TEMPTATION IN TEACHING _Text 3:1-2_ 1. Be not many of you teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. 2. For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. _Queries_ 177. How can we ever o... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOURTEEN THREE-PART SERMON STARTERS_ PROFESSIONAL WRECKERS James 3:1-5 1. Every man has a tendency to wreak havoc James 3:2. 2. A very small crow-bar can wreck a big house James 3:3-4. 3. The tongue is the greatest wrecker of all, tearing down in a few minutes a lifetime of work. (James 3:5)... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER VI _THE FOOLISH TEACHER_ James 3:1-12 _Introduction_ In James 1:16; James 1:26 James said Be swift to hear, slow to speak. In a sense, the balance of chapter one develops the thought of how to hear. Now, James takes up the subject of speaking. James refers to the speakers as teachers and... [ Continue Reading ]
A BIG THING IN A LITTLE PACKAGE _Text 3:3-5a_ James 3:3. Now if we put the horses bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. James 3:4. Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small... [ Continue Reading ]
WILD AND UNCONTROLLED _Text 3:5b-8_ 5b. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6. And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7. For every ki... [ Continue Reading ]
MR. TWO-FACED _Text 3:9-12_ 9. Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: 10. Out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren these things ought not so to be. 11. Doth the fountain send forth from the same o... [ Continue Reading ]
WISDOM DEMONSTRATED James 3:13 _Text 3:13_ James 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. _Queries_ 234. Why the question in James 3:13? 235. To what group of people does the question probably refer? (see Matthew 23:34). 23... [ Continue Reading ]
_THIRTEEN THREE-POINT SERMON STARTERS_ WISDOM DEMONSTRATED James 3:13 Introduction: We are here for the purpose of demonstrating wisdom and understanding in the ways of God. 1. How we show it. (By His good life) 2. What we show. (His works) 3. The Spirit of showing it. (In meekness of wisdom... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SOURCE OF FACTION _Text 3:14-16_ James 3:14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15. This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16. For where jealousy and faction are, there is c... [ Continue Reading ]
WISDOM FROM ABOVE _Text 3:17-18_ James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. James 3:18. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace. _... [ Continue Reading ]