Commandment Three - What's in a name?

Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of The Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not bold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Philippians 2:9… God has given him a name above every other name.

Using God's name to increase the significance of our own name and image (Commandment 2).
Matthew 7:22 Lord we prophesied in your name and did miracles…I never knew you…

Responsibility in the testimony of our lives as Christians who bear the name of Jesus Christ.
Romans 2:24 … “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,”… but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.
Wearing the T shirt in your heart - We have the power to be the worst or the best testimony for the name of Jesus.

Generational curse from Commandment two is linked to idolatry
Exodus 20:5... I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the punishment for the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation…
Deuteronomy 24:16 Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin.
Ezekiel 18:1-4 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel... The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. (written some 850 years later)

The New Testament
John 9:1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.
They could not grasp the incredible changes in store for them through faith in Jesus. (1Corinthians 8)
Rom 8:2 The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. 
Gal 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us,
Jesus death on the cross, ushered in a new beginning for humanity, so we have been set free.
John 8:36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed
It's not that problems are not passed down from generation to generation. But we have the DNA of Jesus as our New Creation beings.