Go with me, if you would, to the book of James, the third chapter again, and to the book of

Proverbs 18.

In James, the third chapter and verse two, he says, for him many things we offend all, if any man

offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole

body.

If you don't miss it in what you say, you are a developed, mature individual.

One of the biggest indicators of where we are spiritually, if we're a baby or we're a mature one is how much

we miss it in what we say he went on in this chapter to talk about how that you control

you can control a big horse with a small bit in its mouth you can control a giant ship on huge waves and winds with a small bit in its mouth. You can control a giant ship on huge waves and winds with the small rudder controlled by the helm.

I think if his writing it today, he might have said it's like the steering wheel in your car.

What's like the bit in the horse's mouth? What's like the rudder on the ship? What's like the steering wheel in the car. What's like the bit in the horse's mouth?

What's like the rudder on the ship?

What's like the steering wheel in the car?

Your and my tongue.

Our mouth.

What we say.

Is it true that what we are saying is steering our life?

Most Christians don't believe it.

I know they don't because of the way they talk.

Because if you believed that what you were saying was influencing and directing your life,

you'd choose what you said more carefully.

Wouldn't you?

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