I would like to
ask you about two people who, apparently, must be believers, as in all the
churches we have heard of them. I don't know if in each of these
churches there are brothers homonyms (with the same name) or if they're always
changing of Church. The two are inseparable.
I must confess that I've never seen them
personally, but as I said, where I've heard of them. I don't know if some of
you have already seen them. But one thing I know: I'm absolutely sure that you
have heard of this team. They are: someone told Me and they're saying. Here at the Church in Lins has these two types. Sometimes arrive before
the pastor and, with his face to the right expressed "sorrow" Say:
Pastor told me, they're saying. Sisters and brothers this is a disgrace in the
life of a church. The people that have no idea that line they carry and how
when hurt us. This is Satanic. See, I told you had already heard of them?! I
have many years of Ministry and always for all the churches that I spent I
found that team. I confess that despite so many years of pastoral ministry
still feel angry when someone tells me to comment negative something especially
about the Church or my Ministry, says: They spoke me, they're saying, they
said. Never say the names of who they talked to. It's called gossip, slander. Is
the Act of sowing evil in the middle of the community, the body of Christ. This
decreases and slows the walk of the Church. Not to mention the sadness that falls
upon the heart of anyone who hears. Beloved, there are several verses in the Bible in warning about the slander. Today we will see some of them and I hope God uses your Word to awaken to the danger that this practice brings to the local church. The word that the NT Greek
uses for SLANDER is: katalalhw (katalaleo) "talk",
"slander". katalalia (katalalia) "slander,"
"libel". The NT uses this word to describe the
"blasphemers" (katalalous) and is among the sins that Paul mentions in
Rm 1:30. Are linked to psithyristas, "cochichadores",
"detractors", "those who repeat conversations" (v. 29).
Paul also mentions katalaliai, "slander" ("Talk against") listed among the sins that Paul fears find in the Church in Corinth (II Co 12:20). This sin can undermine and destroy the
Fellowship of the church going so far as to divide it. Warnings against the Malice:
Jim. 3: 6
"
Now, the
tongue is fire: is world of iniquity; the tongue lies between the members of our
body, and contaminates the whole body and put on fire the whole career of human
existence, as is put herself on fire by hell ".
COMMENT: it is
likely that no other Member of the body causes so many evils, so much damage to
a life as the tongue. The misuse of this contaminates all the person's life.
The sins committed by the litterbug’s spiritual language and all sorts of evils
that pollute the person.
The damage caused by unfounded rumors are enormous and sometimes it's
hard to reverse the course of events started by a gossip. Delete the
"fire" caused by rumors even as difficult as put out the fire in a
large forest. False rumors can compromise irreparably an entire existence,
causing damage that hurt and injure someone innocent.
Ef 4:31
"away from you all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and yelling, and blasphemies,
and all the malice".
COMMENT: Malice "all kinds of bad feeling". We must refrain from any feeling that lead us to do evil or to speak evil of others.
• Tt 3: 1-2
"reminds them that if subject to the governing authorities; be obedient, to be ready to every good work, don't mislead anyone, not alters the things, but makes, giving evidence, courtesy towards all men ".
• Jim. 4:11 "elder brothers, speak no evil of
each other. He who speaks evil of brother or judges his brother, speaks evil of
the law and judges the law; Now if you judge the law, you're not an observer of
the law, but judge ". COMMENT: only God can judge with absolute justice,
because only he has the ability to know all the implications of an event.
When we judge a
brother we are taking the place of God giving our own verdict on his
spirituality, this thing that fits only to God.
• Jim. 3:11
"can happen to the gushing source of the same place which is sweet and
what it is bitter?"
• Mt 12:34
"brood of vipers, how can you talk about good things, being evil? Because
the mouth speaks what the heart is full ".
COMMENT: With the same mouth that praise, pray, sing, preach etc. With
this same mouth we speak evil of others. James says this is a contradiction.
According to Jesus, if our heart is full of good things, our mouths be filled
with sweet words, but if we are full of evil to our mouths speaks bitter things.
• Cl 3: 8
"Now, however, you also, of all this: anger, wrath, malice,
slander, obscene language of your talk."
• I Pe 2: 1
"Stripping you of all wickedness and deceit, hypocrisy and envies, and
all the luck of some discontent" (I Pe 3:10).
• II Ts 3:11
"Because, in fact, we are informed that there are people who walk among
you disorderly, working not; before intruding on the lives ".
• I Tm 3:11
"the same luck, when it comes to women, it is necessary that they are
reputable, temperate, and faithful in everything".
• I Tm 5:13
"Besides learn also to live idle, moving from House to House; and not
only idle, chatty and intriguing, still talking what should not. "
COMMENT: Paul
is giving a clear profile of the who were disrupting the proper functioning
of the Church. I Pe 4:15 "Don't suffer, though, none of you as a
murderer, or thief, or criminal, or as who intrudes on another's
business".
COMMENT: Nosy, gossipy.
GOSSIPS: Lv 19:16 "will walk Not as scuttlebutt among the people."
COMMENT:
• Pv 13: 3
"what keeps his mouth preserves his soul, but what really opens the lips
ruins himself".
COMMENT: may
be undoing social, physical, spiritual and financial.
Pv 17: 9
"which covers the transgression acquires love, but what brings it up
separates the greatest friends"
COMMENT:
"which covers the transgression acquires love, but what brings it up separates the greatest friends"
Pv 18: 8
"The slanderer's words are sweet bits, which descend to the interior of
the womb".
COMMENT: When we, delighted us with gossip about
someone, our attitude towards this person could be deeply affected. A
mere whisper of slander may become unforgettable. A duo that combines more
than rice and beans, cheese with marmalade, bread and butter etc., is a
slanderer and an ear eager to listen to gossip. Nothing can put an end to
this pair!
Pv 20:19 "the
tale-bearer reveals secrets, therefore don't mess with whoever opens his
lips".
COMMENT: Caution! You can be
the next victim!
Pv 25: 23 "the North
wind brings rain, angry face, fake language".
COMMENT: "Tongue
tease": the defames someone, usually, when you're in his presence speaks
well of you.
• Pv 26: 17 "Who gets
into the question of others is as one who takes a passing dog by the
ears."
• Pv26: 20 "Without
wood a fire goes out; and, in the absence of a reviler, cease the strife
".
• Sl 101: 5 "to the
next, maligns hidden this destroy;".
• II Co 12:20 "I fear
therefore, going to you, I find the way that you want, and that you also
might find me different than what do you expect, and that there are
contentions among you, envy, Finsen, amusements, gossip
(gossip), pride and riots".
These
are some of the texts that deal with the subject. However, I would like to
submit one, if we look carefully, we will be very useful. "Six things
the Lord hates, and the seventh his soul abhors: (1) haughty eyes, (2) tongue
liar, (3) hands that shed innocent blood, (4) heart that devises wicked, (5)
feet that hurry to run to evil, (6) false witness that speak eth lies, (7) and
what they sow strife between the brothers" (Pv 6:16 -19).
The gossip is the most
coward to reach a person. Normally, when a rumor reaches the ears of the
maligned he is almost impossible to know who originated the gossip. After the
feud was seeded, accusations were made that it is very difficult to trace
your way back and disprove the rumor with all who heard him.
The worst part is that there
are people who delight in carrying on conversations of dubious origin. So
those two "people" would arise within the Church. "Tell
Me", "they're saying," but nobody knows, or find out, who said
who's saying.
Brothers, when we act thus
the Bible says that we become abhorrent to our God. And it is no less,
because as we have seen the malice is a terrible thing that destroys lives,
sow strife, divides churches etc. We should think about this every time you
are tempted to take a conversation forward.
I would like to quote a
verse from Proverbs: "what begins the election seem fair, until another
comes and examines" (18:17). That is, the one that tells us your version
of fact seems to be right, but when we know the version of another, usually
we see that things are not as well as the first reported. So the wise man
before issuing his opinion on some event seeks to see both sides of the
issue.
The
best way to end a gossip is cut up the slanderer and ask him if he is sure
that what you're talking about really is true. If he doesn't know, our duty
to our God and to him, as a brother, is to confront him with the word of God.
In Matthew 18:15 we read: "If your brother sins against you, go ask him
between you and him alone." This is another great way that Jesus taught
us to put an end to bad understood that may become a source of gossip,
intrigue, some discontent.
That God will
help us to be source of pleasure for your blessed person and that of our
mouths out words that are "good for edification, as needed, and so
communicate grace to those who hear us" (Ef 4:29).
AMEN!
Rev. Jesué
Francisco da Silva.
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