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Don't Swear!

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[Matthew 5:37]

“Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' No'
; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.”

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The Sermon on the Mount is also called with two different meanings, meaning that it is an excellent lesson that Jesus gave to people on the mountain, and that it is a precious lesson that Jesus gave to people on the mountain.

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There were Greeks among those who came to keep the Passover.

Those Greeks came to Philip, a disciple of Jesus, and said,

“We want to see Jesus. Help us to meet Jesus.”

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The Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer that we are familiar with are also contents in the
Sermon on the Mount. Today we will consider one of the things Jesus told us not to do
in the Sermon on the Mount.

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Jesus told us not to swear. People made many oaths to God. An oath is a promise a person makes to God. The promises made to God must be kept.
If you do not keep your oath, you are committing a crime of breaking a promise to God.

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So the Old Testament law says: “Do not swear falsely. You must keep your oath to the Lord.” This verse tells us not to make an oath that we cannot keep.
If you make an oath, it is a teaching that you must keep it.

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But Jesus taught us never to swear.
[But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all(Matthew 5:34)]
Jesus told us not to take an oath, regardless of whether it is an oath that can be kept or an oath that cannot be kept.

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God is a perfect God who keeps and does everything He has promised us.
God is the one who keeps every single promise He has made.
God is a Holy One who does not make promises that He cannot keep.

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God does not force or require us to swear. But if someone makes an oath promise to God,
He remembers it exactly. And He sees precisely whether that oath is fulfilled.

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So, it is a great sin to not keep the promises we made to God. It is a sin to take God lightly
and act rudely toward God. God is a just judge who punishes sin as he deserves it.
Those who make an oath to God and do not keep it will inevitably be punished by God.

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Jesus said not to swear to protect us. Although we are saved, we still have weakness that compels us to act according to our sinful nature. No matter how strong a person's heart is at the time of making an oath, that person has a weak heart that cannot fully keep that oath.

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In the early church, there was a couple Ananias and Sapphira. They swore to God that they would sell their field and give it to God. But after they got the money for selling the field, they became greedy. Ananias and Sapphira hid some of the money promised to God.

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Ananias took the rest of the money to the apostle Peter, except for the money he had hidden.
He deceived the Holy Spirit by telling the apostle Peter that it was all the money he had sold the field as he had promised to God. He was killed on the spot for that sin. His wife Sapphira, who arrived shortly after the incident, told a lie to deceive the Holy Spirit like Ananias,
and she died like her husband.

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Jesus knew that even if a person makes an oath to God with a good heart, there is a lot of possibility that he will not be able to keep the oath because he cannot overcome his greed. So when Jesus told us not to swear by any place, he also gave the reason.
[Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.]

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Jesus, who taught people not to swear, also told us how we should act toward God.
[All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from
the evil one.]

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If there is something I can do for God, say “yes” and do it. What I can't do is just say "no"
to God. Jesus made it clear that speaking rudely to God with more than this is an evil idea.

We must realize how serious the sin of not being able to swear to God and keep it with our own feelings and thoughts. God is the one who gives us 100 points if we do our best to serve Him.

(This is the sample conclusion provided by CTM. Please feel free to change the conclusion to best suit the listeners of your sermon.)