12/18/2022 0 Comments The book of james“Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they keep deceiving, the poison of asps is under their lips” “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness….” In building his case that all have sinned, the apostle Paul zeroes in on the sins of the tongue (Rom. 141:3), all true believers will pray, “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth keep watch over the door of my lips.” While the monster may never be totally tamed, if you know Christ as Savior, you are engaged in the ongoing battle to tame the terrible tongue. Genuine faith yields to Christ’s lordship over your tongue. But now he moves from the generality of good deeds to the specifics of the words that you speak. If God has changed your heart through the new birth, the saving faith that He granted to you will inevitably show itself in a life of good deeds. Take advantage of all of them” (quoted by James Dent, Reader’s Digest ).Īs we move into chapter 3, James has gone from preaching to meddling! He has just made it clear that genuine faith works. Let’s hope that we learn what that woman never did, to tame the tongue! As a wise sage observed, “As you go through life you are going to have many opportunities to keep your mouth shut. Who, on the twenty-fourth of May, began to hold her tongue. The faint etchings read:īeneath this stone, a lump of clay, lies Arabella Young, On a windswept hill in an English country churchyard stands a drab, gray slate tombstone.
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