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INTRODUCTION
Words are immensely powerful and they are a two-edged sword.
They can cut to the heart or build people up.
There are life-giving words and life-stealing words.
If you are a Christian, you will have in internal desire to speak life-giving words more than life-stealing words.
As the Holy Spirit, who resides within you, conforms you to the image of Christ ().
This process of renewing us includes our words.
He is preparing us for life in the kingdom of God, where there will be only life-giving words- ones of truth, love, and justice.
Therefore, today we have an opportunity to change the world around us with our words.
Think, what would happen in your family, in your school, in your office, in your church, if you changed your words?
REVIEW
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We have learned from Jesus that words are the fruit of our hearts.
We speak out of the abundance of the heart.
The heart and words are made of the same substance.
Life-giving words come out of a heart that is alive in Christ.
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Last week, we learned that one way we manifest life-giving words is by speaking the truth.
We speak the truth because hearts know the truth of God.
3. Today, we are going to look at another expression of life-giving words- edifying words.
TRUE WORDS
Today, we are going to look at an expression of life-giving words- true words.
As Christians, our words will match the edifying work God is doing in our own hearts.
God is making us whole.
He is building each one of us into a men and women of the kingdom.
He is making His church complete.
We are growing into a mature body.
Therefore, our words will have the same edifying effect as we speak into the lives of others and into our church.
Therefore, our words will help to make others whole and make His church complete.
Hopefully, you’ll be challenged to remove critical and destructive speech from your mouths and instead speak life-building words.
Hopefully, you’ll be challenged to change your words to reflect the dramatic change God has worked in your hearts in Christ.
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CONTEXT
Paul wrote Ephesians from house arrest in Rome around 62 AD.
The letter revisits the glory of the gospel and then teaches Christians that such grace should result in a worthy lifestyle.
Such life in Christ includes edifying others into the promise of completion
You see this concept in the passages preceding today’s passage.
Consider...
Listen to earlier verses in the chapter.
Consider the context of edification
Ephesians 4:11-
Ephesians 4:15-
Consider Paul’s word choice when He talks about Christians and the church: equip, building up, attain, mature, fullness, grow up, equipped, working properly, grow, builds itself up
Ephesians
These are positive words which refer to thriving.
After this section we have the passage I preached on last week which emphasized operating from a platform of God’s truth, which manifests itself in honest speech.
PASSAGE
Then we get into our passage today which broadens the definition of positive and life-giving speech.
INTRODUCTION
Words are immensely powerful and they are a two-edged sword.
Corrupting- Rotten, putrid (like fruit or fish); worthless.
These allude to fallenness and incompleteness.
These are not the adjectives of the kingdom.
Instead they are based in deception and malice; corruption is the work of the devil, sin, and death.
Such language is the fruit of corrupted hearts (remember, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks).
Come out- to leave from within.
To open a can or worms
Then Paul instructs the opposite of corrupting speech...
Good for building up (oikodome)- suitable for the purpose of bringing something closer to fullness or completion; understood as if assisting in the construction of an incomplete building.
fits the occasion; according to their needs (NIV)- the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
This is not doing someone a favor by pointing out holes in a person, but filling those gaps with encouragements, life-giving words.
Confidence, (love) I love you, peace (It’s going to be okay)
If a person lacks confidence (You can do this!),
If a person is unloved (I love you)
If a person is unsettled Peace (It’s going to be okay)
If they are grieving, Comfort (You are still precious to Him),
If they are dangerously wrong or deceived, give them truth, Censure in love (God is not going to bless you living with your girlfriend, but He will bless marriage).
Bob white met me at the Smokehouse restaurant and felt inclined to tell me.
“I’ve been praying for you.
I feel the Lord wants me to tell you that He loves you and has great things for you.”
My 28 year old self had been through a recent church brouhaha and I needed these words more than Bob could have ever known.
In this, we act as the servants of Christ.
We are the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
When we speak such words of life, we...
Give Grace- beneficent goodwill, words that are a gift and undeserved.
Give Grace- beneficent goodwill, words that are a gift and undeserved.
That they may benefit those who listen- the person who is receiving your words
That they may fit the occasion
They can cut to the heart or build people up.
There are life-giving words and life-stealing words.
This passage reveals the level of relationship between a believer and the Lord.
God gives us free will.
We have a choice to believe the Lord and follow Him.
This gives Him joy.
If you are a Christian, you will have in internal desire to speak life-giving words more than life-stealing words.
We can choose to entertain the old sin man (4.21), which accomplishes nothing but hurting us and saddening the Holy Spirit in us.
In this passage, we learn that...
Corrupt and worthless conversation grieves the Holy Spirit.
This means the Holy Spirit responds to our words with distress, sadden, unhappiness, displeasure.
Grieve the Holy Spirit- distress, sadden, unhappiness
We don’t make God do anything.
His actions are absolutely His will.
Yet, in this phrase God condescends to a human way of thought in order to relate with us.
He is like the adult who gets down on a child’s level to communicate something important.
This in and of itself is touching.
God wants to tell us that corrupting speech hurts our relationship with Him and our relationship with others.
This verse gives us another nugget of truth which is very important.
The Spirit seals us for the Day o redemption
Sealed- guaranteed, secured, delivered safely for the...
Day of redemption- day of completion, liberation, deliverance, the day when final redemption is realized.
It should be comforting to us to know that we are not going to sin so bad that the Holy Spirit decides to walk out and revokes our salvation.
He will never give up on us.
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