How to Manage My Mouth

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James 3
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• What do these people have in common?

• Ellen
• Oprah
• Montel
• Letterman
• Leno
• OReilly
• King

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• Men average number of words per day

5k? 10k? 15k? 20k?
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• Men average number of words per day

5k 10k 15k 20k
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Women average number of words per day
25k? 30k? 35k? 45k?
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• Women average number of words per day

25k 30k 35k 45k
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• (Gettysburg Address)

Forescore and
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• (Gettysburg Address)

Forescore andseven years ago
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• (John F. Kennedy)

My fellow Americans, ask not what your
country can do for you
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• (John F. Kennedy)

My fellow Americans, ask not what your
country can do for youbut what you can do for
your country.
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• (Martin Luther King)

I have a...
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• (Martin Luther King)

I have a...dream.
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• (Forrest Gump)

Mama always said that life is like...
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• (Forrest Gump)

Mama always said that life is like... a box
of chocolates.
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• Words are the building blocks to communication.

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• 1. Words are powerful. (v.1-5)

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• Our mouths can get us into a lot of trouble.

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• 2. Words direct our lives. (v.2)

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• 3. Our tongues are dangerous equipment. (v.5-6)

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• 3 Observations about Fire
• Wide-ranging

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• 3 Observations about Fire
• Wide-ranging
• Easily gets out of control

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• 3 Observations about Fire
• Wide-ranging
• Easily gets out of control
• Time doesnt always heal

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• 4. Words reveal the true condition of our
  hearts.
• For out of the overflow of the heart
  the mouth speaks.
• Matthew 1234

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Whats the Solution?

• 1. Get a new heart.
• The heart is deceitful about all things
  and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
  Jeremiah 179

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• Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a
  new person. The old has passed away. Behold
  all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 517

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Whats the Solution?

• 2. Daily give God control of your tongue.

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• Make a commitment to ask God to control your
  mouth.
• Take control of what I say, O Lord, and
  keep my lips sealed. Psalm 1413