today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Your words are the clearest and best indicator of what's actually in your heart,

which is why Jesus said, every idle word will be brought into evidence at the judgment.

And that's because he says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

He means that's what down in, what is down in there is inevitably going to come out. Welcome to Summit Life with J.D. Greer, pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina.

As always, I'm your host Molly Bitovich.

Today we're continuing our teaching series through the Book of James with a brand new sermon and it has a really unique title.

It's called It's Hard to Lick Your Tongue. And I guess if you take that title literally

you realize that it certainly is hard to lick your tongue.

In fact, I'm not even sure how that would work.

But seriously, today's topic is very important.

The tongue is such a small part of our bodies, and yet it has astonishing power because it controls

our ability to both wound and heal and to bless and to curse.

Pastor Jady walks through James Chapter 3 to show us the dangers of the tongue and what it can reveal about the state of our hearts.

Time to lick this thing for good. Are you with me? Let's open our Bibles in our hearts. Here's Pastor Jain.

James chapter three, if you have your Bibles,

James chapter three, as you were turning there,

I have a story that some of you are going to hate,

and some of you are going to love.

A few years ago, a few years ago,

the car that I was driving at the time

was a 2003 Honda pilot started to smell weird.

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