On October 12th 1872, a
beautiful baby boy was born in a small town in England. He was a
blessed
child having a father that was a
fanatical preacher, that took him handing out tracts, starting bible
studies and tutoring on the side. They
were very close. At the age of 12 his father died and he was heart
broken. Shortly after this his mother
noticed a change. He started rebelling. By his own admission, he
started torturing animals, he had an
hatred for Christianity and the things of God. He would go on to be
the self proclaimed “ most wicked man
alive” with a motto of “Do as thou wilt”. He became one of the
worlds most influential occultist,
being a 33rd, and a 97th degree free mason. He
was educated in satanic
witchcraft and became an authority on
the subject. He was an accomplished writer in the occult and
Satanism. His works influence some
pretty powerful people like Jack Parsons who would later go on to
influence L. Ron Hubberd, founder of
the church of scientology. He initiated a man named Gerald
Gardener who would later found the
pagan religion of wicca. He would continue in the downward evil
spiral his entire life founding pagan
temples and holding satanic rituals and black masses until the day
he died in which he was quoted saying “
I am perplexed”. There is so much more I could say about
what he did with his life, but, but it
is not appropriate in any context. His name was Aleister Crowley. I
would like to talk about what I think
influenced him the most... In his auto biography he says his
mother being fed up with his acting
out, would chastise him by saying he was “the beast of revelation
and your # is 666” I don't know how
often she said it, but the implication is that it was a regular
occurrence. Could you imagine that
environment. Telling my 12 year he was the devil! Over time that
is gonna effect that child or anyone
for that matter.
Aleister Crowley had what appeared to
be a goodly christian heritage. What happened? Ill tell you
what happened. The tongue, thats what
happened! So I'm gonna give some thoughts about the
Tongue.... Lets go to the Lord first.
- Never underestimate the power of God's tongue! Or specifically God's words.
-God exercises
His absolute power with his tongue. I don't know how God came in to
existence, or how eternity came to be, but I know how man came in to
existence! And how our universe came to be...The tongue! God spoke IT
and Us and everything you see(and some things you can't see) into
existence .
-In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth... How did He do it?
GOD SAID !
GOD SAID!
GOD SAID!
NOW THAT'S POWER!
-God's words
even have power after someone writes them down.Hebrews 4:12 says”
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.”
-God's words are
so powerful you can't live without them!
Mathew 4:4 says”
... Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
-Eve
underestimated the power of God's tongue. Look at Genesis 3:1-7: Now
the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the
LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye
shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2, And the
woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of
the garden:
3, But of the
fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said,
Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4, And the
serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5, For God
doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be
opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6, And when
the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she
took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her
husband with her; and he did eat.
7, And the
eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked;
and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
-She should have
taken notes because her underestimation of the power of the tongue
messed up the whole creation. I'd like to point something out here.
God did not have to do anything to carry out the death sentence. It
just took place like he said it would.
SO NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF
GOD'S TONGUE!
- NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF YOUR TONGUE!
- Proverbs 18:21 says” Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof: James 3:5-8 says “ Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
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6, And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.7, For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:8, But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
-The tongue is likened to a poisonous snake. A poisonous snake will strike indiscriminately. It doesn't ask
any questions. You get to close you get bit.
-You have to keep your tongue in check
or it will come back to bite you in the end. Pun intended.
A) It is in your tongue's
nature to curse not bless, but the Bible says to Bless not curse in
Romans!
-When was the last time you actually
blessed someone? I'm not talking
about being a blessing, or saying bless you when someone sneezes, I'm
talking about BLESSING someone. Its hard I know. Especially if they
have been cursing you. But we are commanded to do so by the Lord
Jesus Christ Himself: Matthew 5:44,
We have no idea what others are
going through. You may think you know but you don't
!
How about blessing a child instead
of cursing.
How about blessing a preacher
instead of cursing him.
How about blessing the government
instead of cursing it.
How about blessing your co- workers.
How about blessing your man; How
about blessing your woman.
How about blessing that family you
can't stand!
How about blessing a marriage
instead of cursing it!
How about blessing your unsaved
family members instead of cursing
Listen close- How about blessing
yourself, instead of cursing.
You follow me? If you find yourself
not able to bless then you better read Romans 1 and start where it
says reprobate. Hey a reprobate is not reprobate because he curses,
he curses because he is reprobate. AMEN, AMEN
Matthew 5:44 says:
“But I say unto you, Love your
enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”
Man that's a hard one.
- Blessing someone used to be common place, now we just say Hi and By.In the old testament they would literally seek people out to go and get or give a blessing.
- The catholics have perverted this practice.
- Even the Muslims bless you coming and going. We could learn something from them.
SO NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF
YOUR TONGUE!
III. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER
OF GOD TO JUDGE YOUR TONGUE!
-Jesus Christ said
back in Matthew “ O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil,
speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh.
35, A good man
out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and
an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
36, But I say
unto you,GET THIS IN YOUR EARS ****That every idle word
that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of
judgment.****
-Judge not,
that ye be not judged., For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be
judged:
If there is one
thing you cant count in the bible, you can count on the judgment!
The bible says
“its appointed unto men once to die, but after this the Judgment
Paul says” But
why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy
brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
For we must all
appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive
the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether
it be good or bad.
SO NEVER UNDERESTIMATE POWER OF GOD
TO JUDGE YOUR TONGUE!
