Life and Death in the Tongue.......................

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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Now if you want a moral, ethical, and Spiritual life you can have it. You can be a wise person or you can be a fool according to the bible. What we speak determines our life. Having a cheerful mind is revitalizing to the entire person. If I went around telling people how bad I had it or how rough things were the power of my tongue would not be speaking words of life and blessings to me and for me. And if you are my friend I don’t want you to be speaking about how sick I am and that I am going to die because I am not going to listen to you. I am not going to feed my soul with that kind of talk. A fool may pretend to understanding, and to seek and intermeddle with the means of it, but, 1. He has no true delight in it; it is only to please his friends or save his credit; he does not love his book, nor his business, nor his Bible, nor his prayers; he would rather be playing the fool with his sports. Those who take no pleasure in learning or religion will make nothing to purpose of either. No progress is made in them if they are a task and a drudgery. 2. He has no good design in it, only that his heart may discover itself, that he may have something to make a show with, something wherewith to varnish his folly, that that may pass off the better, because he loves to hear himself talk. And people can talk life or death. But let not wise and good men regard it, for the proverb of the ancients says, such wickedness proceeds from the wicked. That wicked people are shameful people, and bring contempt upon themselves, for God has said that those who despise him shall be lightly esteemed. As soon as ever sin entered shame followed it, and sinners make themselves despicable. Nor do they only draw contempt upon themselves, but they bring ignominy and reproach upon their families, their friends, their ministers, and all that are in any way related to them. Those therefore who would secure their honor must retain their virtue. I am not going to listen to anyone who says there is no God, that Jesus Christ is not the way to salvation and that God does not loves his children. That is speaking death. And if I get real sick don’t tell people I am dieing and there is no hope for me I don’t want you speaking death over me, leave that up to my God. Solomon has often shown what mischief bad men do to others with their ungoverned tongues; here he shows what mischief they do to themselves. 1. They embroil themselves in quarrels: A fool’s lips, without any cause or call, enter into contention, by advancing foolish notions which others find themselves obliged to oppose, and so a quarrel is begun, or by giving provoking language, which will be resented, and satisfaction demanded, or by setting men at defiance, and bidding them do if they dare. A fool’s mouth, which has been, or would have been, the destruction of others, proves at length his own destruction. A man may do a great deal of good, or a great deal of hurt, both to others and to himself, according to the use he makes of his tongue. Many a one has been his own death by a foul tongue, or the death of others by a false tongue; and, on the contrary, many a one has saved his own life.