TODAY’S “GOOD NEWS” – October 24, 2004

MESSAGE:  “TEAMING UP TO WIN:          (part 2)

…Training Our Tongue For Victory!”

SCRIPTURE:  James 3:1-12

KEY VERSE:  v.  Proverbs 15:4 “A wholesome tongue is a tree of life.”

FOCUS:  A good tongue depends on a good heart.

THINK ON THIS:  “You can’t cover up your heart.  If there’s bitterness in our hearts, it will come out through what we say and how we say it.  If there’s hatred, hatred will come.  If there is anger, anger will come.  No wonder James says the tongue can’t be controlled.  The heart is engineering all that the tongue is going to say.”                                                                                                                                   ~ Leonard Ravenhill (The Taming Of The Tongue)

I.        THE TONGUE USED FOR GOD IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE

II. THERE IS MIGHTY POWER IN THE TONGUE

III. THE TONGUE CAN BE A TYRANT

IV.  GOD MAKES THE TONGUE AN INSTRUMENT OF PEACE

CONCLUSION:  “Religion must reach one’s tongue.  This can be done only by transforming the soul first.”   ~ Randal Denny, The Ten Commandments

PREACHING:  Pastor Holland Lewis