Cleaning Up Our Mouths (2)
In the battle to clean up our words we come to another key element.
Step Two: Embrace Grace
When Isaiah came to grips with his dirty mouth he right away found grace to have it forgiven (Isiah 6:5-7). God forgives dirty mouths like he forgives everything else we've ever done wrong.
As you confess your sins, realize that God is faithful and just to forgive it (1 John 1:9). Two things to keep in mind: Jesus died for your dirty mouth, and Jesus didn't have one. Because He had a clean mouth, His cleanness is counted as yours. Your record before God--based on the imputed clean mouth of Christ--is that you have never cursed, never been profane, never been potty-mouthed at all. Infact you've always said the perfect, right, clean and pure thing!
Praise God in Christ for a blood-bought forgiveness and a perfect righteousness in which before God we stand. To be sure don't let your forgveness in Christ become a license to sin, but also don't let your battles with profanity become a battle with condemnation.
Live in the power and freedom of a clean record before God. Then go out and seek to sin no more.
Step Two: Embrace Grace
When Isaiah came to grips with his dirty mouth he right away found grace to have it forgiven (Isiah 6:5-7). God forgives dirty mouths like he forgives everything else we've ever done wrong.
As you confess your sins, realize that God is faithful and just to forgive it (1 John 1:9). Two things to keep in mind: Jesus died for your dirty mouth, and Jesus didn't have one. Because He had a clean mouth, His cleanness is counted as yours. Your record before God--based on the imputed clean mouth of Christ--is that you have never cursed, never been profane, never been potty-mouthed at all. Infact you've always said the perfect, right, clean and pure thing!
Praise God in Christ for a blood-bought forgiveness and a perfect righteousness in which before God we stand. To be sure don't let your forgveness in Christ become a license to sin, but also don't let your battles with profanity become a battle with condemnation.
Live in the power and freedom of a clean record before God. Then go out and seek to sin no more.
Labels: Sanctification, speech, tongue
posted by Tim Shorey at
8:00 AM
1 Comments:
Hello Pastor Tim,
How refreshing to hear so simply, briefly, and clearly, the wonderful news of justification and the power of justification's good news of imputed righteousness to bring forth sanctification.
Yes, Jesus did for our filthy mouth, and he didn't have one.
Keep preaching brother, it is bringing life to my bones!
Tom
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