The passage from James chapter 3 emphasizes the immense power and responsibility associated with our speech, particularly highlighting the need for teachers and preachers to exercise greater control over their tongues due to a stricter judgment. It underscores that the tongue, though small, can wield significant influence for good or evil, and true mastery over it comes through reliance on the Holy Spirit, not mere human effort.
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we're continuing on now in our study
through the book of James and in this
letter that James the half-brother of
Jesus wrote to early Christians and to
us today by the inspiration our Holy
Spirit as we come now to chapter 3 we're
going to begin with the first couple
verses and in this section of James
chapter 3 the focus will mainly be on
the power and the responsibility of the
tongue the tongue being here a symbol
for the words we say the the words we
speak it's really all about our speech
and the tongue is the picture of that
you'll see exactly what we mean let's
get into it here now James chapter 3
beginning at verse 1 my brethren let not
many of you become teachers knowing that
we shall receive a stricter judgment for
we all stumble in many things if anyone
does not stumble in word he is a perfect
man able also to bridle his whole body
or the whole body first thing we notice
as we come to James chapter 3 verse 1 is
he gives this sort of startling
statement at least I got to say it's
startling to me someone who is a Bible
teacher he says let not many of you
become teachers James had a very sober
admonition to anybody who would become a
teacher in the church that those people
who desire to have some kind of
responsibility for teaching God's people
and being preachers Proclaimers of God's
Word they must take that responsibility
very seriously because they have a
greater accountability they shall
receive notice the phrasing he uses here
in verse 1 we shall receive a stricter
judgment I think that probably it's true
that those of us who among God's people
feel called to teach and preach the
Bible we probably take it too lightly we
don't consider the cost of this position
in terms of accountability please
remember what Jesus said in Luke chapter
12 beginning at verse 48 jesus said this
to whom much is given from him much will
be required
and to whom much have been committed of
him they will ask the more in other
words the more knowledge you have the
more accountability are the more access
to knowledge you have the more
accountability you have just a simple
idea very strong that the more a person
either is given or has access to the
greater accountability they have this
applies very directly to those who would
be teachers and preachers among God's
people and this should also remind us
that what Jesus said in Luke chapter 12
what James says right here in James
chapter 3 it should remind us that being
a teacher in God's church is much more
than having a natural gift of teaching
it's even more than having a spiritual
gift of teaching there is an additional
element of character that is rightly
expected of of those who teach and
preach and proclaim God's Word God's
people have a right to look at those who
teach and by the way I'll say this very
strongly don't have the right to expect
perfection in life but they do have the
right to expect a higher standard
you know maybe in James's day it was
kind of popular to be a teacher maybe
there are a lot of people who wanted to
do it he says no I need to warn you you
are gonna face God on that day of
judgment whatever kind of judgment you
have for the judgments of works that
you've done for how you serve Christ you
are going to face a stricter judgment we
should expect that teachers are gonna be
tested more in this life and that
they're gonna be judged more strictly
let me read you a quote from Adam Clarke
relevant to this he says this quote
their case is awful they shall receive
greater condemnation than common sinners
they have not only sinned in thrusting
themselves into that office to which God
has never called them but through their
insufficiency the flocks over they have
assumed the mastery perish for lack of
knowledge and their blood will God
require at the watchman's hand end quote
from Adam Clarke
Adam Clark there is simply trying to
explain the very heavy responsibility
that someone has and by the way notices
it's a funny phrasing I don't say funny
in the sense of amusing it's just sort
of an interesting phrasing that's used
here in verse one knowing that we James
counts himself among those people who
will receive this stricter judgment
knowing that we shall receive a stricter
judgment apparently there will be
degrees of judgment there will be
degrees of strictness not every believer
is going to be judged according to
exactly the same standard because two
more who is given more will be required
and that is true if anywhere it's true
among teachers among God's people now
going on into verse two I like how James
continues he says for we all stumble in
many things you see the greater
accountability of teachers is especially
sobering it's especially of note knowing
the weaknesses that we share in common I
mean after all we all stumble teachers
included a man or a woman does not
become a Superman or superwoman just
because they start teaching the Bible
and teaching it well look I can tell you
that after many decades of teaching the
Bible I know that people have a tendency
if you can teach a Bible study
especially if you can occasionally teach
a good Bible study people will think
that you're more spiritual than you
actually are
it's just the way good but listen we all
stumble in many things now by the way
there's a few different words in the
ancient Greek language that could be
translated stumble this particular word
according to the commentaries that I've
read it doesn't imply a fatal fall but
but something that just kind of hinders
somebody trips them up and hinders their
spiritual progress so James isn't saying
that we all fall away we all reject
Jesus no he's saying we all stumble
James included himself among that but
please notice this James did not excuse
his stumbling nor will he excuse our
stumbling we know that we all stumble
but it doesn't make us to say well who
cares about stumbling
it makes us instead to say we're all
weak we need to run to Jesus our Savior
we need to find our refuge in him and we
need to press on trusting Jesus Christ
for a closer and better walk with Him
one that is hopefully marked by less
stumbling now this kind of brings in a
second idea in verse two if I could
reason verse 2 from the beginning it
says for we all stumble in many things
if anyone does not stumble in word he is
a perfect man able also to bridle the
whole body you see having brought up
this idea that we all stumble now James
is going to go on to the idea that let
me tell you a way that it is combo
common for people to stumble it's common
for them to stumble by what they say now
isn't this true don't we have a big
problem today in ongoing among the
people of God and among the culture at
large where people just speak in an
intemperate manner they say things they
shouldn't say they type things into
their social media that they shouldn't
type and what James is saying here is if
anyone does not stumble in word he is a
perfect man this is a good way to
measure spiritual maturity for teachers
and really for everybody in the body of
Christ I mean after all James is talking
about the idea of Bible teachers and
preachers having a stricter
accountability well this is one place
where you would expect that they should
have a stricter accountability you you
should expect someone who teaches the Bible
Bible
someone who preaches God's Word you
should expect that they would have a
greater governance over their tongue
than somebody who doesn't they should
just be more careful about what they say
isn't this a just an obvious evident
point I mean after all if you're going
to use your mouth if you can use your
tongue to proclaim the wonderful
glorious gospel the beautiful truth of
God to exposit the scriptures and
explain them to people should cursing
and lies and ill speech come from that
very tongue I don't think so
of course nobody does you see Jesus
demonstrated in Matthew chapter 12
that words are often the revelation of a
person's inner character
therefore to not stumble in word shows
true spiritual maturity now we're not
trying to say and I don't think James
tried to say either that this is the
only measure of spiritual maturity
that's worthwhile or important there are
other measures of course but this is an
important one and this is one that is
especially relevant to teachers and
preachers who because of what they do
with the words they speak they have so
much more opportunity to sin with their
tongue with the words that they say I
mean it's possible to stumble in word
about yourself you boast you exaggerate
you give very selective reporting you
know kind of making yourself the hero of
every story listen that can be the
stumble inward can it not we can also
stumble inward about other people we're
not talking about herself we're talking
about other people and we stumble in
word through criticism through gossip
through slander through cruelty through
two-faced it nests through anger or
through flattery in insincere words that
are meant to gain favor before other
people know brother and sisters it is
very easy for us to sin by what we say
and James is saying that that this is an
important measure of somebody's walk
with God now this leads into verse three
where he speaks in a very powerful way
about the power of the tongue you'll see
what I mean as I read verses three
through six here in James chapter three
here we go indeed we put bits in horses
mouths that they may obey us and we turn
their whole body look also it ships
although they are so large and driven by
fierce winds they are turned by a very
small rudder wherever the pilot desires
even so the tongue is a little member
and boasts great things see
how great a forest a little fire Kindles
and 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 wow there
is a lot for us to unpack in those four
verses first let's go back to the
beginning verse three again the biggest
theme here is talking about the power of
the tongue and the responsibility of the
tongue and and how we especially people
who are teachers had have special regard
for speaking what's right now look here
at verse three he says we put bits in
horses mouths that they may obey us you
know what the bit is in the horse's
mouth you know the bit is that little
thing that goes in the horse's mouth and
by it they can pull and guide and lead
the horse any way they want a small bit
in the mouth of a horse can control a
big strong horse a horse that is much
bigger and stronger than the person
who's holding the bit along the same
analogy he says here in verse four that
a small rudder can turn a large ship you
know what the rudder is the rudder is
that little instrument at the back of
the ship in the water that's like a
little blade and it's used to turn the
ship one way or another
now even so when we have control over
our tongue it is an indication that we
have control over our self
whoever can control the tongue can
remember this phrase from verse two that
we just looked at a moment ago whoever
can control the tongue can bridle the
whole body and the whole Ellis tration
James making ears very plain the bit is
relatively small in the horse's mouth
the rudder is relatively small compared
to the ship but yet if they are not
controlled the horse is out of control
the ship is out of the control and your
tongue is small compared to your whole
body there's lots of things in your body
that are bigger than your tongue your
and your biceps your legs your foot you
got on and on lots of organs and your
buddy there's lots of things in your
Bobby body that are bigger than your
tongue however however something as
small as the tongue can have a
tremendous power in your life for either
good or evil that's the whole point now
notice this as well you don't solve the
problem of an unruly horse by keeping it
in the barn you don't solve the problem
of a hard to steer ship by keeping it
tied to the dock in the same way we may
find it tempting to take a vow of
silence to control our tongue but that's
not God's purpose
God's purpose now look I suppose we
could all do with speaking less James
has already talked to us about that in
the first couple chapters how it's wise
for us to speak less and listen more but
ultimately speaking the the real thing
we need to do is not stop speaking but
to let the Holy Spirit of God fill us
and control us and walk consistent with
the Holy Spirit so that we would speak
what we should speak and not say what we
should avoid saying now I want you to
consider one other thing about this just
brilliant spirit inspired picture here
think of the idea of a bit in the
horse's mouth right you got that picture
and then you also have the picture of
the rudder that's stirring stirring
steering the ship what's really the
factor in both of those things the
factor is who or what holds the reins of
the horse who or what directs the rudder
now you could say this if you want to
make the analogy going to what we say
going to the tongue you could say some
people have no hand on the reins no hand
on the rudder when it comes to their
speech they say whatever comes into
their mind that's not a good place now
other people have a hand on the reins of
their tongue or the rudder of what these
the rudder of their words you could say
but but they just speak according to
their emotions according to their own
carnal nature that's not good either
what James is pointing us towards is to
have the Spirit of God working through
the new man directing our hands on the
reins and the rudder that is our tongue
and controls our words now if we fail to
do this if we fail to take hold of the
reins and again I'm not trying to apply
for a moment that you can do this apart
from the filling of the Holy Spirit that
you can do this without a constant
reliance upon the Holy Spirit of God but
with with the hand on the reins the hand
on the rudder of our words if we fail to
do this what's going to be the result it
can be disaster look at verse 5 see how
great a forest a little fire Kindles and
the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity
you know I live here in Southern
California and in the community that I'm
speaking to you from right now Santa
Barbara California we know wildfires it
seems like every few years we have
wildfires that burn up in the beautiful
hills just just up above us here in
Santa Barbara and people have to
evacuate their houses and sometimes
homes get burned and sometimes people
lose their lives and and much land and
such is burned and it's devastating to
the ecology and all the rest of it and
this is just what we said we understand
that a very small spark a very small
flame can ignite a very costly and huge
and dangerous destructive fire well in
the same way that tongue in our mouth it
is relatively small but it is a fire it
is a potential world of iniquity and
that fire of the tongue has been used to
burn many people and when I was little
there was a children's rhyme it started
even before I was little it would been
around in a long time
but children were told to repeat a rhyme
like this sticks and stones may break my
bones but words will never hurt me
that's kind of a rhyme we learned when
we were kids and the idea was okay yeah
you know some real damage might come to
you if a stick hit your arm or a stone
hit your head but what somebody says to
you or says about you that doesn't
really harm you sticks and stones may
break my bones but words will never hurt me
me
let me tell you something that child's
rhyme is not really true matter of fact
the bitter pain of a word that is spoken
against us can hurt us for a lifetime
long after that broken bone is healed
the bitter pain of a word that is spoken
against you can hinder even your
life you see what others say to us and
what we say to others can last a long
time for brothers and sisters for either
good or evil that that casual sarcastic
or critical remark that can inflict a
lasting injury on another person but let
me show you the flip side that well time
even if it's spontaneous
but that well-timed encouragement or
compliment can inspire somebody for the
rest of their life oh there's power in
the words that we use now there's power
also we see this in our modern age
something that James knew about in
principle but not in how it would be
worked out in technology there's power
also in social media and the way the
Christians sometimes represent
themselves and social media man it's a disgrace
disgrace
it's a sin their tongue isn't being used
literally but the words by their thumbs
as they type in messages into their
smartphones or or type on their
computers or whatever it is man it is it
is setting up destructive fires you know
the book of Proverbs which again so many
similarities but
this letter that James wrote in the book
of Proverbs proverbs speaks to us of the
person who never considers the
destructive power of his words I love
this from proverbs chapter 26 verses 18
and 19 are you ready for this one like a
madman who throws fryer brands arrows
and death is the man who deceives his
neighbor and says I was only joking you
know there's a lot of that isn't there
isn't there a lot of deception and an
carelessness and and hurtful words
spoken and then we just try to just
shrug it off as a light thing uh well no
big deal
it is a big deal it's a madman thinking
that it doesn't do anything now again I
want to warn you James is not telling us
to never speak he's not telling you and
me to take a vow of silence in many ways
that would be easier than exercising
true self-control over the tongue you
know it's true that the bridle in the
horse's mouth if it's not controlled
well or not controlled I'll do a lot of
damage the rudder on the ship if it's
not controlled well or if it's not
controlled at all can do a lot of damage
the fire can do tremendous damage listen
every one of those things the bridle the
rudder and the fire they can do
tremendous good when they are controlled
properly and so when we read these words
of James here in James chapter 3 we
soberly considered the destructive
potential of the tongue but we also very
carefully consider what a wonderful tool
for blessing and strengthening and
edification and just Beauty the tongue
can be but out of control what he says
about it in verse 6 is true the tongue
is a fire a world of iniquity I want you
to think about it in this way there
aren't many sins that don't involve
talking in some way almost any sin that
you can think of involves talking I like
what one commentator named
dick said he said this quote it is
though all the wickedness in the whole
world were wrapped up in that little
piece of flesh and sometimes it seems
like that and again all I can tell you
is that James echoes the testimony of
the book of Proverbs
regarding the tongue listen a really
fruitful study for you to do some other
time is to just go through the book of
Proverbs and see everything it says
about the tongue the words we speak let
me give you just a few other ones I
already read to proverbs chapter 26
verses 18 and 19 let me read you some
other ones here
proverbs chapter 10 verses 19 through 21
ready for this in the multitude of words
sin is not lacking but he who restrains
his lips is wise the tongue of the
righteous is choice silver the heart of
the wicked is worth little the lips of
the righteous feed many but fools die
for lack of wisdom there proverbs
chapter 10 verses 19 through 21 speaking
to us about the power of the tongue for
good and for evil
now proverbs chapter 12 verse 25 anxiety
in the heart of man causes depression
but a good word makes it glad we could
make other people glad there are good
words a proverbs chapter 16 verse 24
pleasant words are like a honeycomb
sweetness to the soul and health to the
bones amen to that
then the final one I'm gonna read to is
proverbs chapter 18 verse 21 if you
could memorize any one proverb about the
tongue about the words we use I think
this would be a good one
proverbs chapter 18 verse 21 death and
life are in the power of the tongue
and those who love it will eat its fruit Wow
Wow
death and life are in the power of the
tongue now this gives us the great
responsibility and if we want to go back
to the first couple verses of the
chapter especially the great
responsibility that there
our two teachers we get that but please
check this out now he's gonna speak to
us starting at verse seven about the
difficulty of taming the tongue ready
for this
he says 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
makes a very interesting and I think
wise observation here in verse seven he
says every kind of beasts and bird has
been tamed by mankind
isn't it true Lions have been tamed
Tigers have been tamed elephants have
been tamed killer whales have been tamed
I mean every kind of Beast and bird of
reptile and Cretan sea is tamed and has
been tamed by mankind it's absolutely
true but and wild animal can more easily
be tamed than the tongue in fact James
tells us did you see it there in verse eight
eight
no man can tame the tongue it is an
unruly evil full of deadly poison you
know there's something in the human spirit
spirit
the human nature that God has given us
that we have an incredible capacity for
sacrifice and self-control every once in
a while you'll hear somebody who has
some radical survival story you know
they're out in the woods and there's
nobody else around and their foot gets
caught in a bear trap and they actually
and forgive the you know sort of gross
peeking here but they actually have to
like take out a knife and cut off their
legs so that they can survive or their
arm gets wedged in a rock and the only
way that they can get is to amputate
their own arm and make it I mean we hear
these fantastic stories of incredible
self-sacrifice but I want you to think
that that man who's capable of cutting
off his own arm so that he could survive
that man same man can't tame his tongue
perfectly it's an amazing thing isn't it
now even though no man can tame the
tongue that's exactly what he says there
in verse 8
can I tell you something the tongue can
be brought under the power and the
control of the Holy Spirit we might say
that the only power in the universe
mightier than the human tongue is God
himself but thanks be to God he is
mightier and when we read verses like
this verses 7 & 8
when we read verses like this in the
book of James it tells us that no man
can tame the tongue you know what it
points to certain points us towards
Jesus you think about it how amazing
Jesus was Jesus who never sinned in a
word that he ever said jesus never
sinned with words he never sinned by an
unkind unwise unworthy unholy thing that
his tongue spoke never never and that
same Jesus lives inside of the believer
you know we're gonna keep making our way
on and we're gonna end this study at
verse 12 but I just want to remind you
brother and sisters do not forget this
this matter of taming the tongue is not
a matter of gritting your teeth and
trying harder now I'll be straight with
you there's some of us we do need to try
harder we just have been in a tent of
tortoise we've given it very little
regard we're just sort of careless we do
need to take more care there's true that
there's some place for that in the
Christian life I'm not denying that but
in the big picture please realize this
that that your victory in this is not
gonna come just by you trying harder
your victory is gonna come by your
surrender to Jesus Christ and your
abiding in him and realizing two things
first of all that the sacrifice of Jesus
is capable to forgive you of sin even
the sins that you commit by the words
you say thanks be to God
secondly we realize that it's only
Christ in me that has the capability of
doing anything like that and I should be
drawing close to Jesus and letting that
one who never sinned in anything that he
said I should be letting that one speak
to me and through me now it is true the
tongue is an unruly evil full of deadly
poison kinda reminds me of a story that
I read about
John Wesley a woman once came up to John
Wesley and said John Wesley I think I
know what my talent is from God you know
and she's talking about this parable of
the talents where a master gave talents
to everybody and they're supposed to use
I mean Christians use that as an
illustration Jesus used it as you know
God gives us talents he gives us
abilities and we're supposed to use him
for his kingdom so a woman once came to
John Wesley and she said hey I know what
my talent is I think my talent from God
is to speak my mind that's what she said
Wesley replied you know I don't think
God would mind if you buried that talent
sister isn't it true speaking for
everything that just comes into our mind
it's unwise it's poisonous speech as
James says in verse eight but now let's
move on to verse 9 and we're gonna read
through to the end of verse 12 and this
will be the last section that we take a
consideration of in this particular
study here verse 9 with it and again
he's speaking about the tongue here with
the words we say with it we bless our
God and Father and with that we curse
men who have been made in the Simla to
dov God out of the same mouth proceeded
blessing and cursing my brethren these
things ought not to be so does a spring
send forth fresh water and bitter from
the same opening can a fig tree my
brethren bare olives or a grape vine
bare figs the snow spring yields both
salt water and fresh James is just sort
of here right along with us he's
marveling at the contradictory nature of
the tongue with my tongue
I can bless my God and Father I can
worship Him I can praise him and with
that same tongue I can actually go out
and curse people the tongue can be used
for the highest calling worshiping and
blessing God and it can be used for the
lowest evil to curse and inspire men to
wickedness and to those who are born
again it should not be this way it is as
James wrote to us in verse 10 that it
should not be that out of the same mouth
precede blessing
and cursing think about the almost
uncountable examples that we have of
this in the Gospels Peters tongue
confesses Jesus as the Messiah the son
of the Living God
and Peter's indane tongue denied Jesus
with curses the same John who later on
wrote little children love one another
he's the one who wanted to say a word to
bring down fire from heaven upon a
Samaritan village we find this
contradictory nature and all we can say
is with right along with Jane firsthand
these things are not to be so ideally
the goal we should strive for what God
wants to work in us by his his
sanctifying developing work in our life
our Christian growth is that our speech
would be consistently glorifying to God
and by the way one thing that this means
is that we shouldn't use one vocabulary
or one tone of speaking at church and
then another one at home maybe another
one on the job it's not I'm thinking of
the person and I'll be honest I don't
have any specific face or name in mind
but but I know that that this is us as
as people I'm thinking of the person who
when they go to church
it's praise the Lord bless you brother
isn't it wonderful to be in the house of
God hallelujah and that that person goes
home and they are nothing but critical
and cruel and abusive and hateful with
their words in their home and then they
go to their job and at their job they're
telling that dirty joke at the job
they're speaking to other people in the
office with flirtatious words and
sexually suggestive things and on and on
and just as James says my brethren this
should not be so it shouldn't be that we
have one way that we speak at church
another way we speak in the home a third
way that we speak at the job no like our
our mouth should be like a spring of
water sending forth fresh
not fresh and bitter from the same
opening because ultimately this is
powerful what he says in verse 12 no
spring yields both salt water and fresh
that's what he says in verse 12
James is pointing to the ultimate
impossibility of such a strong
contradiction if bad fruit and bitter
water continued to come forth it means
that there isn't really a contradiction
the tree is bad the spring is bad
don't forget what Jesus taught in
Matthew chapter 12 Jesus taught in
Matthew chapter 12 verses 34 through 37
that a person's words are a reliable
revelation of their inner character it's
entirely possible that what you are in
the habit of saying is a revelation of
who you are listen I I'm not trying to
throw a guilt trip on anybody I'm not
trying to make people paranoid about 1
or 2 bad words that they save this but
I'm trying says what you are in the
habit of saying is something of an
accurate relevation revelation of who
you are and that's why he says can a fig
tree my brethren bear olives how weird
that would be isn't it there's a fig
tree you go up to the fig tree and by
the way as I'm speaking this just
outside this little office that we have
in our back garden here in Santa Barbara
just outside of this office as a fig
tree and in the front of our yard we've
got an olive tree and how strange it
would be if I went out to this fig tree
that's just outside this door here and I
went up to that fig tree and there's all
of zonix strange it doesn't work that
way and so a Christian life should not
bear the fruit of iniquity the fig tree
should bear figs the olive trees should
bear olives this is how it should be now
we cannot bear this fruit to God that we should
should
apart from the transform
work of the Holy Spirit within us the
basic ethic of Christianity and let's be
honest this letter that James wrote is
pretty big on ethics it's telling us how
to live this is a very practical ethical
book James is not telling us so much how
to be saved
he's telling us how those people who are
safe should be living but don't miss
this thing that this idea basically in
the Christian life ethics flows from
this philosophy you need to be what you
are in other words if you are a new
creature in Jesus Christ if you've been
transformed by the Holy Spirit of God
then go out and live what God has made
you because fundamentally that's all we
can be anyway you know you can label a
fig tree olive tree it doesn't make it
an olive tree you could take out your
pruning shears and trim a fig tree to
look more like an olive tree that
doesn't make it an olive tree you can
treat a fig tree as if it was an olive
tree and that's not gonna make it an
olive tree you can surround a fig tree
with many olive trees and that's not
gonna make it an olive tree you could
transplant that fig tree to the Mount of
Olives in Jerusalem and that will not
make it an olive tree you know if it's
going to be an olive tree it has to be
because it's been born into being an
olive tree and as much as anything this
very practical very challenging
exhortation from James because brother
and sisters I hope you've received it
here today I hope you've received this
idea listen it is absolutely true I need
through the work of the Holy Spirit in
my life through his constant
transforming I need to govern what I say
better I need to let what I say be more
of a blessing to people and less of a
burden or a curse upon anybody
I need that know that being the case
that's only going to happen when God
does his trans
forming work in my life it's not a
matter of me gritting my teeth and
trying harder it's a matter of me
looking to my savior and resting in the
one who has the true power of
transformation I don't have the power to
transform my own life but he has the
power to transform me
I want to abide in him walk in him put
my focus on him and and be serious about
doing what he says about obeying him and
then I'll see the work of God happen in
my life more and more that's where we're
going to end it off here at the end of
verse 12
next time we pick it up at verse 13 of
James chapter 3 as we continue on in our
study through the book of James [Music]
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