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Introduction:
First Commandment: Exclusive Religion: Worship Me Alone
This week: God’s Unchangeability
Second Commandment: Focused Worship: Don’t Create Images of God
Command #2: How to Worship
Third Commandment: Reverend Relationship: Carry God’s Name Carefully
Command #3: How to
Part I: You Shall Not Take the Name of the Lord your God in Vain
‘Take’
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
‘Take’
Lift up/carry/bear/walk around
Shall not lift up/carry/bear/walk around
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Sun glasses
Sun glasses- I wear them thoughtlessly.
Different than my phone!
Sun glasses- I wear them thoughtlessly.
Different than my phone!
Sun glasses- I wear them thoughtlessly.
Different than my phone!
Revelation
Wallet:
Tucked safe
“You shall not lift up the name of the Lord your God laššāwʾ”
Don’t lose it.
If you do, it creates anxiety!
Phone
‘Vain’
unreal/worthless/thoughtlessly
Don’t present the name of the Lord as empty.
Don’t walk around with God’s name like you would something useless
Don’t present the name of the Lord as empty,
Don’t present the name of the Lord as empty,
Idol: Don’t treat God’s name like an idol!
: Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?
And who shall stand in his holy place?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
and does not swear deceitfully.
Word used FOR idols: : “He who has not lifted his mind to an ‘idol’.
3 Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?
Who may stand in his holy place?
4 The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not trust [lift up] in an idol
or swear by a false god.
Idols reduced God’s reputation:
CHRISTian
Different than sunglasses
‘Name’
What is meant by name?
Narrow Scope:
: Three names around the Verb ‘To Be’
“I am Who I Am”
I am what I am
I will be what I will be
Emphasis on Unchangeability
“I AM has sent me to you”
YHWH is not so much “I am” but “He is” He shall be who he shall be.
His perspective and our perspective.
YHWH
YHWH: Revealed to Moses his name
Point of His Name:
YHWH: Revealed to Moses his name
God can’t be Moved.
He’s unchanging.
He’s the ultra-consistent being.
Broader Scope:
Don’t liftup God’s name as useless.
Don’t bear God’s name as if it was an afterthought.
Don’t carry God’s name carelessly.
Don’t treat God’s name like an idol that you can pick up and pick down and use at your discretion!
ReputationHis Name is in Relationship with US! YHWH is a relationship name.
And so in relation with God’s people, God’s name means something more than just his name.
It’s his reputation!
His Name is in Relationship with US! YHWH is a relationship name.
You have insulted my name!
My name represents me!
Application of Narrow Scope:
You can’t pick it up and put it down like like idols.
Imagine Worldview of Idols.
God’s Covenant Name
: Three names around the Verb ‘To Be’
I am who I am
I am
YHWH is not so much “I am” but “He is” He shall be who he shall be.
His perspective and our perspective.
Other Names:
Other Names:
We are the ones who change!
We are the ones who change!
Other Names:
Elohim: The almighty ruler (revelation), to who everything is subject, and how to whom we are a servant (response).
Shedai, el Shadaià It stresses the greatness of God, it is not an object of fear, but as a source of blessing and comfort (revelation).
Jealous
Sum:
Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion: “We ought to be so disposed in mind and speech that we neither think nor say anything concerning God and his mysteries, without reverence and much soberness; that in estimating his works we conceive nothing but what is honorable to him” (2.8.22).
Carry God’s Name Carefully
Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion: “We ought to be so disposed in mind and speech that we neither think nor say anything concerning God and his mysteries, without reverence and much soberness; that in estimating his works we conceive nothing but what is honorable to him” (2.8.22).
Jews reverence for God’s name as a guide
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