Is there any guile in you? God is love. He who is Love made man. He gave man a brain and attached a mouth to it. Man chose to rebel but the mouth was still attached. And when he repents and returns to God, along comes his mouth into God’s church. If I am going to represent the God of love who gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16), then what will it take for me to learn to talk like a Christian? According to the Bible, there will eventually stand on the earth a group of believers. That will have perfect consonance, perfect harmony and agreement, between what is happening beneath their forehead and what is happening at their lips. Notice this from Revelation 14:1-5: And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with Him an hundred forty and four thousand, having His Father’s name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. Notice, the Father’s name where? In the forehead. That is, the Father’s character reproduced in us, and then notice that no guile is found in the mouth of God’s faithful this group. Again we ask, What will it take to learn to talk as the Bible portrays like these? No guile. Have you ever met anyone that you could say of them, there was no guile found in their mouth? I have. And they are very few. Let’s establish this connection between our thoughts and our words. Consider Matthew 12:35, 36: “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. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” Jesus echoes the pattern in Luke 6:43-45). “A good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh “Every tree is known by its fruit. As Christians we claim that our lives are samples of changed people accomplished by Christ. How then is our fruit? Think about it.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 08:41:50 +0000
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