How many of you have ever told a lie? Have you ever told a lie and never told the true about it even to this day? Well, first what is a lie?
Lie Noun
A false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.
Something intended or serving to convey a false impression; imposture.
An inaccurate or false statement; a falsehood.
Let’s look at the anatomy of a lie. Below are some synonyms for the word lie.
• calumniator, defamer, libeler, libelist, slanderer
• perjurer
• distorter, falsifier
• equivocator, palterer
• gossip, gossiper, talebearer
• charlatan, cheat, cheater, counterfeiter, cozener, deceiver, defrauder, dissembler, exaggerator, mythomaniac, dissimulator, double-dealer, fraud, hustler, knave, mountebank, operator, pretender
We all have heard of or even have said these saying ourselves: “you’re a lying wonder,” or ” you just told a white lie,” or ” liar, liar, pants on fire.”
Well, if you didn’t know, lying does 5 major things to the human soul:
- Destroys trust with others and oneself (Roman 16:17-18)
- It destroys your present sense of reality (2 Thessalonians 2:8-12)
- It creates animosity (Proverbs 6:16-19)
- It causes loneliness forever (Rev. 21:8)
- You can die from a lie to the Holy Ghost (Acts 5:1-5)
In my Conclusion, let’s see what the Word of God has to say and read the following scriptures:
Colossians 3:9-13
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Mark 7:20-23
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
