A Brick or Bulldozer?

Matthew 12:22-37 Read the New Testament in a Year: Acts 17:16-34 The words you speak really matter. ‘Every word we speak can either be a brick to build or a bulldozer to destroy’, writes Joyce Meyer. Whatever is stored up in your heart will sooner or later be expressed by your words. Be careful what you look at, read and think about. Fill your heart with good things and you will think good thoughts, speak good words and bear good fruit (v.33). Jesus says, ‘Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. Good people bring good things out of the good stored up in them, and evil people bring evil things out of the evil stored up in them’ (vv.34–35). You cannot change your thought patterns on your own. You need the help of the Holy Spirit – filling your heart with his love and good fruit. I take what Jesus is saying in verses 30–32 to mean that the only ‘unforgivable sin’ is to resist the Holy Spirit throughout your life. Often people worry that they have committed the ‘unforgivable sin’. However, if you are worried about it, it is almost certain you have not committed it. There is no sin that cannot be forgiven if you repent and ask God’s forgiveness. The only ‘unforgivable sin’ is to refuse to repent and turn to Christ, resisting his Holy Spirit throughout your life.]]>