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Do when the 90 days is that we going to continue going.

So that's the whole purpose of this 90 Day, prayer challenge.

So you continue to to pray that prayer for yourself, and also for just call out the other members of our church and just pray it for our church.

And we'll watch what God will do.

When our hearts are turned toward those, the way that he looks at the laws and the way that he cares for the lost.

Well, today we're going to talk about The tongue we going to talk about our words, just what we just saying about.

And we're going to look at this.

There's a lot of passages in scripture.

Lot of passages in Proverbs will look at a few of them today.

But I want to take you to a passage in James chapter 3 today and the title of this message is beware of foot-in-mouth disease.

Wow.

How many of, you know, someone that kind of stick their foot in their mouth quite often?

Well, I would say I would say most of us do that ourselves and if not we we know people who do but we're going to look at How are tongues have great power to accomplish, good, or to accomplish evil.

Now, here's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to give you three points today, in j.

But there's something that James doesn't do.

He doesn't tell us.

Well, how do you tame the tongue?

He talks about the tongue and he give some beautiful word pictures, he gives metaphors and similes.

I just love the Book of James because it gives us pictures to look at.

He doesn't want for job, but he stopped short of saying.

Okay, well, how do you tame a matter of fact, James says, no man can tame the tongue.

Well if that's the case, does that mean that we're just going to shout out any and everything?

No, it's not there.

Something else you can tame that will tame the tongue, there's something else and that's what we're going to talk about.

And so, what I want you to do is take your Bible, turn the James chapter 3. We're going to read the first 12 verses.

Now, the main versus in our texts or verses 3 through 12, but I want to reverse she's wanting to and talk about that a little bit because it gives us the context.

So I'm going to read, let's just read together, verses 1 through 12, then we'll come back and unpack it.

So, James starts out and he says my brethren now, who is he talking about when he's talking to a church?

And he says my brethren, he's talking about Christian people.

Now, when once we get through these 12 vs, you going to think about he's talkin to the devil But some of the things he says, but he's talkin to Christian people, my brethren, let not many of you become teachers knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgement.

For we all stumble in many things.

Now watch what he says here.

If anyone does not stumble in word he is a perfect man.

Able also to Bridle the whole body.

Now he's going to give us starting now with the word pictures of what are tongue is.

Like not watch it in verse 3, indeed.

We put beer in horses miles, and they may obey us and we turn their whole body.

Look also at ships, although they are so large and are driven by Fierce winds.

They are turned by a very small Rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

Now watch even.

So the tongue is a little member.

And both great things.

See how great a forest a little fire Kindles?

I just hate this verse 6.

This is just condemning right here.

Look at this.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.

The tongue is said among our members that it the file, the whole body and set on fire, the course of Nature and it is set on fire by hell.

We're talking about the tongue and he's talkin about a o n a world of iniquity.

And defile the whole body for 7 for every kind of Beast and bird and a reptile.

And creature of the sea is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

But no man can tame the tongue.

It is an unruly evil full of deadly poison.

With it, we bless our God and Father and with it, we curse men who have been made in the similitude or the likeness of God out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.

My brother, these things are not to be so Does a sprained send for fresh water and bitter from the same opening?

Can a fig tree my brother bear all his or Grapevine bear figs.

The snow Spring Mills, both saltwater.

And fresh just listen how condemning this passage is about our tongue.

He's talkin to brother, he's not talkin to pagans here and he is constantly reminding the Brethren here.

Well, that they need to act like Brethren and he begins by telling the Brethren.

The number one thing that you need to do is you need to control your tongue.

Control your tongue, in an incredible.

The kind of trouble that comes can create Tom's can start wars.

Or in Wars.

Tums can cause stress or you say the right words that can relieve stress and not right?

It can relieve stress.

Our tongues can express love Are Tom can express hate.

Our tongues can build up friendships or in a matter of seconds, it can tear down, friendships, we can praise and worship god with our tongues or we can curse God and deny his existence in the next breath.

I just think about that.

I think Proverbs 18:21 says it best and I want you to see this verse.

Look at this death and life.

Are in the power of the tongue, death and life.

We can kill someone.

We can Slaughter someone, or we can build someone up with this little thing that we call the tongue.

Well, is easy for us to blame everything that goes wrong on the tongue but it's really not.

The tongue problem is our inability to control the tongue.

That is the problem.

If you look all through the Old Testament, especially you'll see men who had a problem with their tongue, Moses, Isaiah Jobe Jeremiah all up.

David had a problem with their speech.

And as we read the Bible, we understand that we are not too awful much different from from them.

We have to be careful with what we say and how we use this beautiful gift, that God has given us, the gift of speech.

And James reminds us here that it will be difficult to manage our tongues by the fact.

He says, it's the most difficult thing that you ever do.

So, let's unpack this.

And let's look at the little of the contacts that look at Birth one again.

What James is saying here, in verse one, is that our tongues have the ability to influence.

A lot of people that look at it in verse 1.

My brother, let not many of you become teachers, why don't he want me to become teachers?

Because he says, because knowing that we shall receive a stricter judge.

But do you know for someone to stand up and teach the word of God or to preach?

They will be under a stricter judgment than those who listen.

Because you got to make sure you going to teach and preach the right thing.

So James begins at the top of the what I would call the Jewish hierarchy, his first words are the teachers because teachers can influence don't you know teachers in your life that influence your life I bet you can remember your Elementary School teachers maybe or high school that influence you are like teachers influence people.

And so there's a lot of preachers on TV this influence and people today and its influence on in the wrong way.

So he warned that there's a stricter judgement for those who teach because they have the power to influence so many.

So this is not something that you just volunteered to do to be a preacher or a teacher.

That's something that you have to be called to do.

So the power of the tongue to influence people, that's that's kind of inverse one, as we set this up and then look what he says in verse 2. For we all stumble in many things.

If anyone is not stumbling word, he is a perfect man.