The Sin of Profanity — E.A. Johnston

The Double Standard of Profane Speech

We are on our sermon series on sin friends and our subject today is the sin of profanity. I never forget the Elder in the church who when he was called upon to pray in the sanctuary Could pray with the lips of an angel.

But when I visited him at his workplace I wanted to put my thumbs in my ears because he used the most disgusting and offensive profanity every time he opened his mouth. And I'll never forget the family who Went to our church and who came over our house for dinner one time and their little girl said the f-word and their parents just seemed a little embarrassed and they laughed it off and they didn't even correct her because They spoke like that all the time in their house.

So the little girl just picked it up. Swearing was not a big deal to them. But it was a big deal to me and I didn't want their potty-mouthed daughter. Corrupting my daughter. The Apostle James had dire warnings about the failure to control the tongue.

The Tongue as a Fire of Iniquity

He said. 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 is set on a fire of hell for every kind of beast and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed and hath been tamed of Mankind but the tongue can no man tame.

It is an all unruly evil full of deadly poison. Therewith Bless we God even the Father and therewith curse we men Which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing.

A Nation Desensitized to Profanity

I Will stop there friends. America has become a cussing cursing foul-mouthed nation of Individuals who damn God and use the f-word every time they open their mouth. Even the media today has slackened its moral restraints and will print news articles With the f-word running through it.

It's like Society has become a open sewer where profanity spills out naturally all over the land. That's how degenerate our society has become. I was driving through a town in the state of, Illinois. And I had a stop to get gas and at the gas station every single person Gassing up their vehicle was cussing and cursing and damning man and God with a loud angry Voices.

I couldn't believe all the profanity. I thought I'd entered the borders of hell and I was hearing all this on a Sunday. And as I drove away Woman in a van gave me the finger. What's happened to the moral fabric of our society?

The Church's Failure to Confront Sin

Why is everybody so angry at one another? There's no moral compass anymore in the people or in the nation. But I don't blame the White House. And I don't blame the courthouse. But I do blame the church house in their massive failure to preach against sin.

Biblical Standards for Edifying Speech

The Word of God is clear on the sin of profanity in Ephesians 4 29 we read Let no corrupt communication Proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace Onto the hearers and in Colossians Paul writes to let no filthy communication out of your mouth.

Profanity in Public Life and the Church

Yet many deacons can't wait to corner you in a church hallway to tell you their latest dirty joke. Just to get a laugh. The sin of profanity has so permeated society and people swear and cuss so Profusely your ears sting every time you go out in public.

Just to the grocery store movies and television and even sports programming or full of bad language and profanity laced Comments. And we as a nation or so desensitized to sin it doesn't bother us anymore.

We've even have Swearing potty-mouthed pastors out there today. It's shameful and it's a tainting sin because it taints all within the sound of that cussin but God declares in his holy word Thou shall not take the name of the Lord that God in vain.

For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.