The Sermon Listening to What We Say by David McGee
Oct 10, 2010
Listening to What We Say (31:05)
Referenced Scriptures: Numbers 12:1-16
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Numbers 12:1-16
1) Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
2) They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn‘t he spoken also with us? Yahweh heard it.
3) Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
4) Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out you three to the tent of meeting. They three came out.
5) Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.
6) He said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream.
7) My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house:
8) with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh shall he see: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?
9) The anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed.
10) The cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as [white as] snow: and Aaron looked at Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
11) Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, please don‘t lay sin on us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned.
12) Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother‘s womb.
13) Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you.
14) Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn‘t she be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.
15) Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days: and the people didn‘t travel until Miriam was brought in again.
16) Afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
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Her twelve versus one to sixteen numbers chapter twelve verse one to sixteen. Listening to what we say listening to what we say now, it's important that there the descriptor hassle has a lot to tell us about on our vocabulary about what we say to ourselves what we say to others how we say it one individual declared that it is not the dictionary that gives words, it is our heart and so as we listen to what we say we find in the Scripture today Miriam and Aaron and Moses are are together in the end. In this difficult situation and molds. This has been as being criticized by his sister and so married Marion and Erin are sisters and brother of Moses and solo name kind of entered into this little tip with one another and this is what's going on here in chapter twelve, Marion and Erin got to talk against Moses because of his fisheye wife, for he had married fisheye as the Lord spoken only through Moses. This is Marion speaking, they asked hesitantly also spoken to us and the Lord heard this and got upset with Merryman and and Aaron now Moses was a very humble man more humble than anyone else in the face of the earth, and it wants the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Ms. Mc Erin and Marion come out to the chance of meetings. All three of you. So the three of them came out that the Lord came down and the pillar of cloud so you have Miriam Aaron and Moses together and I was in this cloud over overall three of them right in God 's goodness. They did allow what's been going on. He started the entrance of the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam when Baldwin stepped forward. He said, listen to my words, this is God speaking what a prophet of the Lord is among you, I reveal myself to him in a vision. I speak to him in dreams, but this is not true. My servant Moses, he is faithful and all my house. Nowadays we want to keep here is Miriam and I and are the heads of these two other groups. They are the in the heads of the profits and of the data is aware, the ones who are receiving visions and any merriment while Erin were in charge of these designers. The three heads of Israel. Here, but there is having trouble with Moses. But God is Scottish straightening around here but this is not true. My servant Moses, he is faithful in all my house with him. I speak face-to-face clearly and not in riddles these days from the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses. The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them when the cloud lifted from above the tenth, there stood Marion. She was leprous like snow and turned toward her and saw that she had leprosy, and he said to Moses, please my Lord do not hold against us. The sin we have so foolishly committed to let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother 's womb with its flesh eaten away so Moses cried to the Lord, O God, please feel her the Lord replied to Moses. If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days. Confine her outside the camp for seven days after you can be brought back so. Mary was confined outside the camp for seven days and the people did not move on until she was brought back after that the people left has raw and encamped in the desert( so whatever we are listening to what we say is very important that we understand the contacts out and perhaps the implication that will behind words that we speak. And this is not only in any idea of what we speak to other people but will we speak to ourselves how that we carry on a conversation in all of other people who talk to yourself! are there those who would tell others that they thought themselves and you don't listen to the thicket that would be something like that so several what you say you may get what you ask for, you may get what you wish for those of you who are home alone. Fanatics. That's in the movie home alone. Be careful what you ask for in a get what you wish for style. That's the home alone movie, you know, one answer so Marion and Erin were, as we said brother and sister Moses read for some reason did not like the wife of Moses, and you have simply don't have the volunteer don't raise your hand on this one by the enemy. I have siblings who are married to someone who really just, you know, have issues with okay we don't have any of those. Okay, so Marianne has having problems with the wife of most and there is no explanation given. She just didn't like her so man perhaps is like a lot of other people who argue over minor disagreements and leaving the real issue economy fell by the wayside, and this was the case when Merryman, Erin, and came to know will complain now, as we said Miriam and Aaron represented the priest and the prophets, and so they are phrases and profits and in the nation of Israel and Israel. This time in the news, Moses now these priests and prophets. God says that this little discourse that but I remit I reveal myself to him in visions and I speak to him and drains, so, God states that the priests of the profits button to Moses. He said he comes any talk to him, as it were face-to-face and Marion and Erin are kind of upset because they represent these two very large groups priests and prophets, and they don't have the final say in what happens in the in the meaning of Israel. They don't have Moses always is a final say and so Marion 's kind of upset at this, so she's little to them what's going on so you got two brothers and one sister in charge of a million plus people and Moses isn't listening. My brothers not listening to me and marry Ms. Gallus on Moses and his influence now be careful what we say, see if you can find fault with the person depicted something or someone around, and this is a very human nature that once one individual said, if you can't live up to where people are Kevin down to where you're at now, someone would win, win the Society of finding fault is not is not a gift from God. I think it's more of a curse, tabloids, tabloids have billion-dollar industry finding out little bit information making the beds of information about people gossip columns and in what way we look at what is fallen. What is what is tearing people down it, and what is an interview in what we had this crazy idea that if we stayed in print, it must be true. I'm a look at the tabloids you go to the grocery check out the just to see what the headlines of probably won't admit that you look at the headlines that so why don't we look at those things. I wonder what you are getting what they want picture. You know what's really funny sometimes. As you know, you got somebody else's face superimposed over someone else's body. I mean, and just like in all their other better at it today than in the used to be, but at least tabloids and what isn't. It's people finding fault with other people, and I'm there on there and the people who love to read about what's wrong with the world and what's wrong with these other people. Why why well if other people aren't that good. I don't need to really strive to be. It's kind of like a tearing down a bar of our society and of our responsibility, and we know that God God knows our thoughts and intents of each one of us. He knows the worst of us, and what is God doing about it. He's trying to bring out the best in us. God knows the worst of us. He knows you don't, God knows every sin. Everything were going to do for the rest of our lives. Now if you knew how bad somebody within the same or do something against you and you and everybody doing about three weeks from now, it would start preparing for that moment you have a conversation going on. I'm a really telemark this month as we do that but feels right when God knows every sin. The one I recommend the rest of my life, and he comes back to this moment and says I love you I forgive you. And I'm prepared to forgive you for whatever is in front of you because I know what to bring out the best. This forgiveness, but Marion, by the same. This is jolting this time to think about what you're thinking about. It's time to think about what you're thinking about. There's a war going on in our minds as a battlefield in our minds and our hearts in the battlefield is our vocabulary are words that we speak in the things that we say in how we say that, and there's a battle going on this time think about what were thinking about because our actions will follow our thoughts, our actions will follow our thoughts of why we can't allow ourselves to become critical for the Bible doesn't want us to think about the things that are destructive. The buyer then, that the people 's intent is to steal the killer to destroy so in your conversation are you stealing, killing, or destroy, are you destroying things destroying people in your mind him him him him and going on self. We've got to think about what were thinking about for Marion, why didn't Marion desire to enter the presence of God with Moses is as yet what would I say face-to-face. God speaks face-to-face with Moses. Why was it, Miriam, desiring to enter into that close relationship with God, like her brother had. It's easier to stay on the outside of the critical what is the challenge is that God wants to do what once great in our life and anyone's to bring out the best in our life but sometimes wherein the one who stands in the way of it. Sue reality, the life of Moses is not the problem. The problem that was going on is an age-old problem that we still have today and Marion added back then it is called envy and pride in me is a feeling of ill will because of another's advantages. A feeling of goodwill because somebody else hasn't a little better, but envy and pride wrong, try to be a proper respect for oneself. The product can also be an unduly high opinion of oneself, and unduly high opinion of ourselves, so whenever we get into if we get into this idea of Indian tribes, Marion, was caught up in. She began to really tear down at her brother, who was the leader of Israel, and sometimes it's hard to see we now last week we had mirror and sometimes it's hard to see that part aspects of our character that when we look in the near. We want. We want to look at ourselves in a way that we we can examine ourselves according to the near of God 's word while Marion with her Indian pride against Moses chose to create a diversion in the diversion was Moses. I don't like your wife Mary was upset with Moses, because not anyone listen to her and her group and and so rather than saying all this. I don't like the way you're here, you're leaving this place. He says Moses, I like your wife and maybe that one don't like to I like your clothes in a like your hair will stand on my head metadata and unlike your head. I like there still like that like car you drive down wide what are they talking about, well name was creating a diversion. The challenge is always to ourselves. We have the integrity we have a personal inner strength to deal with the real issues in our lives, relations, the issues of our heart. Are we unjustly critical or are we unjustly criticized while I would unjustly critical of other people just because they go to pit and not Penn State or maybe WV you while wondering what everything that we have our rivalries, I will do high schools and stuff as we get to many of the Nativity cancer. There were nice. Not the realized the Babar professional sports though the Steelers and the Cincinnati bungles. Now, as Byron hopes the year, but since that bungles them changed their their their their team. The Cleveland Brownies yell et al. we have these rivalries. A gallant and why we have these we haven't their expressions up our prejudices very therefore ELR prejudging of things we don't like them. Why might only like Cincinnati law don't like their football thing that during an Cincinnati Bell like distillers like that. There during anal playwright. Proverbs eighteen, twenty, twenty one words, a son of stop words satisfy the mind as much as fruit the stunning talk is as gratifying as a good harvest their miss what I wanted to read what others say large-scale words give life there either voicing or fruit you choose the about work scale words give life there either toys and other fruit you choose, and if we examine what we say about ourselves as we examine what we say about ourselves very important because if weird if we are very difficult and hard on ourselves in an unjust manner would be unjust and our relationship with other people were to be critical, then we can be prejudice against other people pray judging situations before they ever happened. First, twenty one, the NEF fight has authority NIV hasn't the time has the power of life and death. The tongue has the power of life and death. Think about what you're thinking about because what we think about his women, eventually ends up what we say and what we say has a way of influencing where were going to go with our life. So imagine if everything we say would come to pass. Imagine if everything that we thought would come to pass. What type of environment would we be living in what type of a situation or setting where our life be, and God is telling us by his word that we are to think and to do it to respond in ways that are helpful healing restoring blessing fulfilling carried admonishing God wants us to think the way he thinks about us what you say to yourself, self talk is positive and is it biblically is a biblically sound doesn't speak in face of what we can do what we can become superuser challenges to our faith and our challenges to our faith is that God has a purpose of the plan and dog wants to do good things. Great things in our life and I I I I and I love the idea. The script is not about while you were getting your mother 's womb, God plan for unity party for all the stuff in there that you need to be new. And while God is working on. You know he's bringing that out the brain that the forefront of that you can become breaks in who you are, but our self talk. The words that we speak meditations of our heart things that we think about and how we respond all part of whether were going to bring that out or not. Why would we deny ourselves the power of life. The tongue has the power of life and death. What you say has the ability to bring life or to destroy why this is no question I asked myself in each of us. Why would we say something that wouldn't bring life to us. Why would we say things that would bring life to other people. Jesus says, I've come to give you life and to give it to you in abundance, was to bring abundance into our life, and he's given us the ability to think, right, top, right, act right. But why would we choose not to bring life why we chose not to have love and friendship and companionship. Your time has the power we have the ability to speak this in a while. I went than Churchill said, we make a living by what we get when we make a life by what we give. We make a life by what we give the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart maybe be acceptable nice title Lord my my strength and my Redeemer God wants our words to be acceptable in his site. Why, because Churchill. Each article found this out, that we can live fine. We may have life by what we give them were jamming live in our words. There are words of life, their words of life in us for ourselves and for those around us, and this is the challenge of our words and Philippians, chapter four Paul says it this way. Setting it up. Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious, no, he says things on Virginia and change existing on these things. If there is very verge of any price think of anything so he's already telling us what whereby Foster supposed to be in our minds that while what am I supposed to think about the rated tabloids think about this noble things that are true things are true things are noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious the best the best but not the worst, the beautiful and not the ugly, the beautiful, not the things the praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learn from me that you heard and saw and realized. Do that and God, who makes everything work together will work you into his most excellent harmonies. God is working to create harmony in our life harmony between God and I harmony between what I think and what I say in who I am harmony between me and other people. Other people in the my thoughts about them in there and how that I respond to them the words which are not being an encourager and how can we be encouraging the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart are not acceptable in God site and will not be acceptable in the sight of other people. Dale has never had one negative thought about us is asking us to look at our world around us, our family, our school. Our neighbors, our friends, is there harmony. If not, why not we make a life by what we give what we given the most valuable possession. I have is Jesus Christ and without Jesus. Nothing else matters, and the Word made flesh and dwelt among us, and I am allowing the relationship that I have with Jesus Christ and his word to influence who I am and what I say in what I think so. I am allowing Jesus to be my best friend. I'm allowing his presence to be there. That and what does Jesus say to us. He says less whole. It gives us because us they think gives us an understanding that he is going to work in our lives creating a place, a place and I swear he were, he lives where we lived with him. Matthew chapter twelve versus thirty five thirty six and seven, says this in Jesus is giving these instructions and I cannot when I read this I was. I was thinking I won't say who was thinking of the UN mine is like a snake that that other, you have that went Matthew twelve thirty five thirty four is hiding it that within the first thirty four. Your mind is like a snake pit did you ever get into his conversation with someone that you always felt like you were being bitten and poisoned and do not give them what they've already it has felt like the remaining poison is not a mind like a snake that some ill intermittent. I've never been in a statement. I do I hate. I don't like things that I don't like snakes I never have, but I would never want to be in the snake. What happens when you get the snake you get that right. Why is the natural a state that snake to their instinct when I go to do there not a reach out and then attaching a H out and let you know that they are there and what I got again, you may give you what they boys are raised on international unit while in him. Jesus is telling them you have a mind like a snake pit. How do you suppose what you say is worth anything when you are so file mind and that's verse thirty four, chapter twelve on both your heart, not the dictionary that gives meaning to your words. A good person produces good deeds and I can emphasize good words, the good person produces good deeds and good words, season after season, the fruit of my mouth meditation of my heart enable person is obliged on the Orchard mandolin of life. This destroys the fruit LPL sprang away now that was a good tomato blight, a waveguide at the male black. We did have to move the midway. While was the idea that apply. At the rate of road salt of life enlargers that was Rose, which rose the fruit of the orchard. Let me tell you something. Jesus is saying every one of these careless words is is going to back to haunt you. There'll be a time of reckoning words are powerful words are powerful taken seriously. Where can be your salvation. Words can be your examination. The words allow my mouth be my salvation. Let us say what I mean and mean what I say let the words of my how my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable. Site and let me speak those things because these are the things again. These are the things that give us hope. Now, Miriam, the sister of Moses by her words she spoke against her brother and her brother was a very compassionate, humble man. He would not say anything bad back against the system God came in the clouds and spoke to Moses Marion and Aaron. When the cloud lifted name was covered with leprosy. Leprosy is a you know it's a disease in which his skin falls off your your fingers, your appendages falloff and any die from now I'm not saying that that you speak bad things. Leprosy is going to get you I say that the words that Marion spoke against her brother ended up becoming very destructive to her physically destructive and that's the point. Sometimes we miss that. What would happen if the words we say would all come true back upon us. Would we be blessed or would we be cursed in reality, when we use the negative, the destructive the jealousy, envy, when we use that against other people were actually harming ourselves because were hurting the image of God in us in the image of God 's love and joy and peace in patients. It's healing. It's restoring. It's helping it's caring you see we are people of the heart where people of the heart and when our heart is touched by God, is what has a way of healing the broken hearted healing those who are hurting, setting free people who are capped. Someone are words become words of love and forgiveness. They are words that bring healing to our own hearts. We may not understand everything that happens in life, but we understand that God loves me and he and he will be with me, he will never leave me nor forsake me that he will be my comfort. He will be my help, he will be my guide. He will be my strength. He will work things in harmony in my life. Let the words of my mouth be in harmony with God 's words that speak peace and healing to me and I will speak peace and healing to you. I will be in encourager because Jesus is my courageHer twelve versus one to sixteen numbers chapter twelve verse one to sixteen. Listening to what we say listening to what we say now, it's important that there the descriptor hassle has a lot to tell us about on our vocabulary about what we say to ourselves what we say to others how we say it one individual declared that it is not the dictionary that gives words, it is our heart and so as we listen to what we say we find in the Scripture today Miriam and Aaron and Moses are are together in the end. In this difficult situation and molds. This has been as being criticized by his sister and so married Marion and Erin are sisters and brother of Moses and solo name kind of entered into this little tip with one another and this is what's going on here in chapter twelve, Marion and Erin got to talk against Moses because of his fisheye wife, for he had married fisheye as the Lord spoken only through Moses. This is Marion speaking, they asked hesitantly also spoken to us and the Lord heard this and got upset with Merryman and and Aaron now Moses was a very humble man more humble than anyone else in the face of the earth, and it wants the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Ms. Mc Erin and Marion come out to the chance of meetings. All three of you. So the three of them came out that the Lord came down and the pillar of cloud so you have Miriam Aaron and Moses together and I was in this cloud over overall three of them right in God 's goodness. They did allow what's been going on. He started the entrance of the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam when Baldwin stepped forward. He said, listen to my words, this is God speaking what a prophet of the Lord is among you, I reveal myself to him in a vision. I speak to him in dreams, but this is not true. My servant Moses, he is faithful and all my house. Nowadays we want to keep here is Miriam and I and are the heads of these two other groups. They are the in the heads of the profits and of the data is aware, the ones who are receiving visions and any merriment while Erin were in charge of these designers. The three heads of Israel. Here, but there is having trouble with Moses. But God is Scottish straightening around here but this is not true. My servant Moses, he is faithful in all my house with him. I speak face-to-face clearly and not in riddles these days from the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses. The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them when the cloud lifted from above the tenth, there stood Marion. She was leprous like snow and turned toward her and saw that she had leprosy, and he said to Moses, please my Lord do not hold against us. The sin we have so foolishly committed to let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother 's womb with its flesh eaten away so Moses cried to the Lord, O God, please feel her the Lord replied to Moses. If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days. Confine her outside the camp for seven days after you can be brought back so. Mary was confined outside the camp for seven days and the people did not move on until she was brought back after that the people left has raw and encamped in the desert( so whatever we are listening to what we say is very important that we understand the contacts out and perhaps the implication that will behind words that we speak. And this is not only in any idea of what we speak to other people but will we speak to ourselves how that we carry on a conversation in all of other people who talk to yourself! are there those who would tell others that they thought themselves and you don't listen to the thicket that would be something like that so several what you say you may get what you ask for, you may get what you wish for those of you who are home alone. Fanatics. That's in the movie home alone. Be careful what you ask for in a get what you wish for style. That's the home alone movie, you know, one answer so Marion and Erin were, as we said brother and sister Moses read for some reason did not like the wife of Moses, and you have simply don't have the volunteer don't raise your hand on this one by the enemy. I have siblings who are married to someone who really just, you know, have issues with okay we don't have any of those. Okay, so Marianne has having problems with the wife of most and there is no explanation given. She just didn't like her so man perhaps is like a lot of other people who argue over minor disagreements and leaving the real issue economy fell by the wayside, and this was the case when Merryman, Erin, and came to know will complain now, as we said Miriam and Aaron represented the priest and the prophets, and so they are phrases and profits and in the nation of Israel and Israel. This time in the news, Moses now these priests and prophets. God says that this little discourse that but I remit I reveal myself to him in visions and I speak to him and drains, so, God states that the priests of the profits button to Moses. He said he comes any talk to him, as it were face-to-face and Marion and Erin are kind of upset because they represent these two very large groups priests and prophets, and they don't have the final say in what happens in the in the meaning of Israel. They don't have Moses always is a final say and so Marion 's kind of upset at this, so she's little to them what's going on so you got two brothers and one sister in charge of a million plus people and Moses isn't listening. My brothers not listening to me and marry Ms. Gallus on Moses and his influence now be careful what we say, see if you can find fault with the person depicted something or someone around, and this is a very human nature that once one individual said, if you can't live up to where people are Kevin down to where you're at now, someone would win, win the Society of finding fault is not is not a gift from God. I think it's more of a curse, tabloids, tabloids have billion-dollar industry finding out little bit information making the beds of information about people gossip columns and in what way we look at what is fallen. What is what is tearing people down it, and what is an interview in what we had this crazy idea that if we stayed in print, it must be true. I'm a look at the tabloids you go to the grocery check out the just to see what the headlines of probably won't admit that you look at the headlines that so why don't we look at those things. I wonder what you are getting what they want picture. You know what's really funny sometimes. As you know, you got somebody else's face superimposed over someone else's body. I mean, and just like in all their other better at it today than in the used to be, but at least tabloids and what isn't. It's people finding fault with other people, and I'm there on there and the people who love to read about what's wrong with the world and what's wrong with these other people. Why why well if other people aren't that good. I don't need to really strive to be. It's kind of like a tearing down a bar of our society and of our responsibility, and we know that God God knows our thoughts and intents of each one of us. He knows the worst of us, and what is God doing about it. He's trying to bring out the best in us. God knows the worst of us. He knows you don't, God knows every sin. Everything were going to do for the rest of our lives. Now if you knew how bad somebody within the same or do something against you and you and everybody doing about three weeks from now, it would start preparing for that moment you have a conversation going on. I'm a really telemark this month as we do that but feels right when God knows every sin. The one I recommend the rest of my life, and he comes back to this moment and says I love you I forgive you. And I'm prepared to forgive you for whatever is in front of you because I know what to bring out the best. This forgiveness, but Marion, by the same. This is jolting this time to think about what you're thinking about. It's time to think about what you're thinking about. There's a war going on in our minds as a battlefield in our minds and our hearts in the battlefield is our vocabulary are words that we speak in the things that we say in how we say that, and there's a battle going on this time think about what were thinking about because our actions will follow our thoughts, our actions will follow our thoughts of why we can't allow ourselves to become critical for the Bible doesn't want us to think about the things that are destructive. The buyer then, that the people 's intent is to steal the killer to destroy so in your conversation are you stealing, killing, or destroy, are you destroying things destroying people in your mind him him him him and going on self. We've got to think about what were thinking about for Marion, why didn't Marion desire to enter the presence of God with Moses is as yet what would I say face-to-face. God speaks face-to-face with Moses. Why was it, Miriam, desiring to enter into that close relationship with God, like her brother had. It's easier to stay on the outside of the critical what is the challenge is that God wants to do what once great in our life and anyone's to bring out the best in our life but sometimes wherein the one who stands in the way of it. Sue reality, the life of Moses is not the problem. The problem that was going on is an age-old problem that we still have today and Marion added back then it is called envy and pride in me is a feeling of ill will because of another's advantages. A feeling of goodwill because somebody else hasn't a little better, but envy and pride wrong, try to be a proper respect for oneself. The product can also be an unduly high opinion of oneself, and unduly high opinion of ourselves, so whenever we get into if we get into this idea of Indian tribes, Marion, was caught up in. She began to really tear down at her brother, who was the leader of Israel, and sometimes it's hard to see we now last week we had mirror and sometimes it's hard to see that part aspects of our character that when we look in the near. We want. We want to look at ourselves in a way that we we can examine ourselves according to the near of God 's word while Marion with her Indian pride against Moses chose to create a diversion in the diversion was Moses. I don't like your wife Mary was upset with Moses, because not anyone listen to her and her group and and so rather than saying all this. I don't like the way you're here, you're leaving this place. He says Moses, I like your wife and maybe that one don't like to I like your clothes in a like your hair will stand on my head metadata and unlike your head. I like there still like that like car you drive down wide what are they talking about, well name was creating a diversion. The challenge is always to ourselves. We have the integrity we have a personal inner strength to deal with the real issues in our lives, relations, the issues of our heart. Are we unjustly critical or are we unjustly criticized while I would unjustly critical of other people just because they go to pit and not Penn State or maybe WV you while wondering what everything that we have our rivalries, I will do high schools and stuff as we get to many of the Nativity cancer. There were nice. Not the realized the Babar professional sports though the Steelers and the Cincinnati bungles. Now, as Byron hopes the year, but since that bungles them changed their their their their team. The Cleveland Brownies yell et al. we have these rivalries. A gallant and why we have these we haven't their expressions up our prejudices very therefore ELR prejudging of things we don't like them. Why might only like Cincinnati law don't like their football thing that during an Cincinnati Bell like distillers like that. There during anal playwright. Proverbs eighteen, twenty, twenty one words, a son of stop words satisfy the mind as much as fruit the stunning talk is as gratifying as a good harvest their miss what I wanted to read what others say large-scale words give life there either voicing or fruit you choose the about work scale words give life there either toys and other fruit you choose, and if we examine what we say about ourselves as we examine what we say about ourselves very important because if weird if we are very difficult and hard on ourselves in an unjust manner would be unjust and our relationship with other people were to be critical, then we can be prejudice against other people pray judging situations before they ever happened. First, twenty one, the NEF fight has authority NIV hasn't the time has the power of life and death. The tongue has the power of life and death. Think about what you're thinking about because what we think about his women, eventually ends up what we say and what we say has a way of influencing where were going to go with our life. So imagine if everything we say would come to pass. Imagine if everything that we thought would come to pass. What type of environment would we be living in what type of a situation or setting where our life be, and God is telling us by his word that we are to think and to do it to respond in ways that are helpful healing restoring blessing fulfilling carried admonishing God wants us to think the way he thinks about us what you say to yourself, self talk is positive and is it biblically is a biblically sound doesn't speak in face of what we can do what we can become superuser challenges to our faith and our challenges to our faith is that God has a purpose of the plan and dog wants to do good things. Great things in our life and I I I I and I love the idea. The script is not about while you were getting your mother 's womb, God plan for unity party for all the stuff in there that you need to be new. And while God is working on. You know he's bringing that out the brain that the forefront of that you can become breaks in who you are, but our self talk. The words that we speak meditations of our heart things that we think about and how we respond all part of whether were going to bring that out or not. Why would we deny ourselves the power of life. The tongue has the power of life and death. What you say has the ability to bring life or to destroy why this is no question I asked myself in each of us. Why would we say something that wouldn't bring life to us. Why would we say things that would bring life to other people. Jesus says, I've come to give you life and to give it to you in abundance, was to bring abundance into our life, and he's given us the ability to think, right, top, right, act right. But why would we choose not to bring life why we chose not to have love and friendship and companionship. Your time has the power we have the ability to speak this in a while. I went than Churchill said, we make a living by what we get when we make a life by what we give. We make a life by what we give the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart maybe be acceptable nice title Lord my my strength and my Redeemer God wants our words to be acceptable in his site. Why, because Churchill. Each article found this out, that we can live fine. We may have life by what we give them were jamming live in our words. There are words of life, their words of life in us for ourselves and for those around us, and this is the challenge of our words and Philippians, chapter four Paul says it this way. Setting it up. Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious, no, he says things on Virginia and change existing on these things. If there is very verge of any price think of anything so he's already telling us what whereby Foster supposed to be in our minds that while what am I supposed to think about the rated tabloids think about this noble things that are true things are true things are noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious the best the best but not the worst, the beautiful and not the ugly, the beautiful, not the things the praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learn from me that you heard and saw and realized. Do that and God, who makes everything work together will work you into his most excellent harmonies. God is working to create harmony in our life harmony between God and I harmony between what I think and what I say in who I am harmony between me and other people. Other people in the my thoughts about them in there and how that I respond to them the words which are not being an encourager and how can we be encouraging the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart are not acceptable in God site and will not be acceptable in the sight of other people. Dale has never had one negative thought about us is asking us to look at our world around us, our family, our school. Our neighbors, our friends, is there harmony. If not, why not we make a life by what we give what we given the most valuable possession. I have is Jesus Christ and without Jesus. Nothing else matters, and the Word made flesh and dwelt among us, and I am allowing the relationship that I have with Jesus Christ and his word to influence who I am and what I say in what I think so. I am allowing Jesus to be my best friend. I'm allowing his presence to be there. That and what does Jesus say to us. He says less whole. It gives us because us they think gives us an understanding that he is going to work in our lives creating a place, a place and I swear he were, he lives where we lived with him. Matthew chapter twelve versus thirty five thirty six and seven, says this in Jesus is giving these instructions and I cannot when I read this I was. I was thinking I won't say who was thinking of the UN mine is like a snake that that other, you have that went Matthew twelve thirty five thirty four is hiding it that within the first thirty four. Your mind is like a snake pit did you ever get into his conversation with someone that you always felt like you were being bitten and poisoned and do not give them what they've already it has felt like the remaining poison is not a mind like a snake that some ill intermittent. I've never been in a statement. I do I hate. I don't like things that I don't like snakes I never have, but I would never want to be in the snake. What happens when you get the snake you get that right. Why is the natural a state that snake to their instinct when I go to do there not a reach out and then attaching a H out and let you know that they are there and what I got again, you may give you what they boys are raised on international unit while in him. Jesus is telling them you have a mind like a snake pit. How do you suppose what you say is worth anything when you are so file mind and that's verse thirty four, chapter twelve on both your heart, not the dictionary that gives meaning to your words. A good person produces good deeds and I can emphasize good words, the good person produces good deeds and good words, season after season, the fruit of my mouth meditation of my heart enable person is obliged on the Orchard mandolin of life. This destroys the fruit LPL sprang away now that was a good tomato blight, a waveguide at the male black. We did have to move the midway. While was the idea that apply. At the rate of road salt of life enlargers that was Rose, which rose the fruit of the orchard. Let me tell you something. Jesus is saying every one of these careless words is is going to back to haunt you. There'll be a time of reckoning words are powerful words are powerful taken seriously. Where can be your salvation. Words can be your examination. The words allow my mouth be my salvation. Let us say what I mean and mean what I say let the words of my how my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable. Site and let me speak those things because these are the things again. These are the things that give us hope. Now, Miriam, the sister of Moses by her words she spoke against her brother and her brother was a very compassionate, humble man. He would not say anything bad back against the system God came in the clouds and spoke to Moses Marion and Aaron. When the cloud lifted name was covered with leprosy. Leprosy is a you know it's a disease in which his skin falls off your your fingers, your appendages falloff and any die from now I'm not saying that that you speak bad things. Leprosy is going to get you I say that the words that Marion spoke against her brother ended up becoming very destructive to her physically destructive and that's the point. Sometimes we miss that. What would happen if the words we say would all come true back upon us. Would we be blessed or would we be cursed in reality, when we use the negative, the destructive the jealousy, envy, when we use that against other people were actually harming ourselves because were hurting the image of God in us in the image of God 's love and joy and peace in patients. It's healing. It's restoring. It's helping it's caring you see we are people of the heart where people of the heart and when our heart is touched by God, is what has a way of healing the broken hearted healing those who are hurting, setting free people who are capped. Someone are words become words of love and forgiveness. They are words that bring healing to our own hearts. We may not understand everything that happens in life, but we understand that God loves me and he and he will be with me, he will never leave me nor forsake me that he will be my comfort. He will be my help, he will be my guide. He will be my strength. He will work things in harmony in my life. Let the words of my mouth be in harmony with God 's words that speak peace and healing to me and I will speak peace and healing to you. I will be in encourager because Jesus is my courage