Episode 30: Taming the Tongue

In the name of the Glorious Trinity.

Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever.

Amen. Glory be to the Everlasting

mercies which sent you to us. Oh, Christ the light of the

world and the life of all give us wisdom by a law and Enlighten

our impulses, by your knowledge sanctify, our souls by your

truth and Grant that we may be obedient to your words and may

fulfill your Commandments at every hour.

O you who enlightens the rationale with the knowledge of

your greatness? He's doin light O My Lord.

Our thoughts that we made meditate upon your holy and

divine scriptures at all times. Oh Lord of all Father and Son

and Holy Spirit forever. Amen.

Double-edged sword, a Christian podcast Ministry presented by

father, jernard Lazar. Father, jernard is a parish

priest of the mud edit Parish of the Assyrian Church of the East

and Turlock. California.

Here's father jernard before the beginning of the presbyters

meeting with with the bishop or that he's the priest meeting.

With the Bishops, I write a part of Psalm chapter of hundreds and

hundred and forty-one verse 3. O our Lord.

God said a guard at my mouth and a guard for my lips.

But it goes on to say that my heart would not turn aside to an

evil word or do evil. Works with wicked men.

I shall not eat salt with them. That's the one way I can tame

and control my tongue. In Saint James chapter 3 verses

James 3:1–10

1 to 10. We read about the threat of an

uncontrolled tongue. Let me read it and share it with

you. My brethren do not allow

doubtful teach teachers among you, but know that we are under

a great judgment for in many ways.

We are stumbled Or in many things we all stumble anyone who

does not offend inward. This one is a perfect man and

able also to subdue his whole body behold.

We put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us and

we turn about their whole body, that means we steer them.

Basically, we control them behold.

Also, the ship's great as they are, when driven by severe

winds, they are And about with a very small Rudder wherever the

captain of the pilot wishes even so the tongue is a little member

and boasts great things. Likewise a small fire sets, a

place the large forests. The tongue is a fire and the

sinful world like a forest that very tongue while it is among

our members can defile. Our whole body and set on fire,

the records of our race, which have rolled down from the

beginning. And in the end, it is consumed

by fire. That is the tongue for James.

Chapter 3 verse 77, very alarming for every kind of

beasts and of birds and of creatures of the sea and of the

land are under the subjugation of the will of men, but the

tongue, no man can take. It is an unruly evil full of

deadly poison, verse 9. But Buy it.

We bless the Lord and the father, and by it, we curse men

who are made in the image of God out of the same mouth, precedes

curses and blessings my brethren.

These things are not so to be Very alarming, a st.

James is putting it not very optimistic about the tongue and

you know, as we emphasized verse 7 that everything can be tamed

and be controlled but the tongue but not men.

No man can tame the tongue so what do we do?

We just let it rip with the tongue.

There it is. There's our justification.

The Bible is saying that, you know what, you have no control.

So, do as you please with your tongue?

Well, no, that's not actually what the Bible is telling us.

In Matthew chapter 18. When Jesus says, if your hand,

Matthew 18 · chapter mention

or your leg, or your eyes, cause you to sin, gouge it out, or cut

it off, and I will dare to continue and say the tongue

should be also listed if your tongue is causing you to sin

metaphorically, I'm speaking metaphorically, not physically

cut the tongue out as well, because that's what Jesus says

about the leg and the arm ended in the eyes.

Very alarming. But there are verses, there are

hopeful and definitely hopeful And in verses 5 and 6,

obviously, the uncontrolled tongue is more dangerous than a

raging forest fire or heavy floods.

You know, once the tongue pukes out, its foolishness vulgarity,

its bitterness. It cannot be controlled as far

as the damage it will cause, you know, once you post something on

social media and everyone has seen it, you can delete.

But the Each the message is out there, people have seen it, you

cannot control the damage and the message.

All you do is, as I say, delete the post, once the word has come

out of our mouth, it will work, you know, God praise His name.

The father says, in the Old Testament, every word that comes

out of my mouth will fulfill the intention that it had that I

have every word that comes out of our mouths will work.

You cannot stop. The effect and the Damage that

it causes or the goodness sometimes that it does.

But there is a hint given by a saint.

Same James and this is the hint that one of the ways we can

control, we can use the tongue for good rather than for evil.

Is to be swift to hear and slow to speak.

James 1:19, we spoke about this last episode.

James 1:19

Be swift to listen, be quick to listen and be slow to speak.

A verbal reactions should lack thoughtlessness.

A verbal reactions should lack self selfishness, especially

when we are angry. Be slow to speak in Anger, you

make a lot of mistakes. You know, when a person commits

a crime, the justification sometimes is I was out of my

mind, I didn't know what I was doing.

I was drunk. I was under medication.

I was psychologically not fully comprehensive or what's going on

around me. So, you know, justifications of

murder murder is murder, right. When you're angry and we

sometimes, Times. I mean I said it in my anger but

that does not make it right, we love it.

If we say things in anger and it causes damage and hurt.

Well, we must be very careful how and what we say when we are

angry when we are angry, when we are fuming.

The best thing to do is to pray. Lord, God said a guard at my

mouth and a God for my lips. When we are angry and we are

quick to listen and slow to speak.

We should choose our words. Carefully to be fitting for that

occasion. So that's one way you can

continue to use your tongue and maybe, as I said, taming it.

The scripture is saying is it's very hard but you can use it for

good rather than for evil. You see, we need to tame our

thoughts. We need to tame our thoughts.

Our mind in order to tame our tongue so that we can speak the

quality words that are in Proverbs 1624 a honeycomb of

honey sweet to the soul and a healing to the bones.

That's how our words should be. That is the effect the outcome

of our words. So, if we do, if our thoughts

are bitter as vinegar, then what happens with our words, they

will reflect what is in our thoughts, and even in our

hearts, Saint James writes in verses 11 and 14.

That salt water cannot flow out of the same spring fresh water.

And salt water cannot flow out of the same spring verse 11 and

a fig tree cannot bear, olives verse 14.

So when we want to speak when we want to use this tongue we must

be aware of the source of our speech.

What is it going to be is It going to be bitter.

Or is it going to be sweet? Is it, as we spoke last episode?

Is it going to be soothing or aggravating here?

This is how we can control and have control under use of our

tongue. We must also examine our hearts,

the center of all of our speech. Proverb 16:23.

Writes the heart of the wise, teaches his mouth and adds

learning to his lips, our Lord States in Luke 6:46.

Luke 6:46

I believe that for the abundance of the heart out of the Overflow

of the heart, the mouth speaks, which suggests that there is a

direct connection between the mouth and the heart and

consequently Whoever would redeem his speech must first

amend his heart. If we want our speech to be

soothing to be as sweet as honey comb, our hearts must be soothed

and be a sweet as honey comb. And we should know beloved one

very important thing that God knows.

God sees and God hears everything.

Psalm 24:1 the Earth is the Lord's and its fullness.

Psalms 24:1

God is everywhere. God knows everything.

God is within you. 1 Corinthians 6:19 and you are the Temple of

1 Corinthians 6:19

the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit Psalm 139

verse seven and eight. Where shall I go from your

spirit? Where shall I hide from before?

If I shall Ascend to Heaven, there you are.

And if I would descend to show you are there also a mosque 93

and I love this verse and if they will hide at the top of

Carmela from there, I shall search and I shall take them.

And if they will hide from, before my eyes in the depth of

the sea there, I shall command The Serpent and it shall bite

them. We cannot Escape.

Up the presence of God. This is one of the greatest Keys

is one of the greatest tools of taming or controlling our tongue

to know that each time, we say something beloved, it is in the

presence of the Lord, because God is there.

God is within you to God, the holy spirit is within us.

So when I am cussing, I'm cussing before the Lord.

Would you walk into a church and cuss, you know, it amazes me how

I've known of people of or I've been made aware of people who

have filthy mouths. As they say, every second word

is either, either the F-bomb or the Assyrian words, right?

It amazes me how when that person is before me conversing

with me a servant of God that person will refrain from using

that word. Why?

I'm in the presence of a basa, all when that person is in

church and they are conversing with you.

Even with friends, they have full control of what they're

saying. Right?

But then again, beloved they forget that they are constantly

in the presence of God and in particular, God the Holy Spirit

which is within us, you know, I remember many many many, many

moons ago. Go probably wasn't born then.

But many, many years ago that when there was a lady present

The men would refrain from using vulgar language today.

The ladies, let it rip, as they say, the ladies that have no

respect for themselves, I'm sorry to say.

But this is what I will break it down to will continue to use the

mouth for evil, not only cussing, gossip hatred slander,

But remember, each time we do that, we are doing it in the

presence of God. Jesus says in Matthew chapter

Matthew 12:37

12, verse 37. Here is another deterrent for by

your words, you will be justified.

Hey, justification by words, do not only by faith for by your

words. You will be justified and by

your words you will be condemned.

Meaning judged too. Ternal.

Condemnation, pain, Agony suffering by Your Word.

If this is not deterring us. Well, I don't see how we're

going to overcome the timing of the tongue.

Matthew 12:36 for, I say to you. Jesus says that Every Idle Word

Matthew 12:36

that people will speak, they will give an answer for it on

the day of judgment. So we will be judged.

According to every word that comes out of our mouth.

Well Every Idle every useless, every evil word that comes out

of our mouths, we will be judged.

So again, beloved one of many ways in the most significant way

of having control of your tongue is to keep in mind that God.

Is with us. Everywhere we go.

And the result is that our speech becomes worthy of being

in the almighty's presence. And again, pray, if this is your

weakness, I'll go one step further to say if this is your

demon. AKA addiction.

If this is your demon, this is your weakness.

Pray constantly. Oh Lord God said a guard at my

mouth prayed with me. Now.

Stop your vacuuming, stop your dishwashing, pull over to one

side, stop typing on the on the on the keyboard stop watching,

you know, looking at social media while you're listening,

you know, multitasking don't do that.

Stop just pray with me now. Oh Lord God, Sarah guard at my

mouth and a God for my lips. That my heart would not turn

aside to an evil word or do evil.

Works with wicked men. I shall not eat salt with them.

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