Sermon: The Tongue of Those Who are Taught

James writes in our epistle lesson, “No human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 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.”  The tongue can bring joy or cause misery. Proverbs 18:21 puts it this way: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” The stakes are high. Your words can either speak life, or your words can speak death. Our tongues can build others up, or they can tear them down.  In our Gospel reading for today, take note of how Jesus awakens everyone’s ears to hear as those who are taught so that they have tongues that “know how to sustain with a word him who is weary.”

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