Thursday, January 10, 2013

RESPECT FOR THE FAMILY OF GOD (Continuation)


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       RESPECT FOR THE FAMILY OF GOD

 

Colossians 3:8

You must rid yourselves of all such things as these:

anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language… 

Luke 6:45

…the words that the mouth utters come from the overflowing of the heart. 

Timothy 6:20

Turn away from godless chatter. 

Psalm 111:9

Holy and reverend is His name. 

Psalm 19:14

May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart

be acceptable in thy sight Oh, Lord.

Psalm 8:1

O Lord, our Lord, how glorious is your name over all the earth.

  Psalm 112:2

Blessed be the name of the Lord both now and forever. 

       Most of us powerfully respond when it comes to defending ourselves; our honor, our thoughts, our political position.  It’s an automatic.  But our God?  Our Jesus?  In public?  Speak out against a bad language problem that is getting worse not better?  Well?

Well, if reverencing God is right, then what is irreverence?

What does the third commandment say about taking the name of the Lord God in vain?   Those Ten Commandments that so many want placed in plain and proper view. 

It could hardly be more clear - Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain.  So then, if we allow others to do so without making comment, do we not share some of the guilt that can and should be assigned to the moment?  Is it possible when it comes to profaning God to commit the sin of silence?

Sitting on a busy sidewalk in New York City was a blind man with a lantern burning brightly.  When asked why he simply replied, “I don’t want people to stumble over me.”   As a Christian, if you ever use GD or Jesus Christ as a curse, and I hope you don’t, but if you ever do, do people stumble over you on the way to increasing their faith, because at least for that moment, you have let your light go out?

The third verse of the 6th chapter of Isaiah reads, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”  It does not read, “Holy, holy, holy, are the men who so easily profane the Lord Almighty.” 

In Ecclesiastes 5:2 there is the admonition, “Be not rash with thy mouth, …”  When I was growing up in Virginia we had a phrase for those who were on-goingly profane, we called them “trash mouth.”  Trash God?  I don’t think so.

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His name was Telemachus and he often wondered why God wanted him in Rome.  But he felt led by God to be there so there he was, and then one day he found out why.  Swept along by a crowd he found himself in the Roman Coliseum where gladiators were murdering each other as a sport.  Lions and tigers moved about adding to the gore and mayhem.  The crowd roared its approval.  Of course, they approved.  It was an accepted norm.  An accepted habit.  And once something has the approval of the multitudes, well….

But Telemachus didn’t accept such behavior as a norm.  He was sickened by it all.  He knew it was a descrecration to the name of God, a living profanity and so he leapt over the wall that protected the crowd from the carnage.  Rushing forward, he cried out, “In the name of God, stop.”  It was the name of God he was using, but it certainly was not a profanity.  “In the name of God, stop.”  And the crowd began to laugh.  They thought it was something new.  They thought him a comedian, a clown, a buffoon, a prude. 

“In the name of God, stop.”   But they did not stop.  And then with the roar of the crowd calling for his execution one of the gladiators obliged them; placed a sword where the little man’s heart beat with compassion, and ran him through.  

It was now too late to save Telemachus, it was not too late to change public opinion.  The foulness of it, the indecency of it all, the very stench of it finally reached those who had not known that on that day they would hear a man cry out in the midst of their fun, “In the name of God, stop.”  But now, with his words echoing in their ears, they became terribly aware of the cruelty of this sport, and all those in attendance slowly began to leave. 

It was the last time in recorded history that there was a gladiatorial contest in the Roman Coliseum. 

 Those who use God’s name to speak out for what is right, are sometimes thought of, like Telemachus, as comedians or clowns or buffoons or prudes.  At the least certainly odd, or eccentric. To be mocked and looked down upon much more readily than those who use His name as an obscenity. 

“In the name of God, stop” Telemachus called out against the slaughter in the coliseum, but the world is full of those who are so comfortable with the obscenity of damning God they would argue that to let it bother you is ridiculous.  

I am not, of course, suggesting that saying “GD” or ”Jesus Christ” as a curse word is tantamount to a Coliseum carnage, but I am saying that when a civilization makes light of the Creator or our Savior on a regular basis, other obscenities cannot be far behind. 

Whether one personally defames God, or accepts it from others, the affect on America is obvious.  A nation of those who believe the name of God is glorious will certainly behave differently than those who don’t care one way or the other.  A nation that blesses the name of God rather than using it as a curse word it, how can it not be better.
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