GET RID OF PROFANITY !
SPEAK PURE WORDS!Psalm 19:14'Let the words of my mouth ,and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight,O Lord,my strength,and my redeemer.'
Our heart and mouth must be unified to please our holy Lord. You must be totally honest and bring your words under the searchlight of God's holiness. We must be right with God in our hearts and words. A person dishonors Jesus every time they use profanity!
1.Profane words and unclean speech spread like a deadly disease!
2.Profanity plants pictures in peoples minds when they hear foul language! Words have serious consequences.
3.Eph.4:29 'Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth,but that which is good to the use of edifying,that it may minister grace to the hearers.' The word corrupt can be translated,'foul,abusive,evil,polluting,unwholesome and worthless talk.'
4.This is a New Testament Command we must obey! This commandment is daily broken by those who claim Jesus as Lord and they show no shame about their corrupt speech !
5.Profanity and crude lewd speech is disgusting and does not edify. Cussing does not minister grace but grieves the Holy Spirit.
6.The word corrupt in Eph.4:29 can also mean that which is 'rotten and putrid'. Profanity is putrid not pure speech. Corrupt speech is like rotten fruit that is spoiled and repulsive and not fit to eat.
7.Throw away your putrid profanity and corrupt cussing! Garbage talk belongs in the garbage can. Its repulsive and not fit for others to hear !
8.Eph.4;30'And grieve not the Holy Spirit..'Anything that is not holy is distasteful to the Holy Spirit. Profanity is distasteful and those who use it have a very low view of the holiness of God.
9.What is wrong with people who say they love Jesus but freely use profanity? Have they become so desensitized by the worlds vulgarity that they now seem comfortable using crude and lewd language?
10.Are you casual and careless about your cussing ?Or are you careful and cautious about what you say? Sloppiness is all too common when it comes to our speech.Does not take much effort to swear ,curse and use profanity that hurts others and offends the Lord. Do you have self-control?
11.Prov.10:32 'The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable:but the mouth of the wicked speaks frowardness.'Profanity is perverse speech and the righteous will refrain from using ungodly words in conversation!
12.Col.3:8 'But now ye also put off all these,anger,wrath,malice,blasphemy,filthy communication out of your mouth.'This is a direct command to get rid of once and for all all profanity and obscene crude talk ! Angry people full of malice are hot heads who freely use destructive words !
13.The old language of the old life must be forsaken. We have a new life in Jesus and a new language that is pure and pleasing to Him.
14.A 'Cussing Christian' is a contradiction! You must make a clean break with every form of ungodly compromise which includes ungodly words. You must renounce profanity and get rid of it today.
Brother D. Cooke {Share as the Lord leads}