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death and life are in the power of the tongue. By your words, you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned Matthew 1237. Our words are of tremendous importance. In fact, speech is one of the most crucial areas of practical theological teaching. If sheer volume of related scripture passages is any measure, God is intensely concerned with the quality and the quantity of our words. This concern contrasts starkly with the un discerning and undeserved sea of words that daily threatens to drown us in 21st Century America. All too often modern Yeshua followers fail to recognize the full depth scope and seriousness of the Biblical teaching on speech. This leaves us vulnerable to the disordered patterns of speech found in our secular environments, gossip, detraction, slander, rudeness, indiscretion, complaining and biting humor, relationships suffer and conflicts abound. When these patterns begin to dominate our conversation, We lose the bond of peace that should guard and embody the unity of the Spirit Ephesians 4 3. All this could be avoided by a sounder understanding and application of the biblical teaching on speech. The flood of words unleashed in our society by the constantly expanding communications media need not carry us along like a floating log, dissolving all powers of moral discrimination. Similarly, our speech need not be molded and shaped by a network of non Yeshua following work associates or neighbors. Instead, our speech should be placed under the rule of messiah Yeshua to bear fruit for his kingdom. New heading. The power of the word. The reason that God is so concerned with our speech is that it has great power. Our words are capable of great good or great harm. Death and Life are in the power of the Tongue Proverbs 1821. If our tongues are submitted to the authority of God, they will bring life both to others and to ourselves. If our tongues are restless, untamed and rebellious, they will bring death. Let us now look at what scripture teaches about the power of speech. We begin at the beginning Genesis one Then God said, let there be light and there was light genesis 13. How did God create the world? It was through his word By the word of the Lord. The heavens were made and by the breath of his mouth all their host. For he spoke and it was done, he commanded and it stood fast psalm 33 6 and nine. When God speaks a word, he does not merely communicate information. The word of God is a word of power, effectively accomplishing the purpose for which it was sent. Isaiah 55 11. When God speaks things happen after creating the light, God proceeded to express his authority over that which he had made by giving it a name. God called the light day and the darkness. He called night genesis 15 in hebrew as in english one names an object by calling it something by speaking of it or to it in hebrew. The expression give a name genesis 2 20 is literally call a name God named the light day, the darkness night, the firmament heaven, the dry land earth, the water seas. Thus, God expressed his authority by speaking words that defined the various elements of his creation and imprinting upon them their distinctive character. The making of human beings. On the sixth day culminates the work of creation. Then God said, Let us make man in our image according to our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Genesis 1 26 God created man and woman in his own image and likeness that they would rule as his representatives over the earth. The first expression of humanity's unique nature and share in God's image and authority occurs later in chapter two Out of the ground, the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky and brought them to the man to see what he would call them and whatever the man called the living creature that was its name. The man gave names to all the cattle and to the birds of the sky and to every beast of the field genesis 2, 19 to 20 God had given man the capacity to speak a gift given to no other animal that man might participate in his divine nature and authority