Organs of the Body Used to Dishonor God

Organs of the Body Used to Dishonor God
Romans 3:1-23
by W. H. Wood

Prepared in his study at the Hepzibah Baptist Church on June 14, 1946

I. The throat is a place to gather and hold filth and unholy things.

II. The tongue of the unsaved person is used to speak things that are fraud and untrue.
1. The slanderer injures himself. "The tongue defiles the whole body"
2. Slander is uncontrollable. "The tongue can no man tame." It "sets on fire the wheel of birth;" that wheel "which catches fire as it goes, and burns with a fiercer conflagration as its own speed increases, you may tame the wild beast; but you can not arrest the progress of that cruel word which you utter carelessly; that will go on slaying, poisoning, burning, beyond your own control, now and forever.
3. Slander is unnatural. "These things ought not so to be." It is a contradiction to nature, as much as for a fig tree to bear olives, or for a fountain to produce both fresh and salt water.
4. Slander is diabolical - outrageously wicked in character. "The tongue is set on fire of hell." The very name of Satan is "the slanderer".

III. Poison is gathered under the lips of some so called Christians.

IV. The mouth is filled with cursing and bitterness.

V. The feet are used to dishonor God.

VI. Such people do not know the way of peace in God.