Bible & Prayer Nuggets 0301

 The Sanctifed Mouth and Tamed Tongue

Bible Nugget 0301 [Eph 4: 29-30, KJV]

²⁹Let 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.

 ³⁰And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

The mouth is the house of the tongue and is kept shut when the lips are closed. The tongue itself is like a river bed through which water flows. Thoughts are like the waters of the river. The waters of a river could be classified as bitter or sweet. When corrupt communication proceeds out of the mouth it is like contaminated water. In the context of how the Holy Spirit operates in the life of a believer, Jesus said  out of the belly of the believer filled with the Holy Spirit shall flow rivers of living water. The Holy Spirit does not produce both bitter and sweet water. The Holy Spirit produces sweet, pure unadulterated water in a believer’s life. James 3:11 asks;

 ¹¹Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

The Holy Spirit will therefore be grieved with the mouth or tongue from which contaminated water (corrupt communication) proceeds.

John 7:37-39

 ³⁷In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

 ³⁸He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

 ³⁹(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

The course of the communication is the heart, which produces evil and good communication. The heart needs to be healed of evil thoughts and the gates of the mouth, that is the lips need to be controlled by the Holy Spirit for a believer to please the Holy Spirit.  These facts are stated in James 3: 5-10

⁵Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

 ⁶And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

 ⁷For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

 ⁸But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

 ⁹Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

 ¹⁰Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.