HOW TO TELL THE TRUTH WITHOUT BEING A JERK (7 OF 8)
by Craig Smith
Scripture: Exodus 20:16
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How To Tell the Truth Without Being a Jerk (7 of 8)
Series: The Big Ten
Craig Smith
Exodus 20:16
Introduction Thank you for joining us today. We are on 9th message in our deep dive into the 10 commandments and I want to go ahead and dive in today because the 9th commandment is often misquoted. It’s often oversimplified. It’s part of a set of commandments that most people remember pretty well. Before we started this series, I don’t know how many of the 10 commandments you could name off the top of your head, but most people at least remember three, and here’s how people usually say them: they say, ‘‘don’t lie, don’t cheat, and don’t steal.’’ Now, don’t steal is a perfectly accurate restatement of the 8th commandment that we looked at last week. And don’t cheat is a pretty accurate restatement of the 7th commandment. But don’t lie is an oversimplification of the 9th commandment we’re going to look at today. So if you want to grab a bible and join me in Exodus 20:16, let’s see what the 9th commandment actually says:
II. Main Body 16 ‘‘You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. (Exo 20:16) Now, again, we tend to oversimplify this into ‘‘don’t lie,’’ but there’s more going on here than just that. Let’s break it down a little bit: Let’s start with the word order. To make it sound good in English, most English translations change the original Hebrew word order by putting ‘‘neighbor’’ at the end of the sentence. But in the original Hebrew it actually looks more like: you shall not give your neighbor false testimony. And the reason I mention that is because the original word order puts a stronger emphasis on who this is being done to. The issue isn’t just that what was said being untrue, the emphasis is how false testimony impacts others. Which makes sense because this commandment is in the second set of five commandments which are all about loving others. Now I also want to talk about the word ‘‘give’’. The New International Version that I’m read ...
Series: The Big Ten
Craig Smith
Exodus 20:16
Introduction Thank you for joining us today. We are on 9th message in our deep dive into the 10 commandments and I want to go ahead and dive in today because the 9th commandment is often misquoted. It’s often oversimplified. It’s part of a set of commandments that most people remember pretty well. Before we started this series, I don’t know how many of the 10 commandments you could name off the top of your head, but most people at least remember three, and here’s how people usually say them: they say, ‘‘don’t lie, don’t cheat, and don’t steal.’’ Now, don’t steal is a perfectly accurate restatement of the 8th commandment that we looked at last week. And don’t cheat is a pretty accurate restatement of the 7th commandment. But don’t lie is an oversimplification of the 9th commandment we’re going to look at today. So if you want to grab a bible and join me in Exodus 20:16, let’s see what the 9th commandment actually says:
II. Main Body 16 ‘‘You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. (Exo 20:16) Now, again, we tend to oversimplify this into ‘‘don’t lie,’’ but there’s more going on here than just that. Let’s break it down a little bit: Let’s start with the word order. To make it sound good in English, most English translations change the original Hebrew word order by putting ‘‘neighbor’’ at the end of the sentence. But in the original Hebrew it actually looks more like: you shall not give your neighbor false testimony. And the reason I mention that is because the original word order puts a stronger emphasis on who this is being done to. The issue isn’t just that what was said being untrue, the emphasis is how false testimony impacts others. Which makes sense because this commandment is in the second set of five commandments which are all about loving others. Now I also want to talk about the word ‘‘give’’. The New International Version that I’m read ...
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