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Abusing One Another With Our Tongue

Abusing One Another With Our Tongue. Why is this important? Because of the strong warnings concerning the tongue.

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Abusing One Another With Our Tongue

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  1. Abusing One Another With Our Tongue • Why is this important? • Because of the strong warnings concerning the tongue. • “the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of 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.” James 3:6-8

  2. Abusing One Another With Our Tongue • Why is this important? • Because of the strong warnings concerning the tongue. • Because what comes out of our mouth reflects our heart. • “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things” Mt. 12:34-35

  3. Abusing One Another With Our Tongue • Why is this important? • Because of the strong warnings concerning the tongue. • Because what comes out of our mouth reflects our heart. • Because judgment will consider the use our the tongue. • “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” Mt. 12:36, 37

  4. Abusing One Another With Our Tongue • How might we abuse one another with our tongue? • Matthew 5:22 • “Every age and every country has its modes of expressing such things (unholy feelings toward others) and no doubt our Lord seized on the then current phraseology of unholy disrespect and contempt, merely to express and condemn the different degrees of such feeling when brought out in words, as He had immediately before condemned the feeling itself”. J/F/B

  5. Abusing One Another With Our Tongue • How might we abuse one another with our tongue? • Matthew 5:22 • Insults that express contempt for one another (You Fool!) • Using a tone of voice that expresses hatred and contempt (Raca!) “Racais an almost untranslatable word because it describes a tone of voice more than anything else. Its whole accent is the accent of contempt ". Barclay

  6. Abusing One Another With Our Tongue • What can we do to avoid abusing others in these ways? • Rein ourselves in before opening our mouth. • “Bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” 2 Cor. 10:5

  7. Abusing One Another With Our Tongue • What can we do to avoid abusing others in these ways? • Rein ourselves in before opening our mouth. • Think about our words and how they will come across. • "let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may impart grace to the hearer". Eph. 4:29 • “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one" Col. 4:6

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