Amen.

Amen.

Church, if you got your Bible, is going to be in James.

Chapter 3 is where we're going to be most of the time.

We're talking about words and the power of words.

So this sermon only applies to you if you have a mouth, if you have a tongue.

Even if you can't use that good and use sign language, whatever you do to communicate,

this is who this sermon is for. And James is really

continuing what he started in chapter one when he's saying that if you, if you really have

been impacted by the gospel, then there's parts of your lives that are going to change.

That we should be be doers of the word and not hears only, and so deceive ourselves.

And so one of the things he's going to get to are the things that come out of our mouth.

And you may wonder, why does it matter so much, and why is it so difficult to control our tongue?

Well, it matters so much because we are image bearers of our creator.

And in the beginning, God, when he wanted to make everything that is, he didn't use his hands,

he didn't just think it into existence.

The Bible says that he spoke creation into existence.

That words matter.

Words create worlds.

That's what it does.

And in essence, a part of your world has been created by the words that are spoken over you.

And as an image bearer of God, now you don't want to take this too far.

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