The goal of this sermon is to get specific, not to just vaguely say, hey, you got to control
your tongue, you got to watch your mouth, but rather what does the Bible say, not a
person's opinion, but what does the Bible say the sins of the tongue really are.
And the first one that would really obviously come to mind and just jump right out at you
would be lying.
Go to Proverbs chapter 6.
That's one of the biggest sins that you can commit with your mouth is telling a lie.
We're just going to be all over the book of Proverbs this morning.
But while you're turning to Proverbs 6, I'll read for you from Colossians 3.
Look at Proverbs 6 verse 12.
The Bible says,
Jump down to verse 16.
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 of things 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 17.
God hates a lying tongue.
Proverbs 12 verse 17 says this,
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.
Proverbs 20 verse 17 says,
Just imagine a mouthful of rocks and dirt.
God says that's a 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 of scriptures 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, ye let God be true,
but every man a liar.
And we often when we're out soloning 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, whoso 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 Sapphira lied to the Holy Ghost.
We need to be people who learn to tell the truth.
And sometimes it hurts to tell the truth.
And 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.