Notes from this week's podcast: Cussing in the Pulpit -- Not Acceptable!

The words that are spoken in every day conversation -- cursing words

Parents in public. Preachers in the pulpit. Politicians. What has happened? Could it be we have so watered down the truth from the Word of God? From Christians, this language has become accepted. We see no wrong. "It's just the way I am." Is it a sinful nature that we have glorified? We don't call it sin anymore. 

- This podcast is to help all of us that are called by His name to exemplify His life that others might see Christ in us. 

- Our desire is to put on that "new person."

If we don't control the tongue in the home, it will set on fire a culture that could destroy a community, a society because, in the home, if we don't get it right as Christians, it'll spill over into the church. 

As Christians, we start with our own selves: 

Father, I need the power of the Holy Spirit to check my own heart, to check my own thoughts before I speak words that are not edifying. 

What would be the words of Christ? 

You may think it's harmless in the moment, but it takes you down paths you don't want to go. 

It invites judgment. God brings conviction when we do mess up. 

...cutting off the power of God flowing through your life to bring about the promises, the prosperity, the goodness of God in the land of the living. 

These evil words really reveal an inner corruption. They harm the person that speaks them, they harm their witness and they can lead you astray. 

Examine our own lives and clean up our own speech. Guard our own ears. Remove yourself/have something neutral to say (that you don't buy into the conversation, those words)

(1) Daily Pray. (2) Ask God: Clean out my own heart. (3) Helpmeet by the power of the Holy Spirit to take every thought captive and bring it to the obedience of Christ Jesus. (4) God, fill me with the Word. "To be filled with the Word, you got to be in the Word. (5) Pray for those other people that have fallen into this.