BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR WORDS, especially in the presence of Jesus!!! (17/01)

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BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR WORDS, especially in the presence of Jesus!!!

  • “Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.” (Ecclesiastes 5.1,2).

Have you ever mused the motive why:

  • Adam was ousted from the Eden?
  • The deluge came about in the time of Noah?
  • Sodom and Gomorrah was wreaked havoc in the time of Lot?
  • Moses was precluded from entering in Canaan?
  • Stephen was stoned?

They screwed up at the same point:

1 – Adam blamed the woman and the own Creator for his disobedience:

  • “And the man said, The woman *whom you gave to be* with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.” (Genesis 3.12).

2 – The believers, even knowing the longsuffering of God who waited, in the days of Noah, for the repentance of people (1Peter 3.20), prayed for the destruction of all sinners from the Earth:

  • “And God said unto Noah, *The end of all flesh is come before me*; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” (Genesis 6.13).

3 – The believers was praying to the Creator in according to the turpitude in their hearts (meditate on Ezekiel 14.7-9), in particular accusing each other before Him:

  • “And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and *see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me*; and if not, I will know.” (Genesis 18.20,21).

4 – Moses inveighed the people of the Creator:

  • “They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: because they provoked his spirit, so that he *spoke without due consideration with his lips*.” (Psalms 106.32,33).

5 – Although Stephen began (Act 6.10,15) and finished (Acts 7.55) his utterance filled with the Holy Spirit, in the middle of his discourse, he vented this emotions and uttered expletives against the people of the Creator:

  • “*All of you stubborn and uncircumcised in heart and ears*, all of you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do all of you.” (Acts 7.51).

Nobody have authority to accuse or slander someone, even if what it is being said is right:

  • “For even hereunto were all of you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that all of you should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously:” (1Peter 2.21-23).

  • *“FOR BY YOUR WORDS YOU SHALL BE JUSTIFIED, AND BY YOUR WORDS YOU SHALL BE CONDEMNED” (Matthew 12.37).*

So, if you long for entering in the New Jerusalem, you need to acquire the right to approach of the tree of life. But, for this, you need to wash your spiritual robes. And how to do this? Through the life of Christ performing in us and move us on in direction to the needy, not to blame, accuse or slander them, but to save them (for the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them – Luke 9.51).

  • “*Blessed are they that wash their robes*, that they may have the right [to come] to the tree of life, and my enter in by the gates into the city.” (Revelation 22.14).

Finally, if you crave for being saved and blessing with everything you need to glorify His name (Matthew 6.33), dislodge all spirit of accusation of your life and have a good day in Christ Jesus:

  • “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now has come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: *for the accuser of our brethren is cast down*, which accused them before our God day and night.” (Revelation 12.10).