Luke 6:45 “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”
In the above quoted passage of scripture the Lord Jesus taught us a very important truth when He said that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. In scripture, the heart can refer to either the spirit or the mind, depending on the context of the passage. In the context of this passage the heart is referring to our minds, for we speak from our understanding and not from our spirits (1 Corinthians 14:14). And so when Jesus teaches us that our mouths speak out of the abundance of our hearts, He is referring to the fact that that which dominates our thinking (our mindsets) also dominates our speech. The speech that Jesus is referring to in this passage is that which flows naturally out of people’s mouths throughout the course of the day. In other words, whatever we are fully convinced about in our minds naturally dominates what we say on any given subject. We have already mentioned that all believers come into the kingdom of God with mindsets that are contrary to God’s word, and so clearly their speech patterns will be a reflection of those mindsets. In the previous section we discussed the fact that as believers we need to change our mindsets to line up with God’s word, and we do that through meditation on His word. And so consequently we can see from this passage that the more we meditate on God’s word the more His word will begin to influence our speech patterns as a natural outworking of our changing mindsets. Notice that our Lord Jesus links our experience to the words that we speak, for He says that we bring forth either good or bad things, depending on what dominates our speech. The reason that good things are brought forth in the life of the believer is because God’s power is always released when His word is declared over our lives, for the scripture declares that without the word of God nothing was made that is made (John 1:1-3). And so the reality is that the more we meditate on God’s word the more we will find that same word beginning to dominate our speech, which ultimately results in God’s power being made manifest in our lives.
Michael E.B. Maher
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