Monday, August 25, 2025

Series: The Beautiful Tongue: Sermon 6. "A Beautiful Tongue is a Kind Tongue!"

  

Introduction:

 

A.   What would you think of a person who wasn't kind?  As

a matter of fact, they were rather harsh!  Would you

think they were a Christian?

 

B.   What would you think of someone who was kind?  Would

you consider them loving? A Christian?

 

C.   Kindness and Love go hand in hand!  We might say

Kindness is speaking Lovingly!

 

D.   Let's look at what the Bible says about speaking

lovingly:

 

I Cor. 13:1 NIV     "If I speak in the tongues of men

 and of angels, but have not love,

 I am only a resounding gong or a

 clanging cymbal."

 

Trans.

The Bible puts great emphasis on it, so let's look

today at: "A Beautiful Tongue is a Kind Tongue."

 

                            Prayer

 

I.   A Kind Tongue Helps to Make a House a Home.   (read Prov. 31:26)

A.   Here we are once again looking at this virtuous woman described in Proverbs.

 

B.   This is probably a good picture of a Home also!

 

C.   And in this verse we see that she had a kind tongue!

 

D.   As with most things, the place for kindness to start

is in the home!

 

E.   A lot of family problems could be solved by a little understanding kindness.

 

1.   When a spouse comes in irritable from a bad day at work, a little kindness will help reverse the situation, but jump down their throat about

something and it's World War III!

 

2.   When one of the kids comes in from school crying because they feel that they are ugly and no one  likes them, a little kindness goes a long way.

 

3.   When a spouse is feeling useless and like they aren't getting anywhere, even perhaps in tears, a little kindness will help them feel special again!

 

F.   Kindness brings a family together!  But a Hateful

tongue can destroy it!

 

II.  A Kind Tongue complements a Truthful Tongue!

 

A.   We would all probably agree that we need to be

Truthful, but in Eph. 4:15, we find that this isn't

enough!  We are to "speak the truth in Love."

 


B.   We may not like the way someone does something, or we

may think they are wrong.

 

1.   We could tell them what we think real judgingly

and hateful, straightening them out!  They'd

probably get real mad and keep right on doing it!

 

2.   Or we could tell them Lovingly and kind, and they might listen to us, giving us a chance to change  someone's life for the better!

 

C.   Some examples:

 

1.   Husband or wife has a habit that really bothers

us!

 

2.   Someone has a belief that we don=t think is right!

Maybe they even come to our door!

 

a.   Ex. Jehovah’s Witness visits.

 

b.   Could be hateful to them so they don’t come

back. I’ve seen some who boasted this

method.

c.   The more Christian way might be to practice

a kind tongue!

 

III. A Kind Tongue Promotes Peace!

 

A.   It promotes peace in that, if we are kind spoken,

people who disagree with us won't be even more provoked by our unkindness, even to the point of wrath!

 

1.   A kind tongue would go a long way in promoting

peace in our polarized political world!

 

2.   A kind tongue would go a long way in promoting

peace if we applied it to what we write on

Facebook!

    

B.   It is easy to be kind when someone is kind to us!  The real test is if we can be kind when they are hateful to us!

 

C.   Our ultimate example of this is Christ:

 

Luke 23:34 NIV "Father, forgive them; for they know

 Not what they do."

 

IV.  A Kind Tongue is a Positive Witness for Christ.

 

Col. 4:5&6 NIV

 

"Be Wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.  (6)Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone."

 

A.   We may come to church and take an active part, but if

through the week we are not kind, our witness is

suffering!

 

B.   If we come to church and take an active part, adding

to that loving-kindness, people will be able to see a difference in our lives.  They will want what we have, and they will ask, giving us a chance to share our witness!

 

 

 

Conclusion:

 

A.   Do we have kind tongues?

 

B.   Or do we need to ask God to help us with this one as we encounter Christ at the table this morning?

 

                      Prayer of Confession

Service of Communion

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