One night we were very busy at the restaurant, and our supply truck came late, right in the middle of the supper rush. What does Matthew 12:34 mean? Ĭhrist is thoroughly and righteously condemning the group of Pharisees.Let me tell you a story about something that happened a number of years ago while I worked at Pizza Hut in Brookings: These legalistic religious leaders have accused Him of getting His power to cast out demons from Satan (Matthew 12:24). They are so committed to rejecting Jesus as the Messiah that they would rather glorify Satan's power than acknowledge that God is working through His Son! In the previous verse, Jesus compared the Pharisees to bad trees. This was proven by their bad "fruit:" rejecting and accusing Him. Jesus repeats what John the Baptist called a group of Pharisees and Sadducees in Matthew 3:7. The word "brood" means offspring (John 8:42–44), so Jesus is calling the Pharisees children of snakes. This associates them with Satan, often pictured as a serpent in Scripture, beginning in Genesis 3. These critics have accused Christ of using Satan's power-but truth is they are the ones aligned with Satan and against Jesus. The question asked here is rhetorical-it's making a point. In the same way that a bad tree is incapable of growing good fruit, a person committed to hate for Christ can't speak spiritual truth. Good words cannot come out of evil hearts. The Pharisees words about Jesus and Satan showed to everyone their true, evil selves. This Scripture reveals a blanket principle for all people: our words always eventually reveal what's going on inside of us. There's no such thing as an unimportant act, or an unimportant word (Matthew 12:36).This post contains affiliate links to products mentioned. For more information, read my disclosure policy. The Bible says we all stumble when it comes to our words.They can build others up or tear them down. “Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that men will have to give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. Today, we’re going to talk about the things we put out, but remember: they are always connected, what you soak up eventually shows up! For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” Matthew 12:34-37įor the past two weeks we’ve been discussing what we take in. That’s what the verses above are talking about.
The words of your mouth spring from your heart. That’s more than just a little scary, isn’t it? No matter how you try present yourself to others, what you say gives the real you away. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check.” James 3:2 says, “We all stumble in many ways. The implication here is that we ALL mess up with our mouths, that one of the smallest parts of our bodies is the most difficult to manage. So how do we tame our tongues? How do we reign them in and get them under control?įirst, we start with our hearts, with our minds, and with the things with which we fill them. That’s what we’ve been discussing here these past two weeks. Today, add to that an effort to hold your tongue, to keep it from “careless words,” you know, the ones that come out before you’ve actually stopped to think about them.īecause according to Matthew, we’re going to have to give an account for them. My mother used to tell me (much like I often tell one of my kids…there’s always ONE, right?), “You don’t have to say EVERYTHING you think.” I don’t know about you, but my tongue needs taming.
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There are times to speak up and times to keep quiet.Īs parents, we need to know how to answer our kids’ questions. We need to know how to use our words to encourage them one moment and instruct them the next. #OUT OF THE OVERFLOW OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKS SCRIPTURE HOW TO#
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