Hey church family if you've got your Bibles it is divot time we're going to be in

Matthew chapter 12 beginning in verse 33 and I want to talk to you about the power of words

in our day and age words are flying around all over the place.

And words matter so much.

I mean, if you think about it, think about how God got this whole thing started.

God spoke into existence everything that is.

Words matter.

And in fact, I think a part of, you can't take this too far you'll get you'll be

a heretic but uh part of what it means to be created in the image of god is that there was nothing

and god spoke and he spoke something into creation out of nothing okay Something into existence that did not exist before.

And did you know that you and I have that similarly, we have a shadow of that kind of power

with our own tongue. The Bible says in the book of James that in the tongue rest the power of

life and death. That we can speak life into people, that we can speak

encouragement into people, we can speak blessings over people. I mean, you know, a big reason that I'm in

ministry is simply because Coach Bull Lee looked at me after I preached my very first sermon and he said,

you should be a preacher. Because when you teach the Bible, I see you come alive and I see them come

alive. And those words begin to ignite a thing in me that did not exist before he spoke it.

Now, the opposite of that is true too. We see it especially all over these things.

On Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, man,

we see words and words and words that speak death

that are critical, that are harming,

that are spiteful, that are mean.

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