WHAT TYPE OF WORDS ARE WE SPEAKING?

The words that we speak, are they life or death? 

Do they give us hope or discouragement? 

Since we are held responsible for every word we speak, I think we had better listen very carefully to what we are saying, not just to our brothers, but also to ourselves. 

Notice what Jesus said: 

Mt.12:36  But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned". 

Let us look at the words, justified and condemned a little more closely. 

By being Justified -- we are being freed from all blame, we are without guilt and we are shown or proven to be right. 

Condemned means -- to be pronounced unfit for use, guilty. 

By our own words we can be free from blame and without guilt, or we can pronounce ourselves guilty and unfit for the use of God. 

If it is the Word of God -- it is Life, it is freedom. 

If it is ourselves speaking -- it is death, and words of death will destroy, kill everyone that hears us; and not only they who hear us, but ourselves as well. 

Proverbs 18:21 "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."

So what do we love -- Life or death? What are we eating, and what are we 'living' on? Is it Life or Death? It is one or the other. 

Proverbs 18:21 again, it says that "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." 

And in 18:20 "A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled." 

Is our belly satisfied and filled with life, which is Christ, and live; All evil comes forth from the heart and proceeds out of the mouth. 

Jer 17:9 the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?.

Mat 12:34  For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh" . 

Mat 15:18-19 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies" 

I myself want to live. What about you? I know the answer to that. We are all wanting to live, and not just live but to live life more abundantly.

So now that we know we are all wanting to live, let us look at some of the scriptures that speak of those things that give us life:

Proverbs 10:20 "The tongue of the just is as choice silver", (silver speaks of redemption & righteousness),( see also Proverbs 25:4-5 and Psa. 12:6).

Prov. 15:4  A wholesome tongue is a tree of life", and we know that Jesus Christ is the Tree of Life -- ever living (Rev. 2:7).

Prov.10 :11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life" , and 

John 4:14 tells us that He (Jesus) is the water for the thirsty. 

Jesus also said, John 7:37 "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink" .

Prov. 10:13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found..." , 

Prov. 24:3-4 and with wisdom the house is built" .

Prov. 10-21 The lips of the righteous feed many"  and Jesus said, "Feed My sheep" (John 21:15-17).

Matthew 12:33-35, Jesus says, "The heart is the tree and the words are the fruit." Simply stated, the words that come out of our mouth, whether we mean what we say or not, indicate the condition of the heart. Be careful with what you allow in your heart, eventually it will come out.