Brandon soileau's Blog – January 2013 Archive (2)

"Thou shalt not use the name of the Lord thy God in vain." Exodus 20:7

    In today's meaning of the word "vain" it holds two-meainings in the modern-dictionary: one meaning is having an over-inflated opinion of one's self, and the other meaning simply means useless or void, with no result. For the sake of this blog, I will go with the latter of the two-defintions, though I'm unsure of what the interpretation of vain was in the times of Moses. Though I was not around in the…

I was reading and studying the book of Matthew this evening when I came across matthew chapter 11. This whole chapter was intriguing to me because it talked about John's great role of pointing out people's sin, and leading them to God. Jesus also told the crowds that there was no one man that had fulfilled his God-given purpose better than John. In previous verses in the chapter, Jesus reminds the crowds of what they were expecting in John the Baptist, not a double-minded, worldy man, not…