Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be!Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
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… the half brother of Jesus wrote the book of James. James three, verses nine through 10. With the tongue, we praise, wheels on, our Lord and Father, and with it, we curse, wheels off, men who've been made in God's likeness out of the same mouth. Is this convicting? Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this shouldn't be. So if you want to alliterate this outline, if you want to alliterate the cussers, you got the clueless, the capricious, and you have the callous swearer. But let's keep with category two just for one second. Okay, if you are a capricious cusser, many of you are, What do you do about it? Well, the Bible tells us in Romans chapter 12, verse two, that we could be transformed by the renewing of our mind. So it's a mind issue. And please don't take this message out of context. This message is not, don't cuss. If you think that's this message, you're totally missing it. This is a heart issue. …
Now, are you going to be better off if you know that? No question you would be. The Word is the fuel that God gives us. Why did He say in Psalm 119, How can a young man keep his way pure by living according to your word? Two verses later, I've hidden your word in my heart that I might not do what? Sin against you. This is the fuel that we have in becoming fully devoted followers of Christ and in showing Christ and teaching Christ. If we try to do it apart from the word, we will fail miserably. We are foolish to think that we can live this Christian life and accomplish this mission apart from his word. His truth sanctifies us in the world. We need his word. You will not get sanctification from TV and DVDs and internet. You will not get sanctification from all those things. You will find sanctification in the word. We've got to have. So we value his word as gift and we experience those effects. Now that mainly deals with how we follow Christ as disciples of Christ. We value His Word. We're seeing the example of Jesus here. But how does this look now, not just in my life, but in others' lives? …
16. As this scripture is one of the strong-holds of the patrons of sin, it may be proper to weigh it thoroughly. Let it be observed then, First, it does by no means appear that this thorn, whatsoever it was, occasioned St. Paul to commit sin; much less laid him under any necessity of doing so. Therefore, from hence it can never be proved that any Christian must commit sin. Secondly, the ancient Fathers inform us, it was bodily pain: “a violent headache, saith Tertullian; (De Pudic.;) to which both Chrysostom and St. Jerome agree. St. Cyprian [De Mortalitate] expresses it, a little more generally, in those terms: “Many and grievous torments of the flesh and of the body.” [Carnis et corporis multa ac gravia tormenta.] Thirdly, to this exactly agree the Apostles own words, “A thorn to the flesh to smite, beat, or buffet me.” “My strength is made perfect in weakness:” — Which same word occurs no less than four times in these two verses only. But, Fourthly, whatsoever it was, it could not be either inward or outward sin. It could no more be inward stirrings, than outward expressions, of pride, anger, or lust. This is manifest, beyond all possible exception from the words that immediately follow: “Most gladly will I glory in” these “my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ may rest upon me.” [2 Cor. 12:9] What! Did he glory in pride, in anger, in lust? Was it through these weaknesses, that the strength of Christ rested upon him? He goes on: “Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses; for when I am weak, then am I strong;” [2 Cor. 12:10] that is, when I am weak in body, then am I strong in spirit. But will any man dare to say, “When I am weak by pride or lust, then am I strong in spirit?” I call you all to record this day, who find the strength of Christ resting upon you, can you glory in anger, or pride, or lust? Can you take pleasure in these infirmities? Do these weaknesses make you strong? Would you not leap into hell, were it possible, to escape them? even by yourselves, then, judge, whether the Apostle could glory and take pleasure in them! Let it be, Lastly, observed, that this thorn was given to St. Paul above fourteen years before he wrote this epistle; [2 Cor. 12:2] which itself was wrote several years before he finished his course. [see Acts 20:24; 2 Tim. 4:7] So that he had after this, a long course to run, many battles to fight, many victories to gain, and great increase to receive in all the gifts of God, and the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Therefore from any spiritual weakness (if such it had been) which he at that time felt, we could by no means infer that he was never made strong; that Paul the aged, the father in Christ, still laboured under the same weaknesses; that he was in no higher state till the day of his death. From all which it appears that this instance of St. Paul is quite foreign to the question, and does in no wise clash with the assertion of St. John, “He that is born of God sinneth not.” [1 John 5:18] …