Part 2: A recommendation to all of you who are angry and expounding your political beliefs with much “vigor”

“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers” (Ephesians 4:29).

“Corrupt” comes from the Greek word “Sapros” which means putrid or rotten. “Communication” is a reference to speaking.

The Apostle Paul gives a very clear, concise command, not a suggestion or guideline. Let no “putrid talk” come out of our mouth. We are to only use that which uplifts and adds to the benefit of the listener. Why? So we can endow that person with the grace of God. Grace is not a sole possession. It is a gift from God intended to be shared, spread and given.

Grace is God’s “holy influence on souls” (Thayer’s). Think about this for a moment. Is God’s grace and favor proceeding out of our mouth? Or is it quite simply Satan’s sputum? It’s easy to figure out which it is. Does what we say uplift and edify? Or does it tear down and destroy?

“God hath not appointed us to wrath” but rather we are to “comfort yourselves together, and edify one another” (1 Thessalonians 5:9, 11).

“Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another” (Romans 14:19).