Don’t Speak Like The Devil!

It seems too easy to hurt the people closest to us, the people we love the most. Many times people only realize this when they see the tears of pain fall from the eyes of their spouse because of hurtful words. A lifetime of friendship can be severed for years, and church brethren destroyed simply by speaking evil about them.

God has always taken speaking evil against brethren seriously. His anger was kindled against Aaron and Miriam when they were not “afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” Num. 12:8

The Evangelist Timothy was told not to even receive a charge against an Elder “but before two or three witnesses.” 1 Tim. 5:19

So serious is it for brethren to speak against another that when we do, we dethrone the Lord lifting ourselves into His place and presume judgment. “Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.” James 4:11

When you speak evil against one of your brethren, you are speaking like the devil.

“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.” Rev. 12:10

Don’t speak like the Devil. Consider what the Lord did, when the Devil stood before him and accused YOU!

CraigKeel