Does it matter

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Does it matter?

• Why would I want to go to a place like Mombasa,
  I just see myself in a pot of boiling water with
  all these natives dancing around me.
• Mel Lastman

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Does it matter?

• We must all hear the universal call to like your
  neighbor just like you like to be liked
  yourself.
• George W. Bush

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• If you claim to be religious but don't control
  your tongue, you are just fooling yourself, and
  your religion is worthless.
• James 126 (NLT)

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The Need to Control It!

• Be careful when you start dishing out spiritual
  truth.

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• But you are not to be called Rabbi, for you
  have only one Master and you are all brothers.
  And do not call anyone on earth father for you
  have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you
  to be called teacher, for you have one Teacher,
  the Christ. The greatest among you will be your
  servant. For whoever exalts himself will be
  humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be
  exalted.
• Matthew 238-12 (NIV)

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The Need to Control It!

• Be careful when you start dishing out spiritual
  truth.
• The evidence is in the language.

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• What goes into a mans mouth does not make him
  unclean, but what comes out of his mouth, that
  is what makes him unclean.
• Matthew 1511 (NIV)

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Language Logic

• IF language controlled THEN self managed

An outcome of having your self under control is
having your language in check.
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• Take ships as an example. Although they are so
  large and are driven by strong winds, they are
  steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot
  wants to go.
• James 34 (NIV)

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• Both are small and powerful in effecting the
  whole.

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• Both are small and powerful in effecting the
  whole.
• Both guide against turbulent times.

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• Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your
  mouths, but only what is helpful for building
  others up according to their needs, that it may
  benefit those who listen.
• Ephesians 429 (TNIV)

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• These people come near to me with their mouth
  and honour me with their lips, but their hearts
  are far from me.
• Isaiah 2913 (NIV)

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Q A

• Tell of a time when you didnt have control of
  your tongue and you regretted it.
• How would remembering the lesson from James about
  the rudder, the spark and fire have helped you?

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