Fulfill Your Vows Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” “For richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, for better or for worse.” Probably most of us have declared those vows to the Lord. Keeping vows is an important part of truth-telling, and this requires a ...
Truthful to God? Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Throughout much of the Old Testament Israel tried to hold on to the worship of God and indulge the pagan ways of her neighbors at the same time. This is self-deceptive–withholding truth from ourselves–and an outright insult to ...
Truth and Love Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Truth hurts, or, at least, it can. But that doesn’t mean that telling people the truth is somehow unloving. It may hurt us to hear God say that we’re dead in our trespasses and sin; that our best works ...
Lies All the Same Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” “White lies” are still lies. Holding back the truth is just a form of deceit. Skirting the truth is an attempt to make truth into something else, either to palliate someone’s sensitivities or to protect our own ...
God Demands Truth Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Consider the grace and kindness of God: He believes that you deserve truth. So He reveals Himself to us, in the creation, by His Word, and in our Lord Jesus Christ, showing us in so many and varied ways ...
Standing Squarely for Truth Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” God is truth, the apostle reminds us (1 John 4:8), a proposition no Christian will deny. But more to the point for many of us is Pilate’s question, “What is truth?” Many believers today have their view ...
The Practice of Truth Exodus 20:16; Deuteronomy 5:20 “You shall not bear false witness.” Ephesians:4.15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way ...
Protected Against Lies Exodus 20:16; Deuteronomy 5:20 “You shall not bear false witness.” Psalm 12:6, 7 The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined on ...
The Penalty of Lies Exodus 20:16; Deuteronomy 5:20 “You shall not bear false witness.” Romans 1:24, 25 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts ...
A Culture of Lies Exodus 20:16; Deuteronomy 5:20 “You shall not bear false witness.” Psalm 12:1, 2 Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have ...