Foolproof Communication [Part 1]

Alan White, pastor, Bible teacher and author of his latest book, the power to bless is so important that whole I would say how use me about yourself and about others. Probably the most important foundational teaching and the subject of our strictest is that's Pastor Alan welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life in a whole new light. Excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series.

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Just contact us at pastoralan.org that's Pastor Alan.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860 will have more on this special offer later in the program but now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright knows God is giving you tools for lack of better word that are so powerful and so valuable that they are well more valuable and then precious gold and silver tools that if you learn to use in the way he is designed will be strong enough to bring about change in the world to build things heal and restore things and actually impart life I'm talking about words in our study of Proverbs, we come today to the largest theme in all of Proverbs over 90 of the Proverbs are about the power of words and when you look at a number of Proverbs, but I want to focus your attention on one of the most beautiful and Proverbs 25 verse 11 to just start is with this one verse one Proverbs that Alicia sent them many, many more and much depth word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver, a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver a word, just a word that is given speech that comes forth is so valuable. There is a YouTube video that has been viewed by nearly 30 million people and it is deserving of such for its impact. It depicts a man seated on some steps of a city building on a blanket with a tin can and a cardboard sign that reads I'm blind.

Please help me, and in the video. Occasionally passersby will drop a little coin into his tin can and then somewhere in the middle of the day, well dressed woman comes first stands there in front of the man who reaches out his hands and feels her shoes and she doesn't put any money in his tin can, but she picks up the cardboard sign turns around to the blank backside. It takes a marker and write something that we can't see positions.

The new cardboard statement next to the blind man and she goes on her way while then the video depicts that following this throughout the rest of the afternoon. Passerby after passerby dozens and dozens and dozens began dropping money in her little tin can and a business is booming at the end of the day the same attractive woman comes stands in front of the blind man he feels her shoes again and realizes that it is her and he says what did you do to my sign and she said I just wrote the same thing in different words and she didn't leave any money and she went on her way and the camera pans towards the little cardboard sign. Originally that red I'm blind. Please help me, and now we see what she had written on their it's a beautiful day and I can't see it.

Proving the point that a word fitly spoken is more precious than you can imagine. In other words, a change of wording evoked.

I heart feeling and imagery that changed everything about how people were viewing this blind man and what I want to show you today is just how true it is that your words make that much difference and in doing so. I confess it's really a sermon series and I want to try to cram it into a sermon, but I just can't over emphasize how important this is so want to come at it from talking. First, in the broadest terms about the mystery of language itself. The mystery of this deep power of our words and then look practically at what the Proverbs say about how important our mastery is of the tongue and then importantly, I just want to show you the mercies of God to us that have come to us through Christ's redemptive late in order for our speech and our words to become completely different. This has been, and my life. One of the great paradigm shifts that I've experienced because I grew up as you have in a world that has a scientific model and that there are palpable intangible things in this world and words are just no words. And yet, I have had experiences and if you've not experienced as I want to at least begin you down that road of seeing that words are not just these empty and meaningless things that we say, but this is something very deep and dear in the heart of God that he has put into our nature as a tool for literally shaping the world. The Proverbs are just full of instruction about this and it must be because it's God's heart, but underneath all of this.

I'd like to start by saying don't we all throughout history all of humanity somehow know that words have power. Never forget the day that our kindergartner Bennett came home from his Christian school and he was a little troubled and we said what was what went on today and he reported that his kindergarten teacher had read as troubling story, because I had a bad word and it will I go my bad word in Christian kindergarten and so we didn't know whether to ask you more or not, but we Listening and finally he volunteered. He said yes so really bad word. He said it's, you know. It started with an F will look at each other like what and we are very relieved that he added some clarification is a gap. She read a story and it had it in at the word fat.

We are like that is bad Bennett that is bad and to stay away from that word and the S word you know stupid.

We had to stay away from both of those. It is a kindergartner. He was trouble. He realized as a five-year-old that there's a power in words that somehow the words really matter English author Edward Boulware Lytton was the one who wrote the pen is mightier than the sword.

And I have sometimes you know moments where I look at what other people do vocationally, and I know contractors that build houses and programmers that that build computer programs and inventors and artists that build things. I realize so often. My world is about words and their days you go will you know I wish there was something more tangible to this, but in the deeper sense I realize that what I've been given a what all is been given is a real capacity to build something but we build it with words. When you speak out a word in a sense, in that very act.

There is something creative about it, I could describe right now.

Something that you've never thought of perhaps a pink flamingo and a bright blue tuxedo riding a unicycle playing a trumpet.

Not unless you're very weird. You'd never previously thought of a pink flamingo and a bright blue tuxedo riding a unicycle playing a trumpet. But now you have so in a real sense I have brought a pink flamingo and a bright blue tuxedo riding unicycle playing a trumpet into this room or lease into your mind. In other words, with a sentence I created something right will have more teaching moment from today's important series like something is holding you back if you lack an important scene I could change everything. Is there someone you love to sing stack to help them out what's missing. Blessing on faith filled vision spoken over you can learn how to embrace the middle who practice a blessing to Pastor Alan writes new, but it's a blast, which quickly became an enzyme number one bestseller after 370s until now the hardcover book has only been available through retail sales this month right ministries once to send you the I thank you for your donation is not only receive the best-selling book also receive a free session video place in which Pastor Alan teaches how to blast and covers content not found in about the video course includes a detailed study guide perfect for personal growth or small group discussion. Make your gift today and discovered the power to blast the gospel is shared when you get Allen right ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Allen right ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor. Our in.work. Today's teaching now continues once again is Alan writing words are yes symbols but some symbols are so closely aligned to the reality that it's almost impossible to differentiate between them.

I don't think where Anna I don't know what backs up our money anymore, but it used to be a gold standard so used to be a $20 bill was just a symbol of $20 worth of gold at Fort Knox that piece of paper. The $20 bill in itself is just a piece of paper not worth much at all. Doesn't cause hardly anything to produce it right. It's not that piece of paper that is valuable. It's what it represents. Maybe a better example if somebody wrote you a personal check for hundred dollars. You wouldn't tear up the check and said I was just a piece of paper. You can't do anything with a piece of paper that personal check. It may not actually be the hundred dollars but it it is to you $100. And so you deposit it. Words are like this. They are so powerful because they are so closely associated with the reality is to say that it touches upon that reality. That's the reason. If someone were to utter a racial slur.

We don't say well it's just words and words don't mean anything know we disdain it because we agree that the word is a symbol of the thought and the thought is something generated by the heart, which is the core of a person and therefore if you had the thought.

The thought was real in your word is your thought and the thought is use your word as you is so important that in our home. I would say how you speak about yourself and about others was probably the most important foundational teaching and the subject of our strictest discipline.

I remember one time when Bennett was young, just little junior golfer and this normally even-tempered, self-controlled little boy like most people, or play golf found it very difficult on the golf course when things are going badly did not speak ill of oneself and you must understand that if your words are really important about others that are very important about yourself and how you talk to yourself and after he had made a couple bad shots and he was getting in real bad mood and I could hear my walk on spectating. I am zero saying things about how he stinks and how you can't make a button you can't visit all the can't can't can't, and the paradigms both interact with the kid, but I couldn't stand it so I just walked alongside a master dried and corrected and edits fame is now in our family because I end up saying to him, I said you know the problems that you don't even need the devil I said you don't need a buy to accuse you, put you down here doing it yourself though. Somehow that got through to him and he still reminds me of the day that WME me the devil. You're doing the job yourself the power of our words. I believe in it so strongly this year at the Masters part three tournament that they have on Wednesday before the official start of the famous golf tournament Jack Nicholas his grandson was caddying there in the little bar three and at one of the golf holes they let all the caddies had a shot and Jack Nicholas his grandson hit a shot made a hole in one nose all over the news and what was more interesting about it was Jack Nicholas had told his grandson the day before. I think you might all-in-one that you might say that's is the lucky coincidence of statements you could say it's the power of suggestion. It was just sort of encouraging him or could it be something even more. Could it be that even in a non-spiritual context like that through just everyday speech.

Something is being shaped next weekend I will as I have done hundreds of times officiate a wedding, and there will be two really important moments a moment in which they exchange their vows he will say to her, I take you to be my wife and before God in these witnesses. I've promise to be your loving and faithful husband and plenty, and I want enjoy NSR sorrow and in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live. And she'll say the same. And I'll have a moment in which I'll say you have shared your valves and therefore I proclaim you to be husband and wife folks you could put on a white dress and eat cake and have a big party and sleep together and not be married and you could stand in the middle of a cornfield with a couple witnesses and that pastor and speak some valves and be married.

The words, think about this the words enact the covenant words are a mystery of deepest power and importance, so we should not be surprised that in the beginning God said, let there be light. He created everything that exists. Bice peeking the thought was in his own mind but the fault was expressed through speech and through the speech. It came into reality. In that sense you could say God was in his word, his word is the essence of who he is. This is not magic the way sorcerers and witch doctors use incantations as if there are magic spells and formulas. If you just repeat the words long enough than the words themselves have power know what we see in God is that the words have power because they are God's own breath. They are so intimately connected with God that they are expressions of his deity and his creativity and when he came to the pinnacle of creation, which is you.

It's not a surprise, then, that the mark on one of the key marks of the pinnacle of his creation. A human being is that the human being could speak, God said, let us make man in our own image. After own likeness and so we created us in his image. There many ways that we are like God but we are perhaps most like God in this we can speak the Targum one early Hebrew translation rendered Genesis 2 verse seven, which normally reads the Lord God formed the man of the dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living creature or a living soul, but one very early translation that was written by Hebrew scholars render it and man became a speaking so because it is our capacity to speak that sets us apart from all of the animals and other some scientific research about the DNA coding of a particular gene that separates us from all the other animals and is a speech gene as its extraordinary really.

If you think of it, and scientists are baffled and amazed by this, that human beings somehow are born into this world with a capacity to figure out by almost osmosis very complicated grammars in their native language and effortlessly store an unbelievably huge lexicon of words in their heads that come together to form speech and any healthy child just as able to do this right and I hope that we are communicating something helpful for you today in our teaching foolproof communication is from the series foolproof and Alan is back with us in the studio as he shares his parting good news thought for the day. In just a moment like something is holding you back as if you lack an important scene I could change everything. Is there someone you love to sing stack to help them how. What's missing blessing on dead faith filled vision spoken over our lives.

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We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Allen right ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor out.work back in the studio in that we are parting good news thought for the day and it is give someone a reassurance, maybe will I worked in the munication business for a long time that it seems to always be our biggest problem he would think would be the expert but I think it goes to show that we all could use to brush up on communication skills. What we learned from Proverbs is that this is one of the most prevalent themes throughout the entire book of Proverbs the power of our words is something I think they know that makes us like God he created the world by speaking and we are shaping the environment around us through our words. It's amazing so much good to see that our words can do anxiety and a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes an Aladdin from 12 lips, the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense. Proverbs 10 are one of my favorites. Proverbs 15 a soft answer turns away wrath harsh word stirs up anger on and on it goes. The proper our words are powerful tools to do good in this world, which is today's good news message is a listener supported production Allen right ministries