The Well Out of Which We Speak
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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.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Introduction.
Ben Norrod
Andrew Glover
Watchnight
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Clamor Definition
CLAMOR, noun
1. A great outcry; noise; exclamation; vociferation, made by a loud human voice continued or repeated, or by a multitude of voices. It often expresses complaint and urgent demand.
(Webster 1828)
A Pocket Lexicon to the Greek New Testament (κραυγή)
κραυγή, (a) a shout, cry, clamour; (b) outcry, clamouring against another,
Same Word
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Amplified Version
31 Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath (passion, rage, bad temper) and resentment (anger, animosity) and quarreling (brawling, clamor, contention) and slander (evil-speaking, abusive or blasphemous language) be banished from you, with all malice (spite, ill will, or baseness of any kind).
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
The Importance of Words.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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.
Words come from the Heart.
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Treasure- Value
Abundance- Overflow
224 Like Jesus said of that tree, “No man eateth from thee.” Why, there wasn’t a shadow of doubt in his whole heart, what that tree would wither away.
Why? His heart was coming from pure, from…It was the Spirit of God in Him, that was making Him that way, teaching those disciples a lesson. See what I mean? All right.
225 Then, let that be pure. Let your thoughts run pure, and your expressions pure. Live pure and be pure.
Now, out of your heart proceedeth “evil thinking, adultery,” and all these different things; if that comes out of your heart, that’s what’s in your heart.
But if out of your heart comes “righteous, peace, love, joy,” oh, my, then It’s coming from a resource here that’s made up of that.
See what I mean? It’s made up of the Spirit of God here that’s expressed Itself through the work, and what you say then will come to pass.
226 I’ll give you a little insight of something, how infallible God’s Word is. Watch what you’re saying.
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A person who “clamors” does so from His heart, or his innermost being.
Poison water comes from a poisoned well.
If you baby bitterness in your heart, you will speak clamor from your mouth.
Death and lifew is in the power of the tongue,
clamour—compared by CHRYSOSTOM to a horse carrying anger for its rider: “Bridle the horse, and you dismount its rider.” “Bitterness” begets “wrath”; “wrath,” “anger”; “anger,” “clamor”; and “clamor,” the more chronic “evil-speaking,” slander, insinuations, and surmises of evil.
Can you bridle the tongue?
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
Quit making excuses.
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
There are times when words must be used in correction, but they must be bridled, and with the right motive.
The woman caught in adultery.
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Look how he used his words.
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:
All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
He was tearing down Satan’s kingdom with words.
What is your motive for tearing down? Is it to rebuild? Or to destroy?
Do you say it with tears.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
164 “Return. Return.” The Holy Spirit cries, “Return!” I can think of when Jesus looked out over Jerusalem and He wept, He loved it, and they had rejected Him.
And a man that’s filled with the Spirit tonight can look out over the church and see a people that ought to be shining with the glorious power of God,
and the Holy Spirit within your heart weeps tears of regret. What have we done?
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The other night, other morning, about ten o’clock, when I saw that prostitute church. Down in your heart, you feel the Holy Spirit dropping tears.
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What is the well like that it comes from?
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
You are not God. You are not all wise.
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
Praise also comes from the heart.
Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: But my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
I don’t allow bitterness to take root because my heart is in awe of the Word.
What is the Clamor of the Elect? The Bible says the elect “cry day and night to God.”
What is the cry of the elect? to see the Word fulfilled in their hour.
When the well is not poisoned suffering actually results in the outcry of forgiveness for those at whose hands one is suffering.
Jesus on the cross.
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
We will never have to experience what He did on the cross. Yet look what happened after Pentecost, when Stephen was stoned.
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
The difference in the Bride and the Jews.
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Now verse 10. Notice, they asked for “revenge.” See?
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The clamor of the Bride is for forgiveness and mercy.
There is clamor in heaven when the seals are opened.
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
Conclusion.
What is the cry of the redeemed?
What is their Clamor?
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
This is the final Clamor, the final voice to the final age.
Waters of Marah.
A Healthy tongue is a tree of life.