Pure Speech

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Our speech reflects the condition of our soul

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I) Truth

A) Nothing destroys a relationship more than lies – – because no one will trust you, even when you do tell the truth –
Proverbs 26:18–19 ESV
Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!”
Proverbs 20:17 ESV
Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.
B) Truth speakers will always benefit – – since that is the nature of God –
1 Peter 3:10 ESV
For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
John 17:17 ESV
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
C) While deception is an abomination – – since it reveals the true nature of the worldly –
Proverbs 12:22 ESV
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
John 8:44 ESV
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
D) Let your speech be everlasting –
Proverbs 12:19 ESV
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

II) Edify

A) “Unwholesome” is worthless, degenerate, rotten – – it is in contrast to edifying –
Luke 6:43 ESV
“For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,
Romans 15:1–4 ESV
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.” For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
B) We should never speak with the intention of causing harm with our speech – v.26, 31;
James 1:19–20 ESV
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
C) That does not preclude correction or rebuke when needed – ; ; ; – yet it also includes forbearance –
2 Samuel 12:7 ESV
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
Matthew 3:7 ESV
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew 23:13–15 ESV
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
Galatians 2:14–16 ESV
But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?” We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
John 4:17–18 ESV
The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
D) It requires an attitude of wanting to favor those who hear – v.32 – “kind” means to be useful –
1 Peter 4:11 ESV
whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Concl: Not only does speech reveal the condition of the speaker’s soul, but it also affects the soul of the listener. We must consider the speech we expose to our families and ourselves.
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