Says you have heard that it was said of them of old time thou shall not kill and
Whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment
But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment
Sorry, I cut off my um, my notes here
Be patient with me
22 it says therefore if thou excuse me, uh verse 22
But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause
Shall be in danger of the judgment and whosoever shall say to his brother Rekha shall be in danger of a counsel
But whosoever shall say thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire
Now I know a lot of people who struggle with this passage of Scripture because it's like whoa man
You know, so if I call my brother a fool
I'm in danger of hell fire. Why is it saying that? Well in my opinion, this is still figurative
Again we understand that brethren cannot go to hell they cannot lose their salvation
This is figurative and I'm gonna compare scripture with scripture go to James chapter 3
Because again, what is hell like and unto?
destruction
Okay, that's what it's like gonna do hell and destruction are before the Lord and here it says that if a brother say
thou fool
He's in danger of hell fire
So he's speaking with his mouth and he's calling his brother a fool
Okay
Now look at James chapter 3 verse number 1 my brethren be not many masters knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation
For in many things we offend all if any man offend not in word the same as a perfect man and able to also to
Bridle the whole body behold
We put bits in the horse's mouth that they may obey us and we turn about their whole body
Behold also the ships which though they be so great are driven of fierce winds
Yet are they turned about with a very small helm whithersoever the governor listeth even so the tongue is a little member and
Boasteth great things behold how a great matter a little fire
Kindleth and the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity
So is the tongue among our members that it defileth the whole body and seteth on fire the course of nature
And it's set on fire of hell
So what is the same you can destroy people with your tongue?
Because it's set on course the fire of hell. So it says you're in danger of hell fire if you call your brother a fool
He's right
You can destroy
Relationships with your tongue. I don't know that's a stretch
No, a stretch would be to say that that means that you're gonna go to hell if you're a believer
That's more than a stress that's a terror because you're ripping it completely out of the context of the Bible, okay
verse 7 for every kind of beast and birds of serpents of things in the sea and tamed and had
Is tamed and has been tamed of mankind, but the tongue can no man tame it is an unruly evil
full of deadly poison
Therewith we bless God even the Father and therewith we curse men
What is he saying there, you know thou fool?
When you call someone a fool you're cursing them
Curse we men which are made after the similitude of God out of the same mouth proceeded the blessings and cursings my brethren
These things ought not so to be so the teaching there is that yeah
You are in danger of hell fire because you're in danger of destroying
key relationships in our life
according to James chapter 3 it can cause a world of iniquity a
Massive amount of destruction the Bible says that death and life are in the power of the tongue