Special Event – Don’t Steal from God’s CV: Mark Lanier, 03/08/26

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[00:00:00] At, at the end of class last week, a kind gentleman came up to me and he said, okay, I wanna understand what it means to put something on my CV or from on God. I thought that's a really great question. That's a driving question and I think it's motivated me to write the class for today. So today, uh, the class is entitled, don't Steal from God's cv.

CV is an abbreviation for a curriculum VT tie, that's Latin for things that surround your life. In other words, it's a fancy academic way of saying your resume. Uh, except resumes are more work oriented and a curriculum, VIT has fuller details than just your work. It's got your education in different ways, your experiences in different ways.

Now, in class today, I'll alternate [00:01:00] between calling a CV or curriculum vit or a resume because it just depends upon what mood I was in and the wee hours of the dawn when I was typing. So with that, let me begin now. Here's your first story. I'm trying the opioid, the national opioid litigation. Look at this.

And now the remote control doesn't work. Okay. This, this is interesting. So my, my entire computer has just frozen, so, um, we can still teach this class. Yes. If we don't have it, don't worry. But uh, uh, it is a cause for concern for work. Um, okay. Alright, we're gonna just start back over again. Hold on. We have technology.

We may make it work. Okay, now we want, [00:02:00] can't see up close with these on for interview. Let's go here. Let's go there. Alright. Yeah, say that. Let's see if the remote works. Bam. Okay, so I was trying the national opioid case. Yeah. Thank you Lord. I was trying the national opioid case up in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a real important case and, and it was, it was gonna decide whether or not, uh, uh, pharmacies had responsibility under the law and, and under the facts for just pouring opioids out into the street.

And in the defense part of the case, they called a doctor to the stand to testify. Now, the doctor, as most experts do in a courtroom, produced his cv, his curriculum, vit his. Professional resume. And we had a copy of it and it was put on the projector for the jury to [00:03:00] see, and is this you and are you this great famous doctor and is that your Hollywood smile?

And you know all of this? And, and, and, and he was there and he, he, he was polished man. He was good. He was like.

You know, and I mean, he had the tan, he had the hair, he had the i, the whole thing. He was good. But we started looking at his CV and he doesn't really have any articles he'd written. And most experts had published articles. He only had one. And we looked up the article and he hadn't written it. He wasn't really the author.

He claimed he'd written it, but he had not. He, he had not. So my people in the back room, they pull the article up, they print it out, they bring it to me. I get up there and I point it out on his cv. Hey, you claim you wrote this? [00:04:00] Yes. You're trying to be an expert because you, you wrote this? Yes. I said, you didn't write this here.

It's. Your name's not listed among these seven authors. He said, well, that must be a different article. I said, it's got the exact same title. He said, isn't that weird that two articles could be written with the same title? I said, yeah, it's published in the exact same journal. Well, now that is kind of weird, but you know, journals do weird things with the exact same volume and date.

Well, you know, maybe, maybe, uh, maybe my office miswrote it, maybe, maybe my article by that name was published in a different journal. I said, well, we have Google here. Let's just actually, PubMed is what they would use for this. So I said, let's put that down. Let's pull it up. Oh gee, one article exists with that name and you didn't write it.

You know, [00:05:00] he, we caught him fudging his resume. And it destroyed his credibility beyond what his perfect smile could win. And, and, um, my daughter, Rachel was trying the case with me and Rachel was on the airplane with him after court 'cause they were flying back to California, LA and she calls me from the airport dad.

So and so's on the same plane with me, and I said, are you gonna go up and talk to him? No, I'm afraid he's gonna knife me after what you did. I said, just hide, honey. But I want to talk to you today about don't steal from God's cv. Don't take articles he's written and put it on yours like you wrote it yourself.

Now, here's where this comes from. We're gonna do three things here. The first thing I want to cover with you is your name [00:06:00] as your cv, your curriculum vita, your resume, and then I want to talk about God's cv, his curriculum, vita or resume. And then finally, the implications for this, for where we are today and what we're gonna do.

So name as your cv. Here's what we have. We have this English Word name. Nice word in English. I have a name that's a Jim Croci song, by the way, I think Hebrew shim is the operative word that we're dealing with shim. Now in English, when I talk about a name, people generally assume I'm talking about a label.

Um, and that's true whether it's, uh, the name of, of, uh, a person. Or the name of a thing. You know, like when I talk about Lubbock, Texas, [00:07:00] people know I'm talking about the hub of the plains. That's the label, the center of the universe, maybe name. We talk about it identifying someone. We talk about it as an identifier.

Okay? Name. It's what we call someone. If I call out, uh uh, Gwen Chalet, she knows who I'm talking about. If I call out her husband Larry, he knows who I'm talking about. A title, pastor Jarret, you know, name can be a title as well. In Hebrew, it's something a bit different. I'm not saying it can't be those things.

But the word itself, remember, we've got about a 6,000 word vocabulary in Hebrew doing work for about [00:08:00] 35,000 English words for most of us. So every word does multiple levels of duty. The Hebrew word Shem is not as much a label as it is your track record. This is why it's part of your resume. It's what you've done.

It's where you've been, and it's not so much, it identifies a person as much as more inclusively. It defines a person when God, Moses asked God, uh, on Sinai, Hey, they're gonna wanna know your name. It wasn't, uh God. They're gonna want to know the label so they can know what to call you because it identify, they're gonna want to know who you are.

They're gonna want to know you. It's not as much only what we call someone. It's also who someone shows [00:09:00] themselves to be. It's wrapped up in that Hebrew word name, and so the closest I can come to it in some ways is it's your curriculum. Vit your cv, it's your resume. It's, it's, it's not just your title.

It's not just your, your label. It's not just your identifier, but it's your track record. It's your history, it's your character, it's who you are in your essence and being and action. That's all wrapped up in this Hebrew word Shem. But how is a translator gonna handle that? Huh? We gotta come up with one word.

So we just use the English word name figure that's as close as we come. And so we get passages like this from Psalm nine, verse 10. Those who know your talking to God, your name. Put their trust in you. Here's that word, shim [00:10:00] in this form. It's got the, your at the end, so they change the vowel sounds, but you can look at it and see what looks like a w with a dot over the right corner.

And what looks like, well, it's an MI don't know what it looks like, but it's an M sound. Um, that kind of looks like an m maybe. But you decide what that looks like, you'll recognize those letters over and over the hin and the mem in Hebrew. But those who know your name, he's not saying, those who know how to say Yahweh will put their trust in you.

He's not saying those who know how to say the Hebrew name of God will put their trust in you. Anybody who reads Hebrew can say the Hebrew name of God.

What he's saying is knowing God's name, not knowing his title. It's knowing his history. It's knowing his essence. It's knowing his cv. [00:11:00] If you truly have an intimacy with where God has been and what he's done and who he is and what his character is, you will trust him. It's God's biography in a very real sense.

Those who know your name. Put their trust in you. Those who know your cv, those who know your history, those who know your character, those who know the kind of being you are will trust you.

Now, let's play with this for a minute, okay? I'll give you a very familiar passage to many of you. Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He guides me in or guides me in paths of righteousness for his [00:12:00] names sake. Here's our word name.

It's got his at the end. Ignore that. But you see your W type thing with the dot and the thing that, I can't tell you what it looks like, but you have to decide for yourself the mim. That's his name in this form. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Well, what do we do with that? God's gonna lead me in paths that are the right paths because I'm good enough.

Because I'm strong enough because by golly, people just like me. No, this is no. For those of you old enough, Stuart Smalley. He leads me in paths of righteousness because of who he is. It's because you look at his track record, that's who God is. God's a righteous God. He's only gonna lead you in paths of righteousness.

That's how God shows himself to be [00:13:00] who he is. That's what belongs on his CV and resume. Where God leads you goes on his cv, and so he's gonna lead you in paths of righteousness because that's going on his cv, because that's going on his resume, because that's who he is. And people need to say, oh, look at that.

God led him in a path of righteousness. God led her in a path of righteousness. It goes on his resume, heaven forbid his resume say God led them to do something unrighteous and unholy. God doesn't do that. Got it. Pretty understandable because I want to get into some deep water here because ready, look at some of these passages of scripture holding onto this Hebrew idea of what Shem name means.

Isaiah 48 verses nine through 11. For my [00:14:00] name again, see that W with the dot and the funny looking letter, I can't describe Shem for my name sake. I'm deferring my anger for my own sake, for my own sake. He says it twice there as emphasis.

Lani Lani. For my own sake. For my own sake. Lani. Lani. For my own sake. For my sake, I do it for how should my name and, and it's assumed in the context there, so you're not gonna see it there. But how should my name be Profaned? My glory I won't give to another. For my sake. For my sake. Well, what do we have here?

My name for my name's sake, because [00:15:00] this is my track record. This is gonna show who I am. This goes on my resume, this goes on my cv. This is a definition of me. This is me showing who I'm gonna be. I'm gonna defer my anger. I'm not deferring my anger, Israel, because you deserve it. I'm not deferring my anger, Israel, because you've got some penance that you've done.

I'm doing it because this is my reputation on the line. This is my CV on the line. God says, that's why I'm doing this. Look at this Ezekiel passage, thus says the Lord God. It's not for your sake. Oh, house of Israel that I'm about to act. I am not doing this because you earned my love. I'm not doing this because you earned my devotion.

I'm not doing this because you're so charming. I'm not doing this because you're so holy. I'm about to act for the sake of my holy name, my shi Kaci. [00:16:00] This is my holy name. That's the reason I'm doing it again. You see the word name followed by holy. Name the W with the dot and that you say, wait, there's a little bit different in the letter.

That's 'cause it's the last, when you write it at the end of a word, just trust me, it's the same letter. Okay? It's a me Suffolk. If you want to learn a Hebrew name for it. Um, he's saying, I'm, I'm gonna act, but I'm not acting for you. So that you can walk around and say, look how good we are. Look at our nation.

Look, I'm doing this for the sake of my holy name, which you've profaned among the nations to which you came. But I will vindicate the holiness of my great name. Which has been profaned among the nations, which you've profaned among them, so that the nations will know I'm the Lord. [00:17:00] Israel was supposed to uphold the name of God, the reputation of God, the character of God.

They had failed to do it, and God says, so I'm gonna act because I've gotta fix my name that you've messed up. I've gotta fix my reputation that you have spoiled. I've gotta fix my character by my character. What you have shown to and disparaged. That's what he says here. So he says, it's not for your sake, it's for the sake of my name.

It's for the sake of my track record. It shows who I am. It's my CV here, it's my resume here. I'm gonna vindicate that holiness of my great name, my track record, who I am. I'm gonna vindicate it. I'm gonna show it to be right. And then you flip back a few chapters earlier. Ezekiel 20, look at this. This is cool.

[00:18:00] This is cool because this exact phrase is found three times in this chapter. It's used over and over again. There are your two letters for name, and three times. In this chapter, Ezekiel says, quoting God, I acted for the sake of my name. That it should not be profaned in the side of the nations three times.

Verse nine, verse 14 and verse 22, 3 times he says, I'm acting for the sake of my track record. I'm acting because of who I am. I'm acting because of my resume. I'm acting because of my cv. Side note, why do you think we pray in the name of Jesus? Because it's his track record. It's who he is. It's who he's shown himself to be.

It's his resume that allows us to go in front of God. [00:19:00] More of that later, Moses is leading the people through the the wilderness. God says, I'm just thinking about wiping these people out. They haven't lived up to their end of the bargain. I'm gonna wipe 'em out and I'm just going to bring my Messiah another way.

I'm going a different route. These people need to just be destroyed, but God doesn't does do that. Do you know why? Because his resume was at stake and he had said he was gonna do it this way, and an all knowing God ought to be able to put that together. And so you read the account and he says to Moses, he says, I'm not gonna destroy him for the sake of my name, because I don't want everybody in history to say, yeah, God brought the Israelites out of bondage, then wiped them out.

He says, that's not going on my resume. [00:20:00] Now, how about this one? Psalm eight. Oh Lord. Yes, our Lord. How majestic is your name in all the earth? How a dear is your name in all the earth? What's the psalm is saying there? How majestic is your track record is what you've done, but here it's in all the earth ettes.

In all the earth. When you see that beautiful sunrise, when you see that beautiful sunset, when you see those majestic mountains, heavens, when you sing America the beautiful oh, beautiful. For spacious skies, amber waves of grain, purple mountains, majesties [00:21:00] above the fruited plains. America. America, God, shed his grace on thee.

It's God's resume. It's his track record. All of the beauty of the earth. That song America can be sung in any corner of the globe. Oh, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan. God shed his grace on me anywhere you see beauty and goodness. God's name is being reflected. It's his track record. It's who he shows himself to be.

That's what name means. Got it. Then let's move on. Let's talk about God's cv. There's one place in particular where God announces his cv. He kind of reads from it, if you will. Or proclaims it to be written [00:22:00] down. Take a memo. It's as if he says, take a memo. Here's my cv. Jesus. Moses has taken the 10 commandments down.

He smashed them because the people have made the golden calf and all of that mess, and he goes back up. God says, I want you to cut some new stones. We're gonna write this again. We're gonna get these down. And, and when God does that, you can read about it in Exodus 34. And in verse five, it says, the Lord descended in a cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name, the shim sham in.

In this, uh. Vocalization, but the name of the Lord. See it. See the letters? All these little extra squiggles. They're just vowel sounds, but this is your W with the dot and your final M, so it's filled in there. The Lord descended in the cloud. He stood there with Moses and he proclaimed his name. [00:23:00] Now you want to hear how he does it.

Here's the cv. Here's the resume. Here's the track record. Here's the character. Here's the the defining marks of God.

Yahweh, Yahweh, a God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding steadfast love and faithfulness. He continues keeping. Steadfast love, tested for thousands, forgiving inequity and transgression and sin. Even though he will by no means clear the guilty, it's not like he can just erase it. Jesus will take care of it.

But look at the way God gives his cv. The first entry in his CV deals with his [00:24:00] character, not his power. He doesn't say, let me tell you about my name, my cv. I can wipe you out by going poof. I can say a word, and universes are made. He starts his CV with his character. He's a god whose merciful and gracious and slow to anger, abounding, steadfast love and faithfulness.

That's, that's what he, you, you don't have to read far in his resume to understand what kind of God we have. Now. God does other things on his cv. He's got an entire section on relationships.

An entire section of his CV is dedicated to the way he relates. [00:25:00] Look at Exodus three. God said this to Moses also. He said, say to the people of Israel, Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob has sent me to you.

He says, this is my name. This is my resume forever. This is the way I'm to be remembered for all generations. He's a God of relationships. He's a God who, on his resume, he puts down what? What's important, what's in what's It's notable on your resume. Oh, my relationships. I'm a God of relationships. I'm the God of your fathers.

I'm the God of your mothers. I'm the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now. I want to tell you about the greatest resume [00:26:00] of all time. I want to tell you about truly the greatest CV there has ever been. Paul writes about it in Philippians chapter two. He says, to have the same attitude in yourself. That was in Christ who, although he existed in the form of God.

Did not regard equality with God, something he had to hold onto, but he emptied himself and he took the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of a humanity and being found in appearance as a human. He humbled himself to the point of death, even a death on a cross. And then we get to verse nine.

Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. And you say, well, wait a minute, that's Greek. I don't see those two letters. I see Oma Ma. [00:27:00] The same principle is in the Greek. But remember Paul is writing with a very Hebrew mindset as well. There's no doubt what Paul means here, God is bestowed on him.

The resume, the cv, the character, the essence that's above every other cv. Resume character at the CV of Jesus at the track record of Jesus. Every knee will bow, every tongue Confess. Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father. Now this Paul says that Christ's CV that was built to exceed every resume there is.

It was done in two movements. The first movement, Jesus is in the form of God. [00:28:00] But he empties himself. He doesn't exploit it. He doesn't in, in the Greek, consider it something to be grasped, but he empties himself and he takes on the form of a human, a servant, and becoming human. He then goes even further and humbles himself to other humans to the point of death.

And an ignoble death. At that ignoble death. A bad death, a shameful death, a death on a cross. That's one movement of his resume. But the resume doesn't stop there. See? 'cause the resume ascends and he humbles himself to the point of death. But God then highly exalts him. Starts with Easter resurrection Sunday.

Praise God. He doesn't abandon him to the grave, he resurrects him. And God highly [00:29:00] exalts him and bestows on him a resume, a cv, unlike any others, that at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow and every tongue confessed. He said, wow.

And I ask you, who has a resume like Jesus? Show me anyone that can die for the sins of the world. After living a perfect life, anyone who can be God and descend into human form and suffer calvary,

and then be resurrected to eternal life and victory, seated at the right hand of God, king of kings and Lord of lords, who will come again, who has a name like Jesus. Nobody. That's not because. Jesus is a magic name. If it was, we better pronounce it right, because his name is not [00:30:00] Jesus, his name in Hebrew, Yoshua.

You could transliterate that into Joshua. It's just the New Testament writers weren't translating it into English, they were translating it into Greek, so they translated it into esu. And then yasu in the Greek for the King James Bible and others becomes Jesus. Unless you live in a Latin country, then it's Jesus, but it's not that the name has magic.

If we're using name as a label. An identifier. It's the resume in the CV that holds the power. It's the character in the essence that holds the power. We call on his name, we're calling on his character. And the neat part about this is it's a fuller picture because Jesus, in [00:31:00] his last prayers that we have recorded before he gets to the cross in John 17, he says to the Lord Jesus speaking, I have manifested your name, God, I have manifested people who see me, Lord, see who you are and what you do.

They see a definition of God. They, I am showing the world who you are. God, I am a walking resume of the Lord. That's God's cv. Now let's talk about the implications. What does this mean? So what? This is simply a nice Hebrew lesson to help us deeper understand the scriptures. No, this is one of the most practical lessons I can offer anybody who's listening.

Let me [00:32:00] give you just a few of the implications. This is not an exhaustive list. This is the list that came to me when I was writing the lesson. Number one, when you're in a crisis,

more than needing a generic concept of God. I find it useful to look for a specific entry from his CV when I'm in a crisis. Yeah, you can say, Lord, I'm in a crisis, or you can call out what you know. His character and his proven track record is when you're sick, you need a God who heals. He's healed over and over and over.

You can see it in the New Testament where Jesus is healing, where the apostles are healing in His, in His [00:33:00] name because of who he is. You can see it in the Old Testament where God is healing. When you're desperate financially, you need a God who provides. You need the God who can find the widow woman and make sure that her jar of oil and grain doesn't run out.

You need the God who can take care of your needs. You need the God who is going to be there for you. Grab the God of the hold Him to it. Lord, I know your name. I know your character. I know you are a providing God. I want to do, now, I'm not saying you don't. I, I am not saying you live irresponsibly and expect God to handle the consequences.

Part of the way God provides for you is by teaching you how to live, but you always can know that the [00:34:00] God who leads you in paths of righteousness for the sake of his resume and his name is the God who can meet your needs when you walk in those paths of righteousness.

When fears mount, when you're scared about what the day holds or what the week holds, or what the month holds, or what life holds or what, what, uh uh, the future holds. When you are scared and you don't know when you are worried and you feel impending doom when that brain of yours just chemically. He puts you in that mood of concern and nothing can bring a smile to your face.

When I was little and we'd get sad or mad, my dad had a technique. He'd get up to you. He'd [00:35:00] say, don't smile.

Don't, don't, don't smile. And I'm telling you as a kid, every time I, I'm gonna smile, don't smile. I, I see your, and then I'm laughing. He had an ability to somehow alter my brain chemistry almost immediately. I'm telling you, sometimes our brain chemistry alone puts us in times of fear and worry because we've got these circuits that have happened through our life and it is.

It's in, in science speak. There are neural pathways that have been trodden over and over, and we just tend to fall into 'em. You know, some people, I call some people, I have a theory, I don't have any clue if it's true or not, but I'm gonna tell you my theory anyway. I think it's true. But I have zero science to back this up.[00:36:00]

Only my observations, here it is. People were, uh oh, is this not on? Well,

I have a theory, and my theory is this, different people worry to differing percents. Like if you're a heavy worrier, you may be like a 40, 50% worrier. 40 50% of your brain's gonna worry. If you're a light worrier, you may just be a five or 10 percenter. By the way, if you're a five or 10 percenter and you're married to a 50 percenter, that's gonna be an interesting conversation.

I'm very worried about this. Ah, don't worry about it. What did, that's one of the things I'm worried about. You're not worried. Well, of course, I'm not worried Not about that. Whatever percent of a worrier you are, let's say you're a 10% worrier, you can have 10 thoughts in your head. One of 'em is gonna be [00:37:00] a worry.

You take that one worry and you just fix it, do you know what's gonna happen? The next worry is just gonna move up and take the slot. 'cause you're a 10% worrier, so you're always gonna worry 10% of the time or about 10% of the stuff. If you're a 30% worrier, you can take those 30% that you're worried about, totally fix 'em all, and you know what's gonna happen.

The rest are gonna just move up the the ladder and that's gonna be the 30% you worry about. I think where brains are that way, and what God wants to do is rewire your brain and say, let those worries drive you to me, the God of peace. Let those fears drive you to me, the God of peace. Don't just pray, God, take care of my worries, Lord.

I need your peace. You are the God of peace. You have that on your resume. Bring that to me. In times of failure,[00:38:00]

you need the God of mercy. Lord, I did it again, Lord. Why does this get in the way every time? Why do I get in the way every time? Lord, I messed up. I'd love a rewind button. I wanna do that over.

But I can't have mercy on me. Help me walk through the consequences. Help me become better. Next time, lead me in paths of righteousness. It's your resume at stake here, Lord, people know I'm yours. I've given my life to you. Please confirm yourself to me. Help me with your resume. Be the God you are in my life right now.

So that's the first implication. Lemme give you a second [00:39:00] implication. Our accomplishments belong on his resume or cv. Our accomplishments belong on his cv. Let me be very practical about this. Here's a scriptural example that I'm drawing. My practicality from Paul is writing to the Corinthians, and in one Corinthians chapter 15, Paul says something very profound.

Starting in verse 10. Paul says, by the grace of God, I am. What I am. Popeye did not invent that phrase. By the grace of God, a me ho, me. I am what I am and I worked harder [00:40:00] than any of them. But it wasn't me. It was the grace of God. That's with me soon, amo. It was the grace of God that's with me. What's he saying here?

I, I worked hard. I did my best. I gave it my best effort. I really went out. But let's not ever try to claim credit for it because what was happening is God was working in me. I only am who I am by his grace. And then when I worked hard, it really wasn't me. It was him working with me. And that's the CV entry.

Let me give you what Paul said in one Corinthians 15 in an Old Testament passage from Deuteronomy, real early Old Testament, God, knowing what Israel's tendencies might be in Deuteronomy [00:41:00] chapter eight said the following, beware lest you say in your heart, my power. And the might of my hand have gotten me this victory, this success, this win.

You shall remember Yahweh, your God, because it's he who gives you the power to get the win, to get the victory, to get the success. So how do we read it? Well, if you wanna write your cv. You can say, look at what I accomplished. You can say, look how strong I am. Look how wise I am.

You look at me, you see basically a tree full of owls. That's how wise I am.[00:42:00]

Let me show you my faithfulness. Because I'm a very faithful person. I'm faithful to God. I'm faithful to my family. I'm a faithful friend. Or we put these things on God's cv. Look what God did through me.

Look at how his strength is made strong in my weakness.

Let me show you the wisdom he gave to me. Let me tell you of his faithfulness despite my failures, and that means that job where you succeeded that company, you built that business, you've, you thrived in that, belongs on his resume.

When you reared that child and you look at that child and think, I child so good, that belongs on his [00:43:00] resume, that marriage that survived, what should have ended, it belongs on his resume. That moment you stayed when everything in you wanted to quit belongs on his resume.

It does don't steal.

They do that periodically. I don't think we're supposed to evacuate, but if I see any indication we are, um, I'll be the first one running for No, I'm, if there.

All right. We are easy. We go out these exits if there's any evidence of fire, but we're almost through. Let's make it the last four minutes, five minutes after he finishes talking,[00:44:00]

okay? I'm not gonna let this stop where we are because this is too important. God said in Isaiah 42, I'm the Lord. That's my name, that's my cv, that's my character. That's my glory, and I'm not giving it to anyone else. That's not because God's an egomaniac. It's because it's the truth. It's reality. It's the world.

Stop it. Stop it. You know, God can rewrite a resume for the brokenness. I won't take the time to tell you, but you can go back and see where he changed the name of Jacob, the trickster to Israel, the one who strives.

Okay, look, this is really good. I've really had this. [00:45:00] Lord, turn it off please. Unless it's an emergency.

Here's your points for home. It's all built off of this one of the 10 commandments. You shall not take the name. Of the Lord your God, in vain, the Lord will not hold him. Guiltless, who takes his name in vain name, don't take God's track record lightly. Don't take God who he is, who he's shown himself to be.

Don't take his resume lightly. This word take naau in the Hebrew naau means to carry it. To, to take it along with you. It's not talking about what you say per se, it's talking about just your life. Don't you carry God's CV around in an empty fashion? Don't you ever take God's CV around as if it's empty or worthless.

[00:46:00] You are a Christian. That means you are a little Christ. You wear the name of Jesus. Don't you ever wear the name of Jesus in this world like a pagan, don't you devoid the CV of Jesus, but by living with a hateful, spiteful spirit. Don't deplete his resume by how you feel. It's real. Okay? God bless us all and keep everyone safe.