Think Tongue

Almost everyone's got one. You've got one. Everybody I've met here has got one. We all got one. Sometimes it gets us into trouble, though, talking about our tongue. Right? Our tongue has gotten us in more trouble. It's gotten me in more trouble than even my pranks when I was a youth. Most of the time it got me in trouble for back-talking my parents, which then my tongue got to meet my mother's backhand, usually, or my mouth did. How righteous is your tongue? How righteous is your tongue? I want to look at that today because I think we need to see that our words, our words have great impact, not only on our lives, but everyone that we come in contact with. I'd like to look at a set of scriptures that God puts in the Bible to show just how important using this little thing is. For most people, it's three or four inches long. But as one man said, it's the only thing three or four inches that can take a man seven foot down to his knees. Or humble any man. I'd like you to turn to Matthew 12. Matthew 12. I'll be reading from the New Living Translation today. Matthew 12. I'd like to go to verse 22 to set the tone here. Set the story. And in chapter 12 of Matthew, verse 22, it says, Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and couldn't speak was brought to Christ. Meditate on those words a minute. Here was a man who was demon-possessed. His life was a shambles controlled by demonic forces. And he was blind, and he could not speak either. He was mute. Can you imagine living your life that way? And from all indications here, he'd obviously been this way for a very long time.

And he was brought to Jesus, it said, and he healed the man so that he could both speak and see. And he removed the demon. So this trifecta of not being able to speak, not being able to see, and having demon possession was taken away from him. And in verse 23, it said, The crowd was amazed and asked, Could it be that Jesus is the Son of David, the Messiah, since they knew these scriptures, it said that the Messiah would come from David, Leneach, but verse 24, But when the Pharisees, my scripture says, heard about the miracle, they said, no wonder he can cast out demons. He gets his power from Satan and the Prince of the demons. So here was something fabulous, something miraculous happened. And yet you had supposedly leaders. Leaders, religious leaders mocking this. It's from the all indications where it said they heard, so obviously they didn't see it, but they heard about it because I'm sure people had said people were amazed. And so what did they have to say about it? Nothing good. Nothing good. At which Jesus then brought up the situation, brought up their situation. Later on in verse 33, Matthew 12 verse 33, Said a tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. Most of us can attest to that. You see a good looking tree and it's growing all these fruit. And you go out and pull one off and you eat it and it's good. You say, okay, that scripture is correct. It says if a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad. Most of the time, most of us can attest to that fact. But then he addresses the Pharisees. And he says, you brood of snakes, or your translation may be brood of vipers. That's what mine, the New King James, you brood of vipers. How could evil men, like you, speak what is good and right? So here he's taking them to task for what they said and he's saying, how could you say anything good when there's nothing good in you? But you constantly say something bad because what? Well, there is this bad in you. For whatever is in your heart determines what you say. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil from the treasuries of an evil heart. Haven't we seen that in our lives growing up? You see someone who is miserable, who is hateful, who is disgusting, who just is always causing problems. And they always seem to do it. Why? Because it's what's in their heart. This is what Christ is saying.

And in verse 36, he says, I tell you this. So Jesus Christ is making this statement. Listen up. I tell you this. You must give an account on Judgment Day for every idle word you speak. Have you thought about that? How many idle words we've all spoken that weren't very good words? He said, you're going to give account for every idle word. Well, that doesn't bother me probably as much as having to give account of every word of forethought. Words I actually thought about and said anyway. So Christ is saying here, we need to watch these things. We need to be careful what we say. Make sure that it comes from a pure, good heart. Because if you're good in the heart, it's going to come out through your tongue.

He says, the word you say will either acquit you or condemn you. Which one? Will they acquit us or condemn us? Obviously, he's given the example here of the Pharisees who didn't have many good words to say. I hope we're not that way. Like you turn to Malachi. One book back in the Old Testament, right at the end of the Old Testament. Old Testament. Malachi 3. We have a situation here where God's chosen people at that time were brought together to form a nation, to rebuild a nation. And they basically lined up on two sides.

Those who really trusted in God and those who didn't. And that's kind of how we are today, really. In this country, there's just so many people who do not trust and rely on God. There's many more who do not. And God heard those people who did not trust in Him. Malachi 3, verse 13. God talks to these people and He said, You have said terrible things about Me, says the Lord. So He confronts them. But they didn't see it that way. But you say, what do you mean? What have we said against you? You have said. So God is kind of putting it over here. This is what you said. This is what I'm telling you. He's asking questions and answering both at the same time. He is throwing out things to get their attention. Because obviously He had heard this many times. In verse 14, you have said, what's the use of serving God? What have we gained by obeying His commands or trying to show the Lord of heaven's armies that we are sorry for our sins? Hmm. Ever said that? How about I thought that? From now on, we will call the arrogant blessed. I've had people bring that up to me and say, well, look at Bill Gates. Look at this person. Look at Donald Trump. Look at these people who are not going to let out. Look how rich they are. Maybe in money.

For those who do evil, get rich. And those who dare God to punish them suffer no harm. Hmm. Ever wondered about that? Obviously these people said it. Then we come to verse 16. Then those who feared the Lord spoke with each other. So this is the other side. These are people who truly trust in God. And look what they're saying. They spoke with each other and the Lord listened to what they said. Obviously, they feared the Lord. They had reverence. They cared. And in his presence, a scroll of remembrance was written to record the names of those who fear him. And always thought about the honor of his name. So here we have a book of remembrance. A scroll. So obviously, somebody's keeping tabs on what's said and who said. We just read. And we give account for every idle word. So somewhere down the road, I don't know how it's done, because God has such a memory. He could recall everything they've ever said, ever done, by everyone who ever lived. But perhaps it's a chance to see what we've always said or done. Everyone who ever lived.

Verse 17 said, They will be my people, says the Lord of Heaven's armies. On the day when I act in judgment, they will be my own special treasure. Those who, do what? Have those words of God, who fear God, who honor his name, who speak well of him. He says, I will spare them as a father spares an obedient child. Then you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked. Between those who serve God and those who do not. It's coming. It's going to be crystal clear. There will be a line of demarcation that all in the world will see, of those who obey God and those who do not. I can turn one more scripture here. It's in the book of Psalm. As Andy was talking about, beautiful Psalms written. Here, King David wrote this. That I read this from the New Living Translation. Jer's may say it differently, whatever translation, but I really like it. It's in Psalm 56. David had an insight. God gave him an incredible insight into his, since he had the mind of, he had the heart of God. He understood the mind and what God said and did. God inspired him to write these incredible words. He says in verse 8, You keep track of all my sorrows. You ever been down and out and you think no one listens to you? David here says that God keeps track of all our sorrows. He says you have collected all my tears in your bottle. Hmm. Kind of gives you a picture, as David was trying to tell people, that they're not wasted tears. They're not tears that just fall to the ground and so what?

God's that big. And sometimes he thinks that small. He thinks down to exactly what we're doing. What we're going through, the problems we had, the tears we cried. Those who we haven't cried, but we want to. He says you have collected all my tears in your bottle. That'd be amazing. He said you have recorded each one, what? In your book. In your book. So this book of remembrance, this book of accounts, it's got to be a pretty good-sized book, doesn't it? But God is so concerned with His creation that He's keeping count.

And He's recorded each one in His book. In His book. All the times that we've gone through things. Been mistreated. Unjustly judged.

How righteous is your tongue? Mine has not always been as righteous as it should be. Still battled it. I battled it last night, brother. I battled it last night. I read something I didn't like. And I, Mary, heard me in the other room. And I caught myself. And I said, I've got to go in and pray about that. Because I should not do that. Because two of the men that I was complaining about were friends of mine.

But I let my tongue think. How many times have we let our tongue think instead of thinking and then using our tongue? I'm guilty of that. I didn't need to work on that. And I realized even praying this morning for the sermon, I'm like, you know, I'm afraid I may have just overstepped my bounds and gave the sermon because it's more about me than probably the rest of the brother. And self-serving.

So hopefully you can get something from this because I sure need it. Because the title is Think Tongue. I know that strange title. Because like I said, too many times my tongue thinks. My tongue speaks and does not think. I need to think and then use my tongue. So today I want to use an acronym of think. T-H-I-N-K. If you'll write that down on your paper there, if you have notes. T-H-I-N-K.

Now, I know many of you can see this from back there. I'll send it here. It is a little closer. Can you see that? Because I'd like you to think about the acronym think, the tongue. And I want to go through this.

Because an acronym is where each of the letters of a word represent another word. So I want to talk about this today. And the very first word that comes from the word T is true. True. True.

True. T-R-U-E. They can probably read your writing better than mine. I'm sure they can.

Is it true? When we say something, do we think about? Is it true? For one thing, we don't want to lie, do we? And so here we want to keep from breaking the Ninth Amendment, right? Problem is, today we have a hard time defining what's true and what's not. I go back and look at sermons I gave 10 to 15 years ago, and I'll look at it and I'll go, you know, I don't know that that's true. I'll get on the internet because that's where I got it many years ago, and it's not true. It's an urban legend, right? You've had that happen to you, I'm sure. Where you thought you were telling something that somebody else told you, and you find out later it's not true. Well, sometimes we can't do anything about it, but what if we can? So, is it true what I'm saying? Is it something that really we think about and make sure that it's true? I looked up this morning, even last night or some other time, and I typed into Google, who's the biggest liar ever? The greatest lie ever? Who's the biggest liar ever? And, you know, I was amazed because I went through some things, and thankfully, one came out number one on one. Who do you consider the greatest liar ever? See? He did show up, they called him a serpent, and that's where they called him. Yeah, and he came ahead of Richard Nixon and Bernie Madoff and Bill Clinton, everyone like that.

But do we? No. Why we? Say what we say sometimes. So, when we are thinking before we use our tongue instead of our tongue thinking for us, we must always start the first and let's think about it. Think. T-H-I-N-K. Let's make sure that it's true. What we say is true as much as possible. Remember, I forget, oh, this surprise gives my, I said, I rattled this off to my wife this morning while she was cooking breakfast, and I said, you know who's on the list of the greatest liars ever? And then I told her, and she goes, he's not even real. And that was Pinocchio. Okay? Wouldn't that be great, though, if it really happened that way? How about our nose getting out of here? You know? How about our ears getting big? Okay? How would you like to have, you know, dumbbell ears? Yes! Plastic surgeons would love it. They just keep working on it. Wouldn't they? But it is. Even that story of Fairytale about a little wooden nose that would grow every time he lied. It would be great going in to talk to a car dealer. Real estate agent. You know? A banker. No, it would. It would just be... But it's not that way, is it? Because you and I have both faced people that we knew were just lying. They were just lying to us, and they just rolled it off their tongue. Matter of fact, in England, they even had the greatest liars contest every year. Have you seen that? One guy won his seven years in a row. Oh, he's a good liar. And he said he is. But we can't be that way. We have to first. Is it true? Is it true? Next. Is it what? Helpful. Is what I'm about to say helpful? Any of you want to help me? Thank you. Is it helpful? How many of you have said things that were not helpful to anyone? Anybody here? Yes? You said something that you wish you hadn't said? You kind of thought about something? And you said, boy, I wish I hadn't said that.

You gave somebody a piece of your mind. When you did, you took the P-A-C of their mind away. I've had it. If you worked out and worked, you're going to be having a great day and somebody comes and just, what? They can take your piece with just a few words.

So what we say, is it helpful? First Corinthians 10, verse 23-26. Even though all things are lawful, but not all things are helpful or prudent. You know, it's like doing something. You may say or do something and say, well, there's nothing wrong with that, but it may just really hurt someone. It's just not a good thing to do. We've all faced that before, hopefully. So is it helpful to this person? Yeah, because we are here, what? To take advantage of everybody? No. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here today, on this day, following this God at this time.

So, is it helpful? Next. Anybody care to guess what the I stands for? It's intelligent. It's intelligent. You see that many times. Yeah. No, it's not. Good one, though. Yes. Very good. Important. Important? What? That's a good one. No? Interesting. No. Most, yeah, a lot of people are not very interested. Close. Is it inspiring? Is it inspiring? Can I inspire someone? Yeah, because it goes back to that same great question that I try to ask myself every day. Did I make a difference today? Did I make a difference? You asked yourself a question? I think God wants us to. Did I make a difference?

Inspiring. Did you inspire someone today? Will you inspire someone tomorrow with that tongue? Because we all make mistakes.

You know, the actual word inspire is from the Latin. Latin inspire. And it's actually from the 1300s. And it actually means from God. It actually means immediate influence of God. Means the immediate influence of God. That's inspire.

It is important that we inspire people with this little thing right here. Because we can. Even words of inspiration. I didn't understand it yesterday. I checked on one of my mentors. He's an elder and he had a stroke in Tennessee. And I talked to somebody and I said, well, I didn't want to call him because he was not doing well last time. I didn't want to strain him. And she said, I think you should. He needs to be picked up. So I called him and got on phone. He sounded just great. Sounded better than, oh man, I just sounded like the old biff. And I said, well, I really hated to call you. Because I was afraid, you know, because first he couldn't really talk really well and things are real weak. Lost a lot of weight. And I felt, well, maybe I shouldn't. But then he goes, I just like to talk to people. But nobody's calling me. He said, I'm glad you called. So we talked a little while, but I mean, little things like that. Can we inspire people? Do you inspire your children? Which is such a great thing to be able to do. But I liked the English, the word inspire that we get. My read came from the 1560s. And it actually meant, this word inspire, it actually meant the act of inhaling. The act of inhaling. When someone is around you, what do they do? Is it something positive? Or is it constantly negative?

Makes this thing. What does this thing do? Does it depress? Does it discourage? Or does it cheer up, encourage, and bold? Can I get that out of my mind? I had to type it in the other night when I was working on this sermon. Because this one thing came across my mind, which I don't watch Saturday Night Live that much. I'm used to. But Saturday Night Live had a character on there. I don't know if any of you remember or saw it. And a character was Debbie Downer. Anybody remember that? And it was a character, a woman, her name was Debbie. And she would always be with a group of people. And no matter what somebody said, she would just bring the whole thing down. They would bring up something positive. You know, I got a new car. And it's brand new, and I just got it. And then everybody would go, oh yeah, what color is it? And so forth. Then she'd come around to her and she goes, you know, that's one of the deadliest cars you can drive on. And there we got womp womp. And it would just take down the whole room. Are we the Debbie Downers of our group and society? Are we someone that people like to be around? They're inspired when we're around because we're positive. Even our families. Haven't we all had someone in our family who is the negative of the family? Don't start pointing your finger at each other. No. But we do. There's always someone. We don't want to be that person. God wants us to be the possible, the inspiring one of our family. The inspiring one of our job. The inspiring one of our block. Inspiring one no matter where we go.

Let's move to the end. So we're talking about this. Anybody care? Yes, you're getting so close on this for inspiring. What's the end sample? The end sample. Is it what? Noteworthy. Noteworthy? That's a good one. No. I took this off a book I read 10 years ago. So you're not wrong. Is it? Nice. Is it nice? That's a nice way to put it. That means something. I could always say nice. Never. Never? What? Never. No? Never? No. No. Is it necessary? No. Is it necessary? No. Right? Because there's a lot of things we say that if we just kept our mouth shut, we'd be okay. But we've got to put the extra in, don't we? Let me put a big apostrophe at the end of that statement. Right? Is it necessary?

Do we think about what we say? That's interesting because even in a church, even being around this church environment that I've been around for so long, there are certain things that people would just say. That if they would just think about it, they've already said that like a dozen times to us. My wife and I got married. Okay? Well, five years went by. Ten years and a lot. We get to do the same thing. What are you two going to start having to do?

Or a young couple's together. When are you guys going to get married? Right? You say it, and they say it over again. It's an issue. How old are you, anyway? How much money do you make? I mean, you were like, no, but I've heard all these questions in church. Now, you would expect that this isn't the place you would hear that. Because you really have to ask the question, is it necessary? Is it necessary? With the tongue? What we're saying? How many things have you asked before? That's just not necessary. What does this do? Am I like picking on you? No, because I'm the same way. I'll sometimes want to say something. I don't need to say it. It's best I just keep my mouth shut. And then I think of the same. And I wrote it down just so I wouldn't get it wrong. And the same is Samson, slew one thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ex. How many relationships have we destroyed with the same weather?

I'm sorry. How many times have we opened this? Why have we been better to keep it closed? We have destroyed some relationships. We have caused hard feelings with family, friends, because of the necessary.

I've had people would bring things up at church. You'd have a group of people together. And somebody would be talking about something, it'd be a very positive conversation, and then somebody would say, well, you know, I just don't like that. Okay? Everybody there likes it. But you, is it necessary? Sometimes it's better just to keep your mouth shut. I learned that from Gary Petty, one of the lessons that he taught in one of his sermons he gave. He's a big Civil War buff. And Gary was up with his brother at Gettysburg one year, if I just paraphrase his little story. And he actually came over. Some guy came over and was saying he was telling all about this history that happened at this town and so forth. And the guy was just telling this group of people and he'd had a degree in this and he was his historian over here. And Gary had studied it and studied it and knew what the guy was saying, wasn't after it.

And he said, I wanted to straighten this. But he said, what would I do? He's an older guy, you know, maybe his mind or something. So it wasn't really necessary. So what did he do? He kept his mouth shut. He just let it go and then later on he told his brother who was there with him. Well, this is really what happened at the story. So sometimes keeping quiet is necessary. It helps to not think with the tongue. So finally we come to the word, Kate. Anybody? Is it? Kind. Kind. Kind. Because boy, that trumps a lot of things. Is it kind? Is what I'm saying kind? Can someone benefit? Did I make a difference today? Because kindness can sure make a difference in people's lives.

Was I kind?

I actually heard someone say one time they came into church. It's been many years ago. And I listened to these group of men that were standing there because I don't know that women would say this. But this family walked by. Three or four kids. One of the men said, boy, that's one ugly kid, isn't it? That's one ugly child. And you know, the other guys kind of snicker. You know, because it was bold that you would say that.

But I don't think God's seen an ugly child yet. Don't think so. And if it was your child, you know, it's never ugly, right?

He's seen a mother, our father, that looks at this child as the most beautiful thing ever. And that's how God looks at things. Is it kind?

Do you have a kind tone? T-H-I-N-K. Think. It's very, very important that we use our mind.

Ephesians 4, verse 13. Ephesians 4, verse 32.

I'll read this from the New Living Translation. Well, in verse 31, let's go up to there. Verse 31. Ephesians 4, verse 31. It said, Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger. Ooh, there's one. Harsh words. Can we do that? It's not easy to do, always. And slander. There's a tongue again. As well as all types of evil behavior. And then he says, Instead, be kind to each other. Is it part of our nature to be kind? Why is it? It's just like Bill Cosby said on one of his routines about his children came to him and they said, Oh, we just love being around grandma and grandpa. They're so kind. They're so good to us. And he says, That's not the same man I grew up with. Bill Cosby said, They're old. They're dying. They're trying to get into heaven.

But it is amazing how the older you get, the more kind you get, the more tender hearted you get. Instead, be kind to each other. Tended hearted. Forgiving one another just as God through Christ has forgiven you. That's true kindness. Can we be that way? Can we learn to forgive others? I hope so.

Like you turn. To James 3. For those who own a book, and James, and Grace, many others out there, they know where I'm going to. Chances are you do too. James 3. Talks about the tongue. And as a matter of fact, they gave a sermon on this a year or two ago. But I just want to read 10 verses from the New Living Translation. Let these sink in your minds, on your hearts. James said, Dear brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers in the church, for we who teach will be judged more strictly. Indeed, we will all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect. And could also control ourselves in every other way. James is trying to say, let's work on this and we'll find out that a lot of the other problems go away too.

Because we'll learn to self-control. Because that tongue is so important. Because it's easy to lash out. It's easy to be that way. To have sarcastic humor. To have a cutting humor. And it's become part of society. I would. I was that way. In high school, oh, I was terrible. I was the worst example. I don't know if I can even think. I thought about when the principal came over, the last year, which I went to school with about two or three thousand students.

And I had a problem. Because there was a major school, all these little feeder schools would all come in together from junior high and all come into one high school. And so when you got there, you didn't know that many people. And so it was a mesh of people that didn't always mesh very well. And there's always somebody starting trouble, especially the boys. And so they actually put a rule out.

And I think they did it because of me and maybe a couple others. They came across the loudspeaker the principal did and said that from now on, anyone who inspires other people, pushes other people into getting into a fight will be expelled as much as the other two that were in a fight. And I was that way. And it really hit me when he came across, because I thought he was talking directly to me. Because I loved to just stir it up with some bit of humor.

And say, you know what such and such said to you said about you? No. I said, I'm not going to tell you. I'm born next to him. You know, there are two people going, yeah, what did you say about? I'm saying, get out of my face. Wasn't anything kind about that at all. But I thought it was funny. It wasn't funny. It wasn't kind. It wasn't God.

Verse 3, it says, we can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in his mouth. And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go. Even though the winds are strong.

In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire. And the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire for it is set on fire by the inner itself. It means it's constant. It can be constantly streaming bad stuff. People contain all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish, but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison. Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God.

And so blessings and cursings come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right. We used to have a saying because I don't know how it is now in high schools, but back then, I mean, the young boys were cursed, because your daughter made you a man. You know, but the girls, women typically didn't. And we used to always have the same. Some girl was just people standing around, she started cursing.

And there was always the same. You kiss your mother with that mouth? It's just something that we must, as representatives of God, have good things coming out of this mouth with the tongue, so that people can say, don't really get their religion, but you know, they're good people. They treat people come. They're good. Is that what they can say about us?

They're ins... What? They speak the truth. They're not going to lie to me. Right? And if they can, they're helpful to me. I know I forget where we were. Mary and I were traveling, someone. We might have been Italy. Italy or somewhere. And we stopped and we asked this young person, because they typically spoke English more than the others.

We asked, okay, how do we get to this place? And this young girl was standing there, and she's about to tell us when this young boy about her saying they just came up to me. Oh, you go over here, and then you go to the other side. Oh, you go over here, and then you go down.

He sent us along the way. So we actually took a taxi and went all the way this way, and then we had to get a taxi to come all the way back. And they thought it was funny. I'm sure. Not helpful. But are we inspiring?

And everything we say, we keep a guard on it. Remember how the Scripture actually says that Christ spoke to them in parables? And wouldn't understand. Really, he measured his words. Christ made sure that what he said were measured words. Do we measure our words? Do we make sure before we say them that we know exactly what we're saying? That's what he wants us to be able to do.

No man can tame the tongue, is what James says. Do you believe that? Do we live? Like, what does it matter? I can't control it anyway. I'm just going to use it and say it. Or do we really try to? You know, we represent him. That's what it means by you are the light of the world. City set upon a hill cannot be hidden. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. So it's about God. It's not about us, because we represent him. So is it necessary? Is it kind? Is it true? Is it helpful? Is it inspiring? How righteous is your tongue?

We all have a ways to go. Hopefully, we will all work that way.

But I guess the question comes down. And I'll move this. So it's not an end to it. Thank you. Yes, you can read your right.

Because it all boils down to asking yourself the same question that I've said before. Did I make a difference today? There's a lot of stories all over this world of people who made a difference in people's lives. Who made a difference in your life? Was it someone that you went school with? Was it maybe your grandparents? Was it your parents? Or was it a total stranger who made a difference by just a few words? My grandparents were always inspiring to me. They always found something good I was doing instead of what I was doing wrong. And I did plenty wrong. But they were always encouraging to me. Just think of that person. Because some of us have more than just one or two people. They're very inspiring to us. They're always encouraging. I married one. Because she is inspiring to me. Not perfect yet. We're working on that, aren't we? Yes. Glad she said yes. No. But you know, she was smart enough not to say it. She just used her head. She didn't use her tongue.

Who inspired you? Who inspired you? Who will you inspire? Because we're here, brethren, to inspire people. Remember, inhale. The act of inhaling. What will people inhale from you?

Will you make a difference tomorrow? In someone's life? With just a little tongue. A three-inch tongue can make a difference. To inspire someone to, even going as far as so many stories, kept someone from committing suicide. Someone, especially young people, and need help, you can inspire young people. By using think. Brethren, we've been given the opportunity. Let's make a difference in someone's life. Starting today.