TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - Nov 19, 2025 - Proverbs 16:23-25 - When the Heart Teaches the Tongue

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

Proverbs 16:23–25 exposes the profound connection between the heart, the tongue, and the path of life. A wise heart governs its words, adding learning and grace to the lips. Pleasant speech becomes a honeycomb—sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. Yet the section ends with a sober warning: a way may seem right to a man, but its end is the way of death. In today’s Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart examine how inner wisdom shapes outward speech, how gracious words heal, and how dangerous self-guided paths can be without the direction of God’s truth.Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc BurkhartYou can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-888-519-4935, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today!www.megafire.worldGet high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!www.AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!www.Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!www.books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Morning Manna. We invite you to study the Word of God with us, and us are Christians all over the world, your brothers and sisters in many nations gathered here every morning at faith and values.com to be part of a global, virtual Bible study class every Monday through Friday. We are working our way through the book of Proverbs. We're now in the 16th chapter. We have been in it for a long time this year, and we've learned a lot. At least I have. I've learned a lot in preparing and teaching the class, and I hope all of our students are learning a lot also. So yesterday we didn't finish our cluster of proverbs. I was trying to do verses 21 through 25. We only did 21 and 22.

so we're going to pick up at Proverbs 16 verse 23 and the next cluster is 26 through 29. So, Doc, I'm going to have you read 23 through 29. We'll see how many of these verses that we get through today. We're not under any pressure to meet any deadline. We're working our way through the scriptures as the Lord leads us. And so if it takes us another six months to finish the book of Proverbs, that's the way it is. We're going to learn. Let's pray, Father God, our wonderful Father in heaven.

Father, thank you for saving our souls. Thank you for writing our names in your book of life. Thank you for giving us your son, Jesus Christ, who made a way for us to go home with you. Thank you for sending your precious Holy Spirit to be the governor of the church to dwell inside each of us and be our companion, our friend, our guide, our comforter, our teacher. Father, we're desirous to know more about your word, so we submit to your Holy Spirit. We invite the Spirit to take charge of this class and teach all of us. In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, amen. Amen. And we're so privileged to have you here with us today.

Hundreds of people gather every morning live to hear the Word of God being taught. You're among them today if you're here with us live. And we appreciate you being here. All over the world, literally all of the world, from Russia to places in Africa, all across Southeast Asia, and of course, all across the U.S. and Canada. we welcome you here today to this live edition of Morning Manna. Today we continue our study in Proverbs chapter 16, Proverbs chapter 16, and we're going to pick back up on verse 23 today.

And I'm going to be reading through verse 29 this morning. I encourage you follow along with me. I'm reading from the King James, whatever version you're reading today. I encourage you to read out loud today. You've been amazed at how the Lord speaks to you when you read. read the word out loud. So I'm a firm believer in that. So let's read out loud, shall we? Verse 23, chapter 16, the heart of the wives teacheth his mouth and addeth learning to his lips. Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones.

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. He that labroth, labroth for himself, for his mouth craving. it of him. An ungodly man diggeth up evil, and in his lips there is as a burning fire. A forward man soeth strife, and a whisperer separated chief friends. And then verse 29, A violent man enticeth his neighbor, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. God bless the reading of his word today. Amen. Well, how many of you passed the sweet lips test yesterday? Doc, did you make it? I thought I did pretty good.

Lorraine tried. All right. Janet was almost. I'm with you, Janet. I was doing pretty good there. And then I was doing pretty good there and then i i forgot about being mr sweet lips and i had to i had to repent so we have to think about it all the time don't we cheryl said yes i tried very so so today we're going to continue that theme about being mr or mrs sweet lips and and we're going to learn a lot here about what the Lord is teaching us about the words of our mouth. So, Proverbs 23, the heart otherwise teach us his mouth and addeth learning to his lips.

This says your mouth has to be taught. You know, that's true. You have to teach your mouth. because naturally it does not want to follow any order at all so does that mean your mouth has a mind of its own and it has to be educated trained taught what is right and wrong it has to be disciplined your mouth the heart of the wise teaches his mouth Amen. That's the key there. The Septuagin says, The heart of the wise will consider the things which proceed out of his mouth

and on his lips he will wear knowledge. Let's begin with the first part, the heart of the wise. Okay, so we've covered this a lot. The heart, the seat of your being, your soul your thoughts your motives it's you at the core of who you are is your heart so it's your heart the heart of the wise man a wise woman is in the inner control room

think of the heart as the central headquarters of your life all the control switches all the levers everything it's all running inside the heart that's where everything is directed so the the heart is the root of speech what we say comes from our heart so wisdom begins internally renewing the heart we are we're being we're being instructed to renew our mind with the word of God

to renew the heart and to reform the tongue. Your tongue needs to be sent to reform school. I like that. It's an unruly student. It's a misfit. Your tongue needs to go to obedience school. Just like you take. your dog to obedience school.

If you don't take your dog to obedience school, that critter will just run wild. It'll just do whatever it wants to do, because it's an animal. So obedience school civilizes an animal and brings the animal into the captivity of human culture.

If you're going to live in the house of a human, this is how you have to behave. So when I had my golden retriever gator, you know, we sent him to obedience school. And he learned quickly. And things like when I opened the door, he automatically knew not to barge. ahead and get in front of me or any other human and run inside. He knew to wait. He had to be taught. He had to be trained.

That it was improper to push your way past humans and go in the door first. But had he not been sent to obedience school, he would have done it every day. This is telling us that your heart must train your tongue how to behave. If not, your tongue will just do whatever an animal will do. Uneducated, lack of discipline, no sense of decorum, what's right and wrong, it's an unruly member of your body. The tongue is a wild critter. So it's teaching us that the heart must educate our tongue.

Okay? That's what this is about. The wise in heart. Now, we are you, I jumped. It took me to another verse, Doc. Hang on. I'm back in my notes moved and took me way back to another verse. I'm looking at my notes and I go, wait a minute, I already taught those things.

Apologize. My computer is not acting right today. Very unusual as I'm navigating it. Okay. Okay. I'm back. So what we're being taught is the heart of the wise man or woman has a responsibility to educate his or her mouth, his or her tongue. Doctor, we've never really thought about it this way.

The God assignment to each of us to educate your mouth. that's what this verse is teaching um have you ever thought about putting your mouth in school have you ever developed a curriculum for your mouth have you ever given a test to your mouth to see if it's learning anything have you ever disciplined your mouth But we're being told here to educate our mouth. So how does this happen, right? Well, it comes about through the Word of God. Amen.

By studying the Word of God, letting the Word get down deep inside of you. Okay. And if you don't know the Word, if you don't know God's, what are the rules of His house? Everybody has rules for their home. Everybody has rules for their home. God has rules for his home. And if you're going to live in his house someday,

you have to know his rules. And how you talk is a really big issue to the Lord. Because the way most of us talk on earth is not. going to cut it. It's just not going to make it when Christ comes back. It's just not going to be allowed. Doc, are a lot of us going to be in a heavenly ding-dong school for a thousand years? I mean, are we going to be, hey, you're going to have to go to kindergarten for about a thousand years to learn how to talk. I mean,

our speech is not going to be permitted in the presence of the Lord. Just ponder that today. How much of your speech that you utter daily would be acceptable in the presence of the Lord? Well, the Holy Spirit, is present with us anyhow. Right. But when Christ comes back and establishes his kingdom on an earth that will never pass away a new earth, is the way that you speak today acceptable in his presence?

If not, you should put your mouth in school. Because if you don't do it, it's going to be. be done later we're going to be taught how to speak in the presence of God so it requires vigilance

we have to guard the heart and guide the tongue those are the two things guard the heart and guide the tongue so the wise and heart teaches his mouth instructs his mouth we'll consider the things which proceed

out of his mouth teaches his mouth means instructs disciplines directs the heart is the speech coach so your heart has to be right in order to coach your mouth how to talk that's a good point

I like that the mouth is saying hey I'm just talking like you the mouth says to the heart what's your problem I'm talking like you you see the heart has to say to the mouth you're not allowed to say that You're not, you're not permitted to talk that way. So I also thought about this this morning.

The heart is in control of the volume. The frequency and the volume. Yes. It's like the, the heart has a remote control. on the mouth can turn up or turn down the volume so when your mouth gets elevated and your voice gets elevated and you start getting upset well the heart is not using the remote control it's your heart that controls the volume of your mouth the heart has their remote control that that controls the the speed of your mouth slow or fast the timing your heart controls the

your heart holding a remote control that governs your mouth see we can't say well i shot off my mouth because that's just the way i am no this means your heart permitted it and the heart is the seat of your being it's who you are and if your mouth did that that's who you are and if you don't like what came out of your mouth then you can change it you're not none of us are are sentenced that you have to be this way the rest of your life this is the this is the joy of our salvation we can change we can change the holy spirit is here with us every day to change us right to improve us so that we are the best representatives of Christ that we can be on this earth and then that we are

excellent citizens in the kingdom of God when Christ returns so we're being taught here that speech is learned and that wise hearts train their tongues through practice repetition discipline restraint the heart the wise heart anticipates the wise heart filters the wise heart forms words before the mouth releases them when we get in trouble is when our mouth just starts running and we just start saying whatever comes out of our mouth right and and it's usually never edifying right and then we have to go behind her mouth with a shovel and clean it up and wonder why why are things not going well well you know what your mouth just did look

behind your mouth okay go get to shovel and clean it up think of the heart teaching the mouth as wisdom's bridle it controls

the wild horse of speech right and that's how James described the mouth the tongue fools let their lips run wild wise men and women reign them in

we have to constantly ask ourselves and this is what requires not only daily discipline but hourly and minute by minute discipline Does my heart approve these words? You know, Doc, how television, radio stations, they don't do it so much today, but with paid advertising, like an infomercial.

That'll say, the views expressed in this program do not necessarily represent the views of the station. owners and managers of the station right okay or it's advertising well do the words of your mouth represent the views of your heart so that's the question we have to ask ourselves all day long don't say something without thinking about what you're going to say what's the impact how's it going to sound what's the impact on other people after you say it are you going to be glad you said it so we have to think through what we're saying so the wise and heart teaches his or her mouth okay we have to discipline her mouth

We have to rebuke blurting things out. An untrained mouth will wound. Just like an undisciplined dog will bite people. Would you keep a dog in your house that bites people? Unless you want to, as a guard dog and you don't want anybody to ever visit. because that's people that do this that's the way you're going to live right nobody will be around you

so so an untrained mouth wounds people but a trained mouth heals people so keep this thought in your mind think twice speak once think twice speak once if you think twice you're more likely

to only speak something that you're glad you said or glad you didn't say we know that we know all the damages that an unruly mouth can cause gossip slander anger lies accusations divisions, strife.

These are all the fruits of an unruly mouth. Now, and addeth learning to his lips. The Septuagin says and on his lips

he will wear knowledge. My version of the Septuagin says and adds grace to his lips. And he will add grace to his lips? Yes. Okay. And I have the Brown Fawcett version of Tuogen. So I don't know why they translate that as grace instead of learning. But it's interesting. So. Let's start with ads learning.

It means it you increase your persuasiveness, your effectiveness. The, receptivity of your communication the wise in heart adds learning to his or her lips it means that your your words become more effective that your speech becomes a vehicle to impart wisdom not just words yes we should be our words should be like amazon delivery vehicles filled with wisdom think of your words as an amazon truck and you're delivering wisdom to people that's what this means ads learning

Your words become more effective, more persuasive, and they're more likely to be received by others. Right. So wise speech teaches others. The listeners learn and the speaker grows. Both receive a blessing. The wise speaker is blessed, and of course, The listener of the wise speaker is blessed. Truth.

Truth lambs. In the ears of another person, it sticks. And then it spreads in that other person's life. And it produces a fruit. every word spoken by God, he said none of them return void. What does that mean? Not one. What does that mean?

God speaks words for a purpose of producing something he desires, and not one of his words come home empty. Right. When at the beginning of Genesis, he said, let there be like. And that command has been going on since. think about that there's still light being created out there somewhere at the edges of the universe

he's never he's never retracted those words right and Doc I believe that when Christ comes back and it says the universe the cosmos is rolled up like a scroll

yes the stars the lights of the stars the sun the moon everything everything all everything goes black i i believe what happens is he rescinds his words he calls him back a light come back and the universe is being rolled up it's just responding to his word and then he speaks a new universe a new earth a new heaven not not he's not modeling this one. No, it's brand new heaven, new earth. So if anyone teaches that it's a do-over or fixer-up or something like that, they don't understand the scripture. This is a new

heaven and a new earth that is being created. What we're being taught in these verses yesterday and today is that sweet lips open hearts. Yes. And bitter lips close ears. if you're constantly speaking bitter words people are not going to listen to you but when you speak with sweet lips their ears and their hearts open it's just that simple every one of us need to

reflect on the words that we're speaking to each individual Because it's, look, the way we, the way we are as humans, okay, we may treat most people completely different than the way we treat one or two individuals. All right. So think about that. Are you treating everybody? Everybody. Is there anybody in your life that you are mistreating with your words?

I just think about that. Is there one or two people in your life that you are deliberately mistreating with your words? Well, what's the fruit that you're getting? How's it working out for you? You might want to consider changing your words. That person may respond to you differently. your words may be creating the very reaction that you don't desire correct and then you're condemning the person for the reaction but they're simply reacting to your bitter words

I'm going to skip the commentators today. I'm just going to try to move a little bit faster here. Verse 24, pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, healing to the bones. Let's start with the first. part pleasant words are as a honeycomb well have you ever have you ever held a honeycomb when it's full of honey not one that's dried out but one one that's full of fresh honey the honey is oozing out of it it's just running if you hold in your hands the honey's just

run down your hands in your arm. There's so much honey in it. That's what this is saying. Pleasant words are like a honeycomb. Sweet honey is just oozing out. It can't do anything else except ooze out sweet honey. Right. Pleasant words.

Pleasant words are honeycomb. not mean words you can't say well i i spoke the truth of that person they didn't like it the truth is the truth well that's did you do it with pleasant words did you speak the truth with pleasant words it doesn't say not to speak to truth it says speak the truth with pleasant words pleasant words are gracious they're kind they're spoken in love they're spoken in in due season there's a time to speak certain things and there's a time not to say things

Doc, this came to my mind this morning. Words, words come with flavor. You can just think of an assortment of words and what flavor do you desire. We all have our favorite flavors. and food you know for pies my favorite flavor flavor is it's cherry pies i love cherry pies i love wild berry pies i like that flavor i like the flavor of tomato sauce and pasta they're there they're flavors i like i like hot seasoning these are flavors your words have flavor

this is saying our words should have the flavor of honey pure golden sweet nourishing john the baptist lived on honey just so yeah honey and and insects I guess if you'd enough honey on a bug you can eat it it's just a dive right down so anyway okay John I'll go but I got it but I got to I'm gonna dip that bug twice before I eat it you know so if if pleasant words are honey the flavor sweet

all so smooth I tell you the the most flavorable honey I've ever tasted came from Jordan oh yes I know what you're talking about oh doc I can't even describe it there's just something different about it isn't there

whatever those bees are using for pollen it is awesome I don't know if it's from olive trees I don't know but that flavor it's distinct is absolutely different from any honey I've ever tasted in the world right but if pleasant words taste like honey What do bitter, mean-spirited, negative words taste like?

Vineker? Sour? Harsh, bitter, a vinegar taste? So words are not neutral. they each word has a flavor see this is going to I hope this makes each of us think about it during the day what flavor am I putting on this word I'm about to speak just see your seasoning box in your kitchen your tray of seasonings what are you putting on this word you're going to say I'm going to sprinkle it with some meanness because I don't like that prayer

and I'm going to, I'm just going to soak this word in meanness. Oh, no, I'm going to, I'm going to dip it in sarcasm. Maybe, maybe I'll fry it in ridicule or mockery. What are we serving up? And do you get pleasure out of watching the other person, gag when they eat your words? Are you getting pleasure from it? You put that?

I just sent you some words soaked in meanness and bitterness and sarcasm and mockery and scorn. You don't like it, do you? Well, here, try another one. Well, what's that say about your heart? You're trying to hurt somebody with your words. You're deliberately trying to hurt somebody. it's intentional and that speaks about your heart

the jury you are intentionally using your words to harm another person to inflict pain on another person so if you got those bitter herbs in your verbal kitchen you should just dump them get them in the trash yeah just get rid of the bitter herbs all right bitterness all right

bitter words they poison you you have to be poisoned to have bitter words I mean how do you produce a bitter word unless you're bitter how do you produce a hurtful painful word unless you are hurt and you're feeling pain see any way you can speak hurtful painful words on another person it's because you are hurting

and you have pain where else would you get the material to make the word Can you speak words of mockery and scorn on another person unless your heart's kitchen has plenty of mockery and scorn? It's in your kitchen. It's in your heart's kitchen. Right. Wait, Doc, you think I start thinking about that? Just like, now I'm thinking, all right, I got to go through my heart's kitchen and open every cupboard and see what's in there? What am I using for words? Hey, if you start opening up cupboards in your heart, hey, there's no honey in here.

I can't find any honey. Well, I found bleach. I mean, look at what you're putting on words. Vinegar. Hot sauce. Yeah, hot pepper. so we we have to think before we speak we have to think will these words taste sweet look this is challenging to me i know it's challenging you but it's challenging me i'm i've got to

think like this now the world prefer spice prefer sweetness. You know, and I regret, Doc, over 26 years of hosting true news, you're always under the pressure that there's so many other talk shows, radio talk shows and podcasts, that the audience,

the audience is gravitating, towards people who have sharp tongues right isn't that what drives ratings and viewership and listenership the audience they they they desire to hear a talk show host slice and dice other people and the lord began dealing with me saying you're you're conforming to the image of this world you're you're starting to talk like them well that's what the people want that's what they desire well let them have it but don't you give it to them you know don't give it to them you know if you would read the emails that come in this is on the true news side okay it's not it's not the morning man a completely different group but when the true news audience

so many people were i mean the emails themselves were mean we would we would receive mean spirited emails from people that watch the program it's like we still do oh we still get yeah and you get the emails Rick you you've lost your mojo you don't you don't you don't speak the truth anymore like he used to Okay. Now, what they were really saying is, I've mellowed and we don't like it. They want talk show hosts that go after other people, tear them up.

Right. And how do they do that generally? And I'll just share with our audience here. They generally make some sort of biting comment about Rick or. about me uh you know uh you're lazy now or you know like rick said you've bought out sold out you know you gave up that's it the one of the latest you just gave up and so uh and you know on the one hand it's laughable but other times it's it hurts too i mean and it's meant to hurt it's meant to hurt you know that was the intent go get called fat that was the intent yeah the intent was to

inflict harm and pain right so it's so when those things come you have to look at it and go wait a minute this is really showing us what's in the heart of that person right i'm not going to receive this criticism this is this reveals the heart of that person And you just, you have to flush it out of your mind. What we're learning here is that pleasant words must be intentional. They have to be crafted. They have to be made, handmade. They're not casual.

You have to work at having pleasant words. That's what I'm learning from this. It's intentional. you have to hand-make pleasant words because our nature is to just say stuff but Christ is here to change our nature

to speak gracious words to speak kind words to speak words that heal not hurt to offer honey not harm oh they are sweet to the soul

the soul the center of your emotions your feelings they're sweet to your feelings to your emotions to the emotions of other people sweetness penetrates deep inside people goes beyond the ears it goes into the core of their being you and i are to speak honey soaked words that pass through the ears and then seep down into their soul

pleasant words are sweet to the soul pleasant words are sweet to the soul pleasant words affect our spirit and the spirit of other people they lift up people but harsh words crush people we devastate people with mean spirited words we devastate them they may carry the echoes of those words for years even decades

right how many of you can recall something said to you that was mean-spirited and it was said to you 10 20 years ago i remember when i was a kid oh yeah so doc these words are reverberating inside our hearts and our minds. They're just bouncing off the walls inside of us. Can't get rid of them. That's the impact of words. I told you yesterday about Art and Betty Williams. What did I remember about that couple?

It was back when I was in my 20s. When I first got saved, they were a gracious couple, kind, gracious, everything that came out of their mouth. You would think that it just came from heaven. It left an impact on me. I can still feel it. I can still see it, still taste it, the kindness, the love, the graciousness of their words.

I've never met another couple. and the rest of my whole life, Doc, I've never met another Christian couple that walked in that kind of kindness and peacefulness as that couple. What does that say? They were rare. It should have been the norm.

Sweetness is therapeutic. it brings about healing you know honey has antibiotic qualities especially honey from new zealand in australia there's there there are different types of honey that have higher qualities of of antibiotic healing powers or you can put honey on a wound and the honey heals the wound yes you see words that are soaked in godly honey

will bring healing to people they're sweet to the soul they're therapeutic the Lord's words are therapeutic his words are pleasant his words are sweet but bitter words fester inside of people they fester

they're putrid they they produce a poisonous effect inside the soul of people they wound people bitter words wound people and that's the reason they're spoken for the purpose of wounding somebody people who constantly speak mean-spirited words to somebody they're doing it with an intentional purpose of hurting someone and they need to take responsibility is not like once in a while you blurt out something is i wish i never said that now there are people that intentionally speak to another person for the purpose of wounding that person why because the person who's speaking is wounded they are wounded and so their mindset is i hurt so bad i'm going to

hurt you. Like that's going to help them? The wounded person is thinking if I wound another person that's going to help me? No, it's not going to help you. It's going to hurt you.

You're going to wither up and die. Because pleasant words are healing to the bones. soul bitter words are hard to heal think of words as soul food what are you feeding people with your words what kind of soul food are you get see

the words go into the soul they are sweet to the soul they're either you're either speaking words that are bitter to the soul or sweet to the soul. But the message here is our words seep down. They go into a person's ears and they seep down into that person's soul.

And they affect that person's soul. Now when you think about that, oh my, I'm affecting another person's soul. Right. Now what do you think about the words that you're speaking? Okay. It's just because you're hurting doesn't give you to write to speak words that hurt another person's soul. Absolutely.

So you've got to come to grips with your pain. Why do you hurt? Why? Where did it come from? Well, most likely somebody at some point in your life spoke. mean words to you and wounded you and you've been for years wounding other people with your words doc this this doc came to me this morning when we withhold pleasant

words. We starve souls. Wow. We're actually starving another person's soul by refusing to speak pleasant words to him or her. Yes. So our words are soul food and soul medicine there are things that you eat for healing and so we should have a a sound heart we should be whole so that we're not so that we're speaking words that are healing to others instead of speaking from our pain these sweet words sweet words to the soul are divine therapy it's god healing a soul through human honey god desires to use us to bring healing to other people think of how jesus brought healing with his words yes he was the word the word spoke the word yes and he would bring healing and deliverance even resurrect someone from the dead that's right the woman caught an adultery he

said neither do i condemn you he released her from condemnation He restored Peter, the Samaritan woman at the well. He ministered to her with his words. Often people said there's something about this man's words. Because he intentionally spoke words that would bring healing to people. And health to the bones. your bones are obviously the skeleton of your body the framework the strength of your body this is not only this does it absolutely applies to your physical bones but it also applies to

your spiritual bones your spiritual skeleton that up holds up your inner man Pleasant words are health to the bones. Pleasant words reduce stress, reduce inflammation, boosts immunity, promotes mental and spiritual and physical rest. So it's teaching us that words not only affect us. a soul, but they affect the person's physical body. Pleasant words, lower cortisol. People are on all kinds of drugs, pills, medicine,

trying to lower their cortisol. How about just live in a peaceful environment? and if you're with somebody that refuses to change the words maybe you have to leave so that you can heal harsh words calls tension stress pain fatigue depression you live in a harsh toxic environment you're going to be depressed it takes a really strong inner person to withstand constant toxicity in a home right cursing a person constant sickens another person you can cause another person to collapse on the inside they just collapse by constantly cursing and speaking toxic words to another person to the

point that that person collapses and you will be held responsible for it you're not going to get off scot-free and say well i had nothing to do with that person's collapse oh yes you did your words your words will be held accountable on judgment day so if you're doing that kind of verbal damage to somebody you need to stop it now and repent and ask god to forgive you and then train your tongue put your tongue into reform school right so we're being told we're being challenged here to speak healing words Jesus spoke words that made blind people see deaf people here crippled people walk he did it with words they had sickness in their body and he spoke words

and the sickness left toxic words toxic words poison relationships they poison other people's bodies because they seep down into their soul causes damage in their bodies in their minds, in their souls

creates stress, fosters diseases contributes to relational fractures but speech the right kind of speech is medicine and it counteracts the poison that's been put in somebody's heart

Doc I started on this moment ago we are challenged by the word to not neglect the responsibility to speak sweet words it's not enough to say well I didn't speak any mean words

well that's okay you get a point for that no I say that's a break even yeah that's a break even no we are we are being told in this scripture that we are held responsible to intentionally speak pleasant words to bring about healing in another person's soul.

It has to be consistent. Daily doses of heavenly honey. Daily doses of heavenly honey to have lasting health. See, health to the bones is God's physiology. It's kind words. Kind words produce healthy bodies. Let's get down to 25 and then, oh my, we're already. I'll wrap up 25.

There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. There is a way that seems right unto a man, a way, the path, the course of life, the direction chosen by a human being, by that person's reasoning, the way. There are ways that seem right to a man or woman. How often do we say, well, he's set in his ways.

Don't bother, he's set in his way. yep set in his ways ways ways that seem right to that person you can't convince them you can't change them they they see that way as right even though you know it's going to produce destruction in that person's life right there are ways that seem right to a man or woman seems right seems okay to me it's way I've been living working for me

working for me it doesn't work for you at your business working for me okay it's working right now but it's not going to work in the end yeah we absolutely need a divine detour every one of us we need a divine

de-true because our way is the wrong way yes automatically automatically it's the wrong way given it's the wrong way there's only one right way and he is the way and that is Jesus Christ and he offers us a straight

path it's a narrow path it's straight and narrow you can't veer off to the right or left but our compass just spins and it always leads to disaster so we can't follow our own compass

you cannot have trust and faith in your ways but in but the end thereof the end thereof or the end of those ways the conclusion the final result the destiny where the ways of a man or woman lead them

where it terminates where it comes to okay here's the dead end end of the road but the end of them the end is inevitable Every way leads somewhere. Outcomes matter more than intentions. What's important is where the road ends, not where it started.

You know, the Lord spoke to me some time ago about you know I guess I was talking to him talk about it you know hey I you know I grew up in in Appalachia I mean this was like hillbilly country you know

I didn't get a college degree I'm self-taught but there are these other people out there they just they grew up in refined homes and their parents sent them to the top colleges and just everything they got a great start in life and the Lord just said it doesn't matter how you start the only thing it matters is how you end and he showed me Rick there's a lot of these people you're looking at with envy that started right but they have a terrible ending it doesn't matter

how you started. The only thing that matters is how you end. That's what this is saying. The end thereof. Deception hides until it's too late. But the word of God shows us the finish line. We're told to run the race.

to complete our course there's an end for every one of us and some of us are closer to the end than others but that end every one of us is going to reach that end right i've always i've had this image talk for years about the lifespan of people and I used to tell Jeremy and Chris hey it's like this

we're all on a big giant assembly line and when you're young you can look way way way up in the distant distance and you can see the end of that

of that conveyor belt I said assembly line conveyor belt and we're all on a conveyor belt okay giant long conveyor belt and when you're young you can look way out into the distance and see the end of that conveyor belt and you see people falling off and you're like I don't know what that's about

but that's a long way off but the closer you get the closer you get to the end and you're seeing people fall off that conveyor belt okay then you get to the point you're like hey there's not a lot of space left here i'm almost at the end of this conveyor belt i'm going to fall off yes but the end thereof that's what we should be thinking about the end thereof the end of life what way were you you living what way did you travel the right way or the wrong way because there is a way that way is

going to come to an end and you don't want to be shocked at the end the end needs to be pleasant needs to be gracious you realize I traveled the right way right this was the right way and are the ways of death doc it says ways of death plural yeah it's interesting it starts off there seems there's a way a single way that seems right but the end there are ways of death so each each person is choosing his or her way yes but all these ways are death lead to death the ways are plural the destination is singular but one ending the ending is death physical spiritual eternal death separation from god death is active we don't think of death we think of death as like dead all right no death is

active it's working every day to destroy lives the last thing that jesus destroys is death death is some type of entity doc it's something that i don't know how to describe it it's how can death be alive but death has to be destroyed the power of death must be destroyed that's the last thing jesus destroys is death and death is active every day leading people to eternal death, eternal separation from God. So the ways of a man or woman seem the way, the way that each person chooses, seems right, but all these ways end up as death,

unless you choose the way. And that way is Jesus Christ. all right doc that's it thank you so much everybody we did it we got to verse 25 all right we'll pick back up on verse 26 tomorrow on the Thursday edition of morning manna and we appreciate you coming on board here each and every day we generally have anywhere between 300 400 people that join us live but that doesn't count all the people that tune in later to listen to the repeat either on faith and values.com or all the various social media platforms where we post this Help us out by sharing this content with friends that you're connected with online and help us get this message out.

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That's a good thought. Get rid of the vinegar and all the bitter herbs and the hot peppers and everything. And just use sweet seasoning for your words today. Amen. We'll make it. There's hope for us. All right. On that note, God bless you.

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