1. Where is heaven
Matthew 9: 35 Then Jesus went about … teaching …, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing…

2. Because you love the King!
Expanding the Kingdom
Why would you spend your time, energy, & resources on building a kingdom?
Because you love the King!

3. TALKING TREES

4. Matthew 12:31-37
33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. 34 Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

5. Matthew 12:31-37
36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

6. TALKING TREES

7. A. Evil Words
 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

8. A. Evil Words Evil: morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked:
Isa 32:7 Also the schemes of the schemer are evil; He devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words…
Eph 4:29,31 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. (doesn’t edify or impart grace)

9. A. Evil Words Words that weary God
Mal 2:17 You have wearied the Lord with your words;… you say, “Everyone who does evil Is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delights in them,” Or, “Where is the God of justice?”
Mal 3:14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God; What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,…

10. A. Evil Words Divisive words
I Tim 6:3- 4 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,  he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,…

11. B. Idle Words
36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
a.  Not in use or operation , inactive.
b.  Disinclined to work or be active; lazy
c. Lacking substance, value, or basis: (like most armchair political commentaries)

12. B. Idle Words Isaiah 59:4 They trust in empty words & speak lies
Eph 5:4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting…
Eph 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
James 4:11 Gossip Do not speak evil of one another, brethren.
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13. C. Good Words
 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, …

14. C. Good Words
PROVERBS
25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver
16:24  Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
18:21 Death & life are in the power of the tongue…

15. C. Good Words
Hebrews 4:12  For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

16. C. Good Words
John 6:67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” 68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

17. Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
Psalm 34:12-13
Who is the man who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

18. Warning!
36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

19. You will give an account for every idle word so
CONCLUSION
You will give an account for every idle word so
Be a talking tree – rooted in God’s word so that your words will please Him & be used by Him to expand His kingdom.
Our prayer Psalm 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

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