What the devil did in the garden with Eve was to turn her against God. He hated God and could not defeat Him, so He went after Eve by turning her against God.
This is often what mankind does not realizing they are being influenced by the devil to hate what God loves.
People gossip to be able to turn others against the person they hate, the devil's tactic!
The devil hated God's goodness, His power and His love for mankind. So he did everything he could to ruin the relationship between God and man.
He does the same thing today when he uses those who hate God to come against those who love God. Sadly, those who say they love God often come against authentic believers for believing God when He speaks from His Word.
Matthew 7:15-17 "15Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit."
What is the fruit of the Spirit of God?
Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Gossip is Very Dangerous
On another thread, there was a discussion about those who gossip and the people who believe the gossip.
Most people are followers and will believe the person they like and who tells the story first.
This makes those who believe the gossip the puppets and non-thinkers.
I was raised all my life to believe an uncle, who lived next near by, was the cause of all the fights with someone in my family.
As I grew in wisdom, I realized it was not my uncle who started the fights over nothing important, silly disagreements about which car was the better car but the gossiper who was the problem.
Over the years, I recalled the intense anger this family member displayed in his home. He was so enraged over the silliest things that I began to realize that if he were this way with his family in private, he would also be this way with a brother whom he grew up with resenting. The gossip called my uncle the favorite one, while the gossip was beaten all the time. I realized later it was possible that my uncle was the compliant, obedient one and the gossip was the rebellious one.
Then, as I heard him talk to me when I was a child and into my adulthood, I saw that he was jealous of the uncle for things I don't need to get into here. Sadly, other members of the family believed him without questioning, and into their adult years, they spoke negatively of the uncle.
Another question I had that lingered constantly was; "why would the gossip want to turn others against the uncle when he had done nothing bad to them?"
All I know is that I was indoctrinated to believe something about a relative that was probably untrue. Then, over the years, I prayed about it, and God showed me the person who caused the problems between the uncle and the gossip was the gossip.
When we are not able to see the truth, we will carry a lie through our entire life, and worst we will pass it on to others.
Until we see for ourselves what people are doing, it is better to resist believing the gossip. There has been other gossip I have heard that I dismiss and do not repeat to anyone because I might be repeating a lie or, at the very least, something that happened so long ago it doesn't even matter anymore.
Family gossip is the worst, people tend to believe the first thing they hear from someone they respect, but don't even really know. They have perceived ideas about the life of the gossip that has no evidence that they are what they appear.
Another reason not to believe the gossip is realizing that the one who shares things about others is attempting to gain followers for themselves. They hate someone and want others to hate them too. They are bitter and angry because they had no control over their target of hate, so they work at ruining their relationships with others.
I have seen gossips become angry when you don't believe them and begin a gossip campaign against us for our insubordination.
Gossips don't need very much information about us to hurt us, all they need is a little bit that they embellish according to their own thinking.
There is something else that is very important: what others are doing is none of our business. If we have to rebuke someone for sin against us, that is private, and no one else needs to know. If they are believers and they will not repent, then we take it to the church for discipline, not to the streets for gossip.
It might be good to ask a gossip this question to shame their efforts at hurting someone else: "Why are you telling me this?"
It is one thing to share with a trusted friend what we encountered with someone personally for prayer and counsel, but sharing it with just anyone to feel a sense of achievement for having won someone to our side is sin.
Proverbs 17:9 "9 Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends."
Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions."
Ephesians 4:32 "Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you."
Proverbs 6:19 "a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers."
Gossip always includes false information; no one passes on the flaws of others without including their own guesses and interpretations of the information.
In our day people are making claims about all kinds of things based on what they have read and not what they have seen for themselves.
IF we remain focused on Christ, praying for discernment and desiring to be truthful, we will have little interest in the news articles and reports from just anyone. The sins of those we have no contact with and who are not our friends will be of no interest to us.
Trust in Christ and mind your own business!
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 "11 and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, 12 so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
Most people are followers and will believe the person they like and who tells the story first.
This makes those who believe the gossip the puppets and non-thinkers.
I was raised all my life to believe an uncle, who lived next near by, was the cause of all the fights with someone in my family.
As I grew in wisdom, I realized it was not my uncle who started the fights over nothing important, silly disagreements about which car was the better car but the gossiper who was the problem.
Over the years, I recalled the intense anger this family member displayed in his home. He was so enraged over the silliest things that I began to realize that if he were this way with his family in private, he would also be this way with a brother whom he grew up with resenting. The gossip called my uncle the favorite one, while the gossip was beaten all the time. I realized later it was possible that my uncle was the compliant, obedient one and the gossip was the rebellious one.
Then, as I heard him talk to me when I was a child and into my adulthood, I saw that he was jealous of the uncle for things I don't need to get into here. Sadly, other members of the family believed him without questioning, and into their adult years, they spoke negatively of the uncle.
Another question I had that lingered constantly was; "why would the gossip want to turn others against the uncle when he had done nothing bad to them?"
All I know is that I was indoctrinated to believe something about a relative that was probably untrue. Then, over the years, I prayed about it, and God showed me the person who caused the problems between the uncle and the gossip was the gossip.
When we are not able to see the truth, we will carry a lie through our entire life, and worst we will pass it on to others.
Until we see for ourselves what people are doing, it is better to resist believing the gossip. There has been other gossip I have heard that I dismiss and do not repeat to anyone because I might be repeating a lie or, at the very least, something that happened so long ago it doesn't even matter anymore.
Family gossip is the worst, people tend to believe the first thing they hear from someone they respect, but don't even really know. They have perceived ideas about the life of the gossip that has no evidence that they are what they appear.
Another reason not to believe the gossip is realizing that the one who shares things about others is attempting to gain followers for themselves. They hate someone and want others to hate them too. They are bitter and angry because they had no control over their target of hate, so they work at ruining their relationships with others.
I have seen gossips become angry when you don't believe them and begin a gossip campaign against us for our insubordination.
Gossips don't need very much information about us to hurt us, all they need is a little bit that they embellish according to their own thinking.
There is something else that is very important: what others are doing is none of our business. If we have to rebuke someone for sin against us, that is private, and no one else needs to know. If they are believers and they will not repent, then we take it to the church for discipline, not to the streets for gossip.
It might be good to ask a gossip this question to shame their efforts at hurting someone else: "Why are you telling me this?"
It is one thing to share with a trusted friend what we encountered with someone personally for prayer and counsel, but sharing it with just anyone to feel a sense of achievement for having won someone to our side is sin.
Proverbs 17:9 "9 Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends."
Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions."
Ephesians 4:32 "Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you."
Proverbs 6:19 "a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers."
Gossip always includes false information; no one passes on the flaws of others without including their own guesses and interpretations of the information.
In our day people are making claims about all kinds of things based on what they have read and not what they have seen for themselves.
IF we remain focused on Christ, praying for discernment and desiring to be truthful, we will have little interest in the news articles and reports from just anyone. The sins of those we have no contact with and who are not our friends will be of no interest to us.
Trust in Christ and mind your own business!
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 "11 and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, 12 so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
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