Wed, Dec 17th - 1:45PM

SOUND SPEECH STUDY

Paul’s motivation is out of love for Christ and for the Galatians. He wanted them to worship the Son of God according to the Gospel not the old Law. He desired to turn them from trying to be made righteous by the Law, even as some are vainly trying  today. Oh that all such would hear Paul who still speaks today !!!

Gal. 4:8 During the time when you did not know God, you worshiped false gods. 9 But now that you know God, or should I say that you are known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak old Law? Why do you want to do those religious acts of worship that will keep you from being free? Why do you want to be held under the power of the Law again? 10 You do special things on certain days and months and years and times of the year. 11 I am afraid my work with you was wasted.

Living by the Law or Being Free

Gal. 4:12 I ask you, Christian brothers, stay free from the Law as I am. Even if I am a Jew, I became free from the Law, just as you who are not Jews.

Thanks be to God the Galatians heard and believed Paul that God has ordained His Son Jesus Christ our Saviour as the only source of salvation and righteousness to those who believe and obey Him.

 A prayer of repentance: Lord Jesus we repent of a stubborn heart in trying to be righteous through obeying the Law. Lord Jesus we fully acknowledge your Father's eternal plan for righteousness and to be made righteous is only through you our everlasting Saviour. We thank you God, that your Son Jesus Christ has fully delivered us from the Law. Dear Lord Jesus we turn our hearts fully to you now praising you  and resting in the Grace and freedom of the NEW COVENANT that you have established through your everlasting sacrifice of yourself. Amen.

love

serola 

Mon, Dec 15th - 1:05PM

SOUND SPEECH STUDY

Titus 2:8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Sound speech here denotes metaph. teaching which does not deviate from the truth.

It is possible that someone may not like what we say in response to them. However the point is that we are  to always speak that which comes from the eternal truth of the Gospel, which cannot be condemned. It pricks and enters the heart of the hearer even if the Christian does not like it at first.

We have God’s power to be restorers and helpful to one another which arises out of godly motivations and love. Let us put God first even in our speech.

Paul had to tell the Galatians that they were doing things that amounted to putting themselves in bondage and false worship. It appeared the Galatians got mad and saw Paul as an enemy for telling them the truth. Paul had to ask them seriously!!! 

Gal. 4:16 So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?

Paul’s motivation was to guide the Galatians to worship God according to the Gospel and avoid the bondage of false worship. The Galatians had a lot of zeal-in the wrong way for the wrong things. The Galatians came to accept the truth through Paul the Apostle's telling them the truth.

Our Lord grants every Christian the right, privilege and authority to tell Biblical truth to one another and the whole world- truth correctly understood and lived. (See Galatians 4) Open your Bible brethren let us make this an interactive study, thanks.

Prayer of repentance: Lord Jesus we repent of the times that we used our words to hurt and injure other brothers and sisters. Now you have told us the truth and given us the power of how even our words are commanded to be an instrument for your use. Lord we thank you, and know that you enable us through the Holy Spirit to obey you out of love. You alone are worthy of the totality of our worship and praise. Amen

Love

Serola

Sun, Dec 7th - 8:28AM

SOUND SPEECH STUDY

Through the Bible our Lord teaches us how we are commanded to speak to everyone. I think sometimes when our emotions are running high we give little thought on the impact of our speech to others. The wisdom of our Lord is amazing and wonderful, eternal, effectual for all times. This means we put our trust in our Lord’s wisdom not our fleshly emotions. Through Jesus Christ every Christian can attain the power of sound speech.

Many of us have said things that we wished we had not. I suspect many more have said things that we wish we could take back, or could have said in a more constructive way. Of course there are some others who chronically suffer from foot in the mouth disease.

We also must be careful to not habitually keep silent or not say anything to avoid offending anybody. There is a time, place and a way to speak that is pleasing to our Lord and helpful to the hearer. We can trust the Holy Spirit to enable us to will and to do.