What comes out of our mouths
A frequent question I asked myself for two days was, “How can they say that?” Not just the conspiracy theories and proven lies, but the way they demean and threaten people. In the Scriptures frequently quoted at the Reawaken America event, Jesus says “the mouth speaks what the heart is full of” and “the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart.” (Matthew 12:34; 15:18) With that in mind, I want to simply quote some words I heard.
Marty Grisham (www.LoudMouthPrayer.org)
Covid mandates are a “decree of death.”)
[President[ “Biden is an evil, usurping man.”
Pastor Mark Burns (https://www.markburns.org/)
“They hate you because they hate Jesus.”
“We are here to take over for the Lord Jesus Christ.”
[They are] “using race to divide us.”
“I’m tired of grown men wearing a dress and going into women's bathrooms.” (That got a standing ovation.)
“They’re trying to take God out of everything.”
Kash Patel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kash_Patel)
“We will do to them what they did to us.”
“Corruption at the highest levels of our government … Government gangsters at the DOJ and FBI... the Clinton Cartel”
Christie Hutcherson (https://wffa.win/about-us/about-me/)
“This administration is working with drug cartels and terrorists … and this Administration has murder, blood, and rape on its hands.”
“Trying to destroy America and make it socialist, communist.”
Mel K (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mel-k-show/id1587492577)
“If you're a liberal [you are in] the army of the left fighting against America … There will never be peace until these people are destroyed.”
This language is a sampling from the first day – and does not include multiple conspiracies and easy-to-prove lies. A movement that calls itself Christian is rightly judged by the words of the one they call “Lord.” So … what would Jesus say about this? What did he say? As a Christian minister, I think we can set his words alongside their words and discern what seems to be in their hearts toward people like me. And I don’t like it.