 Sometimes you just feel a person just needs to be cussed out Right people or things today that just makes you want to just Give them a piece of your mind if you're like me I grew up with parents who cussed I mean, it's almost like they wrote the book on cussing They invented words and I used to cuss myself and tell you how I stopped cussing But the question is is it a sin? Is it wrong for a Christian to cuss to use profanity to use swear words? Well, the first question needs to be addressed. What does it mean to cuss? What does it mean? Well, it is profane words Vogel words offensive socially offensive word abusive foul demeaning derogatory words Oftentimes, let's be honest we use these words even when we're not necessarily speaking ill of somebody else But we'll also use these words almost as an adjective to add some emphasis to the words And sometimes it might be in many cases words or a statement that we don't really Believe ourselves or we want someone else to really believe it. We'll add the blankly blank something Give me the blankly blank. Don't do the blankly blank And it might make someone stand up and notice and pay attention to what you're saying. Is that wrong? Well to determine if it's wrong, where do we have to go? We've got to go to the book and it may even indicate something else that we're probably not paying attention to Paul would say in Ephesians 4 29 says let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth But only such a word as is good for edification According to the need of the moment in other words, there are times. Let's be honest where it's just something's got to come up and fiddle sticks gosh Dog on it my word Poppy cop g willikers those kind of words They just don't do it sometimes sometimes there is a something Sometimes there's an intensity in you that calls for a word That's just as intense that will just get somebody's attention or just you just want to get off your chest But Paul says don't let unwholesome words come out and let's just be honest guys You know that some of these words if not all these words that you would think that that we would consider to be Curse words of cussing are not wholesome. These are words that you use Normally or maybe normally hopefully don't use it normally, but you would not use in certain situations What I mean by that is this some people are gonna say it's just normal just comes off without thinking well That's just wrong because truth is you do think about it There are certain places where you can you control yourself and you know what is and what's not going to come out at a Job interview you're not just letting curse words fly out at in front of the judge at a wedding in front of the babies in front of the Children at church. Hopefully and so you can control it's not as subconscious as we think matter of fact It's not subconscious. It is conscious We know exactly what we're saying how we're saying it oftentimes it is fueled by emotion And if a person doesn't have control of their emotions doesn't have self-control Well, it might be the fact that there's a bigger Greater underlying problem there. We'll talk about that in just a little bit Peter says in first Peter 310 He says the one who desires life to love and see good days Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit It's your tongue control it. It's not that big and I understand sometimes All the time we all can relate it gets us in trouble. We shouldn't let Cursings come out and then at the same time later on let blessings come out from the exact same Well from the exact same mouth that should not be especially for believers James tells us in James 3 that we blessed with it. We bless God we curse folks That's just duplicitous. That just speaks of something. That's just not right If you are Christian you want to do as Paul says in 1st Corinthians 1031 He says whether you either drink or you can just speaking Whatever you do do it all to the glory of God. Give no offense He says in 32 give no offense either to Jew or Greek give no one any offense because of what you said Just as I also verse 33 Please all men and all things not seeking my own prophet But the prophet of the many so that they may be saved the goal of what I'm saying with the goal of what's coming in my mouth Ultimately is that it leads somebody to Christ and let's just be on some time throwing out a few choice words curse words swear words We know that's not gonna bring someone to Christ, but it just felt good to get it off my chest Well, hopefully it doesn't feel that hopefully there's some remorse when it happens I understand there are some people that are still struggling with it And if you still do cuss if you still curse if there's a occasional and I hope it's occasional not all the time Word to come out of your mouth. That's not edifying. I pray that for you It's convicting that it's bothersome that you don't like that that shows at least a level of remorse a level of repentance That's taking place in you now when I said this might be indicative of a bigger problem an underlying problem We know that self-control is a result or a fruit of the spirit But if you can't control your tongue if you can't control this urge to cuss and it comes out What does that speak of Jesus puts it this way in Luke 6 45? He says the good man out of the good treasure of his heart Brings forth what is good and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bring forth What is evil for his mouth speaks what that which feels his heart? So if these curse words are coming out where are they coming from out of the heart if you squeeze a Lemon what's coming out of that lemon? Well, you might want to say lemonade, but really Whatever's in it. I said lemonade really lemon juice But what's gonna come out is whatever is inside if somehow somebody put some orange juice in the lemon Well, then when you squeeze it it's coming out the same thing with us Whatever's on the inside when we get squeezed and sometimes it doesn't take much squeezing for something foul to come out Whatever's on the inside is going to come out and Jesus says what's on the inside that comes out of your mouth That's what's in the heart and so if a person is constantly using cuss words Profane words don't care they just want to just express themselves in an angry fashion It may very well be that we've got a dark situation in the heart and that can be a problem Now if a person is truly saved and it's something they're working on and they want to get past and they've struggled with it Let me share with you what happened with me. I used to cuss and I was the best I was probably one of the all-time greats remember my mother and my father would cuss It was just what what we did. It was just in the house It was part of a casual conversation when my father's addressing me or correcting me Yeah, there's some cuss words coming out and so it didn't shock me when someone else used cuss words That's just what it was But how did I get away from that because the moment that I was away from my family my my parents and I was off On my own and as I was a young adult Yeah, cuz curse words were coming out left and right matter of fact My wife would even tell the story that when she met me She was a little bothered at the fact that I would cuss and I would say I didn't cuss that much and she would look at me crazy Yes, she did. Well, how did that go away? What happened? Well truth be told, I didn't do anything I didn't try to stop cussing. I didn't say to myself. You know what? I'm gonna make sure I don't cuss I'm gonna try to hold my mind to it. No, what I did was I really did what James says He says in chapter 4 verse 7 says submit yourself therefore to God Let me say verse 8 draw near to God and he will draw near to you Well, that makes sense the closer you get to God the further you get away from everything else If you get close to God and there are some things that need to be cleansed in you Who's gonna do it? He will and so it wasn't so much a focus on dealing with that particular sin The focus was just getting closer to him And as I got closer to him my heart become began to change and it changed at a more rapid pace There was some things that I still struggle with that's not what I'm saying that you're not gonna struggle with anything But this right here that's coming out of your heart into your into your mouth into the atmosphere for people to hear Things it's gonna make folks look at you Well, that shouldn't be because we want people to see our Goodness or the goodness of the Lord coming out of us And so even though that might be indicative of an issue with the heart that can be changed Just by getting closer to him and so to answer the question is it right? Is it a sin for a Christian to sin? Well, yes, it is There's just no way around it, but how can you fix that? Well, you can't let him fix it by you going closer to him Hey, man