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Speaker 1: Have you ever been shocked with what came out of
your mouth? Like you're saved, you love Jesus, you worship,
but then the pressure hits, anger hits, pain hits, and
suddenly your mouth goes out of pilot. So let's talk
about the question people ask but don't always want to
admit they're asking it. Is it sin to curse? Is
it sin to cus ken? Christians swear I'm not doing
this to be religious or picky. I'm doing it because
the Bible is clear. Your mouth is not just words.
Your words are connected to your heart, to your witness,
to your future, and to your spiritual life. By the
end of this video, you'll know what cursing actually is,
why it's wrong and harmful, how to tell if you
are doing it, even in the clean ways, and how
to break the habit practically and spiritually. Let me start here.
The Bible is not giving us a list of forbidness
syllables like God is offended by letters. God is after
something more deeper, a heart that is transformed, that produces
a transformed speech. Jesus said, what comes out of our
mouths comes from our heart. So this is not just
about not saying bad words. This is about becoming a
person whose mouth becomes a well of life instead of
a weapon in the hands of the flesh to hurt
other people. Now, something I want to admit. There was
a season in my life before I came to the
United States where for about six months that I remember,
I was a CUsing sailor. I was cursing non stop.
I don't know where I picked it up. I thought
it was actually cool. I was just a teenager problem
might be twelve years of age something, and so I
would curse. I still remembered. I would walk down the
street from school, step on the puddle of water and
just cuss. I would look at the trees and I
would curse, and I just enjoyed it. Actually, So, we
had a cow in our house like a farm, and
I was milking cows at home. So as I was
milking a cow, of course, the cow pushed the bucket
of milk and the milk spilled on me and everyone else,
and I just unloaded on that cow. Now, What I
didn't know is my father was walking by the barn
and he overheard that, and so my friends knew I
was cussing, but my parents didn't know that. And I
grew up in a very strong, strict conservative house. So
my dad gave me a whipping that night. Oh man,
I never cussed again. So sometimes I jokingly tell young people,
I said, all you need is a good whipping and
then you won't be cussing again, or wash your mouth
with soap. But that worked for me. That problem is
not gonna be the case for every person watching, and
there's some of you. You're not teenagers anymore. You're adults
and you have a problem with cursing. So what is cursing? Now,
let's define it clearly. Because there's a mix up about cursing,
swearing and profanity. We're gonna separate these three. Cursing is
using profanity or calling harm down on someone, or speaking
with an intention of ord degrading someone with the contempt
or injury. Biblically, cursing is not just the four letter word.
It's actually belittling, insulting, wishing harm, and using your mouth
to cut people down. That's why James says that with
the same mouth you bless God and curse people who
are made in God's image. He's like, that shouldn't be
the case. Now, swearing is, in the other sense, is
about oaths. It's about making vows carelessly or falsely. Jesus
did warn us about carelessness concerning our vows or oaths,
and he taught us with integrity we should approach our words.
Let you yes be yes, and your no be no.
So swearing can include profanity. Swearing can include oaths and vows,
and swearing can include taking God's name in a casual, empty,
and disrespectful way. Now, profanity is a language that is corrupt, crude, obscene,
or degrading. It's often tied to sexual impurity, body waste,
or contempt for people. And this matters because the Bible
tells that our speech should give grace and build people up.
So why is cursing, swearing and all of that is
such a big deal. Let me give you some biblical
reasons why this is not just the church culture. It's
actually a kingdom thing. So first reason why this is
wrong and sinful is because your words have power. Your
words are like seed. Proverbs teach us that life and
death out in the power of the tongue. Seeds are small,
just like your words, but they grow into a harvest.
You don't plant apple seeds and expect oranges, so you
cannot plant death filled speeches and expect peace filled fruits
from your family, from your health, and from your life.
The second reason is your mouth reveals your heart. Jesus says,
what comes out of your mouth comes from your heart,
and that's what defies the person. So a foul speech
is not just the vocabulary issue. It's a heart thermometer.
That's why Paul targets speech when he talks about the
old self and the new self. This is how you
really know what really is inside of you by the
kind of speech that comes out of you. Third reason
is that God cares about speech because he created the
world with words. God created this world with his mouth,
so words aren't cheap in the Kingdom of God. You
see this even in the story of Zachariah. He speaks
unbelief and he loses his ability to speak until the
promise is fulfilled. The power of the story is this.
Your words aren't harmless. God doesn't see them as harmless.
That's why speaking foul language, using words to degrade people, curse,
and all of the stuff is not pleasing to God.
Fourth reason is corrupt speech doesn't build anyone. It actually
tears people down. Ephesians four twenty nine is one of
the clearest guides in scriptures for Christian speech. It says,
don't let corrupt talk come out. Only what builds others
and gives grace. And this is a strong test. If
it doesn't build people up, it's probably breaking something. So
the fifth reason why cursing is sin is because cursing
damages your witness and dishonors God. People may not read
the Bible, but they listen to believers. Actually, what's interesting
is Peter connects our love of life and good days
to restraining the tongue from evil. So you want to
live long and enjoy life, well, keep your tongue from garbage.
This is the reality. When your speech matches the speech
of the world, you lose your distinction. The distinction gets blurry,
not because we're trying to look perfect, but because we're
representing a holy king. The sixth reason why cursing is
a sin is because it often becomes a gateway into
more sin. Sin rarely stays in one category. One mouth
sin can lead to other sins like slander, gossip, rage, cruelty, contempt, lying,
constant negativity. Paul warns us that ungodly talk spreads and
increases ungodliness in Two Timothy, Chapter two, verse sixteen. The
seventh reason why cursing is sin is because it's often
a form of profaning God's image in people. See Jesus
goes deeper than murder. He says, don't hey, don't say
hateful words. He warns us that contempt feel insults that
treat people as worthless are displeasing to God. Sometimes profanity
is not just using the famous words. Sometimes it's belittling people.
It's using your mouth to strip them of their dignity.
It's spitting on the image of God. And that's serious
because every person bears the image of God. How do
you know if you're cursing? So some people will say, well,
I don't curse anymore, But they say that clean versions
of cursings they still take God's name in vain. They
tear people down with respectable words. Let me give you
four quick filters. The first one is the grace test.
Does this give grace or spreads yuck like is this
word like? Yeah? What is this graceful? The God test?
Am I using God's name as a filler word word?
It's like O MG, oh, my God, geez and etc.
Here's a hard question. Is this honoring God? Or are
you making holy things common? If you wouldn't say it
in prayer, why do you say it in a conversation.
The third filler is the image of God. Test is
what I'm saying blessing people or cursing them. The fourth
filler is the cussing cheap test? Why do I need
the substitute? If you're just swapping words from these bad
famous cuss words with other ones to keep the emotion
and shock, you're not just changing letters, and I will
mention those here. The goal in here is not to
just still vent rage, signal contempt, sound crude, but soften, sanitize,
and clean up the vocabulary. Nothing really changed except the spelling.
The goal is for your heart to be changed, that
is reflect in the graceful speech that adds and builds up.
How do you overcome this habit? Now, let's get practical,
because many people genuinely hate this habit. But here's the truth.
You don't break this mouth bondage by willpower alone. You
do need holy spirit, you do need mind renewal, and
you do need good teaching like the one you're receiving
right now. Here's some practical things. Number one, Admit it
and repent without making excuse. Stop calling it well, it's
just how I talk. Call it what it is, Bring
it to God, and ask for cleansing. Isaiah saw the
holiness of God. His first conviction was I have unclean lips.
That's powerful. When God comes near, your mouth gets exposed.
Name it, call it what it is. Secondly, ask God
to put a guard on your mouth. That's actually a
prayer in the Bible. In Psalm one three, it says,
Lord set a guard over my mouth. That's straight up
from the scripture. Pray that prayer, Lord set a God
in my mouth. Number three, identify your triggers. Most cursing
is connected to anger, stress, pain, embarrassment, fear, or environment.
So don't just focus on the words. Focus on the
moments that produce it, and ask yourself this question, what
do I feel right before I say it? The underlying
emotion also has to be dealt with. Number four, Replace things,
don't just remove. Don't just remove the bad words. If
you focus on removing it, you relapse. You need replacement
phrases when the pressure hits, things like Lord help me.
That's frustrating, Give me a second, I'm not okay right now,
but I want to stay clean. Jesus guard my mouth. Yes.
Having these replacement phrases may feel awkward at first, but
holiness feels awkward before it feels normal. Step number five,
take your thoughts captive before they become words. The mouth
is usually the final stage. The thought is the first.
The scripture says to take your thoughts captive. Practice this.
When you feel a rage, a surge of irritation and anger,
pause and say it in your head. I'm not releasing
that through my mouth. I'm taking these thoughts captive. Number six.
Learn to be angry without sinning. It's not sin to
be angry. Anger is not always a sin, but what
you do with it, how it comes out of your mouth,
could be a sin. So when anger rises, you don't
need profanity. You need self control, and the holy outlet
is take a breath, step away, pray and speak now
in response to God instead of the reaction of your emotions.
Number seven, change your environments and inputs. Let me give
you parrot illustration that will help to drive the point home.
Two parrots live near each other. One song hymns, the
other one was swearing. They thought, if they pair the
good parrot with a bad one and bring them clothes,
then the good parrot will teach the bad parrot how
not to swear. They brought the two parrots together and
at the end both learned to swear. The picture is this,
Your environment will train your mouth. So sometimes you actually
need to get a different job. Sometimes you actually need
to change your environment because where you are in an environment.
And I've seen this in construction, I've seen this in
other places where people just curse. Sometimes you need to
tell people, hey, you can't do that around me. And
if that keeps happening, you know, put some earplugs. But
you gotta stop the input of curse words. What you watch,
the songs, you listen to, who you are around, you're
either discipling your tongue or it's being poisoned by somebody else.
You would never let somebody hurt you like that. Don't
let them influence your mouth by being intentionally in the
place that has just a garbage, just a sewage coming
out of people's mouths now. Step Number eight is do
a mouth cleansed challenge. Here's a practice for next fourteen days.
Memorize Ephesians four to twenty nine. Each morning, pray Psalm
one one three. Lord, put a guard over my mouth.
Each night before you go to sleep, review where did
I slip and why? And if you slip, immediately confess.
Replace it with the blessing, and keep moving. Number nine.
When you fail, which probably you will, don't quit reset fast.
Some people, when they fall and something does slip, they say, well,
I'll never change. No, that's shame speaking. Conviction says get up.
Shame says stay down. So if you slip, stop it,
correct it, apologize if you need bless instead of cursing,
and move forward. I declare over your life. Your mouth
is going to be a well of life, not a
weapon in the hands of the enemy. So I'm going
to leave you with this question. Is your mouth a
well of life or is it a spark of destruction?
And if you're the one that needs to repent and
remove cursing, swearing and profanity, drop that in the chat.
It's time to bring that to the light so that
God can break that over your life. You can walk
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