Sunday, July 14, 2019

Bridle Your Tongue to the Word of Faith

"So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not BRIDLE HIS TONGUE but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless." (James 1:19-26)

"Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth BY THE WORD OF TRUTH, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures."
(James 1:16-18)

"But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way,....."
(Romans 10:6)

"But what does it say? 'The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart' (that is, the word of faith we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
(Romans 10:8-10)

Bridle your tongue to the perfect law of liberty (Romans 10:9,10), continuing in it so this confession is made unto salvation. It is enough! Nothing says it like those words (His words). The wrath of man, or sin in action, is brought to nothing by the word of faith, believing, in action.





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