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Introduction:
Names take on huge significance.
Think of Biblical names.
Abram becomes Abraham.
Sarai becomes Sarah.
Jacob becomes Israel.
“New work of God in their lives.”
Name symbolizes a person, presence, and power.
Name could characterized someone’s reputation.
God’s name includes his name, being and person.
Testifying under oath or under a deity.
Some ways we misuse God’s name is when we give no thought to His name (curse word), give lip service to His name and misrepresent His name (hypocrisy), and sing of His name (when our thoughts and affections are elsewhere).
We misuse God’s name when we misrepresent God’s character.
“To malign God’s name is to misrepresent Him and thus to bear false witness to Him.
We have no right to redefine God, but this is exactly what we do when we take His name in vain.”
Albert Mohler
Wrong ideas about God misuse His name.
We misuse God’s name when we say He doesn’t really care about sin.
We misuse God’s name when he can’t really forgive sin.
We misuse God’s name when we say God is not sovereign or not good.
We misuse God’s name when we make him like us.
“God is our buddy.
Our friend.
Our co-pilot.
Our homeboy”
We misue God’s name when we speak on behalf of what He has not spoken
“The Lord told me, the Lord showed me, the Lord led me” Ex.
Prosperity Theology
We misuse God’s name when we sing songs that misrepresent God’s name.
ex.
Hillsong
We misuse God’s name when we say unite politics and Christianity
“God bless America.
This was the judgment of God.”
“The Third Commandment has everything to do with our worship, with the disposition of our heart, and with our knowledge or ignorance of the one true and living God.
The command reaches to the depths of our discipleship, and it extends to everything we touch and everything we think that is even remotely theological or spiritual.”
Albert Mohler, pg.
74
Crusades in the Name of God.
Slavery in the Name of God.
False Healings in the Name of God.
We misuse God’s name when we do ministry for ulterior motives.
When we only use God to advance our own name through books, podcasts, conferences.
PTL---It became a catch word to share blessings.
Today, I passed my test, PTL.
We misuse God’s name when we make a false oath.
How do we honor God’s name?
Confess His Name ()
Honor His Name ()
3. Be Saved By the Name
4. Be Baptized in His Name ()
5. Jesus honors the Name ()
6. Believe in the Name (, John 1:12)
7. Pray to Honor the Name
8. Serve in His Name (Col 3)
God’s name is misused in sorcery, false prophecy, and false oaths.
“Our worship is casual, careless, and insincere, and in this way we dishonor God’s name.”
Ryken
The expression “do not misuse the name” (lit.
“do not raise the name”) in the Ten Commandments may be a shortened formula for this gesture when it accompanied an oath.
Rooker, Mark.
The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century (New American Commentary Studies in Bible and Theology) (Kindle Locations 1190-1191).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
Rooker, Mark.
The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century (New American Commentary Studies in Bible and Theology) (Kindle Locations 1190-1191).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
22 Any invocation of the Lord or calling on His name that is insincere or needless is simply perfunctory and constitutes taking God’s name in vain.23
Rooker, Mark.
The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century (New American Commentary Studies in Bible and Theology) (Kindle Locations 1253-1254).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
We misuse God’s name when we use God’s name as a genie or some type of magical formula.
Some people use Jesus name like this.
Rooker, Mark.
The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century (New American Commentary Studies in Bible and Theology) (Kindle Locations 1253-1254).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
False Oaths:
38 The name of the Lord should not be used for any pointless or unproductive purpose.
This would include idly mentioning Him, invoking His name for no good reason, or imploring Him in a matter in which He is unlikely to respond.
Mark Rooker
Rooker, Mark.
The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century (New American Commentary Studies in Bible and Theology) (Kindle Locations 1303-1304).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
Rooker, Mark.
The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century (New American Commentary Studies in Bible and Theology) (Kindle Locations 1302-1303).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
How we misuse God’s name?
Thoughtlessly
Falsely
Hypocritically
How do we honor God’s name?
Revere God’s name
Speak Truthfully
Exalt Christ’s Name
Matthew 5:33-37
We honor God’s name when let our yes, be yes, and our no be no.
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