Jas 4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Jas 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Speaking evil…
How do we speak evil of others? Evil is telling lies about another, right? Evil is speaking bad in any way about another, yes? Evil is daring to judge the eternal life of another. We all talk about each other- that is human nature. Talking about another person in a good way is never deemed bad, is it? Is there any harm in talking good about another? I can't think of any, unless it is received in a bad way, or the talk is meant to puff up the ego of another. If there is any deceptive element in the good things then it turns it into evil.
We know how much it hurts another to be spoken of badly. Even if you've never been the victim of someone speaking of you badly, you've most likely witnessed the scenario on a television show or movie. Over hearing someone speaking badly about you cuts to the core, why? Because most of don't want to be spoken badly about. We want people to think good of us, not evil. We don't want to be hurt in anyway.
When we speak evil of another person we are judging them, even if we say we aren't. We are making statements that portray another person in either a good light, or a bad light. We do NOT know the heart of anyone, we can't know the heart of another.
While we might speak evil of someone who has committed awful acts and justify it by the fact they've done evil, we cannot know the heart of even the most evil of people. People we might want destroyed for their atrocities, even those people we still do not know their hearts and can't presume we do.
Can we speak of the evil done by people? We have to judge the acts of people in order to discern right from wrong, but we do NOT have to judge a person's eternal life.
We are NOT to speak evil one of another.
When we speak evil of another we are JUDGING them.
When we judge someone we are basing it upon the law of God.
When we judge someone's eternal life we are judging the law, because we are only judged by the law there is no other way to judge. If we JUDGE the law we are calling ourselves a judge rather than one subject to the law.
There is ONLY ONE LAWGIVER.
There is ONLY ONE ABLE TO SAVE.
There is ONLY ONE ABLE TO ALLOW DESTRUCTION.
Are we that ONE? NO!
If we presume to be the lawgiver or the Savior we are lost!
Do you see the danger in judging?
Then you must see the danger in speaking evil of another person.
We don't want to see that danger though. We'd rather keep that danger cloaked in our self-righteous, justification because we enjoy speaking evil of others, we call it harmless. We think we are somehow doing something good when we speak evil of others, and we don't even call it speaking evil- if we did- maybe we wouldn't do it. We call it 'just talking', 'just saying', 'just pointing it out', 'just passing time', 'just harmless discussing', 'just hurting no one, it's the truth'.
We presume to KNOW the truth. We presume to know the HEART of another when we speak about them, believing we know the truth. We don't know the truth of another's heart. We haven't a clue about where they've come from t make them what they are, just as they have no clue about where we have come from and what makes us who we are.
We can pretty up the evil speaking all we want, but in the end, it is wrong and we will be judged ourselves by the way we are judging others.
Please LORD, please help us to recognize our evil speaking. Please don't let Satan color it pretty and wrap it in a bow so that we think we are doing good and not evil. PLEASE help us, let the Holy Spirit convict our hearts so that we recognize the wrong and seek to repent and ask for forgiveness for that sin.
Please LORD, bless us! HELP US! Without You we are NOTHING.
In YOUR LOVE ALWAYS!
Jas 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Speaking evil…
How do we speak evil of others? Evil is telling lies about another, right? Evil is speaking bad in any way about another, yes? Evil is daring to judge the eternal life of another. We all talk about each other- that is human nature. Talking about another person in a good way is never deemed bad, is it? Is there any harm in talking good about another? I can't think of any, unless it is received in a bad way, or the talk is meant to puff up the ego of another. If there is any deceptive element in the good things then it turns it into evil.
We know how much it hurts another to be spoken of badly. Even if you've never been the victim of someone speaking of you badly, you've most likely witnessed the scenario on a television show or movie. Over hearing someone speaking badly about you cuts to the core, why? Because most of don't want to be spoken badly about. We want people to think good of us, not evil. We don't want to be hurt in anyway.
When we speak evil of another person we are judging them, even if we say we aren't. We are making statements that portray another person in either a good light, or a bad light. We do NOT know the heart of anyone, we can't know the heart of another.
While we might speak evil of someone who has committed awful acts and justify it by the fact they've done evil, we cannot know the heart of even the most evil of people. People we might want destroyed for their atrocities, even those people we still do not know their hearts and can't presume we do.
Can we speak of the evil done by people? We have to judge the acts of people in order to discern right from wrong, but we do NOT have to judge a person's eternal life.
We are NOT to speak evil one of another.
When we speak evil of another we are JUDGING them.
When we judge someone we are basing it upon the law of God.
When we judge someone's eternal life we are judging the law, because we are only judged by the law there is no other way to judge. If we JUDGE the law we are calling ourselves a judge rather than one subject to the law.
There is ONLY ONE LAWGIVER.
There is ONLY ONE ABLE TO SAVE.
There is ONLY ONE ABLE TO ALLOW DESTRUCTION.
Are we that ONE? NO!
If we presume to be the lawgiver or the Savior we are lost!
Do you see the danger in judging?
Then you must see the danger in speaking evil of another person.
We don't want to see that danger though. We'd rather keep that danger cloaked in our self-righteous, justification because we enjoy speaking evil of others, we call it harmless. We think we are somehow doing something good when we speak evil of others, and we don't even call it speaking evil- if we did- maybe we wouldn't do it. We call it 'just talking', 'just saying', 'just pointing it out', 'just passing time', 'just harmless discussing', 'just hurting no one, it's the truth'.
We presume to KNOW the truth. We presume to know the HEART of another when we speak about them, believing we know the truth. We don't know the truth of another's heart. We haven't a clue about where they've come from t make them what they are, just as they have no clue about where we have come from and what makes us who we are.
We can pretty up the evil speaking all we want, but in the end, it is wrong and we will be judged ourselves by the way we are judging others.
Please LORD, please help us to recognize our evil speaking. Please don't let Satan color it pretty and wrap it in a bow so that we think we are doing good and not evil. PLEASE help us, let the Holy Spirit convict our hearts so that we recognize the wrong and seek to repent and ask for forgiveness for that sin.
Please LORD, bless us! HELP US! Without You we are NOTHING.
In YOUR LOVE ALWAYS!
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