Sermon Tone Analysis

*GPS 3*

/Exodus 20:7/

Gods positioning system

For the hearer to look to God for a realignment

 

*Name Power*

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*Intro:*

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*Review the commandments*

*Number one*

*Taboo*

*Vanity*

*Door*

*Alive*

*Six feet under*

*Seven year itch*

*Go straight*

*Malign*

*A ten *

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*Importance of God’s name*

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Jewish tradition

            Saying name rare- hashem which means “the name”

            Writing name rare- g-d

Respect, do we think we can name God what ever we want!

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Saying a name is always the first word we speak in starting a conversation or establishing a relationship.

It sets a tone.

It initiates the relationship.

It is a powerful act to say a name, how we say it affects the conversation and relationship that follows.

Introduced yourself and person does not use your name.

When in anger you yell out name

 

*Wrongly using God’s name *

In vain means to abuse

            Use it in an empty, ordinary, lightly, ordinary, no clear goal, purpose, reason absently used when no real heart, thankfulness is involved

 

 

 

 

 

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*            *Perjury

                        When you swear or make an oath you must perform it.

/Numbers 30:2 (NIV) /court \\ \\

/2 //When a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said./

Blasphemy

/Leviticus 24:15-16 (NIV) \\ \\ /

/15 //Say to the Israelites: ‘If anyone curses his God, he will be held responsible; 16 anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord must be put to death.

The entire assembly must stone him.

Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death./

One who blasphemy curses God by speaking against his name

*נָקַב        *

/the piercing, boring through, perforate, pierce, scrutinize/

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            Profanity

When God’s name is used in profanity it is profaning his name because either we do think about God when we say his name  or we may actually intend that God damn or punish someone.

It contradicts God’s character.

Hypocrisy

James 3:9-10 (NIV) \\ \\

/9 //With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.

10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing.

My brothers, this should not be.

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Professing and adopting God’s name but acting in a way that contradicts  the claim.

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*Today’s misuses of God’s name *

Profanity and vulgarity

 

To make

 

Casual profanity common today

            O my God.

o my lord

 

Minced oaths

Darn, dang, heck, gosh darn it gee, gee whiz

What am I thinking?

How does God feel when I play word games with his names?

Vulgar means common, coarse, or unrefined.

Vulgarity is often offensive and insulting even though it is not really a violation of the third commandment.

We would do better to get our categories straight and concern ourselves with the big stuff, such as profanity

           

 

*Christian misuses of the name.

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Illustration

            Football game prayers to beat the other team instead of playing in good sportsmanship and to their best ability

 

Quote: Alan redpath

            Using the name of the lord in jokes, the frivolous use of the name of Jesus in songs, the superficial lighthearted program that so often we put over, the exaggerated account of God’s blessing on his work in order to produce funds for future operations, the hypocrisy of the church is far worse that the profanity of the street.

The blasphemy of the pews is a more insidious form of evil that the blasphemy of the slum.

To pray and not to practice, to believe and not to obey, to praise and yet at heart to rebel, is to take the name of the lord in vain.

People claiming to to speak   for God

            If it is just a wish or a way of speaking

 

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*Why we misuse God’s name*

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Name dropping

Names carry the power of the rightful owner

            Gretzky

            Jesus

Lack of respect for God

            Placing God at our disposal instead of us at his

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*Naming our neighbors *

 

Saying a name is always the first word we speak in starting a conversation or establishing a relationship.

It sets a tone.

It initiates the relationship.

It is a powerful act to say a name, how we say it affects the conversation and relationship that follows.

If we practice respect with God then we are developing a habit that will be carried on to our neighbors.