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Jun '23

Seasoned with Salt

Posted on Jun 20, 2023 in Devotions |

20
Jun '23
Introduction: Salt preserves. Salt stings. Salt kills. No wonder the apostle Paul refers to salt when it comes to one’s speech. Consider the following:
 
“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” (Col 4:6)
 

1. Have you ever said something you wish you could take back? (Col 4:6)

“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”

All of us have spouted off before we thought about how it would affect others.
 

2. Speech seasoned with Salt can preserve a family! (Col 4:6)

“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”

Look back at chapter three:
(Col 3:8)

“8But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.”

(Col 3:13,14)

“13Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”

(Col 3:16-17)

“6Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.”

(Col 3:18-21)

“18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 20Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. 21Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.”

The bottom line: What comes out of our mouth comes from our heart.

(Matt 15:17-20)

“Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? 18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.”
 
Do you need your mouth washed out? How about a clean heart? Ask Jesus. He will.
 
Conclusion: Pass the salt please! Do you need to add some salt to your speech?
 
Love y’all,
Dr. Randy Reese