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Let's stand together. 
It's one simple verse but it's 

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still worthy of our reverence 
and it's worthy of our 

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attention. 
Exodus chapter 20 beginning in 

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verse 7. 
You shall not take the name of 

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the Lord, your God in vain. 
For the Lord will not hold him 

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Guiltless. 
Who takes his name in vain. 

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Father, we thank you again for 
this word. 

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An ending in Revelation. 
Blessing upon blessing. 

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And Lord, we just ask that as we
continue in the Ten Commandments

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you would continue to reveal to 
us who you are. 

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And the blessings that come from
your commands for by them, we 

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have life. 
And we thank you Lord for Jesus,

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who fulfilled the law for us 
because we could not do it. 

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But Lord. 
We also thank you that by the 

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spirit, you have written them 
written them on our hearts. 

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So now we long for them. 
So Lord, as we with your word, 

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through your word and in your 
word, discover this command give

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us Clarity from confusion and 
give us willingness to obey in 

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Jesus name. 
We pray, amen. 

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You may be seated. 
The first two Commandments of 

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the Ten Commandments. 
And as we finish these 10 

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commandments, you're probably 
going to hear the same 

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introduction following up from 
what we learned last week. 

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And that's okay because it's 
going to stick in our brains 

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that much more, the first two 
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with the people. 
And their complete devotion and 

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adoration towards God that there
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But this God, the true and 
living God, the only God and 

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that they were not to even take 
this God, if they have decided 

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to worship Him and try to 
manipulate him or try to carve 

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him into their own image or try 
to remove things of him, that 

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they might not feel too 
comfortable with or add 

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something to him that they 
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Need, concerning their carnal 
flesh to be fulfilled. and we 

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are motivated here to understand
why these two Commandments are 

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important because he is what Why
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It's in the second verse and we 
talked about extensively. 

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Why did God give these first two
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Because he's a jealous, God. 
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jealous that he himself wants us
for himself complete, adoration 

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complete devotion, complete 
sacrifice unto him and him 

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alone. 
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can agree with concerning on a 
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If any of us want to be in any 
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Total devotion from that spouse 
from that person and God wants 

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nothing less. 
Now, when we come to the third 

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commandment, we are still 
dealing with God's righteous 

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passion. 
His fiery Zeal for total 

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obedience to him is found in 
verse 1 and 2 and that passion 

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continues and in this third 
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his passion is not us The first 
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his passion is you and me, I 
want you. 

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I'm jealous for you for the 
spirit that I've made to dwell 

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in you. 
You're mine. 

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We should be stirred by that but
the third commandment, he has a,

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he has a righteous deal but it's
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can Rejoice that God gives us 
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And God gives us instructions 
because he loves us, but there's

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something else that motivates 
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What is it? 
Read it right there. 

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You shall not take the name of 
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What is he zealous for? 
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What is he passionate about his 
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His name and though he is yes 
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sacrifice and to show 
long-suffering and to even 

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demonstrate his power. 
Isn't it wonderful that when you

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read Jesus performing Miracles? 
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the Revelation that he is 
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miracles because he was a 
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compassionate God but we can 
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removing the understanding that 
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So you kind of have these two 
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relates to, man, you have those 
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love, he loves us, he died for 
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That's true. 
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about the fact that he also 
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Then you have the other side 
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Jesus died for his glory. 
Jesus did this for his glory? 

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Jesus. 
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his glory. 
He heals for his glory and then 

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they don't really talk about the
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Can we just marry the two and 
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he loves us and he is jealous 
for us, but he also is jealous 

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for his name and this 
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with that name, his name and so,
he speaking to those who are 

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familiar with his name, and what
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trying to say this, I want you 
to be careful how you handle my 

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name. 
Because based on how you handle 

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my name will determine how I 
will receive glory honor and 

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recognition. 
How we as his people treat this 

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name will determine to some 
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receive glory to his name. 
And so we have to really take he

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to this, but we're going to 
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anything how God really values 
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It's probably going to shock us.
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make sure that his name is 
protected concerning its 

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reputation. 
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He gives us different titles of 
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He reveals himself early on an 
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I am who I am and the beauty 
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And all of these things that he 
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a reflection of his character. 
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names given to certain Saints in
the scriptures and certain 

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people as we know are given 
because it reveals something 

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about either that person's 
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Destiny and it's so much more 
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Why? 
Because when we mention his 

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name, and when we speak of his 
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certain attribute. 
We would be reminded just by the

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mention of his name. 
We would know that he is Holy 

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that he has powerful, that he is
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forgiving now, if that name is 
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than who he truly is, it becomes
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None of us in here would like 
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certain circumstance or 
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Holy or a situation that is not 
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None of us want to be associate 
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frustrated. 
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into something that it should 
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more God, how much more God. 
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everything to do with that. 
Let me read this verse you in 

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Exodus 916, he says this early 
on But for this purpose, he's 

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talking about raising up 
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But for this purpose, I've 
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power. 
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That my name may be proclaimed 
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I want my name to be known 
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I want my name to carry such a 
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my name, they would know my axe.
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they would know that I am the 
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of Egypt that split the Red Sea 
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gods of pharaoh and all of his 
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Psalms 111 verse 9. 
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He sent Redemption to his 
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He has commanded his Covenant 
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Holy and awesome is his name. 
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So if we really want to get to 
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command, it's for this. 
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of his people. 
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such a way, pay attention that 
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it in our verbal activity. and, 
We would Revere it when it is 

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mentioned amongst us. 
Let me say that again, God 

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through this command wants to 
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Such an understanding of his 
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how to use it in our verbal 
activity and we would Revere him

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when it is even mentioned by a 
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to do. 
He says, don't don't take my 

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name in vain which now we open 
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What does it mean to take God's 
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So songs about like you said, 
associated with anything that 

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isn't glorifying him. 
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you call yourself, for example, 
question ourselves, Christian, 

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we should walk a life that 
honors God, the same for them, 

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and they associate themselves 
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walk the life that God intends 
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Or else that through actions 
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Vein it's smearing his name so 
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about some lip service here are 
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vain strictly restricted to how 
we speak of him or how we live 

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how we live. 
And we're going to see that more

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than anything. 
Yes. 

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So we represent his name. 
So, how I live must be in line 

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with the person and the God that
I represent. 

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What are the things involve 
taking God's name in vain? 

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Associating things that are not 
glorifying him. 

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Absolutely. 
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Using lord's name to push an 
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That's not a. 
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We see that a lot. 
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to talk about in a moment to 
taking his name for the purpose 

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of advancing an agenda. 
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Oh, we'll get into it, we'll see
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We're going to discover in a 
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Yes, this character that kind of
things like so dragging his name

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in the dirt, to even associate 
him or to even say something in 

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the same sentence that does not 
honor or glorify who he is. 

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Absolutely. 
And that's kind of the common 

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way. 
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in vain, is that we put his name
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something that is Not wholly, 
sure. 

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Any other way we can take God's 
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This is important. 
So we said some surprisingly, 

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because people have this narrow 
view of taking God's name. 

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In vain is saying that 
three-letter word phrase when 

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you receive bad news, or when 
you're surprised or when you get

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startled by something, it's 
deeper than that. 

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Yeah, swearing. 
That's as simple as that when we

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use his name as a cuss word, 
that's the common view. 

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Absolutely. 
We shouldn't neglect that 

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though. 
That is the main way, there are 

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many ways. 
Yes, The way we live 

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associating, his name to what is
not wholly. 

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Not glorifying his name, 
cussing, and swearing 

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absolutely. 
Advancing a genda. 

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Yes. 
Well it would help us to look 

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into what the word vain means. 
The Hebrew word for vein is shot

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of the root word is she've. 
And in this sense, it has three 

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main words that are associated 
with it. 

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One of them is worthlessness 
worthlessness, the other is 

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false sness rockets sness, and 
valueless So when we're talking 

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about something being in vain, 
it's something that is false is 

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associated with something that 
is false, It's associated. 

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Something that is worthless and 
valueless, and in the root word,

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it even has this idea of 
Destruction destruction. 

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So when we look at the original 
language, God is saying and we 

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can we can look at it, different
ways. 

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Don't use my name in such a way 
where you destroy it. 

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Or don't use my name in such a 
way that I am related to 

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something that is false. 
Don't use my name in a way that 

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makes it worthless. 
Don't be so casual with my name.

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But it's almost lost its value. 
And so it has to do with all 

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these things. 
And so if we were to kind of 

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rephrase this command, we can 
make it as simple as this. 

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You shall not address God's name
casually or represent it 

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falsely. 
You shall not address God, 

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casually or represent it 
falsely. 

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Remember that? 
And this is what he's saying. 

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It's beyond using my name in the
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though. 
That is part of it. 

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And so I want us to talk about 
the different ways in which we 

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can take God's name in vain. 
Number one, in our speech. 

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And there's subcategories with 
that in our speech. 

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The first way that somebody can 
take God's name in vain is how 

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we address his name. 
How one addresses the name that 

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is above every other name? 
What did Jesus say when he 

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taught his people? 
How to pray? 

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When you pray, what does he say?
Anybody know the Lord's Prayer? 

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Pray. 
Then like this, don't pray this 

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you can pray it, but we have a 
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upon repetition and vain 
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No, pray then like this take the
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apply it to your own prayer. 
Life, what is it? 

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What's the first thing that he 
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Who art in heaven, Hallowed? 
Be Your Name. 

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Hmm. 
How low would be your name? 

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What does that mean? 
Sacred. 

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Yes. 
Glory. 

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Yes. 
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What is it? 
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What are we saying? 
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name? 
Holiness to your name. 

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Yes. 
Glorifying your name, set apart.

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Yes, that's the main part being 
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So it's addressing God in this 
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Your name is like no other name.
You are lovely. 

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You Are Holy, you are beyond my 
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and greatly to be praised. 
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telling us as Believers, how to 
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address him in such a way. 
That you would not address 

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somebody else. 
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Someone reveals a lot of how you
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Isn't that true? 
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reveals much about how you 
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Now, no matter what your opinion
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president came here to give a 
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I don't know why you would but 
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speech and there was an open 
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and age, probably nobody would 
be bold enough to say hey Donald

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Or ADT. if you've ever been in 
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say to the judge when you want 
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Why? 
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who have been given a level of 
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carries power and that alone 
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There are certain people who 
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position of power and that alone
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way knowing that they can 
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Now, how much more for the name 
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How much more? 
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The one again, who has been 
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name. 
You know, what means that he has

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authority over all authorities 
and all the powers of this world

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combined. 
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power that comes from his breath
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And this is the one that you and
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is amazing because there's a 
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There's this understanding of 
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still in the same breath have to
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How do you reconcile that? 
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How do you and I reconcile the 
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also King of the universe. 
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prayer life? 
How do you understand that in 

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your walk with the Lord? 
That he is father. 

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But he's also King hope so. 
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So the same thing you would 
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the Lord and have beer of your 
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I would be something along those
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Sure. 
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increasingly difficult because 
we have a lot of this generation

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that is even how to respect our 
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That don't even know how to 
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And if you can't address people 
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How are you going to address 
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You can't see respectfully. 
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How do you reconcile father? 
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meditate upon his Holiness, you 
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the ground is not low enough for
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How would you explain it to 
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says, you believe, God is like 
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Sure. 
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the god of the entire universe, 
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Sure. 
How do you reconcile that And I 

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believe one way to reconcile 
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is that when I do understand him
as father, the place for me to 

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come to into revering, him is 
understanding how I became a 

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son. 
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just automatically my father, 
the world is not God's children.

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That is a right given to those 
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So, when I come to the place of 
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father. 
I must also in that same thought

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realize that that's not 
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automatically and there is 
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his son and when I realized that
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come through the Gospel of Jesus
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that I call, Father is the same 
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upon the son. 
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experience a pain that is beyond
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comprehend for me to be adopted 
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In that same thought you will 
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You will and you will realize 
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as king to bring you to that 
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with him is an astounding thing.
That he is just he is Holy, he's

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all these things yet. 
I can still call him father, and

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it brings you into that balance 
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How, yes he is King, but he 
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And so that's the beauty of it. 
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And you've heard me say this 
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mentioning again. 
There is, there is a casualty 

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Towards God in. 
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I remember when I was first 
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group little things where we 
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discussions after the church 
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I would hear the way. 
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And just, just a new, as a new 
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doesn't sound right. it just 
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these words or to be so casual, 
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knowledge of God, you will 
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And if you really meditate upon 
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you will be careful with how you
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Even behind pulpits. 
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how that individual addresses 
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And oftentimes, you see a very 
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Yet that person does not even 
realize that that sermon that 

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they prepared will be brought up
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and they will be judged for what
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And so we have to have this 
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rightly Jesus even said, when 
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is sanctify his name even in the
way you address him. 

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We do not take the lord's name 
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By dressing him wrongly. 
Not just by how we address him, 

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but how we apply his name. 
The first one is how we address 

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his name the second way in, 
which one can take the lord's 

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name in. 
Vain is how we apply his name. 

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Leviticus, 19 12 says this. 
You shall not swear by my name. 

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Falsely and so profane, the name
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I'm the Lord. 
You shall not swear by my name 

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falsely. 
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Don't take it, don't take an old
by God's name. 

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Is that all it means that's part
big. 

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Part of it. 
Absolutely. 

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If you make a promise in both 
the Lord is like y'all didn't 

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answer. 
I need his name. 

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I promise you this and you don't
keep it. 

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Don't do that. 
Could you what is it exactly 

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what he's saying there in your 
attempt to validate your 

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statement to be true. 
When in fact you yourself know 

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what's false and you bring in 
the name of God to that 

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statement, you just took in his 
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somebody says, oh I swear to 
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And I promise to that, I will 
perform this and you and your 

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mind know that you will not. 
You are associating, God's name 

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to something like deception and 
a lie and he wants no part of it

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because he's holy And so, he 
says, don't swear by my name 

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falsely. 
I want nothing to do with 

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falsehood. 
I want nothing to do with 

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deception. 
I want nothing to do with lies. 

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Keep me out of it. 
And Jesus Takes it up a notch. 

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He takes it up a notch. 
This he not. 

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Where does he do that? 
Does anybody know Matthew 5. 

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Matthew 5 34 to 35. 
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But I say to you, do not take an
oath at all. 

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Why would tells us what we're 
not supposed to associate with 

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an oath by heaven for it is the 
Throne of God. 

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Or in other words, it's where 
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Is his footstool Or by Jerusalem
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king. 
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let your yes, be yes. 
And your no be no. 

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We have to understand this 
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here to Believers is absolutely 
brilliant. 

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So he's saying here, hey, don't 
even taken off at all. 

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Don't try to swear by this or 
swear by that or swear even on 

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your own head. 
Don't But just let your yes. 

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Be yes. 
And your no be no. 

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What is he trying to say? 
Because it's challenging. 

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Yes, your bingo. 
The Lord wants to develop 

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Believers. 
That are so honest in their 

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character and are so consistent 
in their commitment that when 

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you just say yes, it's a done 
deal, it's gonna happen. 

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And when you say, no, it's no. 
And what he's trying to say is I

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don't want you to try to enhance
the truthfulness of your 

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statement by trying to bring my 
name into it or you swearing by 

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something. 
I want you to be such an honest 

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person, I want you to be such a 
woman of your word. 

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Such a man of your word that 
when you say you're gonna do 

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something the person that you 
said, yes to will not even 

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question it. 
Oh, how convicting is that? 

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Are you a person that if you say
yes to something that person can

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guarantee he'll do it? 
Or if that person says no, can 

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you trust that person? 
And maybe, you know, somebody 

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that said yes, to something so 
many times that if you were to 

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ask him again, you know, there's
a question mark even when you 

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ask them, hey, are you going to 
do this? 

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Yeah. 
And in your mind, you like, 

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you're not going to do it. 
You said, what's a modern way of

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looking at it? 
Well, here's a modern way of 

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looking at it. 
Hey, can you do this? 

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I'll pray about it. 
And, you know, the person who 

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just said that, you know that 
the answer is no. 

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Yeah, I'll pray about it. 
And maybe you are going to pray 

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about it. 
If that's the case, I'm pray 

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about it. 
But if you know in your answer 

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as that person is saying 
something to you, you're like 

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I'll pray about it when the 
answer is no just say no just be

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a man of your word and say I 
can't I can't. 

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I love the story about 
Nathaniel. 

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That short little story because 
when he when he encounters, 

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Jesus, Jesus says something 
about him, what does he say? 

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A man in whom there is no 
deceit. 

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He was so truthful in his 
statements, he's at what good 

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can come out of Nazareth. and 
so, what you hear is, what you 

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get Now, don't confuse that with
rudeness. 

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Don't confuse boldness with 
rudeness. 

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There's a difference. 
But there's something about a 

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heart in which when they say 
something you know that they're 

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honest in their statement that 
there's no fogginess, there's no

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Hayes. 
You're like I don't know, it's 

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just plain truth and Jesus wants
to produce that in his 

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disciples. 
He said don't try to be somebody

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that says okay I'm going to make
this statement more weighty by 

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associating God's name with it. 
I'm just going to be a person 

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that so consistent when I say 
something people will believe 

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me. 
And so how we apply his name. 

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Now, there are certain 
circumstances, especially you're

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going to hear this and you're 
going to read through the 

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Epistles and you're going to see
moments or even Paul takes an 

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oath. 
There are certain circumstances 

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and that's beyond the, the 
teaching. 

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Now, even in this life, you 
might have to take an oath in 

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some circumstances. 
That's different. 

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There's a sense here where Jesus
saying, don't be flippant and 

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loose and voluntary would just 
making Oaths as a habit or 

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because you want to try to prove
your statement to be more true 

454
00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:53,300
just being This person build 
such a reputation that people 

455
00:29:53,300 --> 00:30:00,100
will take you for what you say. 
Just feel the weight of 

456
00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:01,900
conviction. 
Just how powerful our words are 

457
00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:05,800
and how jesus takes him. 
So seriously, Not only how we 

458
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:10,400
apply his name to our 
statements, to our promises. 

459
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,100
But how we speak on behalf of 
his name. 

460
00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:16,900
So we talked about how we 
address his name, we talked 

461
00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:21,100
about how we apply his name. 
Now it's how we speak on behalf 

462
00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:24,500
of his name. 
Let me read this text from 

463
00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:26,500
Jeremiah, you don't return. 
There was just read it. 

464
00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:32,000
He's talking about the false 
prophets and he says, this and 

465
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,100
Jeremiah 20:7 15. 
I have not sent them declares 

466
00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:39,700
the Lord, I have not sent them. 
But they are prophesying falsely

467
00:30:40,300 --> 00:30:45,900
in my name. 
The famous. 

468
00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:49,200
Three-letter phrase that you 
here. 

469
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,200
I hope not too often, especially
if it's not true. 

470
00:30:53,800 --> 00:31:04,900
God told me fill in the blank. 
and there are some people that 

471
00:31:05,100 --> 00:31:12,200
say that so frequently, For 
whatever reason, there are some 

472
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,200
people who say certain things 
and they just want to say, God 

473
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,200
told them so that they can just 
sound more spiritual. 

474
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,100
It's like this in. 
That's not that deep of a 

475
00:31:19,100 --> 00:31:23,700
revelation, it's pretty plain 
but it just because I want to be

476
00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:31,800
more spiritual you know. 
The Lord told me this really And

477
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,500
to a more serious level, their 
people. 

478
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,600
Who because they want to advance
an agenda. 

479
00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:41,800
We'll bring in the name of the 
Lord. 

480
00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:48,700
To affect the naive. you know 
what it says in Romans about 

481
00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:52,900
false teachers and says that 
they affect the naive, it's the 

482
00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:58,300
naive that buy into false 
teaching And you might be 

483
00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:00,800
thinking really this stuff 
happens. 

484
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,000
I remember when somebody came up
to me, I don't know why they did

485
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,200
this. 
Maybe they were just trying to 

486
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,700
test it who subscribe to a 
certain person's Ministry. 

487
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,600
And they would get newsletters 
and different things, but this 

488
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,400
was like a text message thing 
and this person showed me a text

489
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:23,600
message of this man of God. 
Who said the angel of the Lord, 

490
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,300
and the text message, I read it 
for myself. 

491
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,400
The angel of the Lord appeared 
to me and gave me instructions 

492
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,800
for you. 
Send via text or through PayPal 

493
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,400
$50 for me to reveal what the 
angel of the Lord revealed to 

494
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:42,000
you, you believe that? 
You and I are sighing and we're 

495
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,400
laughing. 
But here's the thing, people 

496
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:48,800
actually buy into it or else 
those things wouldn't last and 

497
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,400
those people wouldn't be living 
in those kind of mansions and 

498
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,700
driving those kind of cars 
because people don't read their 

499
00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:59,600
Bibles. 
And don't have it under stairs. 

500
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,700
So moved by emotion there. 
So moved by the supernatural. 

501
00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:05,900
That anything that comes they're
willing to buy into it because 

502
00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:09,400
they do not have the filter of 
the scriptures before them. 

503
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:13,200
You've heard me say this before 
and I will say it again. 

504
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,300
You can come to such a place in 
your understanding and the 

505
00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:20,100
handling of the sword of the 
spirit that even if you were to 

506
00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:23,900
hear a sermon and you hear some 
statement being made, you can 

507
00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:27,200
recognize when it's true or 
false because your your mind is 

508
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,000
saturated. 
With the truth. 

509
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,700
Where an alarm goes off because 
you know, the scripture when 

510
00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:36,500
somebody declare something 
contrary to the scripture or 

511
00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:39,500
somebody delivers the 
scriptures, even in an unworthy 

512
00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:42,900
manner, you can detect it 
because you have the wisdom of 

513
00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:50,500
God. 
I fear terribly for those who 

514
00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:54,000
casually used God's name to 
advance a message, or their 

515
00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:01,200
Ministry, or the reputation. 
And I would love to unpack this 

516
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,700
more concerning. 
What do we do with somebody? 

517
00:34:03,700 --> 00:34:05,700
Who says, you know, I feel like 
the Lord is prompted something 

518
00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:09,900
on my heart but listen, even if 
if you if you have that where 

519
00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:12,699
the Lord puts something on your 
heart and you sense that and you

520
00:34:12,699 --> 00:34:17,800
pray about and you seek wisdom 
on it, we always have to once 

521
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,800
again, approach it with caution.
Always with caution. 

522
00:34:23,300 --> 00:34:27,400
Because what can happen is and 
what has happened is there a lot

523
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,800
of people who are experiencing 
this even now that because 

524
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,900
somebody has been so flippant 
with this, God told me and 

525
00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:37,600
whatever they told them happens 
not to be true or happens to be 

526
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,100
something that's false effects 
that person. 

527
00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:44,800
To a level that you. 
And I can't even imagine. 

528
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,000
And there are people who have 
been haunted by years by 

529
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,199
statement, being made by 
somebody who was so arrogant 

530
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:56,100
enough to not even say something
in a way where they approach it 

531
00:34:56,100 --> 00:34:59,900
with humility. 
And say, you know, I've been 

532
00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:02,400
praying for you and I don't know
if this is, this is the Lord or 

533
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,200
what, just take this and just 
bring it before the Lord, but 

534
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,800
come with such arrogance because
they want to seem bold and they 

535
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:13,300
want to seem profit like and 
they damaged people. 

536
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,400
And they walk with the sense of 
being haunted by something that 

537
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,000
they don't even know if it's 
true or not. 

538
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:25,000
And so there has to be. 
Caution around his name and 

539
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,700
ultimately more than anything 
though. 

540
00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:29,100
People might be damaged by it 
and people can be greatly 

541
00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:30,500
edified by. 
Like I said, I want to unpack 

542
00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:32,300
this too much. 
I'm trying to restrain myself. 

543
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,800
But ultimately God's name. 
God's name is involved with 

544
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:42,000
that. 
The last thing anybody should 

545
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,200
want is somebody to be turned 
off by God because of how 

546
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:50,100
Loosely we use his name. how we 
address his name, how we apply 

547
00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:54,300
his name and how we speak on 
behalf of his name is crucial to

548
00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:59,400
understanding this third 
commandment Is there any other 

549
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:05,700
way we can do this? 
There's an example of this in 

550
00:36:05,700 --> 00:36:08,900
scripture being played out and 
it's tucked in a book that you 

551
00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:11,400
wouldn't think is in there and 
automatically, everybody knows 

552
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:18,100
what book were talking about. 
It's in First Kings First Kings.

553
00:36:18,100 --> 00:36:19,900
Okay maybe there's something. 
I don't know about go ahead. 

554
00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:23,800
What is it? 
Where the prophet of God went 

555
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:29,600
and condemned jeroboam and God 
told him to stay it like don't 

556
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:35,500
eat or drink in Israel and 
another Prophet came and said 

557
00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:39,100
I'm also a prophet of God but 
you know what? 

558
00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:44,400
Listen to me and lie here and 
rest and when he came out, got 

559
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,900
sent a lion too. 
Devour that profit. 

560
00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:50,200
Yeah, that's it. 
That's First Kings 13, I 

561
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,000
believe. 
And that's a tricky tricky tax 

562
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,700
concerning this Prophet that was
sent by God and he was told to 

563
00:36:56,700 --> 00:36:59,900
not, go back the way he was, he 
came in and to not stop. 

564
00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:02,300
He was supposed to just give his
message and go back and then 

565
00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:05,200
somebody comes in and tells him 
otherwise and he believed that 

566
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,100
man's word rather than his 
understanding what God spoke to 

567
00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:12,500
me, and it's a whole mess. 
And that is that is an example. 

568
00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:16,000
We can explore the one I had in 
mind is actually found in the 

569
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Book of Leviticus. 24:10 let's 
turned it together. 

570
00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:28,700
Leviticus chapter 24. 
Verse 10. 

571
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:42,000
Now, an Israelite woman's son, 
whose father was an Egyptian 

572
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,900
Went Out Among the people of 
Israel. 

573
00:37:44,300 --> 00:37:48,000
And the Israelite woman son and 
a man of Israel fought in the 

574
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:53,900
camp verse 11 and the Israelite 
woman son, blasphemed the name 

575
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,400
and cursed, then they brought 
him to Moses. 

576
00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:00,200
His mother's name was Sheila 
met. 

577
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:04,600
The daughter of debris of the 
tribe of Dan and they put him in

578
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,300
custody to the will of the Lord 
should be. 

579
00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:11,300
Your to them, then the Lord 
spoke to Moses saying, bring out

580
00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:15,100
of the camp, the one who cursed 
and let all who heard him lay 

581
00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:18,800
their hands on his head and let 
all the congregation Stone him. 

582
00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:23,800
Wow. 
And speak to the people of 

583
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,000
Israel saying, whoever curses 
his God shall bear his sin. 

584
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,200
Whoever blasphemes the name of 
the Lord shall surely be put to 

585
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,600
death. 
All the congregation shall Stone

586
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,800
him. 
The Sojourner, as well as the 

587
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,000
native. 
When he blasphemes the name. 

588
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:46,200
He should be put to death. 
Don't lift up your hand. 

589
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,600
Don't respond. 
How many of us in here, 

590
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,500
honestly? 
Feel Comfort uncomfortable with 

591
00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:56,500
that story. 
How many of us just read that 

592
00:38:56,500 --> 00:39:00,500
right now and your thoughts went
automatically automatically to 

593
00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:02,500
this question. 
That's a little bit extreme, 

594
00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:06,800
isn't it? 
That's a little bit. 

595
00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:15,700
Over-the-top wouldn't you think?
But I want to challenge you with

596
00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:19,900
this thought. 
That we are so saturated in a 

597
00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:25,700
culture of Dishonor. 
We are so surrounded by people 

598
00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:33,200
who speak with such vulgarity. 
And blasphemy in our music in 

599
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,900
our movies and our 
conversations, you can do, you 

600
00:39:35,900 --> 00:39:38,900
can be, you can be sitting, I 
was just in the barbershop just 

601
00:39:38,900 --> 00:39:41,000
sitting beside somebody just 
hearing it was on the phone, 

602
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,800
just hearing the vulgarity 
coming. 

603
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:48,000
Just it just everywhere to the 
point where we become so 

604
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:55,400
normalized, and it becomes, so, 
Part of our day that when God 

605
00:39:55,400 --> 00:40:00,500
brings the seriousness of taking
his name in vain to this story. 

606
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,300
All of us are shocked. 
You know, you understand what 

607
00:40:04,300 --> 00:40:08,200
I'm trying to say, God has a 
different perspective on his 

608
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:13,400
name than most people do today. 
And because even the people of 

609
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,600
God can be subconsciously 
trained to understand the 

610
00:40:16,607 --> 00:40:18,800
normality of cursing and taking 
his name. 

611
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,600
So lightly, when we come to the 
scriptures and see what God 

612
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,900
demands of us, it's almost 
offensive to us. 

613
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,500
It's almost offensive to us. 
That's not just true for the 

614
00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:31,500
third commandment. 
That's true of any sin here. 

615
00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:32,700
Here's evidence for it right 
now. 

616
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:38,300
Homosexuality is a sin. 
The Bible declares that 

617
00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:41,700
homosexuality is an unnatural 
desire. 

618
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,700
Now, as I'm saying that right 
now, what's going on in your 

619
00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:49,400
heart? 
Because even among the people of

620
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,600
God, if you were to address a 
sin, what the scriptures 

621
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,600
revealed to be sin. 
An alarm goes off. 

622
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,300
There's a set where you perk up 
and you go, did he just say 

623
00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:01,400
that? 
Did he just say that? 

624
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,600
So bluntly, did he just say 
that? 

625
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,900
Just like that, he should have 
came in a lot softer than when 

626
00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:08,100
he just said? 
Do you understand what I'm 

627
00:41:08,107 --> 00:41:11,200
saying? 
When the Bible is so clear about

628
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,400
it. 
And I know there needs to be a 

629
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,000
wisdom and there needs to be an 
understanding of how to address 

630
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,600
these things in love. 
But what I'm trying to say is, 

631
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:23,300
we are trying to remove even the
sting of sin because we are 

632
00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:26,700
being affected by our culture. 
So we pillow, even the preaching

633
00:41:26,700 --> 00:41:30,800
of God's word to make sure that 
nobody's stirred and at nobody's

634
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,600
uncomfortable. 
When the very poor Commission of

635
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,900
the gospel and of sin is 
supposed to make you feel 

636
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:39,700
uncomfortable. 
To bring you to a place of 

637
00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:42,500
realizing that God has a 
different standard and here's a 

638
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:46,500
disservice that we do when we 
try to remove what God wants to 

639
00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:49,100
say. 
So clearly we bring people to a 

640
00:41:49,107 --> 00:41:50,700
place where they think, well, 
it's not that big of a deal. 

641
00:41:52,300 --> 00:41:55,800
It's not that big of a deal. 
So if the preacher who 

642
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,100
represents God doesn't make it a
big deal, then maybe it's not 

643
00:41:58,100 --> 00:42:03,000
that big of a deal my life. 
I remember, Sitting in a room 

644
00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:08,700
with leaders in a Q&A. 
And they were interviewing 

645
00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:13,000
younger pastors. 
That were just ordained to be 

646
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,700
pastors. 
And they were giving these 

647
00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:20,100
younger people questions, 
concerning our culture and 

648
00:42:20,100 --> 00:42:21,300
everything else. 
On one of the questions is, how 

649
00:42:21,300 --> 00:42:25,000
do we address this problem of 
homosexuality and the moderator?

650
00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:29,100
As we were discussing, as people
were, they were going back and 

651
00:42:29,100 --> 00:42:30,800
forth, he wouldn't even call it 
a sin. 

652
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,600
That when it came to addressing 
it was, there was so much 

653
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,400
hesitation, so it was replaced 
with an unhealthy way of living.

654
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:50,100
And not the way God designed it.
And guess what? 

655
00:42:50,500 --> 00:42:55,100
That's because we've allowed our
minds to be saturated with what 

656
00:42:55,100 --> 00:42:58,700
the culture says, rather than 
what the word of God says. 

657
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,800
I am not an advocate for bashing
people, even in their sin 

658
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:09,300
because Jesus didn't do that. 
Nevertheless, we are not to take

659
00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:11,600
on the perspective of the world 
concerning sin. 

660
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,000
We are to take on what God says 
about Sin. 

661
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,900
So we come to something like 
this and we go, that's a little 

662
00:43:18,900 --> 00:43:20,200
bit extreme. 
And you know what? 

663
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:21,900
That's okay. 
I'm not saying it's a sin to 

664
00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:26,400
think that But let's understand 
why this is happening. 

665
00:43:27,700 --> 00:43:31,300
Notice with me here, that this 
is in the Book of Leviticus. 

666
00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:34,000
This is something concerning the
instructions given to the 

667
00:43:34,008 --> 00:43:37,900
people. 
At the birthing stage of a 

668
00:43:37,908 --> 00:43:41,300
Nation. 
This is not something down the 

669
00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:43,300
road. 
This is in the developmental 

670
00:43:43,300 --> 00:43:45,900
stage of them growing as a 
people. 

671
00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:51,200
And God does it in more than one
way where he makes it abundantly

672
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,700
clear of what he's expecting 
from his people. 

673
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,400
And we see here that this person
blasphemes God, like directly. 

674
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,200
So in this fight, with this 
other Israelite there seems to 

675
00:44:02,207 --> 00:44:06,200
be an altercation and this man 
apparently wants to get at this 

676
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:11,900
person by cursing, his God And 
there seems to be that in that 

677
00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:14,400
truth because his father was an 
Egyptian, he was part of that 

678
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,300
mixed multitude that came up. 
So maybe his father was in a 

679
00:44:18,308 --> 00:44:23,100
Believer and and Yahweh or maybe
his father had that practice and

680
00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:24,900
that just affected him as a 
child. 

681
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,100
No matter what angle you look at
it. 

682
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,600
He tries to curse the name of 
God and when he does curse, the 

683
00:44:30,607 --> 00:44:34,500
name of God, God puts his foot 
down. 

684
00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:37,500
Why? 
Isn't phraseology. 

685
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:45,300
So easy to mimic. 
That terms and slangs and words 

686
00:44:45,300 --> 00:44:47,400
can so be contagious within a 
short. 

687
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,000
You know, somebody comes in here
and they say statement and it 

688
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,900
can just spread like wildfire 
no. 

689
00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:56,600
Right? 
And some of us can give examples

690
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,200
of that or maybe you hang around
with somebody so long and you 

691
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,300
appreciate that person, 
subconsciously, you just begin 

692
00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:04,600
to develop their phraseology, 
you began talking like them and 

693
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,800
maneuvering like them. 
Okay, this is what God's doing. 

694
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,100
I'm not going to let this person
infect the rest. 

695
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:17,200
I'm not gonna let this 
individual curse my name and so 

696
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,100
make that a common thing amongst
the others and it become a 

697
00:45:20,100 --> 00:45:23,400
habitual normal thing, like it 
is today and so I'm going to 

698
00:45:23,408 --> 00:45:27,200
make a statement. 
My name is Holy, My name is 

699
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,900
Holy. 
And I'm not going to develop a 

700
00:45:30,900 --> 00:45:34,200
people and raise a people that 
will when they're frustrated 

701
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,000
curse. 
My name like it's nothing. 

702
00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:41,700
And so, he makes this bold 
example, out of this man. 

703
00:45:41,700 --> 00:45:44,700
Which I find so fascinating, 
because you don't even know his 

704
00:45:44,700 --> 00:45:49,900
name. look at it with dresses 
and is interested in how The 

705
00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:54,000
Israelite woman's son. 
The Israelite woman, son, the 

706
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:55,600
Israelite woman's son. 
Why? 

707
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,600
Because if you're not going to 
honor God's name, God won't even

708
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:01,700
recognize yours. 
That's what I believe is 

709
00:46:01,700 --> 00:46:03,700
happening, right there. 
Does he want to give him the 

710
00:46:03,700 --> 00:46:09,100
name and wants to just show? 
My name must be revered. 

711
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,500
Because when you assault my name
you assault my character, you 

712
00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:20,900
assault my reputation. 
For there is no other name. 

713
00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:24,500
Given among men under Heaven 
given among men by which we must

714
00:46:24,500 --> 00:46:28,400
be saved. 
It is the access through the 

715
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,400
name of Jesus that we can come 
to God In Prayer. 

716
00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:38,400
The name of the Lord is a strong
tower, right? 

717
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:40,300
Is it? 
No wonder that. 

718
00:46:40,300 --> 00:46:44,300
Satan the prince of the power of
the air has made the name of 

719
00:46:44,300 --> 00:46:51,100
Jesus. 
Presented with such blasphemy 

720
00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:55,200
filth and Venom. 
So that when that name is 

721
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,500
presented and when that name is 
heard, it would be defiled 

722
00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:01,400
because it's associated with so 
much junk in this world. 

723
00:47:02,300 --> 00:47:05,700
Do you see that Satan is is 
literally attempting to assault 

724
00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:09,300
his name so that when you hear 
his name you wouldn't think 

725
00:47:09,300 --> 00:47:11,700
about the power that he has. 
You want to think about his 

726
00:47:11,700 --> 00:47:14,500
salvation, you want to think 
about his goodness, it would 

727
00:47:14,500 --> 00:47:16,800
just be something that you 
expressed some frustration. 

728
00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:24,300
It would be something that you 
say, because you Just express 

729
00:47:24,300 --> 00:47:25,500
yourself that way, becomes 
something. 

730
00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:31,000
Casual The devil knows what can 
happen when people understand 

731
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,900
the name of Jesus rightly. 
So he wants to try to Mar it, 

732
00:47:35,500 --> 00:47:40,300
drag it in the dirt defile, it 
and God is fighting for the 

733
00:47:40,300 --> 00:47:46,700
glory of his name. and we, as 
people have to honor that He 

734
00:47:46,700 --> 00:47:51,700
says, here through this. 
It's not a light thing, but we 

735
00:47:51,700 --> 00:47:53,600
talked up to this point and 
we're almost done here. 

736
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,600
We talked up to this point about
how the lord's name in vain is 

737
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,100
something that's done through 
speech. 

738
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:03,500
But we have to understand. 
That you and I could be a people

739
00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:07,000
that are squeaky clean and not 
taking the lord's name in vain 

740
00:48:07,300 --> 00:48:09,700
that we don't address it falsely
that we address it with 

741
00:48:09,700 --> 00:48:15,200
Holiness, all those things. 
And all of those things can be 

742
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:19,000
absolutely pointless and 
Effectiveness based on another 

743
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:20,500
thing. 
And what's that? 

744
00:48:20,500 --> 00:48:27,100
The way we live The way we live.
I'm going to read something to 

745
00:48:27,100 --> 00:48:29,100
you in Romans, Chapter 2. 
You can turn there if you want. 

746
00:48:29,100 --> 00:48:33,400
Romans chapter 2 verse 21, While
You Preach against stealing, 

747
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,400
the, you steal is talking to the
Jews. 

748
00:48:36,100 --> 00:48:38,500
You, who say that? 
One, must not commit adultery. 

749
00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:41,400
Do you commit adultery? 
YooHoo abour. 

750
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:45,600
Hide Idols do you rub temples 
you who boast in the law 

751
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:49,900
dishonor, God by breaking the 
law for, as it is written, the 

752
00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:54,900
name of God is blasphemed among 
the Gentiles, because of you. 

753
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,600
Right there. 
He's addressing the Jews for 

754
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:05,900
living as hypocrites. 
And they're hypocritical living 

755
00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:11,800
is bringing blasphemy to God's 
name to the onlookers of 

756
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,400
supposedly. 
The people of God, he's saying 

757
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,200
you Jews are saying how your 
righteous and you have a law and

758
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,700
you're not living according to 
law and the Gentiles around are 

759
00:49:19,700 --> 00:49:22,600
looking in and they're saying, 
wait a minute but you're living 

760
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,000
contrary to what you're 
preaching. 

761
00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:30,800
And look at this, we think that 
This only affects us know, God's

762
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:35,200
name is violated in that. 
Do you see the depths of the 

763
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,000
dangers of hypocrisy? 
No wonder. 

764
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,800
Jesus came on the scene and the 
harshest Tony had was concerning

765
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,300
hypocrites. 
Not towards the prostitute. 

766
00:49:45,300 --> 00:49:49,600
Not towards the adulterer, not 
towards the tax collector. 

767
00:49:49,900 --> 00:49:54,600
The ones that had this portrayal
of righteousness and Jesus says,

768
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,400
listen, you're Hypocrites, you 
have greed in. 

769
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,300
You you're filled with dead 
men's bones, you clean the 

770
00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:03,600
outside of the cup. 
But inside the cup, it's filthy,

771
00:50:04,500 --> 00:50:07,400
you take God's word and you were
Masters at twisting it for your 

772
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,100
own gain. 
You don't honor your parents. 

773
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:11,200
You say that you're taking this 
money for the temple when you 

774
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,800
have to honor your parents and 
providing for them in there. 

775
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,800
Old age and he addresses these 
things through and through and 

776
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:22,800
it's no different for us. 
The any inconsistency in our 

777
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:27,300
lives, because we represent the 
name of Jesus Christ, anything 

778
00:50:27,300 --> 00:50:29,100
in our lives. 
That's inconsistent with his 

779
00:50:29,100 --> 00:50:33,200
character or his lordship over. 
Our lives is an extension and a 

780
00:50:34,300 --> 00:50:42,000
very weighty way of taking the 
lord's name in vain And so, it's

781
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,500
beyond the tongue. 
It's in our character. 

782
00:50:45,500 --> 00:50:49,400
It's in our responses is in the 
way we just live. 

783
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,100
If you have the King James 
version, this is a great 

784
00:50:53,100 --> 00:50:54,800
Advantage. 
But even in different 

785
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,700
translations, that has the same 
understanding, Proverbs Chapter 

786
00:50:57,700 --> 00:51:00,900
30 verse 8, Paul, can you read 
verse 8, 2 verse 9? 

787
00:51:01,500 --> 00:51:08,200
Please give me neither poverty, 
nor riches feed me with food, 

788
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:10,500
convenient? 
For me lest I be full of denied.

789
00:51:10,500 --> 00:51:13,900
Me and say, who is the Lord, 
unless I've imported steel and 

790
00:51:13,900 --> 00:51:15,200
take the name of my God. 
Dang. 

791
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,300
So we know this wonderful 
prayer. 

792
00:51:20,900 --> 00:51:24,000
We're agar says, what he goes. 
Lord, I'm going to pray this 

793
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:25,400
way. 
I'm not going to pray that I 

794
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:27,700
would be Filthy Rich, so that I 
would just abandon you and my 

795
00:51:27,700 --> 00:51:31,300
walk with you because I'm just 
becoming so materialistic and 

796
00:51:31,300 --> 00:51:32,700
driven by the things of this 
world. 

797
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,600
But Lord, I'm praying that I 
would not even be poor as well. 

798
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,900
Why less? 
I in my poverty begin to steal 

799
00:51:38,900 --> 00:51:46,600
and when I steal bring your name
in vain And he is fee is says, 

800
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:50,200
or profane your name? 
It's not based on what he's 

801
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:54,300
saying, is based on how he's 
living Based on his dishonesty 

802
00:51:54,300 --> 00:51:58,100
based on the secret, the secrecy
of his life of taking something 

803
00:51:58,100 --> 00:52:01,500
that does not belong to him. 
And all that is an assault to 

804
00:52:01,500 --> 00:52:07,600
the person that we represent. so
he says here that it goes beyond

805
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:11,200
speech, it goes into the way, we
deal with one another, the way, 

806
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,300
the deal with finances, the way 
we deal with situations and 

807
00:52:14,300 --> 00:52:18,400
circumstances that in it all, 
take this to your heart in it, 

808
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:22,400
all God's reputation is being 
demonstrated through your life 

809
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,100
and so it's this constant 
awareness by the power of the 

810
00:52:29,100 --> 00:52:31,100
Holy Spirit. 
And through the meditation of 

811
00:52:31,100 --> 00:52:34,500
his word day and night that I 
would realize that I'm not 

812
00:52:34,500 --> 00:52:37,200
representing myself, but I've 
been bought with a price. 

813
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:41,500
I've been bought with a price 
and so in all my dealings, 

814
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:46,100
ultimately the name of God, the 
name of my savior. 

815
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:52,500
It's written on my forehead. and
when people see in me, 

816
00:52:52,900 --> 00:52:57,300
ultimately Testify the one I 
serve, now, It's understandable.

817
00:52:57,300 --> 00:52:59,400
Yes, we make mistakes and all 
those things, but this is for 

818
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,700
the ones that feel like they can
live in hypocrisy and I God will

819
00:53:02,700 --> 00:53:07,500
not hold him Guiltless. 
He will And this is why God is 

820
00:53:07,500 --> 00:53:11,000
once again hammering in the New 
Testament against this idea of 

821
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,300
living one way professing to 
know God Titus 1:16 by denying 

822
00:53:14,300 --> 00:53:17,400
them by their works, it can't it
can't work. 

823
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,000
Does anybody know the root word 
for hypocrite? 

824
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,200
That's good acting, right? 
Yes. 

825
00:53:28,100 --> 00:53:29,600
Well, it's it has to do with 
acting. 

826
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,700
Yes. 
So, in ancient times when it 

827
00:53:32,707 --> 00:53:36,800
came to acting, resources were 
not like what we have today. 

828
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,500
And so what would people do an 
actor would come up? 

829
00:53:39,500 --> 00:53:42,300
And he would take a mask and we 
place it on his face and he 

830
00:53:42,300 --> 00:53:43,800
would act as a certain 
character. 

831
00:53:43,900 --> 00:53:46,500
But once again, because of 
resources or even just because 

832
00:53:46,500 --> 00:53:49,700
of the genre, the play that 
person would take off the mask 

833
00:53:49,700 --> 00:53:53,500
put on a another mask. 
And play as another character. 

834
00:53:53,700 --> 00:53:55,000
That's where that word comes 
from. 

835
00:53:56,500 --> 00:53:58,200
That's exactly what hypocrisy 
is. 

836
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:02,600
It's displaying you yourself one
way but in a moment you can 

837
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:04,100
switch and become something 
else. 

838
00:54:04,300 --> 00:54:06,200
All it takes is you stepping 
into work. 

839
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:07,800
Your somebody else all. 
It takes you stepping into 

840
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,800
church or someone else. 
All it takes is you stepping 

841
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:11,300
into home and who you were in 
church? 

842
00:54:11,300 --> 00:54:12,800
Hallelujah. 
Praise God. 

843
00:54:12,900 --> 00:54:14,900
Arms High. 
Preying on your knees weeping 

844
00:54:14,900 --> 00:54:16,200
and prayer. 
You step into home. 

845
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,400
You're a different person that's
hypocrisy. 

846
00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:24,900
That's hypocrisy and that is 
greatly connected to God's name 

847
00:54:25,100 --> 00:54:29,000
being represented. 
So here we sit with this 

848
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,000
commandment. 
Knowing that, yes, Jesus 

849
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,900
fulfilled it for us and there 
was no deceit found in his 

850
00:54:34,900 --> 00:54:38,400
mouth, it was no deceit. 
Found in the mouth of Jesus and 

851
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:42,600
his even his speech was 
transferred to our account in 

852
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,300
righteousness. 
So that when we stand before, 

853
00:54:44,300 --> 00:54:46,400
God, you have never taken the 
lord's name in vain. 

854
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,600
But because, as Believers, we 
are called to be holy as he is 

855
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:51,800
Holy in. 
This law is written on our 

856
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,700
hearts. 
Can you imagine I hope you feel 

857
00:54:54,700 --> 00:54:58,100
the weight of this. 
That not only in my speech. 

858
00:54:58,100 --> 00:55:00,500
Can I take his name in vain? 
But in my actions, I can take 

859
00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:03,300
his name in vain. 
What is that supposed to produce

860
00:55:03,300 --> 00:55:05,100
in you and me especially in 
light of James 3. 

861
00:55:05,100 --> 00:55:07,800
What is James 3 talk about? 
Yeah, who can control this 

862
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,100
tongue? 
Nobody's able to control this 

863
00:55:10,100 --> 00:55:13,100
tongue. 
Except one person. 

864
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:18,100
Jesus. 
So it brings us to this place. 

865
00:55:18,100 --> 00:55:23,100
God Almighty, I need your help. 
I need you. 

866
00:55:25,100 --> 00:55:29,300
Lord help me be aware that in 
every moment of my day. 

867
00:55:30,300 --> 00:55:34,600
I'm representing you. 
People know that I'm a Christian

868
00:55:34,900 --> 00:55:37,200
people know that I've committed 
myself to the local church. 

869
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,400
People know that I've given my 
life to the lordship of Jesus 

870
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,900
Christ and they're watching me 
help me. 

871
00:55:43,900 --> 00:55:48,900
Be consistent, help me know that
in all my dealings with her 

872
00:55:48,900 --> 00:55:54,600
privately or secretly your name.
You reputation who you are. 

873
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:58,400
Displayed through me. 
Is that hand? 

874
00:56:00,700 --> 00:56:07,400
And we go back to Exodus 20. 
verse 7 and he says something 

875
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:13,400
concerning Those who do not take
this command. 

876
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:19,700
Seriously, he says what? 
For the Lord will not hold him 

877
00:56:19,700 --> 00:56:23,400
Guiltless. 
Who takes his name in vain. 

878
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:28,000
there are two ways that looking 
at that, we have to understand 

879
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:35,200
that God is able to bring about 
retribution, to those who take 

880
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:39,700
his name in vain, in this life, 
There's that famous story of the

881
00:56:39,700 --> 00:56:41,500
Titanic that you probably heard 
that you not. 

882
00:56:43,100 --> 00:56:46,000
People are debating whether it 
was the captain or one of the 

883
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,000
workers of the ship who said 
this statement. 

884
00:56:48,100 --> 00:56:50,200
But before this, this ship was 
launched. 

885
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:54,600
The Titanic somebody made this 
bold, Proclamation, not even God

886
00:56:54,600 --> 00:57:00,700
himself can sink this ship. 
And we know what happened there.

887
00:57:04,500 --> 00:57:06,600
And you can even hear different 
stories concerning even 

888
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:07,300
biblically. 
We see. 

889
00:57:07,300 --> 00:57:10,300
Leviticus 20 forward. 
God, can't step in for the sake 

890
00:57:10,300 --> 00:57:13,000
of the honor of his name. 
In his wisdom knowing that this 

891
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:15,600
would bring glory to him. 
He will bring that person to 

892
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:18,800
guilt and condemnation because 
of taking his name lately. 

893
00:57:20,300 --> 00:57:23,600
But there is one thing for 
certain concerning, those who 

894
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:28,000
take his name in vain, That 
there is a time in which he will

895
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,400
judge every man. 
What did Jesus say in Matthew 

896
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:37,900
12, verse 36, I tell you on the 
day of judgment, people will 

897
00:57:37,900 --> 00:57:42,800
give account for every careless 
word, they speak. 

898
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:49,400
Every careless word that has 
been spoken, has been recorded 

899
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:56,900
in heaven. 
And secret one-on-one alone and 

900
00:57:56,900 --> 00:58:01,300
public behind the pulpit. 
Every word will be taken into 

901
00:58:01,300 --> 00:58:05,300
account. 
Even the ones that were just 

902
00:58:05,300 --> 00:58:12,400
loose with. 
And that to me, brings much 

903
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,400
comfort. 
You probably looking me like, 

904
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:20,200
are you serious? 
I don't even remember what I 

905
00:58:20,207 --> 00:58:24,400
said. 10 minutes ago. 
Now, I'll tell you why. 

906
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:30,400
It brings me much joy. because 
when I'm in a room and people 

907
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:35,200
use the name of Jesus, so 
carelessly Or perhaps you're 

908
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,300
watching something. 
And innocently. 

909
00:58:38,300 --> 00:58:41,700
Not knowing somebody goes on and
just trashes the name of Jesus. 

910
00:58:43,500 --> 00:58:46,800
Or the celebrities that come and
speak of their success in bold 

911
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:48,600
leave. 
And say, I remember when I heard

912
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,000
one person said this will boldly
and one of the awards show said 

913
00:58:51,500 --> 00:58:56,200
I'm not thanking Jesus for this.
Because so many people are in 

914
00:58:56,200 --> 00:59:00,300
the habit of doing so. 
Every politician. 

915
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:06,200
Every false teacher, every great
leader throughout the ages. 

916
00:59:06,900 --> 00:59:10,600
All of those who have taken that
precious, holy righteous name 

917
00:59:10,900 --> 00:59:15,400
and if attempted to squander it 
and to defile it and to pull it 

918
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:19,000
out of the hearts of people as 
something to be treasured, every

919
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:23,700
single, one of them will declare
with their mouths that he is 

920
00:59:23,700 --> 00:59:27,200
Lord and they will give an 
account and they will realize 

921
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:30,600
how foolish they were for 
declaring his name to be solo. 

922
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:35,200
And To squash it and try to put 
it in the dirt, they will 

923
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,700
realize they made a great 
mistake when they stand before 

924
00:59:37,700 --> 00:59:41,300
him. 
And they will realize that he is

925
00:59:41,300 --> 00:59:46,200
the name above every other name.
So, that brings us to this place

926
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:51,500
to say Lord, while people want 
to ruin that name. 

927
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,200
When people want to take that 
name and Associate it with so 

928
00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:01,100
much filth and garbage and 
wickedness may, I represent it. 

929
01:00:01,700 --> 01:00:08,700
Well, May I speak to you about 
you in the fear of you help me, 

930
01:00:08,700 --> 01:00:10,800
understand the wonderful balance
that you Lord. 

931
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,600
Our Father by your also King. 
And Lord. 

932
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:17,100
More importantly though it is 
important made my life 

933
01:00:17,100 --> 01:00:20,300
demonstrate the consistency of 
the fact that you are the Lord 

934
01:00:20,300 --> 01:00:23,500
of all. 
And let the world do what it 

935
01:00:23,500 --> 01:00:26,500
wants to do. 
One day, they will pay for it. 

936
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:31,300
One day, Jesus is name, will be 
exalted in the Earth, right? 

937
01:00:31,300 --> 01:00:34,300
Be still and know that I am God 
I will be exalted in Nations. 

938
01:00:35,100 --> 01:00:40,000
He says that and we can take joy
in that the third commandment 

939
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:43,900
deals with God's desire and 
passion for his name. 

940
01:00:44,100 --> 01:00:47,100
May we have that same passion 
Let's pray. 

941
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:59,300
Lord, we say tonight. 
How beautiful is your name? 

942
01:01:01,700 --> 01:01:04,400
That Lord, At The Mention Of The
Name of Jesus. 

943
01:01:05,900 --> 01:01:09,200
Even a whisper can bring so much
peace. 

944
01:01:10,700 --> 01:01:16,000
Can offer so much hope. 
And is the name by which we are 

945
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:21,300
saved. 
Teachers that a whole bad name. 

946
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,100
Teach us how to meditate on that
name. 

947
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:30,200
Teach us how to Faithfully 
Proclaim your name. 

948
01:01:33,100 --> 01:01:37,000
Lord, may we be, we be brought 
to a place where even the 

949
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:41,400
mention of your name Stills are 
spheres. 

950
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:50,800
Sanctifies our thoughts. 
And brings us to a place of holy

951
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:55,300
reverence to you. 
And father, we address you and 

952
01:01:55,300 --> 01:01:59,800
say how do it be your name. 
There is none like you. 

953
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:07,000
You are set apart. 
You are transcended. 

954
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:11,800
There is none like you and God, 
we recognize your name as such. 

955
01:02:13,100 --> 01:02:16,000
And father we ask by the power 
of your spirit. 

956
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:22,600
That you would teach us how to 
speak and live in a way that 

957
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:25,000
brings honor to the name that we
represent. 

958
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,500
And Lord, if there is any 
inconsistencies in our life. 

959
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:34,100
That would make others that are 
looking at us. 

960
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:40,700
To question the god that we 
serve, forgive us and Lord, by 

961
01:02:40,700 --> 01:02:44,300
your spirit, from head to toe, 
bring us to a place. 

962
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:51,600
Where people would want to know 
the name that we live for God. 

963
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,200
We need your help in all these 
things. 

964
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,500
We thank you that in Jesus. 
They are fulfilled and they've 

965
01:02:56,500 --> 01:03:00,600
been transferred to our account.
But Lord, in living this life 

966
01:03:01,300 --> 01:03:05,500
representing you. 
We not only say that you are the

967
01:03:05,500 --> 01:03:08,700
only god of Our Lives. 
We not only say that we will not

968
01:03:08,700 --> 01:03:11,500
make you into something that 
fits our idea of who you should 

969
01:03:11,500 --> 01:03:17,300
be a wee in the third. 
Commandment say help us help us 

970
01:03:18,300 --> 01:03:24,700
treasure and value and uphold 
the name of Jesus help us And 

971
01:03:24,700 --> 01:03:27,800
more soft in our hearts to such 
a degree again. 

972
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:31,500
We ask that the name of Jesus 
would never lose its charm. 

973
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,000
That it would do something to 
our faith. 

974
01:03:38,900 --> 01:03:42,000
And that would bring us to a 
place of wanting to even rejoice

975
01:03:42,300 --> 01:03:46,900
and worship you. 
And so, Lord even tonight. 

976
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:53,200
We sanctify your name. 
We bless your name. 

977
01:03:57,500 --> 01:04:02,500
And what we sing to you. 
In response to the Glorious 

978
01:04:02,500 --> 01:04:09,300
name. 
In your name, we pray.