Spoken by Sinclair Ferguson in his sermon on James 3:1-12. (If you have the opportunity to listen to this message note the immediate exegesis coupled with the biblical theology of 'words' in James and the glaring implications from the grand biblical narrative. I love to see the cross brought to bear upon a subject in Scripture when Christ is not explicitly named within the text itself. Some would say this is incorrect hermeneutics, but when the full biblical context is brought to bear on a singular text we cannot deny the Christocentricity of Scripture.) "The misuse of the tongue can apparently render all other graces in my life impotent...one single wrong word and all the words we've ever spoken crumble into so much hypocrisy in the eyes and ears of those who listen to us"
"'blessing and cursing'... we should never minimize these words. It not the kind of thing we say when we sneeze, 'bless you'. These are words that describe the serious covenantal determined operations of God of either judgment that will lead to hell or of grace that will lead to heaven. And you say there we are standing praising God and in the next moment we are cursing men and women have been made in his image"
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