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Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

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Welcome to day two of this deep dive into the Ten Commandments. We're going to pick it up in chapter 20, verses 4 through 7. You shall not make for yourselves a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. That's the second commandment. Now the third commandment, verse 7. That's the second commandment. Now the third commandment, verse 7,. 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. So the second commandment is simply this you got to cut out the idols that we worship God alone. Now, I know you probably don't have actual little wooden carved idols, like they did in antiquity, in your home, and if you do, you should get rid of them. But let me ask you this Are you worshiping idols?

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Do you treat anything in your world that is temporary as if it is eternal, like what gets your first love? You see, idols are really rooted in the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. And so are there things in your life that your feelings take over and you know God says don't do this, but you do it anyway. You could idolize things like food or comfort or sex, are you? The lust of the eyes is when we set our eyes on the things of this world. Do you idolize money or possessions or stuff, or sometimes we actually idolize ourself. This is rooted in the pride of life, where we are just trying to make a name for ourself, even though we follow a savior that says if you want to be first, then go last. What is it in your life that is competing for your time, your affection and your attention competing with the Lord of the universe, your attention competing with the Lord of the universe? The commandment here is to cut those things out of your life.

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And then the third commandment is this watch your mouth. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain. Don't use God's name in vain. Now, this isn't just a commandment to not scream Jesus in an inappropriate way, and it's not just about the word GD, okay. This means don't let your life be about lip service without life service, because that is vanity. That when we stand in church and we lift our hands and we sing all those wonderful hymns that our God, kyle, just unpacked a couple of weeks ago, and yet we walk out of here and we live however we want to live, then we are taking the Lord's name in vain. When we claim the name of God with our mouth but we don't live like it, that is vanity. When we use the name of God to try to manipulate him for our own good, this is vanity and we have to cut it out.

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And the reason we don't worship idols and the reason that we don't use the Lord's name in vain is simply this because he says because God is a jealous God. Now, oftentimes this can confuse people because we're not thinking about it rightly, the Bible says that love is not jealous, that God is love, and yet God is a jealous God. So how can those things be true simultaneously? Well, when the Bible says that love is not jealous and that God is a jealous God, it means this that God is not jealous of us, he's jealous for us. Like God, does not sit up in heaven and see you get in your new truck and then cry out gosh, I wish I had what they had.

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That would be silly. God owns everything anyway, but God is jealous for us, like a good dad or a good mom is jealous for their child, and God knows that if he were to give us anything other than himself, it would not be good for us. The best picture I know of this is when a nursing mom understands that when the baby cries out, what the baby needs is what the mom has to provide, and for the mom to give the baby anything other than herself would be unhealthy for the baby, and none of us would look at the mom and say how dare you? I can't believe you would be so arrogant that you think that you and you alone have what that baby needs and what that mama knows is. No, I don't think you understand.

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I love this baby so much that I am willing to go through great sacrifice in regards to time and sleep and in my physical body so that I can give this child the thing that that child needs to grow and who God has called them to be. And so for us to focus our time, effort, attention and money on anything other than the one true God, god knows that is not what we need. And so are there things in your life that you need to cut out. Get rid of the idols and make sure that your life matches the words that come out of your lips to the glory of God. Come back tomorrow and we'll talk about the Sabbath.

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