How to Control Our Tongue
Categories: Easy Sermons to Preach, Sermon Outlines, Short Sermon Outlines, Short Sermons, Topical Sermon Outlines Tags: Sermons on the TongueIntroduction: James 3:6
1. It is good and right to recognize the need to control the tongue.
1) Every idle word – judged, Matt. 12:36.
2) Religion vain if tongue not bridled, James 1:26.
3) Transgression is often in words, Prov. 10:19.
2. We can see the problem. We have the gift of speech but this is an opportunity for sin.
3. What do we do?
DISCUSSION:
I. Purify the Mind (Change the source of the foul tongue.)
1. Filthy mouths come from filthy minds, Matt. 15:17-20.
2. Heart deceitful and wicked, Jer. 17:9.
3. Heart evil from youth, Gen. 8:21.
4. Transformed by renewing the mind, Rom. 12:2; Psa. 119:11; Psa. 1; Phil. 4:8.
II. Pray to the Creator of the Mind (Repent and confess to God.)
1. Psa. 51:10; Psa. 141:3.
2. Repent and pray to God when we err, Acts 8:22; 1 John 1:7-9. (Take care to deal with the thought.)
III. Create a Proper Habit
1. Replace the sinful with the righteous, Eph. 4:29; Col. 4:6.
2. It must be done every time you err to form a habit. As with a child, a soldier, an animal. You must discipline yourself.
Conclusion:
1. Purify the mind.
2. Pray to the Creator of the mind.
3. Create a proper habit.
Notes for a Wednesday night devotional.