HONESTLY, DISHONESTY IS A SIN

dishonesty IS EXPECTED from THE WORLD EPHESIANS 4: 17-19 “FUTILITY OF THEIR MIND” (NASB) “VANITY OF THEIR MIND” (NKJV) MORAL DEPRAVITY OF THEIR MIND OR MORALLY CORRUPT MIND AND ACTS 1 JOHN 5: 19 WE UNDERSTAND IT’S NO SURPRISE DISHONESTY IS INGRAINED INTO THOSE WHO WALK IN THE DARK, HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING, ARE IGNORANT OF GOD, HEART’S ARE HARDENED, AND HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO EVERY KIND OF IMPURITY WITH GREEDINESS. (EPH 4:18-19)

DEFINING SOME TERMS HONEST – ONE WHO DOES NOT LIE, CHEAT, STEAL MISLEAD, COLOR, BEND, MANIPULATE, DEFRAUD, ETC. ONE WHO IS AN OPEN BOOK! DISHONEST – ONE WHO LIES, CHEATS, MISLEADS, ETC. ONE WHO IS NOT AN OPEN BOOK!

DISHONESTY MANIFESTS ITSELF IN FALSE TEACHERS JEREMIAH 23:14 ROMANS 16:17-18 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-15 EPHESIANS 4:14 IN SLY PLANS TO ACCOMPLISH A SINFUL AGENDA MATTHEW 2:1-8, 16 IN BUSINESS PROVERBS 21:6, MARK 8:36

DISHONESTY MANIFESTS ITSELF TO JUSTIFY SIN (END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS) JOHN 8:39-40, 44 TO SELF PRESERVATION MATTHEW 26:69-75 IN HIDING SIN BY USING CRAFTED SPEECH JOHN 4:7-18 IN MAKING MORE OF YOURSELF ACTS 8:9-11

THE WISDOM LITERATURE THE BOOK OF PROVERBS DON’T GET MORE PLAIN IN SPEECH THAN THAT!

THE NEW TESTAMENT MARK 7: 20-23 ROMANS 1: 28-32 PHILIPPIANS 4: 8 COLOSSIANS 3: 1-10 2 TIMOTHY 3: 13-14 TITUS 1: 1-2 1 PETER 2: 1-3 1 PETER 2: 11-12 EPISKOPE that act by which God looks into and searches out the ways, deeds character, of men, in order to adjudge them their lot accordingly. 1 PETER 3: 10

DISHONESTY IMPACTS A GOOD NAME A GOOD EXAMPLE PROVERBS 22: 1 MATTHEW 5: 16

ARE YOU AN HONEST PERSON? DO YOU MANIPULATE EVENTS TO GET YOUR WAY? DO YOU CHEAT AT WORK? DO YOU CHEAT ON YOUR TAXES? DO YOU SAY, “I’LL BE PRAYING FOR YOU” AND NOT FOLLOW THROUGH? SO YOU SAY ONE THING, AND DO ANOTHER? DO YOU CALL IN SICK WHEN YOU’RE HEALTHY? DO YOU SAY “GOOD SERMON” JUST TO BE NICE? DOES THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS FOR YOUR DECISIONS?

CONCLUSION 2 CORINTHIANS 13: 5 ARE YOU TRULY AN HONEST PERSON? DO OTHERS SEE YOU AS HONEST? HEBREWS 13: 16 MUST BE PEOPLE OF TRUTH IN “ALL THINGS” GALATIANS 6: 7-8 THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES JOB 27: 4; 2 CORINTHIANS 4: 1-2 LET’S SAY WHAT JOB & PAUL SAID