True Love Is Practical -"NEITHER IIN WORD NOT WITH THE TONGUE"

 Certainly, then, we are to love in word and with the tongue.  Now in this time of judgment of hte nations is the the seasib if akk seasons when  we should use word and tongue in a right wat abd when withholding proper words would be disobedience.  Is not now the t ime when God commands us to preach the good news of the Kingdom in all the inhabited earth for the purpose of a witness to all the nations?  Jesus Christ says Yes. (Matthew 24:14, NW) Is this not the season to give faithful counsel to those in peril of being destroyed in this judgment day and at Armageddon?  Yes.  How much good we should fail to do by keeping back a word in season and fitly spoken it   when our tongues have the power to utter it!"  A word in due season, how good is it!" "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a network of silver." (Proverbs 15:23; 25:11, AS)  if we must give reproof in season, then to be fitly spoken it must be given in love.  A failure to reproof in season, may show a lack of love  in using word and tongue. (Proverbs 6:23) "He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes."  For whome Jehovah loves he disciplines." PROVERBS 13:24, AS; HEBREW 12:6, NS; PROVERBS 3:12; 27:5. 

Members of the congregation must speak God's Word to one another to build them up spiritually to comfort them and to urge them onward in the right course.  Instructing us on how to use the word tongue aright is the advice.  "Your beloved ones, by building up yourselves on your most holy faith, and praying with holy spirit, keep yourselves in God's love." Also, "Comfort one another with these words ." (Jude 20, 21, NW;  1 Thessalonians 4:18) Speakers appointed to do so should preach the Word to all the inhaibitants of the land.  Not only should love be shown by speaking at all but love should be shown by he care we use  as to our words and forms of expression and illustrations:  "Let your utterace be always with graciousness, seasoned with salt, so as to know how you ought to give an answer to each one." (Colossians 4:6, NW)  The tongue must be used, not as a fire set aflame by Gehenna to cause our hearers everlasting destruction in that symbolic  lake of fire and sulfur, but as the "tongue of the wise,"   which imparts healthy mentally and spiritually to the hearers. (Proverbs  12:18; James 3:508, NW)  Let our tongues be the medium of the words of life; let the  printed page, the printed sermons, we hand out to be words of life, expressed in Bible language and tending to salvation. There is no arguing about it: We must love in word and with the tongue, and we must do that toward God as well as well as our neighbor.

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