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Colossians
3:8
You
must rid yourselves of all such things as these:
anger,
rage, malice, slander, and filthy language…
Luke 6:45
…the words that the
mouth utters come from the overflowing of the heart.
Timothy
6:20
Turn
away from godless chatter.
Psalm 111:9
Holy and reverend
is His name.
Psalm
19:14
May
the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart
be acceptable
in thy sight Oh, Lord.
Psalm 8:1
O Lord, our Lord, how
glorious is your name over all the earth.
Psalm 112:2
Blessed
be the name of the Lord both now and forever.
We are all creatures of habit. And like the little girl with the curl in the
middle of her forehead, some of our habits are very, very good and some are
very, very horrid. One of the very, very
horrid is the habit of throwing around GD this and GD that, seemingly without a
second thought.
May the words of my mouth and
the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight Oh, Lord, wrote David in Psalm 19, to which many
simply reply, “But I was angry.”
And to Timothy’s admonition, Turn away from godless chatter, many
folk say, “Godless chatter? I don’t even think about it.
Oh, I guess it bothered me the first
time I used God’s name as a cuss word, but now?
Well, you know how it is. It’s just a habit.”
Yes, indeed, defaming God can
became a habit, and that is the point, for glorifying God can also become a
habit.
This sermon is not about an occasional
damn or hell that many drop into countless
conversations. It is without
debate that all conversations would be better if they weren’t there, but that
is another subject, not the one I am addressing this morning.
No, I mean the very distinct problem of
how, with such consummate ease, so many today throw around the name of God and
Jesus as curse words.
Having said this…
suppose I were to walk up to you and began to insult you family;
curse your father, call your mother by a totally unacceptable name and rake
your brothers or sisters over the coals with one profanity after the other,
what would you do?
Would you just stand there with a silly grin
on your face or no expression at all?
Would you act as if I had said nothing out of the ordinary because,
after all, people use such language all the time? After all I have only defamed your
family. It’s no big deal.
Suppose someone walks up to you and begins to insult your family
of God? What if they use the well
accepted GD’s of today, and by so doing throw verbal sludge at your heavenly Father. What if they then use the name of His son as
a curse word and thereby literally rake
the whole family of God over the coals?
What will you do? Will you just stand there with a silly grin
on your face or no expression at all? Will
you act as if they have said nothing out of the ordinary because, after all,
people use such language all the time? After
all they have only defamed the family of God.
It’s no big deal.
It’s no big deal?
Really? What we allow spoken in
our presence - no matter how bad, becomes the accepted norm and very often what
people therefore begin to think we actually stand for.
Suppose the next time you hear someone use heaven’s own as a curse
word you were to say, “I really don’t care for that kind of language.” Will they appreciate your comment? Probably not.
Will everyone you say this to never take God’s name in vain
again, or at least never again in your presence?
No, not everyone.
But some will respect you for speaking up and you will have
sowed a seed worth sowing, a thought worth thinking.
And most of all you will have been courageous...a commodity to often
in short supply.
And since we are the product of our thoughts this is no small
achievement.
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