The third commandment Exodus 20:1-7
Here are two Christmas stories and they’re both a play on words. “There once was a czar in Russia whose name was Rudolph the Great. He was standing in his house one day with his wife and as he looked out the window and saw something happening. He says to his wife, "Look honey. It’s raining." But she was the obstinate type and she replied, "I don’t think so, dear. I think it’s snowing." But Rudolph knew better. So he said to his wife, "Let’s step outside and find out." So, they both went outside and discovered it was raining. So, Rudolph turned to his wife and said," I knew it was raining. Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear!"
This guy goes into his dentist’s office, because something is wrong with his mouth. After a brief examination, the dentist exclaims, "Hey, that plate I installed in your mouth about six months ago has nearly completely corroded! What on earth have you been eating?" "Well... the only thing I can think of is this... my wife made me some asparagus about four months ago with this stuff on it... Hollandaise sauce she called it... and doctor, I’m talkin’ DELICIOUS! I’ve never tasted anything like it, and ever since then I’ve been putting Hollandaise sauce on everything... meat, fish, toast, vegetables... you name it!" "That’s probability it," replied the dentist "Hollandaise sauce is made with lemon juice, which is acidic and highly corrosive. I guess I’ll have to install a new plate, but I’ll make it out of chrome this time." "Why chrome?" the man asked. "Well, everyone knows that there’s no plate like chrome for the Hollandaise!"
“And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”
As I said when we began this study of the Ten Commandments, the first three deal with the issue of worship which simply means giving God His due or treating Him with all the love and respect that’s appropriate for who He is and then the last seven deal with how we are to treat one another.
Have you ever had anyone treat you with less than the respect you felt you deserved? I usually don’t think I deserve that much; but I remember when I was in Bolivia with Glennie Wry and we were working on something in one of the dorms and we needed some extra material, so, Glennie asked me if I wanted to drive down to the store with him and get what ever it was we needed. And since I’m always looking for a good reason to take a break, I said, “Sure.”
And when we got to what he called the store, it kind of looked like an old garage and when we went in there was a customer in front of us and as soon as the clerk finished waiting on him; he was just about to ask us what we wanted but then another customer came in the door behind us and he was a Bolivian. So, the clerk looked over our shoulder and asked the man if he could help him? I didn’t understand what was going on, so I asked Glennie and he said, “They always take care of their own first.”
In our culture, we’d call this prejudice but in theirs, it’s called normal. And just as we expect the respect of other people God expects the kind of respect that’s due Him because He is the creator and the sustainer of all life. In other words, He didn’t just make the world but He’s the one who keeps it all going.
So, as we saw in the first commandment; because God is our creator, we are to have no other gods before Him and that means that He’s not just number one but He’s the only One. Listen, nothing and no one is ever to take the place in our hearts that’s supposed to be reserved for Him.
We sing a song that expresses this and it says,
Nothing between my soul and the Savior
Naught of this world’s delusive dream
I have renounced all sinful pleasure
Jesus is mine and there’s nothing between.
And simply put, this writer was saying, “Jesus Christ is not only number one in my life but He’s the only one.”
A few weeks ago I was in the Hudson’s Bay store in Moncton and I was standing around bored while Sally was doing some intensive shopping for shoes or some other medical necessity and as I was trying to entertain myself I saw a man who was around thirty-five to forty years old and he was talking to the cashier at the counter and whatever he was saying he was really excited. Well, at first I thought he might have been complaining about something he had bought but then I noticed she was smiling and really enjoying the conversation.
Anyway, he said good-bye and started heading for the door which was where I was standing and as soon as he saw me; he asked me if I followed the Moncton Wildcats? And for those of you who don’t know, they’re the Moncton hockey team. Well, he stood there for ten minutes and told me how he not only had never missed a game but he was also wearing a team jacket that had the team logo on it and he said this jacket was given to him by a manager of the team.
He was so proud of his jacket that he actually took it off and had me lift it; so I could see how heavy it was, and then he told me that his dream was to actually go on the road with the team so he could cheer for an out of town game.
Listen, this guy was so excited about a hockey team and so committed to them that he made sure everybody he met knew how great they were; and as he was walking away he said, “Make sure you go to a game sometime because, if you do, you’ll never be disappointed.”
And listen, these were the Moncton Wildcats but as far as he was concerned they were number one reason he was alive. And it made me think, why is his affection for a hockey team more evident than mine is for my savior? Well, it’s easy to say, “He was a little simple minded and he had nothing else going on in his life;” but are we so smart and have so much more going on that we can’t tell people about Jesus who will save them for all of eternity? It’s like the man said, “Jesus Christ is not only number one in our lives but He’s the only one.”
So, the first commandment tells us nothing and no one is ever to take Jesus place in our hearts and then the second one teaches us that we are to focus our worship on God and God alone; without the use of external supports such as religious artifacts, relics or rituals. After all, the worship of God is something that comes from your heart and not just your head because we are to walk by faith and not by sight. Now, walking by faith rather than sight simply means we are to depend on the One we’re trusting in rather than our flesh to get us where we’re going.
Faith, after all, is the instrument God uses to bring individuals into a saving relationship with Himself and when we put our faith in Him and what He’s accomplished for us on Calvary; we’re saved and true saving faith involves repentance or a turning from sin and a complete trust in what Jesus did on Calvary to save us. So, the second commandment tells us; we are not to rely on anything but Jesus and the New Testament tells us it’s by faith in Him and Him alone that any of us can ever be saved.
Today, I want look at the third commandment and this one tells us that no one is to misuse or take the name of the Lord in vain. And many see this one as a minor commandment and yet the Jews had a saying and it was, "When God gave the third commandment, the whole world trembled." And they’d even warn a witness at a trial who took an oath because they believed that where it says, "the LORD will not hold him guiltless," that there’s no forgiveness for anyone who breaks this commandment. So, if it was that important to them then maybe we ought to pay closer attention to what it says.
Now, before we look at what it means to take God’s name in vain we need to ask ourselves a question, “What’s so important about God’s name?” And as I said a few weeks ago; someone’s name is more than just a means of identification. Now, while it’s true that all names have a meaning, when we hear a person’s name it also reminds us of their character and reputation. For instance, if someone mentions Morris, you think about his position as a pastor; his role as a husband, as a father and a grandfather. You think about his background and what he’s said about his upbringing and a thousand other things. And the same is true for everyone else you know; they are more than just their name but it’s their name that brings them to mind.
On the other hand, if someone said someone did something terrible we might say their name has been ruined because who they are has been diminished in the eyes of everyone else. So, everyone’s name is important.
Shakespeare once wrote,
“Good name in man and woman, dear my Lord
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse steals trash, tis something, tis nothing;
Twas mine, tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he who filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.”
It’s important for us to see that in the Bible, a persons name expressed their character. For instance, God gave Adam and Eve their names. They didn’t make them up. Adam is the Hebrew word for man and it means; red which was a reference to the color of his skin. So, was Adam white or black? He was red. And then Eve means ‘to breathe or to live’ and is summed up by the word life.
And before Eve was born God gave Adam the job of naming all the animals and someone suggested he might have named them by looking at them and watching what they did. In other words, he simply studied them. After all he had nothing else to go by; there was no such thing as National Geographic or the Farm Report back then, so, from what Adam did; we see that every name meant something.
We also see this in Esau’s understanding of his brother’s name Jacob, which meant "supplanter." In Genesis 27 he said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!" And then when Abigail pleads for Nabal whose name meant "fool" she said to David, "Please, let not my lord regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him." I don’t know about you but I find it strange that his parents would give him a name that was so negative but they did and obviously he lived out the meaning of it.
In Hebrew thought, names are important and to cut off a person’s name meant to end their existence and as I thought about that I thought maybe that’s why we see so many large headstones in the graveyard because people want their names to be noticed and remembered. We even see examples of this in the Old Testament where we’re told kings who had no children made a great big headstone so no one would forget they were here.
So, names are important and the same is true of the name of God because His name tells us who He is and He’s warning us in this commandment not to trifle with His name because if we do, it diminishes who He is in the eyes of others.
I was at a United Church funeral a few years ago and there was a woman pastor who was in charge of the service and as she stood up to pray she began by saying, “Dear mother and father god” and I felt like throwing up. Listen, God is way beyond being either male or female but He has told us to address Him in the role of Father and to do anything else is nothing less than an insult, if not an overt act of rebellion.
In Exodus 33:18 there’s an interesting passage because Moses said to God, “I want to see your glory” in other words, I want to see what’s behind this awesome name and in response to this Exodus 34:5 tells us the Lord descended in a cloud and stood with Moses and proclaimed, “the name of the Lord.” When we hear that we wonder, did He just say, Lord, Lord, Lord, over and over again? No, God described His character.
In verses 6-7 it says, “And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.” So, when we mention the Lord, that’s who were talking about. You see, His name is a composite of all of His attributes. It’s a summation of who He is.
And just to show you how serious it is to wrongfully use the name of God; in Leviticus 24:10-16 we see how God dealt with the first man who publicly misused His name. It says, “And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; and the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) and they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.”
Listen, God said His name is so important that we are not to take in vain and the word vain means empty, idle, insincere or frivolous. This tells us that God’s name is never to be misused in any way. And this wasn’t just in the Old Testament but we also see the same emphasis is in the New Testament as well.
For instance, in Matthew 6 in what’s often referred to as the Lord’s prayer Jesus was teaching His disciples to pray and at the top of the list of things He tells them to pray for; is for God to help them to honor His name. The prayer begins with, “Our Father which art in heaven, hollowed be thy name.” In other words, Father, help us to hallow or to continue to treat your name as holy. So, we’re to treat His name as holy and sacred and with a sense of reverence and awe.
Now, what I want to do here; is to focus your attention on four ways people take the name of the Lord in vain.
I And the first way is by using God or God’s name as a curse word.
And this is probably the first thing that comes to mind when we think of people taking God’s name in vain and this is the act of careless indifference of people who inject God’s name into every or any conversation. Some people do this because they think it puts emotion and passion into what they’re saying while others just act out of disrespect for anyone who is around them.
I’ve been told and have always believed that people who constantly use any kind of profanity are revealing an undercurrent of anger. So, if God’s name is part of their cursing; I think it’s safe to assume they have either a conscious or a subconscious anger at God. And if you call attention to their cursing they usually claim they don’t mean anything by it; but listen, Jesus tell us that all men will give account for every idle word they say in the Day of Judgment or as it says in the commandment, “God will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.”
So, although we’ve become accustomed to hearing people misuse God’s name and even in the media, the Bible says, one day God is going to punish everyone who is guilty of this particular sin. So, people take God’s name in vain when they use it in terms of cursing or foul language and then the second way people use His name in vain is when they commit an act of blasphemy.
II Blasphemy
Blasphemy is speaking about God in a way that insults Him by accusing Him of doing things that are inconsistent with His character. In other words, it’s blaming God for all the bad things that happen to us and giving others the impression that God is either cruel or vindictive.
And people are continually cursing God for things that are either consequences of their own sin or just the result of their own stupid actions. And I guess the first time it happened was the most extreme because in the book of Genesis Adam was being questioned by God about eating the forbidden fruit and he said, “It was the woman you gave me. She gave it to me and I ate.” In other words, it wasn’t my fault, it was her fault, and since you gave her to me, it was really your fault.
It’s amazing to think about it; but there are people who claim to have no belief in God whatsoever and yet when tragedy comes into their lives they ask; why would a good God allow something so bad to happen?
For instance, when Princess Diana died in a car accident when her driver was drunk and traveling about eighty-five miles an hour; people were asking why God allowed such a tragedy to happen. Or when Olympic speed skater Dan Jansen scraped the ice and was disqualified his wife cried out, “Why God did you allow that to happen again? God can’t be that cruel!” A young woman wrote James Dobson and said, “Four years ago I was dating a man and became pregnant and I asked God, “Why did you allow this to happen to me?” In a professional boxing match Boom, Boom Mancini slammed his Korean opponent with a hard right causing a massive cerebral hemorrhage which resulted in the boxer’s death. At a press conference following the fight Mancini said, “Sometimes I wonder why God allows the things He does.”
We also saw this in the media in the case of Susan Smith, who drowned her two kids in her car a couple of years ago and she gave a statement when she was caught. She said, “When I left my home on Tuesday, Oct. 25, I was very emotionally distraught. I didn’t want to live anymore! I felt like things could never get any worse. I was going to ride around a little while and then go to my mom’s. As I rode and rode and rode, I felt even more anxiety coming upon me about not wanting to live. I felt I couldn’t be a good mom anymore, but I didn’t want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm. I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life. I was in love with someone very much, but he didn’t love me and never would. I had a very difficult time accepting that. But I had hurt him very much, and I could see why he could never love me.
When I was at John D. Long Lake, I had never felt so scared and unsure as I did then. I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck. Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions. I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down the ramp into the water without me. I took off ... screaming, "Oh God! Oh God, no! What have I done? Why did you let this happen?"
Exactly what role did God play in a speed skater losing control on a turn or a teenage couple in the back seat of a car or the lethal control of a boxer’s punch or a mother’s premeditated act of murder? And as for Princess Di’s accident could have something to do with the condition of the driver and the way he was driving? So, why should God take responsibility for either our mistakes, our acts of stupidity or even our sin?
It’s amazing what people will do to themselves or those they supposedly love and then blame God as though it was His intention all along.
At the end of time we have the prophecy of those who are suffering the outpouring of God’s wrath and in Revelation 16:10-11 it says, “And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.” And then in verse 21, “And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plaque of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.” Listen, they were cursing God because of the pain but refused to repent of their sin. He could have killed every one of them before they insulted Him but He allowed them to live and curse all they wanted with the hopes that one would turn to Him for forgiveness but instead they continued to curse His name.
I’m always amazed at the grace of God and it’s not just in my own life but when I read the pages of the New Testament and see that man hanging beside Jesus on the cross and see him cursing Jesus along with the other thief and everyone else; but in the last minutes of his life he turned to Jesus and asked for forgiveness and Jesus gave it to him. Now, I would never point to anyone and say, “They made a deathbed confession; so, I’m sure they were saved” but at the same time I’m realize that we’re going to meet people in heaven who are just as surprised to be there as we are to see them.
As a matter of fact, I heard one man say there’s going to be three great surprises when we get to heaven. One, we’ll be surprised at who’s there. Two, we’ll be surprised at who’s not there. And three, when we see Jesus and all His glory we’ll be surprised that we’re there.
Paul tells us that people will curse God for the way He’s represented by those who profess to believe in Him. In 1 Timothy 6:1 he said, “Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed.” And let’s face it, if believers have a bad attitude either toward their work or their employer they can cause people to insult God and the gospel. After all, we’re to work as unto Christ; that means we are to work as though Jesus was our boss. And if any believer doesn’t think they have the proper attitude toward their employer they ought to do the right thing and quit rather than stay there and ruin their testimony.
Of course, I’ve heard people say, “I’ve been working like a dog" and I have two dogs but all they do is lay around and sleep all day. So, maybe they are.
I heard a story about a lady in a rather rich neighborhood who was working in her kitchen one day and a knock came on the door and there was a pretty rough looking character and he was asking for work. Well, she felt sorry for him but rather than giving him money to get rid of him; she thought she’d give him some work and help him feel good about himself. So she said, “There are two gallons of grey paint in the garage and all the brushes and equipment you need. Go paint my porch and when you’re finished I’ll give you seventy-five dollars.” Well, he went out there and worked for three or four hours and when he came in he said, “All done.”
She gave him the money and asked how it looked and he said, “I think it looks great and I really appreciate the work but before I go; I hate to correct you but I think you should know that it’s called a Mercedes not a Porsche.” (Oh, well, anybody can make a mistake.)
Listen, who we are ought to be drawing people to the Lord and not be their excuse for staying away. So, there are those who take God’s name in vain by misusing it, there are those who take it in vain by cursing it and there are also those who take His name in vain by misrepresenting Him. They claim one thing but they live a completely different way.
III Misrepresenting God
There was a time when a person’s word was their bond but now because of the deceitfulness of people we have to resort to legal contracts and other means to make sure people mean what they say and say what they mean.
You know, even in Jesus’ day the Pharisees had a unique system for lying. They’d take a vow about anything or everything and as long as they didn’t say they swore in the name of the Lord; then they could do what they wanted. And insincere vows became so commonplace that no one took them seriously but everyone was skeptical of the very people who should have been sincere every time they opened their mouth.
I learned an important lesson from my experience in the business world and it’s this, “Whenever someone makes a point of telling you how honest they are; always keep your eye on your wallet.” Listen, an honest person doesn’t have to tell you how honest they are.
I like how Winston Churchill put it when he said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.”
I always get a kick out of David Letterman because he always begins his show with what’s known as his top ten list, and I want to share with you the top ten lies I’ve heard at funerals for the unsaved.
10) “He died a happy man.” And he might have been happy when he died but as soon as he woke up and saw where he’d spend the rest of eternity I’m sure his happiness was over. There is a happiness this world has that’s described in Hebrews 11:25 as the “passing pleasures of sin” and there’s no argument that sin is enjoyable but it’s limited by time and after death comes judgment and the reality of eternal separation from God.
9) “He’s with the man upstairs.” And when people have such a low view of Almighty God that they can refer to Him like they would their next door neighbor then they’ve really missed the boat.
8 ) I’ve often heard, “He lived a good life” but the Bible says, that “No one is good except God alone” and there is none righteous, no not one. Or as Isaiah says, “For all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; and all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.” So, regardless of how other see us or even as we see ourselves God sees us all as sinners who need to be saved.
7) Often we hear, “Well, his suffering is over” but the Bible tells us that the suffering of the unsaved has just begun and is inescapable because it’s eternal.
6) And then there is, “He is with us in spirit — looking down at us from the windows of heaven.” The unsaved may be looking at people who are in heaven or even those who are on earth but they do so with a view of regret and concern according to the account of the rich man in hell that’s found in Luke 16.
5) Or, “He was certainly very religious.” And even though people say this about the unsaved we know that the Bible says in James 2:19 that even the demons believe the facts about Christ, but they tremble because they know they are destined for the lake of fire.
4) Or there’s, “He’s with his loved ones” and hopefully that’s not the case because misery won’t enjoy any company in the suffering of hell.
3) And then there’s, “He’s finally resting comfortably.” I’ve heard that about many who had suffered from various diseases but there’s no rest for the wicked and the wicked are all who die without Christ.
2) And some have said, “He finally got his reward.” And they’re probably right but unfortunately their reward the Bible describes as, “the wages of sin is death.”
1) And then finally, “He is in a better place.” For the unsaved Jesus Himself said of hell in Matthew 8:12, “in that place (characterized by outer darkness) there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” And then Luke reminds us there is no possibility of escaping from hell, because “there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able.” So, there’s no such thing as a better place for the unsaved because this world is the last taste of heaven they’ll ever have but for the saved it’s the last picture of hell we’ll ever see.
So, those who take God’s name in vain are those who misuse His name, then there are those who curse it and those who use it to tell everyone else how honest or dependable they are. And then there are those whose behavior is a total contradiction to where they’re really at.
IV Contradictory behavior
You see, when we call ourselves Christians and claim to be part of God’s family and then walk in a way that’s a total contradiction to what we’re claiming then we are taking His name in vain. Let me give you an example of what I mean.
When we get to the New Testament we find the Israelites were guilty of being selfish, hard hearted and immoral and their behavior was bringing shame to the name of God because all the nations around them were watching how they lived and they were wondering what kind of God do these people serve? After all, isn’t your lifestyle supposed to be a reflection of what you believe? So, if we are not acting according to what we claim to believe then the unsaved assume that we’re a reflection of the God we follow and if we have no morals or standards then God must be the same.
And then we see the same idea in Matthew 7:21 where Jesus says, “Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.” In other words, to say Jesus is our Lord is to recognize His sovereignty and His right of control over our entire lives but; if we say He is Lord and then just live for ourselves, then our calling Him Lord is vain; it’s an empty useless phrase.
Conclusion
In one of the Marx Brothers movies Groucho was playing the part of a doctor when a patient came in and said, “Doc, whenever I lift my arm like this, it hurts.” And Groucho said, “That’s easy; don’t lift your arm like that. That’ll be ten dollars, please.” And the joke is, his words were worthless and rather than talk up a storm and not mean a word we say we need to go in the other direction and do all we can to bring glory and honor to God’s name.
And we can do this in three ways.
First, and it seems so simple that the simplicity fools us. We need to begin by surrendering ourselves to the will of God and we see part of His will in I Thessalonians 5:18 where we’re told that God wants us to have grateful hearts. It says, “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” Listen, God wants us to be thankful for everything that comes our way because that way we’re recognizing that He’s on the throne and He’s moving our lives and circumstances in ways that glorify Him.
Second, God wants all of us to live morally pure lives and that sounds so trite and simple; but listen, how have you really been doing? Is God on the throne and is He really enjoying all the trash we allow to influence our lives? In I Thessalonians 4:3 says, “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication.”
So, we need to be surrendered and then we need to be submitted and then third, we need to be students of the word of God. I Peter 2:2 says, “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby.” I don’t know if you know this but, you don’t have to tell a newborn to cry when they’re hungry. You probably wonder where I get all this wisdom but you see I’m a father and I know these things. When kids feel miserable because they’re hungry they like to make everyone else feel miserable and they do that until they get something to eat.
Now, listen, because this is worth the price of admission: “They’re hungry because they’re healthy.” And when we’re spiritually healthy we’ll also have a hunger for the word of God.
We need to get into the word and get the word into our heart and it will not only make the difference in our lives but it’ll also make us effective witnesses. Listen, submitted to His will, students of His word and then we also need to be separated from the world.
