Episode Transcript
Proverbs chapter 10, God willing, will be expounded in verses 31 and 32 tonight,
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which will bring us to the end of this chapter.
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It's been a wonderful chapter.
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And then again, I hadn't found one bad yet.
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Tonight, Proverbs 10.31 begins by speaking about, if you're looking at verse 31,
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speaks about the mouth of the just, the mouth of the just.
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Rebecca, I think that may have been my favorite picture tonight that you drew
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on the children's notes.
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This won't mean anything to you, but it reminded me of the trademark for
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the Rolling Stones.
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Those of you all who haven't seen it, you can look at her picture,
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it's exactly what it reminded me, the mouth of the just.
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But I love that picture.
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The just is speaking about the people who are righteous.
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Just to remind you who it's speaking about, the righteous people,
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those who do right because they have been made right in the eyes of God's law
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by faith in Jesus Christ.
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And he says the mouth of the just.
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Now, when he said the mouth of the just, he's not just saying the mouth.
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He's qualifying that the mouth of the just.
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He's distinguishing which mouth he's talking about from all other mouths
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that are out there.
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God has given everybody a mouth.
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Everybody has a mouth, but we're talking about the mouth of the just tonight.
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Sunday night, my wife and I were eating supper in the sunroom at my home,
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and I began hearing my next door neighbor talking very loudly.
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And my hearing isn't what it used to be, but my wife's is still good.
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So I could tell it was loud, and I thought, what in the world is going on over there?
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So I started to raise that window up.
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And when I did, my wife stopped me.
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She said, leave it down.
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He's cursing pretty bad over there.
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I couldn't hear any of the curse words.
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I guess that's a blessing.
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But he had somebody on the speakerphone who my wife could hear too.
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She couldn't hear what he was saying.
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She could tell us he was on the speakerphone.
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And he was engaged in a foul-mouthed conversation with that person.
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That's not the mouth that Solomon is talking about in this verse.
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He's talking about the mouth of the just.
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That's just a carnal person's mouth there.
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Everybody's got a tongue.
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That's not the tongue Solomon is talking about.
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The Lord Jesus Christ came to live a perfect, sinless life.
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He went out into the wilderness where he fasted for over a month without any food.
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It's all brother and rich, that's not possible.
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Man, we've have documented people since Jesus who've done that.
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It is possible.
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Besides, he's God anyway.
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He can do anything.
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As a man, he did.
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Was tempted directly by Satan himself.
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Went through all that temptation.
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He was tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
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And he did that, living that sinless life on our behalf so that we could be right in
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the eyes of God.
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He then died to endure the punishment for the wrongs that he knew we would do.
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So he died for our unrighteousness so we could live by his righteousness, his justness.
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And Jesus didn't live, he didn't leave heaven as God, be born as a man, live, die, and then
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rise again from a tomb for us so we could continue living bad, thinking bad, and talking
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bad.
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He lived and he died and he rose again for us so we could begin living right, just, thinking
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right, talking right.
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If you would, in your Bible tonight, underscore the word mouth.
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Leah, again, I absolutely enjoyed you sending me the picture of your Bible where you underlined
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it and wrote those notes in there.
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Very precious to me.
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I like seeing people write in their Bibles.
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I like seeing people write in their notebooks if it's not in the Bible.
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You know, however God leads you to do.
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But I enjoy watching that.
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But underscore the word mouth.
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The mouth of the just.
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I want you to understand tonight that the Holy Spirit here in the Bible is zeroing our
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attention in to one little part of the human body, of our body.
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This part right here, such a small part compared to the whole thing.
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God cares about our mouth.
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If he didn't, he wouldn't have been talking about it, would he?
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But he started talking about our mouth here.
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God, the Holy Spirit, is taking notice in the Bible of our mouth.
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What does that tell us?
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Jesus didn't just die for our soul.
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Jesus didn't just die for our spirit.
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Jesus died for our body too.
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Write this down in your notes, in your margin.
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First Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 23.
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First Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 23.
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It says, "And the very God of peace sanctify that may set you apart from this world, set
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you apart to live wholly unto God, the very God of peace sanctify you wholly.
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And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming
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of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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Now did he say the very God of peace sanctify you partly?
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Mostly?
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Holy.
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Every part of your spirit, every part of your soul, how you think, what you meditate on,
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what you set before your eyes, every part of your body, every part of you should be
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devoted to God to do right.
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He died for your eyes, for your hands, for your brain, for your feet.
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And as Solomon's talking about tonight, he died for your mouth too.
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So we could see right, do right, think right, walk right, and talk right.
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Holy.
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Jesus died on the cross, he didn't just put an arm up there.
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Father forgive them, they know not what they do, and the rest of them just fine, and he's
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got this arm, or just his arms, or just his feet.
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Man, they put a crown of thorns on his head, and they nailed his feet to the cross, head
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to toe.
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He gave himself holy for you and me.
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Body, soul, and spirit.
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When he was on the cross, he said, "I thirst."
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He had blood come out.
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They pierced his side.
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He gave his whole body.
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He gave his whole soul.
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He's looking down at his mother according to the flesh, and he's trying to make arrangements
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for her to be taken care of after he dies.
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"Behold your mother," he says to his disciple.
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That's his soul, his emotions.
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Suffered shame on the cross.
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His soul, when he died, he said, "Father, in your hands I commend my spirit."
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Every bit of him was offered as a sacrifice so we could be made right, just.
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When he died on the cross, he offered his entire person to God as a sacrifice for our
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sins, and because of that, we should offer to God what Jesus offered for us, our entire
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person, for Jesus died to save every bit of you.
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Now the Bible says that the mouth of a just person, look back in your text, "Bringeth
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forth wisdom."
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It brings forth wisdom.
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Now if you're taking notes, you can underscore "Bringeth forth," and then draw the line out
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to your margin in your Bible, and put the word "germenate" in your margin.
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Germenate.
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It's literally what that word means in the Hebrew.
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It germinates wisdom.
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Brother Shevlin, I learned that.
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Of course, I get excited about it.
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Being the farmer I am, the neighborhood farmer, ranchers, I got chickens too.
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I need to get one of those rocking F's and put there in my little entrance, the neighborhood.
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That means to germinate.
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And to germinate, that's what a seed does.
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You get a seed, you put a seed in the right environment, the right temperature, the right
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moisture, the right nutrients.
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After a while, that seed is just going to have that little root come out.
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It's just going to do its...it's not a miracle, but man, it's close.
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I mean, it's absolutely marvelous what God does with that seed.
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It germinates.
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And yesterday, I mean, the Lord sent us rain both days, but yesterday after we had a nice
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thunderstorm, I couldn't wait to get home and look at my garden outside.
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And see, did you look at yours after it rained?
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See, what the good Lord did to it after he sent that rain and any kind of advancement
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that's taken in its growth.
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And everything in a garden is the product of germination.
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Everything.
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Everything's the product of germination.
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You take a little seed or maybe a little seed like that, depending if you got garlic or
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chives or something, you have something really tiny or a little bit bigger, you know, but
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you take that little seed and an entire plant and an entire plant's fruit is already packed
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into that little tiny seed.
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But it takes germination to unpack it.
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And it's absolutely amazing.
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But that seed will never, ever become a plant apart from germination.
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It will always just remain a seed.
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It will never become a plant apart from germination.
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But germination, again, it can only happen when that seed dwells in an environment that's
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conducive to growing a plant.
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It's conducive to germination.
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If that seed is not in an environment that has what it needs to grow a plant, then the
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seed's just going to go to waste.
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It'll either get swallowed by a bird or it's just going to rot, dry up, lose its vitality.
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Last year I put seeds in a desk drawer in my home.
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And sometimes I'll leave them in the shelves or if they're not proper for that, I'll put
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them in a paper envelope or something.
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I'll just leave them in there and pull them out the next year.
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And I put some seeds in that drawer.
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And you know they stayed in that drawer all winter long.
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You want to open that drawer, there wasn't a single vegetable in there.
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That's true.
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That's true, Miss Ann.
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I wouldn't lie to you about that.
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But I took those same seeds, took them out in the yard, stuck them in the dirt and put
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water on top.
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And just, I mean, there's not that many feet away from that drawer.
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You could literally take a rock and throw and, come on Ann, Brother Colvin, you need
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your mama?
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Okay.
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Your son's back there, he needs you, Miss Sherry.
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You could literally take a rock and throw and hit my garden.
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So it's not that far away.
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But they germinated in one place and that same seed would not germinate in the other
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place.
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Isn't that amazing?
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Had I left those seeds in that drawer?
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The same seeds that have germinated now would have gone to waste had I left them in that
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drawer.
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They would have never germinated in the drawer.
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A seed has to be in the right place to germinate or it will perish.
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Why are you telling us this, Brother Richard?
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Because marvelously the Bible says the tongue of the just will germinate.
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Here the tongue is likened to a seed.
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Isn't that amazing?
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The human tongue is likened to a seed.
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And the reason why God is distinguishing between the tongue of the just and that of the forward
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person is because the forward is like the drawer in my home.
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The just is like the garden in my backyard.
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You see the difference?
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That's the difference.
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One's going to germinate and the other's not.
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So just like a seed, the human tongue has the God given potential.
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Every human tongue placed in every person has the God given potential of germinating
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wisdom.
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God did not create a tongue to germinate anything else.
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Just like he did not create a green bean to germinate a pumpkin.
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It's either going to germinate and unpack a green bean plant or it's going to perish.
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One of the two.
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And God created your tongue in your body and your spirit and your soul to be occupied by
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him and to become an instrument of his righteousness.
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He made your tongue a seed so that being filled with the Holy Ghost it would germinate and
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bring forth wisdom.
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Just like the seeds in my garden germinate and bring forth tomatoes.
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I got my first little tomato growing.
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It's green, but I got it.
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And green beans and everything else.
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Every one of our tongues has the God given potential to germinate wisdom, but like a
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seed that tongue must dwell in an environment that is conducive to growing wisdom.
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When I came home after that nice rain yesterday, I didn't go looking in my trash can to check
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for vegetables.
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Vegetables won't grow in my trash can.
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I didn't look in my mailbox.
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They won't grow in my mailbox.
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I didn't go to my refrigerator.
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They won't grow in my refrigerator.
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I went to my garden to check on my vegetables because it has plenty of water, nutrients,
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and sunshine.
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A vegetable seed in the right environment will germinate and bring forth vegetables.
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And a tongue in the right environment will germinate wisdom.
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A vegetable seed in the garden will germinate vegetables.
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And a tongue in a just man will germinate wisdom.
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Not look back in your text, but the froward tongue that is a tongue that's in a froward
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person shall be cut out.
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Now, when we're looking at the word cut out here, it seems obvious, ah, they don't cut
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the tongue out.
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I don't believe that's what the scripture's saying at all.
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I believe that is giving us the wrong impression of what the text is saying.
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As the word just means someone who does that which is right according to God's word, so
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the word froward means someone who turns from God's word.
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Turns from God's word.
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Again, a seed needs to be planted in the garden to germinate vegetables.
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A tongue needs to be planted in the word of God to germinate wisdom.
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Has to be tied to the word.
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It's going to be in a garden.
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It's got to have water.
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It's got to have those nutrients to be able to do that.
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So if a tongue resides in a froward person, then that tongue is going to rot and perish.
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And the Hebrew word that's translated cut out here in the King James translation means
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to perish.
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Just like that seed in my drawer.
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Does it mean it's going to be taken out of the drawer?
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It means it's going to die there.
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It's going to lose its potential there.
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It's going to lose its vitality and perish.
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It's the same word, this Hebrew word translated cut out.
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And I believe to me it would have been better translated.
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In fact, if you're taking notes right out in your margin, cut off instead of cut out.
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Cut off.
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It's the same word that God used when he spoke about the people who were destroyed in Noah's
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flood.
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In Genesis chapter nine verse eleven, Genesis chapter nine verse eleven, God said, "And
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I will establish my covenant with you.
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Neither shall all flesh be cut off."
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That's the same word.
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Same Hebrew word.
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He didn't say neither shall all flesh be cut out.
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He's not going to carve out some flesh.
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He's not going to cut out a tongue.
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That the tongue will be cut off or again perish.
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It's going to die, not having germinated.
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He said neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of a flood.
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Neither shall there anymore be a flood to destroy the earth.
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Just as vegetables can only be found in my garden, so wisdom can only be found in the
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tongue of a person who dwells in God's word.
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For a person doesn't do that.
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The tongues of all who reject God's word shall perish without ever bearing the fruit of God's
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wisdom.
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Here's a kingdom truth free tonight.
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You share God's wisdom.
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You are bearing fruit.
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When people listen to the wisdom you speak, they are eating it.
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When you share God's wisdom, you are bearing fruit.
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When people listen, take heed to the words you speak, they are eating that fruit.
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People always worry about bearing fruit.
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I don't know if I'm bearing fruit.
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Wisdom is the fruit that's germinated by the tongue of a just person.
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Wisdom said, look if you would in verse 32, "The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable."
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Undo score that word acceptable.
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We're not moving to a new topic.
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We are continuing the thought.
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He's expounding on what he's saying here because the lips of the righteous, the same as the
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tongue of the just, it's the same thing.
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Those lips know what is acceptable because they know God's word.
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They know what is acceptable to God.
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So they're going to speak what is acceptable to God.
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Now here's a blessing for you.
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The Hebrew word translated acceptable is the same word used in the Old Testament to describe
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God accepting the gifts that the high priest offer him.
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Isn't that good?
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High priests offer sacrifice to God, offer something to God, and God accepts it.
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It's acceptable to him.
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The righteous lips know what is acceptable to God.
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Man, you know when I get up here and I start preaching the gospel and I preach Jesus Christ
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to him crucified and that gospel's coming from his tongue and it's been formed by these
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lips.
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Do you know why?
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The, the, the, my tongue and my lips preached the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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They know what's acceptable to God.
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Are you ready for the blessing?
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This word acceptable here has a root word in the root word means to satisfy a debt.
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Is that good or what?
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To satisfy a debt meant everything that God accepted by those priests in the Old Testament
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was only acceptable to him because the debt was paid on that day of atonement.
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That's the only reason.
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It was paid figuratively.
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It was paid legally pointing to the day when one day the true high priest would pay it
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literally and practically by giving his all on the cross.
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But it means to satisfy a debt.
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The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable because they know we are only acceptable in
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Jesus Christ who satisfied our debt.
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So our language betrays our knowledge of Jesus.
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Make sense?
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How we speak comes back to what we believe in Jesus Christ.
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Our speech gives us a way that we're Christians.
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It should.
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If child of God, if you put your faith in Jesus Christ as your savior, man speak that
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which is acceptable to God.
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Don't offer to me what God doesn't accept.
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If it's not acceptable to God, don't say it to me.
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Had a man out here one day in the parking lot after church.
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He was just a visitor here.
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Man, he started cussing up a storm.
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Oh my goodness.
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Wouldn't do it inside the church.
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He'd do it out there.
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That's the difference.
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The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable because they know what's acceptable to him.
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So here's a conclusion for you tonight.
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The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable because they know we are only acceptable in
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Jesus Christ who satisfied our debt.
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Those who are accepted by God speak of things that are acceptable to God.
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Those who are accepted by God speak of things that are acceptable to God.
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That's just the way it works.
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It doesn't mean that someone may not slip up and say something they shouldn't say.
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If you've been in the habit of cursing for the past 50 years and suddenly become a believer
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in Jesus Christ, that doesn't mean that your old habits are just going to suddenly vanish.
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We have to learn.
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We have to grow.
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Wisdom germinates, right?
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It starts off as a sprout.
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It doesn't start off with all the fruit on it.
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So don't be kicking yourself and thinking, "Ah, something's wrong with me.
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There's something wrong with you."
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But the people will take care of it.
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You just yield that tongue to God.
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It'll germinate and bear fruit.
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It'll get there.
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Give it time to grow.
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Here's a kingdom truth for you tonight.
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Remember the lips of the righteous know what is acceptable.
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A Hebrew root word, "to pay off a debt."
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The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable.
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With that in mind, here's a kingdom truth for you.
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The lips of the righteous speak of the gospel, and the gospel is spoken by the lips of the
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righteous.
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I'll say it again.
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The lips of the righteous speak of the gospel, and the gospel is spoken by the lips of the
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righteous.
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I heard someone say one time, I may have shared it with you.
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I heard someone say one time, they said, "Would you speak any other language in English?"
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And they said, "Yes, I speak Canaan."
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What he was saying was, "I know a language that only the redeemed can understand."
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There's some people I've listened to when they start talking about their salvation.
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They start talking about the gospel.
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And as they're explaining it and they're sharing it, I say to myself, "That's a saved person
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right there."
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I mean, there's absolutely no way that a person can communicate those experiences of their
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faith in Jesus Christ that are absolutely unique to a born-again child of God without
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being justified, without being righteous.
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The lips of the righteous speak the gospel.
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They know what is acceptable to God.
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In those who know what is acceptable to God, they speak it.
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And so if you have the lips of the righteous, you'll speak the gospel, and the gospel is
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spoken by the lips of the righteous.
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You may have someone get up and say the word gospel.
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You may have someone talk about the gospel, talk about Jesus and all those things, and
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just be as lost as they can be.
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But when they start speaking Canaan, it rings in the ear of another believer.
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And they say, "Oh, you've been to the cross, haven't you?"
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But I went outside today. We had so much rain, I had a plum tree falling over.
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And so I thought, "Man, if it goes over any further, it's just going to snap the roots."
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So I got something.
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I drove a fence post in the ground.
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And before I came to church, I pulled that tree back up straight.
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Well, when I come back in the house, I got the backyard on my boots.
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I mean, you can't help but track that stuff wherever you go.
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Sticky mud on my boots.
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You know what?
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If you've been to the cross, you're going to get calvary on your boots.
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You will.
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You'll get calvary on your boots.
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And there's only one way to get it on your boots, and that's to go there.
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Man, oh man, you can track calvary soil in my house anytime, by the way.
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We won't clean that off the carpet in here.
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But if you look back in your text as we begin to close,
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but the mouth of the wicked speaketh fraudworthiness.
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It's different.
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The wicked can't speak Canaan.
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Oh, they can be good counterfeits.
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But you know what, oh, Judas?
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You listen, there's only a few things recorded about what Judas talks about in the Bible.
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But he never talks about the things that the true apostles talked about.
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He talked about religious stuff, you know, they should be given to the poor.
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You know, we could use that money on something else, or whatever he talks about.
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He calls Jesus, you know, "Master."
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He could use words like that.
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But you never saw Judas look at Jesus and say, "Lord, to whom shall we go?
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Thou hast the words of eternal life."
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You know, you never see that.
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Judas never went to that place where he accepted Christ as his Savior.
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He never understood.
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He never embraced the gospel as it was understood at that time.
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He never embraced Christ.
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Jesus said he was a devil and that he didn't believe.
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Jesus didn't have redemption on his boots.
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He couldn't speak Canaan.
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He could just speak religion.
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And there's a big difference.
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The mouth of the wicked speak forwardness.
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They speak those things which are not acceptable to God according to his word.
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They can't read the Scriptures, digest truth, and by faith embrace that truth and speak
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of it.
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They don't have that capacity because if they did, they'd be believers.
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Now they can't be repeaters.
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There's a difference between parroting something, but even then when they parrot, they have
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no comprehension.
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They just don't.
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They don't have that comprehension.
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If they comprehended it the way they should, they would be embracing it.
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But they speak of those things that are not acceptable to God according to his word.
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They reject Christ as their Savior so their lips do not relish the saving work of Jesus
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Christ.
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If you go to a church and you hear your pastor preach and he doesn't track the soil of calvary
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up and down the aisles in that church routinely, you need to leave.
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You need to leave.
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Everything has to go back to what is acceptable to God.
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The lips of the righteous know what's acceptable to God.
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They speak what is acceptable to God.
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The lips of the righteous never stray from Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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They can't because the gospel is the basis of everything we speak and do.
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Upon that basis is our whole spirit and soul and body preserved blameless unto the coming
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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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With that we'll go ahead and stop.
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Father, we thank you so much for your precious word.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lord that you have allowed our tongues to germinate
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the wisdom of Jesus Christ.
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And some to germinate and bear fruit, some more than others.
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Some fruit richer and more nutritious than others in that they teach and convey the meat
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of God's word.
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But Lord, I thank you that the lips of the righteous, they know what's acceptable and
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they've accepted it and they give you praise, Father, for him who died for them.
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Thank you so much for giving us a tongue and I pray that you'll germinate more and more
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and more the wisdom of God to your glory and your honor and your praise.
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In Jesus' precious name, amen.
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