1. Mouth Traffic

3. In-Traffic
Food
Drink

4. God designed mankind to eat food
Food in the Bible
God designed mankind to eat food

5. God provides food for all
Food in the Bible
God designed mankind to eat food
God provides food for all
“…who gives food to all flesh...”
- Psalm 136:25

6. God provides food on a daily basis
Food in the Bible
God designed mankind to eat food
God provides food for all
God provides food on a daily basis
“…give us this day our daily bread.”
- Matthew 6:11

7. God prohibited certain foods
Food in the Bible
God designed mankind to eat food
God provides food for all
God provides food on a daily basis
God prohibited certain foods

8. God Provides Guidelines
Eat a reasonable amount
Keep deception and lies far from me,
Give me neither poverty nor riches;
Feed me with the food that is my portion,
That I not be full and deny You and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or that I not be in want and steal, And profane the name of my God.
- Proverbs 30:8-9

9. God Provides Guidelines
Don’t let your appetite be your God
whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.
- Philippians 3:19

10. God Provides Guidelines
Don’t eat and let others starve

11. - Amos 6:4-5 Those who recline on beds of ivory
And sprawl on their couches,
And eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall,
Who improvise to the sound of the harp,
And like David have composed songs for themselves,
- Amos 6:4-5

12. Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils, Yet they have not grieved over the ruin of Joseph. Therefore, they will now go into exile at the head of the exiles, And the sprawlers’ banqueting will pass away.
- Amos 6:6-7

13. 14 at this present time your abundance being a supply for their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need, that there may be equality; 15 as it is written, “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack.”
- II Corinthians 8:14-15

14. Summary I
Be responsible
Vary your diet
Share what you have

15. Out-Traffic
The Tongue

16. In-take → hurts us
Out-going → hurts others

17. But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison.
-James 3:8

18. Ask God to be the traffic cop for your mouth
Out-Traffic
Ask God to be the traffic cop for your mouth
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
Keep watch over the door of my lips.
- Psalm 141:3

19. Recognize that God will judge us for what we say
Out-Traffic
Recognize that God will judge us for what we say
But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. - Matthew 12:36

20. Use our mouths according to God’s purpose and for His glory
Out-Traffic
Use our mouths according to God’s purpose and for His glory
O Lord, open my lips, That my mouth may declare Your praise. - Psalm 51:15

21. The mouth has been created to:
Speak with God in prayer – Matt. 6:9
Praise God in song – Eph. 5:19
Teach and correct others – Eph. 5:19
Communicate with one another – Acts 1:15
Praise and honor others – Rom. 13:7

22. The mouth has been created to:
Express beauty, truth and joy as well as sorrow in song, poetry and stories – Phil. 4:8
Lift each other up in times of trouble or challenge – Josh. 24:15

23. Let God patrol your lips
Summary II
Let God patrol your lips

24. Humble yourselves to God’s judgement
Summary II
Let God patrol your lips
Humble yourselves to God’s judgement

25. Replace unholy with holy
Summary II
Let God patrol your lips
Humble yourselves to God’s judgement
Replace unholy with holy

26. “I believe that Jesus is the Son of God”
Words to Stop Traffic
“I believe that Jesus is the Son of God”
“I’ve been unfaithful and I repent”