WEBVTT 00:00:03.786 --> 00:00:05.328 Good to see all your smiling faces. 00:00:05.328 --> 00:00:07.232 Happy June, happy Pentecost Sunday. 00:00:07.232 --> 00:00:09.195 Let's go, let's bring the fire today. 00:00:09.195 --> 00:00:11.483 Best way to do that get in the Word right. 00:00:11.483 --> 00:00:15.151 So we have, you have Bibles, you have screens, you have whatever. 00:00:15.151 --> 00:00:15.612 We have this. 00:00:15.612 --> 00:00:21.492 So we're going to get into something I think is really important in this day and this hour, and it's our words. 00:00:21.492 --> 00:00:26.131 We live in a world of words and they're flying everywhere. 00:00:26.131 --> 00:00:28.964 There's like no restraint anymore. 00:00:28.964 --> 00:00:36.752 So I want to talk to you this morning out of James 3, on taming the tongue and harnessing how to harness the power of our words. 00:00:38.420 --> 00:00:49.060 There was a foreigner that came to America and he was learning English and it's not an easy language, as we know, and a friend was helping him and you know, giving him some corrections here and there and everything. 00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:49.462 And he goes. 00:00:49.462 --> 00:00:53.206 I know, I know I said some of the problems I have with English. 00:00:53.206 --> 00:00:58.387 Some of the words, they're so vague-y sometimes and he goes no, no, it's not vague-y, it's vague. 00:00:58.387 --> 00:01:01.850 Okay, all right, sorry, that's the problem. 00:01:01.850 --> 00:01:09.680 See, I try new words and then my tongue-y-wee it gets all twisted and he goes no, no, it's not tongue-y-wee, it's tongue, it's not vague-y-wee, it's vague, it's not tongue-y-wee, it's tongue. 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:10.040 You got it. 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:10.721 He goes I got it. 00:01:10.721 --> 00:01:12.082 I got it, we don't have to arg about it. 00:01:12.082 --> 00:01:16.266 So that's English, right? 00:01:16.266 --> 00:01:20.730 We don't have to arg about it, if you dare. 00:01:20.771 --> 00:01:21.572 James, chapter 3. 00:01:21.572 --> 00:01:23.933 James, chapter 3. 00:01:23.933 --> 00:01:34.066 James starts out by saying not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 00:01:34.066 --> 00:01:38.313 For the record, I have the biggest risk this morning. 00:01:38.313 --> 00:01:42.082 I'm trying to teach this and it's like we're all in this together. 00:01:42.082 --> 00:01:44.344 That's the point James makes in verse 2. 00:01:45.667 --> 00:01:47.287 We all stumble in many ways. 00:01:47.287 --> 00:01:49.569 We all stumble in many ways. 00:01:49.569 --> 00:01:54.433 He's including himself, and if anyone does not stumble into what he says, that's our tongue. 00:01:54.433 --> 00:01:57.156 He's a perfect man, mature. 00:01:57.156 --> 00:02:04.891 See, learning how to harness the power of your words is how we progress into Christ-like maturity. 00:02:04.891 --> 00:02:11.812 It's a mark of maturity and here's the best part Once you get on that road, you're able to bridle your whole body. 00:02:11.812 --> 00:02:18.592 Do you realize your tongue is connected to your toes and your arms and everything else? 00:02:18.592 --> 00:02:21.664 You can bridle your whole body if you can bridle the tongue. 00:02:21.664 --> 00:02:24.449 Thanks a lot, james. 00:02:24.449 --> 00:02:25.973 What's that mean? 00:02:25.973 --> 00:02:28.402 Be a learner first Before you try to teach this stuff. 00:02:28.402 --> 00:02:31.611 Be a learner first, and I love this personal confession. 00:02:31.611 --> 00:02:32.342 We all stumble. 00:02:32.342 --> 00:02:32.782 In many ways. 00:02:32.823 --> 00:02:36.072 I think he's probably reflecting, maybe, on his childhood, looking back. 00:02:36.072 --> 00:02:38.724 How many know James was the half-brother of Jesus? 00:02:38.724 --> 00:02:42.461 Yeah, lived with Jesus same house, maybe they shared a bedroom. 00:02:42.461 --> 00:02:44.424 How many shared a bedroom with a sibling with Jesus? 00:02:44.424 --> 00:02:44.724 Same house? 00:02:44.724 --> 00:02:45.866 Maybe they shared a bedroom? 00:02:45.866 --> 00:02:47.269 How many shared a bedroom with a sibling? 00:02:47.269 --> 00:02:50.252 We'll have a healing line afterwards 14 years with my brother it was torture. 00:02:50.252 --> 00:02:51.194 No, it wasn't. 00:02:51.194 --> 00:03:03.701 I was bigger, stronger and older and more handsome, but anyway, yeah, maybe Jesus shared a bedroom with James. 00:03:03.722 --> 00:03:05.805 And can you imagine James waking up and looking over and there's Jesus' bed already made. 00:03:05.805 --> 00:03:08.129 He's out, he's already had devotions, he is a devotion. 00:03:08.129 --> 00:03:14.090 He made breakfast for the family and he's in the woodshop making furniture and it's only six o'clock in the morning. 00:03:14.090 --> 00:03:20.262 He looks over and he probably at some point in life, he probably just went up to Jesus one time and says you just think you're perfect, don't you? 00:03:20.262 --> 00:03:22.966 And probably said I am, anyway. 00:03:24.870 --> 00:03:27.554 So, yeah, he probably said some snide things. 00:03:27.554 --> 00:03:30.305 Maybe you know a little dig with a sibling every now and then. 00:03:30.305 --> 00:03:34.100 Maybe he just said some snide comments, you know. 00:03:34.100 --> 00:03:45.638 But yet he watched his own brother grow, he watched his maturity, he watched how he handled words and I think it's fascinating that Paul brings us out in 1 Corinthians 15. 00:03:45.638 --> 00:03:48.950 You don't have to go there, but it says that you know when Jesus. 00:03:48.950 --> 00:03:50.478 He was raised from the dead. 00:03:50.478 --> 00:03:54.187 But before he ascended it says he appeared to Cephas, to the 12. 00:03:54.187 --> 00:04:00.009 He appeared to more than 500 brothers at one time verse 7, and then he appeared to James. 00:04:00.009 --> 00:04:01.133 Isn't that cool. 00:04:01.133 --> 00:04:14.974 He made a personal appearance to his brother James, and then the rest of the apostles, and probably wanted to give him a little assurance of the pardon for those nasty things he said. 00:04:14.974 --> 00:04:17.408 He said hey brother, remember all those things. 00:04:17.408 --> 00:04:19.543 I just took them all to the cross. 00:04:19.543 --> 00:04:20.646 Come on somebody. 00:04:20.646 --> 00:04:23.812 We're good, we're good, yeah. 00:04:29.819 --> 00:04:30.745 So James gets into this rigorous analysis. 00:04:30.745 --> 00:04:31.307 I call him Dr James. 00:04:31.307 --> 00:04:32.696 When I get into James 3, it's like he becomes Dr James. 00:04:32.696 --> 00:04:35.908 It's like stick out your tongue, say ah, we're going to have a little analysis. 00:04:35.908 --> 00:04:44.249 And he begins to use imagery because he says whoever can control the tongue can control himself. 00:04:44.249 --> 00:04:52.752 And it's not just by getting the right words and all these things, it's not just by our speech, but sometimes by our lack of speech. 00:04:52.752 --> 00:04:53.461 Come on somebody. 00:04:56.790 --> 00:05:12.786 My great-grandfather came from Northern Ireland and passed on a witty little saying to my grandfather, my father who passed it on to us and we heard it many times, but it was this witty saying that it's better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. 00:05:12.786 --> 00:05:16.776 Sometimes it's better just to be silent. 00:05:16.776 --> 00:05:23.463 So controlling our words is not just getting the right words at the right time, but it's sometimes just saying I don't have to say anything right now. 00:05:23.463 --> 00:05:26.112 When do we remain silent? 00:05:26.112 --> 00:05:28.382 Proverbs 21, 23,. 00:05:28.382 --> 00:05:31.651 Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble. 00:05:31.651 --> 00:05:33.764 Come on, young people, write that down. 00:05:33.764 --> 00:05:37.033 How do I keep myself out of trouble? 00:05:37.033 --> 00:05:37.593 It starts here. 00:05:37.593 --> 00:05:40.283 So James gives the overture in chapter one. 00:05:40.723 --> 00:05:58.471 One verse out of James 1, 26, kind of paints the overture of the symphony of this teaching on the tongue and everything else in there he goes if anyone thinks he's religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. 00:05:58.471 --> 00:05:59.213 Oh my gosh. 00:05:59.213 --> 00:06:01.483 How do you measure your religious activity? 00:06:01.483 --> 00:06:05.492 What's the dashboard of your religious life? 00:06:05.492 --> 00:06:08.245 Church attendance, tithing, giving small groups, you know what? 00:06:08.245 --> 00:06:11.232 How do you measure your religious life? 00:06:11.232 --> 00:06:18.494 Whatever you do to say I'm a four out of five, or whatever scale you use to measure your religion? 00:06:18.494 --> 00:06:27.115 He says if you think you're religious in any way, shape or form, but you can't bridle your tongue, that religious practice is empty, worthless. 00:06:27.115 --> 00:06:28.283 Wow thanks, james. 00:06:28.283 --> 00:06:30.524 Tell us another way. 00:06:30.524 --> 00:06:32.865 He gets more ruthless. 00:06:32.865 --> 00:06:35.444 So just buckle up, okay, but it will get better at the end, I promise. 00:06:35.444 --> 00:06:36.949 Here's what we're doing. 00:06:38.201 --> 00:06:44.766 James brings us into this stark realization of just how powerful our words are and literally how evil the tongue is. 00:06:44.766 --> 00:06:46.531 And so we cry out for help. 00:06:46.531 --> 00:06:52.422 This is a cry for help for all of us. 00:06:52.422 --> 00:06:52.721 We all stumble. 00:06:52.721 --> 00:06:53.663 James is crying out on his own behalf too. 00:06:53.663 --> 00:06:53.985 We all stumble. 00:06:53.985 --> 00:06:54.204 So he says. 00:06:54.204 --> 00:06:56.108 We all are asking God to help us. 00:06:56.108 --> 00:06:57.271 Right, say help. 00:06:57.271 --> 00:06:59.341 That's the best prayer you'll ever pray. 00:06:59.341 --> 00:07:01.925 Help, help me, lord. 00:07:01.925 --> 00:07:03.769 So God, help us. 00:07:03.769 --> 00:07:05.432 What by grace? 00:07:05.432 --> 00:07:09.766 To say the right thing at the right time to the right person, in the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:07:09.766 --> 00:07:14.908 Right, not in our own cognition, but this is a magnificent grace. 00:07:14.908 --> 00:07:20.747 When you can learn to harness your words, when you can begin to tame your tongue, that's a magnificent grace, and people will know it. 00:07:20.747 --> 00:07:24.074 They'll know you by your fruits. 00:07:24.074 --> 00:07:30.384 Know it. 00:07:30.384 --> 00:07:31.329 They'll know you by your fruits. 00:07:31.329 --> 00:07:31.690 So here we go. 00:07:31.690 --> 00:07:32.334 Buckle up, james 3. 00:07:32.334 --> 00:07:32.896 Here we go, Verse 3. 00:07:35.300 --> 00:07:36.702 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us. 00:07:36.702 --> 00:07:37.584 We can guide their whole bodies as well. 00:07:37.584 --> 00:07:38.526 Look at the ships also. 00:07:38.526 --> 00:07:44.363 Though they're so large and are driven by strong winds, they're guided by a very small rudder. 00:07:44.363 --> 00:07:49.374 Wherever the will of the pilot directs, so also the tongue. 00:07:49.374 --> 00:07:52.910 It's a small member, but it boasts of great things. 00:07:52.910 --> 00:08:00.709 James is using imagery now to help us A bridle for the horse, a rudder for the ship. 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:12.370 Talk about this, because it describes first of all how our words affect us personally, but then it describes how our words affect our circumstances. 00:08:12.370 --> 00:08:20.870 Something very small controls something much larger Horses, ships. 00:08:20.870 --> 00:08:24.302 And the main difference between a horse and a ship. 00:08:24.302 --> 00:08:28.201 Ah, the horse has a will of its own, doesn't it? 00:08:28.201 --> 00:08:35.216 Like you, the horse is a living being, ship, isn't so? 00:08:35.216 --> 00:08:38.201 The ship would kind of describe our circumstances. 00:08:38.201 --> 00:08:42.769 It's affected by the pilot. 00:08:44.153 --> 00:08:47.808 I have a question for you this morning which can you turn more quickly, a horse or a ship? 00:08:47.808 --> 00:08:57.525 A horse, of course, any, mr Ed fans, you're old, okay, if you remember, mr Ed, you're old like me, okay, yeah, the horse, of course. 00:08:57.525 --> 00:09:07.087 Yeah, you can turn it on a dime, which means what Us with a human will, like the horse, we can control it quickly, which means what we can repent like that. 00:09:07.087 --> 00:09:09.344 You can be quick to repent. 00:09:09.344 --> 00:09:12.371 I'm sorry, I was wrong, please forgive me. 00:09:12.371 --> 00:09:17.631 You can humbly turn your life with words, a ship not. 00:09:17.631 --> 00:09:24.068 So Takes a lot longer to turn a ship around, which means what Takes a lot longer to turn your circumstances around. 00:09:24.068 --> 00:09:32.283 But here's the good news If you keep speaking in the right direction, you can slowly turn your circumstances like a great ship. 00:09:32.283 --> 00:09:41.744 You have to keep speaking into your world, because James goes on to say it's not just about horses and ships. 00:09:41.783 --> 00:09:46.013 He says the fruit of that is massive destruction. 00:09:46.013 --> 00:09:49.244 It's a weapon of mass destruction. 00:09:49.244 --> 00:09:49.926 Right in your mouth. 00:09:49.926 --> 00:09:52.130 The pictures are rolling. 00:09:52.130 --> 00:09:53.783 He goes on to say verse five. 00:09:53.783 --> 00:09:54.645 So also the tongue. 00:09:54.645 --> 00:09:57.498 It's a small member, but it boasts of great things. 00:09:57.498 --> 00:10:02.106 Watch this now how great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire. 00:10:02.106 --> 00:10:07.414 There was a reveal party out in California not too long ago. 00:10:07.414 --> 00:10:09.785 Did a little reveal party, you know? 00:10:09.785 --> 00:10:13.804 A little spark Set the lawn on fire, set the neighbors on fire. 00:10:13.804 --> 00:10:17.831 It set over 40,000 acres on fire. 00:10:17.831 --> 00:10:19.966 It took two months to put the fire out. 00:10:21.681 --> 00:10:23.126 You'll sing that little song differently. 00:10:23.126 --> 00:10:24.787 It only takes a spark. 00:10:24.787 --> 00:10:25.245 No, we won't sing that anymore. 00:10:25.245 --> 00:10:25.312 It's powerful. 00:10:25.312 --> 00:10:25.691 That's what song? 00:10:25.691 --> 00:10:26.049 Differently, it only takes a spark. 00:10:26.049 --> 00:10:26.268 No, we won't sing that anymore. 00:10:26.268 --> 00:10:28.465 It's powerful, that's what James said. 00:10:28.465 --> 00:10:33.400 It only takes a spark of destruction to destroy an entire forest. 00:10:33.400 --> 00:10:35.645 And he says this in verse six. 00:10:35.645 --> 00:10:36.649 Buckle up, this is tough. 00:10:36.649 --> 00:10:38.841 Here we go and the tongue is a fire. 00:10:38.841 --> 00:10:41.006 He said he didn't say it's kind of like a fire. 00:10:41.006 --> 00:10:41.989 He said no, it is a fire. 00:10:41.989 --> 00:10:44.524 Your tongue is a fire. 00:10:44.524 --> 00:10:46.200 You got a fire in your mouth. 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:47.724 You're a fire-breathing Christian. 00:10:47.724 --> 00:10:51.772 The tongue is a fire. 00:10:52.211 --> 00:10:53.014 Watch this next phrase. 00:10:53.014 --> 00:10:53.663 I'm going to unpack this. 00:10:53.663 --> 00:10:55.794 It's a world of unrighteousness. 00:10:55.794 --> 00:10:56.238 What do you mean? 00:10:56.238 --> 00:10:57.400 It's a world of unrighteousness. 00:10:57.400 --> 00:11:00.504 The word world is the Greek word cosmos. 00:11:00.504 --> 00:11:03.889 It doesn't mean earth or a globe or dirt. 00:11:03.889 --> 00:11:08.100 The cosmos is an ordered system that you and I live in. 00:11:08.100 --> 00:11:11.188 God so loved the cosmos. 00:11:11.188 --> 00:11:19.288 God so loved the system that humans were trapped in that he sent his son into it to take all the punishment of the way we act. 00:11:19.288 --> 00:11:24.525 It's a world of unrighteousness, an ordered system ruled by Satan. 00:11:24.525 --> 00:11:26.851 Don't forget he's the God of this cosmos. 00:11:26.851 --> 00:11:30.706 Y'all aren't shouting very much, but you will by the time we get to the end of this. 00:11:30.706 --> 00:11:32.913 It's kind of like the gospel. 00:11:32.913 --> 00:11:35.539 You got to know how bad it is before you know how good it is right. 00:11:35.539 --> 00:11:39.071 You got to know how bad you are when you realize how good the gospel is. 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:51.340 The world's system it's the world stage is where life is played out in the world. 00:11:51.340 --> 00:11:54.143 We're in the world but we're not of it. 00:11:54.143 --> 00:11:56.991 But the only way Satan can be the God of this world and have any influence in this world, he needs words. 00:11:56.991 --> 00:11:59.900 He needs words to control humans and influence humans. 00:11:59.900 --> 00:12:02.145 And guess what? 00:12:02.145 --> 00:12:03.128 He wants? 00:12:03.128 --> 00:12:03.909 Your words. 00:12:03.909 --> 00:12:06.235 He wants to influence your words. 00:12:06.235 --> 00:12:12.451 He wants you to get to align your words with his words, because he doesn't have a human tongue but you do. 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:22.373 The tongue, our tongue, is part of an invisible, ordered system and Satan wants to use it. 00:12:22.373 --> 00:12:29.023 So he goes on to say the tongue is a fire, it's a world, it's part of a world system. 00:12:29.023 --> 00:12:33.913 Of what Unrighteousness it's set among our members. 00:12:33.913 --> 00:12:35.261 Watch now he's looking at the body. 00:12:35.261 --> 00:12:44.609 It's set amongst our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the course of life and in the Greek, this idea of the course of life. 00:12:44.609 --> 00:12:47.735 In the Greek it would be the wheel of becoming. 00:12:47.735 --> 00:13:00.446 Get the picture of a wheel, troxos in the Greek, of a wheel moving on a circular track, Kind of the moral axis that our lives are turning on all the time and your tongue sets the wheel in motion. 00:13:00.446 --> 00:13:02.491 Come on, get that picture. 00:13:02.491 --> 00:13:04.386 Your words drive the wheel. 00:13:07.100 --> 00:13:08.102 Your words determine your wheel of becoming. 00:13:08.102 --> 00:13:09.927 What you are becoming is determined by what you say. 00:13:09.927 --> 00:13:12.501 The tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. 00:13:12.501 --> 00:13:21.307 It's set among our members like a wheel staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire wheel of becoming cycle of existence. 00:13:21.307 --> 00:13:26.985 Watch this it's set on fire by hell, not matches or a lighter. 00:13:28.442 --> 00:13:35.722 The source of this world of unrighteousness, the source of this destructive power of our own tongue, the fire in your mouth. 00:13:35.722 --> 00:13:37.528 The source is hell itself. 00:13:37.528 --> 00:13:40.539 These are strong words, but we got to come to a reality. 00:13:40.539 --> 00:13:42.989 It's like why does it hurt so bad when someone says this? 00:13:42.989 --> 00:13:45.625 Because the source is the demonic. 00:13:45.625 --> 00:13:47.187 The source is the devil himself. 00:13:47.187 --> 00:14:00.599 He has to find a human to hurt another human with in the course of a whole life, your cycle of existence. 00:14:02.447 --> 00:14:05.736 Your words move the wheel of what you're becoming. 00:14:05.736 --> 00:14:07.350 That's how you got saved. 00:14:07.350 --> 00:14:11.436 You got saved because you used different words, words you've never used before. 00:14:11.436 --> 00:14:16.433 Lord, forgive me, I believe you rose from the dead. 00:14:16.433 --> 00:14:26.330 Those words change the wheel of what you are now becoming Proverbs 18.21,. 00:14:26.370 --> 00:14:29.332 You know it well, life and death are in the power of the tongue. 00:14:29.332 --> 00:14:32.994 You go from death to life by your words. 00:14:32.994 --> 00:14:38.729 So with our tongues, you see, we affect the invisible world that you can't see. 00:14:38.729 --> 00:14:44.734 So with our tongues, you see, we affect the invisible world that you can't see, which then affects the natural world that we all can see and live in. 00:14:44.734 --> 00:14:50.658 The bit in the horse's mouth can't see it, but it affects the direction of the horse. 00:14:50.658 --> 00:14:51.840 The rudder on the ship? 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:52.421 You can't see it. 00:14:52.421 --> 00:14:58.225 It's below the surface of the water, but it affects the direction of the ship. 00:14:58.225 --> 00:14:59.826 According to the pilot. 00:14:59.846 --> 00:15:03.190 Whatever's in the invisible world come on controls the visible world. 00:15:03.190 --> 00:15:05.312 That's why words are so powerful. 00:15:05.312 --> 00:15:10.676 That's why our life is so complicated now, because we have this thing called the World Wide Web. 00:15:10.676 --> 00:15:13.999 We have an invisible web of words flying 24-7. 00:15:13.999 --> 00:15:15.799 There's words everywhere. 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:18.001 They're on your screens, they're in your ears. 00:15:18.001 --> 00:15:18.903 There are words everywhere. 00:15:18.903 --> 00:15:19.663 And the devil's screens? 00:15:19.663 --> 00:15:20.144 They're in your ears. 00:15:20.144 --> 00:15:21.664 There are words everywhere and the devil's trying to control. 00:15:21.664 --> 00:15:26.965 He's called the prince of the power of the air. 00:15:26.965 --> 00:15:30.629 The spirit world always controls the visible world. 00:15:30.629 --> 00:15:32.491 That's why prayer is so important, folks, come on. 00:15:32.491 --> 00:15:34.475 That's why your prayers are important. 00:15:34.475 --> 00:15:36.599 Your vocal prayers are really important. 00:15:42.625 --> 00:15:44.369 I'm all for silent prayers and there's time silent prayers. 00:15:44.369 --> 00:15:52.986 But I'm going to tell you something there's time for vocal declaring prayers, governmental prayers, because what you pray in the spirit realm becomes manifest in the natural realm. 00:15:52.986 --> 00:16:03.573 That's why prophecy is so powerful, because God uses words to direct our lives, to speak into us, to change us, to set that wheel in motion. 00:16:03.573 --> 00:16:10.437 Where you didn't have any plan at all, god will change course on you sometimes because he knows the destiny of your life. 00:16:10.437 --> 00:16:13.788 Prayer is powerful, spoken prayer is powerful. 00:16:13.788 --> 00:16:15.451 I got a prophecy for you. 00:16:15.451 --> 00:16:16.615 Okay, go ahead. 00:16:16.615 --> 00:16:17.926 No, it's just, I'm going to keep it to myself. 00:16:17.926 --> 00:16:18.547 I'll just think it. 00:16:18.547 --> 00:16:21.994 You ever been to a prayer meeting? 00:16:21.994 --> 00:16:22.214 You go. 00:16:22.214 --> 00:16:23.596 Anybody have any other requests? 00:16:23.596 --> 00:16:26.767 Yes, what Silent request. 00:16:26.767 --> 00:16:28.870 Really, do you know? 00:16:28.929 --> 00:16:33.475 We forget this one little word in the Lord's teaching in Luke 11. 00:16:33.475 --> 00:16:36.379 They said Lord, teach us to pray, like John taught his disciples. 00:16:36.379 --> 00:16:41.999 Okay, when you pray, say. 00:16:41.999 --> 00:16:45.250 When you pray he didn't say think when you pray. 00:16:45.250 --> 00:16:47.937 Say, it means break silence, it means use words. 00:16:47.937 --> 00:16:52.654 When you pray, say our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. 00:16:52.654 --> 00:16:53.621 And suddenly the devil goes there. 00:16:53.621 --> 00:16:53.943 They go again. 00:16:53.943 --> 00:16:54.325 Dang, I mean. 00:16:54.325 --> 00:17:01.398 The devil hears, I mean, but he can't use the words that he wants to use unless he can find a cooperative vessel. 00:17:01.398 --> 00:17:10.643 So when you pray, say because your tongues speak invisible words but they can change the cycle of existence in things. 00:17:10.643 --> 00:17:14.306 James goes on. 00:17:14.326 --> 00:17:15.467 Now we're getting into taming the tongue. 00:17:15.467 --> 00:17:17.307 He's like I just want you to know how bad it really is. 00:17:17.307 --> 00:17:23.031 It's bad, say it's bad, don't look at anybody, look down and go. 00:17:23.031 --> 00:17:23.811 It's really bad. 00:17:23.811 --> 00:17:30.596 But every kind of beast and bird verse 7, reptile sea creature can be tamed. 00:17:30.596 --> 00:17:31.978 That's the good news we're getting. 00:17:31.978 --> 00:17:32.778 See, it's getting better already. 00:17:32.978 --> 00:17:37.280 You can tame all these animals and they have been tamed by mankind. 00:17:37.280 --> 00:17:38.981 Anybody ever been to SeaWorld? 00:17:38.981 --> 00:17:48.346 Seaworld, you got the orca right. 00:17:48.346 --> 00:17:49.409 Shamu, it would barely fit in this room. 00:17:49.409 --> 00:17:49.950 They're massive, right. 00:17:49.950 --> 00:17:53.726 But man can go out in the ocean, capture an orca, bring it to SeaWorld and charge money for people to look at it. 00:17:53.726 --> 00:17:56.932 That is so big and that's it. 00:17:56.932 --> 00:17:58.796 We can do that. 00:17:58.796 --> 00:18:00.618 We can tame every kind of beast and wild animal. 00:18:00.704 --> 00:18:04.875 But he says no human being can tame the tongue. 00:18:04.875 --> 00:18:05.998 We're all in this together. 00:18:05.998 --> 00:18:08.171 I don't know what that scripture is. 00:18:08.171 --> 00:18:11.109 I'll just quote it from my own memory Misery loves company. 00:18:11.109 --> 00:18:15.719 What's that verse, neil Misery loves what. 00:18:15.719 --> 00:18:16.829 We're all in this together. 00:18:16.829 --> 00:18:17.306 Why? 00:18:17.306 --> 00:18:20.115 Because no human can tame the tongue. 00:18:20.115 --> 00:18:22.788 It's a restless evil. 00:18:22.788 --> 00:18:25.374 Watch this, full of deadly poison. 00:18:25.374 --> 00:18:26.817 Think, james, could you lighten up? 00:18:26.817 --> 00:18:27.905 You're killing us. 00:18:27.905 --> 00:18:28.247 He goes. 00:18:28.247 --> 00:18:30.992 That's my point, try to kill this thing. 00:18:30.992 --> 00:18:32.777 It's full of deadly poison. 00:18:33.018 --> 00:18:34.508 And I think James uses seven and eight. 00:18:34.508 --> 00:18:37.316 He takes us all the way back to Genesis for a minute. 00:18:37.316 --> 00:18:42.351 7 and 8, he takes us all the way back to Genesis for a minute. 00:18:42.351 --> 00:18:46.226 In Genesis 1, we're told to take dominion right Over the fish of the sea and all the animals right, take dominion over every creature. 00:18:46.226 --> 00:18:53.239 And James says this has been done, this taming has been done, subdued by man. 00:18:53.239 --> 00:18:54.186 We've learned how to do that. 00:18:54.186 --> 00:19:07.457 And then man falls in Genesis 3, and James is reminding us of something more wild than the wildest of beasts that cannot be tamed by man the tongue. 00:19:07.457 --> 00:19:10.426 Because when we fell, we became cursed. 00:19:10.426 --> 00:19:15.376 When we fell, our tongue got infected with deadly poison. 00:19:15.376 --> 00:19:22.546 He says with deadly poison. 00:19:22.546 --> 00:19:22.826 He says Wow. 00:19:22.826 --> 00:19:25.031 And so therefore it takes more than natural ability to tame this wild beast in our mouth. 00:19:25.031 --> 00:19:27.217 Right, oh, your flesh can do a good job. 00:19:27.257 --> 00:19:35.067 For a while I've had good days, well, partial days, well, I've had an hour or two, usually when I'm sleeping, my tongue's okay. 00:19:35.067 --> 00:19:37.834 I mean, we all can white knuckle it. 00:19:37.834 --> 00:19:39.886 We can all sit there and look at somebody and go. 00:19:39.886 --> 00:19:46.676 I just want to say something so bad right now, but I'm just you just flesh it out, like when you walk away and we, we have all these little self-help tips. 00:19:46.676 --> 00:19:49.827 They can work, even for Christians. 00:19:49.827 --> 00:19:51.074 They can born again people. 00:19:51.074 --> 00:19:55.388 But every now and then, spirit filled tongue talking to people, something comes out and you go where did that come from? 00:19:55.388 --> 00:19:58.817 Wow, I can't believe that just came out. 00:19:58.817 --> 00:20:01.166 What do we do? 00:20:01.166 --> 00:20:03.833 Here's the good news. 00:20:03.833 --> 00:20:04.555 You ready for good news. 00:20:04.555 --> 00:20:05.738 Y'all look so sad. 00:20:05.738 --> 00:20:08.832 Happy June, happy. 00:20:08.832 --> 00:20:09.635 Listen here's. 00:20:09.635 --> 00:20:10.480 And you know this. 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:11.684 But now we're going to walk you through this. 00:20:12.386 --> 00:20:16.496 The only thing that can subdue the tongue is the knowledge of God's word. 00:20:16.496 --> 00:20:17.057 You have to. 00:20:17.057 --> 00:20:18.588 This is a battle of words, everybody. 00:20:18.588 --> 00:20:23.231 It's our words aligning with the right source. 00:20:23.231 --> 00:20:28.443 This is the wisdom we're told to ask for in James 1. 00:20:28.443 --> 00:20:29.951 If any of you lack wisdom, like, how do we do this? 00:20:29.951 --> 00:20:31.279 How do you tame the human tongue? 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:31.501 He goes. 00:20:31.501 --> 00:20:34.769 You better ask for wisdom because it doesn't come from down here, it comes from up here. 00:20:34.769 --> 00:20:37.094 This kind of wisdom comes from above. 00:20:37.094 --> 00:20:40.926 James says and it's the knowledge of the word of God. 00:20:40.926 --> 00:20:44.459 First get knowledge of it Did God really say that, yeah? 00:20:44.459 --> 00:20:47.689 And then the application of that knowledge in our lives. 00:20:47.689 --> 00:20:48.830 And it can take a lifetime. 00:20:49.653 --> 00:20:50.675 I'm not sugarcoating this. 00:20:50.675 --> 00:20:54.648 I'm not saying you know Abracadabra, we're going to have a prayer line up here and you'll all have your tongues tamed as you walk out the door. 00:20:54.648 --> 00:20:55.990 Pick up your tongue tamer on the way out. 00:20:55.990 --> 00:20:58.012 It's like it's not that easy. 00:20:58.012 --> 00:20:59.054 I wish it was. 00:20:59.054 --> 00:21:07.249 But the longer you walk with the Lord, the longer you take in his word, it just becomes a little easier. 00:21:07.249 --> 00:21:08.491 And a little easier why? 00:21:08.491 --> 00:21:11.527 Because you strengthen the voice of the spirit in you. 00:21:11.527 --> 00:21:18.586 Because he's only going to talk Jesus, he's only going to talk Bible to you and he will correct you and he will say things. 00:21:18.586 --> 00:21:20.969 And we have to be quick to hear and slow to speak. 00:21:20.969 --> 00:21:27.214 And I get this little voice every now and then it's just louder and clearer and I know this. 00:21:27.214 --> 00:21:30.417 The Holy Spirit speaks in short, pithy little statements. 00:21:30.417 --> 00:21:33.619 He's not long-winded, he just like corrects quickly. 00:21:34.381 --> 00:21:36.585 One time I'm walking down to my office it's in our basement. 00:21:36.585 --> 00:21:38.205 I was walking down, I'd just done something stupid. 00:21:38.205 --> 00:21:39.227 Am I alone in the room. 00:21:39.227 --> 00:21:41.209 I'd just done something. 00:21:41.209 --> 00:21:42.569 Come on, men, help At least the men. 00:21:42.569 --> 00:21:48.294 I know the women don't do that, but men we do stupid things sometimes and I'm kind of scolding myself as I'm going down. 00:21:48.294 --> 00:21:51.115 I said you're such an idiot and just like that. 00:21:51.115 --> 00:21:52.116 I heard I don't call you that. 00:21:52.116 --> 00:21:56.640 It was that quick and that not harsh, but very like I don't call you that. 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:00.042 I looked around and it couldn't be my wife. 00:22:00.042 --> 00:22:04.132 I'm like what was that voice? 00:22:04.132 --> 00:22:07.154 And it was right inside, so quick and so sure, like I don't call you that. 00:22:07.154 --> 00:22:11.816 It's like wow, we need that quick course correction of the rudder. 00:22:11.816 --> 00:22:14.271 You know the bit in my own mouth. 00:22:14.271 --> 00:22:15.809 I don't call you that. 00:22:15.809 --> 00:22:18.192 Don't say that about yourself because I don't call you that. 00:22:21.086 --> 00:22:23.352 Again, I talked about my Irish characters on my mother's side. 00:22:23.352 --> 00:22:41.489 I'm only second generation Irish from the Northern Ireland and my mother was one of nine kids and they immigrated over in the late 1800s, early 1900s and my grandfather was a dairy farmer and you know busy and nine kids and everything, and how many of the nine kids? 00:22:41.489 --> 00:22:43.053 Somebody's bound to act up at least once. 00:22:43.053 --> 00:22:45.167 Right, so there was discipline in the house. 00:22:45.167 --> 00:23:00.339 There were staunch Presbyterians from the north of Ireland and my mother would say you know, when one of us got in trouble and we had to get disciplined, we all wanted our dad to spank us because our mother wouldn't spank us, but she gave us a tongue lashing. 00:23:00.339 --> 00:23:02.828 She called it a tongue lashing. 00:23:02.828 --> 00:23:04.694 She goes, and it would last for days. 00:23:06.665 --> 00:23:09.234 We're like, can we just go get spanked real quick and get this over with? 00:23:09.234 --> 00:23:12.849 And on, and on, and on and on. 00:23:12.849 --> 00:23:14.694 It's like how about? 00:23:14.694 --> 00:23:15.596 Be quick to speak? 00:23:15.596 --> 00:23:19.192 Okay, be quick to hear, slow to speak? 00:23:19.192 --> 00:23:26.930 But the Holy Spirit is quick to speak and he's shortened to the point and you get more familiar with that voice the more you walk with him, the more you soak in his word. 00:23:26.930 --> 00:23:32.653 And then when you get that thought like I'm such an idiot, and he just counters it with the word of God, I don't call you that. 00:23:32.653 --> 00:23:33.945 Read your Bible, ferris. 00:23:33.945 --> 00:23:35.667 That's not in there. 00:23:35.667 --> 00:23:40.193 So this leads up to the great revelation of the day. 00:23:40.193 --> 00:23:43.978 You ready for the great revelation of the day this is it, june 1st is to change your life. 00:23:43.978 --> 00:23:45.859 Great revelation of the day. 00:23:45.859 --> 00:23:46.201 You ready. 00:23:50.224 --> 00:23:51.366