GOD is a GOD of order. HE does everything with foreknowledge, knowing both the cause and the effect. GOD is CREATOR. GOD is FATHER. HE is SPACE. HE is TIME. HE is MATTER.
GOD is the SUBSTANCE of everything that we hope for in and
through JESUS CHRIST, YESHUA, ONLY BEGOTTEN of the FATHER, MESSIAH, THE ANOINTED ONE of GOD.
In Genesis, GOD as CREATOR, establishes HIS universal laws of order. HE establishes times and seasons; days and years. HE literally allows the HOLY SPIRIT-inspired author of Genesis to pull back the curtain on creation. As GOD conceived it. As HE spoke it. And, as HE established it.
The laws, patterns and cycles put forth in Genesis (1 and 2, in particular) is still honored by GOD even though we may not honor them.
Since HE establishes all things with foreknowledge and,after the Council of HIS OWN Holy, Infallable Will, it has to be clear to us that today's society (whatever today is), was fully in mind before the foundations of the world. Let me help you understand what this means, Nothing has changed in GOD'S mind, regardless of how much we perceive things to have changed in our minds, or in our society.
The creative and universal laws of GOD were established in CHRIST long before there was ever an earth for man to dwell in. When LIGHT was spoken into existence and the order of GOD established in the earth, in and through JESUS CHRIST (yes, HE was present during creation as THE WORD), and by the power of the HOLY SPIRIT, HE had already anticipated and accounted for the fallen nature of man.
We have to get over the notion that GOD has somehow changed because society has changed. HE has not!
GOD reveals HIS undeniable perfection to us. HE reveals HIMSELF through HIS WORD. The creative miracles of Genesis were performed by GOD in spite of the fact that HE knew we would sin, not because HE did not know.
Even as CHRIST-ians, we all too often take HIS Grace as a license for sin. We tend to act as if the rules have somehow changed because JESUS CHRIST fulfilled the law and redeemed us. This is, at least, ignorant...at worst, rebellious.
The grace of GOD to us, through HIS ONLY Begotten SON, JESUS CHRIST, is given for us to be able to abide and walk in the completed work of CHRIST. The law of grace demans a higher standard, not a lower one.
When JESUS CHRIST fulfilled the law, HE simultaneously became the Law. We are not let "off the hook" in any way, in fact, the bar has been raised. Yet, GOD in HIS Eternal Wisdom and with Foreknowledge, gave us grace through JESUS, MESSIAH, to live according to the new Standard. This "new" Standard existed before the beginning of measurable time; it was not an afterthought to it.
This Scripture is not about us yelling, "JESUS CHRIST!", when we stub our baby toe on the bed post, or get upset at our children. That is a use of HIS NAME. And, no, we should not use HIS NAME in that manner.
This Scripture is about the taking of HIS NAME, which is very different from using it.
When a wo-man marries, she takes her husband's name (or, at least she should by GOD'S law). As his wife, her GOD-given role and function to her husband is to be a support to him in the HOLY SPIRIT-led fulfillment of GOD'S assignment for his life. Ideally, she represents him and their household (publically and privately) in a way that is glorifying to GOD and edifying to her husband. She bears fruit of the seed that GOD sows into her husband (the one GOD created her exclusively from and for). She nurtures both husband and seed. She does him good and not evil all his days, and does not bring shame to his name. To do otherwise, would mean she has taken her husband's name in vain (without evidence of a marriage -- without bearing fruit -- without functioning in the role she was created to function in).
As the Bride of JESUS CHRIST, our role to HIM is the same as that of a human bride. By the power of the HOLY SPIRIT, we are to:
1. Represent JESUS CHRIST and the Household of GOD (publically and privately) in a
way that is glorifying to GOD and edifying to our HUSBAND, JESUS CHRIST.
2. Bear fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT. [But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law (Gal 5.22-23)]
3. Nurture both HUSBAND and HIS Seed: We are to exalt and worship JESUS CHRIST, and love HIS People.
4. Bless JESUS CHRIST and curse him not.
5. Bring glory and honor to HIS HOLY NAME and to the House of our FATHER, GOD ALMIGHTY.
6. Surrender continually to the leading of the HOLY SPIRIT, so that in all things, we are Living Epistles borne of the LIVING WORD (JESUS CHRIST) and the LIVING WATER (HOLY SPIRIT). NOTE: The LIVING WORD and The HOLY SPIRIT must be present at all times in the creative process of GOD. HE does nothing apart from the TWO working together.
7. Hallow (consecrate and reverence) the NAME of JESUS CHRIST before all men, including those in HIS House.
If we fail in any aspect of the role and function we have been given as the Bride of JESUS CHRIST, then we can be certain that we have violated and insulted GOD (not just HIS Law, but HIS Person) by taking our LORD'S (HUSBAND'S) NAME (JESUS CHRIST, NAME above all names) in vain, and GOD ALMIGHTY, THE EVERLASTING and ETERNAL FATHER, will not hold us guiltless.
GOD is the SUBSTANCE of everything that we hope for in and
through JESUS CHRIST, YESHUA, ONLY BEGOTTEN of the FATHER, MESSIAH, THE ANOINTED ONE of GOD.
In Genesis, GOD as CREATOR, establishes HIS universal laws of order. HE establishes times and seasons; days and years. HE literally allows the HOLY SPIRIT-inspired author of Genesis to pull back the curtain on creation. As GOD conceived it. As HE spoke it. And, as HE established it.
The laws, patterns and cycles put forth in Genesis (1 and 2, in particular) is still honored by GOD even though we may not honor them.
Since HE establishes all things with foreknowledge and,after the Council of HIS OWN Holy, Infallable Will, it has to be clear to us that today's society (whatever today is), was fully in mind before the foundations of the world. Let me help you understand what this means, Nothing has changed in GOD'S mind, regardless of how much we perceive things to have changed in our minds, or in our society.
The creative and universal laws of GOD were established in CHRIST long before there was ever an earth for man to dwell in. When LIGHT was spoken into existence and the order of GOD established in the earth, in and through JESUS CHRIST (yes, HE was present during creation as THE WORD), and by the power of the HOLY SPIRIT, HE had already anticipated and accounted for the fallen nature of man.
We have to get over the notion that GOD has somehow changed because society has changed. HE has not!
GOD reveals HIS undeniable perfection to us. HE reveals HIMSELF through HIS WORD. The creative miracles of Genesis were performed by GOD in spite of the fact that HE knew we would sin, not because HE did not know.
Even as CHRIST-ians, we all too often take HIS Grace as a license for sin. We tend to act as if the rules have somehow changed because JESUS CHRIST fulfilled the law and redeemed us. This is, at least, ignorant...at worst, rebellious.
The grace of GOD to us, through HIS ONLY Begotten SON, JESUS CHRIST, is given for us to be able to abide and walk in the completed work of CHRIST. The law of grace demans a higher standard, not a lower one.
When JESUS CHRIST fulfilled the law, HE simultaneously became the Law. We are not let "off the hook" in any way, in fact, the bar has been raised. Yet, GOD in HIS Eternal Wisdom and with Foreknowledge, gave us grace through JESUS, MESSIAH, to live according to the new Standard. This "new" Standard existed before the beginning of measurable time; it was not an afterthought to it.
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. (Exodus 20.7 and Deuteronomy 5.11, KJV)
This Scripture is not about us yelling, "JESUS CHRIST!", when we stub our baby toe on the bed post, or get upset at our children. That is a use of HIS NAME. And, no, we should not use HIS NAME in that manner.
This Scripture is about the taking of HIS NAME, which is very different from using it.
When a wo-man marries, she takes her husband's name (or, at least she should by GOD'S law). As his wife, her GOD-given role and function to her husband is to be a support to him in the HOLY SPIRIT-led fulfillment of GOD'S assignment for his life. Ideally, she represents him and their household (publically and privately) in a way that is glorifying to GOD and edifying to her husband. She bears fruit of the seed that GOD sows into her husband (the one GOD created her exclusively from and for). She nurtures both husband and seed. She does him good and not evil all his days, and does not bring shame to his name. To do otherwise, would mean she has taken her husband's name in vain (without evidence of a marriage -- without bearing fruit -- without functioning in the role she was created to function in).
As the Bride of JESUS CHRIST, our role to HIM is the same as that of a human bride. By the power of the HOLY SPIRIT, we are to:
1. Represent JESUS CHRIST and the Household of GOD (publically and privately) in a
way that is glorifying to GOD and edifying to our HUSBAND, JESUS CHRIST.
2. Bear fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT. [But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law (Gal 5.22-23)]
3. Nurture both HUSBAND and HIS Seed: We are to exalt and worship JESUS CHRIST, and love HIS People.
4. Bless JESUS CHRIST and curse him not.
5. Bring glory and honor to HIS HOLY NAME and to the House of our FATHER, GOD ALMIGHTY.
6. Surrender continually to the leading of the HOLY SPIRIT, so that in all things, we are Living Epistles borne of the LIVING WORD (JESUS CHRIST) and the LIVING WATER (HOLY SPIRIT). NOTE: The LIVING WORD and The HOLY SPIRIT must be present at all times in the creative process of GOD. HE does nothing apart from the TWO working together.
7. Hallow (consecrate and reverence) the NAME of JESUS CHRIST before all men, including those in HIS House.
If we fail in any aspect of the role and function we have been given as the Bride of JESUS CHRIST, then we can be certain that we have violated and insulted GOD (not just HIS Law, but HIS Person) by taking our LORD'S (HUSBAND'S) NAME (JESUS CHRIST, NAME above all names) in vain, and GOD ALMIGHTY, THE EVERLASTING and ETERNAL FATHER, will not hold us guiltless.
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