The NXR Podcast - August 21, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - The Type Of Swearing That Scripture Condemns


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2 minutes

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Word count

449

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19

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The kind of swearing that Jesus utterly condemns in the New Testament is swearing by anything other than swearing upon the lord. And then, the religious rulers of Jesus' day were like they were giving their word with their fingers crossed behind their back trying to escape their promises.

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00:00:23.480 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform thanks the kind of swearing that jesus
00:00:30.400 utterly condemns is swearing by anything other than swearing upon the lord right swearing on
00:00:37.020 the temple and then you know really you know the the religious rulers of jesus day it was like they
00:00:43.100 were giving their word with their fingers crossed behind their back trying to escape their promises
00:00:48.500 escape their vows so they would say oh well i swore by the temple but you're not actually
00:00:52.800 bound by your oath unless you swear by the gold of the temple. Or, oh, I swore by the altar,
00:00:59.400 but you're not really bound by your word unless you swear by the sacrifice that is laid upon
00:01:04.840 the altar. And this is just what the Pharisees and Sadducees and religious rulers of Jesus' day
00:01:10.920 were doing. They were constantly taking the commandments of God, and they were meticulously 0.87
00:01:15.560 twisting them and making them, well, it's like the IRS in our day, right? If you want to oppress
00:01:22.840 people and you want to find a way to basically hold others bound, but you not be bound yourself,
00:01:29.420 what you do is you just extrapolate, right? You have a certain law code that's, you know,
00:01:36.560 1,500 pages long. G.K. Chesterton once famously said, if man will not have 10 commandments,
00:01:43.560 he will have 10,000 commandments.
00:01:46.440 And that's what the religious rulers of Jesus' day were doing,
00:01:49.160 and that's what rulers and tyrants continue to do in our day as well,
00:01:53.020 is they take simplicity that God speaks to us in his word,
00:01:57.540 they extrapolate it out,
00:01:59.240 they add immense overburdening complexity to the word of God
00:02:04.940 to where essentially everyone is now bound by God's law
00:02:09.200 and cannot escape it except for them.
00:02:12.880 They know the tricks of the trade.
00:02:14.680 They know the cheat codes.
00:02:17.160 They know the hacks.
00:02:19.060 You know, so everyone else now is making vows and bound to their word.
00:02:22.540 But the Pharisees have their neat little trick of, well, we make oaths too,
00:02:26.800 but we have the fingers crossed behind our back tactic.
00:02:29.680 So you have to keep your word, but we never actually do.
00:02:33.200 That's the kind of swearing and oath taking that Jesus expressly and utterly condemns in the New Testament.
00:02:42.060 You