Making Oaths & Swearing - Let Your Yes Be Yes, and Your No Be No!

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Others should be able to trust you and count on your word being truthful in everything… large or small. That is what is in the heart of a disciple!

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The people of Jesus' day had created an elaborate hierarchy of oath taking. To swear an oath on the gold of the altar was very serious… you wouldn’t want to break that one. An oath on the tassles of the levite’s robes would be less so... breaking that one wouldn’t be good but there was some wiggle room. So oath taking, or truth telling, was not YES or NO it would be shades of grey… Others should be able to trust you and count on your word being truthful in everything… large or small. That is what is in the heart of a disciple!

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