WEBVTT 00:00:11.949 --> 00:00:16.649 Have you ever smashed your thumb with a hammer and screamed, fudge? 00:00:17.029 --> 00:00:21.589 Today on the show, we are tackling the great debate of Christian cussing. 00:00:21.829 --> 00:00:27.809 Is saying shoot, darn, or frick actually holiness, or is it just a loophole? 00:00:28.069 --> 00:00:32.229 We're diving into the difference between a sentence enhancer and a sin, 00:00:32.489 --> 00:00:36.929 looking at what Ephesians really says about our speech, and asking the hard 00:00:36.929 --> 00:00:41.689 question, does God care about the syllables you use or the anger in your heart? 00:00:41.949 --> 00:00:47.149 From holy cussing to the time Jeremy learned that beer and salad don't mix with 00:00:47.149 --> 00:00:49.529 pro wrestling, we are covering it all. 00:00:49.689 --> 00:00:51.909 So watch your mouth and turn up the volume. 00:00:52.169 --> 00:00:54.169 Welcome to Life on 11. 00:01:01.429 --> 00:01:05.169 What's happening, dog? What's up, brother? What are you doing over there? 00:01:05.429 --> 00:01:07.749 Just chilling, my man. Just chilling. 00:01:08.089 --> 00:01:09.909 That's cool. Yeah. 00:01:10.649 --> 00:01:14.029 You look comfy. I'm always comfy when I'm sitting on this chair. 00:01:14.229 --> 00:01:16.689 I get it. It's a good spot. It's better than being outside. 00:01:17.755 --> 00:01:22.655 Yeah, I mean, it's not as cold today as it has been. It was pretty stinking 00:01:22.655 --> 00:01:24.795 cold yesterday. It was nasty cold. Yeah. 00:01:25.515 --> 00:01:32.315 Today was a bearable. I sat inside. Oh, yeah? What'd you get into today? I sat at UVA. Yeah. 00:01:33.055 --> 00:01:37.115 Dad had a surgery. It was all right. Yeah, everything go? I think they got it 00:01:37.115 --> 00:01:40.215 all. Okay. Had a mass on his lung. Took the mass. 00:01:40.715 --> 00:01:43.375 Took some lymph nodes. Cool. Pretty good. They got it all. 00:01:43.595 --> 00:01:46.775 Okay, well, that's good. That's positive. But, you know, nothing will nothing 00:01:46.775 --> 00:01:51.315 will drain your energy while doing nothing all day than sitting at the hospital. 00:01:52.075 --> 00:01:57.235 Tell me about it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's been there, done that. 00:01:57.895 --> 00:02:03.255 Yeah. What'd you do today? Today was relatively calm, uneventful. 00:02:03.875 --> 00:02:09.915 Had a meeting, went and looked at a couple jobs, had lunch with a buddy. Where'd you go? 00:02:10.835 --> 00:02:16.135 Italian touch. I wasn't there. I mean I have other buddies besides you that's 00:02:16.135 --> 00:02:18.875 not allowed I'm here now aren't I. 00:02:21.095 --> 00:02:28.315 Anyway I had lunch with my mom hey hospital food hospital food fair that's a 00:02:28.315 --> 00:02:33.055 little not as good but then this evening Riley and I hung out, 00:02:33.959 --> 00:02:39.019 Just chilling while Talon and Tara went and watched some wrestling. 00:02:39.779 --> 00:02:44.359 Wrestling? Well, I guess technically it's wrestling. 00:02:45.059 --> 00:02:47.939 Because they were actually scoring points and all that stuff. 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:52.979 Wrestling is what you do when there's headgear and singlets and scoring. 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:58.519 Yes. Wrestling is what you do when there's a steel cage and a baseball bat wrapped 00:02:58.519 --> 00:03:00.419 in barbed wire and people going through tables. 00:03:00.699 --> 00:03:04.279 Okay. It was wrestling. Was there pyro and entrance music? 00:03:04.739 --> 00:03:07.919 I mean, I wasn't there. Was there pyro and entrance? Probably not. 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:10.219 I'm not interested. Yeah, probably not interested. 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:15.459 I mean, I grew up watching wrestling. I grew up watching wrestling. 00:03:15.619 --> 00:03:18.239 Dude, that reminds me of a hilarious story. Tell me. 00:03:18.699 --> 00:03:22.319 Dude. Okay. So growing up, I lived right across from the food line there at Harmony Square. 00:03:22.899 --> 00:03:27.059 So I would walk over there, like get me some snacks and stuff before I sat down 00:03:27.059 --> 00:03:29.399 to watch a movie that I rented from the video store. 00:03:29.459 --> 00:03:32.079 Oh, baby. I know. Going back in time. But anyway. 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:36.679 I was there one time picking up some snacks for me, and I ran into this dude, 00:03:36.839 --> 00:03:43.799 like just a stereotypical guy, like big old belly, looked like a guy that would 00:03:43.799 --> 00:03:46.419 be just there to get beer, right? 00:03:46.699 --> 00:03:52.179 So anyway, in his cart, he had beer, and he had lettuce, and he was getting cheese. 00:03:52.799 --> 00:03:57.119 Okay. And he was like, he said, yeah, man, he said, I'm here to get me some 00:03:57.119 --> 00:04:02.499 beer, and I'm going to go home and make me a salad and watch some wrestling. 00:04:02.779 --> 00:04:09.019 And I'm like, okay, the beer and the wrestling fits, but making a salad, 00:04:09.179 --> 00:04:16.939 that just does not fit the stereotype that I have of you right now. 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:24.579 Hey, who? Hey, beer and salad, I don't know. That does nothing about that. No. 00:04:25.359 --> 00:04:28.299 You know what I've never done in my life? Had a beer and salad? 00:04:28.459 --> 00:04:31.959 I've never made a salad and been like, you know, I'd be really good with this salad right now. 00:04:32.780 --> 00:04:36.880 Pour me a cold one. But yeah, I will never forget that for the rest of my life. 00:04:37.460 --> 00:04:41.400 That's hilarious. Go home and make a salad and watch some wrestling. 00:04:41.660 --> 00:04:46.800 Well, my uncle, my uncle used to, he used to get all the wrestling pay-per-views. Oh, yeah? 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.460 We'd go over to his house and we'd watch the wrestling pay-per-views. 00:04:50.700 --> 00:04:54.840 My parents wouldn't let me watch wrestling. It was too violent. 00:04:55.260 --> 00:04:56.340 Okay, we... Yeah. 00:04:56.960 --> 00:05:00.940 I understand that. I mean, my parents let me watch wrestling because, 00:05:00.940 --> 00:05:02.560 like, we all knew it wasn't real. 00:05:03.080 --> 00:05:07.520 I mean, I knew it wasn't real, too, but still. Yeah, we watched. Yeah. 00:05:08.300 --> 00:05:10.760 Along with all the words I wasn't allowed to say. 00:05:11.620 --> 00:05:14.280 The best part is, like, there's two or three people in my family who, 00:05:14.460 --> 00:05:17.500 like, they still watch wrestling, like, all the time. 00:05:17.860 --> 00:05:21.700 And so, because I watched wrestling when I was, like, between the ages of 10 00:05:21.700 --> 00:05:27.740 and 17, 16 with them, like, they think I still watch wrestling. 00:05:28.220 --> 00:05:30.940 So if i see them they're like man do you see 00:05:30.940 --> 00:05:35.360 what happened with old stone cold steve austin i'm like i don't and 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.280 then they're like they try to like fill me in on whatever's happened and 00:05:38.280 --> 00:05:42.520 yeah you gotta be you gotta be in the know yeah i got no so maybe what i need 00:05:42.520 --> 00:05:46.060 to just like start chat gpt like tell me what's happening in the world of wrestling 00:05:46.060 --> 00:05:51.440 before i go to family there's a few of them man they they in okay that's cool 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:56.320 yeah hey is it i mean i mean if it's their thing yeah if That's your thing. 00:05:56.440 --> 00:05:59.660 I mean, there's worse things to be into, I guess. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.420 Well, yeah, that's true. You do have that right. Yeah. 00:06:02.840 --> 00:06:05.540 Yeah, that's true. That's true. So. Yeah. 00:06:06.860 --> 00:06:11.320 Oh, forgot. O'Reilly helped me work on the old refrigerator tonight. 00:06:11.460 --> 00:06:13.560 Yeah? Did you get it fixed? No, no. 00:06:13.940 --> 00:06:17.260 The water is not coming out, and it's not making any ice. 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:22.740 Okay. So I had to order me a little valve thing, like 30 bucks. 00:06:23.020 --> 00:06:24.580 Okay. So when Tara got home, she was like, 00:06:25.462 --> 00:06:28.382 is the part expensive? And I was like, no, no, no. It's not. 00:06:28.542 --> 00:06:31.862 It's like 30 bucks. And I was like, why are you trying to get a new refrigerator? 00:06:32.042 --> 00:06:34.702 She was like, no, no, no, no. I'm like, all right, because I ain't trying to 00:06:34.702 --> 00:06:39.262 spend $3,000 on a new refrigerator. Preach. You know what I'm saying? Preach. Yeah. 00:06:39.582 --> 00:06:41.722 Yeah, it's no good. Dude, that stuff's ridiculous. Oh, refrigeration. 00:06:42.482 --> 00:06:45.542 Well, I mean, maybe when you get done, we can work on my refrigerator. 00:06:46.202 --> 00:06:48.242 What's wrong with your refrigerator? What else is wrong with my refrigerator? 00:06:48.602 --> 00:06:50.942 I have an ice machine that apparently works for a union. 00:06:51.842 --> 00:06:56.802 Ugh. Yeah, it like we'll have we won't have ice for like two weeks, not zero. 00:06:57.042 --> 00:07:01.762 So we'll buy like ice from the gas station. And then all of a sudden for like 00:07:01.762 --> 00:07:03.802 three days makes ice like gangbusters. 00:07:04.142 --> 00:07:07.242 Everything's great. We're like, yeah, ice machine works. It's gone. 00:07:08.102 --> 00:07:11.462 That definitely sounds like a year. Yeah, like four days won't make any ice. 00:07:11.522 --> 00:07:12.622 They'll make half a bucket of ice. 00:07:13.561 --> 00:07:17.341 Are you not keeping up with its dues? I guess not. Bro, you need to get on that. I know. 00:07:17.701 --> 00:07:23.301 I don't know. It's quite frustrating because I always catch it at the end of the cycle. 00:07:23.381 --> 00:07:25.821 So I'm like, oh, yeah, I might have some ice. 00:07:26.141 --> 00:07:28.901 There's no ice. We had an ice. Everybody, yeah. 00:07:29.721 --> 00:07:35.221 I've had it worked on once. Hmm. Didn't work. You can't just buy a $30 part? 00:07:35.681 --> 00:07:39.141 I don't know what $30 part to buy. I'm just kidding. I have no idea. 00:07:39.301 --> 00:07:42.541 I mean, like, I replaced the entire ice-making mechanism once. 00:07:43.361 --> 00:07:46.621 Dude, I bet that wasn't cheap. No, it wasn't. But I wanted ice. 00:07:47.201 --> 00:07:50.341 I'm just saying, dude. Yeah, you'll have that. Makes me want to cuss. 00:07:50.981 --> 00:07:52.981 Speaking of which, like that segue there? 00:07:53.661 --> 00:07:55.621 I've heard better. Okay. 00:07:57.401 --> 00:08:00.901 We're talking about cussing tonight. Christian cussing. Christian cussing. 00:08:01.241 --> 00:08:03.081 Should Christians cuss? Christian cussing. 00:08:03.481 --> 00:08:05.761 Yeah. Holy cussing. 00:08:08.581 --> 00:08:11.241 Holy cussing. Wow. Yeah. 00:08:11.501 --> 00:08:15.221 Should Christians cuss? That's one of what about is it okay to, 00:08:15.241 --> 00:08:17.421 you know, use foul language? 00:08:18.741 --> 00:08:21.981 If you haven't, you should pause this podcast right now. 00:08:22.421 --> 00:08:27.461 Pause. Don't leave. Come back. Come back. Google Tim Hawkins Christian cuss words. 00:08:28.001 --> 00:08:32.021 It's amazing. If you haven't heard it, it is definitely worth if we had the 00:08:32.021 --> 00:08:34.301 copyright ability, we would play it for you. 00:08:34.441 --> 00:08:36.761 But I'm sure we'll get muted. 00:08:37.001 --> 00:08:41.341 Oh, yeah, we get shut down. Yeah, it'd be bad. So we won't play it for you. But go Google. 00:08:42.201 --> 00:08:47.181 Christian Cuss Words with Tim Hawkins. Yeah. What's your favorite Christian Cuss Word? 00:08:47.841 --> 00:08:51.821 Oh my. Dude, there were so many words I wasn't allowed to say growing up. 00:08:51.981 --> 00:08:53.061 You weren't allowed to say poop. 00:08:53.941 --> 00:08:58.161 Poop? Man. What could you not say? But. I couldn't say but. Sorry, 00:08:58.161 --> 00:09:01.461 you couldn't say but. Wasn't allowed to say but. Had to say bottom. Gotcha. 00:09:02.241 --> 00:09:04.681 Bottom. But no, fudge. Fudge is a, 00:09:05.657 --> 00:09:10.097 is a good one. Dagnabbit is one of mine. That's a go-to for me. Dagnabbit. 00:09:10.837 --> 00:09:14.417 The old H-E double hockey stick. That's a good one. That's a good one. 00:09:15.077 --> 00:09:17.297 Shoot. Oh, yeah. Shoot. Dang. 00:09:18.377 --> 00:09:23.157 Dang. Darn. Darn. That one's... I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, could be. 00:09:23.577 --> 00:09:29.257 Oh, you brought one up earlier. One of the boys' favorites that I say is, Great Googly Moogly. 00:09:30.217 --> 00:09:33.717 Great Googly Moogly. Great Googly Moogly. And I always say it like that. 00:09:33.717 --> 00:09:37.457 I could be so angry and I still were like, great googly-meggly. 00:09:38.758 --> 00:09:46.558 Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Yeah, there's quite a I mean, really, you can almost you can almost fill in any word. 00:09:46.778 --> 00:09:48.738 Yeah. And someone will know. 00:09:49.058 --> 00:09:54.038 Yeah. Like kind of what your intent is. So funny enough, the person who suggested 00:09:54.038 --> 00:09:56.858 this podcast topic, a friend of the podcast, R.B. Propst. 00:09:57.138 --> 00:10:00.338 I went in to see him. props to rb props props i went 00:10:00.338 --> 00:10:03.358 see rb and he told me that we he asked 00:10:03.358 --> 00:10:06.138 if we would do a podcast on this and i told him that maybe we should play a 00:10:06.138 --> 00:10:08.818 little game oh where we would just you and i would 00:10:08.818 --> 00:10:12.038 say random sentences and we would just bleep out a word and 00:10:12.038 --> 00:10:15.538 you'd have to see like did we actually say a cuss word or not like if we just 00:10:15.538 --> 00:10:20.278 put in the bleep that would be hilarious right yeah so you know like that person's 00:10:20.278 --> 00:10:27.038 a like said watermelon that person's a watermelon yeah have you like Did you 00:10:27.038 --> 00:10:31.098 have a cursing problem at any point in your life? Okay. All right. 00:10:32.518 --> 00:10:38.918 Problem would almost be like that I didn't intend to do it. 00:10:39.258 --> 00:10:43.138 You know what I'm saying? I couldn't stop myself. 00:10:44.238 --> 00:10:46.678 But I'm sorry, Mom, if you're listening. 00:10:48.078 --> 00:10:53.738 But when I was in high school, it was all the rage to cuss. 00:10:53.978 --> 00:10:57.778 I think that's still a thing. Yeah, I'm sure it is. I'm sure it is. But that was the thing. 00:10:59.338 --> 00:11:03.718 So, yes, I would cuss at school. Some would say like a sailor. 00:11:05.078 --> 00:11:07.398 Literally, when I got home, I could flip it off like a switch. 00:11:07.898 --> 00:11:12.798 I wouldn't say, because I wasn't allowed to say butt. I wouldn't say butt. I would say bottom. 00:11:14.858 --> 00:11:19.298 And I'm trying to think. There was one, I think puke. They didn't like when 00:11:19.298 --> 00:11:21.998 we said puke. Okay. So, we had to say barf. 00:11:22.658 --> 00:11:27.198 Dude, I'd rather you say puke. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. 00:11:28.398 --> 00:11:31.758 All right. Have you ever got your mouth washed out with soap? Oh, yeah. 00:11:32.158 --> 00:11:36.638 Dude, you want to talk about nasty. Yeah. Anyway, that's a whole. Yeah. Yeah. 00:11:38.326 --> 00:11:43.146 But yeah, yeah. So, I mean, was it a problem? I mean, I knew what I was doing, 00:11:43.306 --> 00:11:44.426 and I was doing it on purpose. 00:11:45.006 --> 00:11:47.866 Oh, yeah. Should I have been? No, I shouldn't have been. Yeah. 00:11:48.406 --> 00:11:52.826 Yeah. I cussed like a sailor for, especially when I worked in the restaurant 00:11:52.826 --> 00:11:54.046 scene. I mean, everybody did. 00:11:54.306 --> 00:11:56.286 I mean, it's not the excuse, but I mean, it was just like. No, 00:11:56.306 --> 00:11:57.826 understood. I mean, yeah. Construction. 00:11:58.266 --> 00:12:05.286 Yeah. So, I mean, it was all over the place. And so, I had a really filthy mouth for there for a while. 00:12:05.526 --> 00:12:09.286 Yeah. Like you, I was pretty good at. I can still remember the first time that 00:12:09.286 --> 00:12:14.246 I said the F-bomb in front of my father. Oh my. 00:12:14.506 --> 00:12:20.306 I've never done that. Yeah. It was not a good situation. He didn't say anything, but I could tell. 00:12:20.986 --> 00:12:23.866 He was caught off guard. Yeah. 00:12:24.046 --> 00:12:29.226 Let's just say it was before I was walking with Jesus in a really good way, 00:12:29.286 --> 00:12:31.786 and there may have been some beer involved. 00:12:32.386 --> 00:12:35.666 So I was a little loose on the tongue, and I can still remember saying it, 00:12:35.746 --> 00:12:39.126 and I just looked at him, and I was like, wow, that just happened. 00:12:40.686 --> 00:12:46.646 Okay. All right. But seriously though, what, what, like, what really is the 00:12:46.646 --> 00:12:55.066 difference between saying, oh, fudge versus the other F word? 00:12:55.466 --> 00:12:59.986 Yeah. Like what is the real difference other than the actual word that comes 00:12:59.986 --> 00:13:02.426 out of your mouth? Yeah. The intent is the same. 00:13:03.126 --> 00:13:07.166 Right. And that, like, I think Jesus was kind of getting at that, 00:13:07.346 --> 00:13:10.786 like in the Sermon on the Mount, because he's like, oh, if you even say to your 00:13:10.786 --> 00:13:14.426 brother Raka, which, I mean, the closest word we have to that is idiot. 00:13:14.426 --> 00:13:16.686 So that's pretty low on the, yeah, for sure. 00:13:16.766 --> 00:13:20.306 I've probably called somebody an idiot 16 times today. Yeah. 00:13:21.951 --> 00:13:27.151 So, the standard there is pretty low as far as the language goes. 00:13:27.311 --> 00:13:32.571 But he says if you call your brother Raka, then you're guilty of murder. Right? So, I mean. 00:13:34.831 --> 00:13:38.891 Yeah, I mean, you know, and he talks, do not let any, was it, 00:13:38.951 --> 00:13:42.511 unpure talk come from your mouths? Yeah, Ephesians. 00:13:42.851 --> 00:13:45.951 Ephesians, it's like two times right in a row. Ephesians 4.29. 00:13:46.191 --> 00:13:48.131 Don't let any wholesome talk come out of your mouths. There you go. 00:13:48.411 --> 00:13:50.891 But only what's helpful with building others up. I'll talk about that in a second 00:13:50.891 --> 00:13:52.711 because I think that's different than what we think it is. Okay. 00:13:53.091 --> 00:13:57.371 Number two, warning against obscenity, foolish talk, or coarse joking. Okay. 00:13:57.751 --> 00:14:01.651 So that's like right in a row, Ephesians 4, Ephesians 5. I actually think that 00:14:01.651 --> 00:14:03.611 Ephesians 4, 29 is not talking about cursing. 00:14:04.226 --> 00:14:09.746 I think it's talking about gossip and slander and lying, which I find it hilarious, 00:14:09.786 --> 00:14:13.186 like the amount of people who think that cussing is bad, but they don't mind 00:14:13.186 --> 00:14:15.866 gossiping. Oh, yeah, they don't mind gossiping or talking bad about somebody. 00:14:16.026 --> 00:14:20.766 Right, slandering or anything like that. You do understand, unwholesome talk 00:14:20.766 --> 00:14:23.706 isn't just four-letter words. Yes, agreed. 00:14:24.606 --> 00:14:29.626 So I think Ephesians 4.29, because if you – I'm going to open up the old Bible here. 00:14:29.906 --> 00:14:34.786 Okay. If you look at it inside of its whole context. 00:14:38.686 --> 00:14:45.826 Now, I would say, so there's a lot of people, and me, like me personally, 00:14:46.106 --> 00:14:51.726 the one that bothers me the most is hearing someone use the Lord's name in vain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:14:52.006 --> 00:14:56.086 That one there always gives me like, eee, I really don't like that. 00:14:56.186 --> 00:14:56.966 Yeah. You know what I mean? 00:14:57.546 --> 00:15:00.366 So so i kind of i guess i kind of 00:15:00.366 --> 00:15:03.446 differentiate between those between those 00:15:03.446 --> 00:15:06.546 which we can dive into in a little bit so ephesians 4 00:15:06.546 --> 00:15:09.806 started 25 therefore having put away falsehood let each 00:15:09.806 --> 00:15:12.486 one of you speak the truth with his neighbor for your members of one another 00:15:12.486 --> 00:15:16.646 be angry and do not sin to let the sun go down on your anger and give no opportunity 00:15:16.646 --> 00:15:21.006 to the devil let the thief steal no longer let him labor doing honest work with 00:15:21.006 --> 00:15:24.086 his hands so that he may have something to share with anyone need let no corrupting 00:15:24.086 --> 00:15:26.866 talk come out of your mouths but only what is good for building each other up. 00:15:26.946 --> 00:15:30.086 It fits the occasion that may give grace to all those who hear and do not grieve 00:15:30.086 --> 00:15:32.186 the Holy Spirit by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 00:15:32.406 --> 00:15:35.886 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from 00:15:35.886 --> 00:15:37.146 you, along with all malice. 00:15:37.306 --> 00:15:40.886 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as Christ forgave 00:15:40.886 --> 00:15:43.686 you. So I actually think like the unwholesome talk is talking about there. 00:15:43.806 --> 00:15:46.926 I don't think it's talking about cursing. I think it's talking about where it 00:15:46.926 --> 00:15:52.746 talks about let all wrath and anger and bitterness and clamor and slander. 00:15:53.166 --> 00:15:58.566 And up here, talks about be angry and don't sin, put away falsehood, speak the truth in love. 00:15:58.706 --> 00:16:02.746 So I actually think that one is less about cursing. Less about specific words. 00:16:02.926 --> 00:16:08.286 But I mean, to be fair, in biblical times, the words that we say that didn't even exist. 00:16:09.070 --> 00:16:13.530 Right. Right. So, I mean. Right. And that's always the argument that, 00:16:13.610 --> 00:16:16.130 like, I've heard. Sure. Yeah. That's always. I've heard the same. 00:16:16.310 --> 00:16:20.890 Like, whoever decided that this word was bad. Well, I mean, just think. 00:16:21.010 --> 00:16:23.710 So, let's go back. Let's go back 20 years ago. 00:16:24.010 --> 00:16:27.870 Okay. There's all sorts of words that we say now that 20 years ago were like. Well, that's true. 00:16:28.510 --> 00:16:31.730 Completely. That's true. Completely unacceptable. Right. 00:16:32.430 --> 00:16:38.090 There's a lot of even now, like, the stuff with, like, the, like, LGBTQ, all that. 00:16:38.090 --> 00:16:40.950 It's like there's words then that like that's true you're right but you 00:16:40.950 --> 00:16:43.770 didn't say those things 20 years ago but now it's 00:16:43.770 --> 00:16:46.730 okay yeah because it's a you know or like 00:16:46.730 --> 00:16:53.370 even something like like i screwed up oh yeah like oh 20 years ago that that 00:16:53.370 --> 00:16:56.670 was that was pretty close to profanity yeah that's true that was another one 00:16:56.670 --> 00:17:00.330 i wasn't allowed to say growing up yeah yeah screw that or screw this or whatever 00:17:00.330 --> 00:17:04.450 yeah i mean there's and some of that is like culture yeah you know Because, 00:17:04.770 --> 00:17:10.630 again, 20, 25 years ago, like, you couldn't even say, like, hell on TV. 00:17:11.110 --> 00:17:12.910 And now they. 00:17:13.750 --> 00:17:16.690 Yeah, they pretty much say whatever they want, whatever. I mean, 00:17:16.730 --> 00:17:19.630 there's been a couple of things, like, even on, like, not just on TV shows, 00:17:19.670 --> 00:17:21.050 but even on commercials. Where I'm like, what? 00:17:21.730 --> 00:17:25.770 Are you kidding me? Like, we just said that. Like, when I was growing up, 00:17:25.830 --> 00:17:29.710 you couldn't even say that on, like, the 11 o'clock show. Jay Leno couldn't say that. 00:17:31.010 --> 00:17:32.910 Are we watching the HBO? 00:17:36.990 --> 00:17:43.390 Oh but yeah and so that that is like because a lot of the words that we think about, 00:17:44.323 --> 00:17:48.083 They're English words that we've attached words to. So I do think there's some 00:17:48.083 --> 00:17:51.223 truth to that because they're just constructing things. 00:17:51.383 --> 00:17:56.663 And so as a society, we have decided that that word is bad. Right. 00:17:57.403 --> 00:18:02.003 But, you know, one of my favorite ones is in like the Victorian era. 00:18:02.483 --> 00:18:04.703 Leg was considered profanity. 00:18:05.303 --> 00:18:08.263 Really? Yeah. You weren't supposed to say leg. Oh, interesting. 00:18:08.443 --> 00:18:12.283 Yeah. So you could say limb, but like leg was like sexually provocative. 00:18:12.723 --> 00:18:15.423 Really? And so, I mean, I can see how that would fit actually, 00:18:15.623 --> 00:18:17.723 but anyway, let's hold on to the conversation. 00:18:18.403 --> 00:18:22.943 So, I mean, yeah, so language does change. Now, the question is, 00:18:23.063 --> 00:18:24.243 does that let us off the hook? 00:18:24.323 --> 00:18:29.083 Like if something is socially a problem and we've decided as a society it's 00:18:29.083 --> 00:18:35.703 not good, so should we as Christians think about like, you know, what did Paul say? 00:18:35.863 --> 00:18:39.643 Like, oh, eat whatever meat you want unless it causes another brother to stumble, 00:18:39.903 --> 00:18:44.603 then don't eat the meat. And so that that's a that's a whole other question. 00:18:44.943 --> 00:18:50.763 So, yeah, I mean, you know, a lot of times we like I've I've been around plenty 00:18:50.763 --> 00:18:58.603 of people that use certain words and they're not even like people would consider them as bad words, 00:18:59.003 --> 00:19:05.663 cuss words, but they're not using them in in malice or in like they're not angry. 00:19:05.663 --> 00:19:11.623 They're not expressing frustration like they literally just that word is part 00:19:11.623 --> 00:19:12.683 of their vocabulary. Yeah. 00:19:13.301 --> 00:19:19.201 So, so that sentence enhancers, yes, sentence enhancers. That's a good way to put it. 00:19:19.581 --> 00:19:22.581 But like to them, they're like, what? 00:19:22.761 --> 00:19:27.561 Like, that's, that's just how I talk like that, you know, and it's no different 00:19:27.561 --> 00:19:31.101 than like me saying fudge. Yeah. For example. 00:19:31.381 --> 00:19:33.941 Yeah. You know what I mean? So it's like, I don't know. I've, 00:19:33.941 --> 00:19:38.741 I've always kind of beat that one around in my head. 00:19:39.001 --> 00:19:43.001 Like, really, where does this? Yeah. I can still remember like when I first 00:19:43.001 --> 00:19:47.041 got into ministry, my cousin took me to visit a friend of his that he wanted to come to church. 00:19:47.321 --> 00:19:50.421 And he told me like, dude, cuss is like water. Like it just comes. 00:19:50.881 --> 00:19:55.301 And so, yeah, we did. We went and saw him. And he, I mean, he had a woof. 00:19:55.881 --> 00:19:59.261 And like probably 20 minutes into the conversation, he was like, 00:19:59.481 --> 00:20:01.441 dude, I told you he's a pastor. The guy looks like he's like, 00:20:01.521 --> 00:20:02.781 my cousin ain't sending him to hell. 00:20:05.021 --> 00:20:07.561 Fair point. Fair point. But I mean, that's the real question. 00:20:07.561 --> 00:20:13.521 Are using the words that we call cuss words, is that sending you to hell? Right. 00:20:13.781 --> 00:20:17.041 I don't think it's sending you to hell, but I do think there's something to be said about holiness. 00:20:17.441 --> 00:20:20.341 Sure. And it does not bother me. 00:20:21.161 --> 00:20:24.641 So every now, I shouldn't even say every now and then, probably more frequently 00:20:24.641 --> 00:20:27.521 than folks might realize, people will cuss around me. 00:20:27.861 --> 00:20:32.181 And even like, I'll be doing a pastoral counseling session or I'll be like, 00:20:32.321 --> 00:20:34.301 get ready for their funeral, like for loved one's funeral or something. 00:20:34.381 --> 00:20:35.861 And they'll throw out a cuss word. 00:20:35.981 --> 00:20:39.081 And like, at first I like cover their mouth like all over and I'm like look 00:20:39.081 --> 00:20:44.821 you're expressing how you're feeling right now like it does not bother me if 00:20:44.821 --> 00:20:46.881 we were sitting here having this conversation and you were just, 00:20:47.521 --> 00:20:51.581 cussing like nobody's business then maybe we would have a conversation right 00:20:51.581 --> 00:20:57.121 but words are indicators of feelings and so to me there is a difference in you you, 00:20:57.916 --> 00:21:03.756 You cuss, you said a bad word because you were feeling frustrated or you were 00:21:03.756 --> 00:21:11.156 feeling overwhelmed and you are cursing as part of your everyday vocabulary, right? 00:21:11.196 --> 00:21:14.676 There's a difference in I told a lie and I'm a liar. 00:21:15.276 --> 00:21:21.736 Yeah. It's more of like, what is in the heart, in my opinion? Yeah. 00:21:22.056 --> 00:21:26.676 Because now, to be fair, I've met plenty of people that use lots of cuss words 00:21:26.676 --> 00:21:29.596 that their heart is hard. 00:21:30.336 --> 00:21:36.116 Like, and you can, it's not just in the words that they use, it's in the way they act. 00:21:37.376 --> 00:21:43.196 And just the way they talk, not specifically those words, but the way they talk 00:21:43.196 --> 00:21:48.136 about other people to other people, you know, that to me says a lot more than 00:21:48.136 --> 00:21:51.476 just the words that we're talking about. 00:21:52.156 --> 00:21:57.316 The couple exceptions I have, I cannot stand when people cuss around kids. 00:21:57.916 --> 00:22:00.756 Oh, that's fair. No, I agree. Like, I can't stand it. I agree, 00:22:01.016 --> 00:22:02.096 especially at their kids. 00:22:02.196 --> 00:22:07.296 But again, that's yeah, I I like I I was very close to pulling my kids off a 00:22:07.296 --> 00:22:10.476 basketball team one time because the coach was cussing at them. Yeah. 00:22:10.716 --> 00:22:14.496 And I was like, I don't cuss at my children. You're not going to cuss at my children. 00:22:14.716 --> 00:22:19.336 And partially like I think that's just because children don't like they mimic 00:22:19.336 --> 00:22:22.856 behavior and they can say words and they don't even understand what they mean. 00:22:23.236 --> 00:22:27.956 And so as an adult there's kind of like some informed consent for the most part 00:22:27.956 --> 00:22:30.736 like most of us are kind of the place where we know that that word's a bad word 00:22:30.736 --> 00:22:33.636 and we know if we use it it's going to have this effect I think when you cuss 00:22:33.636 --> 00:22:37.656 around children you begin to make it normal yeah you're right and they really 00:22:37.656 --> 00:22:40.996 I mean how many times have you heard a little kid say a word right they don't 00:22:40.996 --> 00:22:42.516 even know what they're saying right yeah, 00:22:43.536 --> 00:22:48.236 I do wish that we would have less cursing in like the public sphere like I don't 00:22:48.236 --> 00:22:53.136 like cuss words on t-shirts I don't like cuss words on bumper stickers okay that bothers me. 00:22:53.296 --> 00:22:55.476 I think, again, that's like that, like, like, 00:22:55.999 --> 00:23:02.579 you know, everybody sees that. And I just think it's, it's very demoralizing, 00:23:02.579 --> 00:23:03.939 you know, to see those things. 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:08.459 I struggle with that, you know, like, you know, it, it wouldn't, 00:23:08.499 --> 00:23:12.219 it's funny because if somebody used a cuss word at me, it wouldn't necessarily 00:23:12.219 --> 00:23:14.319 bother me as much as like somebody who has another t-shirt. 00:23:14.499 --> 00:23:16.779 It's just like, ah, dude, like, come on, like, we all have to read that. 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:19.739 Yeah, you're right. I mean, that, that, that is probably a little, 00:23:19.739 --> 00:23:22.899 a little distasteful, I would say. 00:23:23.159 --> 00:23:26.579 Yeah. Yeah. But there's plenty of other things that can be distasteful without 00:23:26.579 --> 00:23:28.879 using bad words. Absolutely. So, I mean, the same is true. 00:23:29.139 --> 00:23:32.719 Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. I think it's just that, like, I have a choice 00:23:32.719 --> 00:23:36.679 to engage in certain conversations, and I don't if it's all over the back of 00:23:36.679 --> 00:23:38.559 your car and now, you know. 00:23:39.059 --> 00:23:48.239 You know, so I do not, like, if Christians use curse words, it doesn't bother me personally. 00:23:49.059 --> 00:23:53.359 I do not use them. I mean, I do not use them on a regular basis. 00:23:53.999 --> 00:23:59.519 The other side is like, so one of my favorite sermons I have ever heard was 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:03.619 by a pastor by the name of Perry Noble. 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:08.699 Anyway, forget his name. Anyway, he gets out on the sermon and he stands up 00:24:08.699 --> 00:24:12.599 and this guy's kind of like known for like shock jock stuff. 00:24:12.779 --> 00:24:14.639 Okay. And he gets up and he was like, 00:24:15.435 --> 00:24:20.155 You guys all have neighbors and relatives and people in your family who are 00:24:20.155 --> 00:24:23.655 going to hell and you could give us about it. 00:24:23.775 --> 00:24:27.835 Like says the word in the pulpit and the whole church goes silent. 00:24:27.995 --> 00:24:31.695 He's like, and you will spend longer talking about the fact that I just said 00:24:31.695 --> 00:24:33.815 the S word. Then your neighbor is going to hell. 00:24:35.935 --> 00:24:39.315 That's true. And that was his whole sermon. Like he just talked about like the 00:24:39.315 --> 00:24:45.515 priority of getting to know the lost. And I was like, that's crazy that he did that. 00:24:45.715 --> 00:24:48.875 But there is something to be said about that. Like, you know, 00:24:48.975 --> 00:24:53.435 I wouldn't do that. But that shock of like, yeah, holy smoke. 00:24:53.935 --> 00:25:00.755 How about one of the ones that I think about is in Philippians chapter three, verse eight. 00:25:01.595 --> 00:25:08.435 I'd like to get your opinion on this one. Oh, OK. Philippians chapter three, verse eight. Paul says. 00:25:12.735 --> 00:25:18.735 He uses the word but whatever this is verse 8 indeed I count everything as lost 00:25:18.735 --> 00:25:22.915 because of their passing worth of knowing Christ Jesus for his sake I have suffered 00:25:22.915 --> 00:25:27.175 the loss of all things and count them as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ 00:25:27.175 --> 00:25:32.335 and be found in him so the word that Paul uses there is, 00:25:33.935 --> 00:25:36.655 skupulon or I don't know if I'm pronouncing that 00:25:36.655 --> 00:25:39.475 right sure but it is considered in original Greek 00:25:39.475 --> 00:25:42.255 it's a vulgar word okay it would be something like 00:25:42.255 --> 00:25:45.415 is it really meant dung or trash okay 00:25:45.415 --> 00:25:51.155 okay and so paul actually uses a bit of a vulgar word even in we read that we 00:25:51.155 --> 00:25:54.175 read rubbish because that's how it's translated but for his original listeners 00:25:54.175 --> 00:25:58.455 that's a pretty like could have been the s word right for example right it was 00:25:58.455 --> 00:26:05.035 really a no-no word so he kind of uses some pretty strong language to drive a point Yeah, 00:26:05.195 --> 00:26:10.575 to express the importance of said topic. 00:26:10.855 --> 00:26:12.735 Yeah. Right. Thoughts on that? 00:26:13.788 --> 00:26:17.848 You know, I'm not going to lie. I have been in some situations where 00:26:17.848 --> 00:26:32.388 maybe a not so good word was used in a similar situation to make a point similar 00:26:32.388 --> 00:26:35.028 to the pastor, that sermon that you're talking about. 00:26:35.688 --> 00:26:41.248 And in some instances, I mean, you know, if you're using it every day and every 00:26:41.248 --> 00:26:45.168 day conversation, it actually it loses it. 00:26:45.348 --> 00:26:49.868 You lose the importance as strange as the sounds that we're having this conversation. 00:26:50.748 --> 00:26:56.288 But like, for example, OK, so so I used to, like I said, in high school, cuss a lot. 00:26:56.448 --> 00:27:01.808 I was just I mean, we just we literally would sing songs. 00:27:01.988 --> 00:27:05.808 All they had was bad words in them. and like we did that on purpose because it was funny, 00:27:06.328 --> 00:27:11.968 but like now most people would say when they see me at work or they talk to 00:27:11.968 --> 00:27:15.128 me they're like oh that's right you don't cuss you don't cuss like so they'll 00:27:15.128 --> 00:27:17.908 try not to cuss around me but. 00:27:18.856 --> 00:27:23.876 And again, not saying that this is necessarily right, but if I use a word that 00:27:23.876 --> 00:27:29.136 people think is a bad word to get a point across or like everybody's like, 00:27:29.256 --> 00:27:32.636 whoa, we need to listen to this. 00:27:32.996 --> 00:27:37.036 Right. You know what I mean? Not saying that that's right or that's okay, 00:27:37.036 --> 00:27:44.276 but in the same sense that Paul used a word that was considered a dirty word to drive a point home. 00:27:44.436 --> 00:27:48.356 I do think there's some value there. I mean, as crazy as that might sound to 00:27:48.356 --> 00:27:53.836 a lot of people, I mean, I personally think that Paul using that word was intentional 00:27:53.836 --> 00:27:57.856 to get, like, this is how serious this is. Yeah. 00:27:58.336 --> 00:28:02.516 It reminds me of, like, we had a coach growing up that he never raised his voice. 00:28:02.536 --> 00:28:05.176 Like, he even killed all the time. 00:28:05.396 --> 00:28:08.456 And, like, the first time he yelled at us, we were like, because, 00:28:08.456 --> 00:28:11.416 you know, some coaches just yell to yell. Yeah, true. 00:28:11.576 --> 00:28:14.136 And it was like, oh, my gosh, we better speak up, right? 00:28:14.656 --> 00:28:20.436 I do think that a lot of times the language that we use is not about us, it's about others. 00:28:21.436 --> 00:28:26.076 Whether that's fair or not, we won't get into on this podcast. Sure. But... 00:28:26.463 --> 00:28:29.563 I do think there's something to be said that scripture referenced before about 00:28:29.563 --> 00:28:32.983 Paul, where he's like, you know, should you eat food sacrificed to idols? 00:28:33.123 --> 00:28:33.963 Well, idols aren't real. 00:28:34.163 --> 00:28:36.723 And so that food really was sacrificed to nothing. 00:28:36.963 --> 00:28:41.163 So eat what you want, unless there's somebody who's going to stumble because 00:28:41.163 --> 00:28:42.663 you do it and then don't do it. For sure. 00:28:42.803 --> 00:28:48.443 And so I might not have a problem with somebody using those words in moderation. 00:28:49.403 --> 00:28:52.663 But if somebody else does, then we probably shouldn't use them. Yeah. 00:28:53.463 --> 00:28:56.863 And I want to go back to about what's in the heart. 00:28:57.643 --> 00:29:02.143 I think there's a lot to be said for that because, I mean, 00:29:02.323 --> 00:29:06.903 how many times have you run across somebody you can just tell that their heart 00:29:06.903 --> 00:29:13.883 is hurting and they're saying bad things, not even necessarily bad words, 00:29:13.883 --> 00:29:15.943 but just the way they act, 00:29:16.083 --> 00:29:18.463 the way they talk, you can tell that they're hurting. 00:29:19.383 --> 00:29:22.583 So, yeah, there's something to be said to be said for that, we need to meet 00:29:22.583 --> 00:29:24.303 those people where they are for sure. 00:29:25.063 --> 00:29:28.183 Same way with everybody else who's maybe not using those words, 00:29:28.243 --> 00:29:29.143 but you know what I'm saying. 00:29:29.983 --> 00:29:34.563 Well, the thing is like, words are constructs. 00:29:35.358 --> 00:29:39.218 I remember in seminary, we talked a lot about the symbol and the sign, right? Yeah. 00:29:39.658 --> 00:29:43.518 Words are the things that we have attached to the world around us. 00:29:43.798 --> 00:29:50.018 Mm-hmm. So, a cloud is the word that we use for that thing God made in the sky. 00:29:50.898 --> 00:29:55.938 It is a different word in 18 different languages, right? Sure. 00:29:56.098 --> 00:29:59.758 But they do indicate something. So, if I say this is a chair, 00:30:00.098 --> 00:30:03.998 it is the word that I use to talk about this object that I'm sitting on. 00:30:04.238 --> 00:30:12.198 Mm-hmm. So, if we use that same concept, curse words can be indicators of something deeper. 00:30:12.798 --> 00:30:15.778 You know, somebody has to use that kind of language. Like, to me, 00:30:15.958 --> 00:30:20.738 it talks a lot about, like, how they try to get their point across. 00:30:20.738 --> 00:30:23.978 Or sometimes I feel like the people who cuss the most are people who haven't 00:30:23.978 --> 00:30:25.378 been heard the most in their lives. 00:30:25.938 --> 00:30:31.298 Okay. And so they've had to almost resort to cursing to feel like they're being 00:30:31.298 --> 00:30:32.978 heard or to get their point across. 00:30:33.938 --> 00:30:37.398 That's just something I've noticed yeah it's an interesting thought yeah I never 00:30:37.398 --> 00:30:42.478 considered it and so I do think I do hate the fact that we've moved to a place 00:30:42.478 --> 00:30:47.138 where it's more and more like normal oh you're right it's definitely been normalized, 00:30:47.998 --> 00:30:53.178 oh yes I remember like when I was working at Dairy Queen like if I cussed at 00:30:53.178 --> 00:30:58.438 a like if a customer heard me cuss I was losing my job and now like, 00:30:59.118 --> 00:31:04.058 it's I hear cashiers use that language all the time yeah sure And it's just like, okay, whatever. 00:31:04.298 --> 00:31:08.638 But all that to say, I do think that the Ephesians 4.29 verse where it talks 00:31:08.638 --> 00:31:10.898 about it gives grace to all who hears. 00:31:11.038 --> 00:31:14.978 Like it puts the emphasis on who's hearing you talk. It's not just about if 00:31:14.978 --> 00:31:18.918 you're okay with it or if you think it's right or wrong, but is it graceful? 00:31:19.766 --> 00:31:25.606 Is it nullifying your witness for Christ? And it's funny because there's a pastor 00:31:25.606 --> 00:31:28.346 who many, many years ago wrote a lot of really good books. 00:31:28.886 --> 00:31:33.546 And I remember there was another book that came out and it talked about the cursing pastor. 00:31:34.066 --> 00:31:37.366 And they never used his name. They just talked about like there was this pastor 00:31:37.366 --> 00:31:39.846 that everybody loved, but he cursed all the time. 00:31:39.946 --> 00:31:45.786 And his thing was, if I cuss, then it makes me more relatable to the people 00:31:45.786 --> 00:31:46.526 who don't come to church. 00:31:47.606 --> 00:31:51.206 Oh, interesting thought. Yeah. And then it came out on who it was. 00:31:51.286 --> 00:31:52.546 And it was like this dude who like, 00:31:52.706 --> 00:31:55.086 you would have never thought that like reading his books or anything. 00:31:55.506 --> 00:31:59.166 And they like confronted him about it. And he was like, you know, 00:31:59.546 --> 00:32:01.106 they're just words like it doesn't matter. 00:32:01.186 --> 00:32:05.086 And then they like played all these people who have like walked away from God, 00:32:05.286 --> 00:32:08.786 walk away from opportunities from the church because of his language. 00:32:08.966 --> 00:32:12.366 And they were like, it really offended me that you talk that way, 00:32:12.446 --> 00:32:13.546 like you're supposed to be different. 00:32:14.066 --> 00:32:18.186 And so him using that words wasn't even about his conscious it was about theirs 00:32:18.186 --> 00:32:25.626 oh and that's what lays it on its head right wow interesting i'll tell you what i definitely, 00:32:26.266 --> 00:32:31.586 has made me think a lot more tonight this conversation than i thought it would honestly, 00:32:32.246 --> 00:32:39.226 very a lot of things to to consider yeah for sure how'd you how'd you stop using bad language. 00:32:39.706 --> 00:32:43.226 How did I stop? Yeah. Did you just stop? Yeah. Honestly, yeah, 00:32:43.306 --> 00:32:46.926 because the only reason I was doing it, like I said, when I was in school, 00:32:47.146 --> 00:32:50.126 was to fit in or to be funny or to... 00:32:51.652 --> 00:32:56.992 Just because everybody else did it. I mean, that's literally why I did it for no other reason. 00:32:57.552 --> 00:33:01.032 And so one day I just flipped the switch off and it stayed off. 00:33:01.092 --> 00:33:04.972 I don't remember exactly when it happened or exactly why it happened. 00:33:05.072 --> 00:33:08.832 I was just like, yeah, yeah, I don't need to do all this. Okay. 00:33:09.232 --> 00:33:12.512 Yeah. That sounds weird. But I mean, honestly, that's what I can. 00:33:12.652 --> 00:33:14.012 I'm glad I worked for you. Yeah. 00:33:16.232 --> 00:33:20.772 I put a rubber band around my wrist. Oh, that's it. I've heard lots of people 00:33:20.772 --> 00:33:25.012 doing that. And every time I said a cuss word, I had to. Yeah, had to snap it. Yep. 00:33:25.512 --> 00:33:28.012 Which is funny because a couple of times I think I said a cuss word because 00:33:28.012 --> 00:33:29.112 I slapped the rubber band. 00:33:32.212 --> 00:33:35.092 Oh, my goodness. It didn't take long. It didn't take long. 00:33:35.352 --> 00:33:38.292 Yeah. Kind of like it was just more about like, just a dirty habit. 00:33:38.332 --> 00:33:42.592 Yeah, it was really just, I mean, literally, it was just to fit in. 00:33:42.732 --> 00:33:47.212 I mean, how many other things do we do just to fit in or to be cool or whatever? 00:33:48.152 --> 00:33:54.732 So really I think in God's eyes it's all the same whatever those things are, 00:33:55.692 --> 00:34:00.152 I'll put out one more scripture for us to think about James chapter 3. 00:34:01.232 --> 00:34:07.852 It's like 1 to like 8 or so that all talks about it but it's specifically talking 00:34:07.852 --> 00:34:13.512 about the tongue it says for we all stumble in many ways and if anyone does 00:34:13.512 --> 00:34:16.632 not stumble in what he says he's a perfect man able to bridle his whole body 00:34:16.632 --> 00:34:20.312 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, 00:34:20.532 --> 00:34:22.992 we will guide their bodies as well. Look at the ships. 00:34:23.212 --> 00:34:27.432 Oh, they are so large. They are driven by strong winds. They are guided by a very small rudder. 00:34:27.732 --> 00:34:32.772 Whoever is in the will of pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, 00:34:33.012 --> 00:34:35.112 yet it boasts of great things. 00:34:35.392 --> 00:34:40.072 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among 00:34:40.072 --> 00:34:44.652 our members, staining the whole 00:34:44.652 --> 00:34:48.172 body, setting on fire the entire course of life and set on fire by hell. 00:34:49.087 --> 00:34:53.487 There is something to say about, I think it is a discipline that lots of us 00:34:53.487 --> 00:34:57.487 need to learn to control our tongue, not just curse words, but again, 00:34:57.487 --> 00:35:00.267 lying, slander, gossip, right? 00:35:00.767 --> 00:35:04.547 But, you know, you'll hear people like, well, this is just how I talk. 00:35:04.687 --> 00:35:09.087 Well, the scriptures does do kind of point to us that we need to control our tongue. 00:35:09.827 --> 00:35:14.707 So I do think that we as Christians need to pay attention to that. 00:35:14.867 --> 00:35:19.107 I agree 100%. Yes, not just with the four letters, but with all of them, 00:35:19.387 --> 00:35:21.047 you know, with everything we say. 00:35:21.147 --> 00:35:24.487 I mean, like I said, not like to build others up. 00:35:25.087 --> 00:35:30.767 I mean, that right there, like if you were to put everything to the litmus test 00:35:30.767 --> 00:35:34.467 that you say is what I'm saying, building others up. 00:35:35.007 --> 00:35:39.567 Yeah. And that's that's really what it comes down to. It doesn't necessarily mean. 00:35:41.093 --> 00:35:46.113 Bad word or what word that I say. It's everything in the whole. 00:35:46.213 --> 00:35:47.613 Is it building someone else up? 00:35:47.873 --> 00:35:50.293 It's the lipid test we need to put it to. Absolutely. 00:35:50.973 --> 00:35:56.173 Let's end this podcast with two challenges. Okay. First is serious and the other one's kind of fun. 00:35:56.753 --> 00:36:00.373 Okay. The serious one is maybe if you have a cursing problem, 00:36:01.253 --> 00:36:04.453 maybe fast from saying cuss words for a week. 00:36:04.813 --> 00:36:10.793 Okay. And just see if you notice a difference in how you feel or how people approach you. 00:36:11.233 --> 00:36:14.993 You know, maybe just like make that conscious decision. You probably slip up, 00:36:15.113 --> 00:36:16.713 but you know, I'm going to really try not to. 00:36:16.913 --> 00:36:20.373 Sure. One of the things that helped me is I stopped listening to music with cuss words in it. 00:36:20.533 --> 00:36:23.253 That really helped. Yeah, that was a long time. But, you know, 00:36:23.293 --> 00:36:26.793 just cut out the curse words for a week and see what that feels like. 00:36:27.153 --> 00:36:30.333 The other challenge is, do you have a favorite Christian cuss word, 00:36:30.493 --> 00:36:32.693 a light cuss word, a Christian alternative, if you will? 00:36:33.093 --> 00:36:38.253 A light, a light Christian. If you do comment on the comment on this podcast 00:36:38.253 --> 00:36:42.913 and tell us what your favorite light cuss word is PG 13 version. 00:36:43.153 --> 00:36:47.153 Oh my goodness. Of your favorite curse word. It's been fun, dude. 00:36:47.833 --> 00:36:51.973 This, like I said, this is real, really made me think a lot more than I thought 00:36:51.973 --> 00:36:55.613 it would. Honestly, a barrel full of monkeys, a barrel full of monkeys. 00:36:55.893 --> 00:36:57.033 I hope you have a good rest of the week. 00:37:00.673 --> 00:37:05.433 Thanks again for tuning in to life on 11. We hope today's discussion gave you 00:37:05.433 --> 00:37:08.613 something powerful to think about and apply to your walk with Christ. 00:37:08.833 --> 00:37:13.173 If you enjoyed the conversation, the best way you can support the show is to 00:37:13.173 --> 00:37:16.333 share, like, and comment wherever you listen to your podcast. 00:37:16.713 --> 00:37:21.253 And don't forget to connect with us. 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