Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
The verse portrays proud speakers asserting that by their own tongue they will prevail and secure their success. They claim that their lips are their own and belong to them, answering only to themselves. They deny that anyone is lord over them or has authority over them. Its setting identifies this as proud, flattering speech that the Lord will cut off and stop.
It applies to false statements, falsehoods, misrepresentations, and slander spread against God's people. Such speech is not free from accountability, for God witnesses people's words and Jesus knows it all, records their deeds, and brings them to light in judgment where all will be judged according to the deeds done in the body.
In a little while their day is coming, when the lying tongue will be stopped and sinners in Zion will be afraid and fearfulness will surprise the hypocrites. God's people must not come down to answer such attacks, for Satan is in them to divert minds from present truth. They must instead put on the armor and arouse, dwell upon truth and present truth, and stay with the great work of the last message of mercy and the coming of Christ.
The verse portrays proud speakers asserting that by their own tongue they will prevail and secure their success. They claim that their lips are their own and belong to them, answering only to themselves. They deny that anyone is lord over them or has authority over them. Its setting identifies this as proud, flattering speech that the Lord will cut off and stop.
It applies to false statements, falsehoods, misrepresentations, and slander spread against God's people. Such speech is not free from accountability, for God witnesses people's words and Jesus knows it all, records their deeds, and brings them to light in judgment where all will be judged according to the deeds done in the body.
In a little while their day is coming, when the lying tongue will be stopped and sinners in Zion will be afraid and fearfulness will surprise the hypocrites. God's people must not come down to answer such attacks, for Satan is in them to divert minds from present truth. They must instead put on the armor and arouse, dwell upon truth and present truth, and stay with the great work of the last message of mercy and the coming of Christ.