All right. We're in our series called Words, Life or Death. And I want you to turn to how many

passages? Two passages. Open your Bible to James Chapter 1, James Chapter 1, and then put a marker at Isaiah Chapter 6.

All right?

Put a marker at Isaiah 6.

Open your Bibles to James Chapter 1, words, life or death. And this weekend, the title of

the message is Brideling the Tongue. Brideling the tongue. Bridling the tongue.

Now we read last weekend that the tongue is humanly

untamable, but it is divinely tamable but does that mean because the tongue is

humanly untamable does that mean that we have no responsibility then, that it's just up to God to just

control our mouths or does it mean that we cooperate with God? And we read this

scripture last weekend in James Chapter 1 and I want to read it again

James 1 verse 26 James 1 26 if anyone among you thinks he is religious and this word religious we said last weekend from the Greek means

serving God. If anyone thinks he is serving God and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart this one's religion or

this one's service of God is useless. Okay so if anyone thinks he's serving God, but he doesn't bridle his own tongue,

then his service of God is useless.

Now let me say it again. God's responsibility is to tame the tongue. No human can

tame the tongue. God can tame the tongue. But what is our responsibility? Our responsibility, according to this verse,

is to bridle the tongue.

When I say that the tongue is humanly untamable,

I don't mean then that we don't have responsibility because we still have a

responsibility. Let me say another statement. If I were to say the soul is

humanly unsavable, What I'm saying is is that we can't save ourselves, only God can save us.

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