Text: Exodus 20:7-11 (LSB)
Topic: Living Authentically
Application Point: Devaluing the name of God and your relationship with Him leads to a life of hypocrisy.
Sermon Title: Living Beyond Sunday
Commandment #3: 1 Timothy 6:1
Commandment #4: Colossians 2:16
Exodus 20:7 (LSB)
7 “You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
1) The third commandment is about how we
the name of God in this world.
1a. The Name
Leviticus 24:16 (LSB)
16 ‘Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of Yahweh shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
1b. Lifestyle
Colossians 3:17 (LSB)
17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
1c. Exalted
Philippians 2: 9-11 (LSB)
9 Therefore, God also highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS that Jesus Christ is bLORD, to the glory of God the Father.
Exodus 20:8 (LSB)
8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Sabbath:
שַׁבָּת (šbt), n. sabbath; seventh day of the week; time of rest. Greek equiv. fr. LXX: σάββατον (84). LTW שַׁבָּת (Sacred Time), שַׁבָּת (Rest).
Noun Usage
1. Sabbath — a day of rest and worship at the end of the seven day week cycle; lasting from Friday evening until Saturday evening.
Exodus 20:9-10 (LSB)
9 “Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of Yahweh your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female slave or your cattle or your sojourner who is within your gates.
Exodus 20:11 (LSB)
11 “For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
2) The 4th commandment is to
or
in the triune God.
2a. Permission
Isaiah 58:13 (LSB)
13 “If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot From doing your own desire on My holy day, And call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of Yahweh honorable, And honor it, by not doing your own ways, By not finding your own desire And speaking your own word,
2b. Essential
Mark 2:27 (LSB)
27 And Jesus was saying to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
2c. Principle
Romans 14:5 (LSB)
5 One person judges one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
Colossians 2:16-17 (LSB)
16 Therefore, no one is to judge you in food and drink, or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day— 17 things which are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.