Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. It's impossible to think about

street-level Christianity without considering the words that we speak. In today's episode,

we continue a sermon series from the archives in the book of James,

and in this sermon, Paul teaches from James III to reveal this scary and humbling truth.

Your words always reveal the true character and condition of your heart.

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Now here's Paul from James 3.

You can turn on your Bibles or your bulletins to James 3.

I couldn't help but think of an incident in my own life as I thought of these hard to read, hard to hear words of

James III. I've always had a bit of a struggle in my marriage. It's with the issue of time.

Lawala was raised in community. my marriage, it's with the issue of time.

Llewalla was raised in Cuba. She has a bit of an island and a Latin view of time.

Some of you understand.

I was raised by a man who thought that the sole litmus test

of the value of the human being was punctuality.

And there was one Easter morning in the trip family. We were attending a church at that point who had decided the best way to celebrate Easter was to have a full breakfast before the service.

I don't know what that has to do with Easter, but it was a tradition.

That meant that we would have to leave about an hour and a half early.

I woke up with feelings of impossibility.

I walked into the bathroom and Llewala was standing there.

My nine-year-old son was standing there, and I could tell by the way that Llewala was

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