WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:09.320 truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:14.080 The third commandment taken the Lord's name in vain, what could possibly mean? 4 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.200 Something that you may not have thought of? 5 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:17.520 Let's take a listen. 6 00:00:20.520 --> 00:00:27.000 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:32.360 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in 8 00:00:32.360 --> 00:00:36.360 Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 9 00:00:36.360 --> 00:00:42.920 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:46.360 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 11 00:00:46.360 --> 00:00:48.120 Here is Jack Hibbs. 12 00:00:49.400 --> 00:00:51.560 Hey, welcome to our podcast today. 13 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:58.520 And this podcast is one that is going to be something that you and I actually encounter all 14 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:01.240 the time way more than you might think. 15 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:08.440 And I'm going to be talking today about what is technically really found in the book of Exodus 16 00:01:08.440 --> 00:01:15.320 chapter 20. And it is the 10 commandments, but a very particular commandment. 17 00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:16.760 Let me explain. 18 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:23.480 There are so many people today, especially on their social media posts, their social media 19 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:32.520 presence that are literally not only incriminating themselves, I'll explain in this podcast, but they're 20 00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:40.120 actually creating an environment whereby they're damaging the witness of Christ, the witness of 21 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:49.000 the gospel and what it is to be a Bible believing God loving, God worshipping follower of Christ, 22 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.360 a disciple of Jesus. You see, Jack, what in the world are you talking about? 23 00:01:53.240 --> 00:02:00.360 Listen, the third commandment says you shall not take the name of the Lord in vain. We've all heard 24 00:02:00.440 --> 00:02:11.160 this before, right? For the Lord, your God will not hold him guiltless who makes his name or takes 25 00:02:11.160 --> 00:02:19.240 his name, I should say, in vain. You shall not take the name of the Lord in vain. The Lord will not 26 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:28.040 hold you guiltless if you take his name in vain. What does it mean to take his name in vain? 27 00:02:28.040 --> 00:02:36.440 Well, first of all, the word vain in English simply means in the area of pride and arrogance. 28 00:02:37.320 --> 00:02:43.320 It can mean that the word has multiple meanings, but that's not the meaning for this particular 29 00:02:43.320 --> 00:02:50.840 usage of the word. You shall not take the name of the Lord in vain. It means that you are to not 30 00:02:50.920 --> 00:03:02.040 declare his name in an empty manner. Empty. Think of the word empty. Empty cup, an empty bucket, 31 00:03:02.040 --> 00:03:11.400 an empty pot, an empty bucket pot or cup is void or it is a cup in vain. Does it make sense? It's 32 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:17.480 a cup, but the cup is actually useless because there's nothing in the cup. You can have a beautiful 33 00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:23.640 mug like one of our podcast mugs, which are beautiful mugs. Beautiful mug, but if there's nothing 34 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:30.200 inside of the mug, what good is the mug but to be a display? It is to be what put pencils in it. 35 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:39.000 So that would be the use of the mug in vain. If I were to use this bottle of water and use it for 36 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:46.360 any other purpose than what it was created to be used for, it would be used in vain. I hope this 37 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:55.240 is starting to make sense. If I were to use this cup to pour out the water and then burn the plastic 38 00:03:55.240 --> 00:04:02.280 to cook my food, that would be to use the cup or use the plastic, excuse me, in vain. You got that? 39 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:08.920 So you shall not use the name of the Lord in vain. You shall not invoke. You shall not call upon. 40 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:16.760 You shall not say the name of the Lord and the name that you're using, his name, 41 00:04:16.760 --> 00:04:21.800 you're using his name, you're saying his name, you the vessel, you, can I say it this way? You 42 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:29.880 and I the cup or the pot or the buckets are stating his name. In other words, we have the label 43 00:04:29.880 --> 00:04:40.120 on the outside of us. We have said, hey, I know the Lord or hey, I represent God and the Bible 44 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:46.280 is saying you cannot use the name of the Lord in vain. It has nothing to do with cussing. Isn't 45 00:04:46.280 --> 00:04:52.920 that interesting? Somebody will cuss and you're not to use the Lord's name in vain. We understand 46 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:58.680 what you mean by that and we agree with that. It is blasphemous to curse in his name, 47 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:08.920 but the technical meaning of the third commandment means you are not to mention the Lord's name in 48 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:17.640 vain as though you know him when you don't. And why am I bringing this up in this podcast with you? 49 00:05:17.640 --> 00:05:25.800 Because how many people, friends, listen, I'm going to be blunt and yet you'll have to agree. 50 00:05:26.520 --> 00:05:33.480 How many people do you know or I should say that you've seen online their social media presence 51 00:05:34.280 --> 00:05:46.920 and they say things like this? I am, you know, I love Jesus and I am a patriot and I am a 52 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:56.760 uh, you know, congressman, congresswoman, pull, vault, track and field, football player, whatever, 53 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:05.240 okay, office manager, it doesn't matter, but I'm this person and they say I'm a Christian 54 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:10.280 and I'm this and I'm this and you look at that on the surface on the label. Remember I'm talking 55 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:20.600 about label. Here's the label, okay? And the outside says I'm a Christian, but how do we know 56 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:26.520 what's on the inside? Well, we can find out and we go on the inside and we go to the inside of 57 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:33.400 their social media presence as an example in this day and age and you begin to look and you begin 58 00:06:33.400 --> 00:06:41.720 to see what's their conversation like. So for example, uh, I'm a Christian and I'm an influencer 59 00:06:42.440 --> 00:06:50.120 and I'm this and this and then as you go through there, uh, there is, um, there's a picture of them 60 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:58.680 very scantily dressed or very provocatively dressed or barely dressed and uh, but they're a 61 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:03.000 Christian, right? They're Christian, right? But they're half naked on their social media or they're 62 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:11.240 using words that are definitely not becoming of the Lord or Christian, right? Or, um, here I am, 63 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:17.400 you know, here, here I am at the concert and we had a great time and you know, feeling the buzz 64 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:25.800 as they're holding either beer or they're, they're wine or whatever it is and they're like, 65 00:07:25.960 --> 00:07:32.520 uh, you get what I'm saying. Um, there are so many people out there that are saying this stuff and 66 00:07:32.520 --> 00:07:39.560 I have to tell you that, um, one of the things that someone pointed out to me on one of my social 67 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:44.920 media platforms, I don't remember which one it was, but it was exactly what we're talking about 68 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:53.320 and this is actually using the Lord's name in vain. It's this, a young woman had said on one of my 69 00:07:53.320 --> 00:07:59.720 social media posts, oh, I love Pastor Jack, I go to his, I've been going to his church for years 70 00:08:00.440 --> 00:08:06.040 and just love it. And then the next couple of posts down or up, I don't remember which way it 71 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:13.800 went. Um, there was, she was, she was in this, uh, in this Halloween outfit, which was 72 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:21.880 not good looking, right? In the way of a very, very provocative. And she had commented and said, 73 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:32.760 um, I am one sexed up kitten ready to go and she's holding her drink. This is the same one who's 74 00:08:32.760 --> 00:08:37.720 said, Oh, I just love Pastor Jack and I go to his church. I've gone to his church for years. 75 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:44.920 Well, obviously she's not learning anything. And boy, does that send a mixed signal, but let's, 76 00:08:44.920 --> 00:08:51.400 let's remove Jack from the equation. Let's remove the church that I pastor from the equation. 77 00:08:52.120 --> 00:09:00.360 Just to say, I know Jesus and I'm one sexed up kitten ready to go is using the Lord's name in vain. 78 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:07.000 And there are a lot of people who have their Christian, uh, witness air quotes. Here you go, 79 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:14.360 Christian witness, but their lifestyle completely betrays their confession. And guess what that is? 80 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:21.320 It's using the Lord's name in vain. It's what it means. It means that on the outside, you are labeled 81 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:26.520 as a believer, but on the inside where your heart is pumping, the blood is flowing, the thoughts are 82 00:09:27.560 --> 00:09:34.200 dreaming, uh, and the real part of you is the inside of you, not what you label yourself as. 83 00:09:35.400 --> 00:09:43.240 And the church has suffered greatly over the centuries regarding this very thing, where everyone's, 84 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:51.400 listen, I was, I was in some state. It's, uh, recently, I'm sorry, don't forget, I don't, I can't 85 00:09:51.400 --> 00:09:58.200 remember what state it was in. And, um, I, I said, gosh, you guys have a church on every corner. 86 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:02.120 It's kind of weird though. Yeah, it was a Sunday. There's churches on every corner, but there's 87 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:09.880 like 10 cars in each parking lot of these churches that are on every corner. And, um, and oh, yeah, 88 00:10:09.880 --> 00:10:14.840 yeah, you know, yeah, that's right. Christian, you know, we're a red state or whatever they said. 89 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:21.640 Um, and I found this amazing, but the guy went on to tell me that all the liquor stores are closed 90 00:10:21.640 --> 00:10:28.120 on Sundays until one o'clock. And I said, what is that? One o'clock? That's funny. Why do they, 91 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:32.360 they're open, you mean they're open up at 9 a.m. every day of the week? Yep. But they don't open 92 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:38.840 up till Sundays until one. Why is that? And the guy said, oh, that's because that's when church is over. 93 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:47.080 I said, what? He said, yeah, yeah, that's when church is over. You know, the liquor store shop guy 94 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:53.800 could be a church or the people buying liquor could be a church church. And I just thought, wow, 95 00:10:54.440 --> 00:11:03.000 that's interesting. That's interesting because the picture has been presented so many times 96 00:11:03.800 --> 00:11:08.760 that for them, it's normal. Oh, yeah, the liquor stores. People don't buy their booze until 97 00:11:08.760 --> 00:11:12.440 after one o'clock on Sundays because we're at church on Sunday morning. 98 00:11:13.800 --> 00:11:20.360 Well, okay. Well, when you have that kind of outward display, but the first chance you get 99 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:26.440 the first listen, the first hint of freedom you get is freedom from who? Freedom from what? 100 00:11:27.400 --> 00:11:33.720 We went to church. We did our God stuff. Now we're free to do what we want to do. And I got to 101 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:40.120 tell you that is not Christianity. That's deception. And you want to be very careful about that 102 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:47.800 because, oh, I just posted my Christian verse on my social media. But if you look at all of my 103 00:11:47.800 --> 00:11:56.200 posts, there's many of my posts. It's got me doing this or doing that or I'm with my girlfriends 104 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:03.000 and we're all at this club and we're half naked. Praise the Lord. Oh, really? I don't think so. 105 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:06.920 That's using the Lord's name in vain. You might say, well, Jack, that's so legal. 106 00:12:06.920 --> 00:12:11.720 Let's stick your judging me, man. No, I'm not judging you at all at all. 107 00:12:12.760 --> 00:12:17.240 The word of God is judging you. You shouldn't listen. You got to pick a side. 108 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:21.000 Pick a side that you're going to represent, but you can't represent both. 109 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:29.560 Years ago, my goodness, 1993. We were in Moscow, Russia. 110 00:12:30.520 --> 00:12:35.800 And we were speaking to the crowds. It was beautiful. The wall had just come down and we were going 111 00:12:35.800 --> 00:12:42.680 in and out of Russia preaching the gospel and we were starting churches. And we had someone 112 00:12:42.680 --> 00:12:49.480 on our missionary on our missions team. And she was a young high school girl, very mature, 113 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:56.600 though, for her for her age. And she was speaking to a bunch of young people. And I was listening 114 00:12:56.760 --> 00:13:02.360 to what she had to say to make sure, you know, is she, you know, legit, you know, what's going on. 115 00:13:04.040 --> 00:13:09.320 And she said, you know, there are people who want to live in the world and live in church 116 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:15.160 at the same time. She said, imagine a picket fence, you know, a picket fence like this, 117 00:13:15.160 --> 00:13:19.720 a picket fence. And she said a picket fence. And she said, imagine trying to live with one 118 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:25.000 foot in the world on one side and one foot in the church on the other side. She said, 119 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:31.640 if you live like that, it's going to be very painful to be to be on either side. And I thought, 120 00:13:31.640 --> 00:13:39.880 wow, that is so good. She's right. Think of a fence with spikes on it. And you're trying to live 121 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:46.760 in the church on Sundays, but in the world from Monday to Saturday, you're going to be very, 122 00:13:46.760 --> 00:13:52.120 very sore. You're going to be very, very pained by that kind of relationship. And so you should. 123 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:56.600 So it's vitally important that when we look at the 10 commandments, 124 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:00.760 when we look at that third commandment, you should not take the Lord's name and vein 125 00:14:00.760 --> 00:14:05.640 for the Lord will not hold you guiltless, it's because you are representing him. 126 00:14:06.680 --> 00:14:12.840 So we would rather have you change your social media presence and go one way or the other. 127 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:18.840 But you can't do both because you're doing damage to listen, the witness of Jesus, 128 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:23.240 which apparently you hear you're they're not aware of or you don't care about or 129 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:30.360 you're hearing this now for the first time you're being convicted. And you're thinking, 130 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:34.840 I need to go back and clean up my social media. I'm just going to kill my page and start all over. 131 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:40.040 Hey, that would be better than sending a message of confusion. But how many people today, 132 00:14:40.040 --> 00:14:45.800 especially young people are being damaged because they want to be changed. They want to have a new life. 133 00:14:45.800 --> 00:14:50.280 They want to start all over again. They want to be forgiven. They want to not be like the world 134 00:14:50.280 --> 00:14:57.160 anymore. They want they want the ultimate alternative. Give me a reason. Give me an answer as to why 135 00:14:57.160 --> 00:15:02.600 my life should be changed because I don't like my life. I can't stand my life. I'm guilt-ridden. 136 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:08.280 There's no meaning and purpose. I'm sick of what this world offers. Give me a reason to live. 137 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:15.080 When we give them the alternative, which is everlasting life in Christ, that he transforms our lives, 138 00:15:15.560 --> 00:15:25.720 he actually gives us a new life. That when we say that and then we portray a life that's no 139 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:33.000 different than the world, do you understand the robbery we were committing? We are robbing people 140 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:39.160 from the hope of knowing Christ because of our bad witness. We are taking the Lord's name in vain. 141 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:49.640 We want to avoid that at all costs. I'm sure you know this, right? That if you apply for anything, 142 00:15:49.640 --> 00:15:54.440 even if it's summer vacation, lifeguard down at the public pool at the city, 143 00:15:55.400 --> 00:16:03.320 you know, people are going to get your name so you're Billy and you signed up because you like 144 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:10.360 to swim and you want to be a, you know, a safety person and so you signed up to be the lifeguard 145 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:15.320 at the community pool. As soon as they get their name, your name, they're going to do a social 146 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:23.320 media search on you. Everybody does this. I hope this is not news to you. Look, as a church, 147 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:29.640 if somebody applies to our church for employment, we first of all vet their social media 148 00:16:30.040 --> 00:16:39.080 to extreme degrees. Why would we do that? Now, here's what's funny. We actually had someone say 149 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:46.280 before, hey, that's, that's my private page, man. It's private. What does that do with anything? 150 00:16:46.280 --> 00:16:52.440 Ah, you want to come and work for a church, even if it's a volunteer. You want to volunteer 151 00:16:53.240 --> 00:17:03.640 to work with our youth at camp, but your social media is all about you drinking and smoking and 152 00:17:03.640 --> 00:17:12.840 innuendo and images that are definitely questionable and all this kind of stuff that if a youth, 153 00:17:12.840 --> 00:17:17.240 if a junior hire was to look you up and find that out, they would be stumbled by that. 154 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:23.400 They would be grieved by that. And we're not to do that as believers. Now, look, there are 155 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:26.120 many of you that are watching this right now and you're not a believer and you're saying you're 156 00:17:26.120 --> 00:17:31.000 an idiot, Jack, for even saying such things. That's ridiculous. Listen, I understand that you 157 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:36.280 don't understand. And when I was not a Christian, I didn't understand, but I'm talking to the Christian 158 00:17:36.280 --> 00:17:44.360 right now. And the Christian is someone who is not to stumble anybody else. And especially young 159 00:17:44.360 --> 00:17:50.440 people that carries with it a very severe penalty from God if we stumble or hurt a young person. 160 00:17:51.080 --> 00:18:03.160 That said, someone's reality and truth actually comes from them and it's posted or declared or said 161 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:11.400 when the, so to speak, hair is let down when they're alone and they're making their post. 162 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:16.440 That's the real them. You see, well, wait a minute, Jack, I know people who post things that's 163 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:21.320 not true about themselves because they don't really own that house or drive that car. It's all fake. 164 00:18:22.520 --> 00:18:30.120 Listen, watch out. They are revealing who they are. That's the real them. The real them is their 165 00:18:30.120 --> 00:18:40.040 liars. You see, when somebody says, I'm one sexed up kitten ready to go, what is she saying? 166 00:18:42.040 --> 00:18:49.480 I mean, I can only interpret that domain. Here I am. Come and get me. 167 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:59.640 If you say, Oh, that's really crude. That's not. It's perfectly in line with what she said. 168 00:19:01.080 --> 00:19:07.960 That's why she said it. No, no, she meant to say it this way that way. Listen, she said it. It's out 169 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:15.400 there. It cannot be rescinded and it's done its damage. You want to be wise and careful in this 170 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:27.080 day and age that when you post something, it's out there forever, forever. And so even to the point 171 00:19:27.080 --> 00:19:31.400 where somebody might say, well, I erased all that stuff. I threw it in my trash can on my computer 172 00:19:31.800 --> 00:19:38.760 and I erased it. I think you know this too, right? No, you didn't. You actually did. I mean, 173 00:19:38.760 --> 00:19:44.040 you did that. You did throw it in the trash can and then you hit like delete all that's in the 174 00:19:44.040 --> 00:19:51.800 trash can. Guess what? I was told this, by the way, by an FBI agent. I happened to have been 175 00:19:51.800 --> 00:19:57.960 involved in an FBI investigation as they were going after somebody and I learned this from them 176 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:03.560 that there's something that is called this guy said, I assume it's true. I don't know, 177 00:20:03.560 --> 00:20:07.800 I don't work in that world, obviously. He said, no, no, when you erase stuff, it actually goes 178 00:20:07.800 --> 00:20:14.360 into the well. W-E-L-L goes into the well. I said, what is that? The well. And he said, you cannot 179 00:20:14.360 --> 00:20:21.560 sell a computer or a phone or a device in the United States. The FCC works in conjunction with 180 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:31.160 the NSA National Security Agency and that is also of course connected to the CIA or the FBI or 181 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:41.640 whatever it might be. And when somebody throws something away, the reason why Apple can sell devices 182 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:49.800 in the United States is because National Security requires Apple to develop a product, same for Samsung 183 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:56.280 or IBM anybody else, that the authorities can go in and draw up something that you erased seven 184 00:20:56.280 --> 00:21:03.000 years ago. They can go get it. It's there. And in that investigation, I watched them do that, 185 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:10.280 it's quite remarkable. So you might say, why through that away? Just like the mind of God, 186 00:21:10.280 --> 00:21:17.000 it's always there. The only way that you can fix things is not on the FBI side. You'll never be 187 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:25.960 able to fix that. If you became a brand new believer today and your life has a history of very 188 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:33.080 bad things and you decided to throw it all the way, you can think the Lord Almighty that he's 189 00:21:33.080 --> 00:21:39.640 gracious and forgiving and that's awesome. But just know this, the world is not gracious or 190 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:46.120 forgiving. And what you throw away, the world will always know and the world will always have 191 00:21:46.120 --> 00:21:51.400 access to it, though you don't want it to ever be seen again. I get it. Glory be to God, right? 192 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:59.720 That when he forgives you, it is erased from his memory. So to speak, God knows all things. He 193 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:05.640 doesn't really erase his memory. But he says this as far as yours, as far as the east is from the west, 194 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:15.000 so far have I removed your sin from you. God says to us so that we might better understand. He 195 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:22.360 says, I have taken your sin and I've cast it into the depths of the sea. That's beautiful, right? 196 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:33.720 Computers don't do that. And what what it's been posted is posted. And I want to remind you as I 197 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:40.840 rep this up, we need to be wise and careful. You're not always going to be the age that you are 198 00:22:40.840 --> 00:22:47.480 right now. You might be 14 years old right now using social media. And because you don't have the 199 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:52.520 moral capacity, you don't you don't have the ethical capacity. I'm not knocking you. You just simply 200 00:22:52.520 --> 00:23:00.120 don't have it yet. At 14 years of age, you actually don't need it yet. But you don't have the moral 201 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:12.120 rudder or the ethical foundation of a 30-year-old. And so you'll post something or you'll say something. 202 00:23:14.520 --> 00:23:21.080 I love Jesus. He's my you know, he's my all-in-all. And then you're over here on Facebook or 203 00:23:22.040 --> 00:23:27.800 or TikTok or Snapchat or whatever. And you're just tearing somebody apart. 204 00:23:29.320 --> 00:23:33.320 Oh man, you know what? They this and this. And I hope they drop dad and blah, blah, blah. And 205 00:23:33.320 --> 00:23:37.160 they make me sick and blah, blah, blah, blah. That's there forever. 206 00:23:40.040 --> 00:23:46.600 And you've taken the Lord's name in vain. Please go back to your bio and erase everything about 207 00:23:46.600 --> 00:23:54.680 the Lord. Just please get just erase him off of your bio or off of your if you if you have a cross 208 00:23:54.680 --> 00:24:01.160 around your neck on your profile photo, please get a new photo and have a new photo without the cross. 209 00:24:03.560 --> 00:24:09.720 It's so serious. Do not take the Lord's name in vain. Do not misrepresent God 210 00:24:10.600 --> 00:24:18.440 and tell people you know who he is and that you love him when your posts, your comments, your 211 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:28.360 actions on the social media platform world betray that statement. Very, very important. Strong, 212 00:24:28.360 --> 00:24:36.840 strong things in the Lord says, I will not hold you guiltless. Wow. So we want to repent. We want 213 00:24:36.840 --> 00:24:44.840 to remove and then we want to rest in what he's provided for us, but you're not going to get that 214 00:24:44.840 --> 00:24:54.920 deal. My friends from the world. It's just not going to happen. So I want all of you to be healthy 215 00:24:54.920 --> 00:25:01.240 and clean and strong because there may be a day when you want to run, God calls you to run for 216 00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:06.200 governor. God calls you to run for president. God calls you to run for mayor. Do you know what they're 217 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:11.640 going to do? Your opponents are going to bring up something. Look, we've already seen those with 218 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:21.160 Supreme Court nominees and congressmen and secure secretary positions for cabinet members. 219 00:25:21.800 --> 00:25:28.680 You posted this post when you were 17, this is for real. You said this when you were 17 years old 220 00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:37.320 at a party where you went to a party that was hosted by some Cornell University students. You 221 00:25:37.320 --> 00:25:46.120 were 17 years old and you went and you said this, what? That was 35 years ago. The world will 222 00:25:46.120 --> 00:25:54.440 bring up everything it can to destroy you. Walk in wisdom. Do not any longer take the name of the 223 00:25:54.440 --> 00:26:00.360 Lord in vain. When you post, when you conduct yourself on social media, do it in such a way that 224 00:26:00.360 --> 00:26:06.920 honors God. Listen, you can biblically critique. You can biblically criticize as long as it is a 225 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:15.880 righteous exposure when someone is telling a lie about their political or their conduct or their 226 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:23.240 position. You can say this individual is lying on that. They did not do that or they wound up, 227 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:28.680 are you hearing me? That's fine. But you cannot just say, oh, man, you as Susie did. She stole 228 00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:36.520 Karen's boyfriend and man, she's a witch. She's a blah, blah. And just off you go, yikes. 229 00:26:38.280 --> 00:26:42.280 Listen, take it from an old guy who knows very little about social media. I know enough 230 00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:47.880 to see that a lot of people are using the Lord's name in vain. Let's stop that now. Let's just put 231 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:53.160 an end to it. So God bless you guys. Listen, this is kind of like a parental thing right today. Write 232 00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:58.600 it more like your dad talking to you. But hey, it's my pleasure. And I just want you to do well. 233 00:26:59.320 --> 00:27:05.240 And so be strong. Stand in the Word of God and conduct yourself by the grace of God and honor his name 234 00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:11.080 forever. His name, by the way, is the name above every name. His name is Jesus. And he is the Christ 235 00:27:11.080 --> 00:27:17.480 and he is the Lord. And he died in the cross for you because he paid the price for your sins 236 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:24.280 in mind that we could never pay. And that, listen, the price for sin is death. Jesus died for us. 237 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:29.640 He met that demand for us because we couldn't. And then he rose again from the dead on the third day 238 00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:34.360 for our justification. In other words, because Christ is risen from the dead, 239 00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:40.680 you and I who trust him will go to heaven based on the fact that he's risen from the dead. 240 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.080 Trust him completely. I'll bless you guys until next time. 241 00:27:49.800 --> 00:27:55.720 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. 242 00:27:55.720 --> 00:28:02.920 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more 243 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:05.000 and stay connected.