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This program is made
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind - where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I have really been
waiting for this moment
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because today I'm beginning
a brand new series
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and it is called, What Jesus Said About - are you ready -
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Getting A Grip on Your Mouth.
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Have you ever said something
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that you were very sorry, you said?
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Well, Jesus taught us a lot
about getting a grip on our
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mouth and today we're beginning
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this new 5-part series: comes in all kinds of formats
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and it comes with a wonderful study guide
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because I really believe
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that when you read the material at the same time
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that you're seeing it or hearing it, it has a double whammy.
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It really causes the teaching
to get down deep inside you.
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And hey, we need to know how
to get a grip on our mouth.
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And Jesus had a lot to say about it,
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and that is what we're going
to be looking at this week.
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And I'm so excited to tell
you about a book by one
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of my dearest friends, and
I'm talking about Joyce Meyer.
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Joyce and Dave Meyer have been our friends
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for decades and decades.
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I love Joyce Meyer love her ministry
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and she has written a wonderful book called, Power Words:
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What You Say Can Change Your Life.
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And in this book, Joyce talks
about what you should say
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and what you should not say.
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And my friends, this book
is so good that I want
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to recommend you get it.
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It is just a tremendous book.
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But if you want to know more
about these various resources,
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just go to our website or
if you wish, give us a call.
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and we believe part of
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for you when you reach out to us.
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to pray for you.
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And I wanna say thank you to
those of you that are partners
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with our ministry.
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You really are helping us take the word
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And if you're not a partner yet,
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please pray about joining our Giving Team.
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A partner is someone who
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to the ministry and they are partners.
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And when you become a partner
with our ministry, we're going
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to send you my book, which is
called Life in the Combat Zone
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because we give it to every
member of our Partner Family.
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But hey, reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna see what Jesus had
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to say about Getting A Grip on Your Mouth.
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And we always use the
Bible in this program.
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It is the foundation of
everything that we do,
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and we're believing for revival
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of the Bible in the body of Christ.
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And you can agree with us for that.
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But today I am specifically going to be talking
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to you about - are you ready -
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the danger of speaking hastily and recklessly.
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And I want to begin with
some verses from Proverbs.
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You say, oh, here he comes.
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Well, hey, Proverbs has a
lot to say about the danger
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of speaking hastily and recklessly.
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For example, Proverbs 18:7 says,
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A fool's mouth is his ruin,
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and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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Did you hear that? A fool's mouth is his ruin
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and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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When you just spout off
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and say things without speaking,
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this verse says it gets you in trouble
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and it leads you to ruin.
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Or how about Proverbs 18:21 which says - Death
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and life are in the power of the tongue.
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And then the rest of the verse says,
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and they that love it shall
eat the fruit thereof,
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which means - what you say is
what you're going to produce,
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it's what you're going
to eat in your life.
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So you better be careful
what you say with your mouth
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because whatever you say is
what you're gonna produce
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and that's what you're gonna
end up having in your life.
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Or how about Proverbs 21:23 which says - Whoso
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keeps his mouth
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and his tongue keeps
his soul from troubles?
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You know, I've been in many
events when really wanted
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to pipe off and say
something, but I stopped
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because I understood that if
I said what I wanted to say
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was really gonna create a worse situation.
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And this verse says - who so keepeth his mouth
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and his tongue keeps his souls from trouble.
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And sometimes you're just wiser to be quiet
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and not to pipe off every time
you think you have something
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to say, Hey, silence is a blessing.
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Or how about Proverbs 29:20 which says -
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Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
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There is more hope for a fool than for him.
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Lemme read it to you again.
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Do you see a man that's hasty in his words?
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What does that mean - hasty in his words? He speaks
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before he thinks, he gets angry, he blows up,
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he says something later.
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He's sorry that he said, but now he's already created a mess
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because he was hasty in his words.
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And this verse says, there's more hope
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for a fool than for him.
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And do you know the book of Proverbs says,
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even a fool when he is silent is perceived by others
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to be wise.
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Sometimes it's better
just to zip your lips
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and be quiet than to pipe off.
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And that's why we're gonna
see this week what Jesus had
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to say about - Getting A Grip on Your Mouth.
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But before we go to what Jesus said, first we're gonna go
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to James 1:19, to a verse
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that I really love
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and I cover this verse in depth in the RIV Vol.
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of the book of James and Jude.
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But let's go to James 1:19.
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And again, we use the
Bible in this program.
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So open your Bible, get a pencil
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or get a pen, get ready to take notes
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and get ready to underline some things in James
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1:19.
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And it begins by James saying -
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Wherefore my beloved brethren,
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let every man be swift to hear,
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be slow to speak and slow to wrath.
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Be swift to hear, be slow to speak
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and slow to wrath.
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Of these three things,
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there's only one thing you're supposed to do fast
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and that is be swift to hear.
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And notice it says, let every man.
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And when you read this in the Greek text,
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it says pas anthropos.
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The word pas is all encompassing.
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And the word anthropo
means everyone, all humans,
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or in this case every believer.
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So here, James is speaking to every single one of us.
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None of us are exempt from what he's about to say
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in this verse. He says - let every man,
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that really means everyone, be swift to hear.
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Well, what does that mean - be swift
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to hear? The word swift in Greek is the word, tachus.
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Now listen to what it means.
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This word, tachus, is a word that especially pictures
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a runner
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who runs as fast as he can so
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before his competitors.
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He is dashing to get to the finish line.
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Because the runner wants to finish the race first,
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he puts everything else out of his mind,
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he focuses on the finish line
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and presses forward to obtain the 1st-place prize.
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It means to move one's feet as fast as possible
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to do something urgently
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or to do something as swiftly as possible.
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And in this verse, it calls for you
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and me to urgently, swiftly hear
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what is being communicated.
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And notice it says - be swift
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to hear. The word hear, in Greek, is the word akousai.
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It's a form of the Greek word akouo, which means to hear,
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but it importantly carries the notion
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of one possessing a full comprehension of
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what is being communicated.
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And this word akouo is where we get the word, acoustics.
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So when you put all this together, James is saying - Hey,
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when someone else is speaking,
you need to open your ears.
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You need to be swift to hear.
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Just like a runner who's put all
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of his energies into the
race, he wants to get
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to the finish line first.
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He's put everything else out of his mind.
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He's really focused on finishing the race
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first; you need to put everything else out
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of your mind when somebody
is speaking to you
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and you need to be swift to hear them.
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You need to determine you're gonna be a first place listener
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and you're really going to comprehend
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what is being communicated.
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And let me tell you, friend,
that if you're in a situation
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where somebody's speaking to you
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and you don't understand
them, don't pretend
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that you understand them. They will appreciate it.
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If you say - Excuse me - could you please repeat that again?
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I wanna make sure I really understand
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what you're saying to me.
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And if they repeat it again
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and you still don't understand it, just be honest.
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So you know I'm not quite getting what you're trying to say
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to me that will help them
be a better communicator.
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And they will appreciate
you for being honest.
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Just say, I need to
really understand this.
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This is important. So please say it again,
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say it more slowly.
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I wanna really hear what you're saying.
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And in this verse, we have the command of scripture
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that we are to be very serious
in the way that we listen.
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We're to be swift to hear.
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Now, if somebody is speaking to you
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and you're thinking about something else
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or you're thinking about what
you're gonna say when they're
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finished speaking, then you're
not really listening to them.
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My friend, when somebody speaks to you,
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put a pause on everything, open your ears
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and really be committed to
hear what they have to say.
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That's what this means
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when the Bible says - be swift to hear.
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But then it says - be slow to speak.
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The word slow is the Greek word bradus.
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And I want you to hear what it means.
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It refers to something that is slow, sluggish,
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mentally dull,
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or the one who has a handicap so seriously
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that he cannot do something quickly.
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And here it says, be slow to speak.
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The word speak, is the Greek word
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lalesai: means to chatter, to talk
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or to enter into conversation.
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And here we find that when
it comes to you spouting off,
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piping off or responding to
somebody else, my friends,
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you need to be, bradus. You need to be slow, you need
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to be sluggish,
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you need to be like one who has a handicap in his speech.
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He can't quite seem to get the words out;
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it's very hard for him to form his words. Maybe
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he has a speech impediment so
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where we're tempted to pipe up and spout off
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and say something very quickly,
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we need to put on the brakes.
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We need to zip our lips.
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we need to be sluggish.
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We need to move very slowly in responding
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and really think about what we are saying.
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And in fact, did you know the book
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of Proverbs tells us we need to study to answer. You need
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to think about how you're gonna answer something.
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You need to really think
about what you're gonna say
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and hear the whole
matter before you speak.
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In fact, the Bible says if you speak
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before you really consider the
whole matter, you are a fool.
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So you need to make sure
you really understand
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what is being communicated
before you answer.
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to say - give me a few minutes to think about
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how I wanna respond to that.
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Well, let me think just for a moment.
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And then when you begin to answer, be moderate in the way
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that you answer. Take your time;
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make sure you're developing your thoughts correctly,
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that you're really communicating what you need to say
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and you don't say something
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that's gonna get you into trouble later.
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You need to be swift to hear - like a runner in a race.
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Run to the finish line. Open your ears.
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You're gonna win the grand prize when it comes to listening.
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You need to be sluggish.
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who has a handicap in his speech: not just spouting off
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and racing to answer,
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you only need to race to listen.
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response before you speak.
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But hey, that's not all.
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and he says that we need
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The word slow is again the Greek word bradus.
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to something that is slow,
to something that is sluggish
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or to someone that is mentally dull.
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Because they're mentally dull, they're slow in responding,
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they can't quite seem to get the words out.
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And now we find in the very
same way, we need to be slow,
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sluggish, dull.
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We need to have a handicap when it comes
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to quickly experiencing wrath.
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And the word wrath is the Greek word orge.
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This word orge describes something that's all twisted
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and bent out of shape.
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If you find yourself getting all twisted
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and all bent out of shape over
something that's being said
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to you, then you need
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That's exactly what this word slow means: the word, broadus.
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Put on the brakes, slow down, don't give place
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to wrath.
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And again, this word wrath
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or Greek word orge, describes something twisted,
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something all bent out of shape.
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that suddenly gives way
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Suddenly you pipe up, you say something,
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you're like a volcano.
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You just unleash all
the venom that you feel
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or every thought that's in
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That's really what this word wrath, describes.
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It is a deeply felt anger suddenly released.
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that explodes in a rage.
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My friends, that always produces something really,
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really bad.
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that a fool's mouth is his ruin,
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and his lips are snared to his soul.
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keepeth his mouth
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and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
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It's why we saw in Proverbs 29:20 - Do you see a man
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who is hasty in his words, there's more hope
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for a fool than for him.
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there's only one thing we're supposed to do fast:
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be swift to hear, be swift to hear, slow
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to speak and slow to wrath.
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And my friends, if you will apply this principle
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to your life, it will help
you get a grip on your mouth
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and it will save you a lot of trouble.
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Think about husbands
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and wives who say things that are hurtful.
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They should have slowed down;
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they should have really thought about what they were saying
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before they said it.
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And once words are released, they're
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so difficult to retrieve.
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And when you speak really harmful words,
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then you gotta figure out how to heal the person
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that you just injured - my friends -
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please slow down: listen, listen, listen.
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what's being communicated,
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just be honest and say,
I'm not sure I really get
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what you're saying to me.
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It's okay to say that.
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appreciate your candor.
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Just say, I don't quite get it.
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I hear you saying this,
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but could you possibly
really be saying that?
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Is that what you're trying to say to me?
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And let them repeat themselves again
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until you finally comprehend
what's being communicated.
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That's what the word, hear, means.
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It's not just to hear, but it's to fully communicate,
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understand what is being communicated.
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But if you put all of these together, the RIV
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of James 1:19, which is in my book, the RIV -
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the Renner Interpretive Version of the book
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of James and Jude.
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Here's the RIV of James 1:19. Hold onto your seat
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and listen to this - But understand my dearly beloved
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brothers, that every one of you needs
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to swiftly run to hear, attend to,
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and to comprehend what I've communicated. You need
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to zip your lips, put a lid on your mouth,
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and learn to slow down in
expressing your opinions.
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You also need to intentionally
put on the brakes
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to stop blowing your cool so easily.
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You want me to read that to you again?
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Well, okay - here it is again.
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But understand my dearly beloved brothers, that every one
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of you - so that means me, that means you, every one of us
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every one of you needs to swiftly run, to here,
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to attend to and comprehend
what is being communicated.
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You need to zip your lips,
put a lid on your mouth
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and learn to slow down in
expressing your opinions.
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You also need to intentionally
put on the brakes
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to stop blowing your cool so easily.
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That is a wonderful interpretation
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of James 1:19.
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And it is instruction for me
and it is instruction for you.
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You know, in Psalm 141:3, we read -
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Eet a watch, oh Lord,
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before my mouth keep the door of my lips.
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When you find yourself in a
conversation that is difficult
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and you need to get a grip on your mouth,
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that is a great scripture for you to pray.
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Here it is again, set a watch, oh Lord,
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before my mouth, keep the door of my lips.
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Or how about Proverbs 6:2 - Thou art snared
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with the words of thy mouth
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and are taken with the words of thy mouth.
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You need to always remember
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that your words have consequences.
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You need to think about what you're saying
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because your words may snare
you and make a worse mess.
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And how about this one?
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Proverbs 10:19 says - Sin is not ended
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by multiplying words,
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but the prudent hold their tongues.
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Sometimes people talk themselves into a mess;
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they talk themselves into trouble.
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Multiplying your words doesn't regularly
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fix the situation.
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This says, sin is not
ended by multiplying words,
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but the prudent hold their tongues.
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And my friends, there really
is a time when you just need
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to be quiet.
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We're told in Ecclesiastes 3, there's a time
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to speak and there is a time to be quiet.
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And when you feel you're about to vent wrath,
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that's the time for you to
zip your lips, put a lid on it
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and not speak.
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That is not a time for you to speak.
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That's when you need to
get a grip on your mouth.
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Wow. Now today we have looked at these verses in
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James 1:19, and all these word meanings.
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But in Matthew 5:33, Jesus said - Again you've heard
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that it's been said of them of old time -
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Thou shalt not forswear thyself,
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but shall perform unto the Lord thine oaths.
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What in the world does that mean?
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Well, you're gonna find out in the next episode.
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Verse 34 says,
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But I say unto you, swear not at all, neither by heaven,
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for it is God's throne -
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verse 35 -
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nor by the earth for it is his foot stole, neither
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by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great God.
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These are powerful words from
Jesus about getting a grip
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on your mouth.
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And this is where we're gonna
pick up in the next program.
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But I'll be back in just a moment
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and I want to pray for you.
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Someone asked the question -
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How much should I pray in tongues?
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Well, let's go to 1 Corinthians 14:18
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to see what the apostle Paul said about praying in tongues.
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And in this verse, he said,
I thank my God I speak
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with tongues more than ye all.
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And was speaking to the Corinthians who were known
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for speaking in tongues.
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He said, I speak in tongues more than all
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of you put together.
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But why did Paul speak
so much in other tongues?
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And the answer is found in 1 Corinthians 14:
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4, where Paul writes - He that
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speaks in an unknown tongue, edifies himself.
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And that word edify is an architectural term
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which means to knock out the walls, make the room bigger,
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increase your capacity.
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And Paul was literally saying
that when you pray in tongues,
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it increases your spiritual
capacity to receive more
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and more and more.
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And my friends, as long as you are praying in tongues,
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you're gonna be increasing your spiritual capacity.
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So it's not ever possible
to pray in tongues too much.
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Have you ever said something
that you later regretted?
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We all need to learn how
to control the things
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that come out of our mouths.
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And Jesus has a lot
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to say on the subject. In Rick Renner's series,
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What Jesus Said About Getting A Grip on Your Mouth,
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you will learn how to be slow
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and thoughtful with your words,
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really thinking before you speak.
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You will develop a greater understanding
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of biblical practices such
as not having blessings
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and curses come from the same mouth: submitting
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to the Holy Spirit when your tongue is un-tamable -
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and much more.
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner,
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and today I wanna say
thank you to you partner
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for everything you do
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to help us fulfill Heaven's mandate on our ministry.
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In Proverbs 10:21, it says - The lips
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of the righteous feed many.
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And that is our assignment.
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In the past year, we have
traveled all over Russia
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and when we travel to
minister, we don't charge
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for plane tickets or for churches to pay
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for the cost of our team.
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You pay that price, you
do that with your gifts.
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You enable us to go to
people who could never pay
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for all of us to come.
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But we've gone as a team and
lives have been transformed.
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We've had meetings where
we have met thousands
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and thousands of people
who listen to us on TV
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and then come together
to hear us in person
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as we impart the life transforming truth
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of the Bible to them.
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And you're a part of that
because you are a partner.
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You're putting the fuel in the
tank that enables us to go.
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And for this, I say thank you
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and all those people say thank you.
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And if you're not a
partner yet, we need you.
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And today I'm inviting
you to become a part
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of our Partner Family.
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We're waiting for you to help
us take the trusted teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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Well, we just concluded James 1:19, which is filled
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with instruction about how
to listen and how to hear
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and not to blow your cool so easily.
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But this is a 5-part series,
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which is called - What Jesus Said About Getting a
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Grip on Your Mouth.
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It comes in all kinds of formats
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with a wonderful study guide.
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And again, I want to tell you
about Joyce Meyer's amazing
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book called Power Words -
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What You Say Can Change Your Life.
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This book by Joyce is one of her best books.
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It'll tell you what to say, it'll tell you what not to say.
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It is so typical Joyce
Meyer, it is practical
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and it is so very helpful.
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But if you want to know more about how
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to get these resources, just go online at renner.org
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or give us a call.
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We're waiting to hear from you right now.
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And again, we're waiting to pray for you.
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So if this has touched your heart today
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and you've realized you need
to make a little adjustment in
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how you hear and how you speak
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and how you blow your cool so easily,
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can you just wish you had
somebody to pray with you?
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Here we are. We're waiting
to pray for you right now.
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Call the number on the
screen or send us an email
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and we will sincerely pray with you and Jesus will help you.
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But I wanna pray with you right now.
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Father, I thank in the name
of Jesus that your word is
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so instructive.
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You tell us to be swift, to hear, slow
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to speak, slow to wrath.
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And if you tell us to do these things,
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that means we can do it.
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So Holy Spirit, we ask you to
help us to be swift to here,
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slow to speak and slow to wrath.
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Help us to quit losing our cool so easily.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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Now, when we come back tomorrow,
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we're gonna pick up right here.
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But until then, we're remember that Ecclesiastes 8:
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4 says - "Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.