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The Power and Nature of Words

The Power of Words1. Our Words Shape Our Future:

The tongue has the power of life and death,and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Prov. 18:21

The Power of Words1. Our Words Shape Our Future: They Bring Us…• Reward or Poverty

From the fruit of his mouth a man’s stomach is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied.

Prov. 18:20

The Power of Words1. Our Words Shape Our Future: They Bring Us…• Reward or Poverty• Protection or Trouble

Prov. 13:3 He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin.

Prov. 18:6 A fool’s lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating.

The Power of Words1. Our Words Shape Our Future: They Bring Us…• Reward or Poverty• Protection or Trouble• Affection or Rejection

Prov. 16:13 Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value a man who speaks the truth.

Prov. 22:11 He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend.

The Power of Words1. Our Words Shape Our Future: They Bring Us…• Reward or Poverty• Protection or Trouble• Affection or RejectionProv. 27:14 If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early

in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.

Prov. 25:9-10 If you argue your case with a neighbor, do not betray another man’s confidence, or he who

hears it may shame you and you will never lose your bad reputation.

The Power of Words

• Our Words Shape Our Future• Our Words Impact Others

The Power of Words2. Our Words Impact Others: They Can…• Emotionally Refresh and Heal OR Wound

Prov. 16:24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Prov. 12:18 Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Prov. 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.

The Power of Words2. Our Words Impact Others: They Can…• Emotionally Refresh and Heal OR Wound• Help Them to Learn

Prov. 15:7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools.

Prov. 16:23 A wise man’s heart guides his mouth, and his lips promote instruction.

The Power of Words2. Our Words Impact Others: They Can…• Emotionally Refresh and Heal OR Wound• Help Them to Learn• Damage People and Their Relationships

Prov. 11:9 With his mouth the godlessdestroys his neighbor…

Prov. 16:27,28 A scoundrel plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends.

The Power of Words2. Our Words Impact Others: They Can…• Emotionally Refresh and Heal OR Wound• Help Them to Learn• Damage People and Their Relationships• Prod Others to React – Positively or Negatively

Prov. 15:1 A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Prov. 21:9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

The Power of Words

1. Our Words Shape Our Future2. Our Words Impact Others3. Our Enemy (Satan) Gets Involved in Our

Words:

The Power of Words3. Our Enemy (Satan) Gets Involved in Our Words:

Matt. 16:22-23 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders,

chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter

took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind

the things of God, but the things of men.”

The Power of Words3. Our Enemy (Satan) Gets Involved in Our Words:

Acts 5:3-4 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of

the money you received for the land? 4 Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was

sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have

not lied to men but to God.”

The Nature of Words1. Words Transmit Ideas From One Head to Another2. They Can Have Widely Different Impacts on

Others• Anger or Calm• Affection or Revulsion• Discouragement or Emboldening

The Nature of Words1. Words Transmit Ideas From One Head to Another2. They Can Have Widely Different Impacts on

Others3. Words Impact God: Bring Judgment or Blessing

Matt. 12:36 But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless

word they have spoken.

The Nature of Words1. Words Transmit Ideas From One Head to Another2. They Can Have Widely Different Impacts on

Others3. Words Impact God: Bring Judgment or Blessing

Ps. 64:3,7-8 They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their words like deadly arrows…

But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be struck down. He will turn their own tongues

against them and bring them to ruin

The Nature of Words1. Words Transmit Ideas From One Head to Another2. They Can Have Widely Different Impacts on Others3. Words Impact God: Bring Judgment or Blessing4. Words Shape Our Relationships and Our Future5. Words Flow Out of Our Hearts (and Three Problems

in Our Hearts Impact Our Words)

Matt. 12:34-35 …For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things

out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.

Quick Sidebar…

What three things reside in the Heart?1. Selfishness (‘ivveleth)2. Arrogance (howlelah)3. Willingness to do others harm (ra’)

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.

Proverbs 22:15

3 This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

The Nature of Words1. Words Transmit Ideas From One Head to Another2. They Can Have Widely Different Impacts on Others3. Words Impact God: Bring Judgment or Blessing4. Words Shape Our Relationships and Our Future5. Words Flow Out of Our Hearts (and Three Problems

in Our Hearts Impact Our Words)6. To Harness Your Words, You Must Walk in the Spirit

Gal. 5:16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

The Heart of the Matter is a Matter of the Heart

The real issue is not: “What should I say?”

But“Who should I be?”

The Power and Nature of Words

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