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5 days ago · In both of these verses the word translated “man” is ’adam, a Hebrew word which can mean “Adam” (the first man), “human being,” or “humanity.” In verse 26 ’adam clearly means “humanity” since after announcing his intention to create ‘adam, God says, “let them have dominion.”
- To Tame The Tongue, We Must Recognize Its Power For Good Or For Evil (3:3-5A).
- Conclusion
- Application Questions
James uses two analogies here to make the point that the tongue is small, but mighty: the bit and the rudder. A bit is a relatively small instrument, but when you put it into a horse’s mouth, you can control the entire horse. The same thing is true of a ship’s rudder. It is relatively small compared to the size of the ship, but with his hand on the...
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has lectured around the country on the powerful and often negative impact of words. He has asked audiences if they can go for twenty-four hours without saying any unkind words about, or to, anybody. He says, “Invariably, a minority of listeners raise their hands signifying ‘yes,’ some laugh, and quite a large number call out,...
How can a man know if God is calling him to preach?How can we know whether it is right to speak out to confront sin or to remain silent, since we can sin either way?What should you say when someone shares a juicy bit of gossip with you “so that you can pray about it”?Is it always a sin to criticize? When and how may it be proper?A domesticated Jesus embraces the culture’s values without challenging them; He is a “safe” Jesus who is no threat to the established way of doing things. Yet Christ did not come into the world to be “nice” or “safe,” and the Jesus we find in the Gospels cannot be domesticated.
Jan 4, 2022 · Question. Taming the tongue—why is it so difficult? Answer. The concept of taming the tongue is found in James 3 where God declares, through the apostle James, that “no one can tame the tongue” ( James 3:8 ). The lengthy discussion about the tongue in this chapter is both convicting and illuminating.
The serpent is here called a "beast of the field"; that is, neither a domesticated animal nor one of the smaller sorts. The Lord God had made it, and therefore it was a creature called into being on the same day with Adam. It is not the wisdom, but the wiliness of the serpent which is here noted.
The Saviour means to say that he was sent to the Jews. The woman was a Gentile. He meant merely using a term in common use, and designed to test her faith in the strongest manner - that it did not comport with the design of his personal ministry to apply benefits intended for the Jews to others.
What does James 3:7 mean? James continues laying out his case that the tongue—our words and how we use them—is uncontrollable and a source of great evil. Here, James points out the difficulty in taming the tongue using what today we would call the "man on the moon" argument.
