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He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 10:8
Dear brothers and sisters at Talk Jesus
This sermon really challenged my heart. How easy it is to listen and join in with evil reports...may we all be deaf to slander
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In the case of slander, the listener is almost as bad as the speaker.
The only proper response, is to shut your ears the moment you begin to hear an evil report of another from anyone.
The person has no right to tell it to you--and you have no right to listen to it! If you refuse to listen--he will not be able to go on with his story.
Ears are made to hear with, but on occasion it is better to be deaf.
We all aim at courtesy, and courtesy requires that we be patient listeners, even to dull speakers; but even courtesy does not require us to listen to evil reports about a neighbor.
Ears should be trained to shut instinctively when the breath of slander touches it, just as our eyes shut at the slightest approach of harm.
JR Miller - 18th century
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"He who speaks a slander, carries the devil on his tongue--and he who listens to it, carries the devil in his ear!"
Thomas Watson
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:29-32
Proverbs 10:8
Dear brothers and sisters at Talk Jesus
This sermon really challenged my heart. How easy it is to listen and join in with evil reports...may we all be deaf to slander
******
In the case of slander, the listener is almost as bad as the speaker.
The only proper response, is to shut your ears the moment you begin to hear an evil report of another from anyone.
The person has no right to tell it to you--and you have no right to listen to it! If you refuse to listen--he will not be able to go on with his story.
Ears are made to hear with, but on occasion it is better to be deaf.
We all aim at courtesy, and courtesy requires that we be patient listeners, even to dull speakers; but even courtesy does not require us to listen to evil reports about a neighbor.
Ears should be trained to shut instinctively when the breath of slander touches it, just as our eyes shut at the slightest approach of harm.
JR Miller - 18th century
*****
"He who speaks a slander, carries the devil on his tongue--and he who listens to it, carries the devil in his ear!"
Thomas Watson
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:29-32
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