19/01/2025 – Morning Service: Evil speaking and boastful planning

Bible Readings:

Luke 2:41-52

Matthew 7:1-20

Sermon Outline:

James 4:11–16 (NKJV)

¹¹Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

¹²There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?

¹³Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”;

¹⁴whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

¹⁵Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”

¹⁶But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

I Evil Speaking

II Boastful Planning

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Believe not half you hear;
repeat not half you believe;
when you hear an evil report,
halve it, then quarter it,
and say nothing about the rest.

C. H. Spurgeon

There’s only one thing as difficult as unscrambling
an egg, and that’s c a rumour.

Anon.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future
to a known God.

Corrie ten Boom