Mark's thought for this day - 04/09/2020 Shem

The Hebrew word "shem" means name. When scriptures says do not take the LORD's name in vain, it is saying something VERY POWERFUL. It says exactly WHO God is.. Listen. Share. Be joyful about who God is!
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Mark, well said, re never taking God's name lightly and on the need to meditate on the character of God. You mention His deliverance of His people out of Egypt: shouldn't we therefore also dwell on His judgment of the majority of them in the desert, of whom Paul says, "But with most of them God was not well pleased, [underline "not well pleased"] for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness" (1 Cor. 10:5 ff.)? Now, Paul was as adamant as you are on Christ crucified for the sins of His people and the world, but did He not also emphasize God's righteous judgment as well, writing, "Now all these things [referencing the death of 23,000 in one day from snake bites] happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition [underline "our admonition"], upon whom the ends of the ages have come." ?
On a related note: you may have been influenced by N.T. Wright's view of the righteousness of God as His covenant-faithfulness (?). That is indeed true, but it's only part of the definition of His righteousness. As Mark Seifrid has deftly argued (see "Justification and Variegated Nomism, Vol. 1, pp. 415-442), the righteousness of God cannot be limited to covenant-faithfulness, but is fundamentally grounded in His character as Creator-King-Judge of the world. Picking up on that thought, does not Scripture warn us clearly, in Hebrews 10:26-31: "For if we [underline "we"] sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment..." as does Jesus Himself that "If anyone does not abide in Me, his cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and thrown them into the fire, and they are burned" (John 15:6)?