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0:00 Power Up part 6. Let's get into it. The power of your words. Proverbs chapter 18 and James chapter 3. We will be in these texts back and forth. The I wanna let you know something. When I plan a series, I usually add the0:12 subjects, the message series is the message is lined up, I had them all lined up for this series, 7 things we're gonna talk about that power up our lives. And 1 of them was fasting, and that was supposed to be this week,0:22 fasting. And on Thursday, the Lord said to my heart, really, just put it in my heart, I don't want you to talk about that. I don't want you to talk about their words. And so this was not planned, and this was0:34 a redirect of the Lord. And I love the redirects of the Lord because it just lets me know that he's still speaking to me, still leading to me. I love that because the scripture says that the Israelites followed the cloud0:45 every day, and and you never knew where the cloud was gonna be. And so we follow the cloud in this church. We can make plans, but God's purpose prevails. Amen. So today, not fasting. We will put that off that message0:57 off for when we actually do our annual fast in January. But this week, the power of your words. Your words have power. Now listen to me. No 1 in any of our locations can say to me, you have no potential.1:09 No 1 in any of our locations or watching online can say to me, I have nothing to offer. I'm not gifted. I don't have any abilities.1:21 Wrong, wrong, wrong. You, and I say this with intentionality, you have almost, and I mean almost, unlimited1:33 potential. The world the world will tell you you got unlimited potential. We all know that's not true. K? I am 5 foot 10. My dream was to be the next Larry Bird. It didn't work out. I do not have unlimited
1:44 potential, but I have almost unlimited potential. In other words, I can do greater things than I realize, more than I think, because first, I'm a child of the most high God.
1:57 I'm born again of the Holy Spirit, and God is forming not against me. And greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. So here's what the Bible makes very clear, and
2:09 this is why the Lord redirected my my heart. I knew it. I know it now. As I began to prepare on speaking on the power of your words, I was shocked. I was shocked about how many passages in the Bible
2:21 deal with our words. We believe that this is God's word, and part 1 was the power of his word. But I never plan to talk about the power of our word. Look at this passage in Proverbs 18. From the fruit
2:33 of a man's mouth, his stomach is satisfied. That's verse 20 of Proverbs 18. From the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach is satisfied. He is satisfied by the yield of his lips. Let's stop there
2:45 for a second because what's that saying? It's saying, you eat what you speak. Amen. Amen. It's what that's what it's from the fruit of your lips, your stomach is satisfied. Now now
2:56 in dietary, world in the dietary world of our lives, how many know our stomachs can get filled whether we are eating broccoli or
3:08 burgers? You understand? You you can eat up a bunch of broccoli, and you can fill your stomach and feel satisfied because your stomach is full.
3:20 But you could also head down to McDonald's, get yourself a double quarter pounder with cheese, put that in, and your stomach will also feel full. The difference is the results of what
3:32 comes out of you after that moment. One's good, 1 not so good. And and what comes in when we're eating broccoli? How does that feel? How how does
3:44 that feel when anybody get jived up about broccoli? Anybody ever say, we're gonna have a barbecue in our house, and we're serving boiled broccoli? No. We're have a barbecue, we're gonna do burgers, cheese,
3:55 jalapenos, tomatoes. Oh, man. We're gonna load that sucker up. We're gonna put some bacon on it because it's not unhealthy enough yet, so we're gonna put some bacon on it. And then we're going fill you some I mean, what
4:06 I'm trying to say is both ways to eat fill you up. But what comes out is dynamically different. So look at the next verse in Proverbs 18,
4:18 verse 21. Death that would be burgers and life that would be broccoli are in the power of the tongue.
4:31 And those who love it will eat its fruits. What does that mean? That those who love it will eat its fruits. Here's what it means. It means that everybody and I don't care what anybody says. Everybody loves
4:43 to hear themselves talk, even introverts. It's just the size of the crowd they're talking to. Introverts wanna just talk to themselves or a few people. Extroverts like me, we wanna talk to a whole bunch of people. The
4:55 bigger the crowd, the better off we are. But here's what he's Everybody likes to talk. Everybody has words, some more than others. But you're eating what you speak. You're eating what you
5:06 speak. And what you eat as you speak will come out in your life in different ways. And here's what some of you gotta get. Your life right now is the result of
5:18 your words. Speak that. Amen. Amen. What are you saying to you? What are what are the lines that you are rehearsing in your mind
5:30 when you wake up in the morning, when you go to bed at night, on the way to work, on the way on the way on the way to church. What are the words? Okay. What are the lines that you
5:42 are speaking into your life? Death or life? So I woke up yesterday morning really early, and I had this
5:54 phrase going through my head. And I was like, why is that going through my head? Anybody ever wake up with, like, a phrase and you're just like, ugh. What is that? That where'd that come from? And the phrase was this. It
6:06 was it was it just kept rolling in my head as I was getting dressed. Here was the phrase. I'm not crazy. I'm just a little unwell.
6:18 I kid you not. I was getting my pants on. I'm not crazy. I'm just a little. I was showering. I'm not showered first, then put my pants on. But you know what I'm talking about? This phrase just was in there,
6:30 and I don't and I was asking the service last night, who wrote that song? And they said, I guess it's Matchbox 20. And, it's called, what? Unwell? Now I don't I've I've never been a fan of
6:42 Matchbox 20. I I I probably would like their music. I guess I heard it somewhere. Can't remember the last time I heard that song, but it was in my head, and it was speaking to me. And I was thinking about that word that
6:51 was coming out of my mouth or in my spirit. I'm unwell? I don't wanna say that about myself. And I love the Lord because I said, Lord, I don't like this word that's in my
7:03 head. You know, the Bible talks about taking every thought captive, every thought captive. We don't take people captive. We take thoughts captive. So you take a thought cap as soon as a thought comes in your head you
7:13 don't like that does that's just totally godless and anti scripture, you gotta you gotta speak up. You can't just let that conversation roll in your head. You can't
7:25 just have that coming around and around and around because you will meditate on it. You will rehearse it. You will you will rehash it, and then and then it'll start to shape how you feel about you. The last thing that I
7:37 wanna think about myself is that I want well. So I said, Lord, I take that thy captive. And the Lord spoke right into my spirit, and he gave me a wonderful, precious word. And he said, Tim, thank you for talking to me
7:47 about this. Here's what he said. You're actually the opposite. You are a bit crazy, but you're totally well. And I was like, yeah, amen. I'll take crazy.
7:59 Amen. You can be crazy as long as you're crazy for Jesus. Can I get a good amen in every location? Okay? Yeah. Yeah. It's not a problem to be crazy. It's just about what you're crazy about. Anyway, so I am I'm not
8:11 unwell. I am well. What are you saying to yourself? Write this down so I know you're getting it. My mouth can bury or build my life. Death and life are in
8:23 the power of the tongue. Notice, please, if you will, in Proverbs 18 21, it says death first. Why does it say death first? Because that is our natural state.
8:35 See, scripture says that we were dead in our trespasses and sins. That's Ephesians two:five. Before Jesus saved us, understand theology. I can't I can't stress
8:47 this enough. We have we have a pandemic of low theology in the church. We got preachers who wanna tell jokes and make people smile, but they don't peep they don't teach people doctrine.
8:59 And I'm not gonna save you through jokes. I love to tell jokes because I love to laugh, but it's about the doctrine, the truth of scripture that shapes our hearts. And so here, understand this. Before you were a
9:11 Christian, you were not a good person. You were not almost there. You were not 50 percent of the way to getting your life together. No. That's not what
9:22 scripture teaches. That's what doctor Phil teaches. That's what Oprah Winfrey teaches. That's what every pop psychologist will teach you. But the scripture teaches a totally different narrative. The scripture
9:34 says, you were dead in trespasses and spiritually dead. On the day that you eat of that tree, you shall surely die. And they ate the tree.
9:46 And they and they ate the tree. I don't know what's going on with this microphone. And they ate the tree, and they died, not physically, but spiritually. And everybody born naturally of Adam and the woman Eve since
9:57 is born spiritually dead. Doesn't mean they can't be nice or kind, but a lot of that is shaped by the culture around them. A lot of the good things that people do in
10:09 this country is shaped by the the cultural formation of this country, which is actually grounded in biblical truth, by the way. Amen. Amen. But spiritually, you cannot do any good thing worthy of eternal
10:21 life in yourself. God had to transform you. God had to transition you from death to life.
10:33 That's why Jesus said, unless a man be born again. See? You had to be born the first time physically, and you're born the second time spiritually through faith in Jesus
10:45 Christ. It's a work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes in, takes you, and transmits you from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his marvelous light. You are now a born again believer of God, believer of
10:55 the Lord Jesus Christ. Your past is gone. Your sins washed completely away, past, present, future. You've got a home in heaven. You've got the joy of the Lord. You belong to a family
11:07 that is eternal and unending, and you are now ready for heaven. You are alive in the spirit. And the formula goes like this. If you're born once,
11:19 you're gonna die twice. You'll die physically, and then you will die eternally in hell. If you're born twice, you die once. You got that? That's good preaching right there.
11:31 Born the physical way, born the spiritual way, born again, born again. Some of you like, I don't like that born again talk. Well, then you don't like Jesus because he talked about it all the time. He said, you must be
11:40 born again. You wanna see the kingdom of God? You must be born again. How do I get born again? You ask the Holy Spirit to change your life. It's not, I need to improve. It's not, I need my problems fixed. It's not, I
11:49 need my marriage solved. I need my kid back in the family. I need to. Don't worry about the circumstantial problem. You say, Jesus, the biggest problem in my life is right here. I'm dead to you. I'm lost. I'm sinful. I
12:00 need repentance. I need change. I need transformation. Bring me home to you. And the moment call out to God, he responds. He cleanses you of all your sins, and he plants you in the family of God for eternity. And no 1
12:12 can ever pluck you out. That's the best news you can ever hear. That's why it says death first, because we're naturally dead
12:23 people. You ever notice how easy it is to curse? How easy it is to just get frustrated at the person in front of you who will not take the turn when you
12:35 know they've got plenty of time. The car is a mile down the road on the other side. Take a chance. That's why God gave us v 6 engines. Amen, somebody.
12:48 Move it. Oh, I'm getting in the flesh right now. Oh, see see how easy it is? Death and life. So what are you doing? Are you building or burying your life? Here's the answer. It comes from
13:00 your words. James chapter 3, back to it, it says, the tongue is a small fire. Verse 5. It's a small fire. A small member. I'm sorry. It's a small member, yet it boast of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by
13:11 such a small fire. That's what he's saying in there. Verse 6. And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,
13:22 and set on fire by hell. Yikes. This is not to be trifled with. That's what James is saying. He said, don't think lightly of this. 2
13:34 out of the 10 commandments deal with our mouth. Don't take the name of the Lord your God in vain, and don't bear false witness. There's a bunch of Proverbs about it. I can go all day on all the scriptures that talk about
13:44 how we use our mouth. Mostly, they're found in Proverbs and in James. It's kind of interesting because Proverbs James is called the Proverbs of the New Testament, the book of James. And so Proverbs 10 14, let me go
13:54 through a couple of verses. The mouth of a fool brings ruin near. I don't want that. I don't want to bring ruin near to my life. Proverbs twelve:six, the words of the wicked
14:05 lie in wait for blood. But the mouth look at how it turn look look at how it turns on a dime. But the mouth of the upright delivers them. Jesus says that you will be justified
14:17 or condemned by your words. This is incredibly important. Understand this. Notice that Jesus I don't even know I don't have this on the screen. But he doesn't
14:29 say you will be justified or condemned by your works. It's not your good deeds that get you to heaven. Words. How do we get to heaven through our words, pastor? That doesn't make sense.
14:41 Here's how. This is why we close every service with a chance for somebody to pray the confessor's prayer and name Jesus their Lord through their mouth. Because Romans 10 says
14:53 that if you confess Jesus as lord and believe in your heart god raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. Ours is a confessing faith. Every other religious system on the planet
15:05 is a works faith. Islam is a works faith. Hinduism is a works faith. Agnosticism or good person personism in America is a works faith. Why are you going to heaven? Because I'm a good That's based on
15:17 your works. Christianity is not a works based faith. It is a words based faith because God communicates his word, and his word comes into us and shapes our souls so that our
15:29 words are in line with his words. It's when discipleship is realigning from what we think into what God thinks and speak in the same way God speaks.
15:41 Proverbs 10 21 says, the the lips of the righteous feed many. That's what I want in my life. I want my lips to be beneficial to you. I'm doing more teaching than I've
15:53 ever done before. I'm doing it on YouTube, youtube dot com slash timhatchlive. Like and subscribe. And then I also do it on Sunday and the first Tuesdays, and I do a training leadership class for the men of Waters
16:02 Church. I do this all the time. I am always teaching, always speaking. I want my lips to feed many. I'm having the time of my life doing it too. Really, I am. It's a blessing to feed people through the word of God.
16:15 But we've got to take control. And and here's the thing. You can have that, but you've got to get this thing under control. James chapter 3 verse 6, it says this. The tongue is a fire, a world
16:27 of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staying the whole Let's skip ahead. We already read that. Verse 7. For every beast and bird, reptile, sea creature can be tamed, has been tamed. And look at verse
16:36 8. This is a key moment. But no human being can what? Just do me 1 exercise at all locations. Just turn to the person you're sitting next to and say, you can't control my
16:48 tongue. And then just say this follow-up, just say, because I tried, and I can't either.
17:01 Marital healing taking place around the church. Marital healing. We are powerless against this sucker. The the most destructive beast
17:13 in the in the earth lives in a cage of ivory. Think about it. He'll come to you. Verse 9, it says, with the tongue, we bless our lord and father. With it, we curse people made
17:25 in his image. From the same mouth comes blessing and cursing my brothers. These things ought not. This is something that the first century church dealt with. James, the younger brother of Jesus, is the pastor of the
17:34 first century church in Jerusalem. And he heard the people talking, and he said, this is not right. So what they dealt with, we deal with. So how we get this in control? Because it's
17:46 naturally destructive. Okay, 4 points. We're done. To tame the tongue, number 1, let God teach you how to speak. Let God teach you how to speak. Okay.
17:58 So here's a very familiar passage. When we stood and read the Bible, we read this verse, James three:one. Not many of you should become what? Teachers. Not many of you so let let me ask you a
18:10 question. What's a synonym for not many? Few. Few. Few of you should become teachers. At Waters Church, we got that down. We do. There's not many teachers.
18:22 You'll see me and a few others, but the rest of you are not teachers. By the way, this is why we do not promote Bible studies sanctioned by Waters Church, because I have seen these things go
18:33 rogue badly, go crazy, hurt people. So if you go to a Waters Church if you go to a Bible study and the person says, I'm a Waters Church Bible study, just know it was never sanctioned by the leadership of Waters Church.
18:45 We do life groups. People can share their stories, talk about the scriptures on Sunday, talk about how God is speaking to them through the scriptures and all those things. That's for your benefit and edification, but we
18:54 don't promote bible studies. I don't have anything against bible studies. I just know that sometimes people want to make themselves teachers when they should not be teachers. And then they hurt others. And guess who
19:06 deals with it? The pastors, the leaders, the elders, okay? So I'm asking you to understand why we do that. And we also do it because James says not many of you should do it. Then he says this,
19:18 For you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. Now, can I just say that what we do there with that verse is we stop? We put a period. We say, Okay, here's the application of James chapter 3, verse
19:30 1. I will not teach others because I don't want to be judged more strictly. And just a side note, it doesn't even say that we're going to be judged more strictly by God.
19:42 It doesn't say that. People say, oh, pastor, when you get to the judgment seat, you're going to really be judged, But I'm not going to be. That's not what James is saying. It could very well be implied in the
19:54 text. But what I think James is saying is that when you're a public speaker on behalf of the Lord, the people that see you are gonna hold you to a higher standard. Because you gotta
20:06 be smoking what you're selling. Anybody know what I'm talking about? See, I just got myself in trouble right there. Right there. Your words would justify or condemn. So people see
20:18 that I'm a whenever a conversation starts, and that's always happening when I meet somebody new because it gets to the point of that question, what do you do for a living? I'm a preacher. Oh. Preacher. And
20:30 then suddenly I could just see elevated even they try to elevate their standard of living suddenly. Suddenly they're like, yeah. Oh, they were gonna say something they don't say anymore. Stop swearing. They start, like,
20:40 you know, tightening their shirt and tucking it in, like, covering their tattoos. I didn't realize I was in the midst of a preacher. So there's a holiness that comes around that. Anyway, the point is is we don't wanna
20:51 stop at verse 1 here. Look at verse 2. 4. 4 is a continuing word. In other words, James is saying, continue the thought, continue the thought. I'm trying to tell you something. I'm trying to teach you something bigger
21:00 than just don't be a teacher. I'm trying to teach you something bigger than that. For we all stumble in many ways. If you don't stumble what you say, you're a perfect man, able to provide your whole body. What does he
21:10 say? Don't many of you be teachers. So here is the question. If many of us should not be teachers,
21:22 what should many of us be? Students or learners. Understand what James is really saying. Let's back up
21:34 so that we're sure that this is the proper interpretation. We can back up to James chapter 1. Because here's what James Jeff does all the time in his book. He bounces around to different topics, and he comes back to them
21:43 like any good preacher does. So in verse chapter 1 verse 19, he says, know this, my beloved brothers. Let every person be quick to, what? Hear. Slow to, what? Speak. God gave you 2
21:55 ears and 1 tongue for a purpose. Speak far less than you hear. So he says then the the angry man does not produce the
22:06 righteousness of God. Therefore, put away filthiness and wrap in wickedness and what? Receive. Underline. Circle receive in your notes. Receive with
22:18 meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls. In other words, don't spout off as to what you
22:30 think, what you know, what you feel. First, let God speak into your soul. Be a
22:42 hearer. Be a learner. And notice it says, with meekness humble yourself and let God shape you. The word save your souls, the word save,
22:53 sozo in the Greek. It does not just mean transmit you from heaven from hell to heaven. That's not what that only That is a very elemental translation of that word. So so can refer to
23:05 healing. So the implanted word oh, by way, implanted. Love that phrase too. Implanted. When you hear God's word spoken over you, you're not just getting
23:16 information. You're getting an impartation. You're getting a planting of seed in your soul. And hear me. We're so disconnected from farming today. It's a
23:28 travesty. Farmers do not go out to the field, plant the seed on Monday, go to bed, wake up on Tuesday, and see nothing, and then scream at the soil.
23:40 They understand it's gonna take weeks before they see anything. So when we hear the word of God, we might not see results on Monday. We might might not see results on Wednesday.
23:52 Please do not judge the value of going to church on Sunday by how your Wednesday showed up. You gotta say, Lord, I thank you that today I got some seeds planted in me. And those seeds are
24:04 in me now, and they're gonna take root, and they're gonna bear fruit. But it's gonna take time, and it's gonna take tending, and it's gonna take cultivating, and it's gonna take watering, but I'm gonna change in a few
24:14 years. I'm gonna change in a decade. I'm being transformed right now through the word that is planted in my soul. Amen. This is why you gotta get under the word of God, get under the word of God, and then
24:25 save your soul so it saves. Save so so. Back to that word. Save can refer to healing. It can refer to restoring. It can refer to keeping or preserving. This word so so is so deep. It's so much
24:37 deeper than just transmitting your soul from hell to heaven. It's a whole life experience. It can heal your emotions. Hello? Just a few moments in
24:49 the word, and I'm already back when I read the word of God. Do you set a time in your day to get into God's word? 1 verse. You don't have to read the whole book. You don't have to do the deep dive Bible
25:01 study on your own. That's what I'm here for. You can do just a couple of verses, 1 verse. Just read it. Read it out loud. I love to read the word of God out loud in wherever I am because I want the devil and the demons
25:12 of hell that are trying to come against me to hear me speak God's word over. You gotta speak it out. You gotta just say it out. You gotta this is going to shape you.
25:24 Here's what I'm trying to tell you. Let me wrap up 0.1 by saying this. If you wanna change what comes out, change what you put in. Yes. Amen. Amen. And some of you have gotta start making an intentional effort here.
25:36 You don't have any excuses anymore. In the old days, way back in the 6 13 hundreds, the the church actually kept the Bible out of people's hands. Yes. Yes. Thank God for William Tyndale. Thank God for the great
25:48 reformers who died to get the Bible written in the common man's language. Thank God for these people. Right? Amen? John Wycliffe. I mean, they hate the the the religious powers hated them so much when when
26:00 they died, they actually dug up their bones, burned them, threw them in the river. They were that mad about these guys getting the Bible in people's hands. Thank God for the fact that on these phones, we can use these
26:10 phones to get the and we have no excuse because now we can just open up the Bible app, and we can just press play, and it can be read to us.
26:18 Days when again a great crowd had gathered and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them
26:25 Yeah. So I can hear God's word. I don't have to I can't give the preacher the excuse of, well, I don't like to read. Do you like to listen? So you just put it on
26:37 in your car. It doesn't matter. 10 minutes. I'm telling you. To this day, I still get depressed. To this day, I still get down. But just a few moments in God's word.
26:49 And I have to force myself sometimes to get into it. Oh, that's not gonna fix me this time. That's because that's so stubborn death nature of mine saying it's not gonna work. And then I get into it, and it's like, I feel
26:58 peace. I needed that, Lord. Here's what Isaiah says in Isaiah 50 verse 4. He says, the Lord has given me the tongue of those who are taught. Notice what he says. I learned first.
27:11 You don't get the tongue until you've been taught. Listen first to God's word. Then he says, I've given been given that tongue that I might sustain with a word him who is worthy. The Bible
27:23 gum comes into you, but then it comes through you to raise others Yes. Around you. Someone in your life needs a word because they're weary. But if you've never
27:34 listened, if you've never learned, if you've never been taught, you have nothing to offer. So if you want to change what's coming out, you've got to change what's going in. And then he says, morning by morning, he
27:45 awakens. He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. This is a daily process for Isaiah. Isaiah did not come out of the womb prophesying. He learned. He grew. He developed. He listened
27:57 first. Let God shape his heart through the implanted word in his soul that healed him and saved him and delivered him and rescued him and restored him. And then he offered it to people around him.
28:09 That's how you change how you speak. Number 2, tame the tongue. Identify the words that bury you. Now we're going to meddle. Now I'm going to meddle. And by that, I mean, let's talk about
28:21 the real old fashioned preaching here. Are you ready? Words that bury you, letter A, gossip and slander. Gossip will kill you. Nobody will want to
28:33 trust you. Nobody will want to talk to you. Eventually, you'll be all alone with no friends. Why? Because you share everything. Always remember that if you find yourself in the presence of a gossip, there's a good chance
28:43 that when you're not around them, they'll be gossiping about you. Now what's the difference between gossip and slander? Gossip is sharing information privately that they shouldn't. That's true. And slander is sharing
28:54 information that's private that's not true. Slander is you are transmitting information that's false about somebody. That's why we call it slandering their character. That's not true about are you sure about that? Did
29:06 you actually check with them? Did you find that out? And here's what we always do, and we have an ear for it. Oh, our ears perk up. Some of you got to have a red flag moment in your brain whenever anybody comes to you
29:15 and says, did you hear about? Wait. What? What? Stop. Is this Are you gonna try to tell me something bad about somebody? You have to do this because the scripture says that gossip
29:27 is like a precious morsel, a delicious little morsel. Oh, tell me about it. And do know why it's delicious? Do you know why we want to hear bad things about other people? Because we already feel bad about ourselves. And
29:37 so if we can learn something bad about someone else, it'll make us feel less bad about ourselves. This is a result of works righteousness because you're not rooting yourself in the finished work of Jesus Christ to make
29:48 you righteous. You're rooting yourself in your own lifestyle and your own works to make you righteousness. And we're not righteous in our own works. And so we feel bad about ourselves. And so when we hear bad things
29:57 about other people, it helps us in our works righteousness sense to feel better about us. It's gossip and it's slander and it's hideous, and God hates it. Proverbs 20 verse 19. Whoever goes about slandering
30:08 reveals secrets. Therefore, do not associate with them. Listen to me very carefully. Somebody in the Waters Church comes and say, hey. Did you hear about that? People do this all the time with our church too. They make
30:20 all kinds of accusations about me, about our leadership, oh, especially about money. And a funny thing about the money people. Oh, Water Church doesn't spend the money right. These are the people that never give any
30:30 money. Really? The you don't always get the loudest complaints about money from the cheapest people. They don't give, they never serve, and then they yap to someone else
30:41 about something they think they heard third, fourth party about what we're doing with the money. And they never check. Our books are open. We're audited every single year. We are absolutely above the level.
30:54 And we are trusting God for greater things in the future. But you gotta watch out for these slanderous accusations. Check it for yourself. You know what else we do with gossip? We never go to the person. We hear
31:05 something. We never go to the person. We go to 5 other people and talk about it Or we feel something about a person. We or somebody hurts us, and we don't go to them. Jesus said in Matthew 18, when somebody hurts you,
31:15 you go and tell them. He did not say when somebody hurts you, you go to 5 other people to find out if they feel as bad about it as you do. And then you never talk to them. You just turn those people up against that
31:27 person. That is destructive and dangerous speech. In first Corinthians chapter 5, this is not on the screen, but Paul says this. He says, I'm writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a
31:37 brother but is sexually immoral or an idolater or a slanderer. And then he says, a drunkard or swindler. With such a man, don't even eat. Never even associate with these people. Get away from them.
31:49 No. You do not have to be friends with them. And no. You do not have to minister to them. Get out of that relationship. They will destroy your spirit. Let her be lying.
32:02 Lying. Now we will fancy up the phrase, and we'll say, oh, I'm just telling a white lie, or I'm just fibbing, or I'm just exaggerating. But it's lying.
32:14 And scripture is very clear about this. Proverbs 6 16, it says, There are 6 things that the Lord hates, 7 that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, heart that devises
32:26 wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness, that's another liar, who breathes out lies, 1 who sows discord among the brothers. Look at 3 things in this list because some 3 things all all apply to
32:37 lying. The first thing, a lying tongue. That's in verse 17. The second thing, a false witness that breathes out lie in 19 in verse 19. And the last part of verse 19, 1 who sows discord among the brothers. So remember
32:47 when I said you have a problem with that person, so you go and talk to 6 other people about it You're turning those people against that person. You are sowing discord among the brothers.
32:59 God hates this. The devil is the author of division. God wants unity. He wants us to come together under the banner of the Lord
33:10 Jesus Christ, and he wants us to love 1 another dearly. But these words, these lying words, watch out for this. Don't associate with this kind of person. Don't associate. You don't have to deal with it. You don't have to
33:21 be around them. People will say things publicly about me that's not true. I always say this on social media. Listen, very careful. This is a life tip. This a pro tip. This is not teaching the Bible. But listen to the pro
33:32 tip because it's good. Don't respond publicly. Don't respond. They get on your Facebook and they say something that's nasty about you or about what you said. This little thing is called the
33:43 delete button. Delete. Or the block button. Block. And here's what I do. I never respond publicly. Oh, I'm sorry. I never respond
33:55 privately to someone who attacked me publicly. If they attack you publicly, you have no obligation to respond to them privately. You
34:07 responding to them gives them audience, which is exactly what they wanted. That's good. They wanted to hijack you and your audience into their view of you. Don't feed
34:19 the beast. Yeah. But I'm just defending myself. You don't need to defend yourself. God is your judge. He's your vindication. The Lord Jesus will hold me accountable. Okay. That's not. I don't need to I don't
34:30 respond to the haters. You send a hate mail to e you send a hate email to Waters Church, I never see it because the team has already chosen to protect me from it. They don't give me the hate emails. I only get the good
34:42 ones. Pastor Tim really preached a good word today. Oh, we'll send that to him. I love that. I don't wanna hear the hate. I just don't. Because I don't think that the hate usually comes from
34:54 people who are with you or for you. And so you've got to do this in your life. You gotta put up some boundaries in your relationships. Who am I listening to? Who am I associating with? Who am I getting around? Yes. Are
35:05 they causing me unnecessary grief? I don't know about you, but I got enough regular grief. I don't need a regular grief from some hater online or some hater on the email or whatever.
35:17 Don't ever send me an unmarked envelope with 50 pages of your complaints. I will not even open it. I will tear it. You need to do this. These are good principles for you. Because most of the time, the haters have
35:29 no substance. They just want to hijack your audience. Right. Letter C, cursing. Cursing, taking God's name in vain. Exodus chapter 20 verse
35:41 7. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. There are 2 ways that we curse. There's 2 ways that we take God's name into vain, using the
35:52 name of Jesus as a swear word. I did a research about this over the last 30 years. The increase of profanity in entertainment has multiplied by 15 times. 1500 percent more
36:03 profanity in entertainment today. It's almost like every other word is an F or an S. You know exactly what I'm talking about. But there's also the problem of they use the word GD. They use Jesus
36:15 Christ. And here's the worst 1. They'll put the F word in the middle of Jesus and Christ. It's sick. And it is a sign of our cultural decay.
36:28 You ever notice how it's never Buddha? You ever notice? Never Muhammad? It's never Hare Krishna. Nobody ever stubs their toe. Hare
36:39 Krishna. Oh, that hurt. Hare Krishna. I tell you, it's the greatest proof that the devil knows that Jesus Christ is the name above all names. It's the
36:51 greatest proof. Because he not even waste his time with Buddha. He doesn't even waste his time. I don't even waste my time with that mate named Mohammed. That name can't save anybody. I don't even waste my time with
37:01 Buddha. That name can't save but he knows that the name of Jesus sets the captives free. You got television on in your house, and they're using that name in
37:13 vain. Turn it off. Don't let your kids see it. That name's hallowed in your house. What is the first prayer? What is the first line of the Lord's prayer? Our father, hallowed be your name. Another way we take God's name
37:23 in vain. This is a big 1. And Christians do this all the time. The Lord told me to tell you. Anybody at Waters Church does it to you to does that to you, walk away.
37:35 I don't like that phrase. People try to do that to me all the time. The Lord gave me a word for you. Really? Why didn't he just give it to me? And
37:47 it's a manipulation tactic. And here's why. Because they want you to take what they say more seriously than you normally would. Now hear me. I have no problem with you
37:59 saying, I feel like I should share something. And if it's encouraging, I'll receive it. But don't do the manipulation little hijack Jesus. Get him on yourShow more
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