LA LENGUA DEL SABIO

LA LENGUA DEL SABIO

1. Get your mouth under control

a. How are you using your words

b. The wicked tries to hurt others

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i. God’s people desire to help people and get them out of trouble

ii. The wicked want to see others other

iii. The wicked plot and scheme to take advantage of others even to the point of killing them

c. Your speech reveals who you are

17 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: But a false witness deceit.

i. Truth speakers show that they are righteous

ii. Those that lie show that they only want to deceive

d. You can use your tongue to hurt or help

18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: But the tongue of the wise is health.

tongue of the wise is health.

i. Your tongue can cut deep and hard

ii. The tongue of God’s people should give health

iii. Your words can encourage others 25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: But a good word maketh it glad.

e. Your speech shows your destiny 19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: But a lying tongue is but for a moment.

i. You speak truth because you are truth

ii. Your truth speaking shows that God has done something in you

iii. If you lie you might be okay for the moment but not for eternity

iv. Lying will not help in the long run

v. You will get caught

f. God hates lying and loves truth telling 22 Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: But they that deal truly are his delight.

i. It pleases God when we tell the truth and treat people truly

ii. God hates it when we lie

g. The lips of the wicked get them in trouble 13 The

wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips:

But the just shall come out of trouble.

2. Are you the brute fool or the wise? 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: But he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

a. The fool always thing that he is right

b. The wise learns to listen, really listen, pay attention

i. Most people never really want advice they want permission

ii. Most people that ask for counsel are really only giving counsel

iii. They don't come to learn but to feel better about themselves

c. The fool can’t keep his mouth shut but the wise man will not embarrass himself 16 A fool’s wrath is presently known: But a prudent man covereth shame. 23 A prudent man concealeth knowledge: But the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

d. The brute is always practicing a lie. He lies so much that he deceives himself 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: But to the counsellers of peace is joy.

e. The wise one, listens, learns, and succeeds. His way is more excellent 26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: But the way of the wicked seduceth them.

i. The wicked spends time with people and in places that continue to lead him down the wrong path

ii. It is like the slippery slope that he can’t get off of

f. Things just turn out right for God’s people 21 There shall no evil happen to the just: But the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

i. I hope you see the proverb here

ii. If you are God’s people, the just then nothing evil happens

iii. If you are the bad guy then everything bad happens to you

iv. In the long run this proverb is very true

v. if you try to understand it in the short run you will have very bad doctrine and a hard time explaining yourself