The 10 Commandments 9

-The 10 Commandments-
-Part 7-

#9 “Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour”

When Not to Tell the Truth…
1. When delaying the truth...serves the truth
2. When your listeners aren't ready for it
3. When your listeners aren't worthy of it
4. When you can't say it in love

The Dialects of Deceit (Jeremiah 8:8, John 8:44)
1. Worship without heart (John 4:23, 1 John 1:6)
2. Quiet bitterness (Proverbs 10:18)
3. Not doing a known good (James 4:17, 1 John 3:18)
4. God hates lying (Proverbs 12:22, Revelation 21:8)

The Defeat of Deceit (John 1:14)
1. Jesus came full of grace and truth (John 1:14+17)
2. Jesus came saying ‘I tell you the truth’ (79 times)
3. Jesus believes the God’s Word is truth (John 17:17)
4. Jesus said He is truth (John 14:6)

The Victory of Honesty (John 16:13)
1. The truth paints a brighter future (Prov. 12:19, 21:6)
2. The truth frees us from fear (John 8:32)
3. The truth maximizes joy (3 John 1:4)
4. The truth holds everything together (Ephesians 4:15)

Quotable Quotes

Truth exists, lies are invented (unknown)

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: Th' eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. (Bear Bryant)

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies (Jefferson)

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent (William Blake)

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act (George Orwell)

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive (Sir Walter Scott)

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past (Rick Petino)

I have now discovered that the most powerful weapon in the world is not the bomb but the truth (Andrei Sakharov)