JAN 19 2025 | Proverbs: Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World S3E4 | Life or Death – The Choice in Your Words

Sea Change Church · JAN 19 2025 | Proverbs: Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World - S3E4: Life or Death - The Choice in Your Words
Proverbs 10:19
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Father God, we just thank you for your kindness to us. We thank you for sending examples like Dr. King, God, who used their words, Father, to bring healing, who used their words when it wasn't popular to speak truth, to speak truth, God, to be examples of faith, Lord, and faith in action, Father. And I just pray for us as we receive the word today, God, prepare our hearts, Lord, to hear the preaching of your word.

Bless Pastor Adam as he speaks, God. And we love you, Jesus. You're the king. We live to serve the king. Amen. This is the word of the Lord. This is the word of the Lord. This is the word of the Lord. Right on. We're continuing on in Proverbs this week. And I want to start with a question. Do you have a speed bump between your mind and your mouth? Tough question, right?

Is there a speed bump? Is there a speed check? Is there even a road sign that says beware between your mind and your mouth? Jesus actually says your words don't come from your mind. We'll see in just a second. They actually come from your heart, it says. But what I realized is for so long in my life, there wasn't really a speed check. There was a speed trap.

I mean, definitely, I got the ticket afterwards, so to speak, when I rushed through that. But it makes sense why in Proverbs, there's 90 to 100 Proverbs about the tongue and your words. Proverbs has more teaching on the tongue and your words than Jesus, more than Jesus' sermon on the mount, more than any other book in the Old Testament, more than any other book in the New Testament, more than the Psalms.

It talks over and over again about your mouth and about how your mouth has the ability to give you life or to bring you death. That's the main point today. You can write that down. It's also in your notes. You're going to need your notes today because we're not in a particular pericope where we're going to be going through the whole text and examining it.

We're going to be kind of jumping around the book of Proverbs. So if you're really fast on your phone or your Bible or you just have your notes, it would be even easier for you. The main point is this. You will live or die by the tongue. You're going to live or you're going to die. Now, that's literal. It's also figurative. Literally, we all know that certain people have lost their lives because of their tongue.

They've said things in a moment. They didn't expect the repercussions of what their mouths would bring. Mike Tyson, in our interview, said, We live in an Internet age where people get used to being able to say something online that they would never say in public or to someone's face because there's a consequence for that. And so there is obviously the literal sense that you could lose your life.

You could actually save your life by the tongue. There's been times where people are under threat and they've used their mouth or their tongue to say something that has changed that, that has maybe brought peace to the situation. But more figuratively, if you look at the Proverbs, Proverbs is more figurative. It talks about words that bring life to your life.

You can have a plant that is alive but doing very poorly. It does never bear any fruit. The leaves are diseased. But it's alive. But the Proverbs will tell you that if you can harvest words that are from the Spirit, harvest words that are from God, that are shepherded by the Holy Spirit, that are shepherded by things like wisdom and restraint and wise counsel and God's Word and prayer, that you can bring health to your life and you can bring life to your life.

Too often we look at it literally but figuratively and I think literally as well. When we begin to use our words, Proverbs shows you that there is a connection between the words that you use and the health, the very health of your life. Jesus talks about this in Matthew. Jesus makes a correlation. I said this to open the sermon. Between the words that you have, the words that you speak, not coming from your mind, they come from your heart.

Let me read it out of Matthew 12, 34 and 37. This is an English Standard Version. For out of the abundance, there's an abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. There's that connection to the heart. The good person out of his good treasure, circle treasure, brings forth good. And the evil person out of his evil treasure, you can circle treasure, treasure can also be evil, brings forth evil.

And Jesus says, but I will tell you on the day of judgment, people will give account for every careless word they speak. For by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned. That's a heavy verse, right? Right? You're like, oh, remember the thing I said to Billy in seventh grade on the playground? It's coming back. It's coming back.

You shouldn't have said that. That was his girl. It was Jesse's girl. You never should have taken her. Sorry. See what I did there? What is really interesting, Jesus says that your words will condemn you or set you free. And we know that you're only saved by faith, right? So it's not about your words, but it kind of is. Because if you go to Romans 10.9, which is not in your, I added that this morning.

It says, if you confess what? With your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe where? In your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Definitive exclamation point. I don't know how that actually works. Let's say I believe in my heart that Jesus is Lord in a moment. And the second I believe, I step into the street and I'm hit by a bus and I die.

And I never get the chance while I'm dying to say, Jesus is Lord. Do I still get to go to heaven? I believe it with a provenient grace is the word. Yes, you will end up going to heaven. We know that the thief on the cross was not baptized, but he's the first person to go to heaven with Jesus under the blood of Jesus. There is a provenient grace there.

But Jesus makes this connection. And he says, belief, it doesn't happen in your mind. Belief happens in your heart. And belief, they've even found these days that your heart has neuroreceptors that can believe. You can have memories in your heart. People that have had heart transplants, some have had some memories and things of that nature. So there is that connection there.

But we also see that it says in the scripture that in Proverbs 18, 21, which was one of the ones that was read at the beginning, death and life are in the power of the tongue. And those who love it will eat its fruit. Now, you don't need to be terrified that if you said something, it's going to condemn you. What you said to Billy, what you said to Tina in eighth grade, if you are under the blood of Jesus and confess him as Lord, whatever you said will be canceled out by the blood of Jesus.

Now, Romans 6, 7 and 8, you can go in there. It's going to tell you, does that mean that you can just keep calling Billy? He's 45 now. You've got him on Facebook. You are still bringing it to him. You're 40 years from that playground. But you've got a grudge against Billy, right? Can you continue to do that? No, we don't continue to sin because we're under the grace.

But we know that our words will set you free. And the Bible is very clear that if you believe in your heart, we must confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord so it does actually bring life to you. But how do we bring life in the moment? How do we get that speed bump working? How do we bring, you know, a fertility to our words that bring that fruit in other people's lives and in our own?

We're going to look at that. There's two words I want to look at. The first one is guard. The Proverbs uses the word guard a lot. Guarding is a special type of defensive posture. Look at that. And then the second word is filter. What does it look like to have a filtration system? We'll get to this little analogy in a moment. But I replicated a filtration system here.

Elliot had a really good, you know, physical analogy and everyone told me how great it was and I felt like a deficit in my preaching. So I said, I'm going to be better than Elliot and I'm going to do one too. So I went in my backyard today and I made a little quick filtration system. Guard and filter. How do you filter your words? What filters your words?

Or are you unguarded and unfiltered? Let's say that there is no one who watches a reality TV show hoping to find wisdom on the show. That is not why they get ratings. They get ratings because people do not live according to wisdom and they say untethered whatever they want to say. The more the better. Let's look at guard real quick. Guarding your tongue guards your soul.

The words once spoken can never be reclaimed. That's really true about words. Whatever you say, it can never be reclaimed. It can be forgiven, but it can never be reclaimed. If you don't believe that, let me just ask you rhetorically, is there something that was said one year, five years, ten years, fifty years ago by someone who was important to you that you still remember?

It might have been positive. Maybe somebody said something to you that was amazing. It was the thing that launched you to the next season in your life, but maybe somebody said something that was cutting, hurtful. And it wasn't the wound that was meant to heal. It was the wound that was meant to wound. Because last week it said wounds in Proverbs, wounds from a friend can be trusted, but this wasn't meant for that reason.

This idea of guarding your tongue guards your soul for words that are spoken can never be reclaimed. What does guarding mean? As I looked at this word, I was studying this week, I realized that the word guard is a word that has to do with being embattled. But it isn't attacking. It's not running out on the battlefield. It's not jumping into the battle right away.

It's a defensive posture, but it still would be called a battlement. It is part of a war type of posture, but it is a passive type of posture. It is a guarding. It is holding. And remember, Jesus said that what are you guarding? You only guard things that have value. The evil guard their evil treasure. The good guard their good treasure. And so when you are in a guarding position, it means that you believe that you have something of good, as a believer, that you are guarding and you are holding for the right time.

Guards do a few things. They are watchmen. They are on the top of the wall. They're looking. They're surveying what's outside of the wall. They're not immediately opening the gates and rushing into battle, but guards, as we know, also can open gates. Guards let certain things in. Certain things that go into our hearts that we watch. If you watch a lot of things that are emotionally fraught, which is what our social media is meant to do, emotionally trigger you, you allow those into your eye guard, your ear guard, your thought guard, your heart guard.

When you do that, it will begin to fill up your heart. And Jesus says, out of your heart, the mouth will speak. If you have unguarded eyes, unguarded ears, an unguarded, you know, thought, unguarded where you put yourself or where you are, it will eventually get into your heart. I had a pastor, really wise guy, and he said, whenever I want to hire somebody or go into business or whatever, I want to spend a lot of time with them in unguarded situations before I make the decision.

Not to catch them in a gotcha moment, but he said, eventually people will say what they think. It's very difficult not to say what you think. And he said, you can tell if a person is gracious, if they have gracious words, or if they're a gossip. They're trying to garner power and relationship and relational influence by getting you on their side, or they are a person who forgives, and are they doing that?

And so he would say, he would look for that, because eventually, you can tell a person who is unguarded. Now, I want to make a distinction between being overly guarded. There are people who never let that word of forgiveness out. They never give that encouraging word out. Somebody after the sermon came up to me last first service and said, you know, I tend to hold on to things until they build up, and then they overflow, and I just, I never, I don't let it out, and that might be a sign that you haven't had short accounts with people.

You haven't used those wise words to say, hey, can we have a conversation here, a conversation there? I need to share some things that are on my heart, but what I'm saying is it's not the silent treatment. Guarding your words is not the silent treatment. The silent treatment is called passive aggressive. Guarding your heart, guarding your words is a sign of passive wisdom as we see that.

You were passive, but you were actually watching. Proverbs 21, 23, let me show you a few of these verses. Proverbs 21, 23 says, those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity. Calamity. I love that word calamity. What does calamity mean? It means you stubbed your toe? That's not what it means. It means that you got away from the breach in the dam that was going to break and drown you.

It means that you got to high ground when the tidal wave was coming in. It means that you got away from calamity. If you regularly are unguarded in your words, Scripture is pretty clear that I'll eventually catch up to you, and the word it uses here is calamity. It says, those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity.

Proverbs 12, 18 and 19 says this, the words of the reckless pierce like arrows, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. Reckless. Circle the word reckless there if you have your notes. Are you reckless with your words? Have you seen a reckless driver? I recently, this week, I swallowed my pride, and I joined the 55-year-old plus basketball league.

It was hard. I am the youngest guy in the league, so they do a draft. I'm hoping to be the number one draft pick. We'll see. I have to show up and play with everybody, and then the teams draft, so they pick you like you're in sixth grade again, so hopefully I'm not picked last. And one of the things I realized in basketball, that there was a guy I used to play with, and I had a nickname for him, and he was reckless in his game.

He was reckless in his shooting. And my nickname, I never told him this, but my nickname for him was, it's going up. And what that means, is if this person touches the ball, it's going up. He's shooting. It ain't coming back to you. It ain't getting passed. The wise bounce pass isn't made. The timeout isn't called. It's gonna be a random 360 spin behind the back, flip shot.

The problem is the guy couldn't shoot, right? But it's going up. It doesn't matter. If he gets the ball, it's going up. Have you ever met that person? They get a thought in their head, it's going up. It's coming out. They got something they gotta say. They're just reckless. They're just reckless. Throwing it here, throwing it left, throwing it right. Just whatever they wanna say, they're just reckless with their words.

The same boss that told me about the hearts said if you ever write an email, and after you press send, you just feel awesome. Oh, I just gave, I gave them the zinger, right? I gave them the zinger. You feel great. He says within 10 minutes, he goes, you're gonna know within 10 minutes you sent the wrong email. Are you good at the zinger? I had a, a friend of mine came to me, and he said, you know what?

He goes, we were in a situation together, and he goes, 10 minutes after the meeting's over, I always get the right thing to say. He goes, I had this great comeback, but the meeting was over, and the person had left, and I'm always alone, and I just don't have the zinger. And I said, man, you're blessed. You know my problem? I've got the zinger, bro. It is there.

I am ready to rock and roll with that zinger. But the scripture says, are you able to guard that and able not to be reckless with your words? Francis DeSalis, great Christian thinker, said when you speak, remember that your words are like arrows. If they're shot carelessly, they may wound deeply, but if guided by love, they can bring healing. And the words talk about that.

They're going to bring life or death. Final thing about guarding is I was listening to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm trying to listen to the Bible again this year. And a couple days ago, Brian Hardin, who reads that, said that he went out to lunch with somebody, and his friend said, the thing I've learned this year is I don't have to rush into every battle.

And I don't know about you, but if I'm uncomfortable sometimes, something happened in a relationship, somebody said something, or you said something, or whatever it is, I'll sometimes want to think through, okay, how can I kind of control what they're thinking and get some good words, or you'll send that text just to kind of get the conversation going, just because you kind of want to control it, as opposed to waiting, hesitating.

I don't have to enter that battle. Let's pray on that. Let's filter that. We'll look at that filter in a moment. But maybe you're a person that even with good intentions, instead of guarding, instead of waiting, instead of filtering, instead of praying, you just rush right in, and you're doing it with good intention. Maybe you have a scripture, right? Maybe you have that thing that you want to say, but Proverbs talks about time being your friend over and over again.

That's where we come to this idea of filtration. Scripture is so, especially the Proverbs, is so profound when it talks about filtering your words. I started, I don't know about, you know, a couple weeks ago, or a couple months ago, I began to talk about my love for water. We are incredibly blessed to be able to have some of the most pure water in the world if you want to drink it.

So, did a little research. The three most, and I said this a few months ago, or a couple months ago, the three most pure water, pure waters that are commercially available to you in the world are Grosteller, and I don't know if I pronounced that right, Fiji water, and Evian, right? And the thing that makes them unique is that they are, the water you drink from them are thousands of years old.

That's one of the things about when things are filtered, good things that are filtered are filtered through time, they're filtered through a process. When we look at our words, and we look at this, and we look at something like this, when you're filtering your words, what filters your words? If your opinions are the only things that filter your words, I think you might need a new filtration system.

If you look at filtration, water will hit the top. You have these giant rocks at the top, and then smaller rocks, and then it goes through sand, and more coarse sand, and you understand how filtration works. And what the scripture says is that we are called to filter what we say. Not only to guard it, but when it does come out, it's actually filtered. Here's a few things about filtration before I give you a couple more scriptures.

Filtration takes time. Time is your friend. One of the best things you can say to people in a conversation, because we live in this, you have to have the answer now. I never understand in press conferences, like the press expects you to have an answer every time. Why can't the president or whoever it is just say, you know, that's a great question. Can I have like four days to think about that, and I'm gonna get back to you in four days?

That is not accepted. No, we need it immediately. Time is your friend, and one of the best things you can say to your spouse, to a business partner is, you know what, that's really an interesting insight you're bringing. Can I take and consider that? Can I take that to prayer? Can I have a few days to kind of just think through that, to weigh it? Time is one of the elements of filtration.

Other thing is, when you filter something and you take your time, it removes impurities, and if you've been to Africa, you realize many of these impurities are invisible. A lot of times, we don't understand our motives. Proverbs talks about that as well. It says that we don't even, a man, a person doesn't even understand their motives, but it takes the Lord and a wise person to draw them out.

I think it's Proverbs 16 that says you don't even understand your motives. A lot of times, I have found, when I've taken time to pray over, hey, how am I going to address this situation? What do I want to say? Don't write emails back right away. Let me give you a couple email advice, okay? One, don't do any emotional work on an email. The only thing you do in an email is this.

See you at Pancake House at three. Don't get into your emotions. Don't get into reasoning, arguing, the whole thing. Five sentence emails. I try to be the king of the five sentence email and I try to keep it at three. Because nothing good ever happens in an email, in my opinion. All I do is follow up. Hey, is this what I heard? Was this correct? Did you say this?

Did you say that? Yes, yes, that's it. Because it gives me time to think through something. I want to encourage you to get away. Are you a quick trigger? I would get away from the quick trigger. But I would also say, if you're the person that has no trigger, sometimes you need to think it's time to offer that forgiveness to say that thing. So it removes impurities and those motives.

Have you ever read the word of God and all of a sudden you realize, whoa, I think the motive behind this is not as pure as I thought. Proverbs says, everyone thinks their motives are pure. But not everyone's are. It's the Lord's motives that are pure. And I have found that it does that. It finds those impurities. And the final thing about that filtration is oftentimes it improves taste.

In the scripture earlier, it says that it's like, you know, Proverbs 16, 24, gracious words are like a honeycomb. Gracious words. Grace will make your words when they receive them, they will eat them like a honeycomb. It'll be sweet. How sweet? Are your words sweet? I'm not saying disingenuous. Don't be disingenuous. But are your words sweet? I was reading an article this week.

It was like, how to have riz. All right? So if you don't know what riz is, we're just gonna shorten. There's a lot of nuance to the word, but it's just basically charisma. All right? We're just gonna, I know there's more nuance, I understand, but it's charisma. And it said, there's this one thing that you can do when you walk into a room. And it said, raise your eyebrows.

And I thought, wow, that's different. So I started trying to do it. You're walking in the room, hey, how's it going? As opposed to this. How you doing? It's so easy, right? To have that riz. So if you want that riz, just like that, I just walk around. You know, it's funny because this happens to me in La Jolla all the time. I've usually got my headphones on.

It happened yesterday. I walked out of pavilions. I was upset that I spent $412 on like four items. And I'm walking out and somebody goes, hey, Pastor Adam. And all of a sudden, I'm like, hey, good to see you. And I put my fake face on. Ah! You know? A lot of times, what we're dwelling on, these different things, they actually change how we act. It actually changes the things, the things that we're thinking about, the things that we're filtering.

It actually changes how we do it. And it brings life to our life. Here's a couple of verses. So it improves the taste. And I said, those words are like honeycomb was the point. Proverbs 17, 27, and 28. The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint, circle restraint. And whoever has understanding is even-tempered. Let me stop there before I do verse 28.

I've really tried to work hard to finish the verse before I start preaching the verse. I've really worked hard on that, but I'm gonna break my rule right now. I find that when my gate, especially my social media gate or my internet gate or my news gate is not being guarded well, I'm less even-tempered. I don't know about you. There's a quicker trigger, quicker emotions, and it just comes out really quickly.

Go to verse 28. Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent and discerning if they hold their tongues. Hard to hold your tongue. It's a good analogy though. Proverbs 15, 28. The heart of the righteous weighs its answer, but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil. Think of balances. You know, they weigh something out. They put gold on one side and they have the weights on the other and you have the weights here.

If you're just gushing, it's hard to take the weight of a gushing river. Those are the two analogies there. It's this thing that's just gushing. Gotta say what you gotta say. Gotta be, I'm honest. I'm authentic. I'm brutally honest. I'm brutal, but I'm still honest. And it just, you can't weigh, you can't weigh Niagara Falls. But it says that when we look at Proverbs 15, 28, the heart, there's that heart again, right?

Not the mind. The heart of the righteous weighs its answers. Imagine just taking some time on what you're gonna say back, thinking through it and weighing it to where there is a balance. What I have found is when I weigh things, especially as I'm speaking with my wife, my children, people at church, when I get away from my instincts and I begin to think about what they're saying, sometimes I'll be like, you know what?

I'm out of balance here. They actually have some really good inputs and I'm relying too much on my own personal talent, my own personal opinions, whatever it is. But it says it weighs it out and God is a righteous judge who weighs things correctly and evenly so he weighs those things. The righteous weighs its answers. So what are the filters? I talked about this filter.

I've already mentioned a few of them but let me give you a couple to make it super practical this week to make your week better. One is time. Two is God's word. God's word is an incredible filter. You wanna be filling yourself. The word of God will fill your heart. It is living. It is active, it says. It's sharper than any double-edged sword and it pierces through bone to marrow, getting to the very truth of a matter.

The word of God is a filter. It's part of your filtration system. Wisdom itself, just knowing what wisdom is, that doesn't mean you'll do the right thing but knowing wisdom, reading the scripture. One of my, my mom had said to me not long ago, she says, whenever I don't have an answer, I sit down with my Bible and I just start reading until God gives me three answers.

She said, I just wait. I just keep reading and reading and I immerse myself in the word and he eventually, he gives me the answers. Now I said Proverbs is the new, excuse me, James is the New Testament version of Proverbs. It speaks about the tongue more than any other book in the New Testament and it says in Proverbs, excuse me, in James, I believe it's 5.1, excuse me, I'm not amazing at my scripture memory exact verse but you can look it up online pretty easily but I believe it's James 5.1 that says if you ask for wisdom, he will give you that wisdom.

He is a generous God. He made a promise to you. That is a promise of God. If you ask for wisdom, how do I deal with this situation? I have a situation right now and I was asking God, how do I deal with this? I was asking 24 hours again, ago, and then I began to look into this word guard, I realized that the Lord said, I want you to go to the wall of your life, I want you to look at the battlefield and I want you to guard and survey the territory and let me fight the battle.

I just want you to guard. That's all I want you to do but Lord, I want to run into the battle. I'm ready to rock and roll. Let's go. I got my arrows. Let's run out into the field. They're out there. They're encamping around us. The Lord said, shut up. He didn't say that word but basically, keep your mouth shut and guard. Pray and let me fight the battle. There is so much of a standing posture in the scripture.

It often says, when you have done everything to stand, what does the scripture say? Stand. When you have done everything to stand, run out and go fight? No, when you've done everything to stand, stand. And when you've done everything to guard, I would just say guard. What are the filters? God's word, wisdom, discipline. Discipline. You don't have to say it. Sometimes discipline is saying it.

Counsel, wise counsel, prayer. More than anything, I think time with Jesus. Just get time with Jesus. The more you listen to him and listen to how he speaks to you. What I find sometimes, I think God's saying something and then I realize that isn't how he speaks to his children. I want to spend time with Jesus. I want to speak to others the same way Jesus speaks to me.

He is a gentle, kind person. And you know the person sometimes you need to guard words against the most? Yourself. No one will probably speak to you as harshly as you speak to yourself. My wife often, I think it was my wife back in the day, would say, I don't want to allow, it was her, she said to me, why do you allow yourself to speak to yourself that way? It's a great question.

Why do you allow yourself to speak to yourself that way? Because I'm myself. No. Speak to yourself with the truth of God's word with prayer and with Jesus. Here's two practical takeaways. Spend time with God's wisdom literature, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. Get into Proverbs, that's the wisdom literature in the Bible. Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, read it every day.

I read a proverb every day, I read it through Ecclesiastes at least once a year, it's incredible, it'll guide your life. And then the final one is I want to encourage you to engage in a criticism fast. Don't criticize. Criticize. And I'm not saying if, look, if your toddler is getting ready to put a fork into the light socket, you need to say, stop doing that.

I'm not saying don't be wise and say what you need to say. I'm saying don't criticize. Don't criticize the pizza at the restaurant you went to. Don't criticize the Lakers. Don't criticize, don't criticize yourself. Just try for a month. Just remove criticism. We are far too critical and we need words of grace more than anything. We live in a world that needs words of grace.

Amen? Let's stand if you would. I want to invite the prayer team forward. If you need prayer today, first of all, let me say this. If you have not believed in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord and you have not confessed him with your mouth and you want to know that you're saved for eternity and that all of your sin is covered by the blood of Jesus, I want to encourage you to come forward and pray with these people up front.

They will pray for you. I did that when I was 12 years old and God has changed my life ever since. We would see you baptized and then be part of a discipleship relationship and move forward in your relationship with Jesus. So the prayer team will be here that will be praying or if you just need prayer, there's two ways to do it. If you just need prayer for a relationship, healing, we have oil up here, we'll pray for healing for you.

You can come forward or you can just write it down in your notes, it's in your bulletin and put it in the box and on Tuesday we will pray for those. We pray for that list every single Tuesday. If you extend your hand as Chris plays some worship, I want to bless you, Lord. We pray the power of life in our tongues. We ask forgiveness for the things that we have said and when our opinions have not been weighed with the truth of Scripture or with your counsel.

all of us think our motives are right but you make our motives right. You show us what is right and what is wrong, God. Let us be a corrective. We pray for a corrective on our tongue. We pray for new guards, God, upon our tongues. We pray for the filtration system on our tongues in a world that loves haste, in a world that loves the toxicity of the tongue.

God, let us purify our tongues. We bless you now and I bless these people, God, as we walk in life and truth. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. Our small group fair is outside. Join a small group or get some prayer. We love you. Bye-bye.