Youth Workshop #2 (Profane Words)
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Profane Words
Text: Matthew 26:69-75
CIT: Your Real Character is revealed in highest stress situations.
Canning Pressure
When you put the jar under the intensity of the heat and pressure needed to can vegetables. Some will end up with hairline cracks these are not cause by the “canning” they are revealed by “canning” You couldn't see the cracks before It's the pressures fault - other jars go through the same intensity.
Airplane Crash Pressure
A few years ago a US AIR airplane crashed near Pittsburgh. The cause of that crash was a mystery, because the plane just seemed to fall from the sky. So investigators listened to the plane's black box. They hoped it would tell them what happened. CNN played a portion of that recording on the air, It revealing that there were just a few seconds from the time the pilot detected trouble until the plane crashed.
The black box revealed these sounds from the cockpit: First, there was an exclamation of "Oh," followed by profanity and a string of "curse words," then came the crash and silence. It was in those final moments that the pilot's real habits and life message was laid bare before the whole world.
Isn't that sad? The last words spoken by that pilot were “profanity"!
What is Profanity?
The dictionary defines it, "Characterized by irreverence for God...impious, base..., a profane act or utterance".
Profanity is usually language that involves taking
God's name in vain.
It is vile or vulgar language.
It is language that is viciously degrading to others.
Family groups of Profanity.
Swearing
Taking Gods name in vain
Defiling the holy
Speaking of the unspeakable
Jesus points out 4 kinds of words. 1. Profane Words 2. Poisonous Words 3. Productive Words
They're no big deal. We don't mean anything by it. Well as we saw from the first message in this series in Matthew 12:31-37
Every Word is Profound. Your Words are profound because people and God hear them.
When we curse we reveal 4 things:
Lack of character. The Bible says our mouths speak what is abundant in our heart. What's down in the well comes up in the bucket! A great preacher of yesteryear, Sam Jones, said: “When I get around a man who swears I watch my pocketbook...for any man who would swear would surely steal!”
Lack of intelligence. When you have to use profanity to get your point across you are revealing an empty head and a wicked heart. Profanity is the attempt of a feeble mind to express itself forcefully.
Lack of understanding. Think about how foolish it is to use a curse word. What does it get you? With most sins, you at least get something in return...even pleasure for a short season. Stealing is wrong, but at least you got
Mohr notes, we use first-person plural pronouns — words like we, our and ourselves — at about the same rate.
Kids will learn a four-letter word before they get the alphabet By the age of two, Mohr says, most children know at least one swear word; it really “kicks off” around the ages of three or four. http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/10/nine-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-swear-words/
The Big Issue I can feel us already wanting to make this a logic debate this isn't an issue of choosing profanity. It is a spiritual issue.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
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.
Scripture tells of another exchange that takes place with Peter this time with Peter and Christ
So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
Peter learns three things in this exchange.
I. Profanity makes a point (FEED…)
Peter after having alienated and then failing his Savior. Is left with this dangling relationship with Jesus. What issue does Jesus address with him. His identification through his words.
Feed my Sheep (with your words) Don't use your mouth as a place for your own point. Your mouth wasn't given to you to make your point or tell your own story. It is the tool that God has chosen to use to make his point.
In high pressure times it is our job to remember that we are called to identify with Christ by using our mouths for the good of others.
Minister to Others - High stress times are the times are the best times to minister to other people.
Identify With Him. - High Stress times are the greatest ways to show that he can carry us through.
II. Profanity unites or divides (Feed MY…)
Our Words bring others closer to or farther away from God. We can speak of being a believer, but if our words are pushing people away from God then we are merely sheltering others from His goodness.
Peter is being brought back into a right standing with Christ and in so doing he is called to join his heart and passions to them. Enough dabbling in a life without him. Just join the life participating with Christ.
III. Profanity can be forgiven (Feed my SHEEP)
What I want you to know today is that when we came to Christ, He made us one of his own. In so doing He has drawn us to him and then nourishes and cares for us.
But sometimes like sheep we wander away.
This is the point. It must be forgiven - it is a sin and one that we as God's people cannot be okay with.
It must be forsaken - This is not to be a part of the Christian life and will not be valuable to do our job.