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Before we get started, I have to board a flight at 1:18.
So I am going to leave as soon as the service is over.
FYI
This law God had given to man before (it was written in his heart by nature); but sin had so defaced that writing that it was necessary, in this manner, to revive the knowledge of it.
Intro:
Before we get started, I have to board a flight at 1:18.
So I am going to leave as soon as the service is over.
FYI
Last week was incredible!
It is such a blessing for me to be able to affirm the calling of members of our church!
I felt a bit rushed last week because of all the things we needed to get done.
It is critical that we are all on the same page and understand what God is trying to do in the third commandment.
I spoke with several people this week, that aren’t part of our church, but have grown up in church, what their understanding of that commandment was.
Just like the response from you guys when I asked for a show of hands, all but one understood it the way we did… It was just about swear words.
The one person that I spoke to that had a different answer included the same response that we had, but he added that we should not “cloud” the name of God.
I really like that response.
I think it does a good job of communicating what the intent of the passage.
Because of the importance that I think this commandment has on churches today, I want to spend a some time looking at them again today.
I was talking with someone recently about my concern with the length of this study.
This person informed me that it took John Piper almost eight years to get through the book of Romans.
So, I am no longer concerned.
I am commited to continue to take the time that it requires for us to fully understand God’s call for us to Join Him to Set People Free.
If you consider the themes that God has had us, as a church, in the last few years, it is obvious that He is commited as well.
Until we grasp what He is trying to do, we are going to continue to hear the same things.
This is important for us to hear today because this idea is the intent behind this commandment.
Let’s look at it again.
Our representation of God, which is accomplished as we walk with Him, is what this commandment is about.
The first point I made last week was...
Do not make the name of God worthless.
We had some great discussion on this last week in our life group.
Aaron, one of our Elders, is in that group and he suggested a different wording for this point because we have a tendency to hear things like that and immediately dismiss them.
We think, “I would never do that.”
So let’s say it this way...
Do not diminish the name of God by the way you live.
while we would be quick to say we would never intentionally make God seem worth less than He is, we might not be so quick to say we haven’t all done this.
Do me a favor and don’t forget to put on your Grace Lenses.
If you try to see this in any other way you are setting yourself up for failure and misery.
The word “Shav” is translated here as Vain.
This word is used in scripture to mean the following things.
Vain
False
Empty/emptiness
Falsehood
Lies
Worthless
Nothing
Destruction
Vanity
What we have often failed to understand is that “taking the name of the Lord in vain” is much bigger than just the language that we use.
The grander image that God is communicating here, and that we see as we look at the use of this word, is that we should not cause defamation to His name by the way we live.
The things we say, choices we make, and paths we choose to follow affect our own lives, but they also affect the lives of those around us.
I spent part of yesterday evening doing something that I have needed to do for literally ten years.
I cleaned out a box of paperwork from 2009.
2009 was an incredibly difficult year.
Story of Rockwall
A year of praying and seeking God about the church plant.
Spending, literally, every penny we had to move to Rockwall, TX
Working my tail off to please the pastor while also working ten hours a day with 3-4 hours of travel due to Dallas traffic.
Working
Through a series of events, the relationship feel apart.
I’m convinced he just stopped listening to God.
He then showed up to my house and fired me because in his words we “weren’t commited.”
We had to break our lease, move in with in laws.
It was tough.
He made God look small, uncaring, untrustworthy, and harsh...
not just to us, but to the people we had brought into the church.
The church pretty much ceased to exist from that moment on because the things he was saying were not true and the other people that were involved knew it.
It all unraveled because He stopped listening to God and tried to make it happen in his own power and ability.
I’m telling you this story because it has taken me this long to put the final nails in the coffin of that part of my life.
I didn’t want to relive those memories.
I could literally keep you here all day telling you all the details, but the point is, that all of us have stories like this.
The fact that we all have these kinds of stories is exactly why God gave this commandment.
History is full of men who misuse the power they are given for selfish gain.
Here is the rub, when we receive Christ through profession of faith and then make a public announcement of that faith through baptism, we are claiming the name of God.
If we then go and try to be a “good Christian” in our own power we end up spreading a false gospel.
What we are perpetuating is our idea of what a believer is instead of an authentic life of faith that is produced as we abide in Christ.
Let’s read together this response that Jesus has to the religious leaders.
Pay attention to what He is calling out.
Mat 23:
preach but don’t practice
create heavy burdens they won’t bear
do things just be seen by others
shut the door to heaven - false idea of what it takes to get there
they have made the created things more important than the creator.
ignore justice and mercy
focused on their appearance rather than the relationship with God
focus on the sins of others rather than on the sin in their lives.
It seems that time hasn’t changed the flesh.
if we don’t abide in Christ and do what He instructs, we are no better.
The heart behind this commandment is that we are God’s people and how we live speaks to those around us about who God is.
The question we all need to be asking ourselves is, what kind of message am I sharing with those in my life?
The second point I made last week was...
God will redeem His name.
As Jesus makes abundantly clear to the Scribes and Pharisees is that He isn’t happy with them.
Did you notice that Jesus rebukes them publicly?
They sinned publicly and called it God, so God set them straight in front of those people so all would know the truth.
When Jesus came, it was to finish the work of restoring our relationship with God.
In order to do that He had to bring to light the false things that were spread about God.
We see this happen in the church over and over again throughout history.
Men take what was meant for the good of God’s people and twist it to manipulate people and serve their selfish desires.
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