Calvary Grace Assembly of God
Jul 30 – Aug 6, 2016
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Words: Life or Death
Only God can tame the tongue; no human can tame the tongue, but our responsibility is to BRIDLE the tongue!
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Series: Words: Life or Death
Today’s Message:
Bridling the Tongue
James 1:26; Isaiah 6:1-8
Pastor Tom Cogle
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Only God can tame the tongue; no human can tame the tongue, but our responsibility is to BRIDLE the tongue!
Three ways to help us bridle our tongue:
1. PAUSE
If you have a problem getting angry, it’s because you have a problem talking! If you want to be slow to get angry, you need to be slow to speak.
Proverbs 18:21
The tongue has the power of life and death.
2. PONDER
There are two places we think:
· In our minds
· In our hearts
Proverbs 23:7
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
3. PRAY
Isaiah 6:5
I am a man of unclean lips.
When you really meet with God daily, He will purge your lips and enable you to influence your world.
James 1:26
Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.
Isaiah 6:1-8
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”