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Our Text is about Pursuing Unity and Love in the Local Church
6 Things
Lying
Uncontrolled anger
Stealing
Corrupting Speech
Bitterness to love
Unrestrained sexual behavior
All of this is the practical ways we pursue unity and love in the local Church.
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God has given you New Desires at the New Birth.
Love for God, love for his Word, and love for the Church.
If you are a Christian, you already desire these things.
Paul is directing us in how to express the rightly.
This is the New Man Paul refers to, the new you God made at conversion and the Local Church is the realm where we live this out.
Illustration:
Mechanics express their giftings and talents in the garage.
Moms express their gifting and talents in their home.
Carpenters express their giftings at the work bench.
Christians express their New Nature in the Local Church!
In Church Membership we make public, what is true of us inwardly.
What is the most important gifting a Christian has to build up the Church?
Christ’s commands have very extensive claims.
When you surrender to him as Lord, you find that even your mouth is to be brought in subjection to his will.
His/her tongue!
Christ desires to change the way you speak.
Every Christian is gifted with tools for the project of building Christ’s Church.
Every one has resources that are vital in loving and showing love in the Local Church.
Our chief tool for building up the Church is our tongue.
It’s also a chief culprit in destroying the Church.
Guard Our Mouths
Definition of Corrupting
Rotten or spoiled.
Can refer to fish or fruit.
A bad apple in the middle of a bowl soon corrupts the whole bole of apples.
Explanation of Corrupting Speech
The Content
It can be untrue or deceitful.
Worthless content.
Vs. 5:4
Quality
It can be true but defiling.
Gossip or slander potentially true, but destructive.
It Spreads
James 3:
The Old Man and his Tongue
It Reveals what’s in the Heart!
James says the tongue is untameable!
The tongue is not the problem, the heart is the problem.
Get the heart right and the tongue will follow.
The Old Man is Dead
When our hearts are turned to the Lord, we have new abilities, even to have new speech.
I am a man of unclean lips!
Purified his tongue with the coal from the fire!
Get the heart under the influence of God’s Word and the tongue begins to change.
Do you have a wild tongue?
First ask, is the Old You Dead?
Speaking Good Things
We are new creations, we have new desires.
To love God and love his people, now put that on.
We should purpose your lips to speak good things.
Good fruit.
The Unity of the Spirit is maintained and increased through our speech.
3 Qualifiers
For Building Up People (The Church)
This is his New Nature (Love for the Church)
This is his New Nature (Love for the Church)
The Unity of the Spirit is maintained and increased through our speech.
Instead of needless tearing down.
Slander, gossip, build up.
Due praise, encouragement,
We Always Need Builders In The Church
Satan is always trying to tear down God’s Church.
Build through
Encouraging
Sharing Scripture
Fitting to the occasion
Not speaking too much.
A right word.
Some words are true but not fitting.
Prove.
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Unnecessarily discouraged, harmed, or disappointed someone with our words.
Imparts Grace
We are people who have received much grace, we should be willing to give it.
Give grace to people.
“Telling it like it is” or ‘always speaking your mind” is not high enough for a Christian.
Not always pointing out faults.
Not quick to point our faults.
Assume the best possible of people’s motives and speak like it.
It lifts the soul in truth and encourages.
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Gracious doesn’t always mean pleasing.
Gracious doesn’t always mean pleasing.
The Reason To Do Both
Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit.
He’s a person that can be grieved.
We should desire not to do anything to grieve him since he’s done so much for our Good!
Helper, Comforter, Teacher, Advocate, Divine Resident of our hearts, and guarantor of our eternal redemption?
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