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Controlling our words.
Controlling our words.
Proverbs 11:9 (NLT)
9 With their words, the godless destroy their friends,
but knowledge will rescue the righteous.
4 Wise words are like deep waters;
wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook.
20 Wise words satisfy like a good meal;
the right words bring satisfaction.
18 Telling lies about others
is as harmful as hitting them with an ax,
wounding them with a sword,
or shooting them with a sharp arrow.
6 And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself.
Words have power, they have power to do good, they have power to destroy. To get you into trouble and to get you out of trouble.
This week we look at how the HS can help us with our words, ow he can help us when we are lost for word and how he can help us when we find we have words we ought not say.
But before that. How can I get the air our of this glass.
Stop trying to control your words and let the HS give you them.
Stop trying to control your words and let the HS give you them.
Moody (1837-1899) was to have a campaign in England. An elderly pastor protested, “Why do we need this 'Mr. Moody'? He's uneducated, inexperienced, etc. Who does he think he is anyway? Does he think he has a monopoly on the Holy Spirit?” A younger, wiser pastor rose and responded, “No, but the Holy Spirit has a monopoly on Mr. Moody.”
Speaking to a large audience, D.L. Moody held up a glass and asked, “How can I get the air out of this glass?” One man shouted, “Suck it out with a pump!” Moody replied, “That would create a vacuum and shatter the glass.” After numerous other suggestions Moody smiled, picked up a pitcher of water, and filled the glass. “There,” he said, “all the air is now removed.” He then went on to explain that victory in the Christian life is not accomplished by “sucking out a sin here and there,” but by being filled with the Holy Spirit.
The HS has a role as restraintainer
The HS has a role as restraintainer
6 They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia; they had been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
Sometimes the role of the Holy Spirit is to bring restraint. as believers we are charged with controlling our words.
14 And we exhort you, brothers and sisters: warn those who are idle, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient with everyone. 15 See to it that no one repays evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray constantly, 18 give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 19 Don’t stifle the Spirit. 20 Don’t despise prophecies, 21 but test all things. Hold on to what is good. 22 Stay away from every kind of evil.
as believers we are charged with controlling our words the Holy Spirit can help us do that
We can try as we might to do that ourselves and to a part we may be successful but unfortunately, we all know people who have been filled with the Holy Spirit, yet still lose their tempter and say and do things they know they shouldn’t. Have you ever met anyone like that? Have you ever looked in the mirror?
It is so easy, when we are not aware of the presence of the Holy Spirit and resides in us, to become irritated and frustrated. It is so easy to lose our cool when we forget that the Lord is with us everywhere we go and He hears everything we say. When you are constantly aware of the Spirit’s presence in your life, it becomes a lot harder to sin. You see when the Holy Spirit restrains -there is always choice to obey or not to.
That choice can seem like a no brainer when the Holy spirit is restraining from doing drugs, online pornography, unwise financial decisions and unhealthy relationships getting into an argument.
Accepting the Holy Spirit’s restraint can seem weird and counterproductive when the Holy Spirt restrains you from doing something seemingly good.
The apostles were prevented form undertaking their prime mission of spreading the good news and yet the Holy spirit
We can have conflict of emotion the Holy Spirit restrains you from something good. It is easy to understand when he helps us from doing wrong but why would the Holy Spirit keep you from a benevolent act? After all, your good works are an outflow of God’s love working through your heart. Y
There is the point although the apostles were called to preach the good news (as are we) and we are called to produce good works as God’s love flows through us that is not our primary mission is to please and obey God.
37 He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the greatest and most important command. 39 The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. 40 All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”
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As the demonstation earlier hinted at and DL Moody stated the way we allow the holy Spirit to help us is to allow him to fill every aspect of us.
As that happens, one of the way that when the Holy Spirit gives us the words to say when He works through us is through the gift of tongues.
Tongues
Tongues
Tongues can be speaking a language you don’t know that others understand or simply a language you don’t understand, others don’t but the HS - that is God does
Tongues remind us of that indwelling presence.
But the do more that that
When we don’t know what to pray
When we don’t know what to pray
26 In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Not only does the Holy Spirit give us the words when we don’t know what to pray but he removes selfishness from our prayers?
Speaking in tongues keep selfishness out of our prayers. A prayer out of our feelings and our thinking has the potential of becoming unaligned from the heat of God. Our prayers can become insular, prayers are like the old farmer who prayed, “God bless me, my wife, my son John, his wife, us four and no more.”
In the Scripture above, Paul never said that we don’t know how to pray, it says what to pray for.
We do know how to pray. The Bible tells us to pray in the Name of Jesus in order to get results., Jesus even models prayer .
We all know that. but just because I know how to pray doesn’t necessarily mean that I know what to pray. Have you ever been to a point in your life when you are simply lost for words? You try to find the words to pray and it seems as though nothing ever comes. Have you ever been so low in life that you wonder if God hears you pray anyway and you ask yourself the question, “What’s the use?”
Even if I wanted to pray, I don’t know what to say. I know it is hard to believe, but I have been at that point in my life from time to time. I am lost for words. The more I try to pray, the more there just seems to be nothing there.
Paul said, “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.” (NIV)
P.C. Nelson, a scholar of the Greek, said that the Greek literally reads here: “The Holy Spirit makes intercession for us in groanings that cannot be uttered in articulate speech.”
Articulate speech means our regular kind of speech. In other words, there are times in life that we are so weak that there is no language upon the face of the earth that can describe what we are going through. In those weak times, sometimes we make some extreme mistakes, that is why it is important not to pray according to our feelings or our thinking, but in the Spirit.
When you pray in tongues, it is your spirit within you praying. The Holy Spirit within you gives the utterance, but those words are escaping your lips. You do the talking. He gives the utterance. By this way of praying, you can be sure that you are always praying according to the will of God.
Which bring to a little aside of what it mans to pray in the name of Jesus
Name = character.
It is not adding - in the name of Jesus to the end of every prayer.
When we pray in tongues this is God (the HS) giving us the topics. - it is inline with Gods heart but we are still deeply involved..
Some have a misconception of the Holy Spirit. Thay praying this way is something that the Holy Spirit does for you or apart from you. He does not possess your body so that you have no control as some people think He does. The Holy Spirit is not going to do the praying for us. It is you praying but the topic is the HS’s .
It is important that we pray in understandable words too
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
Paul encourages us to
Christian Standard Bible Chapter 14
15 What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with my understanding. I will sing praise with the spirit, and I will also sing praise with my understanding
I believe that Holy Spirit will also gives us the areas to focus on, even the confidence and words to say.
Words that build us up.
Words that build us up.
20 But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
18 Pray at all times in the Spirit with every prayer and request, and stay alert with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints. 19 Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel. 20 For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough to speak about it as I should.
Paul is telling us to pray always in the Spirit. He knew the importance of praying in the Spirit.
When we begin to pray in the Spirit, in tongues or in our own language, be that Queens english, Lincolnshire fen, lancashire or what ver dielect you speak the Holy spirit causes a whole new boldness to come over us that we have never had before. There are times that I get praying in the Spirit and before I realise it I am getting louder and louder and bolder and bolder. There is a boldness to a Spirit-filled believer.
Defence Giver
Defence Giver
I have a question for you.
What do all of these people have in common
Joseph, Samson, Jeremiah, Micaiah, Zedekiah, Daniel, John the Baptist, Peter, James, John, Silas, Paul, Epaphras, Aristarchus, Junia, and Jesus?
They all ended up in prison and many of them for the words they said. We started this message with the understanding the words can be used for good and for bad but even using words for good can get us into trouble. Paul is the prime example of this.
Paul did more porridge than Norman Stanley Fletcher.
The book of Acts records Paul being locked up on three occasions – at Philippi, Caesarea, and Rome.
Later Christian tradition speaks of him being imprisoned on at least seven occasions.
The early church was actually led by a bunch of jail birds, and God was primary accomplice in their escape!
Sometimes by blasting the doors off of there hinges an sometimes when the Holy Spirit inspired a defence
The Gospels tell us that we are never to worry about what we will say or how we will defend ourselves or the message of God.
11 Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say. 12 For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what must be said.”
It says in scripture, do not worry about what you will say or how you will defend yourself, because in that moment. I will give it give you wisdom words and eloquence that no one, not even your enemies, will be able to refute or contradict.
And we know that because all through the book of Acts, the believers spoke with incredible boldness, they weren’t trained, they hadn’t done a public speaking course. The first apostles were fishermen, tradesman. They had not studied for many years to be well versed in scripture and theology they were not even naturally bold. But they had the Holy Spirit whom produced this boldness and just gave them the words to speak in the moment that they were to speak them.
We know that the spirit promises to give us whatever wisdom we need in the moment that we need it.
when we operate in the spirit of the most high God, we will speak with this supernatural courage and conviction and wisdom that's beyond our human natural training.
People should be able to see that we've been with Jesus. As the Holy spirit gives us the words, give us knowlege.
Holy Spirit as Knowledge bringer
Holy Spirit as Knowledge bringer
Some of you will be thinking that you never have the words, or when you try the words just won’t spill out.
Let me remind you of Moses
Exodus 4:10
10 But Moses replied to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent—either in the past or recently or since you have been speaking to your servant—because my mouth and my tongue are sluggish.”
There has been great debate as to whether this means that Moses stuttered, had another form of speech impediment or simply could not string words together when under pressure. Whatever it is Moses began by saying he was not eloquent (lit “I am not a man of words”). Ironically, Moses used twenty-one Hebrew words arranged in somewhat complicated expressions to say that he could not speak well. He used a figure of speech referring to his mouth and tongue as “heavy” (lit “I am heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue”). The word for “heavy” also describes ears that do not hear (Is 6:10; 59:1; Zch 7:11) and eyes that do not see (Gn 48:10). One might think of a tool that is too heavy to be used easily and so impedes the efforts that it ought to assist.
Whether he had a speach problem or not this man lacked courage.
11 The Lord said to him, “Who placed a mouth on humans? Who makes a person mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say.”
13 Moses said, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
The same is promised today, this is Jesus taking
11 Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say. 12 For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what must be said.”
God will use your mouth
God will use your mouth
Sometime he will give you words of knowledge to enter into a conversation
The definition of The Word of Knowledge is: A Supernatural revelation of certain facts in the mind of God that deal with the past or present.This is not a Gift of human knowledge or the “smarts” kind of knowledge.Often with this Gift only part or a fragment of information is given. God is all knowing but he only gives us what we need to know at any given time.
Sometime he will give you the exact things to say to someone.
but more often than not the HS empowers us not to take part in a holy game of Chinese whispers but to be God’s spirit filled representative on earth.
49 I don’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it. 50 And I know his commands lead to eternal life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say.”
Representation not Chinese whispers.
Why the spirit helps us speak.
Paraphrase.
Acts 16:25–38 (CSB)
25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the jail were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains came loose. 27 When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.
28 But Paul called out in a loud voice, “Don’t harm yourself, because we’re all here!”
29 The jailer called for lights, rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 He escorted them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
31 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.” 32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him along with everyone in his house. 33 He took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds. Right away he and all his family were baptized. 34 He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had come to believe in God with his entire household.
The HS gives us the words to keep us in God’s presence
To intercede for us and with us for others - praying in His will.
To bring salvation and the good news - representing God’s heart
and ultimately to give glory to God. Author of all.