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Sermonette: Assassination of Character

Gossiping
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Given 29-Nov-14; 17 minutes

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description: Assassinations have occurred frequently throughout the world and in the pages of the Bible. There is an extremely dangerous kind of assassination—namely, character assassination through murmuring and gossip, a kind of assassination of which many of us have been guilty. In Numbers 12:1-9, we learn about God's anger leveled against Miriam and Aaron for gossiping about Moses, complaining of his marriage to an Ethiopian woman. In Proverbs 6:16, of the seven things God loathes and detests, three pertain to the tongue and spreading discord among the brethren. Every time gossip is repeated, murder and character assassination is endlessly repeated. We dare not sell our birthright for a bowl of gos-soup.