WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.760 You know, part of faithfulness to us? 00:03.920 --> 00:06.140 Well, Proverbs describes it this way. 00:06.820 --> 00:08.460 Faithful are the wounds of a friend. 00:10.400 --> 00:13.520 Sometimes faithfulness to us is not what we always picture. 00:14.620 --> 00:21.120 Sometimes it's telling us and dealing with us very honestly and openly and truly. 00:21.940 --> 00:25.720 And I've got something here this morning that I need to deal with. 00:25.840 --> 00:28.080 You can stay where you're at. It's going to take me a few minutes, 00:28.080 --> 00:31.320 or you can go back to your seats. You can be seated however you want to do it. 00:33.020 --> 00:34.260 Totally up to you. 00:35.820 --> 00:41.220 Before I share this, Julie saw something this morning 00:41.220 --> 00:45.420 that I believe goes hand in hand with this, so I'm going to ask her to share that. 00:48.740 --> 00:53.040 I saw a white wooden staircase coming down from heaven, 00:53.980 --> 00:56.720 and there was nothing on it. 00:56.720 --> 01:02.240 And then I saw a white dove fly down to the ground, 01:02.720 --> 01:05.340 and then it turned and it flew back up to heaven, 01:05.840 --> 01:07.500 and then it came back down again, 01:07.980 --> 01:14.020 and then it turned and it flew, I would say, about a third of the way up, 01:14.600 --> 01:20.160 and it was standing on the railing, just looking, 01:20.560 --> 01:22.660 like it was just waiting for something. 01:24.860 --> 01:26.740 Okay, so a staircase. 01:30.790 --> 01:33.610 Please don't mute me when I'm just standing there. 01:35.130 --> 01:38.330 A staircase, Jacob's ladder kind of thing. 01:38.870 --> 01:41.930 It's an opening for us to be able to get into the heavenlies, etc. 01:43.830 --> 01:46.710 The dove would be a type of the Holy Spirit, 01:48.270 --> 01:51.630 and I believe what that is showing us is 01:52.390 --> 01:54.450 what I'm about to present. 01:55.450 --> 01:58.590 The Holy Spirit wants to witness to our hearts 01:59.250 --> 02:00.630 and take us higher. 02:02.150 --> 02:04.670 Get us up from where we're at. 02:05.930 --> 02:09.550 So this is... I'm going to try to present it very gently, 02:09.790 --> 02:12.650 but this is a form of a rebuke from Jesus. 02:14.690 --> 02:18.090 And it came to me on Friday evening 02:19.090 --> 02:21.790 during the praise and worship night here. 02:22.370 --> 02:27.090 He started talking to me about it and laid some things out. 02:28.270 --> 02:29.970 So I'm going to present that. 02:33.450 --> 02:33.950 And... 02:34.870 --> 02:39.290 You know, Band, I think... I think you don't have to stand up here. 02:39.350 --> 02:40.030 I think we're there. 02:40.750 --> 02:43.330 So if you want to be seated, that would be great, too. 02:44.670 --> 02:49.330 So here was the question that... 02:49.990 --> 02:53.750 a couple, three questions were posed to me. 02:55.050 --> 02:59.110 God speaking, if I would empower or bring to pass 02:59.110 --> 03:02.750 everything that the people, church people, 03:03.190 --> 03:05.450 have said this last week, 03:06.450 --> 03:07.950 what would have happened? 03:10.250 --> 03:13.190 And it's like, well, that's a good question 03:13.190 --> 03:14.190 because I don't know what they're saying. 03:15.530 --> 03:19.130 But if everything you said or proclaimed would have... 03:19.670 --> 03:21.870 God would have honored it and brought it to pass, 03:21.950 --> 03:22.730 what would have happened? 03:24.490 --> 03:27.950 And he's speaking to those who are still not guarding 03:27.950 --> 03:30.170 our hearts and our speech correctly 03:30.170 --> 03:32.110 because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. 03:33.830 --> 03:35.270 So now I quote, 03:36.130 --> 03:38.990 How long will you continue to choose death 03:38.990 --> 03:41.110 through what you say? 03:43.010 --> 03:47.310 How long will you continue to ignore and defy my spirit 03:48.270 --> 03:51.430 who is jealous over you with a godly jealousy? 03:53.590 --> 03:57.410 As long as you refuse to guard your heart and your lips, 03:58.410 --> 04:01.570 I cannot flow through your words with power. 04:02.630 --> 04:04.410 You will remain powerless. 04:06.330 --> 04:10.850 I call you to rise up and step into what I, your God, 04:11.530 --> 04:13.350 what I am offering to you. 04:13.650 --> 04:14.290 End of quote. 04:14.790 --> 04:17.930 That last phrase is why I'm thinking that what Julie saw 04:17.930 --> 04:20.230 is this is a now moment. 04:21.130 --> 04:23.050 And it's not just for us here. 04:23.190 --> 04:25.610 It's for anybody watching online or whatever. 04:25.610 --> 04:26.730 This is a now moment. 04:27.590 --> 04:28.930 And he's offering us. 04:29.310 --> 04:33.050 I call you to rise up and step into, well, step, 04:33.270 --> 04:36.370 step into what I'm offering to you. 04:38.830 --> 04:41.470 So choosing death through what we say, 04:42.350 --> 04:45.510 my mind tends to go a specific direction on that. 04:46.610 --> 04:48.830 And he didn't go that way. 04:48.970 --> 04:52.510 He continued to talk about some things that I thought, 04:52.670 --> 04:54.270 huh, well, that's interesting. 04:54.270 --> 04:55.790 I just wrote him down. 04:56.790 --> 04:58.590 So this is what I give to you. 04:59.110 --> 05:04.370 Applications for what he is referring to 05:04.370 --> 05:07.130 of choosing death rather than life. 05:07.250 --> 05:08.830 And he's quoting Deuteronomy 30 there. 05:09.350 --> 05:12.790 After you life and death and blessing and cursing, 05:12.990 --> 05:13.470 choose life. 05:14.350 --> 05:17.510 Well, by what we believe and what we say, 05:17.610 --> 05:19.310 sometimes we're choosing death 05:19.310 --> 05:21.150 and we don't even know we're choosing death. 05:21.150 --> 05:27.230 And the main thing he dwelt on in choosing death 05:28.310 --> 05:31.650 is how, or life, choosing death or life, 05:31.810 --> 05:39.050 is how we speak about and our attitudes towards each other, 05:40.050 --> 05:42.390 which I would never went down that vein. 05:42.730 --> 05:43.870 But let me give you what he gave. 05:47.110 --> 05:48.930 Speaking life or death, 05:49.930 --> 05:54.130 in agreement with negative or swinging emotions. 05:55.530 --> 05:58.030 When our emotions turn negative, 05:58.390 --> 06:02.030 our emotions swing a direction they shouldn't go, 06:03.050 --> 06:06.050 we don't want to be proclaiming and speaking 06:06.050 --> 06:07.050 what we're feeling. 06:09.350 --> 06:11.550 If God would empower that, 06:13.110 --> 06:15.310 a lot of bad things would happen. 06:16.290 --> 06:18.650 Because we're not, in those moments, 06:18.810 --> 06:20.070 we're not speaking anything 06:20.070 --> 06:23.230 that would agree with God or what God wants. 06:24.670 --> 06:26.710 Number two, speaking fear. 06:27.870 --> 06:29.630 Speaking fear over ourselves, 06:29.930 --> 06:31.250 speaking fear over others, 06:32.150 --> 06:34.710 coming from the perspective of fear 06:34.710 --> 06:35.870 and speaking fear. 06:37.530 --> 06:39.770 You're choosing death when you speak fear. 06:41.610 --> 06:44.370 You're choosing death when you speak fear. 06:46.630 --> 06:48.850 And I kind of sit on that a little bit 06:48.850 --> 06:50.590 because Christians can, I don't know why, 06:50.710 --> 06:52.730 but Christians tend to be very fearful. 06:53.170 --> 06:55.550 As a whole, not everybody, but as a whole. 06:55.970 --> 06:58.330 There's just a fearfulness that goes with Christians 06:58.330 --> 07:00.570 and when we speak out of that, 07:01.310 --> 07:02.530 we're speaking death. 07:07.310 --> 07:11.450 Number three, speaking in agreement 07:11.450 --> 07:14.870 with your physical body or old nature 07:14.870 --> 07:18.630 when it's contrary to the word. 07:22.070 --> 07:25.750 Speaking in agreement with your physical body, 07:25.850 --> 07:27.990 that's your creature living in, 07:28.490 --> 07:29.970 and or your old nature. 07:30.310 --> 07:35.230 That's what the part that took the hit spiritually 07:35.230 --> 07:37.730 in our physical body from sin 07:37.730 --> 07:39.930 and from the fallen nature and so forth. 07:43.430 --> 07:45.950 Speaking in agreement with our physical body, 07:48.070 --> 07:49.270 all my leg hurts. 07:50.410 --> 07:52.810 I don't know if I can even use it. 07:54.170 --> 07:56.750 What the world are you calling into? 07:56.910 --> 07:58.430 What if God would empower that and say, 07:58.490 --> 07:59.470 yep, let's go with that? 08:00.270 --> 08:01.990 And pretty soon your leg is useless. 08:04.110 --> 08:05.810 Why would we even say that? 08:08.670 --> 08:10.790 No, you can acknowledge the fact. 08:11.210 --> 08:11.910 My leg hurts. 08:13.470 --> 08:15.830 But once you're calling something, 08:16.110 --> 08:17.130 well, I don't even know. 08:18.390 --> 08:21.190 Well, if you don't know, who does know? 08:22.870 --> 08:24.210 Who's in charge of this? 08:24.730 --> 08:25.350 You or who? 08:28.230 --> 08:30.090 We have to be careful. 08:30.710 --> 08:32.790 And it's going to go with the message this morning, 08:32.830 --> 08:34.450 so I suppose that's why he plugged it together. 08:34.450 --> 08:37.630 We have to be careful with what comes out of our mouth 08:37.630 --> 08:40.470 if we actually want the words of our mouth 08:40.470 --> 08:43.770 to be faith words empowered by Almighty God. 08:44.770 --> 08:45.830 We have to. 08:46.870 --> 08:49.670 Or we'll literally be calling death over ourselves. 08:52.150 --> 08:54.130 Not edifying with our speech. 08:54.270 --> 08:55.870 And he dwelt on this for a while. 08:56.530 --> 08:58.290 And he broke something down that I thought, 08:58.370 --> 08:59.230 huh, that's interesting. 08:59.350 --> 09:00.710 Never thought of it that way before either. 09:01.770 --> 09:03.050 He said, 09:03.090 --> 09:04.890 gossip is talking about people, 09:05.010 --> 09:07.510 just talking about people and their lives 09:07.510 --> 09:08.350 and what they're doing. 09:08.550 --> 09:10.090 And did you hear and did you know? 09:10.430 --> 09:11.550 And la, la, la, la, la, la. 09:11.650 --> 09:11.970 Gossip. 09:18.280 --> 09:21.180 Once gossip turns a little bit 09:22.260 --> 09:26.040 and goes into judgment or conclusions, 09:28.460 --> 09:29.980 we're now speaking death. 09:31.780 --> 09:34.540 And it's not going to be just about 09:34.540 --> 09:36.700 them we're planting seed 09:36.700 --> 09:38.220 that's going to come back to us. 09:38.400 --> 09:39.340 We're opening a door. 09:41.360 --> 09:42.440 You know why? 09:42.740 --> 09:44.360 Did you hear about so-and-so 09:44.360 --> 09:46.960 and what they did on their vacation? 09:47.280 --> 09:48.960 It's like, why would somebody do something like that? 09:50.020 --> 09:51.360 See, all of a sudden, 09:51.420 --> 09:52.740 this is taking a negative turn. 09:54.860 --> 09:55.780 Well, I don't know. 09:55.860 --> 09:56.560 What are they like? 09:56.980 --> 09:57.720 Well, you know, 09:58.760 --> 10:00.060 I don't know them real well, 10:00.060 --> 10:01.740 but then why are you talking about them? 10:03.100 --> 10:04.580 And what they did on their vacation, 10:05.020 --> 10:06.420 how does it affect your life? 10:09.300 --> 10:11.540 Or what they did wherever. 10:11.940 --> 10:12.820 How does it affect you? 10:13.060 --> 10:14.880 Why do we have to be talking about them? 10:15.100 --> 10:18.360 Because gossip tends to turn negative 10:18.360 --> 10:20.360 because the old nature likes negative. 10:21.840 --> 10:23.840 And it goes into judgment and conclusions. 10:25.940 --> 10:28.500 Once it goes into judgment and conclusions, 10:28.500 --> 10:31.400 Jesus said it, Paul said it in Romans 2, 10:32.260 --> 10:34.320 once we are judging someone, 10:35.140 --> 10:37.660 we've opened the door to be judged. 10:40.400 --> 10:44.700 We have no right to come to a conclusion on, 10:44.960 --> 10:46.420 well, I think they did it this way 10:46.420 --> 10:48.500 because you know, that's just kind of how they are. 10:48.940 --> 10:53.100 And you know, they're just a sloppy people. 10:53.420 --> 10:55.560 I mean, they do things sloppy 10:55.560 --> 10:56.800 and they never finish it right. 10:56.800 --> 11:03.960 And this, you have just opened a door of death to you. 11:10.440 --> 11:13.960 You're into a coming to a conclusion. 11:14.420 --> 11:15.960 Well, I kind of know what they're thinking. 11:16.140 --> 11:16.780 No, you don't. 11:22.220 --> 11:24.980 But if we let ourself go there, 11:25.440 --> 11:30.320 we are opening up to judgment coming on us. 11:30.480 --> 11:33.200 And then he took it from kind of like a, 11:33.200 --> 11:36.400 just talking about, to, it starts turning negative about them. 11:36.820 --> 11:38.260 Once you're done with the conversation, 11:38.820 --> 11:42.960 you don't leave with a higher estimate or opinion of them. 11:43.480 --> 11:45.780 You leave with questions or a lower one. 11:48.280 --> 11:50.400 That opens the door, because that's a form of judgment. 11:51.700 --> 11:53.100 We've come to the conclusion. 11:53.360 --> 11:54.240 This is what they're like. 11:54.540 --> 11:56.440 And we thought they were here, but they're here. 11:57.240 --> 12:01.040 Jesus said, judge not, lest you be judged. 12:01.880 --> 12:04.760 Paul said, we've got to be careful what we judge, 12:04.900 --> 12:07.780 because it's tied to our own heart. 12:08.240 --> 12:15.320 Let me just go on. 12:18.640 --> 12:20.260 Then he took it to slander. 12:22.400 --> 12:23.880 Not edifying in our speech. 12:24.020 --> 12:25.860 Edifying in our speech is building people up. 12:27.060 --> 12:28.980 By the time you're done talking with them, 12:29.060 --> 12:32.240 people who heard it feel better about them than when you started. 12:36.880 --> 12:38.940 I'll repeat that. Just make sure everybody got it. 12:41.080 --> 12:44.340 Edifying is when you build someone up. 12:45.520 --> 12:48.140 And once you're done talking about them, 12:49.860 --> 12:54.140 people who heard what you had to say feel better about them. 12:54.200 --> 12:56.180 They have a better sense of, 12:56.500 --> 12:58.160 wow, I didn't know that that's really cool. 12:58.340 --> 12:58.780 That's awesome. 12:59.160 --> 13:01.460 Of the person than when you started. 13:02.360 --> 13:03.680 That's edifying speech. 13:04.760 --> 13:06.300 Gossip tends to float. 13:06.960 --> 13:08.220 Gossip goes negative. 13:08.220 --> 13:11.580 It tends to start causing judgment and conclusions of, 13:11.820 --> 13:13.380 really, I never thought they were like that. 13:13.660 --> 13:16.700 We thought they were here now because of what's been said. 13:17.060 --> 13:19.300 Yeah, we've got them down here in our mind now. 13:19.580 --> 13:20.920 Which goes to slander. 13:21.280 --> 13:23.320 I never threw slander in with gossip before. 13:24.500 --> 13:29.560 The utterance of false charges or misrepresentations 13:29.560 --> 13:33.260 that damage the other person's reputation. 13:36.560 --> 13:40.740 In other words, by the time you're done talking about them, 13:43.920 --> 13:48.060 there's going to be things laid at their feet as fact, 13:48.200 --> 13:49.680 or this is what I really feel. 13:49.800 --> 13:52.360 This is what I see that are negative. 13:57.190 --> 13:58.530 You're slandering them. 14:03.420 --> 14:04.260 You're slandering them. 14:05.900 --> 14:06.860 And you know what's real? 14:07.080 --> 14:08.600 Most of the time it doesn't even affect us. 14:08.600 --> 14:12.300 But if it is a situation or a person that does affect us, 14:12.660 --> 14:16.660 have we ever gone to them and talked about it to them? 14:18.900 --> 14:21.100 Because if we've never made that step, 14:21.300 --> 14:24.820 then I can guarantee you you're opening a door to judgment 14:24.820 --> 14:30.920 because you're judging them without even engaging with them. 14:32.780 --> 14:35.540 The talk ends up causing divisions, 14:38.140 --> 14:41.320 separates us, we're not as close as we were. 14:42.280 --> 14:44.680 You know how you can tell when people have been talking about you? 14:45.860 --> 14:47.840 You had this good relationship with someone 14:47.840 --> 14:49.780 and then somebody talked to them about you. 14:50.580 --> 14:52.600 And the next time you see them, you can just say, 14:52.800 --> 14:54.080 Hi, Passover, yeah. 14:55.500 --> 14:57.380 And it's like they take a separate two back 14:57.380 --> 14:59.820 and they've got this fake smile on them. 15:02.500 --> 15:03.740 See, that's separation. 15:03.740 --> 15:08.020 There's something happening here and it's a division 15:08.740 --> 15:10.740 and it causes factions. 15:11.460 --> 15:12.940 God hates factions. 15:13.160 --> 15:14.760 F-A-C-T-I-O-N-S. 15:15.140 --> 15:17.500 Factions. God hates factions. 15:18.080 --> 15:21.440 Factions turn out to become the us and you. 15:22.380 --> 15:24.600 This is how we think this is us 15:24.600 --> 15:27.460 and you are not in with us. 15:28.240 --> 15:29.320 You're different. 15:30.200 --> 15:31.320 This is our family. 15:32.640 --> 15:36.140 We're going to huddle up here because you bother me. 15:37.260 --> 15:38.880 And we've talked about you 15:40.240 --> 15:43.100 and all of us have a negative opinion about you 15:43.100 --> 15:45.260 even though we've never brought an issue up to you. 15:45.660 --> 15:48.600 We've kind of figured this out and we know what you're like. 15:48.940 --> 15:50.980 So we're going to kind of separate back 15:51.520 --> 15:54.540 and be our own little group here in... 15:54.540 --> 15:55.760 Hi, Passover. 15:57.800 --> 15:58.920 Good to see you. 15:58.920 --> 16:01.800 And it's like you just feel it coming off of them. 16:02.240 --> 16:03.100 This is fake. 16:05.680 --> 16:07.460 When we do that, 16:08.800 --> 16:11.840 we are literally choosing death 16:12.740 --> 16:13.780 with our mouth. 16:15.320 --> 16:18.860 Because what we've done is we've gossiped, judged, and slandered. 16:24.140 --> 16:25.660 I'll go back and quote what he said. 16:25.820 --> 16:28.620 As long as you refuse to guard your heart and your lips, 16:28.620 --> 16:32.600 I cannot flow through your words with power. 16:33.160 --> 16:35.280 You will remain powerless. 16:37.860 --> 16:40.200 We can't judge a person. 16:40.700 --> 16:44.400 Come to conclusions about the person, about their character, 16:44.800 --> 16:46.560 what they're like, about their motives. 16:47.180 --> 16:51.320 If they're right in a situation, if they're wrong in a situation, 16:51.940 --> 16:55.580 what they're like spiritually, what they're like emotionally. 16:56.480 --> 17:00.540 We can't come to conclusions about people. 17:03.220 --> 17:04.460 That's judging them. 17:08.120 --> 17:12.160 Especially if we haven't talked to them to hear their heart. 17:12.760 --> 17:14.920 Well, I don't see why anybody would make a decision like that. 17:15.020 --> 17:16.560 Have you ever asked them why they'd make a decision? 17:16.680 --> 17:18.560 Well, I'm not going to ask them. Well, then shut up. 17:20.140 --> 17:21.100 None of your business. 17:23.440 --> 17:26.400 I mean, if you don't love them enough, 17:27.540 --> 17:30.140 obviously you're concerned about the decision they make. 17:30.220 --> 17:31.800 You don't love them enough to go talk to them. 17:31.800 --> 17:33.060 Why are you talking about them? 17:33.600 --> 17:34.580 To who knows who? 17:35.660 --> 17:38.920 Coming from the conclusion of, yeah, they're wrong. 17:39.520 --> 17:40.040 They're off. 17:42.920 --> 17:47.260 That opens the door to us. 17:48.420 --> 17:52.500 And I've been saying that opens the door for us to be judged. 17:53.000 --> 17:54.420 I'll just go to what Jesus said. 17:54.840 --> 17:59.700 That opens the door to us having powerless speech. 18:02.060 --> 18:05.660 Because it's not a switch you flip on and off. 18:07.140 --> 18:09.060 I'll flip it on while I pray. 18:09.800 --> 18:11.140 And then while we eat, 18:11.280 --> 18:13.140 and we're going to talk about all these people at church, 18:13.260 --> 18:13.980 I'll flip it off. 18:14.840 --> 18:16.220 And when it's off, 18:16.600 --> 18:19.400 there's no power connected to my speech at all. 18:19.660 --> 18:21.400 But when I flip it on and I pray, 18:21.720 --> 18:24.140 heaven and earth will move to support my speech. 18:25.860 --> 18:27.440 God doesn't work like that. 18:29.540 --> 18:31.300 God does not work like that. 18:31.420 --> 18:33.560 He is even the same. 18:33.900 --> 18:37.260 Everything flows the same through everything. 18:37.940 --> 18:39.520 We work like that. 18:42.060 --> 18:44.300 We can judge things. 18:44.440 --> 18:46.380 We're commanded to judge things. 18:47.440 --> 18:51.140 But we can't come to a conclusion about the person. 18:54.020 --> 18:55.380 We get an attitude. 18:57.160 --> 18:59.000 We start making pronouncements. 18:59.440 --> 19:00.040 Stuff happens. 19:00.680 --> 19:02.840 And the whole time what God is saying is, 19:02.940 --> 19:04.880 yeah, you think you're talking out there, 19:05.000 --> 19:09.420 but you're actually opening your life through your speech. 19:09.420 --> 19:11.740 To death coming here. 19:11.800 --> 19:13.120 You're choosing death. 19:14.600 --> 19:16.100 You're not choosing life. 19:18.600 --> 19:22.360 That's a heavy little word. 19:29.080 --> 19:30.920 So I ask the questions again. 19:31.720 --> 19:35.960 He asked, how long will you continue to choose death 19:35.960 --> 19:37.200 through what you say? 19:38.180 --> 19:40.020 How long will let's make the applications? 19:40.220 --> 19:41.520 How long will you continue to gossip? 19:41.660 --> 19:43.380 How long will you continue to slander? 19:43.380 --> 19:45.620 How long will you continue to judge people? 19:45.860 --> 19:48.220 How long will you continue to come to conclusions 19:48.220 --> 19:53.000 talking about people that lowers others' estimation of them? 19:54.340 --> 19:56.180 How long are you going to keep this up? 19:56.300 --> 19:57.840 You're choosing death. 19:59.800 --> 20:03.140 How long will you continue to ignore and defy my spirit? 20:04.360 --> 20:06.980 See, he will try to stop us from doing these things. 20:08.100 --> 20:10.260 And sometimes we're so set in our habits 20:10.260 --> 20:12.580 and in our ways that we don't even hear him. 20:14.020 --> 20:16.120 But he is trying to talk to us 20:16.760 --> 20:19.800 because he is jealous over us with a godly jealousy. 20:19.800 --> 20:23.820 He doesn't want us participating in the speech 20:23.820 --> 20:26.120 and the activity of the kingdom of darkness 20:26.120 --> 20:28.060 when we're children of light. 20:29.120 --> 20:32.020 And his job is to sanctify us and bring us over 20:32.020 --> 20:34.640 and he will work on us. 20:34.760 --> 20:39.140 And one of the main separating characteristics 20:39.140 --> 20:42.120 of us and everything God created 20:42.120 --> 20:43.540 as far as we know from Scripture 20:44.180 --> 20:47.880 is the power he endowed the human being with in their mouth. 20:50.040 --> 20:51.400 Angels don't have that. 20:52.140 --> 20:54.000 There is no place in Scripture that says 20:54.000 --> 20:58.320 angels have the ability to cause things to happen, 20:58.560 --> 21:00.160 come into being with their mouth. 21:01.040 --> 21:03.540 We do. And we'll talk about that a bit this morning. 21:03.540 --> 21:07.780 So Lord, I'm asking that by your spirit 21:09.500 --> 21:13.800 all of us can hear this and reap something from this. 21:14.920 --> 21:17.100 Some of us can reap a whole lot more 21:19.440 --> 21:21.700 because we're going the wrong direction. 21:23.860 --> 21:27.740 So by your spirit, work in us individually, 21:28.100 --> 21:31.480 work in us as marriages, work in us as families, 21:36.930 --> 21:41.350 walk us through what needs to be done 21:41.350 --> 21:47.270 so that power can again flow through our words. 21:49.050 --> 21:52.350 Because there's a consistency in agreement 21:52.350 --> 21:55.970 with Scripture that flows through our words. 21:57.890 --> 21:59.310 In Jesus' name. 22:00.030 --> 22:02.710 And Lord, if any of us are sitting there 22:02.710 --> 22:04.130 and saying, oh my, that was me. 22:06.510 --> 22:09.710 Rather than leaving condemned, we just say, God forgive me. 22:10.810 --> 22:11.270 I'm sorry. 22:15.130 --> 22:16.610 It could be a possibility. 22:16.770 --> 22:18.750 I didn't see it. I didn't understand what I was doing. 22:18.830 --> 22:20.770 Or it could be, I knew exactly what I was doing 22:20.770 --> 22:22.370 and now it's time I got to stop this. 22:23.450 --> 22:25.590 So forgive me. I repent of it. 22:26.810 --> 22:28.970 I'm asking you to wash me clean of this. 22:28.970 --> 22:31.770 And Holy Spirit, retrain me. 22:32.250 --> 22:34.630 How I think, how I talk, what's in my heart. 22:34.830 --> 22:36.410 Take out the stuff that shouldn't be there. 22:36.730 --> 22:38.890 And let's replace it with righteousness and holiness. 22:40.210 --> 22:41.890 Help my speech to be edifying. 22:42.230 --> 22:45.670 Help my choices to be choices of life and not death. 22:45.990 --> 22:47.930 In Jesus' name. Amen. 22:48.330 --> 22:48.570 Amen.