SCRIPTURE
Num. 23:19 God is not a man, that He should
lie.
Jud. 16:10 You can
not play with lies.
I Sam. 15;29 The
Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent.
Job 11:3 Lies are
bad devices.
Psa. 62:4 Do you
delight in lies?
89:35 I will not lie
unto David.
Prov. 14:5 A
faithful witness will not lie.
19:5 The liar shall
not escape.
19:9 The liar shall
perish.
29:12 Does you
leader listen to lies?
Isa. 9:15 Do you
teach lies?
28:15 Have you made
lies your refuge?
59:4 If you are
vane, you will lie.
63:8 God's children
will not lie.
Jer. 14:14 Do you
prophesy lies in the Name of God?
Eze. 21:29 False
prophesy is divination.
24:12 Are you weary
with lies?
Hos. 10:13 Have you
eaten the fruit of lies?
12:1 Lies will bring
you into desolation.
Amos 2:4 Lies will
cause you to make errors.
Mic. 1:14 Lies will
cause you to fail.
2:11 A man walking
in the spirit will not lie.
Nah. 3:1 Lies and
robbery are companions.
John 8:44 The Devil
is the father of lies.
Acts 5:3 Lies come
from Satan.
5:4 You lie to God
rather than to men.
Rom. 1:25 Satan
changed the truth of God into a lie.
9:1 The truth is in
Christ.
II Cor. 11:31 God
knows when you lie.
Col. 3:9 Do not lie
to each other.
II Thes. 2:11 If you
lie, you are deluded.
I Tim. 4:2 Speaking
lies in hypocrisy.
Titus 1:2 God cannot
lie.
Heb. 6:18 It is
impossible for God to lie.
James 3:14 Envying
will cause a person to lie.
I John 1:6 Liars
walk in darkness.
Rev. 21:8 Liars
shall be placed in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone.
22:15 Do you love a
lie?
COMMENTS
- Another title for this lesson could be Are You A
Liar? In this camp meeting there has been a powerful
presence of the Lord to set the captives free.
Everyone needs deliverance: from the cradle to the
grave, male and female, congregation and ministry.
Young people understand much more than we give them
credit for. It is amazing what a child that is two
years old can understand; we have seen this in our
grandson, Nat.
I recommend that
everyone obtain a good dictionary and look up words
that they do not understand. Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary is a good choice. An unabridged dictionary
is the best to find definitions for your Bible study.
Do the following definitions apply to you?
DEFINITIONS
1. LIE, LIED, LYING:
to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive; to
create a false or misleading impression; to affect by
telling lies; to tell an untruth; an assertion of
something known or believed by the speaker to be
untrue with intent to deceive; an untrue or inaccurate
statement that may or may not be believed true by the
speaker; something that misleads or deceives.
2. LIE, PREVARICATE,
EQUIVOCATE, PALTER, FIB mean to tell an untruth. LIE
is the blunt term, imputing dishonesty; PREVARICATE
softens the bluntness of lie by implying quibbling or
confusing the issue; EQUIVOCATE implies using words
having more than one sense so as to seem to say one
thing but intend another; PALTER implies making
unreliable statements of fact or intention or
insincere promise; FIB applies to a telling of a
trivial untruth.
3. DECEIT: the act
or practice of deceiving; DECEPTION: an attempt or
device to deceive; TRICK: the quality of being
deceitful; DECEITFULNESS.
4. DECEIVE: ensnare;
to be false to; to fail to fulfill; cheat; to cause to
accept as true or valid what is false or invalid; to
while away.
5. DECEIVE, MISLEAD,
DELUDE, BEGUILE mean to lead astray or frustrate
usually by underhandedness. DECEIVE implies imposing a
false idea or belief that causes ignorance,
bewilderment, or helplessness; MISLEAD implies a
leading astray that may or may not be intentional;
DELUDE implies deceiving so thoroughly as to obscure
the truth; BEGUILE stresses the use of charm and
persuasion in deceiving.
6. DISHONEST:
shameful, unchaste; characterized by lack of truth,
honesty, or trustworthiness; UNFAIR, DECEPTIVE.
7. DISHONEST,
DECEITFUL, MENDACIOUS, LYING, UNTRUTHFUL mean unworthy
of trust or belief. DISHONEST implies a willful
perversion of truth in order to deceive, cheat, or
defraud; DECEITFUL usually implies an intent to
mislead and commonly suggests a false appearance or
double-dealing; MENDACIOUS is less forthright than
lying, may suggest bland or even harmlessly
mischievous deceit, and used of people often suggests
a habit of telling untruths; LYING implies a specific
act or instance rather than a habit or tendency;
UNTRUTHFUL is less brutal term than lying and in
application to accounts or description stresses a
discrepancy between what is said and fact or reality
rather than an intent to deceive.
8. FLATTERY: the act
or practice of flattering; something that flatters;
insincere or excessive praise; a pleasing
self-deception.
9. FEIGN: to give a
false appearance of; induce as a false impression; to
assert as if true; pretend; invent, imagine; to give
fictional representation to; disguise, conceal.
10. VANITY:
something that is vain, empty, or valueless; the
quality or fact of being vain; inflated pride in
oneself or one's appearance; conceit.
11. FALSE: not
genuine; intentionally untrue; adjusted or made so as
to deceive; tending to mislead; not true; not faithful
or loyal; treacherous; appearing forced or artificial;
unconvincing; based on mistaken ideas; inconsistent
with the facts; IMPRUDENT, UNWISE, FAITHLESS.
GOD IS TRUTH - God
is ultimate truth. He imparts his truth to us
primarily through the written Word of God which we are
expected to learn and use in a workmanlike manner. In
addition, Almighty God speaks to us through his Holy
Spirit into our human spirits. Jesus Christ is our
attorney before Almighty God; He presents our defense
to God and asks that God show us the Truth of Jesus
Christ. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are truth and
they want us to know the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. His ways are above our ways and
his thoughts are above our thoughts. He has all wisdom
and knowledge. We are expected to seek Him and He will
impart His Wisdom and Knowledge to use thought the
Holy Spirit. The Truth of Jesus Christ will set you
free. God never makes a mistake and does not have to
change His Mind about what He does.
I have to testify in
courts. I have to swear to tell the truth before I can
testify. If I am caught lying, I can be sent to
prison. Maybe we should make the preachers swear to
tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth so help me God before they start preaching.
GOD WILL NOT LIE -
Where would you be if you could not trust God in
everything? Where would you be if you could not trust
the Bible in everything; what would you believe and
what would you not believe? You are risking your
eternity on what God says in His Word. You are also
risking your life here on earth. Most Christians tend
to look at the here-and-now rather than the here-
and-after which is the most important. It is such a
blessing to relax in God and trust Him in all things,
and not to have to trust in ourselves.
No one is perfect or
ever will be perfect on this earth except for Jesus
Christ. I find that I make mistakes in judgement in my
dealings with people and with the things of the world.
I also sin and have to ask forgiveness of the Father.
If you will read or listen to the Bible and compare it
to your life, you will find that you fall far short of
what the Bible tells you to do. Do you love God with
all your heart, soul and mind or is there some
reservation for the things of this world? Do you love
your neighbor as yourself; how are you treating your
neighbors? I have the whole Bible on cassette tape and
listen to it continuously at night and also while I am
in the cars. See Mark 12:30-31.
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
HOLINESS - If you want to live in righteousness and
holiness, then you will not lie or think lies. Think
about God and Satan hearing every lie that you speak
out of your mouth or think about in your mind. Think
about God and Satan taking action on those lies; God
will not bless and Satan will fulfill the curses.
Preachers talk a lot
about living a holy life in righteousness. Many times
they tell you to do something but do not tell you how
to do it. It does no good to tell a person to do
something in the Lord unless you tell them how to do
it according to the Bible.
THE LITTLE WHITE LIE
- How many Christians feel that they can tell a little
white lie and it will not hurt anything? How do you
know that it will not hurt anyone? What damage could
it cause you and those related to you: Christian
family and blood-related family? Since we are the Body
of Christ and every Christian is related to every
other Christian, then what we do affects everyone
else. Every lie gives Satan an opportunity to use it
against you and against the person you told the lie
to. He might even petition God for an opportunity to
get at you. Jesus Christ will not defend you when you
tell a lie. Look at what happened to the Body of
Christ when some Christian leaders fell and the media
took over the persecution.
Why not tell the
truth in love? We have found that tough love is a good
way to help people. If you truly love that person, you
will tell them the truth. If you are after some
selfish gain, you will not be truthful with that
person so that they will feel good about you and let
you have your way. God tells us the truth to help us;
Satan tells us a lie to hurt us.
EVANGELISTICALLY
SPEAKING - This is a term used by ministers to talk
about their meetings, church or congregation. They
exaggerate the numbers to make them look good to other
ministers and Christians. This is another white lie.
THE DELIBERATE LIE -
When a Christian tells a deliberate lie, they are
really opening themselves up to a demonic attack. They
fully know it is a lie but they deliberately go ahead
and tell it anyway.
See if you fit the
following description of liars which I took out of the
Bible. You would be called a liar. You could say your
father is the Devil because he is the father of lies.
Just like him, your part will be in the Lake; you
shall not escape and shall perish. Liars are failures,
use bad tactics, a sword is upon them, are deceivers,
have naughty tongues, poor men are better, commit
perjury in the spiritual world, and the truth is not
in them.
Liars set a trap for
themselves, do not respect themselves, delight in
lies, are false witnesses, make lies their refuge, lie
to God's people, cause themselves to make mistakes,
will eat the fruit of their lies, think-up lies, teach
and prophesy lies, trust in lies, are weary with lies,
are an abomination to God, are recognized as liars, do
not walk in the Spirit, are false, lie to God, walk in
darkness, and speak in hypocrisy.
FLATTERY - You are
trying to deceive the person by being insincere and
praising the person without justification. You see a
lot of flattery in the Christian and carnal worlds.
You expect it in the carnal world where people are
trying to get the upper hand and advance their cause.
We should not have to see it in the Christian world.
Why are Christian
laymen and ministers so weak that they need to be
praised just to do their jobs? Why do pastors have to
build themselves up and have their congregations build
them up? Why do people try to get the Glory that
belongs to God? These people have a problem with
pride, ego and vanity, or with insecurity, inferiority
and rejection, or with selfishness, greed and self-
serving.
PRETENDING -
Pretending is another form of lying. You could use
synonyms like affectation, theatrics, playacting,
sophistication, pretension, etc. God hates the smell
of your offering because it is false. He sees through
your front and into your inner man where the true self
resides.
You put on your
Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes and artificial face. This
is your facade to show the world that you are a good
Christian. You may act like the Devil before or after
the service. During the service you do and say the
right things. You live for God one hour of the week
and then live for yourself the rest of the week.
Christianity is a full-time profession not just during
the times that the church door is open for meetings.
You have to work at being a good Christian; it is not
a spectator sport.
Women especially
have problems with pretending to prove that they are
allright in the sight of God and man. Their voices
will be high-pitched, piercing and falsetto or they
will be harsh, rough and angry, or they will be pious,
religious and in another tone. In other words their
voices will not be natural as if another personality
took over and the true personality was submerged.
Men tend to be more
natural than women. They exhibit their pretense in
their overdressing, hair styles, makeup, perfume and
jewelry. They pray in a falsetto voice. They try to
appear to be very dignified and in control of every
situation. They may exhibit false tears for
appearance.
DECEIT AND DECEPTION
- It is sad to see all of the deceit and deception
going on in the Christian world today. Most of it
stems from those who are trying to build their
ministry rather than letting God build His ministry in
that person or church. It can take the form of trying
to build an edifice for one man who must raise a lot
of money. It can be a pastor of a local church who
must be dictatorial and flattered. It is usually
self-centered in one man or a small group of men and
women.
These practices go
on for years until something happens and that person
falls.
Then the Christian
world catches it from the media who don't like
Christians anyway. The falls of these men affect all
of Christianity. They have affected our ministry and
all of Christianity; people do not trust the public
ministries which raise money they same way that they
did before the falls of the leaders.
PRIDE, EGO AND
VANITY - I like the definition of vainness: emptiness.
The self- inflated pride is emptiness. It is like a
lot of hot air and the person needs their balloon
punctured. They need to come down to earth and accept
reality in their lives. God hates pride because the
people want to be gods rather than accept God's
leadership.
FALSENESS - Anything
that is false is contrary to God and will cause us
problems of some sort. Falseness can be found in
religions, churches, ministries, families and
individuals. It can be found in human beings and
material things. The human being is trying to be
someone other than his natural self. He is using
material things to try to achieve an image that he
wants to portray.
CHEATING - Lying
leads to cheating and cheating leads to lying; they
work hand- in-hand. Cheating can take many forms:
cheating on the marriage and family, cheating on the
ministry and church finances, cheating on the Lord in
tithes and offerings, cheating on the business and
income taxes, and in general taking ungodly advantage
of others in some form. We can cheat mentally,
physically, spiritually or materially. Cheating on God
is called spiritual adultery or the whoring after
other gods. It could be called spiritual idolatry, the
love of money, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh,
and pride of life.
DISHONESTY - A
dishonest person must lie to cover their tracks. One
lie leads to another and the person becomes a
compulsive liar. A dishonest Christian will lie to God
or try to reason with God about his actions or try to
rationalize his actions in his mind. This person can
not be trusted. A Christian must first be honest with
God and then honest with themselves. It is much easier
to face the truth headon; in the short run it hurts
but in the long run it pays off. It pays to have godly
qualities of truth and realism; God tells it like it
is. There is no Christian fantasy in God. There is no
fantasy in how God made this world; it works perfectly
according to His plan. John 8:32 And ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall set you free.
RESPONSIBILITY OF A
MINISTER - The minister has a frightening
responsibility before God to tell the truth. God holds
the minister to a higher burden of responsibility than
He does the layman that does not teach. The minister
will have to answer to God for every word that he has
used to teach God's people. The only salvation is that
we are constantly learning and will never know it all
until God finishes His teaching in eternity. If we had
to wait until we were perfect, there would be no
ministers.
I pity the minister
that chooses not to teach an unpopular portion of the
Word of God, such as deliverance, which was about a
fourth of the ministry of Jesus Christ. The pastor
should teach the whole Bible, not just the parts he
likes. Any part of the Bible that you are ignorant of
will cause you grief in some form. It will also cause
the pastor grief when he has to answer to God in the
Great Day of Judgement as well as in the here-and-now.
THE MOODY'S - We
were called as teachers in the five-fold ministry. We
specialize in deliverance and healing which go
hand-in-hand. The reasons we do this is because so few
other ministers will deal in this area and we have a
limited amount of time; we have an engineering
business as well as the teaching ministry. We are not
preachers or pastors; we have a pastor in Slaughter,
Louisiana, Butch Taylor, and our church is Manna
Baptist Church, a full-gospel church that believes and
practices deliverance. God told us that He had called
many to this ministry but they had turned Him down. He
took us because we were willing. God rubbed our noses
in the mire of marriage problems for two years to make
sure we wouldn't quit when the going got tough.
Most pastors see
this as an unpopular and controversial ministry which
is unfortunate for the Christian world. It is hard to
understand why because it is a glorious ministry. You
get to see the miracle-working power of God in
people's lives and you get to see lives changed
sometimes before your very eyes. Our goal is to teach
others how to do deliverance and watch it spread out
around the world. When we found out how demonized
Christians were, we saw that we could do very little
just going around the world and casting out demons;
the world needs teaching. We recommend this ministry
to others. Every Christian should be casting out
demons if they believe. I would like to see a million
deliverance ministers in the world. They would stay
busy because Christians are so very demonized and this
includes those in the ministry. Casting out a demon is
a miracle in the sight of God (Mark 10:38-39).
OLD PROPHECY GIVES
AMAZING PREVIEW (Original Mother Shipton Prophecy) -
This prophecy was written over 500 years ago by a
woman. See if you think it was from God and applies
today. The following is only one part excerpted for
this lesson:
And now a word in
uncomb rhyme
Of what will be in
further time,
For in those
wondrous, far-off days,
The women shall
adopt a craze, (Women are led around by a hook in
their noses by fashions and women's' liberation.)
To dress like men,
and trousers, wear (Women look like men and wear
men's' underwear.)
And cut off their
lively licks of hair. (Women's' hair gets shorter and
shorter and they look more and more like men.)
They'll ride astride
with brazen brow, (Women wear tight clothes and have
protruding front chests and hips. They many have a
whore's forehead, Jer. 3:3.)
As witches on a
broomstick now, (Jezebelic women practice witchcraft.)
Then love shall die
and marriage cease, (Divorce now consumes over half of
the marriages, and people are living together without
marrying.)
And nations's wane
as babies decrease, (Abortion is killing millions of
babies.)
The wives shall
fondle cats and dogs, (Bestiality is sex with animals.
Grotesque babies can be born from these unions.)
And then live much
the same as hogs. (These types of people live like
animals frequently in filthy environments.)
PRAYER
- Lord, I want to be like you; you do not lie. I want
the Truth of Jesus Christ to be in me. I repent for
being a liar, a deceitful person, being a cheat and
dishonest, flattering other people, giving a false
appearance, having pride, ego and vanity, being false
and faithless, pretending I am something other than
what I am, and for all falseness of dress, thoughts
and actions. Help me to be what you made me to be in
all ways; I want to be natural and not false. Show me
my false personalities so that I can cast them out.
All these things we ask in the Blessed Name of Jesus
Christ, my Lord, Master and Savior, Amen.