1. YOU ARE BEING LIED TO!

2. 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

3. 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

4. WHY
DO PEOPLE LIE?

5. OTHER EXAMPLES POLITICIANS TELEVANGELISTS
DENOMINATIONAL PREACHERS – 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

6. 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 Sardis Reputation

7. 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

8. 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”

9. 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: List Of Sins To Be Punished
Revelation 21:8 List Of Sins To Be Punished

10. 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.”

11. Gospel Call HEAR ROMANS 10:14 BELIEVE ACTS 8:37 REPENT ACTS 17:30
CONFESS ROMANS 10:10
BE BAPTIZED MARK 16: ACTS 2:38
REMAIN FAITHFUL UNTIL DEATH REVELATION 2:10