WORDS

WORDS

“For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned” (Matt. 12:37).

Jesus correctly connected a man’s words with his heart, for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Just as the nature of a tree determines what kind of fruit it will produce, the nature of a man determines what words come out of his mouth. This is key to understanding everyone and especially those who blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

Today, however, we will focus on how the enemy of truth changes the meaning of words to confuse and divide us. Take, for example, the word “tolerance”. At one time it meant to have a sympathetic view with those with whom we disagree. Today, however, it has become a bludgeon to beat into submission those who think differently about such subjects as same sex marriage.

Or consider the word “gender”. For thousands of years medical science and all of mankind were in agreement that there were only two genders, male and female. Now there are those who insist that there are 63 genders including “Anogender” which is a gender that is unknown both to you and others. On June 16, 2017 Canada’s Senate passed Bill C-16 which puts “gender identity” into the country’s human rights code. Those who do not subscribe to this “progressive” gender theory could be accused of hate crimes, jailed, fined, and made to take anti-bias training. How tolerant!

Or what about “marriage”. It is no longer defined by many as a sacred union between a man and a woman. Marriage is now about anything you want it to be. Not only are we to believe that “marriage” can be between one or more people of the same sex, but consider: 37 year old Erika La Tour married the Eiffel Tower; 39 year old Liu Ye married himself, Maria Griffin married a truck, 32 year old Amy Wolfe married a carnival ride, and Lee Jin-gyu married a pillow. Not to be outdone, in 2006, 30 year old Bimbala Das married a snake. It happened at Atala village of Orissa’s Khurda district in India. The bride was attired in a silk saree and 2,000 people celebrated the event.

Alexander Vilenkin is a cosmologist at Tufts University. After 35 years of looking backward in time he has concluded that before our universe came into being, “billions of years ago,” there was “nothing, nothing at all, not even time itself.” To rescue science from the absurdity of a universe produced by nothing, Alan Guth of Stanford took the intellectual leap and redefined “nothing”.

For the original disciples of Jesus the word “faith” involved evidence. For example, not one of the original disciples believed in the resurrection until they were faced with irrefutable evidence. Thomas, (the Twin), had obviously been mistaken for his brother so often that he vowed he would not believe that Jesus was raised from the dead until he put his finger in the nail prints and placed his hand into His side (Jn. 20:25). As you know, Jesus appeared to Thomas and showed him his hands and his feet. Thomas not only believed but even went to India preaching the resurrection and died there as a martyr. Modern evolutionists, however, have now given faith a new definition. Now they try to convince us that faith is believing something without evidence.

Peter said that if anyone would speak he should speak as the oracles of God (1 Pet. 4:11). You can’t go wrong using the Words of God. The late Alexander Campbell once observed that since words convey ideas, if a word is not used in the Bible, perhaps the idea is not there either. Fortunately, God will be found true even if every man is a liar (Rom. 3:4). While society may change, Jesus will not. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8). Neither does the Word of Christ change. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words will not (Matt. 24:35).

David prayed that God would guard his mouth and keep watch over the door of his lips (Ps. 141:3). That’s good advice for by your words you will either be justified or condemned!