Death and Life Are in the Power of the Tongue

"We know one thing about the feast of tabernacles. We understand that's going to be the gathering of Israel from the four corners of the earth. And that's going to be the day when the Lord set up his holy government all over the entire world. We going to go back to our land, and we going to be his people, and he going to be our God in truth and in righteousness."

"Not only is God going to gather the children of Israel, he is also going to gather the stranger amongst them. To it shall the Gentiles seek, and his rest shall be glorious, because that's what the Sabbath day is pointing to. It's pointing toward the thousand-year millennium period, which is going to be the thousand years of peace."

"They talk about that the remnant of his people was recovered in 1948. If that's the case, then he going to set his hand the third time. But we know that that is not the case."

"He shall assemble the outcasts of Israel. That's what he called us. And when you look at us as a nation, that's exactly what's going on. But you not going to be an outcast to the Lord at this time, because he going to come back and save his people, because that's the promise that he gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

"Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. That's very important, because us as a people, we don't get along. Anytime we get together, it's always some form of chaos, or somebody getting into an argument. But at this point in time, we going to get along as a nation."

"Everything that the Lord did when he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, when he led them into the promised land, he going to do it again."

"I'm going to tell you one thing that identifies you as a Christian. When they see a Christian, they looking for you to act a certain way. But what people judge you as being a true man or a true woman of God is the words that come out of your mouth. The words that come out of your mouth are powerful. It's so powerful that God wrote in his book, death and life is in the power of it."

"Pray over your mouth. Pray over every vessel of your body. Because you got to realize your body is the temple. If something come out of your mouth that's unclean, you can defile the temple like that by your words."

"At some point when you get in the word of God, you got to grow up. When you are giving out certain languages and certain tones, you've taken away everything of what you said about Christ."

"People that love one another do not talk to each other any kind of way. Your home got to be holy. Your home got to represent the Lord the same way that you represent the Lord."

"Your words can be like honey. They can be sweet when people hear it. But your words also can be daggers, and they can cut you like a razor blade if you don't watch it."

"He that is not with me is against me. That is point blank and period. And it's written in red."

"All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men. You can say what you want about another man, and if that man or that woman come to you and you apologize, you can be forgiven for that, because it's a sin that's going between man. But there is a point that there is no forgiveness when you open your mouth."

"Blasphemy is to speak against God and his word, or sometimes this going to be called in the Bible profane talk."

"Jesus was in the flesh when everybody was talking about him. And he proved that when he died on the cross. Everybody was talking crazy about him. But when he rose up from that grave, you better not say nothing against him, because if you say something against the Son, then you saying something against the Father."

"So why do we say the Holy Ghost in this case is the Father, and it's not the spirit of Gabriel at this time? Because Jesus was the comforter at this time. There was no need to have the Holy Ghost. So the Holy Ghost that he was talking about at this point was none other than the Father."

"Neither in the world to come. What's the world to come? The world to come is the eighth day."

"I do not want you coming to me with no lukewarm spirit. You got to be on fire for the Lord. You can't be like a candle outside with the wind blowing, where it blow up and then it blow out."

"How you going to call on the Lord, but then you got corrupt speech in your mouth? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. People say, I didn't mean to say it, I said it out of anger. Stop doing that. At some point it got to stop."

"If you got the spirit of Satan in your heart, then you got them demons stuck in your vocal cords. Because demons enter you through touch, they enter you through taste, they enter you through sight, and they enter you through hearing. So you got to make sure that you pray all of these entities out of you."

"Now Jesus took it to another level. He ain't talking about talking against him and the Father no more. He talking about your idle words. The words that you speak every day. You going to be condemned by your words. You the temple. The temple ain't standing no more. So now you the temple. So don't defile your temple through your words."

"If we be dead with him. Now you've been baptized. We done went under the water. That's you being dead with him. So if you going to be dead with him, then we shall also live with him. Who does Jesus live beside right now? He lives beside the Father."

"If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful. That is one of the most powerful words that we going to read today. He going to still abide faithful. He going to raise you up every morning and give you a chance to get it right, because he cannot deny himself."

"There are certain words that God don't want you to deal with. God don't want you to argue about genealogy. God also told you don't get off into it with people about oppositions of science. Science was really created to get away from God."

"Study to show thyself approved unto God. The Lord knows I am big on that. Rightly dividing the word of truth. And that's what we going to deal with today."

"Shun profane and vain babblings. Arguing, getting into it, cussing. It's going to get you in more trouble once you start talking crazy."

"Flee also youthful lusts. What you did when you was young, you got to flee that now. You can't be still walking around here acting like you 20 years old and you 50."

"You might have a little bit of disagreement on something. But instead of always looking at the wrong somebody is doing, let's start looking at the right that we doing sometime."

"The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach. If you have to teach all the time, that means that every word that's coming out of your mouth got something to do with the Lord."

"In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves. Some people oppose themselves and they don't understand that they're doing that. Not always going up to them and telling them, hey man, you wrong. They might be wrong, but go to them in the spirit of meekness. Because God can fix it."

"Satan's whole mission is to throw the people that believe God off. He already got the world."

"Everything you see around you is vanity. The only thing that's not vanity is the word of God."

"The preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. So if it ain't written in the Bible, God telling you not to believe it. What if I was a preacher getting up here cussing from the pulpit? Then you ain't going to listen to me on nothing."

"Of making many books there is no end. Everybody got something to say about God. But the only book that you need is the book that you got right here. He's not telling you not to study your Bible. You need to be studying your Bible every day. Because the minute that you stop feeding your spirit, then automatically you going to start feeding your flesh."

"Your whole duty wasn't to become a millionaire or to own your own business. Those things are good. But the whole duty of man is to fear God and keep his commandments."

"Every secret thing that you think you getting away with, God is going to get you for every inch of it. You not getting away. You just getting by."

"It is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee. Wisdom cannot dwell on the outside of you. Once you get this knowledge of God, you got to keep it within."

"They shall withal be fitted in thy lips. So when you are talking about God, you ain't going to be running off at the mouth telling people off. Those days are over with once you become a Christian."

"It's on this earth that you got to get past before you get to the kingdom of God. So you got to get it right now."

"Make no friendship with an angry man. It's okay for you to help him. But who wants to be around somebody that's angry all the time?"

"Lest thou learn his ways. You might start cussing, too, because you're around people that cuss all the time. They got to be around you and say, I might cuss, but I ain't going to cuss around him. That's when you know that your spirit is showing them where their spirit is supposed to be."

"Be not thou one of them that strike hands. So you ain't no fighter no more."

"If you ain't got enough money to pay for the car, then maybe you don't need to get it. That's the wisdom that God gives us as we get older."

"Remove not the ancient landmark. When the landmarks was laid, the landmarks was holy. So you couldn't cross that line."

"He shall not stand before mean men. We know that the mean man is none other than the bill collector. So you got to make sure that you handling your business right."

"You have some things that might be going on with your health, but you stay in good spirit about it, because your spirit is going to sustain your infirmity. But a wounded spirit, who can bear? Everybody not on the same level of strength. Whenever you feeling down and out, you got to pray peace to your soul."

"Notice what Jesus said earlier. Either make the tree good, or make the tree corrupt. Now he said a man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth. This can go in a good direction, but this can also go in a bad direction, because you going to be filled with it."

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue. This where we get the title from. You think you could just go off and say things? God is watching what you doing."

"And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Boy, I told that person off. You should have heard what I said. But God heard it, too."

"Why boastest thou thyself in mischief? I told you off. I knocked him out. That's boasting in your mischief. If it's a day and a time that's reckoned with, then Jesus need to be on your mind before you went off."

"That's what your tongue is like. It's like a razor blade to cut people when you going off and cussing, degrading one another. And once that tongue get to going like a razor, you going to slide a few lies up in there too. And the one thing that the Lord don't like, he don't like no liars."

"Why don't you just call your boss one time and tell him, I need a mental break, instead of saying I'm sick? Tell them the truth. Quit lying."

"You want to know how somebody is in real life? Just look how they are with their tongue, and then you will know exactly how they truly are."

"The Lord can deliver your tongue. Just ask him to. If you truly want to get rid of it, God going to do it for you. But you got to believe. Why you praying to stop cussing, and you still got them demons stuck in your vocal cords? You got to get them out."

"Nobody really talking crazy to Jesus when he was in his face. Everybody was talking about him behind his back. So Jesus was basically saying, I know they going to talk about me, but I'm going to close the door on what they saying. And once you close the door, don't open the door back up. Let them talk. They going to do it anyway."

"Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words. This is an easy lesson we teaching, but it's a very important lesson."

"So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves. If God didn't care so much about your speech, then why he got it written all over the book how you supposed to talk? It got to be something that separates you from the rest of the world. And your words is one of them."

"That's what we just read about in that psalm. He was talking about all of the people that devised mischief against him. They getting together with their words, trying to discuss how they are going to kill the creator and maker of the world."

"Make sure you don't have that Judas spirit on you. People be lying to get some money. Lying on taxes. Did you see that ten dollars on the ground? No, I ain't seen nothing. And it's right up under your shoe."

"He had also obtained part of this ministry. That's very important. You got a lot of men and women that profess that they know the Lord, but really they ain't walking with him."

"That was his reward for what he got. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. So that's how Judas had died."

"You get people lying sometime for no reason at all. He had no reason to lie about this, but he chose to lie about it. Was it not thine own? This was your money."

"You didn't lie to me, but you lied unto God. God just want you to pay something. You ain't got to lie about it. You could have did that from the get-go. God just want to see you try."

"That's why this class do so well. We got food, we got cleaning supplies, paper towels, plates, forks. We never are without. All of that is still tithing. It ain't always what you throw in the pot. Tithing goes in every kind of way."

"Peter was like, I'm going to give you a chance to tell the truth. That's why he didn't tell her at this time what already happened to her husband. When God throw a brick, it hit every head in the room."

"Your husband is your head until he start getting you to lie for him. You don't lie for nobody. Don't let your husband or your wife take you to the lake of fire."

"People act like telling the truth is something bad. It's a good thing when you tell the truth. Whatever you have done, if you tell the truth about it, it'll get you out of a lot of trouble. That might show you a little mercy."

"A fool's lips enter into contention. Your words are usually what cause contention to come."

"Don't let your lips be the snare of your soul. Don't be a person that is a beautiful person till you open your mouth."

"The words of a talebearer. I tell you a secret, and I told you to conceal the secret, and then you go and tell somebody else. Don't tell them I told you this. Then what you telling me for?"

"So make sure how you talk to people. You got a brother or a sister, and now they won't answer your call. They won't talk to you. That's because you offended them. Maybe something that you said offended them."

"The same way when you cut water on, that's when the contention and the fighting start. You got to use wisdom. If you getting ready to get into it with somebody, stop. Pause. Before you blurt anything out, stop. And then pray. Lord, just give me the strength of what to say in this hour. If you just turn away from them and say it in your head, and then turn back around, their attitude might not be better, but yours will."

"I was still rough on the edges when I first came in. But then I learned from my wife. She wouldn't say nothing. Sometime you wise when you do that."

"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. That's what a brother is for."

"He loveth transgression that loveth strife. Most people that love strife, they also love sinning. And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. Once again, God talking about your tongue."

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. When you happy, that's your medicine."

"A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. So don't be taking no gifts to get people to lie. I give you five hundred dollars if you go to court and say you didn't see me hit them. Don't take those type of gifts."

"The best way to get rid of a perverse tongue is not to think it in your mind. If you don't think it in your heart, it will not come out of your mouth. If you don't think about cussing, you won't say a cuss word at all."

"Be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. We making too many teachers to get up and preach the word of God, and we're taking people that's not qualified for the position to deal with people's salvation. If you get up here and you don't know what you talking about, you are going to receive the greater condemnation for what you are speaking to the people."

"If you get your tongue in check, you can master anything else when it come to your body. If you get your mouth right, everything else going to fall right behind it."

"Even a big ship, they got a little bitty wheel on that ship, but it'll turn that ship anywhere on that seawater. Even so the tongue is a little member."

"It's hot outside and you got a whole lot of trash inside of the dumpster, and you take a cigarette and throw it in the dumpster. You catch the whole dumpster on fire. That was a little bitty fire. That's why we talk about, don't defile your temple with your tongue."

"You got a better chance of taming a gorilla than to tame this tongue. You can tame a lion before you can tame this tongue."

"Full of deadly poison. Your tongue can be like a scorpion when you strike a man. Why did he say poison? Because your words can hurt and kill people."

"This man or this woman is made after the similitude of God. And you don't want to curse God's creation."

"Either you going to have a nasty mouth or you going to have a clean mouth. Either you going to have some fresh water or you going to have some salt water. It's one of the two."

"Conversation is your behavior and your attitude. When you read this book and you praying every day, the way that you show that you love God is the way that you talk and you treat your fellow man every day."

"It's good that you repent for what you say. But it got to come a time you got to start repenting from other things, and not the exact same sin that you've been doing."

"Get yourself straight. Get your life in order. And then you can talk to everybody from Genesis to Revelation about the Bible, once you straight."

"Bitter envying and strife in your heart is devilish. That's why we talked about, you got to know how to denounce demons out of you. God gave you that power."

"Easy to be intreated. Now, that's one that I got to work on right now. I can come off a little intimidating sometimes. So I'm working on that. But full of mercy and good fruits, I ain't lacking in that."

"The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. You got to make the peace."

"Walk in wisdom toward them that are without. Some of us might have spouses that's really not in the word of God right now. They don't know the word of God the way that you know the word of God. So when you walking with them, you got to walk with wisdom."

"Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt. Imagine somebody going off on you in your face, and you just being quiet and don't say nothing back at all."

"If you find your peace in other people, then they control your peace. You got to find your peace within yourself. And don't let nobody break your peace, no matter what the situation is."

"Don't hate the vessel. You got to hate the spirit that's behind the vessel."

"Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? You get people all the time saying, I died and went to heaven. The Lord said ain't no man been up there."

"We all know that you got to read the stipulations on here. We know you got some work to do. But when you confess this with your mouth, you are preaching life unto your soul while you are alive. You're telling yourself, I'm going to make it into God's kingdom, because I believe in him."

"We talking a lot about death, but now we talking about life. Your words is going to preach life unto you. This is what you need to be talking about."

"A lot of us are strong, but we going to be around a lot of people also that's weak, and you got to bear their infirmities. And particularly if you dealing with a spouse, you got to deal with their good and their bad, because we said for better or for worse. Same thing with the children."

"You might be on your way to the kingdom, but you also want to bring others along with you."

"Jesus was bearing the infirmities of the people that was weak. And who was those weak people? Those weak people was us."

"All this stuff we've been reading about what not to do with your tongue and also what to do with your tongue, that's to get you eternal life, and to also give you comfort."

"You got to be on one accord. Not only do you got to touch and agree with God, you got to touch and agree in your marriage. And we can still be at peace with one another, regardless of what the situation is."

"Satan want to get the true believers. Satan already done got the world. Satan want you. That's what he did with Job. But what did Job do? Job still kept his integrity. You got to keep your integrity even when things is going wrong around you."

"When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. Once you converted, now you got work to do. You got to go strengthen those that don't know, because the harvest is plenteous, but the laborers are few. You got to be able to step out of the norm in order to serve the Lord."

"When I know we getting ready to argue about the word of God, we ain't got nothing to talk about. We can talk about anything, but if we going to fight over it, I'm going to be the first one to get back out of that."

"Everybody got something to say. And that's a beautiful thing, when you know God, everybody got something to say about the Lord. But let it be done in decency and in order. Because if it's not, you going to find yourself fighting with people about the Bible."

"Let the first hold his peace, so there don't be no arguing."

"And they still talking crazy. It's their mouth that got them in trouble. They repented not to give him glory."

"When you have an infirmity with your body, who are you supposed to go to? You supposed to go to the Lord. But they didn't do that at this time. They were still blaspheming God."

"The dragon is the devil. And out of the mouth of the beast, that's going to be the military leader that's going to be over the European common market. And out of the mouth of the false prophet. All of these people going to be speaking unclean words."

"Behold, I come as a thief. You better watch yourself. You better watch every step that you take."