Colonel Harland Saunders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame was a good Southern Baptist and hated profanity so he made-up his own expletive: “Dad Gommit.” Nothing will convince me that isn’t blasphemy just because the letters are not in the right order.
In the New Testament times oaths were used just as flippantly and regularly as they are in our society today. The Pharisees had two classes of oaths – those that specifically used the name of God and those where God’s name was implied but not actually used. I would have thought that “Dad Gommit” fitted the second group.
All our words should be dependable, without the need for an oath of any sort. The in junction is quite clear, “Do not swear at all” (v34).
Meditation: As a Christian my word should be trusted without any need for an oath.
Prayer pointer: Help me to keep oaths and expletives of any kind out of my speech.
Matthew:20
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