The Sinfulness Of Profanity
"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who taketh His name in vain." (Exodus 20:7).
This is the third of the Ten Commandments. You may say the Ten Commandments were given a long while ago, and that we are no longer under the law. But the Lord said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy. but to fulfill." (Matt. 5 :17)
To kill, to steal, to commit adultery, to bear false witness against one's neighbor are all very gross sins. But profanity Is a far greater sin than any of these mentioned, for it is sin against our great and Holy God. Therefore, our Lord has placed among the very foremost thls strong commandment against swearing. Profanity Is indeed a mighty weapon of the devil. "No gentleman," says a noted holiness evangelist, "will ever swear, and for a woman to swear, it is too low and too contemptible for any language." No sin is more certain of awful, final punishment than the breaking of this Third Commandment, and yet is there any other sin so prevalent?
~Reader, why is it? Is it not because of lax laws, ineffective courts, lack of respect for the Word of God that these things are growing worse and worse as the coming of the Lord draws near? How it does reflect upon our law-makers that a sln so revolting as swearing should not be punished as a gross crime!
In Leviticus the twenty-fourth chapter, we read of one who was stoned for swearing, and his punishment was dealt at the command of the Lord.
In these days, too, God's judgments upon the profane have been most startling.
One evening a small crowd of men met during an electric storm in a country store. One young man of their number was especially profane. Someone warned him. At this, that young man went to the open door, and with oaths defied the Lord. Instantly a bolt of lightning from the skies laid the swearer lifeless. Upon examination, it was found that every bone in his body had been broken. And yet not another person in that store was harmed.
Oh, reader, ought not this incident to furnish both a warning and an appeal? Believe it, God and His everlasting Word have not changed nor altered: "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." -. R. P.
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