{"id":444,"date":"2016-10-02T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=444"},"modified":"2017-06-13T19:26:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T19:26:44","slug":"05-the-third-commandment-keeping-god-close","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/sermons\/05-the-third-commandment-keeping-god-close\/","title":{"rendered":"05 The Third Commandment &#8211; Keeping God Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>The Third Commandment &#8211; Keeping God Close<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Exodus 20:7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Meaning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take \u2013 \u201clift up\u201d specifically in a religious setting<\/p>\n<p>Guiltless \u2013 \u201c(morally) clean\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vain \u2013 \u201cempty; lightly\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Having the Name<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Romans 10:9-13<\/p>\n<p>Acts 11:26 \u2013 They were called Christians because of their obedience to Him<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three Ways of Breaking This Commandment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Profanity<\/em> \u2013 cursing<\/p>\n<p><em>Frivolity<\/em> \u2013 joking<\/p>\n<p><em>Hypocrisy <\/em>\u2013 not meaning it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When Sincere Worship Declines <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preoccupied with problems<\/p>\n<p>A Worldly spirit<\/p>\n<p>Disobedience to God<\/p>\n<p>A lazy causal approach<\/p>\n<p>False teaching (no respect to God\u2019s authority)<\/p>\n<p>A discontent, grumbling spirit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Any time we have God\u2019s name on our lips, and it is not currently burning on our heart, we have violated this commandment<\/p>\n<p>Never lift up God\u2019s glorious wonderful name without thinking about its meaning and sincerity believing it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Third Commandment &#8211; Keeping God Close Exodus 20:7 The Meaning Take \u2013 \u201clift up\u201d specifically in a religious setting Guiltless \u2013 \u201c(morally) clean\u201d Vain \u2013 \u201cempty; lightly\u201d &nbsp; Having the Name Romans 10:9-13 Acts 11:26 \u2013 They were called Christians because of their obedience to Him &nbsp; Three Ways of Breaking This Commandment Profanity \u2013 cursing Frivolity \u2013 joking Hypocrisy \u2013 not meaning it &nbsp; When Sincere Worship Declines Preoccupied with problems A Worldly spirit Disobedience to God A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[73,36],"ctc_sermon_book":[23],"ctc_sermon_series":[82],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[12],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-444","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_topic-ten-commandments","ctc_sermon_topic-theology","ctc_sermon_book-exodus","ctc_sermon_series-ten-commandments","ctc_sermon_speaker-scotty-backhaus","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/444\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}