Matthew 5:33-37
33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.’
34 But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; 35 or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. 36 And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. 37 All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
Deuteronomy 6:13
Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name.
Deuteronomy 10:20
You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name.
The debate on taking an oath is memorable to most Christians. Notably the Old Testament expects God to be invoked in honesty.
"Most" of the Bible is built to make larger points. All of the Bible. The way paragraphs are put to other paragraphs is very important. This is the Bible. The Author is present as we read His Words.
Matthew Chapter Five. The need for sincerity in speech is placed by the explanation of Adultery and Lust. Jesus tells us we are doomed if we lust after someone and it's so bad that we should literally gouge out our eye or cut off our right hand. How many people have been recorded as Saints in the written history of mankind for gouging out what God has given them? None. The Saints of history do not remove body parts. The Saints of the Bible get recorded for millenniums of their flaws and sins.
The heart alone knows it's own joys and sorrows. Attitude from within. We continue to Adultery. If you are divorced, man, you just might have destroyed your soul. Wow, that's pretty difficult, especially for the people placed in impossible circumstance and situations.
What's needed? Grace. Mercy. God Himself. Jesus Christ.
Just as the Disciples were struck to the core to find a rich man is in danger of not having Salvation like a Camel through a needle's eye. We find all of our overt behavior throws us into the list of sins in Mark 7's list of internal sins (and external sins).
That is why today people vow and call upon Father God's name to make a vow or proclaim the truth.
We need to rely upon God when life gives us incredible turbulence.
Love can change hearts. If someone is divorced and looking for God and the person leading to God proclaims, "Oops, divorced? Well, Doomed Sinner." No one is going to receive the Joy and Love of the Living God. No one should be delivering the Judgement that person was incapable of announcing. What brings us to God and to our soul and to growth into His Kingdom? His Love. This is Redemption.
Prayer
Right now we have singles internally hemorrhaging from abrupt usage and departure of the "way we date today." Lives are potentially harmed for destroyed hearts. Swim with the sharks can cause death. And instead of addressing divorce recovery still in process during next marriage. Instead of addressing marriage help. Instead of asking, again, for people to wait to be married. Love goes incredible lengths for one another.
Instead, we seem to jump around screaming about Transgender. I'm 54 years old and in my life I've probably seen 20 transgender people. And I have never seen any adult sobbing outside a bathroom over gender identity. I bet you haven't dealt with this a whole lot in your life either.
What is this crazy behavior? It's because if we make the sex lives of others what we scream and obsess about, we don't have to face our own flaws. We don't have to deal with our own lives. If we dwell on what's far away and far off and make this our discussion and issue - we don't have to go home do our responsibilities. If I have to deal with my family things, then I don't have to worry about far away or your's. Gouge? Gouge out your own lives. Work at the internal attitudes.
We change our culture, our own world, our community by dealing with our lives and the people we meet by being kind and courteous. By being polite and working through the difficulties. By living the Gospels. We can even thank the rude, the bullies, the tyrants, and even the dishonest. Zig Zigglar looked at it this way, "If someone tells you 'NO", you are free to move on and find the "YES"." Be grateful for all you have in life, even if it's a problematic rude person? Well, they saved you time. And gave you an opportunity....
We only get hung up by expecting something Jesus said we'd never get - a problem free life.
We provide a path of solutions. Doing this - we get to go home and go to sleep at night saying to God, "I did this for You today God, You are my Gipper." God says in Numbers 6, He lifts up His countenance and smiles. We have been gracious to God! What we do for the least of the people we will never see in life again - we have done for God.
Luke 6:36
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
And using the colors of God's Throne told to us in Revelation as this and His favorite colors:
Abba our Father!
To the Lord God we Lift up our People we Love.
To the Lord God we Lift up the People God has given us.
To the Lord God we Lift up our Cares for His Love.
To the Lord God we Lift up our Trust and Expectations.
To the Lord God we Lift up our Praise and Joy.
To the Lord God we Lift up our Praise for Love given and received.
To the Lord God we Lift up our Thanksgiving for Salvation in Jesus Christ.
To the Lord God we Lift Up our Lives for His Goodness in Giving us His Kingdom for Eternity.
JESUS IS GOD. THANK GOD. AMEN IN JESUS. Jesus lifts up the World to His Salvation and we give Jesus GLORY.
Amen!!!
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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