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I. Leaders and Teachers have greater responsibility
A. The number of teachers/leaders
The number is not as significant as the responsibility.
The point here is that not many can handle the responsibility of teaching and leading because of the faithfulness it requires.
Godly and faithful leaders are difficult to come by.
So if you lead, understand that you are called to be both Godly and faithful in that endeavor.
There are so many who will say they can do this or that, but how many are there who will actually do those great things for God?
We are all called to be faithful, but those who are leaders are also called to steward what God has given.
Whether in the classroom or in the boardroom.
B. Strictness in judgement
Unfaithfulness in the task at hand reaps for the doer a great punishment.
But for the communicators and leaders, these who know better in so many ways, they will be judged even greater for what they have or have not done well.
James 3:2
Greater strictness has most likely to do with the law of sowing and reaping.
What we sow or plant that will we reap or harvest.
What we invest in the areas God calls us to lead and teach, we will also get out the same amount back.
In most areas of our giving God returns even more:
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Taming our communication
A. Control of speech
James 3:2
Everyone has sin problems.
James is dealing here with just the ability to leverage control over what we say.
If we can say the right things at the right times and avoid the wrong things then there is not an area of our lives in which we cannot see victory.
The truth of this is found in the next verse.
Look at the control we can have over a 1000 pound animal, just by controlling the animal’s mouth.
Think also of what controls the direction of a ship:
2.5%-5% of the total underwater cubic feet of the boat or ship.
B. Taming the tongue
Examples:
Taking the trash out.
Being home on time.
Getting school work completed both on time and in the correct manner.
Taming the tongue
How we speak and use our tongue says an enormous amount about who we are.
Just like most every area of our lives, the little things matter most.
The things that seem insignificant are typically the things that demonstrate character problems.
Names some small areas of our lives that show character problems if not done with diligence.
Taking the trash out.
Being home on time.
Getting school work completed both on time and in the correct manner.
What we say with our tongue is an indication of the internal fire that is consuming us.
So what is internally consuming you?
C. The Bad
The tongue is not like the animals of the earth.
It cannot be tamed, it is unruly and does not want to obey.
The tongue does not fear punishment or retribution.
The words we say can be like an evil that does not rest and poisons those we impact through it.
D. The Good
James 3:9-
On the opposite side of the bad the tongue can do, it can be equally as good.
Verse 9 calls us to remember who we are and who God is.
We are made in God’s image and are made for His glory.
Being made to glorify Him, it is a shame that we should glorify God with our speech, but destroy men with it also.
Instead we need to be a blessing with our words and not a curse.
In verse 10 James reminds us that wickedness with our words ought not to be so.
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What we are is what we communicate
Verse 11 causes us to consider the truth that only one kind of water comes out of a spring.
It cannot be poison and good at the same time.
We as God’s children cannot be people filled with poison in our words and grace in our works.
Ultimately what is already in us, is what comes out of us.
If we feed ourselves rotten tv shows, youtube videos and music, then eventually those things will be who we are.
In verse 12 it deals with the truth that certain trees produce certain fruit, so what tree are you?
Do you know Christ as savior?
Young person, if you know Christ, then you ought to be ingesting Christ-honoring things, which will produce Christ-honoring speech.
Next time we will discuss developing wholesome communication that hinges on wisdom ingested and contemplated.
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