YOU ARE BEING LIED TO!
STATISTICS One to two times daily, 30 times/week 30-38% of all our interactions College students - ½ of all conversations with their mothers 10M lie to IRS ($200B/year) 80% on resumes 70% doctors to insurance companies
STATISTICS Dating couples 1/3 of conversations 20-30% managers fraudulent reports 95% college students to win a job (41% had already done so) We are lied to 200 times a day Children learn to fib by age 3, lie frequently by age 6 Taught to lie by their parents
WHY DO PEOPLE LIE?
OTHER EXAMPLES POLITICIANS TELEVANGELISTS DENOMINATIONAL PREACHERS – 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
BIBLICAL EXAMPLES 1 Kings 13:11-26 The prophet of God Genesis Chapter 3 Serpent in the garden Genesis Chapter 4 Cain lied to God Genesis Chapter 37 Jacob told Joseph killed 2 Kings 5:20 Gehazi Matthew Chapter 23 Pharisees called Hypocrites Acts Chapter 5 Ananias & Sapphira Revelation 3:1 Church @ Sardis Reputation
HONESTY vs. DECEIT It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward No one has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. Abraham Lincoln You can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln Make the lie big, make it simple, and keep saying it, and they will believe it. Adolph Hitler Trust, but verify! Reagan to Gorbechev 1987
WHERE DOES LYING COME FROM? JOHN 8:44b “devil…he is a liar and the father of it.” MARK 7:21-23 “evil things come from within and defile” JEREMIAH 17:9 “heart…deceitful….desperately wicked”
THE SCRIPTURES SAY: You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor. Exodus 20:16 Deliver My Soul, O Lord, From Lying Lips And From A Deceiving Tongue. Psalm 120:2 Romans 1:28-32 List Of Sins To Be Punished Revelation 21:8 List Of Sins To Be Punished
HOW SHOULD WE REACT? Psalm 101:7 “he who tells lies shall not continue in My presence” Ephesians 4:25 “speak the truth” Colossians 2:8 “lest anyone cheat you” 2 Timothy 3:1-7 (v. 5) “from such people turn away” 2 Corinthians 6:14 “be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers” Acts 17:11 “searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.”
Gospel Call HEAR ROMANS 10:14 BELIEVE ACTS 8:37 REPENT ACTS 17:30 CONFESS ROMANS 10:10 BE BAPTIZED MARK 16:16 ACTS 2:38 REMAIN FAITHFUL UNTIL DEATH REVELATION 2:10