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May 19, 2002 Sun PM

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The mature can control his own tongue. It's not how much you speak but if it's controlled by the Holy Spirit. If you're always saying the wrong thing, it's because you talk too much. Sobriety. A word in Season. Edify.

Hallelujah! Amen. Let's turn to the book of Proverbs. We want to spend some time this evening talking about one of the great forces that each one of us possesses and so many times abuses, and that's the force or the power of words that come out of our mouths.

The Scripture has a lot to say about the power of speech, the power of words. We realize from the epistle of James that James has spoken to us the necessity of bringing about the oversight of the tongue. It's an unruly member, and how great a fire a little spark, the Scripture says, can kindle. The mature among us, James goes on to say, is the one that can control his own tongue. So we want to talk a little bit about words and how forceful they are and how they can change the lives of individuals that we encounter. We can destroy people with our words, or we can edify and encourage and bring life.

Words are the things that carry power when they're in agreement with the Word of God--"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation..." (Romans 1:16). So we pray, and we believe God to open for us doors of what? Utterance. You see, words have power. They carry the message of life or the message of death. So we need to examine our own hearts and ask, "What messengers are we? Are we bringing life, or are we bringing death to people that we encounter?" Most of us would like to think, "Life, praise God. I'm sharing the gospel with people every opportunity I get." But what about some of the people that are closest to us--and we don't guard our words? Are we bringing life or death? Are we involving people that are closest to us in backbiting and slander and evil speaking? So we want to examine our lives and ask ourselves this question: How careful are we with our words?

Now, you'd think that us men would be a little safer in this area because we know that women talk at least twice as much as we do. I know what some of you ladies are thinking: "Yeah, we have something worth saying, praise God." We realize that men are a little simpler. Somebody gave me a great picture. I have it back there on the desk. It's this picture, and it has two consoles--one here and then a console just below it like you would stack for your hi-fi. One of them is just full of lights and knobs and buttons and toggle switches, and the other one is this box that just has one switch--"On" and "Off." On that one it has "Men," and on the other one it has "Women." I think that's probably true, ladies. You are a little more complicated than we men are. We know from the "words" aspect that women do, in a given day, speak at least twice as many words as men do. It's not how many words you speak; it's whether or not they're being controlled by the Holy Spirit. Amen?

Some men are infamous for not carrying on conversations, just grunting. If we have something to say, we'll say it. We do some traveling, and we'll talk, depending on different things, but it's nothing--ladies, I know this would kill you--it is absolutely nothing for three of us men to get into a vehicle, and we'll drive two or three hours and never a word be spoken. Just sitting there, driving down the road. Not a word! Some of you ladies right now are going, (Pastor made a shrieking sound representing women going "crazy" from the silence).

I remember seeing this movie one time. It was about a town in Texas, and it had a population of fifty-four people or whatever. It was about four seniors graduating. It was a real interesting movie; I remember seeing it years ago. I'll never forget one of the scenes as there was a party going on. This one ol' boy is standing up against the fence. He's got his foot up there and this piece of straw in his teeth--I won't take as long as this took. The other fellow comes walking up and stands up beside him, and a long period of silence. Then (Pastor pretends he is chewing on a straw) he says, "How ya been?" Big long pause. "All right." Another big long pause, and the other guy says, "Nice talking to ya." And there's some truth to that at times. We know there are men among us that are more vocal, more verbal, but as a rule there is more conversation that goes on among women.

Let's see what the Scripture says in Proverbs 17, verse 27. "He that hath knowledge spareth his words..." Want to find out how smart you are? Ascertain how little you speak because "He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit." We realize, then, that we're to watch our words and realize that the more we speak the more susceptible we are to speaking amiss. It's very important to understand the necessity of bringing about the control of our mouths and the words that proceed from our hearts--put a watch over our lips, the Scripture tells us. Psalm 34, verse 13 says, "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile." This is something that's your responsibility. It's your job to put a watch over this and to keep this powerful member that James speaks of, that carries life and death with it, under control. You're a wise man if you can control your tongue. You're a mature believer, James says, if you're able to control the words of your mouth. Proverbs 13, verse 3, as the wise man speaks to us, he says, "He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction." Some of us need to make a great note of that. I'll read it again. Proverbs 13:3, "He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips [not might] shall have destruction."

How are you doing at watching the words of your mouth? Are you one of those individuals that just finds yourself--the words just come out, and you wish you could get them back? You're one of those that just says, "Open mouth; insert foot." It just seems that always, you're saying the wrong thing. It's because "You talk too much, you worry me to death. You talk too much, you even worry my pet," says the great philosopher (lyrics from the song You Talk Too Much). (Pastor started singing) "You talk too much; talk too much." When you wear out somebody's pet!

There's no rule against thinking before you speak. In fact, there's a biblical principle that necessitates it--and not only what we're going to speak, but should we speak? Those of us that have an opinion on many things, we like to always make our opinion known. Well, the Scripture speaks contrary to that. "He that hath knowledge spareth his words..." Now, I'm a person that--I don't have an opinion on everything, but I usually get myself in trouble; and I need to discipline myself more in these things because I do speak about things that I'm passionate about. I don't speak about everything because I'm not that interested. Wives know that. "What do you think about this?" "I don't know. I don't care." I don't have an opinion on it. I do not have an opinion on gourmet broccoli. I have nothing to say about broccoli except, "I hate it." "That's all I have to say about that" (Forrest Gump Imitation).

There are some people that have an opinion on everything and voice it! We need to realize that it tends toward sin, and it's the evidence of a lack of sobriety in our lives. You find that when you do speak, your words don't carry any weight because you talk about everything. We realize, then, that there's the necessity to guard our mouths.

Proverbs 21, verse 23 says, "Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles." So we realize that once we understand the force of words and the responsibility we have of putting a watch over our mouths and we don't do something about it, we're going to fall into deception. James 1:26 says it this way. "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain," the Scripture says. The power of the tongue and the fact that it's out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks--that if we give equal time to everything, there's nothing of any value. Out of the abundance of the heart. What is our treasure? What we put in our heart. Those are the things that we ought to be passionate about, that we ought to speak toward.

Words are precious! If you're somebody that's just always rambling (blah-blah-blah-blah), people develop "the gift." Men know what I'm talking about. Bill Cosby did a great rendition of "the gift." You see, there are many women who truly believe their husbands are losing their hearing years before it really happens. (Pastor makes a soft clinking sound.) The husband says, "What was that?" "You mean you can hear that and you haven't been hearing what I've said (yak yak yak)!" The pet is over there with earphones on, in seizure. You need to have something to say of worth. If you're just rambling, it all has the same value. So it's important to understand how precious words are.

In the Scripture, it's interesting, Job says in chapter 6, verse 25, "How forcible are right words..." Powerful principle! "How forcible are right words..." Now, that's not only speaking of words that are truth but words that are spoken in season, the Scripture says. "A word fitly spoken [Proverbs 25:11 tells us] is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." How forcible are right words! Not only the truth, but how it's spoken, when it's spoken--looking for those opportunities to inject life, strength, edification. It's not in the abundance of the words spoken; it's the righteousness or the "rightness," Job says, of the words that are spoken.

As we're training our children up, be very careful of the words that you use around them in ordering their lives. Make sure they're words that strengthen and edify and are not demeaning in any way or destructive. The power that our words carry to our children--it's phenomenal! How forcible these right words can be to build the proper image in our children and their ability to be accepted in the Beloved, and to know that they're loved and to know that they're not in any way anything to you but a true treasure from God. As you then speak to them words of discipline and correction, those same words carry force because they're spoken in love, and the child already understands that. How many children have been scarred over the years by parents saying, "You're so stupid!" They'll begin to believe that. "Can't you do anything right?" "Guess not." "You're always doing things wrong!" "Guess I'm a failure."

How forcible are those words that you're speaking! All you have to do is turn it for the positive. All you have to do is understand how powerful words are and be able to speak to edification. Instead of pronouncing them stupid, why don't we then, in turn, sit down with them and say, "You know, a lot of people have trouble understanding that. Can I help you understand that better?" You're going to accomplish the same thing. "You always do everything wrong!" Instead, say, "I know what it's like to be tempted in that way. I remember when I was a kid how tough that was. Let me share with you why we need to do this and why we have to go about it this way." You share with them, and constructively you cause them to understand that you can identify with the trials they're involved in. You recognize the flesh, and you let them know, "The flesh isn't going to have its way around here." There will be discipline; there's going to be the chastening. But I want you to understand that the words that we speak are forcible, and we want to speak words that edify and not words that demean and destroy and tear down.

Now, we know that some people are able to take words that are spoken that are kind and edifying and it's abused by them because they think of themselves more highly than they ought to think. There are ways to positively speak toward that and help them deal with the pride and arrogance in their lives and those lies that have to be pulled down. There's a way to speak that's motivating that carries with it disciplinary, punitive even, mandates that can be spoken constructively and in a way that will bring about life instead of death. You see, human nature will always take advantage. There are times when we have to speak and speak from the "negative," if you please, to bring about motivation in certain people's lives. What I'm trying to get us to see tonight is how forcible words are and how powerful "right" words are--how you can use them and begin to motivate people into righteousness.

A negative environment will motivate people, but it won't build relationships unless it's reinforced with pleasant words. Those of us that have been in the military--we've talked about that before. When you first come out of whatever environment it was that you may have been in and you encounter your drill instructor, he doesn't normally come over and say, "Come here little sweet thing. You poor thing. You didn't understand what I was saying to you?" I can't speak toward their motives. It's verging on foolish jesting (the motivation that's used from the natural man), but we realize that those words are powerful. They communicate very clearly the intentions of the drill instructor.

How do we in the Body of Christ motivate? Do we tear down as they do, or do we edify and build up? The thing that's different in the Body of Christ as opposed to the natural: in the military they tear you down; in the Kingdom of God, you humble yourself. It's spoken to you, the words--the necessity of dying to self, of humbling yourself, of offering your body up as a living sacrifice. Those are all biblical principles, and they're held to you without compromise, but nobody tries to force it upon you. It's something you have to do yourself. So our words are words of encouragement. We speak the benefits of denying self, of seeking first the Kingdom of God, of offering your body up as a living sacrifice. We don't come out and try to motivate, "Bless God, if you don't pray more, you're going to hell! I just want you to know you're lost, damned forever!"

That's not the motivation that we in the Kingdom respond to. In fact, the Scripture tells us in Proverbs 16:24, "Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health [or strength] to the bones." Pleasant words. What are the pleasant words? Pleasant words are words that are based upon truth. They're based upon an eternal perspective and eternal reward. They bring about the promises of God. Pleasant words are the words that bring us to Christlikeness. Many times they will bring reproof, rebuke, instruction, disciplines "That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works" (2 Timothy 3:17), but we're talking primarily, now, about how we respond to the believer and how do we respond to individuals?

One of the problems we have in a community like this that's so close is that as we get around people that we're familiar with and we're not watching our words, we can get a little loose in different areas of our conversation. As I go on a little bit further we'll speak toward it, but we can begin to be loose. The passage in Ephesians that talks about foolish jesting, that word "jesting" just means to put a twist on words. It has a couple of different applications. We can put a twist on it in a repartee--we can twist it back against somebody. We always have a quick response; we can put other people down and make them look stupid. We take that as a skill in the natural, and it's a sin according to the Spirit of God speaking in Ephesians. Turn over there for a second. Let's look at that passage real quickly. I think it's worth taking a little bit of time.

In Ephesians 5:1, "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour. [Verse 3] But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather..."--if you question whether you're in one of these other areas or not, listen to what it's contrasted to. "...but rather [What?] giving of thanks." Let's spend our time boasting in the goodness of God and giving thanks for how well those among us are doing instead of putting people down or making little snide remarks or somehow demeaning others to elevate ourselves--all these things that are within natural man. It's in every one of us. We're all very aware of the verbal sins of backbiting and malice and slander, but there are other little statements that many times, little barbs, will be given out between husbands and wives, sometimes children and parents. The Scripture calls this foolish jesting.

A lot of people think foolish jesting just means horsing around--just clowning around, being stupid. That's not what foolish jesting is all about. For something to be foolish, "The fool hath said in his heart, [What?] There is no God" (Psalm 14:1). In other words, there's not going to be any judgment; there's not going to be any consequence for this. There's no divine heart that I'm representing here. My perception is truth. You see, anytime we're making statements based upon our perception being infallible and being truth (nobody else can have an opinion; my way is right), we begin to set ourselves up for these areas of sin and the misuse of words.

We all have opinions. I have strong opinions on who should be in the box, but I'm not deluded into thinking that my perception or my way is absolute truth because everything that I do and every final decision I make has to be held up against the Word of God. How many times does this change your course, your thought processes, your final determination? But the fool makes his perception the final truth on this matter, whether it's judging a brother's motives, whether it's judging circumstances and making decisions without hearing the other side of the story, contrary to the wisdom of God.

These are the things that he is speaking toward, and he's talking about the working of the flesh. He says to be very careful that there's not filthiness or foolish talking or jesting. Foolish talking and jesting--the foolish talking is presenting philosophy, etc. The foolish jesting is the turning of certain things around for one's own benefit or turning them on others to destroy them and make yourself look good, or being able to speak with innuendo; and though we've not committed ourselves to the vileness and the filthiness of the world, we refer to it in other ways. That's foolish jesting as we imbibe the spirit of filthiness and the world and the coarseness. So it's very important that we watch our words and we put a watch over our mouths for he says, "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God" (Ephesians 5:5).

Be very careful in the words that you speak. The Scripture tells us very clearly in the 4th chapter of Ephesians, verse 25, that we're to guard our mouths and for each of us to "...[put] away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are [our brother's keeper] members one of another." We owe it to speak into one another's lives like the Word of God says and to put the commandments of God into perspective and to encourage each other to be doers of the Word and not hearers only. We're to speak the truth, the Scripture says, in love.

So we look at the power of words; and we get around those that we're close to, and sometimes we're not as disciplined as we ought to be. Someone needs to speak up and say, "This isn't edifying. This isn't what should be spoken." It's pretty easy to get a laugh at someone else's expense, and it's not necessary. It doesn't edify. Why not give thanks? Why not rejoice in the good that is taking place in the lives of individuals and speak toward the working of the blood of Jesus in the life of individuals and not toward those things that give credibility to the working of Satan and the power of sin that each one of us faces? Why not take the words that God has given us and begin to build people up into the image of Jesus?

Isaiah speaks of a great ministry. Let's turn over to Isaiah for a second, and say, "I wonder if this would be a ministry that you would like to be involved in?" Isaiah, chapter 50, verse 4, "The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned." Let's listen to the New Covenant: we ought to be swift to hear and slow to speak (James 1:19). You see, He gives us, the Scripture says here in Isaiah, the ear of the learned--the man that doesn't speak until God has spoken, and when he does speak look what it says takes place. "The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary..."

What a great ministry to be able to hear from God, and when some brother or sister is weary in well doing, their hands are hanging down, the Scripture says we're to lift up hands that are hanging down; we're to comfort the feebleminded. What a ministry to be able to hear from God and speak a word in season that brings life and refreshing, praise God, instead of just goofing around over here and telling stories and laughing about this and messing with that--choosing to use our words for life. Don't mistake what I'm saying. The Scripture doesn't anywhere imply that as Christians we're to be people that don't have hearts that are filled with joy. We're a people that have joy and happiness. We're a people that should be able to laugh. The Scripture says that we're to laugh with those that are laughing and weep with those that weep. We're not talking about "sourpuss"; we're talking about sobriety. There are so many Christians that do look like they've been baptized in lemon juice and think it's a sin to smile. We ought to be able to enjoy life and have a good time.

Life is funny. Those of us that enjoy humor--I enjoy humor. The funniest thing is real-life stuff. Comedians today--just getting up and being vulgar--that's stupid! Any idiot can do something like that. To be clever, to be able to take life and apply it--life is funny! It really is. You just watch and--well, all you have to do is look around the room, and it'll make you laugh. We realize that we are, however, to be messengers of this glorious gospel and to look for those among us that are hurting and to be able to bring them a word in season. How much time are you spending quiet before God so if you only get to speak once in the whole day, it's going to bring edification and life to some brother or sister? We spend so much time speaking we don't have time to hear, and because we don't have time to hear we don't have anything of value to say. Isaiah makes it very clear that the only words that are worth speaking are those that you hear from God. So it's very, very important, then, where we get our words as we listen to that still small voice saying, "This is the way; walk in it."

The wise man speaks in Ecclesiastes, and he says in the 12th chapter, verse 11, "The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies..." It's amazing the power of words! As goads--these things are inspiring. Words can motivate us! Words take these principles and they solidify them and establish them in our lives in areas that will inspire us forever!

I have little phrases that are written down in the back of my Bible. Just words--just little phrases that are so powerful. Let me read just a couple to you that I have written here that are a blessing to me. Just one simple statement. "To respond is to pursue." Think about that. The power! These are words that I've gleaned from teachers over the years--just things that I've read or seen or heard--things that I've written down in my Bible. Words that can motivate us. "We're the sum total of our desires." You meditate upon these things. Words that are just spoken. "We pray only as well as we live." You don't have to speak a lot of words, do you? How long can you meditate upon those little statements? "Not what, but why." You could speak to me--you could speak ten thousand words in a day, but those four words can change my life.

What do you have to say? Have we spent time in His presence to be able to hear so that we could speak the words of the wise? Pleasant words, appropriate words, forceful words that cause our brothers and sisters to be able to stand. The discipline of being able to put a watch over our mouths, or as Paul told Timothy over in 2 Timothy 1:13, "Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." Of all the words that you hear in a day, what do you hold fast to? See, this is what Paul is telling Timothy, "Hold fast!"

You've heard a lot of stuff. You've been to the seminar. You've heard all of this instruction that's been going on. You went down and stood in line for an hour and watched Star Wars. You heard all of the words and learned words like "Obi-Wan Kenobi," but what are you holding fast too? "Oh man, you should have seen this--the sound effects and light sabers!" You have C-3PO and Jabba and all of these things. You can name them, and you're doing all of this stuff. Do you have any Word to share? What can you tell me today that will change my life? Why are you so motivated and so turned on about that which is so trivial and you're not excited about words that can change a man's life for eternity? How excited are you about putting the name of Jesus on your lips and speaking it at the appropriate time, knowing how forcible right words are?

Speech--the power to speak right words as Paul said in Colossians 4:6, "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man." Listen to the value that the Holy Spirit puts upon our speech: always seasoned with grace. Now when you talk about others or you speak to others even bringing them the gospel, bringing them the understanding that they're lost and that they're rebels and they're defying the living God, is it done with a seasoning of grace realizing that we've come from where they are? A people touched with the feelings of their infirmities--we know what it's like to be lost without God, as the Scripture says.

See, a lot of times, as believers, we've been separated for awhile from the power of sin. We've forgotten what manner of man we are. There needs to be a compassion--not a compromise, not a justifying of their sin--speaking the truth to them in love. Speaking boldly, but our words seasoned with grace. What is grace? Unmerited favor. You speak to everybody not what they deserve--we all deserve hell--but speaking with grace. "I'm going to give you what you don't deserve, because freely I've received, freely I give." We speak to everyone with compassion and love and respect. Respect. What do I mean by that? Not respecting the character. Not respecting their position, whether they're someone who is an up-and-outer, or a down-and-outer. What I mean by respect is the fact they they're somebody that Jesus died for. He's a person that Jesus shed His blood for, and if God put that value on him, that's the value I'm going to put on him.

So we speak the truth in love, and we speak in season. We speak, according to this 4th chapter of Colossians, having our words seasoned with salt. We're the salt of the world. Salt gives flavor (the savor); it's preserving truth and the integrity of God and the holiness of God so that you can know how to answer every man. You see, when it talks about grace, it doesn't talk about being mealy-mouthed. You speak the truth. You tell people the facts: "There's no other name under heaven whereby you can be saved but the name of Jesus" (Acts 4:12). We don't mix secular humanism and the divine authority of the Word of God. There is no compromise in the life of the Christian, but there is an answer in season. There is the seasoning of our words with salt. There's the preparation of answering with such assurance that we don't have to become argumentative. I don't have to prove anything to anybody!

That's why people get into arguments, because they're unsure. They're being attacked, they have no confidence in their philosophy, they have no confidence in their god, they're not sure of their position, and so they become overly defensive. A man that knows the truth--I don't have to prove anything to anybody. "You don't want to accept the truth? I've shared with you in love. I shared with you the knowledge of God that will set you free. You've not rejected me." God said to Samuel, "They didn't reject you, Samuel. They rejected Me." It frees you to be able to speak words in grace. A lot of us are out witnessing and we're trying to win an argument instead of a soul. All we're to do is speak the truth in love.

The power of words. Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay, and everything that proceeds beyond that, Jesus said, comes of evil (Matthew 5:37). Defense, justification--"We've got to defend our..." No, He said that's evil; that's man's methods. Yea! Nay! That foolish jesting that's spoken of in Ephesians even has to do with that. It allows us to be able to shade different principles so that we don't offend these people so that we can still be accepted of them. That's corrupt communication that's proceeding out of your mouth. It's yea, it's nay--it's black, it's white--it's light, it's darkness--it's truth, it's a lie.

How forcible are the words we speak. How kind are we? The fruit of Spirit, and we talk about kindness and the need to be kind. Even here in the family, the household of faith, how kind are we as we're giving instruction to our brothers and sisters, to our children, to our spouses? The power of words and the need to be able to speak them seasoned with salt. If you can't say it in love, if it hasn't been spoken to you of the Spirit in truth, then you're going to be wise to spare your words.

Father, we thank You for the Word of God. We just ask that as You continue to order our steps by Your Spirit that we would be conscious of what we say and how we're saying it, that we would look for opportunities to speak to our brothers and sisters words that would edify and bring refreshing and strength that would encourage them to be doers of the Word. Father, give us words that will positively motivate our children into righteousness. Give us words that would be spoken in season. Help us to grow to where we can put a watch over our lips and not allow the passions that are in our members to bring forth destruction out of our mouths. How great a matter a little fire kindleth. Speaking the truth in love, seasoned with salt, allowing no corrupt communication to proceed out of our mouths but that which edifies. It is our heart's desire, Father. We choose now to guard our lips, in Jesus' name. Amen. Let's stand before the Lord.

As the Lord speaks to you tonight as Gary plays and we just allow these words to come into our hearts, do you always have to say what you're thinking? It's not wisdom. Do you have an opinion on everything? Why should you? "I just really don't have an opinion on that. It's not where my passion is." Are your words worthless because they all have the same value--they just pour out incessantly so nobody listens to what you have to say? Why not wait until somebody asks you, and then speak what you've heard in the closet of prayer? Do you take pride in your ability to turn everything into a laugh or to your own gain? Are you the king of repartee? Maybe you ought to humble yourself and let God exalt you. Maybe we don't have anything to say, but like Moses we just fall on our face as dumb and be silent and let God justify us. Let's speak that which edifies. Words are so valuable; let's use them for the glory of God.

Let's sing this together and just worship Him tonight. "Lord, You are..." We thank You, Jesus. Let's sing it one more time; just glorify Him tonight. You're just so precious to us, Lord! We declare Your righteousness and Your majesty! Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord, for Your love and Your mercy extended to us. Now help us to extend it to others, as freely we've received we freely give. Thank You for it, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Before you go, turn to somebody next to you and say, "Speak unto edifying." Amen. Go in peace. God's love go with you.

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