God through the prophet Jeremiah has been proclaiming the abominable sins that Israel has been committing. The prophet is broken because of the judgment that is coming against his people because of their sinning against the Lord. Sometimes we think of sins that are worthy of God’s wrath and judgment as just the “big sins.” We usually have some kind of classification in our mind about the sins that are “really bad.” So we usually will list sins like murder, sexual immorality, and things like these that are sins worthy of judgment. But would you put in the list of sins that are abominable to God and worthy of judgment the sins of the tongue? Now to appreciate this problem I want you to think for a moment if anyone has ever hurt you deeply because of the words that they said to you or said about you? I think that we would agree upon reflection that some of the worst hurts that we experience in our lives come from the tongue. As kids we would say, “Sticks and stones might break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” We said that because the names did hurt us far more than the sticks and stones. We try to shrug off what people say. But it often can be rather difficult depending on who the person is and the kind of relationship that person has in our lives. I want to spend our time looking at the problem of the tongue from Jeremiah 9. Please open your copies of God’s word to Jeremiah 9…

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