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It's a lie that especially seeks to hurt the neighbor. A witness is someone who has seen something happen, who sees if someone is innocent or guilty of a crime. Well, to bear false witness means that you know someone is not guilty of a crime, but you testify that they are. You say they are guil
Lying, Truth
So all lies and deceit include false doctrine, must be avoided. All lies and deceit include also all lies told to gain an advantage for ourselves. Or lies that are simply convenient for us in that moment. Those are very common types of lies today. So a lie that's told to gain advantage for ourselve
And God knows it, of course. But still we lie and seek to protect ourselves. This is a serious matter. This kind of lie can become a besetting sin, something a person becomes addicted to. We find ourselves lying regularly to cover where we have been, what we have been doing. We must be warned. A tr
We do this when we deliberately conceal the truth about a matter or misrepresent the truth in order that we may deceive. We lie when we silently take credit for something which we did not do. We lie when we refuse to confess a sin which we have committed. And if we do not lie directly to those in po
They catch in our throats and refuse to be spoken, even in our prayers. To ease our conscience, we lie awake at night thinking of excuses to avoid this horrible admittance. We appeal to circumstances, minimize the wrong as “a slight error”, “an accidental slip”, a moment of weakness’, or “something
But lies have no influence on us unless we can be deluded to conclude they are the truth. This is exactly Satan’s business. He deludes men by getting them to swallow lies, to follow deceits under the conviction that they have accepted and follow the truth. This was definitely so in the fatal case of
In this respect, there is first of all that gross form of delinquency by which we fail to attend the service on the Lord’s Day or “skip” the hour of catechism and thus neglect the means of grace. When this is done willfully, such an individual becomes a liar and practices the lie in respect to his p
Why are we prone to tell little discreet lies to pull us out of something we would rather not do? In the Church of God and in the life of each individual believer these “credibility gaps” ought not so to be. We should use every effort we can muster to overcome them and destroy them. You have faith;
We believe them to be true and able to make us gods unto ourselves. We believe these lies regardless of what shape they come in and no matter how many times they are proven false. It seems as though it is too hard of a lesson for us to learn. Advertisements show us what we lack and what we need to p