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? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
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? (Music) ? PB:
You have your Bibles.
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Let me hear you say Amen.
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Hold your Bible up.
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Good.
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Make sure you're telling
the truth in God's church.
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Let's all stand.
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Let's read our scripture
for tonight and we're going to
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love letter number
three, Exodus 20:7.
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"Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain,
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for the Lord will not hold him
guiltless who taketh his name
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in vain." Love
letter number three.
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In other words, when God says
thou shalt not take my name in
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vain, God, in essence, is
saying don't misuse my name.
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In this life you learn a
lot about a person, a lot about
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generations of a person
by the issuing of names.
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In fact, you can learn so much
about a person by their name,
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even when their names
are hard to understand.
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My first name is Carlton.
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And my name means
settlement of free men.
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Now, I don't know if that
is clearly who I am or I don't
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know if that's clearly
understood in what I'm trying
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to be, but that's my name.
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Settlement of free men.
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And I do know that
my name means something.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Our names speak about being
not merely our title or royal
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role that has been
appropriated to us, but our
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names speak of our history.
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Our names speak of our heritage.
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I did a little research
on my wife's name, Danielle.
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Danielle's name
means God is my judge.
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God is my judge.
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Now, I met my wife
when we were in college
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together in Alabama.
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As I talked to her, the
only thing I knew about my wife
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when I first met
her was her name.
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As I talked to her more,
I learned more than just her
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name, I learned
about her family.
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I was invited to her home.
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I learned something about
her heritage, her parentage, her
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grandparents, her
friends who surrounded her.
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The more I got to
know her, the more a holy
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intimacy developed.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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She had mercy on me
and she married me, Amen.
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Now, when I met her
she was just Danielle,
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a young woman in college.
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Her name is still
Danielle, but her name takes on
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many different variations now.
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Danielle is my wife,
that's one of her names.
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But she's now also
our daughter's mother,
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that's another name.
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She's my friend,
that's another name.
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She's my
confidante, that's another name.
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My companion, another name.
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And if you were here the
other night you heard that love
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letter, she's my
lover, another name.
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Names open the windows of
a soul to see the being of
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a person, and I'm here tonight
to let you know that names
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ought not be handled lightly.
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Now, names also speak
of generations, of decades,
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historical events.
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Names do change
as well, don't they?
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You start off early in the
morning as Abram, but by the
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time you reach a new
city you've got a new name,
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Abraham.
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Sarai becomes Sarah, and
you learn much about people by
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knowing their name.
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In fact, most of you after a
while, you want people to call
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you by your name.
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Why?
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Names mean something.
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In Exodus 27
there's a prohibition to the
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misrepresentation of a name.
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Not to ptend, not to be
fake, not to be careless, not
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to be funny, but God said
don't misrepresent my name.
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If you love me,
call me by my right name.
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So what I did was, I sat down
and I looked through each word
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in Exodus 20:7 to
transliterate these words into
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my own words.
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Then if you read these words
in its original text and then
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you took on your own
translation, this is now how
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the scripture would read:
You are absolutely prohibited in
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taking the name of God upon
your lips in empty speech or
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in contemptible behavior and
the God who keeps his covenant
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with his people will not keep
his commitment with you if you
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misrepresent his name.
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Let me give you a piece of
history that may really help
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you appreciate the name of God.
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In Genesis 17 and in Exodus
3, God made himself known to
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Abraham when he said, I
am the Lord God Almighty.
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Which is really kind of a
definition of who he is, his
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name as being a person.
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In Exodus 3 we're also
given a name, and interestingly
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enough, God is not as
concerned about pronouns
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as he is with verbs.
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God says, I am that I am.
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So when God gives the
name Yahweh, this is the
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translation of I am that I am.
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But you know like I know that
Yahweh is really another name
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for the name of God, for when
God first gave his name, God
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only gave consonants
to his name. Y-H-W-H.
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And his name was off
limits to be pronounced.
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The only people who were
given license to pronounce God's
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name were the high priests.
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None of the Hebrews or the
Israelites, back in the day,
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would ever announce God's name
because God's name was holy,
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and he viewed this sacred in
such lofty terms that no mere
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human being would be
allowed to utter the name of God
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from his human lips.
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The high priests
would speak God's name
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only on two occasions.
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The high priests only
spoke God's name on the Day of
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Atonement and the
Day of Tabernacle.
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But not just
anywhere on that day.
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It had to be announced in the
temple, for understand that a
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holy name to a holy God is
designated to a holy place.
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Before the priest would even
begin to utter the name, the
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priest would go
through a ceremonial ritual,
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a ritual of purification.
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So when they got to the
name they would have purified
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themselves to announce the name.
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The secretaries in the
Bible, known as the scribes, who
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wrote the law, all they had
to do as copyist was to write on
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a piece of paper with a pen
what they had seen in the law.
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But they didn't do that.
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First, they make sure
that they got the skin
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of a kosher animal.
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Secondly, they made sure
they had special ink formula.
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Thirdly, they
purified themselves through the
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washing of their bodies and
the reciting of prayers before
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they even began
to write the law.
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And so when they got to
the name of God, they stopped,
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washed their hands, purified
their bodies, and prayed a
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prayer before they
even wrote the name of God.
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The name of God is holy.
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The name of God is high.
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The name of God is lofty.
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The name of God is not
to be mismanaged by anybody.
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Nobody is to misrepresent the
name that has been given to us
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and somebody tonight
knows something about the
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misrepresentation
of a good name.
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What am I saying?
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Hey, brother, would you, since
we've been knowing each other
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for a long time, we home boys
and all, would you cosign with
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me to get this car for
me because you my homie?
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Friendship instigates
agreement and so you enter
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into a contract that is to
be cosigned because your credit
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is less than favorable.
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You get the car not because of
your signature, but because of
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the cosigned name
who has good credit
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and everything goes well.
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So the car is purchased.
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The first months of the
car note are paid, but then you
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become delinquent.
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Two calls are made, one to
the man who has the car and the
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keys and the one
who has cosigned.
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Repossession comes up months
later because the contract has
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not been satisfied.
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Guess whose
credit gets messed up?
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The one who
cosigned, because now his name
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has been misrepresented.
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God says to us, if you love
me like you say you love me, you
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are not to misrepresent my name.
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God says, do not misuse my name.
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Years ago I saw the young,
stellar, talented golfer who's
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on decline,
eclipsing all records.
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Take his driver out, he
stands on the tee box and he
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makes a full swing.
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Perfect shot, right down
the middle of the fairway,
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down the slope.
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He goes now to his second shot.
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Same approach,
hits it on the green.
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The stands, the
people, they go berserk.
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He has a makable birdie.
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Mr. Tiger Woods takes now
his putter out, stands over the
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ball, he looks, he squats,
he focuses, he stands, he checks
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the grain, strokes the ball.
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It's headed right to the cup.
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The stands, you can see people
about to burst with elation,
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and then the ball, ever so
slightly, breaks to the left,
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then to the right,
down it falls, drifts off,
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misses by a hair.
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Tiger Woods yells
the name of Jesus Christ.
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He says, "Jesus Christ!"
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I get mad.
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I get upset.
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I would have rather
him saying something else.
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I would have rather
him use any other word.
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Why?
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Because he devalued the
name of the most high God.
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He dishonored the
name of the most high God.
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He desecrated the
name of the most high God.
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Somebody might be saying,
Pastor Byrd, you're taking
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this too seriously.
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It's just a name.
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It's not that deep.
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But you don't want anybody
misrepresenting your name.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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So then the question is,
how do we use God's name to make
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sure that we are not in
violation of love letter
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number three?
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You see, the misuse of his
name, God, Jesus or the Holy
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Ghost, is not to be
trivialized because the same
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name, Jesus Christ, that you
yell out at missing a putt is
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the same Jesus Christ who
can save you from your sins.
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If we reduce God's name to
no more than a filler for a
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missed shot, no more than when
we slam our finger in the car
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door, no more than when
somebody makes us mad, if we
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reduce God's name to this,
then we devaluate, we dishonor
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and we desecrate the
name of God and God's name
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is not to be misused.
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How dare you
misuse the name of God.
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So how do we misuse it?
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Maybe we misuse it
in one or two ways.
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Maybe three ways.
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The main way we misuse
God's name is through the
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devaluing of his name.
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That we take the name of
God and we empty it of its
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substance because of
our frequent use of it in a
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devaluated way.
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And we ought not devaluate
the name of God this way.
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In the book, "Ten Commandments
and Human Rights," the author
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speaks a stern word of warning
particularly to those of us
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who preach and teach God's
word, those of us who preach
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and teach the word of God.
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The author said, we devaluate
the name of God as preachers
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when we show off our intellect
of scripture and speak of God
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in terms that the only person
who knows the truth about God
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is the one that's
standing in the pulpit.
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And in our turn we use
scripture and our knowledge
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to sell books, tapes, CDs,
sermons and we keep the cash
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flowing in to
fill up our coffers.
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In return, we turn God into
no more than some deity whose
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role is to give me
more stuff in life.
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The continuing danger is this,
those who are taught from this
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perspective of God use his
name in misrepresenting terms
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are now turning his
name into something that is
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magical or winsome.
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Now that we name
something in his name and
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proposing that if I
predate it or preclude it
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with the name of Jesus,
then all these things shall be
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added unto me.
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This is a
misrepresentation of God's name.
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God's name is not to be looked
upon as some spiritual lucky
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charm to get me stuff.
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God's name is not to be used
as some magic wand for me to
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get what I want.
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God is God and his name should
not be used as a marketing
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ploy to get what I want.
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Another way we misuse God's
name and dishonor his name is
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we carelessly and casually
throw God's name out all
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over the place.
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What do I mean?
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Pastor Byrd, the
Lord told me to tell you.
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People always coming up to me,
the Lord told me to tell you.
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No he didn't, because if
he did he would have told me.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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You see, when the prophets
said, back in the day, Old
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Testament, the Lord said
it, it always happened that the
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Lord had already said
it to them and they had
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repeated what God
had already told them.
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And all of you Lord sayers
out here, you need to make sure
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that when you say,
the Lord said it, that the
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Lord truly said it.
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Better tread softly on
that phrase, the Lord said.
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It may make you sound
spiritual, it may make you
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sound holy, and the
spiritually ignorant may be
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very impressed with that.
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But one of the ways to
know that the Lord said it is to
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always make sure that when
somebody tells you, well, the
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Lord told me to tell you, make
sure you tell them, well, show
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it to me in the word of
God, because God still speaks
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through his word.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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God said to the laws and to
the testimony, if they speak
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not according to this
word, it is because they have
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no light in them.
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If God "has a revelation
for you," let me speak
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of myself first.
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As people will often
say, Pastor, the Lord told
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me to tell you.
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I quickly tell them these
words, I have no offense at
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what you're saying,
but if that's all God
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had to say, God could
have told me that this morning
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when I spent an
hour on my knees.
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I don't need you to tell
me that the Lord said I've got
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struggles,
because you know what?
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Everybody has struggles.
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You hear folk all the
time, the Lord told me you're
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going through it.
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Guess what?
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All of us are going through it.
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The Lord told me
you're facing an issue.
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All of us have issues.
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Don't misuse God's name and if
it's something you need to say
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to somebody, don't hide
behind the holy name of God,
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just say it.
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The Lord said it and we
just cower and cringe up.
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Oh, my goodness,
the Lord told him that.
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The Lord ain't told him nothing.
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Don't dishonor
God's name like that.
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We devalue it.
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We dishonor it,
and we desecrate it.
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And this is where
that cursing comes from.
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Getting quiet now.
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Desecration.
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Dishonor curses.
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Somebody said that when we
curse, well, let me not say,
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when WE curse.
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Somebody said, when you
curse, it's because your mind
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misfired, but we
desecrate the name of God.
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We dishonor the name of God.
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We devalue the name of God.
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So, Pastor, how do we
then honor the name of God?
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I'm glad you asked.
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It might be the
first place that we start.
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We need to learn how
to reverence his name.
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To understand what
his name is, and what his
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name represents.
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For God in his name discloses
himself to us that we might
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know him through his name.
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Through his
name God protects us.
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Through his name
God provides for us.
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Through his name God is
the one who grants us peace.
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Through his name
God gives us salvation.
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Understand, demons lose their
power at the name of Jesus.
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Every tongue must
confess at the name of Jesus.
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Every knee must bow
at the name of Jesus.
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Angels fall
prostrate at the name of Jesus.
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Death loses its
sting at the name of Jesus.
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Graves give up
victory at the name of Jesus.
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Satan has no say so
at the name of Jesus.
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So be careful how
you use God's name.
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Don't just throw it around.
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Honor it by reestablishing
it to its rightful place.
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Another way tonight we can
honor the name of God is not
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just to be conscientious of
it in speech, but remember this
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word in Exodus 20:7, it's
not just about conversation, but
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it's also about conduct.
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That we can also profane
the name of God through our
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erroneous conduct, our bad
actions and our bad attitude.
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For if you have a name as
a Christian, you're last name
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may be Smith, it may be
Johnson, it may be Williams,
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it may be Wilson, it may be
Byrd, but remember, all of us
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had our names changed when
we came to know who Christ was
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and who he is to
each and every one of us.
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I'm so glad that
God changed my name.
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Our names have been changed,
which means we're no longer
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Byrd, we're no longer Wilson,
we're no longer Williams,
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Smith or Jones.
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Our name is Christian.
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We have been
bought with a price.
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That means we are
Christlike in our conduct, our
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conversations and our character.
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There are three places where
you can remember the name and
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reestablish its holiness.
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What are those
three places, Pastor?
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The first place is in marriage.
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Everybody say marriage.
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For when we commit to one
another in marriage, we make
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the marital covenant before
God and, unfortunately, more
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people seem to be more
interested in the people that
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are there at their wedding
than the God that is there.
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When we commit to one
another in marriage it becomes
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a covenant.
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And guess whose name
binds the covenant together?
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I now pronounce
you husband and wife.
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And what God has joined
together let no man, or woman,
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put asunder.
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We can honor God's name
in the covenant of marriage.
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Somebody says, Pastor Byrd,
that excludes me because I'm
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not married and, guess what?
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I ain't through either.
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Come on, say Amen.
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A second place you can
honor his name that binds you is
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right there in the
baptistry, at baptism.
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I'm amazed at the people
who don't really understand what
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takes place at baptism.
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What goes on in baptism?
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There's an outward
symbol of inward cleansing.
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When you go down under the
water you are to go into that
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water trying to get as
deep in that water as you can.
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God, bury me in this water.
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God, let me get under this
water, because Jesus died for
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you and Jesus
was buried for you.
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And then when you get up, you
ought to fling your head back.
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You know, we
know how to do that.
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Fling it about and say,
because he got up out of the
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grave for me, now I
can get up and walk in the
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newness of life.
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But I'm not through.
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The preacher then lifts his
hands up and says, brother and
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sister, in obedience to God's
command, I baptize you in the
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name of the Father, in the
name of the Son, in the name
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of the Holy Ghost, and at that
moment God the Father, God the
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Son, God the Holy Ghost fill
you up, bind you up and make
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you whole and complete.
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And you ought to live up to
the baptism and choose to live
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your life in such a way
that the people in the community
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know that you haven't just
been baptized, but you've been
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filled by the presence
of the name that is above
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all other names.
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Pastor Byrd, I ain't
married, I've been baptized, but
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I ain't through yet.
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The Lord's supper.
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I'm amazed at Christians
who don't understand what
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communion, the
Lord's supper, is all about.
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Somebody is saying,
Pastor, well, preach us.
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Okay, I'm trying to.
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The Lord's supper is more than
us just coming in and getting
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a wafer and some grape juice.
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Understand that when the table
is spread, the bread and the
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juice are just symbols
that represent the presence of
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Jesus, his broken
body, his shed blood, in our
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acts of worship.
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And Jesus is present, because
if we are believers Christ is
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with us in the present
tense of the Holy Ghost.
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When we come to that table and
we take that bread and we take
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that cup and we say, this
is his body that was broken for
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us, and we take it and we
eat it, we are not just eating a
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wafer, but we are symbolically
consuming the will of Jesus
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Christ in our lives.
00:24:43.96\00:24:46.13
And when we drink the cup,
we are symbolically drinking the
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blood that has
cleansed us from our sins.
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What can wash away my sins?
00:24:52.86\00:24:55.06
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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What can make me whole again?
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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And then when we're through,
the word says, do this in
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remembrance of me.
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And me is always a name.
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And brothers and sisters, when
you come to the Lord's house
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and you come to the
Lord's table, you're not just
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conducting a ritual
of ceremony, but you are
00:25:22.23\00:25:25.23
realizing the healing power
of Jesus to walk in your life.
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Talk about a healing service?
00:25:30.50\00:25:33.26
When you sit at the
table, the Lord begins to heal.
00:25:33.26\00:25:36.26
That's why some of us know
we should have been cut off a
00:25:36.26\00:25:40.56
long time ago.
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Some of us should be dead,
buried in our grave, and the
00:25:42.10\00:25:45.70
only reason why we're able
to function is because there is
00:25:45.70\00:25:50.16
healing at the table.
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There's
deliverance at the table.
00:25:51.83\00:25:54.56
There's salvation at the table.
00:25:54.56\00:25:57.16
But then, there's
another table prepared for us.
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There's another table prepared
for us in God's great heaven.
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Because the Bible says that
eyes hasn't seen, neither ears
00:26:04.40\00:26:08.30
heard the things that
God has prepared for them
00:26:08.30\00:26:11.90
that love him.
00:26:11.90\00:26:13.36
And I'm going to sit
at the welcome table.
00:26:13.36\00:26:15.70
I'm going to
feast on milk and honey.
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I'm going to sing and never
get tired one of these days.
00:26:18.20\00:26:23.06
But there's another reason
we ought to hold to his name and
00:26:23.06\00:26:26.93
that is tonight because his
name is our passport to enter
00:26:26.93\00:26:32.80
into the kingdom of God.
00:26:32.80\00:26:34.80
Acts 4:12, I don't have
time to read it but take my word
00:26:34.80\00:26:38.13
for it, it says that there
is no other name under heaven
00:26:38.13\00:26:43.10
whereby we can be saved,
saved by the name of Jesus.
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Satan shrinks at his name.
00:26:49.30\00:26:55.80
You've go to
understand, his name is holy.
00:26:55.80\00:26:59.26
You can't just be calling
his name to call his name.
00:26:59.26\00:27:02.46
You've got to call his
name for a holy purpose.
00:27:02.46\00:27:06.36
Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in, what,
00:27:06.36\00:27:10.20
everybody?
00:27:10.20\00:27:11.46
In vain.
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His name is holy.
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