Tame Your Tongue

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Part 7 Tame Your Tongue James 31-12
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• HOW DO YOU TAME YOUR TONGUE?
• Know Your Tongue
• BAD NEWS
• ? Your tongue is a tripper
• we all stumble. (vs 2)

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• HOW DO YOU TAME YOUR TONGUE?
• Know Your Tongue
• BAD NEWS
• ? Your tongue is a tripper
• ? Your tongue is tiny
• Likewise, the tongue is a small part
• of the body, (vs 5)

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• HOW DO YOU TAME YOUR TONGUE?
• Know Your Tongue
• BAD NEWS
• ? Your tongue is a tripper
• ? Your tongue is tiny
• ? Your tongue is a torch
• The tongue also is a fire... (vs 6)

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• HOW DO YOU TAME YOUR TONGUE?
• Know Your Tongue
• BAD NEWS
• ? Your tongue is a tripper
• ? Your tongue is tiny
• ? Your tongue is a torch
• ? Your tongue is tameless
• but no one can tame the tongue. (vs 8)

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• HOW DO YOU TAME YOUR TONGUE?
• Know Your Tongue
• BAD NEWS
• ? Your tongue is a tripper
• ? Your tongue is tiny
• ? Your tongue is a torch
• ? Your tongue is tameless
• ? Your tongue is toxic
• It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
  (vs 8b)

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• HOW DO YOU TAME YOUR TONGUE?
• Know Your Tongue
• BAD NEWS
• ? Your tongue is a tripper
• ? Your tongue is tiny
• ? Your tongue is a torch
• ? Your tongue is tameless
• ? Your tongue is toxic
• ? Your tongue is two-faced
• With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father,
  and with it we curse human beings, who have been
  made in Gods likeness. Out of the same mouth
  come praise and cursing. (vs 9-10)

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• HOW DO YOU TAME YOUR TONGUE?
• Know Your Tongue
• BAD NEWS
• ? Your tongue is a tripper
• ? Your tongue is tiny
• ? Your tongue is a torch
• ? Your tongue is tameless
• ? Your tongue is toxic
• ? Your tongue is two-faced
• GOOD NEWS
• Those who are never at fault in what they say
  are perfect, able to keep their whole body in
  check.
• (vs 2b)

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• HOW DO YOU TAME YOUR TONGUE?
• Know Your Tongue
• Grow Your Heart

But the things that come out of the mouth come
from the heart . . . Jesus Matthew 1518 TNIV
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• HOW DO YOU TAME YOUR TONGUE?
• Know Your Tongue
• Grow Your Heart

Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects
everything you do. Proverbs 423 NLT
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Part 7 Tame Your Tongue James 31-12