Slow to Speak

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Slow to Speak

• James 31-12

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I. The Significance of the tongue

• A. The Warning
• 1. danger ambition
• Matthew 236-8, Philippians 117
• 2. reasons divine judgment
• Luke 1248
• 2 Corinthians 510
• Romans 1412

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I. The Significance of the tongue cont.

• B. The Reality
• were all sinners stumble
• present tense continual process
• Greatest Saints tongue trouble
• Job, Isaiah, Moses, Peter, Paul, Luther
• We sin with the tongue too easily

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II. The Power of the Tongue Illustrated

• A. The potential to control
• 1. the bit controls the whole horse despite
  its great strength
• 2. the rudder controls the ship in spite of
  the fierce winds
• Note emphasis on small size just like the
  tongue

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II. The Power of the Tongue Illustrated - cont.

• B. The potential to destroy
• the tongue is a fire
• world sinful system
• course of nature wheel of life
• set on fire by hell fueled by Satan
• More destructive than an atomic bomb temporal
  vs. eternal

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II. The Power of the Tongue Illustrated - cont.

• How
• Gossip
• Flattery
• Criticism
• It corrupts the whole person!

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III. The Problem with the Tongue

• Matthew 1517-18
• A. The Contrast
• every kind not every one
• is, and has been tamed
• by man
• NO man can tame the tongue

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III. The Problem with the Tongue cont.

• B. The Description
• unruly restless - unstable
• characterized by evil
• full of deadly poison
• you can NEVER let it relax

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IV. The Inconsistency of the Tongue

• A. The Statement
• we bless God none exempt
• we curse men verbally destroy
• made in the likeness of God
• Genesis 126-27

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IV. The Inconsistency of the Tongue cont.

• B. The Rebuke
• ought not to be so!!!!!
• C. The Point
• can/should both come out?
• similar to Galatians 5
• What you produce what you are

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Application

• What does your tongue indicate about where you
  are in your relationship to Christ?
• Death and life reside in it!
• What needs to change?
• God Can Control It!