You Have the Power of Life and Death

with Elder Mervyn John

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning everyone.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
A special welcome to our guests, our members, and our
online viewers.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
We want to wish all of you a very blessed sabbath.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Those of you who came to see Pastor Mike or
hear him, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
But he's on a very special mission.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
He is visiting his newest grandchild and that's a very
important task to accomplish, so I'm glad that he's getting
an opportunity. I just wish that Grandma Diana was also
able to join him for this happy occasion, but they'll

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be together some other times. So we wish him well
and we wish the grand baby also a very nice future.
How are you all doing? Everybody having a good saba.
Let us have a word of prayer before we begin. Father,

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no matter what happens in this world, you have not
left us without directions of where to go, where to
find help, and where to be fed your word. Thank
you for your word, Lord, And if we don't know,

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and if we allow the incidents of the world to
overwhelm us, shame on us, because you have told us
that this is what the end times are going to
be like, and you have told us in your word
what we should do to prepare for it. So maybe
be good hearers of your word and good doers of

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the deeds that we need to do, so that we
will be faithful to you.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Lord, bless us as.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
We talk about words, and may the words from my
mouth be something that you put so that it'll edify
the church in your blessed name.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Amen. Now have you ever wondered.

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How many words the average person speaks in one lifetime?
Other than maybe saying it's a lot of words, I
don't think anybody has done anything. But after a little
research I found out that in nineteen eighty four, British writer, actor, broadcaster,

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self professed word person and scrabble fanatic Giles brand Wreath
came up with the answer.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
And here it is. It's eight.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Eight hundred and sixty million, three hundred and forty one thousand,
five hundred words.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Let me put that into a perspective.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
That is the equivalent of speaking the entire Bible, both
all the New Testaments, one thousand, one hundred and ten times.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
So that's a lot of words.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
And I don't know that I speak that many words,
but that's what he has.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
I haven't read his book.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
So I don't know on what basis he came up
with his figure, but that's the figure that we have.
Eight hundred and sixty million words.

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That's a lot.

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Now from our scripture reading, we find that words are
incredibly powerful. There is life and death in words. And
you and I are here today because of words. In
the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and

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we are here because of those words. Unfortunately, we are
still here in this world of sin and misery because
of the words that were spoken.

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Between the devil and Eve.

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And so we realize that words are incredibly important. They
have huge consequences, and yet we use them as if
they were harmless. Now, social scientists revealed some things startling
about our spoken communication, and this is what they share

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with us. They say, the average person will come in
cont act with approximately sixty seven people.

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In a day.

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You know, this may not be one on one contact.
You may be in a group sometimes, but that's how
many people you come across each day. The average person
will speak about twenty thousand words a day. Twenty thousand
words a day, and this is based on mister Brandreth's

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estimate of eight hundred and sixty million for a lifetime,
and then we have you know, the question that comes up,
how many I mean, of the sex, the genders that
we have that God created, which of the genders speak

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more than the other? How many think it's men that
speak more? One person, two, that's it. How many think
it's women that speak more. I'm literally blown away. I

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thought it may be more, but not in this proportion.
But my own research the Internet, by the way, was
not helpful at all. They had stories to support men
speaking more, they had facts to support that women speak more,
so it was complete. But in my estimate and my

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little research, it is women that speak more, not by much,
but they do speak more. And when you think of
the role God assigned to them and the role men
were assigned, it's not uncommon to expect them to speak
a few more words. So thank you ladies.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Now.

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It was also noted by these scientists that approximately seventy
three muscles are used to say one word. And you know,
enough energy is expended in one day by our speaking

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approximately twenty thousand words. We said a day to raise
a locomotive railroad locomotive twenty two inches off the ground.
Did you realize that all the words create enough energy
to raise this locomotive twenty two inches off the ground. Now,

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this is an average, and obviously some days we speak
more and other days we may not speak as much.

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And some people obviously.

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Spend a lot of time speaking and they probably not
only lift the locomotive twenty two inches, they may even
send it into orbit. Have you ever felt tired after
really not doing too much?

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now you know?

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Okay, So that is what words and the energy that
we expend are capable of doing. Now, let's break down
these twenty thousand words spoken daily, and it reveals when
we do the breakdown, it reveals some very sorry facts.

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We have three thousand one and twenty four words that
are slanged, nineteen seventy eight words are used improperly, seventeen
thirty one words are not even heard, nineteen sixty words
are unnecessary, sixteen forty two words are unkind, and three

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seven hundred and sixteen words are misinterpreted or misunderstood. In
other words, of the twenty thousand words we may speak
each day, most of them are useless. And it add
to this the fact that scientists tell us that after

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six minutes, most people forget eighty percent.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Of what they heard.

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So if our words that we speak are not very
meaningful and people don't remember them anyway, does it really
help us to speak a lot? Maybe fewer words is better.
And this is exactly what the wise counsel of Jesus is,

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as found in Matthew five thirty seven. And this is
what he says. He says, just say a simple yes
I will or no I won't. Anything beyond this is
from the evil one. In other words, think more than

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you speak is good advice for all of us.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
One of our.

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Presidents set a great example when it comes to using
few words. His name was is Calvin Coolidge. He soon
earned the nickname of Silent cal because he said so little.
One day, a female reporter met him at a function

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and said to him, mister President, I want you to
know that I have taken a bet that I can
get you to say more than three words this evening.
He looked at her, and without meeting a beat, said,
you lose. His other great advice, which I think is

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worth following, I have never been hurt by anything I
didn't say.

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I wish all of us would remember that.

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All our conversation is an index of our character, because
the Bible, as we heard from our scripture reading, says
that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
So a good man, out of the good treasure of
his heart brings forth good, and an evil man out
of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forth evil.

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For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Now,
Ellen White put the same thought in slightly different words,
and it is a profound statement found in the classic
book on the Life of Jesus, The Desire of Ages,
in page three hundred and twenty three, And this is

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what she says. It's a long quotation, and apologize for
including it, but it's packed full of meaning. And if
you follow along as I read it, I think we'll
get the gist of what the statement has and it's
vital to our understanding of how.

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We use words.

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Closely connected with Christ's warning in regard to the sin
against the Holy Spirit is a warning against idle words
and evil words. So right there, you know there's a
connection between these two. Obviously, the sin against the Holy
Spirit is the most grievous sin, because that's the only

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sin that's not going to be forgiven. All kinds of
other sins can be forgiven.

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But not that.

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So if this is related to that, then it must
have profound implications.

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And let's read on.

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The words are an indication of what is in the heart.
Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
But the words more than an indication of character. Let
me repeat that the words are more than an indication
of character. They have power to react on character. Men

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are influenced by their own words. Men and women obviously
often under a moment momentary impulse prompted by Satan, they
give utterance to jealousy and evil surmising, expressing that which
they do not really believe. But the expression reacts on

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the thoughts. They are deceived by their words and come
to believe that true which was spoken at Satan's instigation.
Having once expressed an opinion or decision, they are often
too proud to retract it and try to prove themselves

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in the right until they come to believe that they
are are. It is dangerous to utter a word of doubt,
dangerous to question and criticize divine light. The habit of
careless and irreverent criticism reacts upon the character in fostering
irreverence and unbelief. Many a man indulging in this habit

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has gone on unconscious of danger until he was ready
to criticize and reject the work.

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Of the Holy Spirit.

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Jesus said, every idle word that men shall speak shall
give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by
thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words
they can be condemned. Huge implications for the words, and
yet so many times they are so thoughtlessly spoken that

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we don't even think about it or realize the impact that.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
They can have.

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In Proverbs six sixteen to nineteen, it says that there
are six things, no, seven things that the Lord hates,
and the seventh thing that the Lord hates is a
false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord
among brothren. Now we have had our share of that recently,

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and you know the devastating impact that that can have.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
While I may be speaking to the choir, I.

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Do want to remind us that any time this can
come and take us, and if you are not careful,
we won't even know what we are doing, and our
actions will have unintended consequences. I'm going to read something
and tell me if you can guess what I'm talking about?

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Do you know me?

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I have no respect for justice, truth or fair play.
I name without killing, I break hearts and ruin lives.

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I am cunning and.

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Malicious and gathers strength with age. Once I tarnish a reputation,
it is never quite the same. The more I am courted,
the more I'm believed, I flourish at every level of society.
I am responsible for more human misery, be it between spouses, friends, family,

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and even church members. My victims are helpless. They cannot
protect themselves against me because I have no name and
no face. To track me down is impossible. The harder
you try, the more elusive I become. I am nobody's friend.
Yet people spend countless hours in indulging in.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
My destructive work. Who am I gossip? My name is gossip?

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay, Death and life now here's a quotation by Ellen
White that talks about gossip, Death and life are in
the power of the tongue. In the scriptures backbiters. Who

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is a backbiter? What does a backbiter? What does a
backbiter do? A back biter is one who says something
that's afraid to say it in front of a person,
and usually it's unverified truth. She says that back biters
are classified with haters of God, with inventors of evil things,

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with those who without natural affection, implacable and merciful, full
of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity. It is the judgment
of God that they who commit such things are worthy
of death.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
He whom God accounts.

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A citizen of Zion, is he that speaketh the truth
in his heart, that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor
taketh up a reproach against his neighbor. And in another
statement in the General Conference bullet in April to nineteen
oh three, she says that backbiting is cannibalism.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Strong words, but.

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That's the effect of ruining a reputation, ruining somebody's reputation
and leaving that person without the ability to defend themselves.
When the serpent tempted Eve, he started off with a
very subtle slander. She stated that backbiting is cannibalism and

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used this as a metaphor for anyone who destroys.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Somebody else's character.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
A good reason not to indulge in gossiping.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Ellen White says this a double curse.

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Falls follows, falling more heavily on the gossiper than upon
he who malign he who maligns.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
So this is not.

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Going to hurt the person being maligned, but it'll certainly
hurt the person who's gossiping.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Now, related to gossip.

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Is a hybrid of this evil that is growing rapidly
in our churches today. Graham Maxwell calls it theological gossip.

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What is it?

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Theological gossip occurs when one uses unverified truth, falsehood, and
indiandos to attack or spread falsehood against the minister, church leaders,
and church members on doctrine or church practice without making

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reasonable attempts to verify the truth. Now, Satan certainly knows
if the shepherd is attacked and the shepherd is maligned,
then the flock is affected and he succeeds, So he
tries very hard to do that.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
And we have had our share of that.

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And the reason I mentioned this is this is going
to grow even stronger in the latter days, and we
should guard against this and be very careful that we
don't participate in it and become a person who shares
this gossip and tries to attack those that God has

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appointed to help us with finding out how we use
the truth and how we should live in the last days.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
So this is.

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What theological gossip does. The spirit of love is also
the spirit of truth. Two things that help in this regard.
Verify the truth directly with the person. So if you
hear anything, try to verify the truth directly with the
person you heard, instead of accepting what you hear as truth. Remember,

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truth can be unverified, and if it's unverified truth and
we believe it and pass it on, then we are
in danger of perpetuating that so verified directly with the
person whether or not it is truth, and find out
what they meant. Till this is done, no one has
the right to accuse, and we should remember this. And

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this goes on without any verification, and it lends itself,
It gets a life of its own, and before you
not it has.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Traveled halfway around the world.

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Ellen White says, if a brother differ with you on
some points of truth, do not stoop to ridicule. Do
not place him in false light or misconstrue his word,
making sport of them. Do not misinterpret his words and
wrest them of their meaning. Do not present before him

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others as a heretic, when you have not with him
investigated his positions. This is taken straight from the Bible.
This is what the Bible requires of us, and the
Bible has laid out in several places what should be
done if we hear things which we don't understand or

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which we don't believe, how we handle those, and what.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
We need to do.

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One of the antidotes to gossip. How many of you
heard the Four Way Test? Anybody here heard the Four
Way Test?

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Okay? Any members been members of the Rotary Club? Okay?

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The Four Way Test is a non partisan, non sectarian
ethical guide for Rotarians to use and others to use
for their personal and professional relationships. It was started by
a gentleman by the name of Herbert J. Taylor, a
devout Christian, and he used it in his company to

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save his company for bankruptcy. And later on the four
Way Test was adopted by Rotary International and it is
used in their meetings. I was a member of one
of the Rotary clubs for several years, and at every
meeting we recited this four Way Test.

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And this is what it says.

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Of the things we think and say of the things
we think, say or do. These are the things the
four way test asks you to do. One is it
the truth?

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Number two?

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Is it fair to all concerned? Now, sometimes it may
be the truth, but it may not be fair to
all concerned.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
And it should stop right there. Will it build goodwill
and better friendships? Yes? Or no?

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And if it doesn't, then it stops there. Will it
be beneficial to all concerned? If these questions are sincerely
asked and sincerely answered.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
It will put gossip in its place. Now, going back to.

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The words from Proverbs, we found out that our words
have life and our words have death in them. And
I'm going to close with three stories. One that illustrates
that our words have death, another story to illustrate our

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words have life, and then the last story to illustrate.

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The solution to this problem. And then we'll be done.

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The first story is from France. French Canadian author Pierre
Juan Poisson tells the story in his book The Days
of Our Life when, when Poisson was a young man
in the village of Borg, he knew and befriended a

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hunchback named Yougolin. He said that Yougolin had the kindest
eyes of anyone he had ever met. You Goolin and
his oldest sister, Solange, lived with their mother, who was
an alcoholic. From an early age, Solange looked out for

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her disabled brother and became like a mother to him
because their real mother was unable to function as a mother.
They meant the world to each other. One day, Solange
was falsely accused of being.

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A thief and was sent to prison.

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When she got out of prison, she could not find work,
and then her little brother fell ill and needed food
and medicine. Solange was desperate. She knew to save her
brother's life. She needed medicine, but she had no money,

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and she did the only thing that she thought was
available to her. She sold her body to get money.
She got the money, she bought the medicine and saved
his life. But the people in the village began to talk.
One day, Ugolin found himself all alone and people from

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the village surrounding him, and people being what they did,
they began to talk, and they began to talk ill
of his sister. When Yougolin heard people talking ill of
his sister, he tried to take up for him, and
people started coming to him and using physical force, and

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he was thrown to the ground, and fortunately the village
priest was passing by, and he stopped what was going
on and took Yougolin to his home, and everybody went home.
The next morning, Yougolin walked into the river and drowned himself.

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Solange was so distraught when she heard about her brother's
death that she killed herself with a gun. The village
priest said, these children are not suicides. They have been
murdered by a society without mercy. The village priest sent

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for the citizens of the village to come to the
church for the funeral. Now, in those days, village priests
had incredible power. When you were told to meet for
a religious service, you better meet because you wouldn't be
able to live very peaceful in the village if you

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did not obey the village priest. So he summoned everybody
to the funeral, and everybody came. When he spoke in
the funeral, he began, He went up to the pulpit,
and he began summoned with a voice that cut the
air like a whip. Christians, when the Lord of Life

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and Death shall ask me on the judgment day, where
are your sheep? I shall not answer him. When the
Lord asks the second time, where are your sheep? I
shall not answer him. But when the Lord asks me

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the third time, where are your sheep? I shall hang
my head in shame, and I will answer him.

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They were not sheep, Lord, they were a pack of wolves.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Fortunately, words cut both ways death and life. The next
story is about a little girl who thought her life
was useless until a few words changed her life for
the better for ever. Now I need to set the

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story in context, and this little girl the story in
the story was born with a cleft palate.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
A cleft is a.

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General term that's used for a split or opening, and generally,
if somebody says they have a cleft palate, that can
commonly mean they have a cleft palate which is in
a mouth, or it can also be the lip that
is not formed correctly.

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So there'll be a break in the lip.

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And it is a terrible sight to see somebody that
has a cleft left and palette. Nowadays, we don't see
a lot of people with this condition because a plastic
surgery has done wonders, and plastic surgeons are so skilled
that they can take care of it.

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And you wouldn't even know that.

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Born with the cleft palette had it, but in days
gone by this was not true.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
And I grew up seeing.

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People children with this condition and also seeing adults with
this condition, and it always, you know, impressed me tremendously
of how these people must have lived their lives with
this handicap, because it is an awful sight. And there
are missions that go to different parts of the world

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and do this today and take care of it. But
this girl, unfortunately lived in a time when plastic surgery
was not developed well enough for her to have been
taken to care. So she was with this and her
life was very difficult. As you can imagine, she was
self conscious and it did a lot.

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To reduce her self esteem.

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Very difficult life over So, this is what happens when
you have a cleft thirdery, and this is the story.
I would like to read it to you in her
own words. I grew up knowing that I was different,
and I hated it. I was born with a cleft palate,

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and when I started to go to school, my classmates,
who were constantly teasing, made it clear to me how
I must look to others, a little girl with a
misshapen lip, crooked nose, lopsided teeth, and hollow and somewhat
garbled speech. I couldn't even blow up a balloon without

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holding my nose, and when I bent to drink from
a fountain, the water spilled out of my nose. When
schoolmates asked, what happened to your lip? I told them
that I'd fallen as a baby and cut it on
a piece of glass. Somehow it seemed more acceptable acceptable

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to have suffered an accident then.

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To be born different.

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By the age of seven, I was convinced that no
one outside my family would ever love me or even
like me. And then I entered second grade and Missus
Leonard's class. I never knew what her first name was,

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just Missus Leonard. She was round and pretty and fragrant,
with chubby arms, shining brown hair, and warm, dark eyes
that smiled even on rare occasions when her mouth did not.
Everyone adored her, but no one came to love her.

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More than I did.

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And for special reason, the time came for the annual
here tests given at our school. I was barely able
to hear anything out of one year, and not about
to reveal yet another problem that will single me out
as being different, so I cheated. I learned to watch

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other children and raise my hand when then they did.
During group testing, somebody would read something and ask the
children to raise their hands if they heard it, and
of course everybody would read and she would do the
same thing too. The whisper test, however, was different and
required a different kind of deception. Each child will go

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to the door of the classroom, turn sideways close one
year with a finger, and the teacher would whisper something
from her desk. Would the child would have to repeat,
then the same thing would be done for the other year.
I had discovered in kindergarten that nobody checked to see

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how tightly the untested year was being covered, so I
merely pretended to block mine. As usual, I was last,
but all through the testing I wondered what missus Leonard
might say to me. I knew from previous years that

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she whispered things like the sky is.

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Blue, or do you have new shoes.

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My turn came, I turned my bad year to her,
plugging up the other solidly with my finger, then gently
backed my finger out enough to be able to hear.
I waited, and then the words that God had surely
put into her mouth seven words that changed my life forever.

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Missus Leonard, the pretty fragrant teacher I adored, said softly,
I wish you where my little girl. That's the power
words have for life and death. Now here's the solution.

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And before I read the solution, I'm going to read
a statement by Ellen White, and this will put it
also into perspective some things of what I've been saying.
Of all the gifts we have received, none is capable
of being a greater blessing than the gift of speech.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Is my speech and your speech used.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
To be a blessing, and that's the gift God has
given each one of us. Now here's the solution, and
let us see if we can follow this solution that
will help us with the challenge that we have with words.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
A lady went to her pastor and said, Pastor, I
won't be going to your church anymore.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
The pastor, who was a wise pastor like the pastor
we have at Arichai, said but why. The lady said, ah,
I saw a woman gossiping, and she was gossiping about
another member, a man that is a hypocrite. The worship

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team was living wrong. People were looking at their phones
during a sermon, and among so many other things that
are wrong in your church. The pastor replied, okay, but
before you go, do me a favor.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Take a full glass.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Of water and walk around the church three times without
spilling a drop on the ground. Afterwards, leave the church
if you desire. The lady thought, too easy. She walked
three times round the church, as the pastor had asked.
When she finished, she told the pastor, I'm ready to leave.

(38:18):
The pastor said, before you leave, I want to ask
you one more question. When you were walking around the church,
did you see anyone gossiping? The lady replied no. Did
you see any hypocrites? The lady said no, anyone looking

(38:39):
at their phones?

Speaker 1 (38:41):
No? Do you know why?

Speaker 2 (38:45):
No, you were focused on the glass to make sure
you don't stumble and spill any water.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
It's the same with our life.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
When we keep our eyes on Jesus, we don't have
time to see the mistakes of others. We will reach
out a helping hand to them and concentrate on our
own walk.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
With the Lord.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
At any church, there are going to be things to
complain about, including ours. A church is filled with people,
and people are not perfect. Only Jesus can set the
perfect example.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
So if you want your words to be filled

Speaker 2 (39:34):
With life that bless, build, uplift, and encourage, focus on
him