Have firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent work.

Have you ever heard of Clyde Bailey?

Well, he was the secret to the Ringley Brothers in Barnum and Bailey's circus's most popular act.

He was the wild animal tamer.

In this study on Through the Bible, we're going to learn Clyde Beatty's secret for taming a lion.

But what we learned from our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, will be far more important for us.

He says, you can tame a lion, you can tame an elephant,

but you can't tame the little tongue. I'm your host Steve Schwetz, and by far the best thing

that we'll hear is that only a regenerate tongue in a redeemed body, a tongue that God has

tamed, can be used for him. And that's what I want as well, and I hope that's what you want.

It's a heart for God and a wild tongue that he is tamed. Now, before we jump into the great

study that we've got before us in James Chapter 3, Greg and I have got a quick update we want to

share. And Steve, this is a really exciting conversation that we get to have, and it's focusing on what's new.

And there's a lot of new stuff going on it through the Bible.

And if you're a newer listener, one of the things we want you to understand is we're not trying to make things happen.

Yeah, we're just trying to hang on and be faithful.

Absolutely. God's opening the doors. We're not just sitting around going, oh, we've got to do happen. Yeah. We're just trying to hang on and be faithful. Absolutely.

God's opening the doors.

We're not just sitting around going, oh, we've got to do something.

But the Lord brings opportunities to us and new doors open by his grace.

Yeah, exactly.

We are not passive in the sense of, like Steve said, we are, our team is busy.

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