WATCH YOUR MOUTH | WORDS SERIES

Matthew 12:33-37 NLT 

Premise 

⁃ There is a holy responsibility for the child of God to carefully consider what is spoken. 

Fundamental truths 

1. The power to control the tongue is your responsibility.  

James 1:26 NLT 

2. You have power to cut and to heal. Which one will you choose? 

Proverbs 12:18 NLT 

3. It is imperative that we learn to surrender the tongue (words) to the Holy Spirit! Both blessing and curses come from the same mouth! 

James 3:7-10 NLT 

4. Your words have the power to help build or tear down and dismantle. 

Ephesians 4:29 NLT 

5. Keeping watch over the tongue is the responsibility of the wise, the foolish use words to get In trouble.

Proverbs 21:23 NLT 

6. Sin flows from many words, we must learn to keep quiet.  

Proverbs 10:19 NLT 

7. Minding your business has never hurt anybody. Mastering your business dismantles the temptation to be in someone else’s.  

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 NLT 

8. Surrendering to the Lordship of Christ includes the tongue not just the body and mind. 

Psalms 141:3-4 NLT 

Scriptural insight 

1. What you say is born out of who you are! The heart never lies! 

Matthew 12:33-34 NLT 

2. Where is your “treasure”? That’s where is your heart is and where life or death (words) will come from!  

Matthew 12:35 NLT 

Luke 6:45 NLT 

Matthew 6:21 NLT 

3. Learning to be sensitive toward what we speak is born out of submission and righteousness, understanding a day will come when we answer for every word that wasn’t properly submitted to the Lord.  

Matthew 12:36-37 NLT