Question 112. What is required in the third commandment?

 

Question 112. What is required in the third commandment?

Answer. The third commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of God's name, his titles, attributes, ordinances, word, sacraments, prayers, oaths, pledges, lots, his works, and whatsoever else whereby he maketh himself known; and that we think, meditate, speak, and write in a holy and reverent manner, by holy profession and responsible conversation, for his glory, and our own, and the good of others.

 

Regarding what the third commandment requires, Romans 10:9-10 says, "That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord (kurios) and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved." Confessing Jesus as Lord does not mean that one went from not believing in Jesus to believing in Him, but that one believed in Jesus but did not accept Him as the Son of God.

Jesus is Curios and Jehovah, but He who came into the world did not want to be called God, but wanted to be the Son of God. The reason was to accomplish the death of atonement.

Philippians 2:6-8 Who, being in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death – even the death of the cross.

If we believe that Jesus, who came to the world, is God, then His death as atonement is not required, but He is seen as a God of justice. However, if we believe that Jesus is the Son of God, then the requirement of atonement is fulfilled for the believer. The reason is that God is a God of love. If believers look to the God of justice, they will think of Him as the One who judges sins, but if they look to Him as the God of love, they will see Him as the Son Jesus who died on the cross. If believers who say they believe in Jesus die on the cross with the Son of God, then God’s name will not be put in vain. However, if they do not die with Jesus, but only believe that Jesus died as atonement for them, then God’s name will be put in vain.

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