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How to Talk Like a Christian Should

How to Talk Like a Christian Should. (James 3:1-12). Brief Review. This is our tenth installment in this series of lessons concerning “How To” Christianity taken from the book of James.

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How to Talk Like a Christian Should

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  1. How to Talk Like a Christian Should (James 3:1-12)

  2. Brief Review • This is our tenth installment in this series of lessons concerning “How To” Christianity taken from the book of James. • In this series we have already learned how to survive trying times, obtain wisdom, survive temptation, address our anger, secure salvation, become a doer of the word, embrace pure religion, stop showing partiality, and develop real faith.

  3. How to Talk Like a Christian Should • The six word-pictures in our text • The twenty sins of the tongue • The four solutions needed in order to talk like a Christian should

  4. Six Word-Pictures DIRECTION • A bit in a horse’s mouth (vs. 3) • A rudder of a ship (vs. 4) DANGER • A fire (vs. 5,6) • A dangerous animal (vs. 7) DECISION • A spring (vs. 9-11) • Fruit (vs. 12)

  5. Backbiting (II Cor. 12:20) Blasphemy (I Tim. 1:20) Boasting (James 4:16) Deceit (Romans 1:30) Disputing (Philippians 2:14) Filthiness and Foolish Talking (Ephesians 5:4) Flattery (Jude 16) Foolish Disputes (Titus 3:4) Foul Language (Colossians 3:8) Gossip (Talebearing) (Proverbs 26:20) Twenty Sins of the Tongue

  6. Heresies (II Peter 2:1) Idle Words (Matthew 12:36) Lying (Ephesians 4:25) Mocking (Jude 18) Murmurings (I Cor. 10:10) Reviling (I Cor. 5:11) Scoffing (II Peter 3:3,4) Slander (Ephesians 4:31) Vain Babblings (I Tim. 6:20) Whisperings (II Cor. 12:20) Twenty Sins of the Tongue

  7. Four Solutions • If we are going to learn to talk as a Christian should, then we need to: 1. Heal our Hearts (Luke 6:45; Prov. 4:23). 2. Be Slow to Speak (Proverbs 29:20) 3. Speak Less (Proverbs 10:19; 21:23) 4. Speak every word as if Jesus was listening to us.

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