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Intro
The average tongue is about 3 inches long.
Your tongue has between 2,000 and 4,000 taste buds.
You cannot see your taste buds.
You don’t sense different tastes in different areas of the tongue.
You don’t sense different tastes in different areas of the tongue.
The tongue is not the strongest muscle in the body.
Your tongue print is as unique as a fingerprint
Your tongue can send you to hell.
That probably was not the conclusion to this list that you were expecting but I tell you the truth.
Not the organ itself but things that it produces can send you to hell.
Your words!
James warns us of the troubling task of taming the tongue!
Tiny But Tough: V1-5
Being a teacher was a prestigious position.
But not having control over your tongue will cause it to be damning.
It will turn you from instructor to hypocrite
If you have no control over tongue or even if you do, you will be judged with greater strictness!
This needs to be understood by those seeking to DO MORE!
James is not speaking to the point of us being Jesus type perfect.
He just wants us to understand the power of the tongue!
He is saying that if you have power over your tongue you are complete, or matured!
When you have control over your tongue you can do better with the rest of your body.
‘The conqueror of pleasure is not the man who never uses it.
He is the man who uses pleasure as a rider guides a horse or a steersman directs a ship, and so directs them wherever he wishes.’
Abstention from anything is never a complete substitute for control in its use.
James is pleading not for the silence that comes from a fear of saying something wrong or hurtful but for a wise use of speech.
The horse is a mighty creature
Yet when a small bit is placed in it’s mouth, the mighty creature can be controlled.
The ship is huge!
And it is driven by strong winds!
But if the rudder is facing a certain direction the ship and the wind have no say as to where the boat will end up being!
While it may seem to be an insignificant member of the body because of size, the tongue can control what happens to the whole body.
Tongue + Tinder = Destruction: V6-8
ja 3 6
‘Three things come not back—the spent arrow, the spoken word and the lost opportunity.’
There is nothing so impossible to kill as a rumour; there is nothing so impossible to obliterate as an idle and malicious story.
Before we speak, let us remember that once a word is spoken it is gone from our control; and let us think before we speak because, although we cannot get it back, we will most certainly answer for it.
like a fire, your words can cause damage from a distance.
And in these times not just your words but your fingers.
(Twitter fingers)
We can tame wild animals, but that tongue is another type of beast!
Restless evil!
Full of deadly poison!
If we are not careful with the use of our tongues it can cause damage that will spread like a wildfire!
Those who have the ability to SPEAK, let them LISTEN!
The Tongue Tells All: V9-12
go over the meaning of the word BLESS
The Greek word looks like the english word Eulogy.
Go over the meaning of the word for CURSE
To speak ill of one in order for something bad to happen to them.
James says that we use it to both bless God and curse those who are in his image.
That is revealing as to the true nature of a person.
here’s why
James says that our mouths should not contain both blessings and cursings!
BUT HE DID NOT SAY IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE!
The spring is the source
Can it have two different types of water coming from one?
NOPE!
It will reveal who you truly are!
Conclusion
Through James we have a warning to tame our tongues because it will both proclaim who you truly are and destroy you.
We keep this from happening by controlling the source.
By enhancing and making better the springs of our hearts so that fresh water comes out.
By planting the seed of God in our hearts so that our fruits are of the Spirit.
That is how we tame the troublesome tongue.
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