What is God's view of gossip?

Redeemer Bible Fellowship

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Have you ever considered, just for a moment, have you ever considered how God views gossip? Gossip can seem like a victimless crime, can't it?

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Like sharing your Netflix password, like agreeing to the times and conditions when you know you didn't read them.

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Love, you all know we've done it. I know I've done it, did it this week. It might seem like a victimless crime.

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It's no big deal. Hey, if I'm really good, the person will never know why I did it. But for a moment, can

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I give you God's take on those who gossip and slander? Romans chapter one, verse 28 to 32 says, and because they, those who rejected

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God, did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.

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They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, malice.

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Let me pause there. We would all agree those are bad things, right? Those are things, nobody should be those things.

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Romans 1 .30, look what else Paul says, marks out those who hate God. He says, they are gossips, slanderers,

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God haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, senseless, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful.

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Although they know God's just sentence that those who practice such things deserve to die. They not only do them, but even applaud the others who practice them.

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Did you notice in Romans one, that God puts gossip on the same level as murder and being a

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God hater. We would all agree being a murderer and a God hater are not good things. They're things worthy of judgment.