Go to proverbs chapter 6. That's one of the biggest sins that you can commit with your mouth is telling a lie proverbs chapter number 6
We're just going to be all over the book of proverbs this morning
But while you turn to proverbs 6 i'll read for you from colossians 3 lie not one to another
Seeing that you've put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man
Which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him look at proverbs 6 verse 12
The bible says a naughty person a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth jump down to verse 16
These six things that the lord hate yea seven are an abomination unto him a proud look
a lying tongue and hands that shed
Innocent blood so right at the beginning of this list a thing that god hates and things that are an abomination to him
He says that a lying tongue is an abomination go to proverbs chapter number 12 verse 70 god hates a lying tongue
Proverbs 12 verse 17 says this he that speaketh truth showeth forth righteousness, but a false witness
Deceit there is he that speaketh like the piercings of a sword
But the tongue of the wise is health verse 19 the lip of truth shall be established forever
But a lying tongue is but for a moment look at verse 22
Lying lips are abomination to the lord, but they that deal truly are his delight
Look at chapter 13 verse 5
It says a righteous man hateth lying
So not only does god hate lying but the bible says that if we're righteous we will hate lying as well
It says a righteous man hateth lying but a wicked man is loathsome and cometh to shame
You don't have to turn there, but proverbs 20 verse 17 says bread of deceit is sweet to a man
But afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel
Just imagine a mouthful of rocks and dirt
God says that's the punishment upon those who would tell lies and so over and over again
We could go all over the bible with lying. Obviously, it's not just limited to a couple scripts in the book of proverbs
But god hates it and I think sometimes we give lying a pass a little bit because we've all done it
So because every single person has done it. I mean the bible says you let god be true, but every man a liar
And we often when we're out soloing and we want to show people that we all deserve hell
We show them that verse where it says all liars
Shall have their part in the lake which birthed with fire and brimstone, which is the second death
And then we'll show them a little later where it says, uh who so maketh a lie, you know will not be in heaven
So because we've all done it it's easy to want to kind of whitewash this sin
It's easy to be harsh on sins that we've never done
When we've never done it
We'll get up and rail on it and we know how bad it is and that's why we wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole
but with lying
We don't come down as hard on it sometimes simply because we know that we've all been guilty of it
And probably in the future at some point we'll be guilty of it again
But you know what just because this is universal of a sin unto us
That does not mean that we should take a light attitude when god's saying it's an abomination
When god's saying that he hates it when god even puts it in that list of things that will wind a person in the lake
Of fire we ought to take it very seriously and understand that the lord loves it when we tell the truth
And he hates it when we lie
To him or lie to other people, you know ananias and sapphirer lied to the holy ghost
We need to be people who learn to tell the truth and sometimes it hurts to tell the truth
But one of the biggest sins we can commit with our mouth
The biggest way to not have a bridle on your mouth is when you just let lies flow out of your mouth
And one of the worst things about lying is that it becomes a habit with people
There are people who lie just as a way of life and they even get to the point
Where they start lying when there's no reason to lie
Your average person when they really get in a bind and they you know
They've got egg on their face will maybe tell a lie to get out of it
Your average person will do that
But there are some people who just keep lying so much that they get to where they lie about things that don't even matter
They they lie when there's nothing at stake and they become pathological
You'll hear that term thrown about where they'll tell so many lies that it just becomes a normal
Habit to them to and they even think that they're telling the truth
I mean god forbid that any of his people would just have an abomination coming out of their mouth constantly and children
You'll always be better off with your parents telling the truth you get in more trouble when you lie about it
And then we as god's people that are adults. We're his children
He's going to come down on us harder when we lie about it
He'll show mercy unto us when we confess and forsake our sins and what's confession but simply telling the truth
Confessing that you've done, you know that which is wrong