"Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. If you are using the Bibles in the seats, this is found on page 690 – Jesus says in our passage today that words reflect the heart, and I want to address that aspect today. But because they had hearts that either could not recognize or refused to recognize the working of the Holy Spirit, they blasphemed against him. The Pharisees wouldn’t have said this horrible thing about the Holy Spirit if their hearts were right.
We looked at these verses last week in connection with Jesus’ words about the unforgivable sin, which was saying that the working of the Holy Spirit is the working of the devil.īut I wanted to revisit these verses because it’s a secondary theme to what Jesus was saying.
It says a lot about our character and our love and allegiance to Christ, or lack thereof.Īnd in doing so I want us to look at Matthew 12:33-37. Today, I want to talk about what comes out of our mouths, because what we say says a lot. They gave me such a rough time!īut it was light-hearted fun – they were playing up the fact that it had never happened before. I got ribbed about it pretty good later on, and a few days later, as a crew of us was driving to another town to work that Pizza Hut so they could have their Christmas party, my little snafu was the main topic of conversation. Which one? None of your business – but the one you’re thinking of will work just fine.Īnyway, the crew just stood there in shocked silence – they couldn’t believe I had said this, because they had never heard me swear before. I stood there in the middle of all this stuff that had to be dated, refrigerated or frozen, and make sure the other stuff got rotated.Īnd as I was discussing what to do with my co-workers, including another shift supervisor like myself, I uttered a swear word under my breath. I was in charge of the kitchen, and so I had to make sure all the stuff got put away and still keep the kitchen running. One night we were very busy at the restaurant, and our supply truck came late, right in the middle of the supper rush. Let me tell you a story about something that happened a number of years ago while I worked at Pizza Hut in Brookings:
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