Honoring God's Name: A Call to Integrity

How many of you know God's words are the same yesterday, today, and forever? His word still applies to our life. Now, sometimes when we read some of the Old Testament, there's some things that have changed in that. But his Ten Commandments, they still apply to our lives. So we're talking about how do those still apply? And so we're calling this God's Guardrails. [00:31:43] (19 seconds)  #GodsTimelessGuardrails

But how many of you know, we don't just...us need guardrails on the highways how many know we need some guardrails for our life right and so that's why we're we're talking about this today and most of us we could probably attest to the fact that um maybe something in our life maybe one of our one of our greatest struggles or challenges some of our greatest regrets possibly might have been avoided had we had some good guardrails in life maybe some good moral guardrails perhaps some good financial guardrails in our life maybe some good relational guardrails in our life right and so so it's important that we recognize why god put this you know but here's the problem society culture often prefers painted lines not not solid right not not not a guardrail in other words let me just weave in and out of this as i see fit don't tell me what to do with my life i understand what i need to do hey guess what i am in charge and i can do a better job than you and you can't tell me what to do right that's what we prefer a lot of different times and as people and people of god oftentimes we act this way as well so when god moved his people out of bondage going back into the promised land he gave them some [00:33:02] (77 seconds)  #LifeNeedsGuardrails

What's in a name? Number one is this, a name reveals character and reputation.I may remember growing up, or your parents, or perhaps your coaches, or your teachers would say, hey, you represent me. Behave yourself. Don't get in trouble, because you reflect me, right? You'd hear that all the time. Don't embarrass me, right? [00:42:24] (23 seconds)  #NameRevealsCharacter

But there's there's names that carry authority in fact jesus he said this to his disciples in mark 16 17 he says in my name they will drive out demons he's saying listen there's power in my name power for you to stand in in this authority and then the third thing about names is or significant about it is a name signifies ownership right back in the day we used to use these things about this size they're made of paper they're called checks is anybody familiar with those things right it's so weird right how hardly anyone uses checks anymore but what do we do we would sign our name on there wouldn't we and signing our name signified this that we own this bank account we we are we we are able to sign this and give this as as as money if you will because it it carried this ownership with it right [00:45:21] (50 seconds)  #PowerInJesusName

How many of you you ever had a conversation with someone who they've stopped going to church altogether or perhaps they will never go to church because some dumb christian in their life use god's name to intimidate them to belittle them to to press them down or whatever the case may be see see that happens sometimes that's in fact that's been happening for a long time you can go back long before the crusades even but certainly during the crusades even to today oftentimes christians have been guilty of using god's name to intimidate or maybe sometimes we use it to manipulate or control someone else and that's using god's name in the wrong way [00:48:42] (37 seconds)  #MisusingGodsNameHurts

God's name isn't meant just to be a label.It's meant to represent his power and to represent his nature and his presence and everything of who he is. Psalms 29 .2 says this, give to the Lord the glory that is due his name. [00:52:29] (17 seconds)  #CallOnTheLordAlways

We can use God's name in a good way as we are adopted to carry his name.You know, he says this in 2 Chronicles, if my people are called by my name. In other words, you're called to carry my name to a world who doesn't know about me. [00:57:18] (16 seconds)  #GreatCommissionCall

Colossians 3 says this, whatever you do, say whatever. Not like whatever. Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus.It's not just in certain times. It's not just in certain places or with certain people. How many know it's supposed to be with everybody, everywhere we go, at all times, right? [00:59:35] (28 seconds)  #HeartShapesWords

You know, it's for freedom that he gave us these guardrails. It's not so that he can constrict us or keep us from things. It's so that we can have freedom to become all that God has created us and called us to be. So as we walk out of this place, as the church leads the building, can we just walk in that freedom, walk in that truth? [01:05:43] (20 seconds)