Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Intentionally replace destructive words with life-giving ones.

See how James says, verse 18, we are slow,

we are slow to speak, but we are quick to so good words of peace. We should see our words as seeds that can, Author and Apologist J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host Molly Vitovich.

Today we're continuing our brand new teaching series through the Book of James,

and we're focusing on licking or taming

the explosive power of our tongues, and more specifically our words.

Let's be honest, this is a difficult battle that we have to fight every day.

But in today's teaching, Pastor JadeD shares the good news that through the transforming power

of the gospel, we can become people whose words are used to encourage others and to restore

life.

We'll pick up where we left off last time so if you missed anything you can catch

up online at JD career.com. Let's rejoin pastor JD in James chapter 3.

In verse 6 James says that the tone is set on fire by the flames of hell itself. That is not just a hyperbolic metaphor.

It means that the powers of sin and corruption and hell itself, our depravity, they're at work in our heart and it manifests from our tongues.

Hear this, a tongue problem is ultimately a hard problem.

And that's what James hints at in verse 12.

Or so, can a fig tree, my brothers bear olives?

Neither can a salt pond, he says, yield fresh water.

Your problem, your problem, Jane says,

is that your heart is a salt water pond of undinkable water

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