And there's nothing so awful and so degrading when you're talking against a person to another person without knowing them and they walk up to you and you're a hypocrite and you go, oh hi, how are you doing?

God bless you, hypocrite.

We do it all.

And James says this should never be so.

This should never be so. This should never be so white.

It's called slandering people's character.

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.

Thanks for joining us for this practical word of wisdom from the book of James.

Pointing to the destructive power of critical, belittling, and judgmental words,

Raul will challenge us to more carefully guard against negativity in our speech.

We can trust the Holy Spirit

to convict and redirect others as we acknowledge our own flaws, focusing instead on building

people up. Here's Roll Rees now with today's study.

Turn to the book of James chapter 4. We'll come to verse 10, 11, and 12 tonight. It's pretty amazing the

exhortation that James brings to each one of us individually as he is speaking to Christians.

In verse 7, he starts up by saying, therefore submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee

from you. And surely we know that that's a big problem

with so many people, the devil harassing, oppressing, depressing, depressing people. Because one of the

things about Satan is that Satan was a very proudful person when he was in heaven. This is one of

the reasons that God kicked him out of heaven

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