Part 9 | Words Must Not Be Weapons

From James 4:11-12

📖 James 3:6 (ESV) the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

Words can become and lead to .

📖 James 4:11 (ESV) Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. 

To “Speak Evil” is to someone.

📖 James 4:10 (ESV) Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

1. Slander us from people we .

📖 James 4:11 (ESV) Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law.

📖 Deuteronomy 19:16-19 (ESV) If a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing, 17 then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days. 18 The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, 19 then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

📖 James 4:11 (ESV) The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law.

To “judge” is to someone.

We don’t judge for . 

We must judge for .

📖 Luke 18:11 (ESV) The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

2. Slander sets our in to God.

📖 James 4:11b (ESV) But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

📖 James 2:8 (ESV) If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”

3. God’s us to people we .

📖 James 4:12 (ESV) There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

When the relationship is rough:

A. Go to .

B. Be . 

📖 Matthew 18:15 (ESV) “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

C. Let God be the of .

4. God’s joins to His .

📖 James 4:12 (ESV) There is only one lawgiver and judge, He who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

📖 John 3:17 (ESV) For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

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