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Profanity. “Profaneness has gone out into all the land” (Jeremiah 23:15). Important Words to Understand. To SANCTIFY = to set something apart as belonging to God. What is sanctified is then HOLY What is not holy is common Profane = “Outside the temple”
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Profanity “Profaneness has gone out into all the land” (Jeremiah 23:15)
Important Words to Understand • To SANCTIFY = to set something apart as belonging to God. • What is sanctified is then HOLY • What is not holy is common • Profane = “Outside the temple” • The two are not to be mixed.
Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10) • Offered fire “which He had not commanded them” (“profane fire” - NKJ) • They died before the Lord • “It shall be a statute forever through your generations, that you may distinguish between holy and unholy” “…make a distinction between the holy and the profane” (NASV)
Two ways one may be guilty: 1. Treating unholy things as though they were holy. 2. Treating holy things as if they were common.
Belshazzar’s Feast - Daniel 5 • “Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God which was in Jerusalem; [sanctified vessels] and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them” (vs. 3). • The writing on the wall (Daniel 5:5-6) • Daniel 5:23
Gods NAME is Holy – Special • “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain” (Exodus 20:7). • Leviticus 19:12 – No false oaths. • “Make no oath at all” (Matthew 5:34) • A Person’s name represents the person Profanity is possible in “worship”.
The Lord’s Day is Holy (Rev. 1:10) • The Sabbath was holy (Exodus 20:11) -- Reminder of the Exodus (Dt. 5:15) -- Strict rules forbidding common work • “Lord’s Day,” reminder of resurrection • Typical of NT, no rules stated • Day for doing things for the Lord that we have no time for during the week.
The Lord’s Supper is Holy • Jesus sanctified it – Luke 22:19 • Some profaned it – I Cor. 11:20-21 • Ways it may be profaned -- Changing the elements -- Changing the purpose -- “Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord” (1 Cor. 11:27 ESV)
Our Bodies are Holy ( I Cor. 6:19-20) • Not “outside the temple” – they are the temple! Purpose: to glorify God (vs. 20) • We have been sanctified (I Cor. 6:9-11). • We must live “as is proper among saints” (Eph. 5:3) Not as others. • We must give an account (2 Cor. 5:10) • Serious to defile the temple (1 Cor. 3:17)
Church is Holy – I Cor. 3:16-17 • Defiled by in unworthy members. • Defiled by human authority • Defiled by bringing in secular • “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise.” John 2:16
“Profaneness has gone out into all the land” (Jeremiah 23:15) “Let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints” (Ephesians 5:3)
Leviticus 10:1-10 “It shall be a statute forever through your generations, that you may distinguish between holy and unholy” (Lev. 10:9,10 – NKJ) “…make a distinction between the holy and the profane” (NASV)
Leviticus 10:1-3 • They offered “profane” (NKJ) fire. • Fire in itself is not sinful. • This was fire “which He had not commanded them” (vs. 1) = profane • “By those who come near Me, I must be regarded as holy” (verse 3). • Anything brought into worship “which He has not commanded” is profanity.
Other Examples • King Ahaz (II Kings 16:10) • King Uzziah (II Chronicles 26:16-18) • Doctrines of Men (Matthew 15:8-9) • Merchandising in the Temple (Mt. 21:13) • Instrumental Music • Entertainment in Worship • Recreation as work of the church
Two ways one may be guilty: 1. Treating unholy things as though they were holy.