PHILIP_TAN Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 The tongue is untameable as the evil proceeds from an evil heart. The heart needs to be surrendered to Jesus as only His love can transform an evil heart. As in CHRIST-IAN, remove Christ in my life and I Am Nothing. Nothing good dwells in me which has an evil heart (Sin nature). Only by God's grace through faith can our heart be transformed. (Romans 12 v 2). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Reeves Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 The people Jesus was talking to in Matthew 12:34 and 15:18 were unsaved, spoiled, and self righteousness. The didn't practice self control nor did they try to control their tongue because they felt they were above all the rest and after all, they were of the seed of Abraham. I've been with some really nice people that were not saved. You would never hear them say a bad thing of someone else. They truley believed treating others as you would like to be treated was the only right thing to do. There was no cursing or gossiping. People would say, "if anyone is going to heaven is this person." Whenever they were asked if they ever repented and received Jesus Christ as their Saviour, they would let you know they did not have to repent nor do this Jesus thing. They were just as good as he was. WELL, THERE WENT THE TONGUE....IT WENT WILD AND BEGAN TO LIE AND BLASPHEME THE LORD! In order for the tongue to be tamed: First you need Christ Jesus to come into your heart and forgive you of all your sin. Second, allow the Holy Spirit to work a righteous work in your life. With the help of the Holy Spirit, you begin to practice taming the tongue. James in 1:19 says, "Wherefore, my beloved bethren, let every man be swift to hear, SLOW TO SPEAK, slow to wrath." After Salvation, my filthy language changed. Whenever something did come from the mouth that was unclean, mean, or not decent, I would ask God to forgive me and would let others that wasn't the way a Christian talked. I was so bad. I'm so ashamed of my past... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Nabors Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Read Matthew 12:34 and 15:18. In light of these verses, why is the tongue untamable? What has to happen before it can be tamed? The tongue speaks what the heart dictates. If the heart is evil, the tongue cannot be tamed. It will only be unclean. Regeneration, which can only come by the grace of God through Christ Jesus, is the only way the tongue can begin to be tamed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candygoo58 Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Read Matthew 12:34 and 15:18. In light of these verses, why is the tongue untamable? What has to happen before it can be tamed? What ever is in our heart will come out. We need to keep in the word and renew our minds. That will help us to tame our tungue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennLady01 Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Q2. (3:7-8) Read Matthew 12:34 and 15:18. In light of these verses, why is the tongue untamable? What has to happen before it can be tamed? It is what is in a mans heart what he has put there that will always come out of the mouth. We may think we are being careful what we read and what we let others teach us but we need always to make sure we don't listen to gossip or anything that is not in line with the word of God. Even the things we hear go into our hearts and then we will be speaking them if we let them stay there. We must bridal the tongue in order to get it under any kind of control and we have to do this with the word of God. It is like with any animal or ship it is a small thing hard to stop from speaking the things we have let enter our minds but it can be done with the word of God and lots of prayer. Still it is evil and hard to tame and we know none are perfect no not one and we need to work hard at this. Without salvation there is no way to try to tame the tongue we need the help of the Lord and the Holy Ghost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann K Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 The tongue is ruled by what is in the heart and mind. We have to know the love of Christ and accept it. By careful thought, deep concern of what we are to say, knowing the love of God we can help to tame the tongue. I guess it is better to think it, then to say it. Once uttered, it can't be taken back Hopw often have we wished we had not said something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linda bass Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 The tongue is hard to control because we speak with our mouths that which is within our hearts. Jesus said that it wasn't what we put into our stomachs thru our mouths which would defile or corrupt us,but rather what came out of the mouth thru the heart. The tongue is untamable because it is a restless evil,full of deadly poison. Only by accepting Christ as Savior and submitting our lives to Him,can our tongues be brought until control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cct1106 Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Tongue is untamable because what comes out of the mouth is from the heart and from thoughts. In order to be tamed our hearts and mind must be clean of wickedness and vial thoughts and feelings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgejv Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 The tongue reflects what our heart really is. The sinful nature of man comes out despite best attempts to control it. Unless Gods changes our heart from the inside our tongue will not change. Small words can make big changes. Even taalk that may not seem wrong may make big changes that are un intended in Gods plan. So unless we walk with God, our tongue may actually be doing evil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
utopia_in_extremis Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Our tounges are fast, and it just blurts out the first thing that comes to mind. If we give up all things to the Lord,and think whatever is good, whatever is noble, whatever is pleasing to the Lord, then what we think is reflected in what we say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim E. Posted May 9, 2005 Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 The tongue is the wildest, most difficult beast to tame. It defies every self-determined attempt to control it. Man cannot tame it. Only God can. And He can do it only as we yield our tongues, and the deep recesses of the mind to His control. Out of the heart proceeds all the vile selfishness of mankind. Our hearts need a dramatic change at the very inner recesses. It will not take place all at once. It takes a lifetime as you yield your heart to the Holy Spirit moment by moment, one day at a time. Only as the heart is conformed to the image and likeness of Jesus Christ can we be His kind of people. Lord, here is my tongue. Cleanse it, tame it and use it for Your glory alone. May God give us the sustaining grace and power to be a consistent model of God-controlled men and women. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glory Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 THE BOOK OF PROVERBS SAYS AS A MAN THINKETH IN HIS HEART, SO IS HE OR SO HE WILL BECOME.OUR THOUGHT LIFE NOT ONLY SHAPES OUR LIVES BUT ALSO OUR WORDS FOR OUT OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKS. IF I'M THINKING NEGATIVELY I END UP SPEAKING NEGATIVE THINGS.IF I THINK POSITIVELY OF MYSELF AND OTHERS I SPEAK POSITIVE THINGS.IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS TONGUE CAN ONLY BE TAMED TO SAY THE RIGHT THINGS IF THE HEART IS PURE AND CLEAN.AND THAT IS WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES IN. HE IS OUR HELPER; ONE CALLED ALONGSIDE US TO HELP BRIDLE THE TONGUE.FOR IN MY OWN SELF DWELLS NOTHING GOOD BUT MANY TIMES I'VE HAD TO ASK THE LORD TO PUT A GUARD ON ON MY MOUTH SO THAT I'LL SAY THINGS THAT ENCOURAGE AND BUILD OTHERS INSTEAD OF TEARING THEM DOWN AND HE HAS ALWAYSDONE SO AND I GIVE HIM THE GLORY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastrea Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Without a change of heart the tongue cannot be tamed. Before this change of heart, the tongue is untamable. Proverbs 27:19 says "as water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man" (NIV). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbie4 Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 Not only is it an issue of having unclean lips but also unclean hearts. The passages states that "their hearts were far from God". If we don't have our "hearts in the right place" then our lips will speak wrongly. What we let contaminate our being speaks out of our mouths. We must give our whole selves over to God in order for the mouth to speak of what is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carolynne Speck Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. So to have a mouth pleasing to God our heart must be purified, we must have self-control, not a runaway tongue, we must have a humble purified heart. This is something that God does by His spirit as we submit to His will. THANK YOU JESUS AMEN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saved55s Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Read Matthew 12:34 and 15:18. In light of these verses, why is the tongue untamable? {Matthew 12:34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. Matthew 15:18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, & these make a man unclean.} If someone is not walking with God, then his heart will not have been renewed & he will be "self" orientated as opposed to "God" orientated in all he does & says. He will not have the Holy Spirit dwelling within him to correct & direct his thoughts & ways & in so his mouth will bring forth things that are not of God. What has to happen before it can be tamed? Before it can be tamed we need to give our life to Christ & he will create in us a clean heart. Out of this heart will come Godly confessions & as the Holy Spirit witnesses to us, Godly talk in all we say. This takes practice & I'm sure we all muff up as we are far from perfect, but with the Holy Spirit as a witness to us we are able to be kept on track or guided back on track if we are attentive to his leading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 Q2. (3:7-8) Read Matthew 12:34 and 15:18. In light of these verses, why is the tongue untamable? What has to happen before it can be tamed? We neeed to have a Christ filled life and be led by the Holy Spirit. Easier said than done! John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJeff Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 The Lord alone knows our heart and He sees iniquity where we cannot therefore, we always have garbage coming out of our mouth, even when we try our best to say the right things. The cure? Change what is inside which can only be done by the Holy Spirit, fed with the Word of truth and it's application and, patience. It is a lifetime worth of effort, finally to be resolved when we are perfected in heaven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannie Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 The tongue is untamable because of the thoughts we have in our head that go to the heart and speak want is on it. The only way we can control the heart is to replace it with our fleshly attitude with a Godly attitude. Only God can help to change a heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plethra Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 In order to tame the tongue one must have a clean heart. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. I think this is hard, however it is truth. If we fill our hearts with God's word, then His word will come out of our mouths. It is not automatic. It takes alot of work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenifer Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 We have to reprogram our heart and mind with GOD's thoughts and words. Taste the words before we say them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewell Posted March 21, 2007 Report Share Posted March 21, 2007 What is in our heart comes out of our mouth. To tame our tongue, our heart must be pure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanharmelink Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Q2. (3:7-8) Read Matthew 12:34 and 15:18. In light of these verses, why is the tongue untamable? What has to happen before it can be tamed? aperson who verbaliizes from the heart often finds himself in great difficulty So as a man thinks so he is in heart. The devil has a way withe the tongue to destry relationships and reputaation a nd many personal traits. The tongue has to be uner the control of the Holy Spirit. Asking the Holy Spirit to convict eaarly in the day to remind you of being offensive in relaying anay oral or physical sin during the day or night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJB123 Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 The tongue is untamable if evilness and sin lurks in the heart. What comes from our mouth comes from what is in the heart. We need a clean heart, then clean and Godly words will come from our mouth We need to repent and keep the heart clean and filled with God's word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioned Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Q2. (3:7-8) Read Matthew 12:34 and 15:18. In light of these verses, why is the tongue untamable? What has to happen before it can be tamed? The tongue is untamable because it is controled by what is in the heart. Before it can be tamed the heart has to be purified. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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