Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, give the Lord some praise and while you're standing, hold on, I still got some time.
Speaker 1: So next week is Father's Day and the title of my message for next week is who's your Daddy?
Speaker 1: So make sure you come, because we have a struggle of identity in this nation and in this world that is wrapped up and encompassed by sin, and they don't understand who they are because they don't clearly see who their father is.
Speaker 1: So make sure that you invite.
Speaker 1: Maybe a father who hasn't been in a while, but today we're going to be talking about lethal language.
Speaker 1: Look in Proverbs 12, verse 18.
Speaker 1: Maybe a father who hasn't been in a while, but today we're going to be talking about lethal language.
Speaker 1: Look in Proverbs 12, verse 18.
Speaker 1: Cassie will also kill me if I don't mention this.
Speaker 1: We are having a diaper drive, so make sure you bring all that baby diapers right.
Speaker 1: Okay, just clarifying that we want the baby ones.
Speaker 1: Oh, my wife's going to kill me later.
Speaker 1: All right, proverbs, chapter 12, verse 18.
Speaker 1: If you got it, say amen.
Speaker 1: If you need some more time, say hold up.
Speaker 1: All right, one of y'all.
Speaker 1: The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Speaker 1: Let's pray, father, we thank you so much.
Speaker 1: We thank you, lord, for the word of our testimony, being able to enable us to be more than conquerors, to be overcomers.
Speaker 1: Father, I pray for everybody under the sound of my voice, whether here or watching at home online.
Speaker 1: I pray, god, that your spirit move and change the atmosphere as we go on today into your word.
Speaker 1: In your name, we pray amen.
Speaker 1: So we're going to talk today about yeah, you may be seated lethal language, so the words that we speak can bring life or it can bring death.
Speaker 1: I have a story, and to you it may sound silly, but to me it let me see myself in a way, literally, that I'd never seen myself before.
Speaker 1: When I turned 30 years old, my wife said hey, you're getting old, it's time for a checkup.
Speaker 1: So I went.
Speaker 1: I got checked up.
Speaker 1: It was this doctor that I had never been to before, this doctor that I had never seen.
Speaker 1: Her mother knew of this doctor.
Speaker 1: I think she used this doctor and she said, oh, he's great, why don't you try him out?
Speaker 1: Because I was looking for a primary and I said, okay, awesome, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let me you try him out.
Speaker 1: Because I was looking for a primary and I said, okay, awesome, let's do it, let me meet this amazing doctor.
Speaker 1: So I went to this doctor and I did a checkup, I did a physical, I checked you know all the little under the arm, things to check, see if there's any whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, but he tickled me a little bit.
Speaker 1: It was weird and awkward, and then we went on about our business.
Speaker 1: Well, he tells me to go like this, and I'm staring him in the face and I'm going like this and he's doing his thing and he says do you know?
Speaker 1: Your nose is crooked.
Speaker 1: No, I did not, but I do.
Speaker 1: Now I have no clue what happened the rest of that doctor's visit.
Speaker 1: I have no clue what happened the rest of that doctor's visit.
Speaker 1: Now you may say, well, that's silly, that's weird, that's kind of whatever.
Speaker 1: But now every time I look in the mirror I see a crooked nose.
Speaker 1: The things that someone speaks to you or the things that you speak to someone, the way you handle things, the way you respond, the way you react, they will linger with someone.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that doctor's name.
Speaker 1: I couldn't even tell you where the doctor's office is in Tyler.
Speaker 1: I have no clue, but I remember the words that he said.
Speaker 1: That hurt my feelings.
Speaker 1: The words that he said, that hurt my feelings.
Speaker 1: I got up in my feelings.
Speaker 1: I left there and I told my wife.
Speaker 1: I said that guy's a moron, he got my money once.
Speaker 1: You don't fool me twice.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pay a guy to tell me eh, your ears are a little off too.
Speaker 1: Oh, your nose is crooked.
Speaker 1: I know it's funny, but I'm telling you every time, literally this is not an exaggeration Every time I look in the mirror to fix my hair, brush my teeth or put my little beard oil on or something to get a little shine to it, every time I look in the mirror I see my bent nose.
Speaker 1: I never, I never in my entire life, saw my nose being crooked until someone spoke it into existence in my life.
Speaker 1: Rebuke it in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Straighten up in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Now, chances are you may not have never noticed it on me before, but now, since I've spoken into existence over you, you won't be able to have a conversation with me without tilting your head a little bit.
Speaker 1: Is it this way?
Speaker 1: Just straighten up and see how did this come about in my life?
Speaker 1: When I was 14 years old, I tried alcohol for the first time with a cousin of mine and I slept, walked, and so I was.
Speaker 1: We had this pullout couch and I was laying there and the only thing I remember is a huh and I opened my eyes.
Speaker 1: Or I come to and I'm, I'm sitting over this guy and he elbows me right in the nose and it gushes blood and it's bleeding and it's bleeding and it's bleeding and he was a little bit still under the influence.
Speaker 1: It just startled him and he just pow right in the kisser and apparently it cracked or broke or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not Owen Wilson bad, you don't even know who that is.
Speaker 1: But something happened to me when I was 14 that I'd forgotten about.
Speaker 1: Someone brought it up later and it affected me the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: The stranger's words you say well, it's a stranger.
Speaker 1: How did it affect you?
Speaker 1: I'm almost about to be 37 years old and I still remember it and I still see it in the mirror every time.
Speaker 1: The things that you say, the way that you speak, how you handle things with people, especially, especially people that don't know God.
Speaker 1: But Jesus said the 11th commandment I give you to love each other and, through that, love.
Speaker 1: The ones who don't know me will know me.
Speaker 1: How we treat each other, how we speak to each other.
Speaker 1: It bears weight and the way we say things, how we say things, the words we use, the lethal language that we prescribe to other people, can end up scarring them in a way that the rest of their lives you may forget it.
Speaker 1: They may never remember your name, but they will remember the words that you said to them that hurt them.
Speaker 1: Emotional scars last for a lifetime.
Speaker 1: Spiritual scars last for a lifetime.
Speaker 1: Mind your words and be careful of how you speak, because the way you speak could drive someone away from God.
Speaker 1: That bears a lot of weight.
Speaker 1: The very words that you speak and how you talk to someone can literally make them never want to darken the doors of a church again because of the way that you spoke to them.
Speaker 1: There's a popular saying I know everybody in here has heard it sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Speaker 1: You know what that was.
Speaker 1: That was a cover-up to the real hurt they were feeling by the words spoken over them.
Speaker 1: Because that is a lie.
Speaker 1: The words that you speak, the words that someone speaks to you, can leave lasting and eternal damage.
Speaker 1: I saw an Instagram reel I think it was maybe this morning or last night and it was this guy walking up and it's King David and he's walking in the pearly gates and he's all happy and he's like, yeah, I made it to heaven.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden you see Uriah that's Bathsheba's husband, the one he sent to the front lines to die.
Speaker 1: And then he was like, oh, who's over here?
Speaker 1: You know things you do in your life, one day you'll end up facing them, whether on this side or the other.
Speaker 1: So be careful how you act, be careful how you respond, because this pain and this hurt.
Speaker 1: You'll remember what they have said or you will remember they will remember what you said.
Speaker 1: But as equally as the words that we speak can be destructive, so can they bring life, so can they bring joy, hope, peace and love to people's life.
Speaker 1: If you have your Bibles turned, we're going to go just a little bit further into Proverbs, chapter 18, verse 21.
Speaker 1: And as I was studying, I realized that I literally got Proverbs 12, 18, and now we're going to Proverbs 18, 21.
Speaker 1: The New Living Translation.
Speaker 1: It says it like this the tongue can bring death or life those who love to walk in, it will reap.
Speaker 1: Or sorry, those who love to talk, excuse me will talk.
Speaker 1: They will reap the consequences.
Speaker 1: When you say something and you do something in a manner that is not pleasing and honoring God, you will reap those consequences.
Speaker 1: It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but there are lasting effects to our words.
Speaker 1: Anybody in here have a mom or a daddy that knew what the Bible said about correction and they did not spare the rod and they sure didn't spoil the child and they sure didn't spoil the child.
Speaker 1: And I know one of the life-changing words and phrases my mama would say to me was wait until your dad got home, woo.
Speaker 1: It sends chills down my spine.
Speaker 1: Now I can remember those words and it literally just gave me chills.
Speaker 1: Words that lasted and affect.
Speaker 1: And now me and my dad are friends, but I still remember that fear that was inside of me.
Speaker 1: Look over in Psalm 64, 1 through 3.
Speaker 1: And this is David talking, and we know that David was on the run for a lot in his life.
Speaker 1: Oh God, listen to my complaint.
Speaker 1: Protect my life from my enemy's threats.
Speaker 1: You notice he didn't say enemy's attacks.
Speaker 1: It wasn't an action they were doing, it was words they were saying.
Speaker 1: Enemy's threats Hide me from the plots of this evil mob, from this gang of wrongdoers.
Speaker 1: Verse three it says they sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows.
Speaker 1: People of God, we have to make sure that we are not shooting our words like sharpened arrows, sure that we are not shooting our words like sharpened arrows.
Speaker 1: We should not be using the Bible.
Speaker 1: See that?
Speaker 1: Sorry, squirrel.
Speaker 1: Probably nobody on camera saw that and they thought I went crazy for a second.
Speaker 1: Something fell, nothing.
Speaker 1: But we oftentimes we pray this prayer and we have this perspective and we get on this defense mode.
Speaker 1: We let one person hurt us and all of a sudden everybody's out to get us.
Speaker 1: So then we come back with harsh words when someone may be joking or someone isn't even thinking about what they're saying.
Speaker 1: Anybody ever put their foot in their mouth before?
Speaker 1: And you said something you didn't even think about?
Speaker 1: Y'all know I'm a fast talker.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you I can't even count how many times.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 1: God knows the number of hairs on my head, but there's no way he kept up with that count, because that is a lot.
Speaker 1: But listen, we have to get out of listen.
Speaker 1: Anybody ever been hurt in church before?
Speaker 1: Have you ever been hurt in church before?
Speaker 1: Have you ever been hurt in church?
Speaker 1: Has words from someone in church been said to you and you took it home with you and ate on it for months?
Speaker 1: This is easy to do.
Speaker 1: I had a friend, one of my best friends, in junior high when I came to Texas seventh, eighth and all the way through 12 and graduated together, my best friend Julian.
Speaker 1: He called me up last night.
Speaker 1: He said seventh, eighth and all the way through 12 and graduated together, my best friend Julian.
Speaker 1: He called me up last night and he said hey, man, I need some advice.
Speaker 1: He said I know you're on a new level now and you're a pastor.
Speaker 1: I said yes, I know all the word from cover to cover and magically I don't do anything wrong anymore.
Speaker 1: That's how we view church people.
Speaker 1: Because you're in church, because you're in church, you're not supposed to say anything that's mean come on, come on.
Speaker 1: You're not saying amen, because you know it's true, it's easy to do, it's easy to bring the world on our shoulders inside of the church and then we respond in worldly ways.
Speaker 1: But we need to get past the woe is me mentality and the thought process and we have the authority, through Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, to cast out demons, and they have to leave.
Speaker 1: We can speak to sickness and it has to leave the body.
Speaker 1: We can call to dry bones and they have to come back to life.
Speaker 1: This authority is available to every person under the sound of my voice, but we first must realize that we are sinful creatures and that we are in desperate need of a savior.
Speaker 1: You see, if we never will see how sinful we are, you can't truly understand how great our God is.
Speaker 1: If you don't understand you're in need of a Savior and you don't understand that you are a sinner, you will not understand how great God is.
Speaker 1: I am a sinner.
Speaker 1: I need a Savior, god, I need you.
Speaker 1: Isaiah, in chapter 6, if you have your Bibles turned to Isaiah, chapter 6, we're going to read a short story and I'm wrapping it up quick, I'm moving along fast, I'm trying to fit it in there.
Speaker 1: Isaiah, chapter 6.
Speaker 1: Now Isaiah is.
Speaker 1: He meets the Lord in a very real way.
Speaker 1: Isaiah, chapter 6, verse 1, and it gives you a little bit of time frame and it says it was in the year of king Uzziah died that I saw the Lord.
Speaker 1: He was sitting on a lofty throne and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Speaker 1: Verse 2 attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings.
Speaker 1: With two wings wings, they covered their face, with two they covered their feet and with two they flew.
Speaker 1: They were calling out to each other holy, holy, holy is the Lord of heaven's armies.
Speaker 1: The whole earth is filled with his glory.
Speaker 1: Verse four their voices shook the temple to its foundations and the entire building was filled with smoke.
Speaker 1: Then I said this is Isaiah.
Speaker 1: Then I said it's over, I am doomed, for I am a sinful man.
Speaker 1: When you come into the presence of God, your sinfulness will begin to reveal itself.
Speaker 1: When you start stepping into the presence of God, you understand how much in need of his mercy and grace and his love that you really need.
Speaker 1: I am a sinful man.
Speaker 1: I have listen to this filthy lips and I live among a filthy.
Speaker 1: I live among people with filthy lips.
Speaker 1: Do you know Isaiah's job?
Speaker 1: He's a prophet.
Speaker 1: If a prophet of the one true God will say that I am a sinful man, that I have unclean lips, the very job that he has to speak, to speak God's wrath or love or whatever God tells him to speak.
Speaker 1: He said in the presence of God.
Speaker 1: I see now that my lips are unclean.
Speaker 1: Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of heaven's armies, verse six.
Speaker 1: Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.
Speaker 1: He touched my lips with it and said see, this coal has touched your lips.
Speaker 1: Now your guilt is removed, your sins are forgiven.
Speaker 1: What was it that made his sins forgiven and his shame to be washed away?
Speaker 1: There was a purification process that came from the altar of God.
Speaker 1: The reason we don't have purification in the house of God today is because we won't get in the altars.
Speaker 1: We don't want God to put the hot coal on our lips and purify us anymore.
Speaker 1: We want God to come alongside of how we're living our lives.
Speaker 1: We don't want him to rearrange and mess anything up our lives.
Speaker 1: We don't want them to rearrange and mess anything up.
Speaker 1: God put the coals on my lips so that I may be pure Verse 7,.
Speaker 1: He touched my lips with it and said see, this coal has touched your lips.
Speaker 1: Now your guilt is removed, your sins are forgiven.
Speaker 1: There is such power in coming to God.
Speaker 1: In the presence of God, you begin to see who you are through his eyes.
Speaker 1: We are sinful beings, we are sinful creatures, but when you get a touch from God, he will put the coal on your lips, your shame will be removed and you will be cleansed and purified.
Speaker 1: But you cannot do it unless you receive the coal on your lips.
Speaker 1: We want to walk in his grace and mercy.
Speaker 1: We love that.
Speaker 1: He loves us, but we don't want to sacrifice for him.
Speaker 1: We want God to do what we want him to do, like he's Santa Claus, but we don't want to conform to him.
Speaker 1: Now your guilt is removed and your sins are forgiven.
Speaker 1: Then I heard the Lord asking listen to me, church people today.
Speaker 1: If you have been cleansed and washed and forgiven and your shame is gone, now it is time to start working in the fields.
Speaker 1: We are living in a time where sin is running more rampant than I have ever seen.
Speaker 1: They are glorifying and they are tainting what truth is and painting it up, but they are still whitewashed tombs.
Speaker 1: They are still being hypocritical.
Speaker 1: They don't even understand what truth is because they will not receive the coal and the purification of God.
Speaker 1: If you have received this, you need to get busy, because the harvest is full, because where much sin abides, greater the harvest of God will grow.
Speaker 1: Of God will grow, because when sin is prevalent, god shows up and reveals.
Speaker 1: It says then I heard the Lord asking listen y'all, when God saved me, when God restored me, there was nothing that he would ask me to do that I would not do.
Speaker 1: You see, the problem with the modern church today is that people come and they want to be filled, but they won't do any pouring out.
Speaker 1: They don't want to be sent, they don't want to be working in the fields, they want to come and just get their little checkbox marked off that oh, I went to church.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, god was good, the worship was good, praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: And they go back out into the regular life.
Speaker 1: God has called you to live above a regular life.
Speaker 1: He wants to do more through you than you could ever think or imagine, because his thoughts are above our thoughts, his ways are above our ways and you have to allow God to do what he wants to do in your life.
Speaker 1: But it starts with purification.
Speaker 1: We don't talk about this in church anymore.
Speaker 1: We want to just come and give a good message to where you feel encouraged.
Speaker 1: I feel encouraged because I know that I am a sinner, yet he still loves me.
Speaker 1: Then I heard the Lord asking whom shall I send as a messenger to this people who will go for us?
Speaker 1: There is a lost and dying world, and they may not say it to you, but their spirits are crying out.
Speaker 1: Who will minister to us?
Speaker 1: And it is the church of the living God.
Speaker 1: If you have God in your heart, you are a minister of his gospel.
Speaker 1: It is not brought from a classroom by a denomination.
Speaker 1: It is not brought from a pulpit.
Speaker 1: If you know Jesus, you better start preaching his word of truth.
Speaker 1: Who will go for us?
Speaker 1: And the prophet said here I am, send me God whatever.
Speaker 1: Whatever obedience looks like, I will do it.
Speaker 1: Whatever tough conversations I have to have, I will do it.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is in my life that no one else even knows about that I'm allowing inside of me.
Speaker 1: It may be unforgiveness, it may be an addiction, it may be, but we have to present ourselves to God and say I am a sinful man, I am a sinful woman, I am sinful.
Speaker 1: God, please purify me.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is that is blocking, whatever has built a wall between you and I, tear it down, god, shine your holy light in every dark area of my life.
Speaker 1: And he said yes, and go and say this to the people Listen carefully, but do not understand.
Speaker 1: This confused me.
Speaker 1: Watch closely, but learn nothing.
Speaker 1: Harden the hearts of these people what?
Speaker 1: Plug their ears and shut their eyes.
Speaker 1: That way they will not see with their fleshly eyes.
Speaker 1: How many of you know?
Speaker 1: The heart is deceiving.
Speaker 1: It will trick you and make you feel something that is a false.
Speaker 1: You see, we want to read the word of God through our lens.
Speaker 1: We want to hear his voice, but we don't want to listen.
Speaker 1: We listen in the way that we want.
Speaker 1: We plug our ears, shut their eyes.
Speaker 1: That way they will not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their hearts, and they will turn to me for healing.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a place where you didn't understand and you had no clue?
Speaker 1: What you saw?
Speaker 1: What you heard Didn't make sense.
Speaker 1: It only looked like doom.
Speaker 1: Until you begin to see things through the eyes of God.
Speaker 1: That's why, church, you need to be filled with the Holy Spirit, so that when you don't know what to pray, you can pray in a heavenly language.
Speaker 1: I heard a story last Thursday and you know, actually, brother Vernon was telling me about this too.
Speaker 1: He said it in this perspective.
Speaker 1: I never, ever, thought of it this way.
Speaker 1: I love this man right here.
Speaker 1: He said when they came out of the upper room on the day of Pentecost, the Bible doesn't say that they spoke in the languages of the people there.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say that it actually said they heard in their own language.
Speaker 1: You never know.
Speaker 1: Listen, I deal with this all the time as a preacher.
Speaker 1: I say things and I'm like I get off the stage and I ask my wife did I sound stupid?
Speaker 1: My main question I ask her now did I even make sense?
Speaker 1: Because when you're speaking for the Lord, sometimes you don't even understand what you're saying or you don't think that it actually will do anything, but yet you hear over and over and over again of God doing something from something you said and you don't even remember saying it.
Speaker 1: On the day of Pentecost, they were saying things that they didn't know and understand, but God used their spoken word and he twisted up the people who didn't know.
Speaker 1: They had no clue what was going on.
Speaker 1: Oh, they're drunk.
Speaker 1: No, let me tell you something when you speak on behalf of God, don't worry about how it comes out.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about how you say it, because, with God's anointing as it flows through the air and it hits their ears, exactly what they need to hear is going to be what comes into their mind, because that's what the Spirit of God does, and we come to God for our healing.
Speaker 1: Then I said, lord, how long will this go on?
Speaker 1: Who has asked God that before Lord, where you at bro, about three days late?
Speaker 1: Because our time is not his time, our thoughts are not his thoughts, our ways are not his ways.
Speaker 1: That's why God wants us to release things to him, because if we don't, we'll mess it up.
Speaker 1: Anybody else like to control things.
Speaker 1: I like a schedule, and when things get me off of my schedule, I get an attitude how long will this go on, lord?
Speaker 1: And he replied until their towns are empty, until their houses are deserted and the whole country is a wasteland.
Speaker 1: Now see, this sounds like it's a negative thing, but when you miss 10 days, it's a blessing.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a negative thing that God is saying to let all their things be destroyed and be gone, because there's things in our life that we're not allowing God to destroy and get rid of, but we're asking him to build on it.
Speaker 1: We want God to be an addition to our home instead of a whole new construction.
Speaker 1: Oh, all right.
Speaker 1: And then, until the whole country is a wasteland, until the Lord has sent everyone away and the entire land of Israel lies deserted, even in a tenth, even in a remnant.
Speaker 1: If they survive, it will be invaded again and burned.
Speaker 1: God is tired of us leaving that little bit that he's been trying to get rid of in our hearts.
Speaker 1: He wants us to get rid of it, but as the terebinth, which is a tree that made turpentine, where an oak tree leaves a stump when it is cut down, so Israel's stump will be a holy seed.
Speaker 1: Today I'm looking at a stump.
Speaker 1: God has been doing a work in this church since its conception on this property.
Speaker 1: Now I want to ask you this, and this is a serious question I want you to think in your head.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to say it out loud, because I'll call you a liar From one to ten in your heart.
Speaker 1: How bad do you want revival?
Speaker 1: How bad do you want revival From one to ten?
Speaker 1: Now think about this Before revival, there's usually a drought.
Speaker 1: There's just like we read here in chapter six there is death, there is destruction.
Speaker 1: There is a great void to where God can get our attention again, because when we go through hard times and we go through seasons where we don't feel God, it's where we cry out to Him the most.
Speaker 1: I wish it wasn't that way.
Speaker 1: I wish we could always be in prayer and always be worshiping God.
Speaker 1: But it's not until we're hurt or we don't feel God or we don't see God that we start to really cry out and we get serious in our prayer time and ingesting the word of God.
Speaker 1: And that is when revival will begin to break out, when the people of God start calling on his name and we will put in the work it takes.
Speaker 1: We don't receive revival because the church people are lazy.
Speaker 1: Come on now.
Speaker 1: If the devil can keep us busy with blessings, he can distract us from the divine destiny that God has for every person.
Speaker 1: Under the sound of my voice, we ask God to do things like we've seen years ago, but we won't do the sacrifice that they did, then, holy Spirit of God, break us when we realize and we.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that you need to confess with your mouth.
Speaker 1: Confess with your mouth, but here's the truth for anybody under the sound of my voice watching at home or people that you may know if they do not confess with their mouth and accept Jesus Christ as the Lord and savior, they will be going to a lake of fire.
Speaker 1: That's the truth and it doesn't change because of the culture.
Speaker 1: We have work to do.
Speaker 1: We stopped looking at people as needing a Savior and we just need to love them.
Speaker 1: We do need to love them, but we need to also show them what truth is and show them what real love is.
Speaker 1: Jesus sat with the sinners.
Speaker 1: He rebuked the Pharisees, the church people, because they were all high and mighty.
Speaker 1: The disciples they had to learn and be taught how to get their hands dirty.
Speaker 1: That it's not happening in the church.
Speaker 1: Most of the miracles they happened on the way to the synagogue.
Speaker 1: They happened on the way to somewhere.
Speaker 1: You may be broke, you may be imprisoned, but your miracle is on the way.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because that's what God does.
Speaker 1: That's just who he is.
Speaker 1: Allow Him to be who he is in your life.
Speaker 1: What does that start with?
Speaker 1: That starts by saying God, everything in my life, set it on fire and burn it to the ground so that you can start making me new again in my heart.
Speaker 1: Pain runs deep.
Speaker 1: Hurt runs deep.
Speaker 1: Our sinful nature runs deep.
Speaker 1: Hurt runs deep.
Speaker 1: Our sinful nature runs deep.
Speaker 1: It has to be pulled out by the roots, burned and allow God to rebuild.
Speaker 1: But we have to be willing to submit our tongues to God.
Speaker 1: You know that's actually when I was raised in the Sunday God church, that was one of the keys that they would teach us to being filled with the Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in tongues.
Speaker 1: Is that the reason sometimes we don't have the power, we don't have this feeling, is because we will not submit our tongues.
Speaker 1: And you see, we've strayed from even talking about being filled with the holy ghost because we don't want to be out of control with our tongues.
Speaker 1: What if I look stupid?
Speaker 1: You will.
Speaker 1: What if I sound dumb?
Speaker 1: What if someone makes fun of me?
Speaker 1: They probably will, but they will never receive the power that you will if they have that attitude.
Speaker 1: Is everything that's coming out of your mouth honoring God?
Speaker 1: That should be the number one question on your mind Are the conversations you're having, the words you're speaking.
Speaker 1: Are they bringing life?
Speaker 1: Are they bringing death?
Speaker 1: Are you saying God, here I am, send me, purify my lips, put the coal on my lips, take away my shame, take away my hurt, take away my pain, cast out my sinful nature.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, everything that comes from your mouth should be honoring God.