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Are you a Pharisee? Characteristic #9 - Pharisees are very careless in their speech

Pharisees are careless with their speech

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Pharisees are very careless in their speech.

“The Pharisees said, “This man casts out demons only by Beelzebul the ruler of the demons”(Matt.12:24)

Pharisees speak rude and hurtful words about others carelessly and pass judgement on others in their speech.Imagine calling the Son of God, the “head of the demons”!

How did Jesus respond to that evil criticism by the Pharisees? Jesus replied saying, “You have spoken against me, an ordinary man. You are forgiven. But if you speak against the Holy Spirit, you will never be forgiven” (Mt.12:32). Jesus forgave those Pharisees (as a Man). But God in Heaven may not have forgiven them.

When we sin against anyone, there are two elements to such a sin – (1) a horizontal element – against the other person; and (2) a vertical element – against God. That person must forgive you; and God must also forgive you, if your sin is to be blotted out. But before God forgives anyone, that person has to repent first. So even if a human being forgives you the horizontal element of your sin, you will still face the judgement of God for the vertical element, until you repent and ask for His forgiveness. If one of those Pharisees had gone to Jesus later and said,“Lord I am sorry for calling you Beelzebub. Please forgive me”, and then asked God to forgive him, then only would his sin have been blotted out, not otherwise. Jesus warned us that we would be condemned by the words we spoke, at the final judgement (Matt.12:37).

Do you have a sickness that is not being healed, despite all your prayers and medical treatment? Have you spoken something carelessly about a godly brother? Maybe that is why your sickness is not being healed. Perhaps you have carelessly judged men who are ten thousand times holier than you are. Repentance will bring you healing.