THE TONGUE - MAN’S MOST DANGEROUS WEAPON!!

TEXT:  JAMES 3:5-6 (shows Christ as our “pattern” meaning form; example; design; plan; model)

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.  Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!  And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the tongue amongst our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

James talks more about the “tongue” than any other writer in the New Testament.

If you can control your mouth, you’re perfect.  “Perfect” in the Greek means mature; healthy!  Remember this song?

• Oh be careful little mouth what you say; Oh be careful little mouth what you say,

For the Father up above, is looking down in love,

Oh be careful little mouth what you say.

• Oh be careful little tongue what you say; Oh be careful little tongue what you say,

For the Father up above, is looking down in love

Oh be careful little tongue what you say.

This is a childhood lyric.  It sounds innocent enough but holds a wealth of truth!

BREAK-THROUGH PRAISE!!!

TEXT:  PSALM 150  

1  Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.

3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.

Psalms portrays Jesus as our “All Sufficiency”.  This division of Psalms has 246 verses, 43,743 words.  The authors are David and others.  The theme of Psalms is “prayer and praise”.  Psalms was generally written to express the deep inner emotions of the human heart in relation to God.  Many were written as answered prayers to God expressing a trust, love, adoration, thanksgiving, praise, a longing for close fellowship, discouragement, deep distress, fear, anxiety, humiliation, a cry for deliverance, healing or vindication.

Other Psalms were written as songs expressing praise, thanksgiving and adoration for who God is and for the great things He has done!!!!

Are you breathing today?  Well, that’s the only prerequisite that’s needed to give God praise!  So give God some praise!!!!

This message is about “BREAK-THROUGH PRAISE”!!!

“THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTED CHRIST”!!

TEXT:  PHILIPPIANS 3:10

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.

This Epistle shows Christ as our “Joy” [rejoicing; pleasure; delight].

WHO IS CHRIST?  “CHRIST” is the very embodiment or form of God!  “CHRIST” is the thought of God which unfolds into the perfect “Man”, Jesus Christ!  “CHRIST” is the Anointed One, and Jesus is the manifestation of the “CHRIST”!