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26 Jan 2005 11:01:27 PM |
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Lifting language |
Devotional Guide
For the week of January 23, 2005
Lifting language
To Know:
'The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may
know how to sustain with a word him that is weary." (Is. 50:4)
Sally was shaking hands after church when she told me an incredible thing I
had just done. That Sunday she woke early, and since she couldn't get back
to sleep, began reading the Bible. An obscure text caught her attention and
as she pondered it a number of questions came to her mind. When I preached
that morning it was on that same text and my sermon answered each question
in turn. The night before, I was at home losing ground with the sermon I had
prepared that week. The message seemed to evaporate the harder I worked. It
was Saturday night; I gave up the struggle, picked up my Bible and simply
read. After an hour or so I came across a passage that arrested my
attention. Without enough time available to adequately study the verses, I
prayed and retired for the night. The next morning I simply opened the Bible
and spoke extemporaneously from the passage. My ear had been opened and with
the word I had been given, Sally was literally sustained.
To Do:
Ours nation has given up the battle to watch our words. We apparently
believe that coarsening our language will do us more good than harm. Perhaps
it's time for us to think again. In the shops, on the streets and at the
theater language was elevated when I was growing up. In the back alleys and
in the locker rooms language was in the gutter. We understood that far more
good would come from the places where we watched our tongues than from the
gutter. Our young people are expected to believe that the language in
books, films and T. V. mirrors the language used in real life. The language
of real life only a few decades ago was upraised. We called the language now
commonplace in society, gutter talk. The reason was simple; you went down to
reach the gutter. Christians will do society a great service by using words
that sustain, rather that make sordid.
To Ask:
Father, you lift us by the way you have spoken to us in your word. Open our
ears to your word that by emulating you we may elevate others.
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| User: "Mark T marksgospel@chapter17" |
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| Title: Re: Lifting language- Censor rude words in the bible!!!! |
27 Jan 2005 02:36:42 AM |
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"rhuff163" wrote:
Lifting language
.....
Ours nation has given up the battle to watch our words. We apparently
believe that coarsening our language will do us more good than harm.
Perhaps it's time for us to think again. In the shops, on the streets and
at the theater language was elevated when I was growing up. In the back
alleys and in the locker rooms language was in the gutter. We understood
that far more good would come from the places where we watched our tongues
than from the gutter. Our young people are expected to believe that the
language in books, films and T. V. mirrors the language used in real life.
The language of real life only a few decades ago was upraised. We called
the language now commonplace in society, gutter talk. The reason was
simple; you went down to reach the gutter. Christians will do society a
great service by using words that sustain, rather that make sordid.
YEP!!!! PLEASE CENSOR THE NAUGHTY WORDS IN THE BIBLE (KJV)!!!!!!
1 Samuel
David vows to kill "any that pisseth against the wall." 25:22, 34
1 Kings
God promises to "bring evil upon the house of Jerobaom" and says he will
"cut off" anyone "that pisseth against the wall." 14:10
Zimri kills everyone "that pisseth against a wall ... according to the word
of the Lord." 16:11-12
God promises to "bring evil upon thee" and to "cut off" all those "that
pisseth against the wall." 21:21
2 Kings
God says that the "whole house of Ahab shall perish," and that he "will cut
off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall." 9:8
This verse speaks of eating and drinking one's own bodily waste products.
Charming. 18:27
Psalms
The psalmist asks God to " do unto them as unto the Midianites ... which
became as dung for the earth." 83:9-18
Isaiah
People eating "their own dung" and drinking "their own *****" 36:12
Ezekiel
God tells Ezekiel to eat barley cakes that are made with "the dung that
cometh out of man." (Yum!) 4:12
God trades "cow's dung for man's dung" and then he tells Ezekiel to make
bread out of the cow's dung. 4:15
Malachi
"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces." 2:3
Matthew
Jesus calls his adversaries a "generation of vipers." 12:34
Jesus calls the Pharisees "hypocrites, wicked, and adulterous." 15:2-3
Jesus speaks harshly of his disciples when they fail to cast out the devil,
saying "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you?"
17:17
Jesus calls his critics fools, hypocrites, serpents, vipers, kiilers of the
prophets, and just about every other name he can think of. 23:17-37
Luke
Jesus calls his critics fools, thus making himself, by his own standards
(Mt.5:22), worthy of "hell fire." 11:40
The man (whoever he was) who talked with the two unnamed apostles on the way
to Emmaus calls them "fools," thereby making himself a candidate for "hell
fire." (Mt.5:22) 24:25
John
Jesus calls his opponents (the Jews) the sons of the devil. 8:44
Acts
"And when they [the Jews of Corinth] opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he
[Paul] shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own
heads." (Have a nice day?) 18:6
Paul says, "God will smite thee, thou whited wall." 23:3
Romans
Paul calls people fools, thus making himself worthy of "hell fire."
(Mt.5:22) 1:22
1 Corinthians
Paul calls people fools, thereby making himself eligible for "hell fire"
(according to the words of Jesus in Mt.5:22). 15:36
Galatians
Paul calls the Galatians "foolish" and thus makes himself worthy of hell
fire. (Mt.5:22) 3:1
"I would they were even cut off which trouble you." The New Revised Standard
Version translates this verse as: "I wish those who unsettle you would
castrate themselves!" 5:12
Philippians
"Beware of dogs ... beware of the concision." I'm not sure who Paul is
calling "dogs" here. Some say he is referring to Jews -- to those of "the
concision", as opposed to Christians, who are of the "true circumcision". In
any case, Paul is expressing hostility and intolerance toward his fellow
human beings. 3:2
Titus
According to Paul, the people of Crete are "always liars, evil beasts, slow
bellies." 1:12
To Paul, Jews are unruly liars "whose mouths must be stopped." 1:10-11
Philemon
Paul says that "the bowels of the saints are refreshed by "Philemon." 1:7
Paul asks Philemon to receive Onesimus just as though he were Paul's very
"own bowels." 1:12
Paul pleads with Philemon to "refresh [his] bowels in the Lord." Amen 1:20
James
James calls his readers a bunch of "adulterers and adulteresses." 4:4
3 John
John says he "will remember his [Diotrephes] deeds ... pratting against us
with malicious words." 1:10
Adapted from http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
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