The name is I AM and with God all things are possible; therefore to say I am unwanted, I am poor, I am ill, I am completely ignored in this world is blasphemy against the name - not a figure of speech but the offence Leviticus 24:16 punishes by stoning. Neville makes the charge personal rather than doctrinal: it is blasphemy because it is not what I really want in this world, nor what I want for anyone I love, so the sentence contradicts the desire as well as the name. He sets John 8:24 beside it - except you believe that I am he, you shall die in your sins - with sin defined as missing the mark: if I do not believe I am the man I want to be, I stay where I am at the moment of not daring to assume it, and so I miss. The penalty then arrives by itself, because the world begins showing me the facts of life that agree with what I said. The positive instruction is short and is always given with it: don't blaspheme against the name, use it wisely, use it lovingly.