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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
Copyright 2007

TALKING TRASH

This entry was posted on 06-20-2008 and is filed under uncategorized.

There are things we should not talk about. I know that's hard to believe in this day of shock talk radio, incessant talking heads on TV, and ceaseless chatter among carnal Christians- but it is true. Look at our verse for today, Eph. 5:4 (Phillips): "The keynote of your conversation should not be nastiness or silliness or flippancy, but a sense of all that we owe to God."

Here's how others translate speech that is out of order. "Filthiness, buffoonery, ribald jesting" (Conybeare). "Coarse, stupid or flippant talk" (NEB). "Dirty stories, foul talk, and coarse jokes" (TLB). "Filthiness, foolish talking, coarse jesting" (NKJV). Anyone feeling convicted in my audience today? Can you imagine Jesus and the apostles sitting around engaging is such corrupt communication? Rotherham says, "Which things are beneath you." The TCNT says, "They are wholly out of place among you."

So, what's the alternative? "But instead voice your thankfulness [to God]" (Amplified). We owe God tributes of thanks, not trash talk.

Prayer: Now Father create within us a pure heart so that we might be a people of pure speech, always praising You. Through Christ we pray.