Jase Robertson

And that is all through Scripture about the name.

Just think about all the different Scripture references that have that, especially in the book of Acts.

Jesus prayed it when he prayed in John 17.

I mean, it's a lot.

It's so much bigger.

As the Bible podcast I was listening to, it has nothing to do with cussing, although you shouldn't do that.

There's other passages that say, don't let filthy language come from your lips.

But this, it comes down to, and I'll finish reading 3 John, but I just want to make this point because I know my rabbit hole has been long.

But when he said, keep yourselves from idols,

Well, an idol is a shaped or carved image that we make from a created thing, or it's something that's created like the sun, the moon, the stars, because there's another place in Deuteronomy that says don't bow down and worship that.

Which people do, even today.

And you say, why is he putting that in 1 John 5, keep yourself from idols?

Because you have this intimate relationship.

You have now formed a partnership with the creator of the universe.

Through him being your father, us being children, through Jesus being your Lord and your example, and through the Holy Spirit living inside of you.

And this little circle of knowing him, obeying him, sticking with him, and then loving other people in all this.

You have that little circle going on.

And the reason you're keeping yourselves from idols is because you are supposed to image God.

You wouldn't create an image to worship.

You are the image of God.