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    The Language of Kings
    The Language of Kings
    The Language of Kings
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    The Language of Kings

    By E. James Logan

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    In a culture marked by rap music, texting, and e-mail, the art of language is being reduced to short symbols, quick concepts, and melodic tones. As communicators, we are not using the power of language to shape the culture as was accomplished in much earlier cultures. In The Language of Kings, author E. James Logan examines the language spoken in the Bible and makes parallels to todays world.

    Using biblical quotations and follow-up examples, The Language of Kings analyzes the role of language between those favored by God and those who were disfavored. Bishop Logan shows how kings spoke di?erently than tyrants and dictators and describes the impact of those words on others.

    The Language of Kings explores the possibility of reincarnating the faith-?lled language spoken by kings during the time of the Bible in order to bring about a more civilized, polite, and caring world. Bishop Logan advocates using kinder, gentler language that strengthens, encourages, and teaches the power of the spoken word.

    By speaking the language of kings one to another; we will release, share and impart our love to each other. By doing so, people will know that Christ has disciplined us taught us to again speak the language of Kings! (EJL)

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    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 6, 2011
    ISBN9781462011209
    The Language of Kings
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    E. James Logan

    E. JAMES LOGAN is the senior pastor of Christian Faith Fellowship Church in Zion, Illinois, and has pastored and established churches for fourteen years. He is the author of The Fathering Spirit. Bishop Logan and his wife, Deborah, have been married for twenty-three years. They have two children.

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      The Language of Kings - E. James Logan

      Copyright © 2011 by E. James Logan

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      Contents

      Chapter 1

      The Origin of Language

      Chapter 2

      The Origin of Kings

      Chapter 3

      The Heart of a King

      Chapter 4

      The Power of Kings

      Chapter 5

      The Language of Kings

      Chapter 6

      The Dominion of Kings

      A note about the Bible quotes used in this book …

      Bible quotes used throughout this book are taken from various translations. Each quote is marked with the translation from which it comes, using the following shortened forms:

      GWT   God’s Word Translation. Publisher: God’s Word to the Nations Society. Used by permission of Baker Publishing Group.

      KJV   King James Version. Public Domain.

      NLT   New Living Translation. Publisher: Tydale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream. All rights reserved.

      NAS   New American Standard. Publisher: The Lockman Foundation.

      NIV    Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All right reserved worldwide.

      Chapter 1

      The Origin of Language

      Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.(KJV)

      Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (KJV)

      Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. (KJV)

      Here we see in Genesis that when God created things, He spoke them into existence. God is recorded as the first speaker in history. In order to speak, one must have words to say, and those words must be understood in order for them to be carried out.

      The word language comes from the Latin word lingua, meaning tongue. Language therefore is what is spoken or talked about. Language is usually applied to a nation or people group. So a language is a specific way of speaking by a people group.

      Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines language as a body or system of words and phrases used by a large community or by a people, a nation, or a group of nations.¹ Language is what ties humanity into social groups. People who speak the same language seem to flock together; language makes this possible. There are common languages of nations and people groups such as Spanish, French, and German. Each of these people groups (nations) has a language that is named after the nation where it is spoken.

      Wherever there is human society, there is language. Most forms of human activity depend on the cooperation of two or more people. A common language enables human beings to work together in an infinite variety of ways. Language has made possible the development of advanced, technological civilization. Without language for communication, there would be little or no science, religion, commerce, government, art, literature, and philosophy.

      All languages have certain things in common. These include (1) sound patterns, (2) words, (3) grammatical structure, and (4) syntax and morphology.²

      A sound pattern refers to sounds that the human speech organs can utter; there are twenty to sixty such patterns.

      Words are sounds that have a meaning; they represent objects, actions, or ideas.

      Grammatical structure is the manner in which certain elements of language are related to others in forming larger, meaningful units such as sentences; there are two aspects of grammatical structure, called syntax and morphology.

      Syntax involves arrangement of

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