Proverbs 21:28 KJV
A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
My attention came to these words, "the man that heareth speaketh constantly." That sounds like an impossibility. How can this man speak constantly and still hear.
James 1:19 KJV says
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
It seems to me that the Bible says a person should talk only little and listen a lot.
However, God still uses the spoken word.
It is how the early Word of God was passed down until Moses recorded it in written form.
It is how God spoke to the people through the prophets and
It is how God has chosen that the lost be saved.
Somebody needs to do some talking!
But this passage gives us a formula. The man who hears, the man who listens carefully to the Words of God and hears what people are saying concerns them in their souls; that man is in a position to speak.
The word constantly bears the meaning of "toward a goal." He does not just speak incessantly,
He speaks words that are truthful
He speaks with confidence and even with splendor
He speaks continually, never giving up on the message he has been entrusted but
He always speaks with a goal in mind. He has a purpose in his words.
Matthew 12:36 KJV
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
A wise man listens carefully and then chooses his words purposefully before he speaks constantly.
A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
My attention came to these words, "the man that heareth speaketh constantly." That sounds like an impossibility. How can this man speak constantly and still hear.
James 1:19 KJV says
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
It seems to me that the Bible says a person should talk only little and listen a lot.
However, God still uses the spoken word.
It is how the early Word of God was passed down until Moses recorded it in written form.
It is how God spoke to the people through the prophets and
It is how God has chosen that the lost be saved.
Somebody needs to do some talking!
But this passage gives us a formula. The man who hears, the man who listens carefully to the Words of God and hears what people are saying concerns them in their souls; that man is in a position to speak.
The word constantly bears the meaning of "toward a goal." He does not just speak incessantly,
He speaks words that are truthful
He speaks with confidence and even with splendor
He speaks continually, never giving up on the message he has been entrusted but
He always speaks with a goal in mind. He has a purpose in his words.
Matthew 12:36 KJV
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
A wise man listens carefully and then chooses his words purposefully before he speaks constantly.
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