1. Smooth Words
Proverbs 28:23

2. Smooth Words Rebuke (Prov. 28:23) True & false prophets
Help your brother (Matt. 7:1-5)
Preach the truth! (II Tim. 4:1-4)
True & false prophets
Nathan’s honesty (II Sam. 12:1-7; Prov. 27:5-6)
Micaiah’s honesty (I Kings 22:1-14; Prov. 26:28)
False prophets (Isa. 30:9-11; Jer. 23:16-17)
Watch out for smooth words (Luke 6:26)

3. Smooth Words Repentance & forgiveness (Luke 17:3)
Peter and John (Acts 2:36; Jude 1:23)
Stephen (Acts 7:51-53; John 3:19-21)
Paul (I Thess. 2:1-5; Gal. 2:11-14)
Smooth words cause division (Rom. 16:17-18)
Unity achieved by correcting error (I Tim. 5:20)
Church in Corinth had failed to do this (I Cor. 5)

4. Smooth Words Rebuke because judgment is coming (Titus 2:15)
Wrath & fury, outer darkness, weeping & gnashing of teeth, eternal fire & punishment, second death, endless torment
Rom. 2:8; John 3:36; Matt. 25:30, 41, 46;
Matt. 13:49-50; Mark 9:48; Rev. 20:14-15;
Rev. 21:8; 14:11; II Thess. 1:7-9
Only the truth can save (John 8:31-32)
Trust the gospel’s power (Rom. 1:16)

5. Smooth Words
Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue (Proverbs 28:23)