I DO NOT ENDORSE MORMONISM, BUT THIS A POWERFUL LESSON! IN JUDAISM SLANDER/GOSSIP IS REFERRED TO AS LASHON HARA OR SHEDDING OF INNOCENT BLOOD. IT IS CONSIDERED WORSE THAN MURDER BECAUSE WHEN YOU KILL SOMEONE,THEY ONLY DIE ONCE,VERSUS WHEN YOU SLANDER, BELITTLE OR SPREAD GOSSIP ABOUT SOMEONE YOU ARE KILLING THEM MANY TIMES OVER. THIS LEAVES DEEP EMOTIONAL SCARS IN THE VICTIM. THIS SIN HAS THREE VICTIMS, THE SPEAKER, THE LISTENER, AND THE PERSON SPOKEN ABOUT. IT IS MORE MERCIFUL TO KILL SOMEONE OUTRIGHT, THAN TO SLANDER THEIR CHARACTER, OR SPREAD MALICIOUS GOSSIP ABOUT THEM. PROV.6:16-19 STATES THESE SIX THINGS DOES YAH HATE; YES, SEVEN ARE AN ABOMINATION ONTO HIM: A PROUD LOOK ,A LYING TONGUE, AND HANDS THAT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD,A HEART THAT DEVISES WICKED IMAGINATIONS(SCHEMES), FEET THAT RUN TO EVIL, A FALSE WITNESS THAT SPEAKS LIES,AND HE THAT SOWS DISCORD AMONG THE BRETHREN. IN IS.59:2- 8 we read BUT YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE SEPERATED BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR ELOHIM, AND YOUR SINS HAVE HID HIS FACE FROM YOU, THAT HE WILL NOT HEAR. FOR YOUR HANDS ARE DEFILED WITH BLOOD, AND YOUR FINGERS WITH INIQUITY ; YOUR LIPS HAVE SPOKEN LIES, YOUR TONGUE HAS UTTERED PERVERSENESS. NONE CALL FOR JUSTICE, NOR ANY PLEAD FOR TRUTH: THEY TRUST IN VANITY, AND SPEAK LIES; THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF, AND BRING FORTH INIQUITY. THEY HATCH COCKATRICE (VIPER) EGGS, AND WEAVE THE SPIDERS WEB: HE THAT EATS OF THEIR EGGS DIE, AND THAT WHICH IS CRUSHED BREAKS OUT INTO A VIPER. THEIR WEBS SHALL NOT BECOME GARMENTS, NEITHER SHALL THEY COVER THEMSELVES WITH THEIR WORKS: THEIR WORKS ARE WORKS OF INIQUITY, AND THE ACT OF VIOLENCE IS IN THEIR HANDS, THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL, AND THEY MAKE HASTE TO SHED INNOCENT BLOOD: THEIR THOUGHTS ARE THOUGHTS OF INIQUITY; WASTING AND DESTRUCTION ARE IN THEIR PATHS. THE WAY OF PEACE THEY KNOW NOT; AND THERE IS NO JUDGMENT IN THEIR GOINGS; THEY HAVE MADE THEM CROOKED PATHS : WHOSOEVER GOES THERE SHALL NOT KNOW PEACE. LEV.19:18 TELLS US YOU SHALL NOT AVENGE , NOR BEAR ANY GRUDGE AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF YOUR PEOPLE, BUT YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF: I AM YAH. SO WHEN WE SLANDER OR SPREAD GOSSIP ABOUT EACH OTHER , WE ARE IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF THIS COMMAND. THERE ARE MANY VERSES REFERRING TO THE POWER OF THE TONGUE,AND HOW IT CAN KILL, SUCH AS JAMES 1:26 AND IF ANYONE THINKS THAT HE WORSHIPS ELOHIM AND DOES NOT BRIDLE HIS TONGUE ,HIS HEART DECEIVES HIM, HIS WORSHIP IS DESOLATE. ALSO IN JAMES 3:8-12 IT TELLS US THAT BUT THE TONGUE HAS NO ONE BEEN ABLE TO TAME : IT IS AN EVIL THING , UNRULY AND FULL OF DEADLY POISON.FOR WITH IT, WE BLESS YAH AND FATHER; AND WITH IT WE CURSE MEN WHO WERE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF ELOHIM: AND FROM THE SAME MOUTH ISSUES FORTH CURSES AND BLESSINGS. MY BROTHERS, THESE THINGS SHOULD NOT BE. CAN THERE FLOW FROM THE SAME FOUNTAIN , SWEET AND BITTER WATERS? OR CAN THE FIG TREE MY BROTHERS , BEAR OLIVES ? OR THE VINE, FIGS? SO, ALSO SALT WATERS CANNOT BE MADE SWEET. SO, I PRAY THAT WE WOULD WATCH OUR TONGUES , AND LET BLESSINGS FLOW FROM IT , AND NOT BITTERNESS. LET US EDIFY EACH OTHER AND NOT TEAR DOWN. MAY YAH BLESS YOU, AND GRANT YOU HIS PEACE.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:42:38 +0000