Your faith Jesus fuels you to live Jesus Speech Class: Do not complain or grumble Do not boast about anything at all Do not gossip or repeat bad information about anyone else Do not run somebody down even a little bit Do not defend or excuse yourself no matter what Do always encourage others with truth Jas. 3:3-4 – If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. Words guide us like a Prov. 12:18a – “Careless words stab like a sword.” (NCV) Jas. 3:5-6 – So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. Words ignite us like a Jas. 3:9-11 – With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Jas. 3:12a – Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water. Words reveal us like Jn. 1:1 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Jesus is the from Heaven to us