With the Lord’s Supper soon to be administered, we must be careful not to profane this holy meal by our carelessness as we eat of the bread and drink of the cup, which signifies eating and drinking of our Savior spiritually (not physically) by faith alone.
There is the natural tendency in us all to minimize sin or to redefine sin so as to excuse our sin in some way. For example, you might minimize various sins in your own life by blaming others (“My sin is not so bad in comparison to the sin of so and so”; or “Everyone is doing it”; or “I would never have said what I did had she not provoked me”). Or consider how you might redefine sin so as to excuse yourself (“At least I am not an idolater, murderer, or adulterer”). But the Scripture teaches that coveting is idolatry (Colossians 3:5)—your discontentment is idolatry. Jesus taught that calling someone you know or don’t know a name in anger is a violation of the Sixth Commandment. The Lord Jesus also taught that to lust in your heart for anyone who is not your spouse is to commit adultery (a violation of the Seventh Commandment).
One sin that has been redefined in this age is the sin of profaneness or profanity. Ask most people (even professing Christians) to tell you what they understand profanity to be or to describe for you a profane person and you will see that most people do not understand what profanity really is. Most people will respond that a profane person is someone who is vile and irreverent. That is true, but profanity is more than just that.
Let us consider the following main points: (1) A Definition of Profanity; (2) A Biblical Example of a Profane Person; (3) Remedies to Profanity.
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