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Introduction
Robbing and bank and then posting it on youtube - What’s more foolish?
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7 A fool’s mouth is his ruin,
and his lips are a snare to his soul.
A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Proverbs 18:7
You know from experience the tremendous affect words have on your life - whether good or bad.
You know from experience the tremendous affect words have on your life - whether good or bad.
Power in words:
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
(Proverbs 18:21)
God brought everything into existence through His words.
“And God said...”
The enemy used his words to deceive Adam and Eve to sin and death entered the world.
BUT, God had the final say through the WORD - Jesus.
He has spoken to us once and for all - a word of love, salvation, and redemption through His Son.
You’ve seen the power of words in your own life - the pain of words and the hope of words.
Words are significant, and we use them a lot.
James gives us the longest treatment on words in the Bible.
James understood the significance of words.
Already, he has addressed how we tend to sinfully use our words.
He understood:
Words can be shameful (2:3-4).
Words can be hypocritical (2:16, 18).
A good place for James to take some time in his letter to talk about our tongues and the way we use our words.
Three simple truths about our words:
Words can be slanderous (2:11).
Words can be cocky (James 4:15)
Your words have tremendous influence.
James starts with a warning… “Not many of you should become teachers...” James knows the weight of teaching.
Warning for those who aspired to teach like James.
Be careful - you’ll be held to stricter judgment.
It’s a good thing to want to have influence for the Kingdom - to want to instruct people in the Word.
In a sense, we should all aspire to pass on what we’ve learned.
But, weight - As pastor, I feel tremendous weight for what I do because I know God has placed me in a position of influence.
- I know I will give an account for how I pastor, preach, etc.
I know this is serious business.
If you are in a position of spiritual influence - Dgroup leader, LCG leader, children’s worker - it’s serious business because your words have tremendous influence.
Reality 1: We all influence with our words - and powerful influence.
Reality 2: We all struggle with our words.
(vs.
2) If you can control your tongue you must be perfect - And you’re not.
James gives two illustrations to show powerful influence of our words:
Our tongues (words) are like a bit in a horse’s mouth: so small yet controls the horse.
Our tongues are like a rudder on a ship - think about the huge wooden ships in the Roman empire.
Rudder so small but controls the ship.
Your tongue is small - about a half percent of your entire body weight - but think about the affect of the words that your tongue produces in proportion to its size.
Reality: It’s not the bit that ultimately controls the horse, nor the rudder that controls the boat.
The rider controls the horse, and the captain controls the boat.
Ultimately, it’s not your tongue that controls your words - it’s your heart.
( - deceitfully wicked.
- Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
When you speak and say, “I didn’t mean it… Be careful.)
Words can heal.
"There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.”
() You’ve experienced the power of a word of encouragement, hope, etc. at just the right time.
Words can heal.
11 A word fitly spoken
Or, words can hurt.
Because of sinful nature of our hearts, we often use words to hurt.
James knew this:
Because of sinful nature of our hearts, we often use words to hurt.
James knew this:
vs. 5 - words are like a spark that set a forest ablaze with fire, stains our entire lives - sets on fire the course of a life - and the fire is from hell itself!
WOW!
When you use the words to hurt and destroy you are playing right into the hands of Satan.
is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
vs. 7 - We’ve been able to tame massively huge creatures, but we can’t tame our small tongues.
Restless evil - full of deadly poison.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .
(heckled on the basketball court, Anonymous letter; “not the smartest tool in the shed” - I remember years later - the words still sting a bit.)
Words are destructive and can ruin a life - You’ve been damaged by words and you have damaged with your words.
We can do better!
Your words are terribly inconsistent.
We bless God.
That’s what we’re doing this morning.
You have sang of God’s greatness.
You’ve talked about how good God is, and you’ve talked about how He is at work in your life.
We curse others.
But earlier this week you probably talked about someone behind their back, lied to someone, harshly spoke to your spouse, yelled at your kids.
People made in the image of God - created by God and loved by God - you have hurt.
We are so inconsistent.
It ought not be so.
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(Luke listening - inconsistent… BUT, so is mine....)
Staging house - I need to live in a hotel until house sells.
It’s not how we really live.
No motivation to
Staging our lives - Sometimes we say the right things - lots of time we say the wrong thing -
A spring doesn’t produce fresh and salt water.
A fig tree doesn’t produce olives.
A grapevine doesn’t produce figs.
A salt pond doesn’t produce fresh water.
Those things are consistent, but us, the ones who are made in the image of God, loved by God, and saved by God are so inconsistent.
It ought not be this way.
Why are we inconsistent?
It’s easier.
It’s easier to stay the same than to change.
It’s easier to criticize, to be negative, to gossip - plays into our sinful nature.
Staging house - not willing to put away the mess until we want something new.
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