Sunday Notes: James 3:1-12
- (Jas 3:1 ESV) Not many of you should become ____________, my ____________, for you know that we who teach will be ____________ with greater strictness.
- Brethren – the ____________
- This role of teacher is in the context of the church
- 1 Corinthians 12:27-31
- We need all the ____________
- All the pieces to function
- And none is more important than another.
- We will all face judgment, but there will be something greater on those who lead the people of God ____________.
- This role of teacher is in the context of the church
- Brethren – the ____________
- (Jas 3:2 ESV) For we all ____________ in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a ____________ man, able also to bridle his ____________ body.
- For we all stumble in many ways
- Its true
- James 1:25-27
- This is painting for us a picture of our depravity
- The ____________ between God and us
- Matthew 12:33-37
- For we all stumble in many ways
- (Jas 3:3 ESV) If we put bits into the mouths of ____________ so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.
- (Jas 3:4 ESV) Look at the ____________ also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
- (Jas 3:5 ESV) So also the ____________ is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
- Proverbs 15:1-2
- Now there are big problems
- But think about a lot of the fires we have in life
- Are they all that grand in the scheme of things?
- Proverbs 15:1-2
- (Jas 3:6 ESV) And the tongue is a fire, a world of ____________. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
- Understand that the tongue here is referring to the ____________ we speak
- And thus by extension the words and ideas we ____________
- This ability we have to communicate with words and ideas
- It is a tool
- A tool that can be used for ____________
- Or for trouble.
- Mark 7:14-23
- Which verse here is missing? ____________
- It is a tool
- Understand that the tongue here is referring to the ____________ we speak
- (Jas 3:7 ESV) For every kind of beast and bird, of ____________ and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind,
- (Jas 3:8 ESV) but no human being can tame the ____________. It is a restless evil, full of ____________ poison.
- (Jas 3:9 ESV) With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we ____________ people who are made in the likeness of God.
- Matthew 26:69-75 – turn here and look at this one
- Acts 12:13
- In the story of ____________ this title is also used
- Transliterated from the Greek to Hebrew
- This is what the text calls ____________
- Matthew 26:69-75 – turn here and look at this one
- (Jas 3:10 ESV) From the same mouth come ____________ and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
- (Jas 3:11 ESV) Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both ____________ and salt water?
- (Jas 3:12 ESV) Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a ____________ pond yield fresh water.
- These are two simple comparisons for us
- We are split
- Saved ____________
- Our souls redeemed and remade
- While our flesh mired in ____________
- We are split
- Luke 6:43-49
- Seek to plant the good treasure of the ____________ in your life
- That the ____________ you produce are pleasing to Him.
- Seek to plant the good treasure of the ____________ in your life
- These are two simple comparisons for us