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Watch Your Words
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| What does watch stand for? | |
| It stands, you know, Jesus was the one who said, he said it three times in the book of Luke. | |
| I think it's the 21st chapter or 13th chapter, actually. | |
| He said, watch, watch, and then he ends, watch you therefore. | |
| And I say to one, I say to all, and he ends the chapter, watch. | |
| So what does watch stand for? | |
| Number one, in these days when you're feeling overwhelmed, watch your words. | |
| W stands for words. | |
| Watch what you say. | |
| Death and life are in the power of the tongue. | |
| The Bible said in Proverbs, if you think evil, put your hand over your mouth. | |
| In other words, don't say everything that you think and you feel, but watch your words. | |
| Number two, the A stands for attitude. | |
| Watch your attitude. | |
| Watch your, you know, your attitude is so important. | |
| We can't be negative people. | |
| We can't be people who are down all the time and whiny all the time and complain. | |
| I want to say with some Christians, would you like some cheese with your wine? | |
| Because all you do is whine, wine, wine all day. | |
| And we ought to be praising. | |
| We ought to be joyful. | |
| We ought to put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. | |
| And then he said, and I go into much about the attitude. | |
| And then the T stands for, on the word watch, temptations. | |
| Watch your temptations. | |
| You know, the scripture said, I was put over the vineyard of others and I didn't watch my own. | |
| I didn't watch. | |
| I didn't watch. | |
| And temptation, you know, it just creeps into your life. | |
| Compromise creeps in. | |
| What you're looking at, what you're listening to, what you're feeding your mind on. | |
| And I go into a lot of details of that. | |
| The C stands for character. | |
| Watch your character. | |
| I thought when I, I'm about to turn 60 in a month. | |
| And I thought the older I got, the easier it gets. | |
| I was so wrong. | |
| I was so wrong. | |
| That's true. | |
| You got to watch your character. | |
| You really do. | |
| Watch the older you get. | |
| Most of the Bible characters fell after they were 50 years old. | |
| Oh, no. | |
| Most of them did because I think you let your guard down. | |
| I think you stop doing the things that you knew. | |
| Somebody told me, and I read this one time, that the people who go down the mountain, that's more dangerous than climbing the mountain, is going back down. | |
| You fall easier going down than you do going up because you're tense, you're alert, you're making sure. | |
| But when you start letting your guard down, so watch your character. | |
| And lastly, the H stands for, and it's so important, watch your household. | |
| In the end time, in the day in which we're living, what's on your kids' phones? | |
| What's on your computers? | |
| Watch your household. | |
| Don't let culture raise your children. | |
| Who are their friends? | |
| Who are they dating? | |
| Watch your household. | |
| How's your marriage? | |
| You know that me and my wife go get help when we need help. | |
| We go talk to a counselor when we need. | |
| Life is too deep. | |
| Life is too heavy. | |
| I don't have all the answers. | |
| So why wouldn't I go get help if I need help? | |
| Watch your household. | |
| It's insane to think that stuff's going to get better if I do nothing. | |
| It's not going to get better if you don't do something. | |
| So do something. | |
| That's right. | |
| And watch your household. | |
| Watch those kids. | |
| Spend time with them. | |