controlling your tounge

Talk about questions and that we willdo it at the end of the month.

5th quarter next week

im preaching this wednesday

Trunk or Treat

WY1 talk

James 3:1–12 (NLT)

1Dear brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers in the church, for we who teach will be judged more strictly.

2Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.

3We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth.

4And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong.

5In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.

6And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself.

7People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish,

8but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison.

9Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God.

10And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right!

11Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water?

12Does a fig tree produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? No, and you can’t draw fresh water from a salty spring.

If we could control our tongues

Not many should teach

Jm 3:1 Dear brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers in the church, for we who teach will be judged more strictly.

How would yall view me if I could not control my tongue around you but still sat up here and told yall to?

our mouths are often the last thing to get in line, James says that if we could do this thing then we would be complete

A horses bit and a ships rudder

James 3:2–4 (NLT)

3We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth.

4And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong.

Both of these things are tiny compared to what they are on, but guide an direct both the horse and ship, so our tongue is small in comparison to our bodies but it can guide and direct us to many places we do not want to go

It can set your whole life on fire

Tiny spark

James 3:4–5 (NLT)

5 In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches.

But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.

a lot of terrible things that happen in the world start from just speeches and words.

all it takes is the littlest spark to set a place ablaze, so too with our lives

whole world of wickedness

James 3:6 (NLT)

6 And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself.

words can have devastating impact on us. Words do hurt us.

Blessing and cursing out of the same mouth

James 3:7–12 (NLT)

7People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish,

8but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison.

9Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God.

10And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right!

11Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water?

12Does a fig tree produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? No, and you can’t draw fresh water from a salty spring.

Praising God

Cursing man

How can we do these things at the same time? telling God how much we love him and cherish him but seeing his prized creation and cursing it.

God does not like a doubled minded man

this is much more than just what we say, but how we say things. It does not matter if you do not use any cuss words but every thing you say is negative or complaining, rude. but you did not cuss.