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Exodus 20: 3rd Commandment Bible Study - Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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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 Commandments dealt specifically
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  with the people. And their complete devotion and
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  adoration towards God that there were to be no other God.
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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 might.
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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 is he giving these commands?
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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 Commandments?
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  Because he's a jealous, God. He is jealous ferociously,
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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. And that is something that we
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  can agree with concerning on a human level.
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  If any of us want to be in any Covenant relationship, we want
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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 commandment, but the object of
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  his passion is not us The first two Commandments, the object of
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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 not for us necessarily and we
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  can Rejoice that God gives us commands.
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  And God gives us instructions because he loves us, but there's
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  something else that motivates God.
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  What is it? Read it right there.
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  You shall not take the name of the Lord.
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  What is he zealous for? What is he jealous for?
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  What is he passionate about his name?
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  His name and though he is yes again motivated by love to
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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? Oftentimes, it's coupled with
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  the Revelation that he is compassionate that he did his
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  miracles because he was a compassionate, he is a
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  compassionate God but we can never imbalance that Truth by
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  removing the understanding that he's also jealous for his glory.
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  So you kind of have these two ideas, concerning how God
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  relates to, man, you have those that say it's all about his
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  love, he loves us, he died for us because he loves us.
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  That's true. But they don't, they don't talk
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  about the fact that he also wants to glorify himself.
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  Then you have the other side that's all about God's glory.
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  Jesus died for his glory. Jesus did this for his glory?
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  Jesus. All these things she saves for
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  his glory. He heals for his glory and then
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  they don't really talk about the love.
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  Can we just marry the two and just be balanced?
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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 commandment has to do exactly
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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 is he trying to say here is
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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 degree how God through us will
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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 realize, I believe more than
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  anything how God really values his name.
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  It's probably going to shock us. The extent that God goes to to
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  make sure that his name is protected concerning its
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  reputation. So what does he do?
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  He gives us different titles of his name.
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  He reveals himself early on an exodus as I am.
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  I am who I am and the beauty about all of his titles.
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  And all of these things that he relates to himself is ultimately
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  a reflection of his character. We have to remember that even
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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 character or that person's
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  Destiny and it's so much more true for God that his name.
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  Why? Because when we mention his
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  name, and when we speak of his name, we would be reminded of a
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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 loving that he is gracious and
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  forgiving now, if that name is associated with anything, other
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  than who he truly is, it becomes an assault to his character.
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  None of us in here would like our name associated. to a
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  certain circumstance or situation, or even a person,
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  That is not living righteously or that is not acting.
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  Holy or a situation that is not honorable.
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  None of us want to be associate and we have the right to be
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  frustrated. If somebody does bring our name
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  into something that it should not be brought into how much
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  more God, how much more God. And so this commandment has
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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 Pharaoh.
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  But for this purpose, I've raised you up to show you my
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  power. Why so?
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  That my name may be proclaimed in all the Earth.
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  I want my name to be known throughout the entire world and
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  I want my name to carry such a reputation that when they hear
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  my name, they would know my axe. That At The Mention Of My Name,
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  they would know that I am the god that delivered my people out
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  of Egypt that split the Red Sea that destroyed all the false
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  gods of pharaoh and all of his Nation.
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  Psalms 111 verse 9. This is powerful.
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  He sent Redemption to his people.
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  He has commanded his Covenant forever.
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  Holy and awesome is his name. Holy and awesome is his name.
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  So if we really want to get to the center reason for this
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  command, it's for this. He wants to instill in the minds
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  of his people. And understanding of his name in
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  such a way, pay attention that we would be careful how to use
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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 instill in his people.
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  Such an understanding of his name that we would be careful of
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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 whisper This is what he's trying
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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 up to one another.
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  What does it mean to take God's name in vain?
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  So songs about like you said, associated with anything that
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  isn't glorifying him. But at the same time, if you, if
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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 with God, they should have to
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  walk the life that God intends for them.
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  Or else that through actions taking his name is Randy.
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  Vein it's smearing his name so we're not just strictly talking
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  about some lip service here are we is God taking God's name in
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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. Yeah.
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  Using lord's name to push an agenda.
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  That's not a. Oh yeah.
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  We see that a lot. Unfortunately, today I'm going
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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. Yeah.
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  Oh, we'll get into it, we'll see ya.
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  We're going to discover in a moment.
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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. We understand taking God's name
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  in vain, is that we put his name or we replace his name with
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  something that is Not wholly, sure.
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  Any other way we can take God's name in vain.
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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 same sentence as a cuss word,
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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 whole system now that's built
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  upon repetition and vain ritualistic addressing to God.
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  No, pray then like this take the elements of this prayer and
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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 says, father?
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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. But what's the address being?
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  What is it? What is it?
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  What are we saying? When we say Hallowed be your
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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 set apart.
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  So it's addressing God in this way.
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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 understanding, you are great,
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  and greatly to be praised. And so what Jesus is even
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  telling us as Believers, how to address God is that we should
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  address him in such a way. That you would not address
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  somebody else. How you address?
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  Someone reveals a lot of how you respect them.
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  Isn't that true? How you address an individual
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  reveals much about how you respect them?
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  Now, no matter what your opinion is of the president, the
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  president came here to give a speech.
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  I don't know why you would but if you came here to give a
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  speech and there was an open Q&A, I don't think well this day
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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 court, You know what you have to
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  say to the judge when you want to address the judge your honor.
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  Why? Because there are certain people
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  who have been given a level of authority and their position
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  carries power and that alone deserves our respect.
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  There are certain people who have been given Authority and a
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  position of power and that alone causes us to address them in a
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  way knowing that they can exercise that Authority.
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  Now, how much more for the name that is above every other name?
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  How much more? Are we to address the Holy One?
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  The one again, who has been given the name above every other
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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. Cannot even come close to the
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  power that comes from his breath alone.
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  And this is the one that you and I have access to pray to Which
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  is amazing because there's a mingling of two realities.
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  There's this understanding of him being father, but then I
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  still in the same breath have to say Halloween, be your name.
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  How do you reconcile that? That's an important question.
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  How do you and I reconcile the fact that he is father but he's
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  also King of the universe. How do you reconcile in your
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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. Yeah, absolutely.
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  So the same thing you would honor your father so you honor
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  the Lord and have beer of your father, as well.
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  I would be something along those lines.
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  Sure. And I think that's becoming
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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 own parents.
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  That don't even know how to address their own parents.
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  And if you can't address people that you can see respectfully.
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  How are you going to address someone?
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  You can't see respectfully. Sure.
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  How do you reconcile father? And that if you were to even
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  meditate upon his Holiness, you would, you would realize that
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  the ground is not low enough for you to lay prostrate on.
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  How would you explain it to somebody who comes up to me,
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  says, you believe, God is like your father, right?
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  Sure. But you also believe that he's
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  the god of the entire universe, right?
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  Sure. How do you reconcile that And I
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  believe one way to reconcile that, at least in my own mind,
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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. When I realized that he's not
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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 who believe on his son.
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  So, when I come to the place of understanding that God is
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  father. I must also in that same thought
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  realize that that's not something that came about
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  automatically and there is something done for me to become
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  his son and when I realized that that transaction of identity has
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  come through the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that the same one
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  that I call, Father is the same one that poured out his wrath
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  upon the son. And on the cross allow them to
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  experience a pain that is beyond anything that we can even
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  comprehend for me to be adopted as a son.
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  In that same thought you will feel the weight of his holiness.
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  You will and you will realize that though he is Father for him
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  as king to bring you to that place of having relationship
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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 of understanding.
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  How, yes he is King, but he deserves my reverence.
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  And so that's the beauty of it. How we address him.
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  And you've heard me say this before, but it's worth
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  mentioning again. There is, there is a casualty
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  Towards God in. Even the way we address him.
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  I remember when I was first saved and we were doing these
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  group little things where we would come and just have group
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  discussions after the church service.
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  And I would hear this is just freshly saved.
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  I would hear the way. People would address God.
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  And just, just a new, as a new believer, I would say that just
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  doesn't sound right. it just doesn't seem appropriate to say
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  these words or to be so casual, And as you grow in your
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  knowledge of God, you will realize that.
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  And if you really meditate upon who he is, even in your prayers,
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  you will be careful with how you address him.
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  Even behind pulpits. One thing to observe is to see
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  how that individual addresses God.
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  And oftentimes, you see a very flippant cool, relaxed Jesus.
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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 at the Judgment seat of Christ
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  and they will be judged for what they just preached that day.
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  And so we have to have this understanding of addressing him
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  rightly Jesus even said, when you pray, say how holy his name
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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 in vain.
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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 of your God.
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  I'm the Lord. You shall not swear by my name
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  falsely. Now, what does that mean?
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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 name in vain And so when
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  somebody says, oh I swear to that, I will do this.
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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. What does he say?
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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 God dwells Or on Earth for it.
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  Is his footstool Or by Jerusalem for is the city of the great
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  king. And then he goes on to say just
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  let your yes, be yes. And your no be no.
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  We have to understand this because what Jesus is saying,
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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
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  just being This person build such a reputation that people
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  will take you for what you say. Just feel the weight of
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  conviction. Just how powerful our words are
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  and how jesus takes him. So seriously, Not only how we
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  apply his name to our statements, to our promises.
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  But how we speak on behalf of his name.
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  So we talked about how we address his name, we talked
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  about how we apply his name. Now it's how we speak on behalf
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  of his name. Let me read this text from
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  Jeremiah, you don't return. There was just read it.
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  He's talking about the false prophets and he says, this and
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  Jeremiah 20:7 15. I have not sent them declares
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  the Lord, I have not sent them. But they are prophesying falsely
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  in my name. The famous.
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  Three-letter phrase that you here.
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  I hope not too often, especially if it's not true.
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  God told me fill in the blank. and there are some people that
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  say that so frequently, For whatever reason, there are some
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  people who say certain things and they just want to say, God
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  told them so that they can just sound more spiritual.
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  It's like this in. That's not that deep of a
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  revelation, it's pretty plain but it just because I want to be
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  more spiritual you know. The Lord told me this really And
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  to a more serious level, their people.
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  Who because they want to advance an agenda.
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  We'll bring in the name of the Lord.
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  To affect the naive. you know what it says in Romans about
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  false teachers and says that they affect the naive, it's the
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  naive that buy into false teaching And you might be
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  thinking really this stuff happens.
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  I remember when somebody came up to me, I don't know why they did
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  this. Maybe they were just trying to
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  test it who subscribe to a certain person's Ministry.
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  And they would get newsletters and different things, but this
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  was like a text message thing and this person showed me a text
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  message of this man of God. Who said the angel of the Lord,
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  and the text message, I read it for myself.
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  The angel of the Lord appeared to me and gave me instructions
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  for you. Send via text or through PayPal
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  $50 for me to reveal what the angel of the Lord revealed to
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  you, you believe that? You and I are sighing and we're
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  laughing. But here's the thing, people
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  actually buy into it or else those things wouldn't last and
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  those people wouldn't be living in those kind of mansions and
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  driving those kind of cars because people don't read their
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  Bibles. And don't have it under stairs.
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  So moved by emotion there. So moved by the supernatural.
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  That anything that comes they're willing to buy into it because
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  they do not have the filter of the scriptures before them.
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  You've heard me say this before and I will say it again.
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  You can come to such a place in your understanding and the
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  handling of the sword of the spirit that even if you were to
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  hear a sermon and you hear some statement being made, you can
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  recognize when it's true or false because your your mind is
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  saturated. With the truth.
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  Where an alarm goes off because you know, the scripture when
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  somebody declare something contrary to the scripture or
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  somebody delivers the scriptures, even in an unworthy
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  manner, you can detect it because you have the wisdom of
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  God. I fear terribly for those who
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  casually used God's name to advance a message, or their
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  Ministry, or the reputation. And I would love to unpack this
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  more concerning. What do we do with somebody?
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  Who says, you know, I feel like the Lord is prompted something
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  on my heart but listen, even if if you if you have that where
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  the Lord puts something on your heart and you sense that and you
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  pray about and you seek wisdom on it, we always have to once
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  again, approach it with caution. Always with caution.
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  Because what can happen is and what has happened is there a lot
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  of people who are experiencing this even now that because
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  somebody has been so flippant with this, God told me and
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  whatever they told them happens not to be true or happens to be
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  something that's false effects that person.
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  To a level that you. And I can't even imagine.
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  And there are people who have been haunted by years by
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  statement, being made by somebody who was so arrogant
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  enough to not even say something in a way where they approach it
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  with humility. And say, you know, I've been
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  praying for you and I don't know if this is, this is the Lord or
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  what, just take this and just bring it before the Lord, but
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  come with such arrogance because they want to seem bold and they
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  want to seem profit like and they damaged people.
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  And they walk with the sense of being haunted by something that
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  they don't even know if it's true or not.
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  And so there has to be. Caution around his name and
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  ultimately more than anything though.
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  People might be damaged by it and people can be greatly
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  edified by. Like I said, I want to unpack
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  this too much. I'm trying to restrain myself.
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  But ultimately God's name. God's name is involved with
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  that. The last thing anybody should
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  want is somebody to be turned off by God because of how
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  Loosely we use his name. how we address his name, how we apply
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  his name and how we speak on behalf of his name is crucial to
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  understanding this third commandment Is there any other
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  way we can do this? There's an example of this in
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  scripture being played out and it's tucked in a book that you
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  wouldn't think is in there and automatically, everybody knows
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  what book were talking about. It's in First Kings First Kings.
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  Okay maybe there's something. I don't know about go ahead.
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  What is it? Where the prophet of God went
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  and condemned jeroboam and God told him to stay it like don't
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  eat or drink in Israel and another Prophet came and said
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  I'm also a prophet of God but you know what?
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  Listen to me and lie here and rest and when he came out, got
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  sent a lion too. Devour that profit.
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  Yeah, that's it. That's First Kings 13, I
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  believe. And that's a tricky tricky tax
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  concerning this Prophet that was sent by God and he was told to
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  not, go back the way he was, he came in and to not stop.
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  He was supposed to just give his message and go back and then
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  somebody comes in and tells him otherwise and he believed that
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  man's word rather than his understanding what God spoke to
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  me, and it's a whole mess. And that is that is an example.
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  We can explore the one I had in mind is actually found in the
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  Book of Leviticus. 24:10 let's turned it together.
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  Leviticus chapter 24. Verse 10.
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  Now, an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an Egyptian
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  Went Out Among the people of Israel.
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  And the Israelite woman son and a man of Israel fought in the
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  camp verse 11 and the Israelite woman son, blasphemed the name
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  and cursed, then they brought him to Moses.
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  His mother's name was Sheila met.
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  The daughter of debris of the tribe of Dan and they put him in
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  custody to the will of the Lord should be.
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  Your to them, then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, bring out
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  of the camp, the one who cursed and let all who heard him lay
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  their hands on his head and let all the congregation Stone him.
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  Wow. And speak to the people of
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  Israel saying, whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
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  Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to
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  death. All the congregation shall Stone
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  him. The Sojourner, as well as the
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  native. When he blasphemes the name.
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  He should be put to death. Don't lift up your hand.
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  Don't respond. How many of us in here,
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  honestly? Feel Comfort uncomfortable with
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  that story. How many of us just read that
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  right now and your thoughts went automatically automatically to
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  this question. That's a little bit extreme,
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  isn't it? That's a little bit.
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  Over-the-top wouldn't you think? But I want to challenge you with
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  this thought. That we are so saturated in a
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  culture of Dishonor. We are so surrounded by people
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  who speak with such vulgarity. And blasphemy in our music in
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  our movies and our conversations, you can do, you
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  can be, you can be sitting, I was just in the barbershop just
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  sitting beside somebody just hearing it was on the phone,
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  just hearing the vulgarity coming.
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  Just it just everywhere to the point where we become so
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  normalized, and it becomes, so, Part of our day that when God
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  brings the seriousness of taking his name in vain to this story.
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  All of us are shocked. You know, you understand what
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  I'm trying to say, God has a different perspective on his
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  name than most people do today. And because even the people of
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  God can be subconsciously trained to understand the
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  normality of cursing and taking his name.
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  So lightly, when we come to the scriptures and see what God
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  demands of us, it's almost offensive to us.
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  It's almost offensive to us. That's not just true for the
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  third commandment. That's true of any sin here.
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  Here's evidence for it right now.
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  Homosexuality is a sin. The Bible declares that
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  homosexuality is an unnatural desire.
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  Now, as I'm saying that right now, what's going on in your
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  heart? Because even among the people of
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  God, if you were to address a sin, what the scriptures
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  revealed to be sin. An alarm goes off.
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  There's a set where you perk up and you go, did he just say
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  that? Did he just say that?
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  So bluntly, did he just say that?
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  Just like that, he should have came in a lot softer than when
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  he just said? Do you understand what I'm
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  saying? When the Bible is so clear about
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  it. And I know there needs to be a
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  wisdom and there needs to be an understanding of how to address
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  these things in love. But what I'm trying to say is,
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  we are trying to remove even the sting of sin because we are
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  being affected by our culture. So we pillow, even the preaching
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  of God's word to make sure that nobody's stirred and at nobody's
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  uncomfortable. When the very poor Commission of
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  the gospel and of sin is supposed to make you feel
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  uncomfortable. To bring you to a place of
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  realizing that God has a different standard and here's a
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  disservice that we do when we try to remove what God wants to
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  say. So clearly we bring people to a
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  place where they think, well, it's not that big of a deal.
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  It's not that big of a deal. So if the preacher who
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  represents God doesn't make it a big deal, then maybe it's not
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  that big of a deal my life. I remember, Sitting in a room
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  with leaders in a Q&A. And they were interviewing
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  younger pastors. That were just ordained to be
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  pastors. And they were giving these
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  younger people questions, concerning our culture and
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  everything else. On one of the questions is, how
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  do we address this problem of homosexuality and the moderator?
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  As we were discussing, as people were, they were going back and
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  forth, he wouldn't even call it a sin.
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  That when it came to addressing it was, there was so much
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  hesitation, so it was replaced with an unhealthy way of living.
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  And not the way God designed it. And guess what?
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  That's because we've allowed our minds to be saturated with what
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  the culture says, rather than what the word of God says.
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  I am not an advocate for bashing people, even in their sin
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  because Jesus didn't do that. Nevertheless, we are not to take
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  on the perspective of the world concerning sin.
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  We are to take on what God says about Sin.
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  So we come to something like this and we go, that's a little
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  bit extreme. And you know what?
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  That's okay. I'm not saying it's a sin to
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  think that But let's understand why this is happening.
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  Notice with me here, that this is in the Book of Leviticus.
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  This is something concerning the instructions given to the
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  people. At the birthing stage of a
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  Nation. This is not something down the
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  road. This is in the developmental
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  stage of them growing as a people.
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  And God does it in more than one way where he makes it abundantly
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  clear of what he's expecting from his people.
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  And we see here that this person blasphemes God, like directly.
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  So in this fight, with this other Israelite there seems to
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  be an altercation and this man apparently wants to get at this
• 44:06
  person by cursing, his God And there seems to be that in that
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  truth because his father was an Egyptian, he was part of that
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  mixed multitude that came up. So maybe his father was in a
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  Believer and and Yahweh or maybe his father had that practice and
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  that just affected him as a child.
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  No matter what angle you look at it.
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  He tries to curse the name of God and when he does curse, the
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  name of God, God puts his foot down.
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  Why? Isn't phraseology.
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  So easy to mimic. That terms and slangs and words
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  can so be contagious within a short.
• 44:47
  You know, somebody comes in here and they say statement and it
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  can just spread like wildfire no.
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  Right? And some of us can give examples
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  of that or maybe you hang around with somebody so long and you
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  appreciate that person, subconsciously, you just begin
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  to develop their phraseology, you began talking like them and
• 45:04
  maneuvering like them. Okay, this is what God's doing.
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  I'm not going to let this person infect the rest.
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  I'm not gonna let this individual curse my name and so
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  make that a common thing amongst the others and it become a
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  habitual normal thing, like it is today and so I'm going to
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  make a statement. My name is Holy, My name is
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  Holy. And I'm not going to develop a
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  people and raise a people that will when they're frustrated
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  curse. My name like it's nothing.
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  And so, he makes this bold example, out of this man.
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  Which I find so fascinating, because you don't even know his
• 45:44
  name. look at it with dresses and is interested in how The
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  Israelite woman's son. The Israelite woman, son, the
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  Israelite woman's son. Why?
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  Because if you're not going to honor God's name, God won't even
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  recognize yours. That's what I believe is
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  happening, right there. Does he want to give him the
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  name and wants to just show? My name must be revered.
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  Because when you assault my name you assault my character, you
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  assault my reputation. For there is no other name.
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  Given among men under Heaven given among men by which we must
• 46:24
  be saved. It is the access through the
• 46:28
  name of Jesus that we can come to God In Prayer.
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  The name of the Lord is a strong tower, right?
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  Is it? No wonder that.
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  Satan the prince of the power of the air has made the name of
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  Jesus. Presented with such blasphemy
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  filth and Venom. So that when that name is
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  presented and when that name is heard, it would be defiled
• 46:58
  because it's associated with so much junk in this world.
• 47:02
  Do you see that Satan is is literally attempting to assault
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  his name so that when you hear his name you wouldn't think
• 47:09
  about the power that he has. You want to think about his
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  salvation, you want to think about his goodness, it would
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  just be something that you expressed some frustration.
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  It would be something that you say, because you Just express
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  yourself that way, becomes something.
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  Casual The devil knows what can happen when people understand
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  the name of Jesus rightly. So he wants to try to Mar it,
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  drag it in the dirt defile, it and God is fighting for the
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  glory of his name. and we, as people have to honor that He
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  says, here through this. It's not a light thing, but we
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  talked up to this point and we're almost done here.
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  We talked up to this point about how the lord's name in vain is
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  something that's done through speech.
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  But we have to understand. That you and I could be a people
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  that are squeaky clean and not taking the lord's name in vain
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  that we don't address it falsely that we address it with
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  Holiness, all those things. And all of those things can be
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  absolutely pointless and Effectiveness based on another
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  thing. And what's that?
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  The way we live The way we live. I'm going to read something to
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  you in Romans, Chapter 2. You can turn there if you want.
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  Romans chapter 2 verse 21, While You Preach against stealing,
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  the, you steal is talking to the Jews.
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  You, who say that? One, must not commit adultery.
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  Do you commit adultery? YooHoo abour.
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  Hide Idols do you rub temples you who boast in the law
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  dishonor, God by breaking the law for, as it is written, the
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  name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, because of you.
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  Right there. He's addressing the Jews for
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  living as hypocrites. And they're hypocritical living
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  is bringing blasphemy to God's name to the onlookers of
• 49:11
  supposedly. The people of God, he's saying
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  you Jews are saying how your righteous and you have a law and
• 49:17
  you're not living according to law and the Gentiles around are
• 49:19
  looking in and they're saying, wait a minute but you're living
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  contrary to what you're preaching.
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  And look at this, we think that This only affects us know, God's
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  name is violated in that. Do you see the depths of the
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  dangers of hypocrisy? No wonder.
• 49:38
  Jesus came on the scene and the harshest Tony had was concerning
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  hypocrites. Not towards the prostitute.
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  Not towards the adulterer, not towards the tax collector.
• 49:49
  The ones that had this portrayal of righteousness and Jesus says,
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  listen, you're Hypocrites, you have greed in.
• 49:57
  You you're filled with dead men's bones, you clean the
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  outside of the cup. But inside the cup, it's filthy,
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  you take God's word and you were Masters at twisting it for your
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  own gain. You don't honor your parents.
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  You say that you're taking this money for the temple when you
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  have to honor your parents and providing for them in there.
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  Old age and he addresses these things through and through and
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  it's no different for us. The any inconsistency in our
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  lives, because we represent the name of Jesus Christ, anything
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  in our lives. That's inconsistent with his
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  character or his lordship over. Our lives is an extension and a
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  very weighty way of taking the lord's name in vain And so, it's
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  beyond the tongue. It's in our character.
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  It's in our responses is in the way we just live.
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  If you have the King James version, this is a great
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  Advantage. But even in different
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  translations, that has the same understanding, Proverbs Chapter
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  30 verse 8, Paul, can you read verse 8, 2 verse 9?
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  Please give me neither poverty, nor riches feed me with food,
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  convenient? For me lest I be full of denied.
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  Me and say, who is the Lord, unless I've imported steel and
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  take the name of my God. Dang.
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  So we know this wonderful prayer.
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  We're agar says, what he goes. Lord, I'm going to pray this
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  way. I'm not going to pray that I
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  would be Filthy Rich, so that I would just abandon you and my
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  walk with you because I'm just becoming so materialistic and
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  driven by the things of this world.
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  But Lord, I'm praying that I would not even be poor as well.
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  Why less? I in my poverty begin to steal
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  and when I steal bring your name in vain And he is fee is says,
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  or profane your name? It's not based on what he's
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  saying, is based on how he's living Based on his dishonesty
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  based on the secret, the secrecy of his life of taking something
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  that does not belong to him. And all that is an assault to
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  the person that we represent. so he says here that it goes beyond
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  speech, it goes into the way, we deal with one another, the way,
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  the deal with finances, the way we deal with situations and
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  circumstances that in it all, take this to your heart in it,
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  all God's reputation is being demonstrated through your life
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  and so it's this constant awareness by the power of the
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  Holy Spirit. And through the meditation of
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  his word day and night that I would realize that I'm not
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  representing myself, but I've been bought with a price.
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  I've been bought with a price and so in all my dealings,
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  ultimately the name of God, the name of my savior.
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  It's written on my forehead. and when people see in me,
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  ultimately Testify the one I serve, now, It's understandable.
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  Yes, we make mistakes and all those things, but this is for
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  the ones that feel like they can live in hypocrisy and I God will
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  not hold him Guiltless. He will And this is why God is
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  once again hammering in the New Testament against this idea of
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  living one way professing to know God Titus 1:16 by denying
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  them by their works, it can't it can't work.
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  Does anybody know the root word for hypocrite?
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  That's good acting, right? Yes.
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  Well, it's it has to do with acting.
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  Yes. So, in ancient times when it
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  came to acting, resources were not like what we have today.
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  And so what would people do an actor would come up?
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  And he would take a mask and we place it on his face and he
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  would act as a certain character.
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  But once again, because of resources or even just because
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  of the genre, the play that person would take off the mask
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  put on a another mask. And play as another character.
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  That's where that word comes from.
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  That's exactly what hypocrisy is.
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  It's displaying you yourself one way but in a moment you can
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  switch and become something else.
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  All it takes is you stepping into work.
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  Your somebody else all. It takes you stepping into
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  church or someone else. All it takes is you stepping
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  into home and who you were in church?
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  Hallelujah. Praise God.
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  Arms High. Preying on your knees weeping
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  and prayer. You step into home.
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  You're a different person that's hypocrisy.
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  That's hypocrisy and that is greatly connected to God's name
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  being represented. So here we sit with this
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  commandment. Knowing that, yes, Jesus
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  fulfilled it for us and there was no deceit found in his
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  mouth, it was no deceit. Found in the mouth of Jesus and
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  his even his speech was transferred to our account in
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  righteousness. So that when we stand before,
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  God, you have never taken the lord's name in vain.
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  But because, as Believers, we are called to be holy as he is
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  Holy in. This law is written on our
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  hearts. Can you imagine I hope you feel
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  the weight of this. That not only in my speech.
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  Can I take his name in vain? But in my actions, I can take
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  his name in vain. What is that supposed to produce
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  in you and me especially in light of James 3.
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  What is James 3 talk about? Yeah, who can control this
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  tongue? Nobody's able to control this
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  tongue. Except one person.
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  Jesus. So it brings us to this place.
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  God Almighty, I need your help. I need you.
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  Lord help me be aware that in every moment of my day.
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  I'm representing you. People know that I'm a Christian
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  people know that I've committed myself to the local church.
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  People know that I've given my life to the lordship of Jesus
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  Christ and they're watching me help me.
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  Be consistent, help me know that in all my dealings with her
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  privately or secretly your name. You reputation who you are.
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  Displayed through me. Is that hand?
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  And we go back to Exodus 20. verse 7 and he says something
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  concerning Those who do not take this command.
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  Seriously, he says what? For the Lord will not hold him
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  Guiltless. Who takes his name in vain.
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  there are two ways that looking at that, we have to understand
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  that God is able to bring about retribution, to those who take
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  his name in vain, in this life, There's that famous story of the
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  Titanic that you probably heard that you not.
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  People are debating whether it was the captain or one of the
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  workers of the ship who said this statement.
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  But before this, this ship was launched.
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  The Titanic somebody made this bold, Proclamation, not even God
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  himself can sink this ship. And we know what happened there.
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  And you can even hear different stories concerning even
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  biblically. We see.
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  Leviticus 20 forward. God, can't step in for the sake
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  of the honor of his name. In his wisdom knowing that this
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  would bring glory to him. He will bring that person to
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  guilt and condemnation because of taking his name lately.
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  But there is one thing for certain concerning, those who
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  take his name in vain, That there is a time in which he will
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  judge every man. What did Jesus say in Matthew
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  12, verse 36, I tell you on the day of judgment, people will
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  give account for every careless word, they speak.
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  Every careless word that has been spoken, has been recorded
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  in heaven. And secret one-on-one alone and
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  public behind the pulpit. Every word will be taken into
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  account. Even the ones that were just
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  loose with. And that to me, brings much
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  comfort. You probably looking me like,
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  are you serious? I don't even remember what I
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  said. 10 minutes ago. Now, I'll tell you why.
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  It brings me much joy. because when I'm in a room and people
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  use the name of Jesus, so carelessly Or perhaps you're
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  watching something. And innocently.
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  Not knowing somebody goes on and just trashes the name of Jesus.
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  Or the celebrities that come and speak of their success in bold
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  leave. And say, I remember when I heard
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  one person said this will boldly and one of the awards show said
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  I'm not thanking Jesus for this. Because so many people are in
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  the habit of doing so. Every politician.
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  Every false teacher, every great leader throughout the ages.
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  All of those who have taken that precious, holy righteous name
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  and if attempted to squander it and to defile it and to pull it
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  out of the hearts of people as something to be treasured, every
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  single, one of them will declare with their mouths that he is
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  Lord and they will give an account and they will realize
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  how foolish they were for declaring his name to be solo.
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  And To squash it and try to put it in the dirt, they will
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  realize they made a great mistake when they stand before
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  him. And they will realize that he is
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  the name above every other name. So, that brings us to this place
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  to say Lord, while people want to ruin that name.
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  When people want to take that name and Associate it with so
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  much filth and garbage and wickedness may, I represent it.
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  Well, May I speak to you about you in the fear of you help me,
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  understand the wonderful balance that you Lord.
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  Our Father by your also King. And Lord.
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  More importantly though it is important made my life
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  demonstrate the consistency of the fact that you are the Lord
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  of all. And let the world do what it
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  wants to do. One day, they will pay for it.
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  One day, Jesus is name, will be exalted in the Earth, right?
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  Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted in Nations.
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  He says that and we can take joy in that the third commandment
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  deals with God's desire and passion for his name.
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  May we have that same passion Let's pray.
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  Lord, we say tonight. How beautiful is your name?
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  That Lord, At The Mention Of The Name of Jesus.
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  Even a whisper can bring so much peace.
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  Can offer so much hope. And is the name by which we are
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  saved. Teachers that a whole bad name.
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  Teach us how to meditate on that name.
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  Teach us how to Faithfully Proclaim your name.
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  Lord, may we be, we be brought to a place where even the
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  mention of your name Stills are spheres.
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  Sanctifies our thoughts. And brings us to a place of holy
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  reverence to you. And father, we address you and
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  say how do it be your name. There is none like you.
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  You are set apart. You are transcended.
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  There is none like you and God, we recognize your name as such.
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  And father we ask by the power of your spirit.
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  That you would teach us how to speak and live in a way that
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  brings honor to the name that we represent.
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  And Lord, if there is any inconsistencies in our life.
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  That would make others that are looking at us.
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  To question the god that we serve, forgive us and Lord, by
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  your spirit, from head to toe, bring us to a place.
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  Where people would want to know the name that we live for God.
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  We need your help in all these things.
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  We thank you that in Jesus. They are fulfilled and they've
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  been transferred to our account. But Lord, in living this life
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  representing you. We not only say that you are the
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  only god of Our Lives. We not only say that we will not
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  make you into something that fits our idea of who you should
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  be a wee in the third. Commandment say help us help us
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  treasure and value and uphold the name of Jesus help us And
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  more soft in our hearts to such a degree again.
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  We ask that the name of Jesus would never lose its charm.
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  That it would do something to our faith.
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  And that would bring us to a place of wanting to even rejoice
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  and worship you. And so, Lord even tonight.
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  We sanctify your name. We bless your name.
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  And what we sing to you. In response to the Glorious
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  name. In your name, we pray.