A stadium and speak to a huge group of people?
  • 00:18:04.426 --> 00:18:08.564
  • Is it fun?"
  • 00:18:08.564 --> 00:18:09.932
  • I wouldn't use the word fun.
  • 00:18:09.932 --> 00:18:12.668
  • I would use the word pressure and responsibility because i
  • 00:18:12.668 --> 00:18:18.307
  • Feel when i get up there, i'm speaking for god.
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  • I take that very seriously.
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  • I don't wanna say the wrong thing.
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  • I wanna say the right thing because god has not called me to
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  • Be some kind of a political pundit.
  • 00:18:28.383 --> 00:18:31.286
  • He's not called me to be a social commentator.
  • 00:18:31.286 --> 00:18:34.156
  • He's not called me to be a life coach or a stand up comic,
  • 00:18:34.156 --> 00:18:38.026
  • Though i'm incredibly funny at times.
  • 00:18:38.026 --> 00:18:41.330
  • Not today so much.
  • 00:18:41.330 --> 00:18:43.665
  • And i'm joking, but the fact is, i'm called to declare the word
  • 00:18:43.665 --> 00:18:48.904
  • Of god, and the scripture says when we stand to speak, in 1
  • 00:18:48.904 --> 00:18:52.774
  • Peter 4:11, we should do so as one who speaks the very words
  • 00:18:52.774 --> 00:18:56.945
  • Of god.
  • 00:18:56.945 --> 00:18:58.313
  • It's a sacred responsibility, and i take it very seriously.
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  • And we all should.
  • 00:19:02.217 --> 00:19:03.585
  • Bringing me to my next point, number seven, we should use our
  • 00:19:03.585 --> 00:19:06.788
  • Words to build up, not to tear down.
  • 00:19:06.788 --> 00:19:09.992
  • Use your words to build up, not to tear down.
  • 00:19:09.992 --> 00:19:12.628
  • Verse 8 of james 3, "the tongue is restless and evil full of
  • 00:19:12.628 --> 00:19:17.833
  • Deadly poison.
  • 00:19:17.833 --> 00:19:19.168
  • Sometimes it praises our lord and father, sometimes it curses
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  • Those who've been made in the image of god."
  • 00:19:22.838 --> 00:19:26.775
  • How important encouragement is?
  • 00:19:26.775 --> 00:19:28.977
  • Have you ever had a word of encouragement just change things
  • 00:19:28.977 --> 00:19:31.647
  • For you?
  • 00:19:31.647 --> 00:19:33.015
  • Maybe you're feeling down.
  • 00:19:33.015 --> 00:19:34.917
  • "oh, no one appreciates what i do.
  • 00:19:34.917 --> 00:19:36.952
  • No one notices.
  • 00:19:36.952 --> 00:19:38.287
  • No one cares."
  • 00:19:38.287 --> 00:19:39.655
  • And then maybe a letter arrives that was written, you know,
  • 00:19:39.655 --> 00:19:42.191
  • Three days ago.
  • 00:19:42.191 --> 00:19:43.559
  • You open it up, someone encourages you or they shoot you
  • 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:46.395
  • A text or someone says something to you, you say, "thank you.
  • 00:19:46.395 --> 00:19:50.566
  • I really needed that."
  • 00:19:50.566 --> 00:19:53.202
  • Proverbs 25:25 says, "good news from far away is like cold water
  • 00:19:53.202 --> 00:19:57.573
  • To the thirsty."
  • 00:19:57.573 --> 00:19:59.041
  • I think one of the greatest needs in the church today and in
  • 00:19:59.041 --> 00:20:03.912
  • The world today is for us to encourage one another, not
  • 00:20:03.912 --> 00:20:08.183
  • Discourage one another, not biting and devouring
  • 00:20:08.183 --> 00:20:13.622
  • One another.
  • 00:20:13.622 --> 00:20:15.290
  • In fact, hebrews tells us that "we should not forsake the
  • 00:20:15.290 --> 00:20:19.261
  • Assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but
  • 00:20:19.261 --> 00:20:23.098
  • Instead, exhorting or encouraging one another so much
  • 00:20:23.098 --> 00:20:27.669
  • More as we see the day of the lord approaching."
  • 00:20:27.669 --> 00:20:30.806
  • The problem is some people don't know how to pay a compliment.
  • 00:20:30.806 --> 00:20:34.476
  • They insult you while they compliment you.
  • 00:20:34.476 --> 00:20:37.546
  • Do you know what i'm talking about?
  • 00:20:37.546 --> 00:20:39.047
  • It's called a complisult.
  • 00:20:39.047 --> 00:20:41.917
  • It's meant to encourage, but actually it discourages you.
  • 00:20:41.917 --> 00:20:48.590
  • Example, you know, you show up at their house and they
  • 00:20:48.590 --> 00:20:51.059
  • Say, "whoa!
  • 00:20:51.059 --> 00:20:52.394
  • You're on time."
  • 00:20:52.394 --> 00:20:53.762
  • Okay.
  • 00:20:53.762 --> 00:20:55.297
  • So, you're basically saying i'm late the rest of the time.
  • 00:20:55.297 --> 00:20:58.834
  • How about this one?
  • 00:20:58.834 --> 00:21:00.168
  • "you're a great driver for a woman."
  • 00:21:00.168 --> 00:21:02.704
  • What?
  • 00:21:02.704 --> 00:21:04.740
  • How about this one?
  • 00:21:04.740 --> 00:21:06.141
  • "you look so good when you wear makeup."
  • 00:21:06.141 --> 00:21:08.343
  • "what?
  • 00:21:08.343 --> 00:21:09.845
  • What are you saying?"
  • 00:21:09.845 --> 00:21:11.747
  • You basically look bad most of the time, but yeah.
  • 00:21:11.747 --> 00:21:14.616
  • "oh you sure clean up good," that's a variation of it.
  • 00:21:14.616 --> 00:21:18.553
  • "you're so pretty.
  • 00:21:18.553 --> 00:21:19.888
  • Why are you still single?"
  • 00:21:19.888 --> 00:21:21.356
  • What?
  • 00:21:21.356 --> 00:21:22.691
  • Is that really helpful?
  • 00:21:22.691 --> 00:21:24.026
  • Or how about this one?
  • 00:21:24.026 --> 00:21:25.394
  • "you look good for your age."
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  • I've heard that a few times.
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  • Recently i went to the tailor.
  • 00:21:29.631 --> 00:21:32.100
  • I was wearing a suit and i needed to have some
  • 00:21:32.100 --> 00:21:35.304
  • Alterations done.
  • 00:21:35.304 --> 00:21:36.638
  • I would like to say to take it in; it was the opposite.
  • 00:21:36.638 --> 00:21:39.374
  • And so, we're chit chatting.
  • 00:21:39.374 --> 00:21:42.644
  • I've known this guy for a while and he says, "what's new?"
  • 00:21:42.644 --> 00:21:45.981
  • "well, i turned 70."
  • 00:21:45.981 --> 00:21:47.349
  • He said, "what?
  • 00:21:47.349 --> 00:21:48.717
  • You turned 70?"
  • 00:21:48.717 --> 00:21:50.352
  • And then like i didn't say i died.
  • 00:21:50.352 --> 00:21:52.554
  • I mean.
  • 00:21:52.554 --> 00:21:53.889
  • And then he said, "well, you look good for your age.
  • 00:21:53.889 --> 00:21:56.224
  • I mean, i'd call you at like 68 or something.
  • 00:21:56.224 --> 00:21:59.027
  • I don't--"
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  • All right, whatever, complisult.
  • 00:22:00.429 --> 00:22:03.465
  • We don't mean them.
  • 00:22:03.465 --> 00:22:05.767
  • I think some people think they have the gift of criticism.
  • 00:22:05.767 --> 00:22:08.737
  • It's not a gift.
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  • Number eight, we should use our words to praise god.
  • 00:22:11.707 --> 00:22:15.243
  • Why did god give us this tongue?
  • 00:22:15.243 --> 00:22:17.546
  • Why did god give us the ability to verbally communicate?
  • 00:22:17.546 --> 00:22:21.850
  • One of the reasons is so we could use it to bring glory to
  • 00:22:21.850 --> 00:22:26.822
  • The lord.
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  • I love the words of david when he says, "my lips shall
  • 00:22:28.156 --> 00:22:30.559
  • Praise thee.
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  • Thus will i bless thee.
  • 00:22:31.927 --> 00:22:33.895
  • I'll lift up my hands unto your name."
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  • You need to express your praise to god verbally, just as you
  • 00:22:36.365 --> 00:22:41.103
  • Need to express your affirmation of people.
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  • Guys, it's not enough to look at your wife and think, "i sure
  • 00:22:44.940 --> 00:22:48.744
  • Love her and she looks beautiful today."
  • 00:22:48.744 --> 00:22:51.079
  • She's not a mind reader.
  • 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:53.248
  • Tell her.
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  • Same for you girls too.
  • 00:22:54.616 --> 00:22:55.951
  • Tell your husband you appreciate them, tell your parents you
  • 00:22:55.951 --> 00:22:58.820
  • Appreciate them, tell your children how much you love them,
  • 00:22:58.820 --> 00:23:01.923
  • Encourage them.
  • 00:23:01.923 --> 00:23:03.291
  • Verbalize these things.
  • 00:23:03.291 --> 00:23:04.926
  • And we need to verbalize our praise to god.
  • 00:23:04.926 --> 00:23:08.263
  • Hebrews 13:15 says, "let us offer continually the sacrifice
  • 00:23:08.263 --> 00:23:13.001
  • Of praise to god."
  • 00:23:13.001 --> 00:23:15.470
  • Some people say, "i can't do that."
  • 00:23:15.470 --> 00:23:17.472
  • You know, during worship you've got your hands in your pockets
  • 00:23:17.472 --> 00:23:20.809
  • Or your arms are folded.
  • 00:23:20.809 --> 00:23:22.644
  • You're not singing even though we put lyrics on screens and we
  • 00:23:22.644 --> 00:23:26.615
  • Encourage you to worship.
  • 00:23:26.615 --> 00:23:27.949
  • And you look at someone with their hands lifted up, you
  • 00:23:27.949 --> 00:23:29.418
  • Say, "fanatic."
  • 00:23:29.418 --> 00:23:31.686
  • And then you go to the football game, and
  • 00:23:31.686 --> 00:23:34.256
  • You paint your face in the colors of your team.
  • 00:23:34.256 --> 00:23:38.059
  • And when your team scores a touchdown, you flip out,
  • 00:23:38.059 --> 00:23:41.897
  • Screaming, yelling, setting yourself on fire, everything.
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  • And then you look at someone who lifts one hand to the lord and
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  • You call him a fanatic?
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  • Come on now, you have passion for other things, right?
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  • You should not have equal passion for christ.
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  • You should have greater passion for christ than your
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  • Team, right?
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  • So, use your words to praise god.
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  • Number nine, use your tongue, use your words to preach
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  • The gospel.
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  • The primary way god has chosen to bring non-believers to faith
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  • Is through the verbal articulation of the gospel.
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  • We all know the great commission.
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  • It's go into all the world and be a good example, right?
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  • That's not what it is.
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  • You know what it is.
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  • Go into all the world and do what?
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  • Thank you.
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  • And by the way, to preach doesn't mean i have to yell.
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  • It can be soft.
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  • You can speak softly, you can tweet it, you can type it, you
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  • Can post it, you can text it.
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  • You can share it conversationally, but it's
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  • Verbal articulation of the gospel.
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  • Now i'm not saying we should not go be a good example because the
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  • Fact of the matter is, is when i'm a good example, it in effect
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  • Earns me the right to verbally articulate what i believe and
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  • Help a person to believe as well.
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  • Number ten and lastly, use your words to confess your sin.
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  • Use your words to confess your sin.
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  • The bible says, "if we say we have no sin, we deceive
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  • Ourselves and the truth is not in us."
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  • You know, "but if we will confess our sin, he is faithful
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  • And just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from
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  • All unrighteousness."
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  • Greg: have you ever heard the term gospel before?
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  • It means good news, but before i can fully appreciate the good
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  • News, i have to know the bad news.
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  • You and i, we're sinners, which means we've broken
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  • God's commandments.
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  • We've fallen short of his standards.
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  • Good news.
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  • Jesus christ died in our place.
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  • He came to be a debt he did not owe
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  • Because we owed a debt we could not pay.
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  • If you will turn from your sin and put your faith in jesus
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  • Christ, you can be forgiven and know that you'll go to heaven
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  • When you die and find the meaning of life right here on
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  • Planet earth.
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  • You just call out to jesus and say, "forgive me, i want to
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  • Have a relationship with you."
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  • Male announcer: "revelation: a book of promises,"
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  • By greg laurie.
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  • Why study revelation?
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  • The word "revelation" means unveiling.
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  • God's desire is to reveal, not conceal.
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  • And this book unveils pictures of the spirit world,
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  • Great cataclysmic events in store for the planet,
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  • And the coming antichrist.
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  • But as greg laurie explains, the primary objective
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  • Of this book isn't to reveal the antichrist.
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  • It's to reveal jesus christ and his soon coming.
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  • "revelation: a book of promises" is designed to help you see
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  • Jesus as the centerpiece, the star,
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  • And the focus of revelation.
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  • With this eminently practical guide, you can experience the
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  • Blessing promised to those who read, hear, and keep the words
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  • Of this prophetic book.
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  • After all, bible prophecy is not given to inflate our brains,
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