🚫 Using God's Name in Vain: Self-Love and Misguided Wealth Acquisition

🚫 Using God's Name in Vain: Self-Love and Misguided Wealth Acquisition

Key Concepts and Organization

• Question: What does it mean to use God's name in vain?

• Definition of Vain: "Vain" means self-love.

• The Act: When you use God's name, Jehovah, in order to acquire wealth for yourself.

• The Problem: And not using it for God's intended purposes.

• Intended Purposes: Helping the poor and needy.

• Our government is running around with "In God We Trust" on vehicles and robbing the people.

• That is using God's name in vain.

📜 Related Scriptures

• Exodus 20:7: 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. (This is the direct commandment.)

• James 2:15-16: If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? (Relates to the failure to help the needy.)

• 1 Timothy 6:9-10: But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil... (Relates to the desire for personal wealth.)

📜 Related Scriptures

• Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness. From the prophet even unto the priest, everyone deals falsely.

• Micah 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet will they lean upon the Lord and say, "Is not the Lord among us?" No evil can come upon us.

Isaiah 56:11

Yea, they are greedy dogs that can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.