A perfect tongue
A perfect tongue
(Tame your tongue)
David Wilkerson
but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
James 3:8
He’s talking about the tongues of Christians. How serious is this matter of taming your tongue?
An untamed tongue is the world’s deadliest weapon. An unsantified careless tongue is more wicked than drugs or alcohol. Whatever you can name an unsanctified gossiping vicious tongue is worse than all those sins combined.
The Bible said,
“There’s a hell of fire in it.
It defiles the whole body of Jesus Christ.”
Deadly deadly poison
The Bible said,
“It’s a word of iniquity.
It defiles multitude, tastes hell on earth through its power.”
If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridelth not his tongue,
but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain
James 1:26
The word ‘vain’ is ‘absolutely worthless.’
They appear to be pious and religious, but they have tongues that out of control unbridled.
And the Bible says,
“All their religion, all their spirituality,
everything is absolutely totally invain.”
They go about the church or on the job with ass in tongues.
They always hearing and telling more of gossip. They think nothing of murmuring and complaining. They think nothing of touching God’s anointed. They just blink it off.
You stand before God and say
“Lord, I worshiped You.
I praised You.
I did all these things.”
“I didn’t know people who have divided tongue, a divided heart, a divided mind.
I never know you becuase if you are intimate with me, you would have understood my Word.
You would allowed the Holy Spirit to deal with you and this would have not been an issue.”
Secondly, what you speak with your tongue reflex what is in your heart.
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 12:34
Your tongue reflects only what is in your heart. What is in your heart would be reflected by the words you speak.
He’s saying loose careless evil tongue pours our of an evil, unclean heart.
If I speak any filthy gossip,
if I tell a dirty joke,
if I hear myself running somebody down,
if I speak unkindly jealously about another,
if I raise my voice and scream at my family,
if I curse even a single word,
then I’ve got ask myself the question.
What kind unclean filthy junks still treasure up somewhere hidden in my heart?
There are something never dealt with. ‘I wouldn’t be saying these things. I wouldn’t doing these things.’ It wouldn’t come out of it. It’s down there. It’s not been dealt with.
Beloved, careless unruly talk is not just a flaw, is not just a weakness, is not just a habit we fall into occasionally.
You can’s say of somebody “Usually he or she is very lovely.
They are just wonderful people. Occasionally they’re gossipping.
Occasionally they say things cut …”
No.
All the spirituality is discounted. More than that that person has an unclean evil heart. It’s not a flaw.
The Scripture says,
Both a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
James 3:11
This warning has been so serious to me. The Lord has so implanted the fear of God in my heart about this.
I just have to pursue it. I know now that even as a pastor if I allow more of gossip to come out of my lips I’m gonna stop and say
“Master, what kind root is there in me?
What kind of jealousy is there in me?
What kind of envy is there in me?
What kind of covetousness is there in me?
What is that’s not been rooted out of my heart?”
I repented and the Lord forgave me. I began to say something against somebody and the Holy Ghost will say
“Stop!”
Brother and sisters, He tells you to stop in the middle of the sentence.
“I can’t go on. This is gossip.”
“Stop it!”
Right there and then, you’ll become very sensitive to the Holy Ghost. And from then on He’ll be there all the time to remind you to keep you clean and pure.
You can’t tame it yourself but the Holy Ghost can through total repentance.
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Matthew 12:37
He said,
“You’re gonna be judged for your words.
You’re gonna judged by what your said.”
Here is why I have the fear of God on me. I stand before judgement seat and I give an count. I’ve got to pray,
“Oh God, dig into my heart.
What what’s wrong inside of me?”
Folks, we need a heart examination. We need to look inside and from now on God will help you. He will deliver you if you’re realize it’s not just idle gossip, it’s not just something comes out top of your head, it’s not suddenly there and out.
No!
It has roots.
It’s from your heart.
So the heart needs to be cleansed.
We need to go to Jesus and say
“Lord, I’m guilty. Help me.
Send the Holy Ghost.
Convict me.”
How great a matter little fire of candles.
Here’s dangerous part. Your motive is not wrong. But it doesn’t matter. You have to take inventory and think before you speak lest the spark starts a fire and it’s out of control. You didn’t mean it and it still did all the damages.
God wants us to have control.
You can not control your own tongue. God has to do it.
You show me a Christian. You show me a man or a woman who really wants control, who really wants live a life pleasing to the Lord. I will show you someone. That person is gonna go into the presence of the Lord. He’ll gonna keep going into the presence of the Lord until he got vision of His holiness, the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Because sin only becomes sinful in the presence of Jesus.
Only it becomes you only hate your sin. You can only hate what you have been saying with your tongue by getting so close to Jesus and seeing His holiness amd getting this picture of Him high and lifted up on His throne and having absolute intimacy with Jesus, amd allowing Him to speak into your heart.
When you begin to see His holiness and His righteousness as did the prophet Isaiah,
Then you can cry out as he did.
Then said I
“Woe is me. I am undone.
Because I’m a man of unclean lips.”
“I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”
Isaiah 6:5
Where did he get the vision of the ugliness of his mouth and tongue? Why did he cry out? “Woe is me because I am a man of unclean lips.”
“Becuase my eyes have seen the King.”
I know He will not put up with this in the closeness to Jesus.
It’s closeness to Jesus.
It’s intimacy.
It’s knowing Him.
I’ve asked the Holy Ghost to be my helper on this matter.
I’ve asked Him to send such conviction on me as soon as I open my mouth, I begin to say one word that is careless and unthinking and unkind.
I want a clean heart, pure hands.
And I want a pure tongue.
Lord, You will cleanse us.
You will wipe away the past.
You will make it new.
If we are just humble ourselves before You,
You can remove all the things that have been unlike You,
and make us right,
make us clean.