verse for out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks

Verse for out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks full#

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.' But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. Matthew 12:33-37 – 'Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. He has just finished those ponderous words we studied last week, '…anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.' Note that Jesus is speaking here and He is still addressing the Pharisees. Our words are symptoms of the condition of our hearts. Jesus tells us in our text this morning that the real key to what we say is our heart. This morning I want us to consider not methods for cleaning up behavior and speech from the outside in, but rather Jesus’ answer for unrighteous speech and behavior. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirrors. He took out a long-handled brush, dipped it into the toilet, and scrubbed the mirror until was clean. To demonstrate how difficult it was, she asked the custodian to show the girls how he had to clean the mirrors. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian, who had to clean the mirrors every day. She called some of the lipsticked girls into the restroom and met them there with the custodian.

The principal decided something had to be done. The trouble was, after they applied their lipstick, they would press their lips against the mirrors leaving dozens of little lip prints. A large number of the girls in the school were beginning to use lipstick, and they would put it on in the bathroom. How does a person clean up a bad habit of swearing or lying or slandering or plain old potty mouth? A news report told of a middle school in Oregon that was facing a unique problem. So, James concludes, 'If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check.' (James 3:2) We can do great good with our speech or we can inflict much harm, so powerful is the tongue.

Verse for out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks full#

Colossians 4:6 says, 'Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt'… The book of James says that the tongue is powerful-it makes great boasts, starts fires and steers ships, and with it we praise God and we curse men who have been made in God’s image. And it is important that we do our best to choose carefully those things that we say. What we say, and how we say it, has power. Watch for the variety of emotions in the dialogue and the emotional responses they provoke. He refused to wear anything that had been worn by others. He has just gone out to buy a coat and tie because the establishment required them and he refused to wear the loaners offered by the maitre d’. He has just returned to the nice restaurant where he left his friend, Carol, played by Helen Hunt. He is a cantankerous man who never has a good word for anyone. The real objective of the words we speak is to communicate what we are thinking/feeling.įilm clip from As Good As It Gets: in this scene the man, Melvin, played by Jack Nicholson, is a fusty, aging man who is afflicted with obsessive compulsive disorder. Often what we say isn’t received by the hearer in the way we intended. The words that we say and the way that we say them have a profound effect. George Beasley-Murray, Jesus and the Kingdom of God Īlfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah ĭonald Hagner, Matthew 1-13 (WBD, vol.33A)

With grateful acknowledgement of these sources of direction and inspiration: OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKS