In the message last week we looked very briefly at the purity of God’s words.  Let’s turn today to see what Scripture reveals to us of man’s words.  Scripture has a great deal to say about our mouth and our words.  Let us be ever diligent in guarding our mouth and our words. 
 
“The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious,
But the lips of a fool shall swallow him up.”  Ecclesiastes 10:12
 
“The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
But the mouth of the wicked what is perverse.”  Proverbs 10:32  
 
Both of these verses speak of the regenerate man and of the unregenerate man.  Scripture tells us of both.
 
Of the unregenerate man--
There is unfaithfulness:
“For there is no faithfulness (uprightness) in their mouth;
Their inward part is destruction;
Their throat is an open tomb;
They flatter with their tongue.”  Psalm 4:9   (Also read Vs. 4-6)
 
The wicked man’s mouth  is filled with cursing:
“His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity.”  Psalm 10:7
 
The wicked man is prideful:
“They have closed up their callus hearts;
And their mouths speak with arrogance.”  Psalm 17:10
 
The wicked man is deceitful:
“You give your mouth to evil,
And your tongue frames deceit.”  Psalm 50:19
And, 
“Your tongue devises destruction, 
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
You love evil more than good, 
And lying rather than speaking righteousness.  Selah”  Psalm 52:2-3
 
The fool speaks foolishness:
“But the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness,.”  Proverbs 15:2b
 
Of the regenerate man we see that--
His mouth is used for praise:
“I will praise the LORD at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”  Psalm 34:1
 
His mouth is used to speak wisdom:
“The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom,
And his tongue talks of justice.”  Psalm 37:30
 
His mouth is used for confession unto salvation:
“But what does it say?  ‘The word is near you, even in your mouth and in  your heart’ (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  
For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.”  Romans 10:8-10
 
His mouth is used to speak God’s righteousness:
“My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And Your salvation all the day,
For I do not know their limits.”  Psalm 71:15
 
We pray concerning our mouth and tongue:
Make all acceptable;
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O LORD, my strength and my redeemer.”  Psalm 19:14
 
I will muzzle my mouth:
“I said, ‘I will guard my ways,
Lest I sin with my tongue;
I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before me.’”  Psalm 39:1
 
We are exhorted by Paul in Ephesians 4:29,
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.”
 
Paul, in writing to the Colossians, tells them and us that since we have put off the old man,
“But now you must also put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.”  Colossians 3:8
 
So let us prayer together as David prayed in Psalm 141:3
“Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth;
Keep watch over the door of my lips.”  
 
Thank you Heavenly Father for changed hearts as we believed and were born again unto newness of life in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior.  Thank you for Your Holy Spirit who is always with us to lead and guide.  How awesome is our God!  Amen