The Untamable Tongue
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TITLE: The Untamable Tongue
SUBJECT: Speech/Tongue
PROPOSITION: The untamable tongue 1) Requires Control 2) Creates Catastrophe, 3) Causes Contradictions.
OBJECTIVE: Each hearer should understand that we must make an effort to control our tongues.
INTRODUCTION:
1. Read: James 3:1-12
2. About the Text:
1) James tells us that the tongue “no man can tame.”
2) We will always struggle with sins of the tongue, but we must try not to sin.
3) Let’s discuss what James says about the tongue.
3. Ref. to S, T, P, O, and A.
DISCUSSION: The untamable tongue . . .
I. Requires Control (1-4)
1. Self-control (Gal.5:23)
2. Titus 2:11-12
3. Proverbs 13:3 (KJV) – He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
4. Psalm 141:3 (KJV) – Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
II. Creates Catastrophe (5-8)
1. Psalm 10:7 – “His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity.”
2. Psalm 12:4 – “Who have said, ‘With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; Who is lord over us?’”
3. Jacob (Gen.27)
4. Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:28)
III. Causes Contradiction
1. Serpent (Gen.3:1-4)
2. Lying Prophet (1 Kings 13:18ff)
3. Galatians 1:6-9
4. False Teachers – 1 John 4:1
CONCLUSION:
1. The untamable tongue . . .
1) Requires Control
2) Creates Catastrophe
3) Causes Contradiction
2. Invitation