BEWARE OF WHAT YOU SPEAK

A: BEWARE OF WHAT YOU SPEAK

1. Brethren the above texts form the basis of our lesson. The texts also form the indices for the identification of a child of God.

2. In the world, a person who gives you some money, no matter what he does to you next, even if he curses or disgraces you, would still be regarded as a very good man.

3. Does it mean that once a person gives you money that automatically makes him a man of God? If a person buys a car, builds a house, or gives food to his fellow man but turns round to curse him or disgrace him, the world would still regard such a person as a man of God.

4. Are these the things that identify a person as a man of God? Through Paul, did CHRIST not say that even if a man should sell all that he has, distribute the proceed to the poor or even offer himself to be burnt, would gain nothing without having love?

5. What is responsible for the downfall and destruction of the whole world? It is evil communication. What the world refers to as juju, apparition, witchcraft, death or ghost is none other than evil communication.

6. All the superstitious beliefs and fetishism are founded on evil word. Who is the "Creator" of these evil things? It is the evil man himself. When God made the first day, He blessed it.

7. He also blessed the second day, third, up to the seventh day. He equally declared the world and the fullness thereof as good and perfect.

8. The question is where do the evil things come from? This explains the reason why we are enjoined not to allow evil communication to proceed out of our mouth. If everyone should from now cease to speak evil, evil will also cease to exist.