Is It Ever Alright to Lie? Sub Title The Sin of Lying Series Rev. Tom Stinnett

Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. Sub Title

Webster – To Lie 1 : to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive 2 : to create a false or misleading impression Sub Title

Webster – To Lie 1 : to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive 2 : to create a false or misleading impression Sub Title

DID GOD INSTRUCT SAMUEL TO LIE? Sub Title

1 Samuel 16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. Sub Title

1 Samuel 16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD. Sub Title

1 Samuel 16:4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably? Sub Title

1 Samuel 16:5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. Sub Title

DID GOD INSTRUCT JOSHUA TO DECEIVE? Sub Title

Joshua 8:1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: Sub Title

Joshua 8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it. Sub Title

DID ABRAHAM LIE ABOUT SARAH? Sub Title

Genesis 20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. Sub Title

Genesis 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. Sub Title

Genesis 20:12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. Sub Title

DID RAHAB LIE? Sub Title

Joshua 2:3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country. Sub Title

Joshua 2:4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I knew not whence they were: Sub Title

Joshua 2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. Sub Title

Joshua 2:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. Sub Title

James 2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? Sub Title

Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Sub Title

Four Ways Laws May Cease to Oblige 1. By the natural law of necessity. 2. By a particular law, which is superior. 3. By the law of charity and mercy. 4. By the dispensation and authority of the Lawgiver. Sub Title

Matthew 12:4-8 1. David Unlawfully eat the shewbread. 2. Priests profane temple on Sabbath. 3. Mercy and Not Sacrifice 4. Christ is Lord of the Sabbath. Sub Title

CONCLUSION Deception is not necessarily a lie. In Moral dilemmas – We should choose the greater law. - All biblical examples were matters of life not convenience Sub Title