WHY WOULD YOU LIE? (5 OF 6)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Genesis 27:1-30
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Why Would You Lie? (5 of 6)
Series: Strengthening The Fragile Home
Jeff Strite
Genesis 27:1-30
OPEN: In our brotherhood we had a great preacher named Wayne Smith who was something of a cut up on stage. He mentioned once that in English Class they taught him that using 2 negatives in a sentence made a positive statement. And he said that, since that was true “The way I figure it, if I know I’m lying, and God knows I’m lying – I gotta be telling the truth!”
Back in the 1990s there was a book entitled “The Day America Told the Truth”. In the book were the results of a survey of people across America about how often they lied. And these were some of the results:
91 % of those surveyed lied regularly about matters they considered trivial,
36 % lied about important matters.
80 % lied regularly to parents,
75 % to friends,
73 % to siblings, and
69 % to spouses
Now I have a hard time understanding that. I just can’t wrap my mind around the idea that people would lie as much as this book says. But one of the really sad things about that survey is how often people lied to their parents, their siblings and their spouses. This is family! Why on earth would you lie to your family?
Now God knows that people do just that. They lie! So one of the explicit commands God gave to His people was this: “Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices.” Colossians 3:9
In other words: lying may have been part of how you lived before you became a Christian (the “old self”), but now that they were Christians God expected that to change. He expected them to be tellers of truth, not lies.
Now, in our morning text today we have a case study in lying and the effects it had on the family. Just to give you a little background - Isaac and Rebekah were a Godly family in the days of the Patriarchs. They are held in high honor by the Jews that - to this very day – the Jewish people refer to their ancestors with pride: “Abraham, Is ...
Series: Strengthening The Fragile Home
Jeff Strite
Genesis 27:1-30
OPEN: In our brotherhood we had a great preacher named Wayne Smith who was something of a cut up on stage. He mentioned once that in English Class they taught him that using 2 negatives in a sentence made a positive statement. And he said that, since that was true “The way I figure it, if I know I’m lying, and God knows I’m lying – I gotta be telling the truth!”
Back in the 1990s there was a book entitled “The Day America Told the Truth”. In the book were the results of a survey of people across America about how often they lied. And these were some of the results:
91 % of those surveyed lied regularly about matters they considered trivial,
36 % lied about important matters.
80 % lied regularly to parents,
75 % to friends,
73 % to siblings, and
69 % to spouses
Now I have a hard time understanding that. I just can’t wrap my mind around the idea that people would lie as much as this book says. But one of the really sad things about that survey is how often people lied to their parents, their siblings and their spouses. This is family! Why on earth would you lie to your family?
Now God knows that people do just that. They lie! So one of the explicit commands God gave to His people was this: “Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices.” Colossians 3:9
In other words: lying may have been part of how you lived before you became a Christian (the “old self”), but now that they were Christians God expected that to change. He expected them to be tellers of truth, not lies.
Now, in our morning text today we have a case study in lying and the effects it had on the family. Just to give you a little background - Isaac and Rebekah were a Godly family in the days of the Patriarchs. They are held in high honor by the Jews that - to this very day – the Jewish people refer to their ancestors with pride: “Abraham, Is ...
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