02/11/22 THE POWER OF WORDS

02/11/22 THE POWER OF WORDS

Words (spoken or written, teaching or preaching), can build up or tear down, encourage or defeat, comfort or intimidate, guide or mislead, lighten or burden, enlighten or confuse, help or hinder.

Sadly, the dangerous words can sound more positive than poisonous, more loving than lethal.
Sadly, people are drawn to poison peddlers, scalp hunters, lying sirens (male and female), based on appearance, popularity, personal charisma, communication skills, entertainment appeal, worldly wisdom, and devilish deceit.

Your spiritual, your Christian preachers, teachers, pastors better be God-loving, God-fearing, God serving, godly, self-denying, Christ-following, Holy Spirit transformed, Bible-believing men of God.

Through the years I have watched family and friends follow after silver-tongued, popular, high-powered wolves in sheep's clothing. I have watched as loved ones, who were raised in Bible-believing, God-fearing, Christ-exalting homes and dynamic churches, turn away from the truth, deny that they had ever heard the gospel, and defame their loving family and sincere believers.

To this day I am not able to talk with them unless I am willing to coddle their godless insanity, accept their blasphemous lies and allow them to trample over God's truth and the people for whom Christ died.

It is not easy when people turn their backs on family, mock Biblical truth, spew toxicity over impressionable children, and undermine parental authority.

You must close out destructive, hateful, divisive words and you must embrace true, loving, and faithful words.