AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World

The Third Commandment
Is God really first in your personal life? Results of a poll of
1,500 college students showed that they had two sets of values
toward which they professed allegiance: on the first level,
towards self, family and friends; on the second level, to mankind
(in general) and God. It is notable that God was least regarded by
these “educated” young people! Yet in this same poll, 90 percent
of those questioned indicated a belief in God. This prevailing spiritual
lethargy and passive disrespect toward God—and toward the
great magnitude of His office and power—is indicative of a growing
trend even among churchgoers and professing Christians.
People like to talk about religion and God, but they do not stand
in awe of His position and His name. And this spiritual cancer has
within it the seeds of the destruction of our Western civilization!
The Third Commandment Stated
In discussing the first and second commandments, we found
that we must guard against making a god out of anything—and
putting it in place of the true God. And we learned that God commands
us to worship Him directly—to walk with Him, to talk
with Him, to really know and worship Him in spirit and truth—
and to avoid using any image, picture or physical object as an
“aid” to worship or to “remind” us of the great Creator. The third
commandment deals with God’s name, His office, His position as
the great sovereign Ruler of the universe: “You shall not take the
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