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Why Are Words So Important?
That is a question that I personally can’t answer. If you really want to know you should ask God. However, I do know that God, Himself, followed the same law, and He will again. In the first chapter of Genesis when God created the heavens and the Earth He used words.
“And God said…,” (Genesis 1:3, 5, 9, 11, 14, 20, 22, 24, 26 New International Version).
And God’s Spirit, the Holy Spirit, was there to make sure that everything the God said happened just as God said (Gen, 1:2). In verse 27 God created mankind to be like Him; that means using words the same way.
“Then God said, ‘Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth,’” (Genesis 1:26 Amplified Bible).
“Spiritual personality, what’s that mean?” I believe it means the way God does things, we will do things the way God does them. Yes, there are some differences; to create live God spoke, “Let us create…” and we do it a little differently, when a man and a woman are in love and get married they have sex and that way they can create life. But there are words involved there too; “I love you,” “Let’s get married,” “Let’s make a baby,” and words like that.
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God spoke to me about James 3:4-5. The rudder of a ship turns the ship; it may be a fairly small piece of wood or whatever material but when the water hit it the ship gets turned. Think of it like this: Your life is the ship (you’ve heard the phrase, “Two ships that pass in the night.”) and you’re riding on the waters of life. Those waters are full of your words, your words are also in every wind of doctrine. The rudder, your tongue, sets the course of your ship, your life
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This is, of course, a metaphor saying that you set your course in life or change your course in life by what you say.
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Now, God made a provision in the law of speaking good and evil. The provision, or clause or whatever term you want to use, is this; it doesn’t matter whether your words are about yourself or about someone else. I wandered about that too. It means that if you are a straight laced republican Christian and the democrats come into power; what you say about them better be just the same as what you would say about yourself. I asked God if what you say about them is more important than what you say about yourself or less important. Because, as human nature goes, what we say about ourselves is usually positive and what we say about other may not be so positive, that’s according to the fallen nature. He said they were of equal importance, and now that I think about it I can see what He means, your words both to yourself and to others.
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So, it doesn’t matter what direction you send them, they are still your own words. Jesus understood this, He speaks the same kind of words to those who are for Him as He does to those who are against Him.
“In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance,” (Revelation 1:16 New International Version).
“Out of His mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword.” Out of His mouth come words, they are sharp because they are well tuned and direct. Now, why do you think it was a double-edged sword? Well the double-sided means, to me in this verse, that those words are the same for the righteous and the unrighteous as well. I know double-edged means something different in Hebrews. But, let’s not miss the meaning here.
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Remember at the judgement seat, where Jesus puts the sheep on his right and the goats on His left? A two-sided sword means that there is a right and a left. But don’t think that because it is a two-sided tongue that He is speaking out of both sides of He mouth, giving double-talk, “He speaks with forked tongue,” that kind of non-sense. He’s just saying the same thing to two different sides, good and bad.