His Tongue Is an Unruly Member — Leonard Ravenhill

And out of many wise things that he said to me, one of them was this, that he said, I'm not sure I'll live to see this, but I think you'll live to see the time when Christians from other countries come back to America to teach us what Christianity is like.

And that day's come. One of the most acceptable men, one of the greatest preachers I know. Again, he's an Indian, not an East Indian like our dear brother Boland, but a very wonderful man by the name of Baksingh.

Some of you, any of you have heard Baksingh? Didn't you really get moved when he spoke? He has a profound knowledge of the word of God. We were in a large meeting and the auditorium was so constructed that they had these large chairs, these big wooden chairs, like movie house chairs, you know, tip up seats.

And he said, before I speak we're going to pray and we're going to pray the Bible way. And he recited about 15 or 20 or maybe more scriptures where they all knelt. And he said, we cannot pray unless we kneel, and so everybody must kneel down.

Well it so happened that a lady that we know was there and she weighed about 250 pounds and she had a problem. Turning round to kneel, it was awful, but getting up was ten times worse. They just had to hold a meeting till she got turned round out of those chairs.

But he insists on this, and he is one of the most remarkable men of faith that I know. Setting off for England from India before he flew, he was going down the street with a little attache case about this size and somebody said, where are you going?

And he said, England. Oh, when are you going? He said, now. Where's your baggage? In my hand. Is that all you take? Well, it holds my pyjamas, toothbrush, shaving kit, and I can wash my shirt at night.

That man has raised up over 350 churches, and he just has as much money as when he started, like Jesus did. Around the world, some of the greatest men of the day are men like this dear brother this morning, who I understand never went to Bible school.

One of the great preachers in America today was, went to see Dr. Tozer some years ago. His girlfriend took him along and she said, I want you to meet my pastor, and pastor I want you to meet my boyfriend, he's a preacher.

And he said, what Bible school did you go to? He said, none. He said, that's an advantage. And maybe it is in the days in which we live. And I have repeatedly said, and I was so glad that this brother shared it, it was my conviction that God did not go off production when he produced Wesley and Finney and Whitfield.

You know, we've got such cocky ideas of our success, and a lot of it's rubbish. We're drawing the biggest crowds in history, nothing of the kind. We've got radio, blacktop roads, TV, all the news media, advertising and what not.

Do you know that John Wesley was excited because before he got rolling, two spirit-filled Frenchmen were drawing 30 ,000 men a night, men and women a night. No blacktop roads, no motels to sleep, 22 years of age.

George Whitfield was up in Boston, the population of the city was 12 ,000, he drew 14 ,000 a night. No blacktop roads, nowhere to eat. Men admitted that they took a horse and rode with the wife on the horse, and then when the horse got tired, the man got off and walked, and walked up to their knees in snow.

A very famous American stood one day and listened to George Whitfield, and he said, I stood back, I stood back, and he figured how far he could hear George Whitfield speak distinctly without any amplification.

And Benjamin Franklin, he was the person, said how amazed he was at the power of that man to draw over 25 ,000 people night after night. I'm still sure revival doesn't cost one red cent. You don't boost personalities, God the Holy Ghost does the job.

I'm glad this young fellow, quite young, only 29, that he's learned the ways of God, isn't greedy for publicity, doesn't get excited if you thank him, and doesn't walk around with a sense of air and cocksuredness that so many evangelists have.

I'm glad he's learned, he's had it rough, I'll tell you that, he wouldn't tell you, but he preaches a message that not many churches want night after night. Oh one night he's a novelty, he's good, he stood us up, but boy when you hammer that same nail night after night, do you know what they do, they show you the door and give you a love offering.

There's more love than offering and there's not much love. You know the evangelism we've had in the last two decades hasn't done much for us. God's going to raise more men like this, I'm absolutely sure of this.

The spirit of the Lord is discernibly on him. I think it's something very wonderful, very encouraging as far as I'm concerned. I understand he's coming to our conference next week at Eros, where's our good brother there, he's going to be there and I'm going to be there.

So I don't know, I'll be happy not to preach, let him do it, these two do the preaching and I'll listen. I'll maybe take the offering for a change. I mean take it home, not just collect it. Now here's something you won't like.

The Tongue as an Unruly Member

I've got a distinct advantage over the previous preacher this morning, or any other preacher maybe that's been on this camp since it began, because I can not only tell you what the text is, I can show you it.

Now you could do a lot better than I can do, but let me show you the text, shall I show you it right now? Here it is. Now you've got bigger ones and longer ones and ones that do a lot more work than mine maybe.

There's the tongue. The tongue is an unruly member, that's what James says. I never understood it why, quite why, but the very famous preacher Martin Luther said that the epistle of James is an epistle of straw.

I don't understand that because I think that it's a very practical epistle and it's a very painful epistle. And you don't find many subjects in the Bible that get a whole chapter. You see the space in the Bible is very, very precious and very, very rare, so except in 1 Corinthians 13 where you have 13 verses on the subject of love, and Wayne the Revelation where you have a chapter on heaven, and Romans chapter 7 where you have a very profound area where theologians make lances with each other, that there are very few areas in the Bible where a whole chapter is given to just one thing.

And this is almost true of this subject here, the tongue. And we read from verse 5 in James 3, even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth, and the tongue is a fire, a word of iniquity.

So is the tongue among our members that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind, that the tongue can no man tame.

It is an unruly evil full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God even the Father, and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing.

My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same time sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries, either of vine figs? So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

Who is a wise man and imbued with knowledge among you? Let him show out of good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye are bitter, envying, and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

This wisdom descendeth not from above that is earthly, sensual, devilish, for where envying and strife is, there is confusion in every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to being treated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. So the tongue is an unruly member, and the tongue no man can tame. I've often wondered what the psalmist had in mind, or what God had in mind, when he said through the psalmist that our personality is an instrument of ten strings.

I don't know what those ten strings are, I could just make a suggestion that maybe the ten strings are our two feet, our two hands, our two eyes, our two ears, our one heart, and our one tongue. She had a lot of wonderful philosophy, I don't know why she got it, but periodically she'd shoot out a phrase, and one way to learn is by repetition.

You can sit down and grind over something, but as you get older it should be so, so that you could, by the time you're my age, or a little less than that, that you could recite without a hymn book at all, at least a hundred hymns.

Because the process of learning has automatically put a groove in the mind. And because of that we have memorized certain things. My mother, I say, used to shoot out these things, and very often if I got arguing with my sister, my mother would say, keep your tongue between your teeth.

And mother, once I heard her say to people, now you know, when you get married you tie a knot with your tongue. You tie a knot, she says, with your will, but you can undo it with your teeth. And you know very well that before very long the tongue gets so active that even very often in a home there's so much disruption, there's so much dissension, and all this of course is manifested through this little member.

I remember hearing a preacher preach, at least I read a sermon that he had preached, I don't know what was in it except this title, and he called the tongue the red rainbow. And when I hear a song leader say, now come on everybody stand up, we're going to sing all for a thousand tongues, I always say, thank God they haven't.

I mean if you had another 999 tongues and you use it like the one you've got, it might be hell living in your house. I think the tongue is almost the nearest thing to perpetual motion. You couldn't use any other member of your body like you use your tongue.

You try it tomorrow, every time you speak, while you're speaking over the phone, hold the phone like this and keep your arm going like this, and you won't talk forty minutes to Mrs. Smith at the other end of town anymore.

And then as soon as that phone has been rung, you answer the phone again and keep that hand going like that, or change it to the other. And then when you're talking to the children, shouting to them in the garden, saying something to your husband, move your arms, you know what you'll do next morning?

You'll get up and you'll have to say to your husband, could you lift this arm out of bed for me? Because there's nothing that you have that can take the power, and take the beating that the tongue takes every day.

Oh, I'm glad people don't have a thousand tongues, how miserable it would be. I think of a man who one day was being told off, as we say, by his wife, and his wife said to him, it's no good talking to you anyhow.

I tell you anything, it goes in at one ear and out of the other. He said, you're right. I tell you anything, it goes in both ears and out of your mouth. And you think sometimes that this is true, isn't it?

John Wesley said that the most prevalent evil in the Church of God, in the day in which he lived, was corrupt communication which proceeded out of the mouth. And I don't know what it's like in the law of America, but in the law of England, the highest penalty that you can get in the courts, is because of slander.

And slander is not necessarily saying something that's wrong about somebody. If you knew a man or a woman were living in adultery and you communicated that, that man could take you up for slander, even though it's true, and get a very heavy fine out of you.

Human Power and the Mystery of Self-Control

Now we have a tremendous paradox here. We're shown on one side the power of man, and one wonders what the, well of course the Holy Ghost wouldn't need to elaborate, but here he shows us a number of things.

He says that man is very powerful. You remember in the 8th Psalm, the psalmist says, what is man that thou art mindful of him? Thou hast made him a little lower than the angel. The true Hebrew there is that man is made a little lower than God.

You sometimes think these days he lives lower than the devil himself. But what is man? Well man is the clouding creation of God. You do things in America very differently from the way we do them in Europe.

For instance, if a man is interested in a girl, usually his idea, at least it used to be, I haven't lived in England for a number of years now, but it used to be that once he set his affection on that girl, he'd strive with all that he had, and he'd stack up money, and at least if he had to rent a house, he would be thought a bum as you say, if he didn't have enough money to furnish that house right through, and very often buy the house and furnish it.

So the way we put it is this, that in England, a man gets the cage, he gets the bird, but he gets the cage first, and then he puts the bird in it. But in America it seems he gets the bird, and then she asks to help buy the cage.

He sends her out to work to buy the house she's going to live in, and buy the furnishing. Now I may be smart, but I'm not sure it's really right, and all the ladies said, Amen. But that's the way it goes.

Customs are different, but you know universally wherever you go, you discover that there's a great problem in this business of the tongue. Now, I say that this man here, under divine inspiration, he shows us the power of man, and he says there isn't a beast roaming the forest, there isn't a thing in the sea that man cannot take, and in one way or another he can subdue that creature, and make it his servant, but he can't do that with the tongue.

What amazing days we're living in. Why I remember standing there at Niagara Falls, maybe you've been there, and I watched the water coming down on the American side, and then the great horseshoe on the Canadian side, and then they cut a channel, it goes deep down through the rock.

What have they put there? They put some great big spindles there, and then they get the water to shoot down there, and that water drives those spindles, in other words, it drives the turbines. And man has taken that mighty thing that used to make people terrified, and he's tied them up in it, and he's made the great creation of God his servant.

Why the energy they produce flashes a million lights over in Canada, energizes the machinery, it's good for industry. He's able to take nature, he's able to take the wind and harness the wind to his windmill.

We don't use it too much these days, except in certain countries. And even when the wind is howling, when it's ferocious, they can change the gears on those things, and they're still able to harness even something in the nature of almost a tornado, at least ferocious winds.

And man can take these things and subdue them. Just last night we were having a snack there, and talking with Bill O 'Bolin, and we were exchanging some views and so forth, and he said, isn't it wonderful that Madame Guillaume, the French mystic, I think it was he, we were talking about her, and I'm sure he said, she mentioned in one of her hymns, and this would be, I guess, more than two hundred years ago, and she mentioned that God had ordained the atoms.

Now we've just discovered something of the power of the atom. You can put enough energy in a golf ball, and then put it in some other can, and you can drop it on a city, and blast a city, vaporize a city.

You can destroy a thousand years of culture, in less than fifty seconds. In fact, there isn't a city in the world you can't blast into shapeless rubble in less than fifty seconds. Maybe one of the great proud cities of Europe, that shelters some of the great art treasures in the museums, and what not.

And these things are priceless, and they've been gathered over hundreds, and even sometimes almost thousands of years, and yet a bomb drops and vaporizes the whole thing. We're living in a day, I've been reading a book recently on genetics.

Just recently, less than a week ago, one of the great universities in America said that they had produced life. They'd found the secret of life. This book that I bought was a seven dollar book, edited by the science editor of Life magazine, and it's called A Second Genesis, and it's worth reading.

It's a very, very interesting book, because it tells how you can produce a race of people without marriage. Tells how they can take certain seeds, and plant them in other people, and how they can control the intellect.

And soon you'll go to a catalog and say, well, of course we're professional people, we don't have time to raise a family, but we would like a child. And they'll say, well there's a woman lives up the road there, so many miles, and she'd be very happy to produce the child.

What kind of a child? And you go to a chart and say, well you want this color of skin, and you want that kind of IQ, and you want male or female, and it goes right down the list, and it seems almost terrifying.

And this man says, it's wonderful, except that if you did get somebody as a dictator, he could so retard that generation of people, because he said, we're sensible enough to know that only three things that natural man requires.

One is happiness, the other is food, and the third is comfort. And so we'll build houses by the thousand, by the state, we'll furnish them better than the average working man could furnish them, we'll give them nice big TVs in every room, we'll give them a swimming pool between so many houses, and men don't care after that, give them better food than they can buy.

And they've got food, and they've got shelter, and they've got creature comforts, and you can retard their intelligence so you can make them a nation of robbers and slaves. And if you tell them to go fight a war, they'll go, because they can't think.

You can eliminate that section of their mind. Science is coming up with some dreadful possibilities in the day in which we live, and since we've put God over the other side, we're going to live to see some terrible things in the day in which we're living.

The power of man is so great. If you told your grandpa years ago that there'd be a heart transplant, he would have laughed at you. If you told him that men would walk on the moon, he'd say, you better go and see somebody, you're a lunatic yourself.

If you told him that you could go from New York to England in two and a half hours, he'd say, that's ridiculous, it took Wesley two and a half months to do it. But last week, the Russians put the fastest plane, the fastest commercial plane in the world in the air, and it went at what, 1 ,325 miles an hour, way ahead of anything, either the Concord plane of Britain, or any plane that there is in America.

These are frightening days. We're living in a shrinking world and an expanding universe. If you struck a match and we went outside, and you hold that match up to the blazing sun, what the light of that match is to the blazing sun, that sun is to other suns away there in space.

The psalmist says, when I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers, but until a little over a century ago, we only had the names of about 22 ,000 stars and planets. Now we have the name of about 20 ,000 galaxies.

And in those galaxies, there are multiplied millions and millions and billions of stars. They're discovering at least there's one area in which we have to admit infinity, and that is in space. Out, out, out we go, and to go to the moon is nothing, it's our next door neighbor.

Sure we'll get somebody on the planet. I met a brother here last year who asked me to go to his church just outside of Dallas, and one day there we had lunch with a very brilliant young chemist. And he said, well it's nice to eat with you preachers today, two or three of us.

Yesterday I had lunch with the astronauts, and he said we were discussing various things, and I said, well this was before the man got on the moon, will you get a man on the moon? He said, oh that's no problem at all, we got that solved, the take-off too.

Will you get a man on the planet? He said, I think, oh yes I think we'll do that, I don't think it's very serious getting a man on the planet. Well what about getting a man on the star? Well if you get a man on a star, and you use the same kind of gadget that we took the man to the moon on, instead of getting there in three and a half days, he'd get there in something like a thousand years.

The nearest star is a thousand years away from us, traveling at the same speed that they traveled at in going to the moon. Now I don't know what you think, but I think his tongue may have run out before he gets there, and his sandwiches might be dry.

Human Potential, Education, and the Misuse of Time

You see, man is getting more inflated, he's man, his intellect is just waking up. George Bernard Shaw said that any man should live till he's three hundred years of age. He says, I'm eighty and my brain is just beginning to wake up.

I didn't think it had wakened up then, but that's his opinion, he thought it had, so that the old boy had died at about eighty-four or eighty-five years of age. And he said, you see, there's something in me that's beginning to expand that I'm going to dry up.

Oh, what a marvelous personality you and I have, what a marvelous thing the human brain is. We were looking at a book list, my wife and I, just a few days ago, a new book published by an American lady, if I remember right, which is called The Mind of a Child.

And one of the selling points of the thing is that over in Uganda, and in quotes it said, an uncivilized people, the babies sit up at seven months, when they're seven months, no, seven weeks, and they walk when they're seven months, and they have a better orientation to life than any civilized children in the world.

And they can speak languages, other tribal languages, in their infancy, because these people major on raising their families. They give all their time, and more than money, more than their beasts, more than their possessions, their children, everything.

I'm convinced that almost any child, normal child, is almost a genius, if you only began to teach it at the right things, at the right time. But we don't have time to do that. We shove them off to a stupid TV, and ask them to watch some lunatics, and Mickey Mouse, and Saturday morning.

Isn't it good Saturday morning, that one after the other, all the comics come on? You wonder why your child's such a comic? Well, you stuffed it into him. Why is he so stupid? You stuffed it into him.

When you're there, you laugh, and when you're not there, they say, isn't he like his father? But the possibilities of human personality are fantastic. We've just discovered what we can do with certain elements.

Not long before Mr. Roosevelt died, he brought the leading intellects of America together. They were invited to come and hear a discussion, or really hear a lecture. And when they came along, some of them were very, very, very distressed to see that the lecturer was a black man.

Couldn't even walk very well, he shuffled his feet, and he was stupid. Mr. Roosevelt said, this great scientist is going to speak to him. They shuffled and turned up their noses, till he got cracking.

Then they were on the edge of their seats. They listened to the man. You've read his life story, some of you. And he told them about his secret. The problem was, of course, he'd never been trained as a scientist.

They asked him about his secret. Well, he took some shavings off the floor of a factory and put them together and made a block of marble and submitted it to a geologist at the side of a piece of marble cut out of the side of the hill.

And the scientist couldn't tell the one from the other. He said, I haven't a clue which is the one from the side of the hill and which is the one synthetically made. He said, I get up one morning, as I always do, at four o 'clock and I go down into the garden and I have a textbook.

Could we have the name of the textbook? Yes, just a minute. And they pulled out the, give us the name of the textbook, he said, the Bible. You're kidding. No. I happen to be in contact with the one that put everything in this universe, wherever he's hid it and whatever he did with it.

And one morning, he said, I got up and said to the Lord, now, Lord, you show me how to get the yolk of an egg out of two or three sweet potatoes. And before lunchtime, he produced the yolk of an egg out of sweet potatoes.

He gave us more than 150 wonderful, almost miraculous inventions out of peanut. And the scientists were unable to accept, but it was perfectly true, this little colored man, because he had given himself over to the Lord and because he waited on the Lord.

Even in the natural realm, after all the heavens and all the earth is there, it's the workmanship of God and he put all the secrets there. And we're going to discover more and more and more. If we discover a remedy for cancer, in my judgment, we'll get the remedy for cancer out of herbs.

Because after man fell and diseases came, God put herbs there. And I believe they're the answer, not in these other things that we get so much of, these chemicals and so forth. But here is man. He's got a shrinking world.

He's getting faster and faster. He's going higher and higher. He's going deeper and deeper. Not many secrets left now in a bathysphere. The Frenchman went down just a few weeks ago and there they explored the whole of the channel that we call, which is between Bimini and of course the United States of America, we call the Gulf Stream.

And he crawled on the bottom of the ocean for miles, went way, way, way, way up to the Canadian coast without surfacing. Had a laboratory down there in the ocean and made new films and discovered a new world.

And so where do we go from here? Man has conquered the world. He's conquered the air. He's conquered the sea. He's conquered the forces of nature. But the greatest possession in the world is not two thousand acres of land.

The greatest possession in the world is self-possession. And man is baffled by the mystery of his own personality. The psychologists and the otherologists are still puzzled about the behavior pattern.

Because in a given situation they say that human nature is unpredictable. And so it is unpredictable apart from the grace of God. But not when the grace of God is there. Now this amazing man James says the world around us can be controlled.

It can be harnessed. It can be governed by the power of man. Man is genius. This inborn gift that God has given to him. He's so like man. He's made to be creative. He's made to control. And he's done it very well.

But then he says when he comes down to this little member, the tongue is an unruly member. I remember walking down the street in a city where we did have a touch of revival thirty years ago. And sometimes when I hear people praying that depression won't come to the country, I think they're praying against revival.

In fact I would dare say this. You never have had revival in history when the success and material prosperity. Revival comes in a vacuum. Revival comes when everything's drying on the vine. Revival comes when creature comforts die.

God drives us to himself. We had had a period of depression in England in the 1930s. And we went to a city in the north of England there. We were going down the street one day. And there was a laboring man.

He was poorly dressed. And as two or three of us evangelists came up, he suddenly did this. He put his hand up like this and he said, Look, I wanted to do, can I do anything for this? And he pulled his tongue out.

Can I do anything? I have a blaspheming tongue. I have a lying tongue. I have a tongue that exaggerates. I have a tongue that's full of bitterness. We used to sing in Sunday school, if I remember right, something like this.

The angry words all let them never from the tongue and bridle slip. With the soul's best impulse ever check them ere they soil the lip. Bitter words are quickly spoken. Angry thoughts are rashly stirred.

The fondest links of life are broken by a single angry word. There have been more fellowships torn apart by gossip and slander and criticism than by any other thing. There are more friendships being severed.

There are more preachers against each other because of gossip than any other thing, any other sin that you can mention. Now I think the first thing to say about the tongue is this, that the tongue is an index.

The Tongue Reveals the Heart

Your tongue will give you away. In the language of the New Testament thy speech betrayeth thee. Who are you? You go to the north of England, the north of America with your nice southern drawl and you say, Well, well, well, sure I'm from Boston.

They'll say you're from where? You're not from Boston, you're from Alabama or Zimbabwe or somewhere down there. Your speech betrayeth you. The tongue is an index. Our second son is working with Youth with a Mission, one of the finest groups in America.

And the leader of that is a man by the name of Loren Cummingham. He's almost a genius, he's loaded with degrees, he's a man who lives by faith. And this year, this summer, while he could be having ten crusades and all, he could be putting on a big show.

He is one of the most gifted and able preachers that I know. Instead of that, he has fifty groups working in fifty different countries, nearly all American young people, that sell their automobiles or sell their radios or sell their TVs in order to be part, they have to pay their own expenses and that's how they prove part of their sincerity.

And not too long ago he was going to preach in a certain town. He got there a little late Saturday night. He was behind time and as he went down the street, he thought, now I don't know which way to go.

And he saw a man coming out of a church. So he pulled over and hailed him. He said, hi. He said, my name's Loren Cummingham, I'm an evangelist. He said, oh I'm so-and-so, pastor of this church. Well he said, I'm trying to find, do you know a brother so-and-so?

Oh yes, sure. Yeah, they've got a service in their church tonight. Yeah, I'm supposed to speak there. Could you direct me from here to his church? I've never been before. Oh yeah, now, go right down the road here.

You'll see a big Presbyterian church. Turn right. You go about three blocks and on the left, there's a Baptist church. You turn left at the Baptist church. You go a bit further down and, oh it must be a mile and a half, and you'll see a great big Methodist church with a spire.

Well go right past that and the next church with a great big spire is a Roman Catholic church. You turn right there. And you just go down that street about half a mile and you'll pass the Salvation Army.

And then at the corner, you'll see another church at the other side. It's a holiness church. Turn left there and down the street you'll find the church you want. Well he said, thank you. How is he going to keep all those denominations?

Or as the old lady said, abominations straight in his mind. He was going to turn left at the wrong church and right at the other one, but anyhow he went on and he got lost. So he thought, oh boy, here.

And he pulled into the gas station. He said, sir, I'm wanting an assembly of God church. Would you happen to know so and so? He said, oh yeah, he comes in here for gas. Oh, it's quite a way from here.

But he said, if you go down the street here, there's a Texaco station. Turn right at the Texaco station and about a mile down there's a, there's a, what is it, a Canoco station. Well go past that and then on the left there's a standard station.

And if you turn left at the standard station and go right, and he mentioned about four or five different gas stations. And my friend said, well there you are. You see where he's interested? His tongue gives him away.

The preacher could only direct him by the churches. The other man directed him because of the gas stations. They were rivals and competitors. But his tongue immediately showed where his interest was. Now your tongue and mine is an index.

You get on a bus these days and you hardly get sat down until they say, what's the score? And you kind of figure he might be a baseball fan. The tongue is an index. And this scripture makes it very, very clear.

You know, you hear people say, well of course it's all right for her. I don't think anything would ever upset her. She's not built like me. I'm fiery. You know, I really, and then afterwards I, I kind of wish I could bite my tongue and pull it back.

Uh-uh. Didn't Wesley say there are three things you can't recall? A sped arrow, wasted time, and the spoken word. They won't come back if you're as rich as creases. No, no. The tongue is an index. And the scripture here says that you can't get at the same time out of the same fountain salt water that way and sweet water this way.

You say, well I, I, I, you see when I get under pressure, look. I think, I hear a brother spoke on this yesterday. The prince of this world cometh and findeth nothing in me. If there's no bitterness in you it can't come out.