known for his unique ability to simplify profound truth so that it can be applied to Everyday Life Adrien Rogers was one of the most effective preachers respected Bible teachers and Christian leaders of our time thanks for joining us for this message here’s Adrian Rogers now I want you to take your Bibles and turn again to First Peter the 3r chapter I want us to look at verse 10 for Peter says for he that will love life and see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile I want to speak on
the awesome power of the spoken word the awesome power of the spoken word it is so awesome so powerful that Peter says it’s the way the right use of the tongue to love life and to see good days much in the Bible is said about the use and the abuse of the tongue two of The Ten Commandments deal with the use of the tongue one uh Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain two thou shalt not bear false witness and many of the other Commandments have incipiently in them the use of the tongue for example we are
to give honor and glory to God and have no other gods that means we’re to praise him with our tongue we to honor our parents that means a of course we to praise them with our tongues and so forth God has in the Book of Proverbs six things do the Lord hate y seven are an Abomination unto him and out of that list of seven things that God has chosen that he hates two of them deal with the use and the abuse of the tongue so how important the tongue is I believe the most dangerous animal known to man lives in a den behind the teeth called the
tongue now in these days of the modern charismatic Movement we hear a lot about speaking in tongues and some people say if you speak in tongues that’s a sign that you’re spiritual the more I thought about it I about decided that the real sign of spirituality is not to speak in other tongues but to control the one that you have if a person is really spiritual that you’re going to see by the use of his tongue his spirituality so we’re going to think as we think of the awesome power of the spoken word we’re going to think first of all of that
power negatively and what it can do negatively and then we’re going to think of that power positively and what it can do positively now the Bible mentions a number of the sins of the tongue but I want to remind you again of the abuse of the tongue for example the sin of lying is a sin that the Bible squarely and emphatically forbids the Bible says Thou shalt not bear faults witness we are not to tell a lie six things do the Lord hate yay seven are an Abomination to him turn to that passage in Proverbs Chapter
