Mortgaging Our Future OR Selling Our Soul

This thread is about what the Scriptures have to say.

CLV Matt 5:33 "Again, you hear that it was declared to the ancients, You shall not be perjuring, yet you shall be paying to the Lord your oaths.
34 Yet I am saying to you absolutely not to swear, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God,
35 nor by the earth, for it is a footstool for His feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King;
36 nor by your head should you be swearing, for you are not able to make one hair white or black.
37 Yet let your word be `Yes, Yes,' `Not, Not.' Now what is in excess of these is of the wicked one.

As this is a more accurate English version because it comes from the Ancient text, the wording may be a little different than you might be used to.

The word that this teaching revolves around is "swear."

Now, perhaps a minister or priest will tell you that this verse is about swearing, or using the Lord's name in vain. Saying things like"Goddamnit." And I am not going to say that is wrong. But I will say that this is a very superficial meaning to this teaching.

Strong's

G3660 omnuo om-noo'-o, a prolonged form of a primary, but obsolete omo, for which another prolonged form omoo om-o'-o is used in certain tenses;

to swear, i.e. take (or declare on) oath.

As you can see the definition of this word has nothing to do with "swearing" or "cursing" as we call it in English.

But the meaning of this word has to do with oaths that we might take. For every time we make an oath that might affect our future we substitute our own will for the workings of the Holy Spirit.

CLV Matt 6:34 You should not, then, be worrying about the morrow, for the morrow will be worrying of itself. Sufficient for the day is its own evil.

For those of us who have chosen to use the Scriptures as our guide, Jesus words are very plain. It is man's religion and his interpretations that muddy these waters.

Ever time we say to ourselves "from now on" we are interfering with the working of the Holy Spirit, and essentially bringing to pass this verse...

CLV Matt 12:31 "Therefore I am saying to you, Every sin and blasphemy shall be pardoned men, yet the blasphemy of the spirit shall not be pardoned.

For what is it to vilify the Holy Spirit but to not believe He is active and working, and therefore demoting the importance of His work.

Allow God to work on you and through you daily by not interfering with His work by the Holy Spirit within you.