The story is told of a preacher who once generalized that all infidels were fools. Furthermore, he stated that he could prove his statement to be true for any given case within ten minutes. A man in the audience stood up and proclaimed himself to be an infidel, but no fool.<\/p>\n
The preacher looked him over and said, So you are an infidel?<\/p>\n
The infidel quickly replied, Yes sir. I deny that there is anything at all in religion.<\/p>\n
The preacher replied, Nothing at all in religion? Are you willing to go on record as saying that?<\/p>\n
The infidel then confidently replied, Go on record? Why, Ive been writing and lecturing against religion for twenty years.<\/p>\n
The preacher glanced at his watch and said, Well, I said I could prove an infidel a fool in ten minutes, and I still have seven minutes left. Ill leave it to the audience to decide if a man isnt a fool to write and lecture for twenty years against a thing that supposedly has nothing whatsoever in it!<\/p>\n
The moral of this story:<\/strong> Before we speak our mind, lets make certain that theres something in our mind worth speaking.<\/p>\n Along this line of thought, the Proverb writer declares, He who restrains his lips is wise (Proverbs 10:19 NASB; cf. Proverbs 17:27-28; Ecclesiastes 5:1-3; Ecclesiastes 10:13-14; James 1:19; James 3:2).<\/p>\n Lets think about it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The story is told of a preacher who once generalized that all infidels were fools. Furthermore, he stated that he could prove his statement to be true for any given case within ten minutes. A man in the audience stood up and proclaimed himself to be an infidel, but no fool. The preacher looked him … Continue reading “Before We Speak Our Mind – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}