WATCH YOUR MOUTH | WORDS SERIES

Matthew 12:33-37 NLT Premise ⁃ There is a holy responsibility for the child of God to carefully consider what is spoken. Fundamental truths 1. The power to control the tongue is your responsibility.  James 1:26 NLT 2. You have power to cut and to heal. Which one will you choose? Proverbs 12:18 NLT 3. It is imperative that we learn to surrender the tongue (words) to the Holy Spirit! Both blessing and curses come from the same mouth! James 3:7-10 NLT 4. Your words have the power to help build or tear down and dismantle. Ephesians 4:29 NLT 5. Keeping watch over the tongue is the responsibility of the wise, the foolish use words to get In trouble.Proverbs 21:23 NLT 6. Sin flows from many words, we must learn to keep quiet.  Proverbs 10:19 NLT 7. Minding your business has never hurt anybody. Mastering your business dismantles the temptation to be in someone else’s.  1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 NLT 8. Surrendering to the Lordship of Christ includes the tongue not just the body and mind. Psalms 141:3-4 NLT Scriptural insight 1. What you say is born out of who you are! The heart never lies! Matthew 12:33-34 NLT 2. Where is your “treasure”? That’s where is your heart is and where life or death (words) will come from!  Matthew 12:35 NLT Luke 6:45 NLT Matthew 6:21 NLT 3. Learning to be sensitive toward what we speak is born out of submission and righteousness, understanding a day will come when we answer for every word that wasn’t properly submitted to the Lord.  Matthew 12:36-37 NLT