WATCH YOUR MOUTH | WORDS SERIES

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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