Abusing God's Name
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. |
| 0:08.9 | Exodus chapter 20, verse 7. |
| 0:12.9 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:17.0 | Abusing God's name was written and read by Mike Whitmer. |
| 0:21.6 | Exodus chapter 20, verses 1 through 4, 7 through 8, and 12 through 17. |
| 0:29.6 | And God spoke all these words, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. |
| 0:40.9 | You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth |
| 0:46.1 | beneath or in the waters below. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord |
| 0:53.1 | will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. |
| 0:57.2 | Remember the Sabbath Day by keeping it holy. Honor your father and your mother, so that you may |
| 1:04.0 | live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not commit adultery. |
| 1:11.5 | You shall not steal. |
| 1:13.7 | You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. |
| 1:17.2 | You shall not covet your neighbor's house. |
| 1:19.9 | You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, |
| 1:26.5 | or anything that belongs to your neighbor. |
| 1:32.3 | Abusing God's Name |
| 1:34.3 | The vintage photograph from World War II, taken outside a town's Nazi headquarters, carries a warning for all of us. |
| 1:43.3 | In the photo, a comfortably dressed woman is crossing the street. |
| 1:48.0 | A man in a suit walks down the sidewalk, |
| 1:51.0 | while another has stopped to read a bulletin board on the corner of the building. |
| 1:56.0 | All seem oblivious to the large banner hanging above the headquarters front door, half as long as the building. |
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