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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

CORRUPT COMMUNICATION



CORRUPT COMMUNICATION!

Eph 4:29
29 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.

The White House Press briefing room, along with that mysterious room behind it, now resembles a school yard brawl with dares, double dog, and triple dog dares all around. Disparaging remarks about mothers and all other things sacred hang in the air with each questioning the other’s veracity. But … that’s politics.

What Paul urged the Ephesians to consider was the product of their words. The word “corrupt” is the Greek word sapros and means “rotten; worthless literally or morally.” The product of such communication is confusion, pain, anger and inefficiency. According to one commentary: “logos ‎‎sapros ‎signifies a useless, putrid, unsavory, and obscene word or conversation.” The Ephesian believers were to communicate at a level far above that. The word edify means to build up and not to tear down.

Col 4:6
6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Dear Lord, let my words be sweet because I may one day have to eat them. AMEN

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