Episode Transcript
Hello everybody.
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Here's the verses we're going to be covering today.
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These are the verses we're going to be covering today.
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So we're going to be in the book of Jude to start off with.
We're going to pick right up where we left off last time.
So last week we left off on verse 9 of the book of Jude.
So today we're going to start in verse 10 of the book of Jude where Jude says, "But these speak evil of those things which they know not, but what they know naturally as group beasts in those things they corrupt themselves."
A lot of these and they's and those there.
Let's pray right quick.
Heavenly Father we sure thank you so much Lord for the opportunity to come and share your Word Lord.
And Father we just pray that you're glorified here today with your Word Father.
Just teach through me Lord.
Please don't let me mess it up Lord.
I don't want to mess it up Father.
Help me speak the truth Lord and not wander off the path.
Lord we just thank you for all that you do for us Lord.
For all you do is do it and we bless you.
Thank you Lord for blessing us with another day when we come together and fellowship.
Thank you so much Lord.
We love you Lord and thank you.
In Jesus name we pray Amen.
So he says, "But these speak evil."
If we look back at verse 4, if we just flash back up there at verse 4, I believe we can see who Jude is referring to when he uses the word "these."
So let's look back at verse 4 in the book of Jude here and put ourselves in remembrance of who Jude is referring to here.
He says, "For there are certain men crept in unawares who were before the old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ."
Jude goes on to give us some examples in verse 5, 6 and 7 and then in verse 8 Jude refers to these ungodly men as filthy dreamers.
So let's look at verse 8.
He says, "Livewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion and speak evil of dignity."
So I believe when Jude uses the word "these," here he is referring to the ungodly men who had crept in unawares into their congregation.
Jude says, "But these speak evil of..."
The first word I would like for us to look at is the word "speak."
Speak.
When we speak something, what are we doing?
We are trying to communicate something.
We are using our tongues and mouth to verbalize a message that our brains are wanting to express.
Now we can also speak without using our tongues and mouth as well.
People who are unable to speak use sign language or writing or some other form of expression to communicate what their brains are wanting to express.
When I looked up the word "speak," there were several definitions.
One of the definitions was to utter words or articulate sounds to express thoughts by words.
Another definition was to communicate ideas in any manner to express thoughts generally, to be expressive.
Now, as you know that animals can communicate.
Back when I was a young man, I used to go hunting.
I loved to hunt.
And we used to go quail hunting.
And them old quail, they like to sit around on the ground and run around.
And then when you get up on them, they'll fly off.
Well, if you're a hunter and you're hunting quail and you get up or two clothes, they'll fly away before you can get up on close enough to get you a quail.
We used to take a dog with us, a hunting dog.
That old hunting dog, he was smart.
He would express himself.
He would tell us where the quail were.
The way he would do that, he would get up close to those quail and he would point.
What's that dog doing?
He's expressing.
He's speaking to us and telling us where the quail are.
He'd walk up around them quail and he'd get real steel and point.
We knew where the quail was.
My wife, well, my grandbaby's cat, which I have spoke about that cat several times.
I use a cat in a lot of teaching.
The grandbaby's cat, if you ask that cat, do you want a treat?
That cat goes meow.
She knows what treats are and she'll say, meow.
You ask her for a treat.
That wasn't a cat doing a case.
Verbal ly communicating, meow.
She'll run over by the table and she'll wait for you to pick her up and put her on the table.
That cat is communicating.
We can communicate.
We can speak various different ways.
There's a way to communicate without speaking.
Now, one of the definitions was to express thoughts generally, to be expressive, to express thoughts generally.
What do you think about?
What do you think about?
It is so important that we control what we put in our minds.
What you put in your mind goes into your very soul, folks.
If you fill your brain with the filth of this world, guess what you were putting into your very soul where your spirit was, where your heart is.
The Bible says your heart is the middle of the center.
What are you putting in your heart?
I'm not talking about this blood pumping organ that the good Lord blesses with to keep the veins pumping through our veins, to keep the blood pumping through our veins.
I'm talking about what the Bible refers to as the heart, as the center, the center, the very center of your being.
If you fill your brain with junk, that junk goes straight to your heart, folks.
And the Bible says, "Out of the heart, the mouth speaketh."
Out of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
What you put in your mind goes down into you, into your heart, and out of your heart is what's going to come out of your mouth.
We can turn to Matthew 15, Matthew chapter 15, and we're going to read verses 17 through 20.
Now, I've got you on Mark, Matthew 15.
Matthew 15, 17 through 20.
I'm going to help you find this works.
We're going to find Matthew 15.
You can put a name on this because they've got little markers on here.
Matthew, Mark, I want to read you before this here.
Matthew 15.
Why is someone putting in?
Because that's Jesus talking.
Matthew 15, and we're going to be reading verses 17 through 20.
Matthew 15, and I'm going to put it right here.
Jesus is speaking.
Jesus' works had a very good question.
He asked me why some of it is read.
That is where Jesus is speaking.
Put that in read.
Now, Matthew 15, verse 17 says, this is Jesus speaking.
"Do not ye yet understand that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth going into the belly, and is cast out into the throat?"
That means what you eat, folks, doesn't affect what you're saying.
Now, if you get some indigestion or something from what you eat, you might express that, but that's not what he's talking about here.
Verse 18 goes on.
He says, "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man."
What you say, folks, matters.
What you speak matters.
What you put into your mind is going to come out.
Verse 19, he says, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands defileth not a man."
Now, what the deal was going on here, I believe it was the scribes and the Pharisees had come to Jesus and asked him why his followers didn't wash their hands before they ate.
The scribes and Pharisees had made up a whole bunch of other rules to follow with the 10 commandments and the laws God had made, and they were eaten with unwashed hands.
They were hungry.
They ate with unwashed hands, and they were trying to make a big deal of that.
That's why Jesus said that what you're putting in your mouth, what you're eating, doesn't defile.
Now, if we get Mark's rendition, that's going to be in the book of Mark, chapter 7.
We'll go to the book of Mark, chapter 7.
Mark, Mark.
Mark, Mark.
Mark, Mark.
He is his man.
Did you already hear him?
No, he don't know what I'm doing.
What did I say?
Mark what?
Mark 14.
Mark 14, thank you.
Mark 14.
Mark 14.
Mark 14, what we started at?
Mark 4, Mark 7, 14 through 23.
Mark 7.
Mark 7.
Mark 7.
Mark 7.
Mark 7.
Mark 7.
Verse 14.
"And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, 'Parker unto me every one of you, and understand.'"
I love this.
You come to Jesus, folks.
He'll help you to understand.
That's wonderful.
You come to Jesus, he'll help you understand.
Verse 15.
"There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him, but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
If any man had ears to hear, let him hear.
And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
And he said unto them, 'Are ye so without understanding also?
Do ye not perceive that whatsoever thing from without interest into the man?
It cannot defile him."
What you eat, folks, is not going to defile you because it "entereth not into his heart."
What you eat does not go to your heart.
What you think, what you see, what you hear, that goes to your heart.
What you eat goes to your stomach.
That is the way God has designed.
"Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the drop, purging all meats."
And he said, "That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
For from within, out of the heart of men, perceive evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, the seriousness, and evil eye blaspheming pride, foolishness.
All these evil things come from within and defile the man."
That was a lot of stuff that comes out of man.
Why does that come out of man?
Because man is born into sin.
Everything listed there was sin.
We are all born into sin.
The Bible says there is none good, no not one.
We have to control what we see, and what we hear, and what we put in our minds, folks.
With all the distractions and things that are thrown at us today, that is a job in itself.
That is one of the reasons I am so thankful that I have a Bible.
And one of the reasons why my wife and I do our best to make sure we can give one to anyone who wants it.
To take their eyes off of the world and put them on the word of God, and learn of God, and fellowship with God as long as the Lord provides us with the means to keep purchases of them.
We will keep handing them out to people who will read them.
Proverbs 4, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 4, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 5, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 6, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 7, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
Proverbs 9, 20-27, and I believe we have this on Mark 2.
It says, "The heart of the righteous studies to answer, but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things."
These ungodly men, back in verse 10 of Jude, they were speaking evil things.
Jude says, "But these speak evil of those things which they know not."
If we glance back at verse 9, where Jude says, "Durse not bring against him a railing accusation."
The word railing gives us the same idea as the words speak evil, used here in verse 10.
The words speak evil and railing mean to vilify.
With the exception of the word railing means a little more to blasphemous speech against God.
As the words speak evil, basically gives us the idea of blasphemy, or to defame, or to speak impiously.
Either way, neither are speech that we should be expressing as Christians.
And we're going to close with this today, Psalms 19-14.
David says, "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer."
Folks, what you say matters.
You can either build up people in the faith, or you can bring them down.
You can encourage people, or you can discourage people.
What you say can be hurtful, but what you say can also be uplifting.
And I want to tell you right now, it doesn't cost no more to say something uplifting and positive than it does to say something negative and hateful.
Try to let your speech be positive and uplifting, folks.
It will not only encourage the person you're talking to, it will encourage you too.
With that, we'll close in prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank You, Lord, for the ability to communicate, Father.
And Lord, I pray that our words glorify You, Lord.
Guide our thoughts, Lord.
Guide our actions and guide our speech, Father.
Help us to glorify You in each and every thing that we do say and thank, Lord.
Lord, guide our thoughts.
Help us to hold our tongues when we don't need to speak, Lord.
And when we do, bless us with the words to be uplifting and positive and encourage people, Lord, and not to knock them down, Father.
We need more encouragement in this whole world today, Lord.
We need Jesus, Lord.
We need Your thoughts, Father.
Help us to think like You and speak like You and act like You, Lord.
Thank You, Lord, for all that You do and thank You for the people that come to hear Your word, Lord.
And we're thankful for the people here today, Lord, to help take care of these people that are here, Lord.
These precious people, Lord, are such a blessing, Father, and I pray that they know they're blessings, Lord.
Just keep them encouraged, Lord.
Help us to keep our eyes on the cross of Jesus, Lord.
Our Savior, Lord, and our Lord, Lord, our King.
We look forward to the day of His return, Father.
Thank You for Your patience with those who don't know Christ as their Savior, Lord.
And we want to pray for those who don't know Christ as their Savior.
Thank You, Lord, for all that You do, Father, for all You do is good, Lord.
We just thank you.
