DISCIPLINED SPEECH

 DISCIPLINED SPEECH

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

May 2

 

Read Matthew 5:33-37

“Again, ye have heard

 that it hath been said by them of old time,

Thou shalt not forswear thyself,

but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:

But let your communication be,

Yea, yea; Nay, nay:

for whatsoever is more

than these cometh of evil”

Matthew 5:33, 37

 

Swear not at all, is one of the cardinal points

in the teaching of Jesus.

It means, briefly,

that you are not to

mortgage your future conduct in advance;

to seek to fix your conduct

 or your belief for tomorrow

while it is yet today.

Rather you are constantly

 to keep yourself an open channel

for the pouring out of the Holy Spirit

into manifestation through you.

Of course, Jesus does not mean

that you are not to enter

 into ordinary business engagements.

Nor does he mean that the ordinary oath

administered in a court of law is inadmissible.

These things are matters of legal convenience.

 

The Sermon on the Mount

 is a treatise on the spiritual life,

for the spiritual life controls all the rest.