The Satan Controlled Tongue - Part 3

Maybe because they have more time, free. Now it's not because I'm prejudiced, it's because the Holy Spirit says that in 1 Timothy 5 and verse 13 where it speaks about young women who don't have anything to do or at home. In those days people were not working in offices and all. I think when we work a whole day we're kept from doing a lot of things. But here we're young. He's talking about the younger widows who got nothing to do. And he says in 1 Timothy 5 verse 13, they become idle. And when they are idle, what do they do? It could be older women too. You know, maybe the children are all gone to work and you're an older sister. You've got nothing to do. You're just sitting around at home. You say, well, let me go and visit somebody. It's exactly what it says. They go from house to house. And they're not only idle. They start talking about women. They become gossips and busybodies, talking about things which are not proper even to mention. The Holy Spirit knows human character and realizes that women who've got nothing to do at home usually end up doing this. So thank God if you've got a lot of work to do that you have no time to sit and talk to people and gossip. Okay. Now the second type of words the Bible warns us against is hasty words in the book of Proverbs. First is excessive. Second is hasty. That means speaking too quickly. So first of all, I want to show you in Proverbs in chapter 29 and verse 20. Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? Proverbs 29, 20. There's more hope for a fool than for him. Solomon wrote only 29 chapters in the book of Proverbs. Chapter 30, as you can see, is written by Agur. And chapter 31 was written by King Lemuel. We don't know who that is. But 29 chapters were written by Proverbs, by Solomon, definitely. And at the end of the 29th chapter, he says, Well, fellas, I've told you about hundreds of fools in these 29 chapters. Now I'll tell you about the fool who takes the cake, the one who gets first prize of all the fools I've mentioned. That's the man who speaks too quickly. Or the woman who speaks too quickly. Hasty. A man who's hasty in his words. He says there's more hope for all the hundreds of fools I've mentioned so far. There's more hope for all of them than for this guy. He takes the cake. Okay. Chapter 15 and verse 28. The heart of a wise man thinks before he answers. But the mouth of the foolish or the wicked pours out evil. He doesn't have to think. There's no... He doesn't put his mind into gear before starting the car. Races on and speaks and keeps on pouring out. Whereas a wise and a righteous man thinks, Hey, what should I answer there? He thinks about it before he speaks. And I believe that's also something that we must bear in mind if those of us who speak God's word in a meeting. I tell you, and this is a terrible crime I have seen committed by many, many of our elder brothers in all of our churches. I've spoken to them so many times, but most of them don't listen to me. What can I do? I tell them, please, please, please, please prepare your messages before you get into the pulpit. Don't last minute produce some hodgepodge. That's a fool. A fool just says whatever comes to his mind. A wise man thinks before he speaks. And I tell you, the Christendom is full of foolish people who get up into the pulpit in the name of the Lord Jesus and bore people with their foolishness. Because they're too lazy to prepare a message for God's people. They feel, oh, we are under the control of the Holy Spirit. They're not. They're under the control of the flesh, and it's pretty obvious when you listen to them. The wise man thinks before he speaks. He ponders. How shall I say it? Shall I put it this way? Shall I put it that way? And I've often used the example of a woman cooking a meal. I'll tell you, if you're going to cook a meal for a beggar, you ask a couple of beggars to come tomorrow morning, and you give them some food, and they come, oh, you forgot all about it, and they lined up. What do you do? You just go to the kitchen and put whatever leftovers there are and put it all in one plastic bag and say, here you are. That is exactly how many, many preachers preach. I'll tell you why. Because they treat God's people like beggars. Oh, these are beggars. Let me just put together something and give it to them. They have to listen to me because I'm the preacher. God's people suffer and suffer and suffer. Everywhere, do you know the number of letters and messages I get from many people in our churches? Brother Zach, will you please tell our elder brother not to bore us every Sunday by wasting our time saying so many things. They won't even take five minutes. They take 45 minutes, go on and on and on and on and on. They haven't prepared a thing. I tell them, next year I get the same complaint. Next year I've heard complaints for 25 years. I suppose some people will never change. That's all there is to it. Because they have no respect for authority. They have no respect for God's Word. And they have such a fantastically bloated idea of their own importance, of how they are led by the Spirit whenever they speak. You know, something like some of these Pentecostals who say, thus said the Lord. You think it's only them? What about all the guys who get into the pulpit and act as if God is speaking through them? And they have not taken the pain to think about what they're going to say. And if they don't have a good memory, to write it down. So I want to say to any of you who are called to speak God's Word, think, be a wise person. And if you've got only five minutes worth of stuff to say, give five minutes. Is it better, supposing a king was, the governor was coming to your house for dinner. Would you put that last minute hodgepodge and give it to him? No, you'd probably prepare two days in advance. Buy stuff, marinate stuff, do so many things. You know, we would take more pains to make food for a governor than many people take pains to prepare a message for kings and queens, which is what God's people are. So that's hasty words can apply to messages too. Chapter 16, verse 23. The heart of the wise instructs his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips. You know, when a wise man, his heart, we saw last Sunday how the mouth is the overflow of the heart and my heart is full, it adds persuasiveness to my lips. Sometimes I think about, how can I get these people to be gripped by the truth? I think in my heart and then speak. If I don't give thought in my heart, I will not be able to speak in a persuasive way because I haven't given thought to it. It's just like this last minute cooking. If you decide to make a meal in five minutes, it's not going to be very tasty, I'll tell you that. And, you know, this...