Another article by the late Ezra Trimper:
Lie - 1. a false statement or action, esp. one made
with intent to deceive
2. anything that gives or is meant to give a
false impression
3. the charge of lying –give the lie to
One thing about a lie is how do you know it’s a lie? It all comes down to trust. If someone is good enough at lying then you will not know. But however the truth will eventually be known if someone lies continually. Something’s you may never know if it’s a lie because it can’t be tested, if someone told you their favorite color was green on the bus you would probably believe them why wouldn’t you. Maybe it’s really red the person is just a habitual liar, how would you know you never see them again.
If someone tells you that the world is going to end tomorrow and it doesn’t then you know they are lying and if the same person told you a month from now the world is going to end tomorrow, then why would you believe them they said that last time and it wasn’t true.
As humans we all have lied one time or another I have more than once. How can we be trusted we really can’t, people like to trust people and people like to be trusted but time and time again trust has been broken. People get married and promise to be together until death do them part, but about 50% of people in America get divorced at least once.
Believing a lie can be a bad thing it can get you into serious trouble. But if you don’t know who is lying and who is not then who do you trust?
The first lie we read of in the Bible is this in the Garden of Eden.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Here’s what God told them.
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
God created everything and Adam and Eve knew this for they walked in the Garden of Eden with God and communicated with him. Who did they believe, now the serpent doesn’t look like the serpent we know today, the serpent was the most cunning animal God created, before the curse. Everything that the serpent said seemed very attractive and Eve looked upon the tree and saw that it looked good to eat of.
In the following verses we see that because of Adam and Eve’s disobedience. Many curses fell upon them. Shame, fear, the serpent was cursed above all animals, woman would bring forth children in pain and man would reign over them, cursed is the ground for mans sake, thorns a thistles shalt it bring forth; man will labor for his food and death to mankind – for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return.
You see the consequence for trusting a lie, very serious it has affected all mankind up to this point.
God just wants you to trust him that’s what the whole Bible is about from Genesis to Revelation it’s all based on trusting him. How would you feel if everything you said was true and there was no way you could lie, but people didn’t believe you or trust you. These people believed your next door neighbor who lied all the time though. It would make me angry, I certainly doubt I would give my life for these people who always accuse me of lying when I tell the truth.
When Moses was at the Red sea and all the Egyptians were bearing down on him.
Moses asked the Lord what he should do and the Lord told him put thy staff on the edge of the Red Sea. Moses put his staff down on the shores of the Red sea and the sea parted.
Moses trusted the Lord and he was rewarded.
The red Seas length is 2,250 km, and the maximum width is 355 km. Maximum depth is 2,130 meters.
Doesn’t seem logical that it could be parted but Moses trusted what the Lord said.
Who do you trust today do you trust someone or something that has a track record of lying. Science the world, I’m not saying scientist deliberately go out and make up lies but many theories of science have been proved wrong time and time again and still people insist that science is somehow right this time when throughout history it has been wrong.
People would rather believe a lie then face the truth. I have been there myself.
Joh 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
The devil can make things look so attractive make things seem very true just like in the Garden of Eden that day.
Are you being deceived by men/women?
Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
1Jo 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Or do you put your trust in someone who has never lied. The Lord Jesus Christ wants you to trust him and he will give you eternal life.
Joh 8:45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Joh 8:46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
Tit 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Rom 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Gal 1:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Do you believe a lie? Or do you believe in someone who never has lied?
When God tells you there is Judgment for sin do you believe him or are you like so many others who just ignore it. Just like Adam and Eve who ignored what God had to say, that rather believe a lie because it seemed more attractive.
