Watch Your Tongue
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“Ask not what your country can do for
you—ask what you can do for your country”
J F Kennedy - inauguration speech in 1960
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears
and sweat”
Winston Churchill – 1st speech to the House in 1940
“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill/mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all
flesh shall see it together” Martin Luther King Jnr
Series – ‘Developing a faith that works’
Today
‘Watch your tongue’
James 3:1-12
Warning to those who teach God’s Word
Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers,
because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly –
James 3:1
Warning to those who teach God’s Word
Handle God’s Word correctly
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly
handles the word of truth
2 Tim 2:15
Warning to those who teach God’s Word
Deal with uncomfortable subjects
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit
their own desires, they will gather round them a great number of teachers to say
what their itching ears want to hear
2 Tim 4:3
Warning to those who teach God’s Word
Proclaim the whole counsel of God
For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will (counsel) of God
Acts 20:27
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training
in righteousness
2 Tim 3:16
We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check
James 3:2
The tongue – Power to Direct
When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the
whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by
strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go
James 3:3
The tongue – Power to Destroy
A fire … the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts …. a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire … It corrupts the whole person, sets
the whole course of his life on fire …
James 3:5
The tongue – Power to Destroy
Idle gossip/half truths
They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
(whisperer, secret slanderer)
Rom 1:29
Speaking the truth
speaking the truth in love … Eph 4:15
Let our lives lovingly express the truth in all things – speaking truly, dealing
truly, living truly
Eph 4:15 Amp
The tongue – Power to Destroy
Words spoken in temper
Words of negative criticism
The tongue – Power to Destroy
Animals
All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of
deadly poison
James 3:7-8
The tongue – Power to Delight
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's
likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both
fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers, can a fig-tree bear olives, or a
grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
James 3:9-12
The tongue – Power to Delight
The spring
The mouth of the righteous is a
fountain of life ...
Prov 10:11
The tongue – Power to Delight
Grapevine
The lips of the righteous nourish
many ….
Prov 10:21
For out of the overflow of the heart
the mouth speaks
Matt 12:34
The tongue has immense power
To direct To destroy To delight
But I tell you that everyone will have to
give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have
spoken
Matt 12:26
If all of our words were put into print
One day's words would fill a 50-page book
One year’s words would fill 132 books of 200 pages each!