Femi LazarusCEO at Femi Lazarus Consulting

Build Character. God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.

10 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this short sermon, the speaker recounts a personal anecdote about a woman who was constantly told she talked too much. The woman's excessive talk led to a breakdown in her daughter's marriage: after a loud wedding in 2000, the daughter’s husband left the house following a single statement made by the mother during a 2001 visit. The daughter has been living alone ever since. The speaker uses this story to illustrate the biblical principle that “God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble,” urging listeners to learn to hold back, practice humility, and restrain their speech and behavior in order to build character and avoid destructive consequences.

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I used to know a woman, all family members had complained, you talk too much, she won't listen. Her daughter got married, year 2000, it was a loud wedding, we all were there, fantastic. 2001, she went to visit the daughter, it was only a statement she told the husband of the daughter, one, the guy packed out of the house. This is 2024, the daughter is still living alone, one statement. And I remember family should be telling her, you talk too much, this, she said, no, no, the kind of person that I am. She, she destroyed the daughter's home, one statement. The guy ran. So God is saying, learn to hold back.