🤬Filthy Words👂

You don’t have to know much when you come to Christ. You don’t have to know the whole Gospel. You don’t have to know the Bible. You just come like you are.   Billy Graham

Colossians 3:7 (KJV) In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

We just wrote about “when ye lived in them” our lifestyle, how we were living. But there’s more “In the which ye also walked” walking is the art of moving forward, gaining ground so to speak. A progression, if you will. The journey of 1000 miles began with the first step. I, like you, have read of a person being caught embezzling money from a corporation and over time it be came a large amount. Why didn’t that person stop with the first embezzlement? The same reason many can’t stop with the first drink, taking the first drug, the first whatever? Maybe because they think they got away with it or they liked it. Whatever the reason it was a moving forward of their walk in doing wrong. The more one walks in the wrong direction the further away they get from that which is right. Did you notice the way that verse was written? It uses the past tense “walked” that would refer to a way one used to walk, not the way they are walking now. What changed their walk? We read why in verse 4 of chapter 3 when Christ who is or became our life, that’s what made the difference. It wasn’t us trying to do better, live better or even walk better. No we have all tried to do that ourselves, it all had to do with Christ in our life. When you use bad language how does that make you feel? We can justify it or we can by the help of our Lord stop using it. Ephesians 4:29 (KJV) Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. We can’t talk out of both sides of our mouth. We can’t say glory hallelujah on Sunday and then on Monday say go to_ _ _ _ to others.  James 3:12 (KJV) Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

In Colossians 3 we read past tense “walked” and   “when ye lived in them” not both, when we want to fit in. Past tense,  when we used to do that but not anymore. Like The Apostle Paul said we have hearers and that bad language doesn’t build up others. All it will do is confuse and break down.