No Greater Name

Rev. Bruce Brown

August 16, 2020

Exodus 20:1-2, 7

I. What’s in a Name? (Verse 7; Psalm 8, John 17)

II. Taking God’s Name in Vain (verse 7; Leviticus 24, Matthew 7, II Peter 2)

III. No Other Name (verse 7; Matthew 28, Acts 4:12)

If you want a simple summary of the third commandment – a New Testament exhortation putting in positive language all that is required of us – here it is: Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everyting in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” (Col. 3:17).  We obey the third commandment by living as Christians, by speaking and doing everything accord to the family name.  For when we do all that we do – and do it in Christ, for Christ, and through Christ – we show that his is the name we value, the name we love, and the name that is above all names.” ~ Kevin DeYoung