Such a sad, sad reality for the Laodicean church age.   The Body of Christ is teeming with hypocrisy.  You would be very hard pressed – no – let’s go further and say it would be impossible to find a New Testament church that was free of gossip . . .

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Proverbs 11:9

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour:

This picture shows girls gabbing, but we all know that men are just as guilty of gossiping.  What is most troubling about this activity, is the lack of church discipline for such a serious offense.   Damage done by gossip is tangible and far-reaching.

Do you realize – ladies and gentlemen – that when you are disparaging your spouse to others in your church family, that you are guilty of this kind of hypocrisy?  That  when you confide everything that your teenager does to your  neighbor, coworkers, “friends” at Bible study – you are gossiping?  Yes – Christians gossip about their families.  Parents  say terrible things about their spouses to their own children!  And if your family is not your neighbor – I don’t know who is!  How utterly shameful.

WE ALL NEED TO BE VIGILANT ABOUT EVERY WORD

THAT COMES OUT OF OUR MOUTHS.

but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

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Never fear beloveds.  If you are being maligned by family members, church family, coworkers, neighbors . . .the truth will prevail if you are a child of God.  His Truth is eternal, and  completely just.  As a child of God, you are covered by His righteousness, and are justified by your faith in His finished work on the cross.  You will be delivered in truth, and justice. 

1 Peter 4:16-19

¹⁶ Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

¹⁷ For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

¹⁸ And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

¹⁹ Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

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