You will find, I mean, so many scriptures about the tongue.

It's amazing.

Because God had a message and God has a message for us as believers even here tonight.

That we need to really be careful that the tongue doesn't really put us in a place

where it's going to bring and actually destroy our character and our witness as Christians before the world.

I am falling. I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in love with you.

Welcome to Somebody Lives You Radio, the Bible teaching ministry of Roll Rees in Diamond Bar, California.

We're glad you've joined us for our continuing series in the Book of James. Zerowing in on a very

practical way to live out our faith, Roll will challenge us to be more intentional about guarding

our tongues. Our natural, sinful nature can easily slip out in damaging words,

but with God's help, we can build others up with the things we say rather than tearing them down.

Let's join Roll now in the book of James.

And now what he's going to do in verse 2, he's going to talk about the actual tongue that it has power to control.

Power to control. And check this out. Look what he says. For we all stumble in many things.

Oh, and you know what? That is such a truth. I mean, how many of us stumble today? We stumble in so many ways.

There are different things that we do that we actually bring a stumbling into our lives

and it affects our spiritual life.

It grieves the Holy Spirit of God.

And yet Paul says in Ephesians, do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God. And the word

grieve is an interesting word in the Greek. It means don't bring pain to the Holy Spirit. Why? Because

the Holy Spirit is a person. He gets grieved. He gets hurt. When there's cussing, when there's

dirty language, when there's abusive language

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