Vowing in the Name of God
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
It is a sacred and solemn matter to swear an oath or take a vow in the name of God. Today, R.C. Sproul explains why we should take it seriously when we invoke our Creator’s holy name.
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| 0:00.0 | A sacred vow uttered in the name of God is not only a human promise of great seriousness, |
| 0:13.0 | but it is an act of worship. |
| 0:19.0 | Marriage vows are broken every night in secret, |
| 0:23.6 | but there's nowhere you can go to escape the eye of God. |
| 0:32.6 | Now God says, when you take an oath, |
| 0:36.6 | when you make your vial, you better not ever take the name |
| 0:44.2 | of the Lord your God in vain. |
| 0:49.0 | Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing about the truth? |
| 0:52.5 | So help you the altar? |
| 0:56.1 | Is that what we say? |
| 0:58.2 | Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? |
| 1:01.7 | So help you the hairs on your head? |
| 1:05.3 | It's do you swear to tell the truth? |
| 1:08.1 | The whole truth and nothing but the truth. |
| 1:12.2 | So help you, God, when we take a vow to speak the truth in the bearing of solemn witness |
| 1:22.7 | and testimony in a legal courtroom, we swear not by the earth, for it is the Lord's footstool, not by |
| 1:30.3 | the altar, but by God himself. |
| 1:35.3 | Why? |
| 1:38.3 | Our fathers understood that a sacred vow uttered in the name of God is not only a human promise of great seriousness, |
| 1:53.1 | but it is an act of worship. |
| 1:57.6 | How is that? |
| 1:59.1 | The Jew understood that. That it is an act of worship because whenever we come together and |
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