Part 6 | The Power of Your Words
From James 3
📖 James 3:1 ESV Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
📖 James 3:2 ESV For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
📖 Psalm 141:3 ESV Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
📖 Proverbs 21:23 ESV Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
The :
1. My tongue the of my .
A. The tongue as a – my moments.
📖 James 3:3 ESV If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.
A word can a of my life.
📖 Proverbs 15:1 ESV A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
A word can a in my life.
📖 Proverbs 12:18 ESV There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
📖 Matthew 5:22 ESV I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
B. The Tongue is a – my future.
📖 James 3:4 ESV Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
📖 1 Peter 3:10 ESV For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
change .
📖 Ephesians 4:29 ESV Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
📖 Matthew 12:36–37 ESV I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, 37 for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
The :
2. My tongue can the of my .
The :
📖 James 3:5b–6a ESV How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 The tongue is set among our members…
A. My creates a for my life.
📖 James 3:6a ESV And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness…
B. My my life.
📖 James 3:6b ESV He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from
The :
3. My tongue needs the of .
📖 James 3:7 ESV For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind
📖 James 3:8 ESV but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
My tongue is the of my .
📖 Matthew 12:34 ESV You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
📖 James 3:11–12 ESV Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
📖 Matthew 12:33 ESV “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.
Sermon in a Sentence:
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