Our words define us. John 1 tells us that in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. It’s an interesting phrase to call Jesus the Word. In Greek, of course, the word is Logos. Chinese actually grasps the meaning of the word, the Chinese Bible uses the word Dao.  This word means the something behind everything. There’s a lot that could be said about that, and it’s awesome, but that’s not the topic today.  Well, the translators took this term which was a complicated Greek term in expressing its meaning and translated it the Word. But it fits. Because if you want to know something about someone, you use their words. Angry people use angry words, abusive people use abusive words. Everything God is, Jesus expressed perfectly because He was the Word. Today, we are going to look at our words and our tongue and how important it is to control it.

James is not a theological book. What I mean is that it isn’t like a Pauline epistle which often has a very deep doctrinal section and then applies that doctrine to daily life. But today, we do get into the theological theme of the book when it comes to a belief that behaves. The passage today is a tricky one for some and there are those who isolate it from the rest of Scripture in order to get it to say what it does not say. Or there are those who say this is a contradiction in Scripture when it comes to the doctrine of justification. So let’s look at exactly what this passage means in its context that way we can understand more. 

We are all biased as sinful humans, but that shouldn't be the case.