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Robert Jeffress - The Ninth Commandment - Safeguard the Reputation of Others

June 18, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - The Ninth Commandment - Safeguard the Reputation of Others
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Ninth Commandment - Safeguard the Reputation of Others | June 18, 2026
  • (triumphant music)
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Benjamin franklin once said,
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  • "it takes many good deeds to build a good reputation
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  • And only one bad one to lose it."
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  • And while this statement rings true,
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  • I'd like to suggest one slight modification:
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  • It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation
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  • And only one lie to ruin it.
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  • Today, we're going to look at the serious consequences
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  • Of breaking the ninth commandment.
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  • My message is titled,
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  • "safeguard the reputation of others"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • (gentle piano music)
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  • (bright music)
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  • Politicians lie.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Now, they'll not admit to it.
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  • At best, they'll phrase it like winston churchill did.
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  • They are engaged
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  • In what he called terminological inexactitude.
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  • -(congregation laughing) -but anyway you measure it,
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  • It's a lie.
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  • Now, i know that's not news to you
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  • And the point today is not do politicians lie,
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  • But do you lie?
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  • Now, before you say, "oh pastor,
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  • I'm not guilty of that."
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  • I want to take a moment
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  • And i want you to voluntarily hook yourself up
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  • To a mental lie detector, okay?
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  • It's provided for you in the pew rack
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  • -in front of you. -(congregation laughing)
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  • Get your lie detector out,
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  • Put it around your right arm if you would.
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  • And i want you to answer eight questions
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  • To see how much of a truthful person you really are.
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  • Question number one:
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  • Do you have a secret life
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  • You don't want others to discover?
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  • Number two: would you agree
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  • To answer any question your spouse ask you
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  • If you were hooked up to a real lie detector?
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  • Number three: do you often say things you don't mean
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  • For the sake of politeness?
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  • Number four: have you ever lied
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  • About your age, education, or income?
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  • Number five: would you tell a close friend
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  • That he or she had bad breath?
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Don't look at your neighbor right now.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Number six: have you ever said i love you
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  • Without meaning it?
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  • Number seven: do you love and respect your in-laws?
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  • Number eight: did you lie on this test?
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • How did you do?
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  • I imagine all of us realize we may be engaged
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  • In terminological inexactitude
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  • Or what the bible calls lying,
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  • Which is the subject of the ninth commandment
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  • We're looking at today in our series on "the 10."
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  • Exodus 20, verse 16 says:
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  • "you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."
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  • This is a very specific kind of lying
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  • That we're going to get to in just a moment.
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  • But first, let's look at what the bible says about lying.
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  • You know, there's a connection between the sixth, seventh,
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  • Eighth and ninth commandment.
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  • The sixth commandment involves taking something
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  • That doesn't belong to you.
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  • "you shall not take your neighbor's life."
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  • The seventh commandment,
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  • "you shall not take your neighbor's wife or husband."
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  • The eighth commandment,
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  • "you shall not take your neighbor's goods."
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  • And this commandment, the ninth commandment,
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  • "you shall not take your neighbor's good name."
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  • All four of these commandments involve taking something
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  • That really doesn't belong to you,
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  • And there's a relationship between murder, adultery, theft.
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  • They all involve taking something
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  • That doesn't belong to you.
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  • The bible treats lying very seriously.
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  • We don't, we treat it flippantly.
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  • It's a part of everyday life.
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  • I think about the father
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  • That was taking his 6-year-old son to the movie.
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  • The theater allowed children under the age of six in free.
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  • And so the ticket taker looked at the boy and said,
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  • "how old are you?"
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  • And obeying his father's instructions,
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  • He answered, "five."
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  • The ticket taker looked at him and said,
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  • "and when do you turn six?"
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  • The boy said, "probably right after the movie is over."
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Now, we kind of treat that as harmless kind of lying,
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  • But the bible takes it very seriously.
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  • If you really want to know what god says about lying,
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  • Turn to proverbs chapter 6, verses 16 through 19.
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  • Solomon said: "there are six things which the lord hates.
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  • Yes, seven, which are an abomination to him."
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  • Now that ought to cause our spiritual ears to perk up.
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  • Whenever the bible said,
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  • "here are seven things god hates,"
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  • We better take note of them.
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  • What are they?
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  • Verse 17, "haughty eyes," that is pride.
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  • "a lying tongue,
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  • Hands that shed innocent blood,
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  • A heart that devises wicked plans,
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  • Feet that run rapidly to evil,
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  • A false witness who utters lies,
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  • And one who spreads strife among brothers."
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  • Will you notice that two out of these seven things
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  • Involve lying and deception?
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  • God hates lying.
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  • Why does god hate lying so much?
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  • Why is this a commandment of the 10
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  • And why is it that two of the seven
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  • On the list in proverbs deal with lying?
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  • There are two reasons god hates lying.
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  • First of all, because of the origin of lying.
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  • Where does lying originate?
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  • Hint: not with god.
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  • God cannot lie.
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  • On the other hand,
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  • Satan cannot not lie.
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  • He is the originator of lies in the universe.
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  • In john 8:44, jesus describes satan this way.
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  • "satan does not stand in the truth
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  • Because there is no truth in him.
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  • Whenever he speaks a lie,
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  • He speaks from his own nature,
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  • For he is a liar
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  • And he is the father of all lies."
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  • It is in satan's nature to lie
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  • And here's why god hates lying so much.
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  • When we, as christians, lie,
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  • We are behaving more like children of satan
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  • Than we are children of god.
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  • Secondly, he hates lying because of the outcome.
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  • The results of lying,
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  • Look at proverbs 6:19 again,
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  • That list of seven things god hates.
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  • Notice what he says in verse 19,
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  • "a false witness who utters lies
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  • And who spreads strife among brothers."
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  • There's a relationship between lying
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  • And causing division among brothers,
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  • That is among believers.
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  • I had a deacon in the first church i pastored.
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  • He never could quite get this verse right.
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  • The king james says,
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  • "those who sow discord among the brethren."
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  • He would always talk about sowing discourse
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  • Among the brethren,
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  • But we knew what he was trying to say.
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  • God hates division among christians
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  • And lies further those division among christians.
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  • Now, paul is not saying
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  • That we shouldn't divide between non-christians.
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  • Speaking truth will always divide people.
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  • Christians from non-christians,
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  • We're not to seek after some false unity
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  • That is built on lies.
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  • Christians are going to be divided from non-christians
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  • When they speak truth.
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  • Remember what jesus said in matthew 10, verse 34 to 36?
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  • He said, "do not think that i came
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  • To bring peace on the earth.
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  • I did not come to bring peace but to bring a sword."
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  • When's the last time you saw that
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  • -on a christmas card? -(congregation laughing)
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  • But that's what jesus said.
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  • He wasn't here to be mr. peacemaker,
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  • To bring peace to the whole world.
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  • No, he came to bring a sword to divide people.
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  • That sword is the word of god.
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  • Jesus is the living word of god.
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  • Well, how do we lie?
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  • You know, just as there's more than one way
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  • To commit adultery,
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  • We saw there's more than one way to kill a person,
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  • There's also more than one way to lie.
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  • Now, the most obvious way we lie,
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  • First of all, is by contradicting the truth,
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  • By just saying something
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  • That is absolutely false in light of truth.
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  • Remember in genesis 2, god told adam
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  • From the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
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  • "you may not eat.
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  • From the day that you eat of it,
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  • You shall surely die."
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  • Apparently, adam passed that instruction to eve
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  • Because in genesis 3,
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  • Satan in the form of that serpent
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  • Slithered up in to eve's ear and said, what?
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  • "you shall not surely die."
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  • Genesis 3:4.
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  • That's a lie contradicting what is absolutely true.
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  • I remember years ago,
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  • Preaching to my church
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  • About the subject of lying and different ways we lie.
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  • And so on the way home from church,
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  • My daughters were in grade school at the time,
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  • I thought i'd try to impress
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  • The message upon them a little more.
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  • And so, i talked about different ways that we lie
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  • And one of my daughters who remain nameless
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  • Spoke up and she said, "oh dad,
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  • Is that like when somebody calls our house
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  • And you tell mom to say you're not at home?"
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • But enough about me.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Contradicting the truth.
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  • Secondly, another way we lie is more subtle.
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  • It's twisting the truth.
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  • It's making sure we're not technically involved
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  • In telling a lie,
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  • But the truth is we're deceiving people.
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  • Calvin miller, a great writer,
  • 00:11:36.452 --> 00:11:38.654
  • Tells about when he was in seminary,
  • 00:11:38.654 --> 00:11:40.289
  • He had a part-time job at a factory at nights
  • 00:11:40.289 --> 00:11:42.691
  • To make ends meet.
  • 00:11:42.691 --> 00:11:44.293
  • And one night, he realized he couldn't go into work.
  • 00:11:44.293 --> 00:11:46.929
  • He really needed to study for an exam,
  • 00:11:46.929 --> 00:11:48.564
  • But he knew that would not be an acceptable excuse
  • 00:11:48.564 --> 00:11:51.767
  • With his employer.
  • 00:11:51.767 --> 00:11:53.302
  • So he asked his wife what they were having for dinner.
  • 00:11:53.302 --> 00:11:55.638
  • She said fish.
  • 00:11:55.638 --> 00:11:57.439
  • He went in the bedroom,
  • 00:11:57.439 --> 00:11:59.775
  • Got flat on his back and he told his wife,
  • 00:11:59.775 --> 00:12:01.544
  • "now bring the package of fish to me."
  • 00:12:01.544 --> 00:12:03.813
  • So she brought the package of frozen fish to him
  • 00:12:03.813 --> 00:12:06.248
  • And while in the prone position,
  • 00:12:06.248 --> 00:12:08.884
  • He threw that package of frozen fish into the air,
  • 00:12:08.884 --> 00:12:12.521
  • Caught it and said, "now, call my employer
  • 00:12:12.521 --> 00:12:15.024
  • And tell him i'm flat on my back
  • 00:12:15.024 --> 00:12:17.059
  • And i just threw up my dinner."
  • 00:12:17.059 --> 00:12:19.128
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:12:19.128 --> 00:12:23.265
  • Technically, that was true,
  • 00:12:23.265 --> 00:12:25.868
  • But it was a deception
  • 00:12:25.868 --> 00:12:27.570
  • And the same thing is true when we twist the truth
  • 00:12:27.570 --> 00:12:30.506
  • To suit our own purpose.
  • 00:12:30.506 --> 00:12:32.508
  • A third way we are involved
  • 00:12:32.508 --> 00:12:34.109
  • In breaking the ninth commandment
  • 00:12:34.109 --> 00:12:35.845
  • Is by neglecting the truth.
  • 00:12:35.845 --> 00:12:38.914
  • That is allowing falsehoods to go unchallenged
  • 00:12:38.914 --> 00:12:42.351
  • When we know the truth.
  • 00:12:42.351 --> 00:12:44.053
  • That's the same as lying, paul says.
  • 00:12:44.053 --> 00:12:46.655
  • In ephesians 4:25, he says,
  • 00:12:46.655 --> 00:12:48.557
  • "lay aside falsehood,
  • 00:12:48.557 --> 00:12:50.793
  • Speak truth to each one of you with his neighbor,
  • 00:12:50.793 --> 00:12:54.296
  • For we are members of one another."
  • 00:12:54.296 --> 00:12:57.032
  • You know, moses went on to elaborate on that
  • 00:12:57.032 --> 00:12:59.235
  • In leviticus 5:1.
  • 00:12:59.235 --> 00:13:00.870
  • He said that "if you're in a court of law
  • 00:13:00.870 --> 00:13:03.339
  • And if you are called to testify
  • 00:13:03.339 --> 00:13:05.107
  • About something you have seen or know about,
  • 00:13:05.107 --> 00:13:08.210
  • It is sinful to refuse to testify
  • 00:13:08.210 --> 00:13:11.614
  • And you will be punished for your sin."
  • 00:13:11.614 --> 00:13:15.351
  • I remember years ago talking to a friend,
  • 00:13:15.351 --> 00:13:17.052
  • We were talking about a staff member from another church
  • 00:13:17.052 --> 00:13:20.022
  • Who had recently left and my friend said,
  • 00:13:20.022 --> 00:13:22.524
  • "i understand it was because of immorality."
  • 00:13:22.524 --> 00:13:25.261
  • Well, i happen to know about the situation.
  • 00:13:25.261 --> 00:13:27.196
  • I said, "you know that's not true.
  • 00:13:27.196 --> 00:13:28.898
  • There was no immorality involved in it at all.
  • 00:13:28.898 --> 00:13:31.200
  • This is why he left."
  • 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:33.035
  • Now, my friend could have remained silent,
  • 00:13:33.035 --> 00:13:34.803
  • Said, "well, okay, no big deal."
  • 00:13:34.803 --> 00:13:37.273
  • But instead, he went the extra step.
  • 00:13:37.273 --> 00:13:39.608
  • He called the person who gave him
  • 00:13:39.608 --> 00:13:41.410
  • That wrong information and said,
  • 00:13:41.410 --> 00:13:43.112
  • "you know, i've just come upon some facts about that.
  • 00:13:43.112 --> 00:13:45.981
  • That staff member was not involved
  • 00:13:45.981 --> 00:13:47.983
  • In an immoral relationship."
  • 00:13:47.983 --> 00:13:49.618
  • He felt he had a duty, which he did,
  • 00:13:49.618 --> 00:13:52.388
  • To correct error by speaking the truth.
  • 00:13:52.388 --> 00:13:56.558
  • Fourthly, inflating the truth.
  • 00:13:57.192 --> 00:14:00.429
  • That's another way that we lie.
  • 00:14:00.429 --> 00:14:02.865
  • Inflating the truth, trying to make a good story
  • 00:14:02.865 --> 00:14:06.635
  • Or a situation sound better by embellishing it.
  • 00:14:06.635 --> 00:14:10.039
  • I remember hearing about two pastors
  • 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:12.708
  • Who went to a pastor's convention.
  • 00:14:12.708 --> 00:14:14.143
  • They were standing in the hallway and one said,
  • 00:14:14.143 --> 00:14:16.612
  • "how many are you running
  • 00:14:16.612 --> 00:14:17.880
  • In your worship service every sunday?"
  • 00:14:17.880 --> 00:14:20.149
  • The other pastor said, "between 4 and 500."
  • 00:14:20.149 --> 00:14:22.251
  • This pastor said, "well, that's great."
  • 00:14:22.251 --> 00:14:24.954
  • Later that next week,
  • 00:14:24.954 --> 00:14:26.221
  • He received a bulletin from that church.
  • 00:14:26.221 --> 00:14:27.856
  • He looked down at the attendance and it said 87.
  • 00:14:27.856 --> 00:14:31.961
  • So he called his friend,
  • 00:14:32.461 --> 00:14:33.996
  • He said, "you told me you were running between 4 and 500
  • 00:14:33.996 --> 00:14:36.365
  • And your attendance report says 87."
  • 00:14:36.365 --> 00:14:37.967
  • And the pastor said, "well,
  • 00:14:37.967 --> 00:14:40.202
  • 87 is between 4 and 500."
  • 00:14:40.202 --> 00:14:44.073
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:14:44.073 --> 00:14:47.776
  • Now, that's what you call inflating the truth
  • 00:14:47.776 --> 00:14:51.046
  • And before you laugh too much,
  • 00:14:51.046 --> 00:14:53.148
  • We've all done that before.
  • 00:14:53.148 --> 00:14:55.284
  • Have you ever inflated your resume
  • 00:14:55.284 --> 00:14:58.153
  • Perhaps by exaggerating your educational experience
  • 00:14:58.153 --> 00:15:01.490
  • Or your work experience?
  • 00:15:01.490 --> 00:15:03.325
  • Have you ever exaggerated a relationship with somebody
  • 00:15:03.325 --> 00:15:06.328
  • By saying, "oh, he or she,
  • 00:15:06.328 --> 00:15:07.963
  • They're great friends,"
  • 00:15:07.963 --> 00:15:09.398
  • When in fact, you barely even know them?
  • 00:15:09.398 --> 00:15:12.101
  • That's what you call inflating the truth.
  • 00:15:12.101 --> 00:15:15.904
  • Now, i know what you're probably thinking,
  • 00:15:15.904 --> 00:15:17.373
  • "pastor, aren't you being kind of nitpicky
  • 00:15:17.373 --> 00:15:19.508
  • About all of this stuff?
  • 00:15:19.508 --> 00:15:20.743
  • I mean, after all, we're from texas,
  • 00:15:20.743 --> 00:15:23.579
  • We're known for creative embellishment."
  • 00:15:23.579 --> 00:15:26.815
  • Here's the problem.
  • 00:15:27.282 --> 00:15:28.984
  • When we engage in that,
  • 00:15:28.984 --> 00:15:30.119
  • It hurts our credibility.
  • 00:15:30.119 --> 00:15:32.488
  • Because if people can't trust us in everything we say,
  • 00:15:32.488 --> 00:15:35.924
  • How can they trust us in anything we say?
  • 00:15:35.924 --> 00:15:39.228
  • Years ago, i was preaching a sermon
  • 00:15:39.962 --> 00:15:42.398
  • And i told a story, a personal story,
  • 00:15:42.398 --> 00:15:44.400
  • That i will admit sounded improbable,
  • 00:15:44.400 --> 00:15:49.738
  • But it actually happened even though it sounded improbable.
  • 00:15:50.939 --> 00:15:52.808
  • I was told later about a little boy at lunch
  • 00:15:52.808 --> 00:15:55.644
  • Who said to his dad,
  • 00:15:55.644 --> 00:15:57.279
  • "do you think that really happened to pastor jeffress?"
  • 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:00.649
  • The father shook his head, said, "son, no,
  • 00:16:00.649 --> 00:16:02.851
  • That's just preacher talk."
  • 00:16:02.851 --> 00:16:04.787
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:16:04.787 --> 00:16:07.256
  • And when that story came back to me,
  • 00:16:07.256 --> 00:16:09.992
  • I thought to myself,
  • 00:16:09.992 --> 00:16:11.760
  • Now what's that little boy
  • 00:16:11.760 --> 00:16:13.228
  • Going to think about other things i say?
  • 00:16:13.228 --> 00:16:15.898
  • Is he going to write them off as preacher talk?
  • 00:16:15.898 --> 00:16:19.068
  • That's why it's important
  • 00:16:19.068 --> 00:16:20.436
  • That people learn to trust everything we say.
  • 00:16:20.436 --> 00:16:24.039
  • James said it this way in james 5:12,
  • 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:26.241
  • "but above all, my brethren, do not swear
  • 00:16:26.241 --> 00:16:29.912
  • Either by heaven or by oath or by any other oath,
  • 00:16:29.912 --> 00:16:33.148
  • But let your yes be yes in your no no,
  • 00:16:33.148 --> 00:16:36.985
  • So that you may not fall under judgment."
  • 00:16:36.985 --> 00:16:39.755
  • This verse isn't saying
  • 00:16:39.755 --> 00:16:41.123
  • You never put your hand on a bible and take a no.
  • 00:16:41.123 --> 00:16:43.559
  • That's not what it's saying.
  • 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:45.627
  • It's saying be such a person of truth
  • 00:16:45.627 --> 00:16:49.565
  • That when you say yes or no,
  • 00:16:49.565 --> 00:16:50.899
  • People automatically believe you.
  • 00:16:50.899 --> 00:16:53.035
  • You don't have to say,
  • 00:16:53.035 --> 00:16:53.969
  • "i swear on a stack of bibles,"
  • 00:16:53.969 --> 00:16:55.838
  • Or "i swear on my children's lives,"
  • 00:16:55.838 --> 00:16:57.473
  • Or "on my wife's life."
  • 00:16:57.473 --> 00:16:59.475
  • You don't have to engage in all of that
  • 00:16:59.475 --> 00:17:01.176
  • Because you are a person of credibility.
  • 00:17:01.176 --> 00:17:03.412
  • Look, you and i have been charged
  • 00:17:03.412 --> 00:17:05.581
  • With sharing the most important truth in all the universe.
  • 00:17:05.581 --> 00:17:09.618
  • It's jesus' truth when he said,
  • 00:17:09.618 --> 00:17:11.487
  • "i am the way, the truth and the life.
  • 00:17:11.487 --> 00:17:14.089
  • No man comes to the father except by me."
  • 00:17:14.089 --> 00:17:17.059
  • We are to share that message with other people
  • 00:17:17.059 --> 00:17:19.995
  • And we need to be sure people trust what we're saying
  • 00:17:19.995 --> 00:17:22.364
  • Because we are credible people.
  • 00:17:22.364 --> 00:17:25.434
  • God hates sinning because of its origin and its outcome.
  • 00:17:26.568 --> 00:17:31.540
  • God says it's not just an outright lie,
  • 00:17:32.407 --> 00:17:33.942
  • But it's any shade of the truth that counts as a lie.
  • 00:17:33.942 --> 00:17:37.246
  • But i want you to notice a special category of lying
  • 00:17:37.246 --> 00:17:41.049
  • That is the focus of the ninth commandment.
  • 00:17:41.049 --> 00:17:44.753
  • Exodus 20:16, "you shall not bear false witness
  • 00:17:44.753 --> 00:17:49.992
  • Against your neighbor."
  • 00:17:50.492 --> 00:17:51.760
  • You are not to lie about another person.
  • 00:17:51.760 --> 00:17:55.964
  • Why does he mention this
  • 00:17:56.465 --> 00:17:58.867
  • As the sin that makes god's top 10?
  • 00:17:58.867 --> 00:18:01.870
  • Two reasons: first of all,
  • 00:18:01.870 --> 00:18:03.972
  • Bearing false witness about another person perverts justice.
  • 00:18:03.972 --> 00:18:09.244
  • It perverts justice.
  • 00:18:09.711 --> 00:18:11.547
  • Now, stay with me on this.
  • 00:18:11.547 --> 00:18:12.814
  • Remember, israel was a theocracy
  • 00:18:12.814 --> 00:18:16.718
  • And that means these moral laws were not just moral laws,
  • 00:18:16.718 --> 00:18:20.889
  • They were laws for how society was conducted
  • 00:18:20.889 --> 00:18:24.359
  • And two of these 10 commandments
  • 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:26.061
  • Had capital punishment assigned to breaking them:
  • 00:18:26.061 --> 00:18:29.598
  • Adultery and murder.
  • 00:18:29.598 --> 00:18:31.200
  • If you were guilty of breaking either of those commandments,
  • 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:34.136
  • You would lose your life.
  • 00:18:34.136 --> 00:18:36.705
  • And so, it was very important
  • 00:18:36.705 --> 00:18:38.340
  • That before somebody was executed
  • 00:18:38.340 --> 00:18:41.143
  • That reliable witnesses be consulted
  • 00:18:41.143 --> 00:18:44.479
  • And there were two safeguards to make sure
  • 00:18:44.479 --> 00:18:46.848
  • That witnesses told the truth
  • 00:18:46.848 --> 00:18:49.585
  • And didn't succumb to any outside pressure
  • 00:18:49.585 --> 00:18:52.721
  • To declare an innocent person guilty
  • 00:18:52.721 --> 00:18:54.756
  • Or a guilty person innocent.
  • 00:18:54.756 --> 00:18:57.359
  • What were those safeguards?
  • 00:18:57.359 --> 00:18:59.595
  • First of all, there had to be a multiplicity of witnesses.
  • 00:18:59.595 --> 00:19:04.066
  • You didn't put anybody to death on the basis of one witness.
  • 00:19:04.066 --> 00:19:08.103
  • Now, i know that goes against our culture today.
  • 00:19:08.103 --> 00:19:10.706
  • We're supposed to say, "oh,
  • 00:19:10.706 --> 00:19:12.441
  • One accuser is to always be believed."
  • 00:19:12.441 --> 00:19:15.143
  • No, the bible says
  • 00:19:15.143 --> 00:19:16.612
  • You don't always automatically believe every accuser.
  • 00:19:16.612 --> 00:19:19.514
  • There needs to be evidence.
  • 00:19:19.514 --> 00:19:21.016
  • There need to be witnesses.
  • 00:19:21.016 --> 00:19:22.718
  • The same thing is true here.
  • 00:19:22.718 --> 00:19:24.519
  • There need to be a multiplicity of witnesses.
  • 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:26.655
  • Now, here was the second safeguard
  • 00:19:26.655 --> 00:19:27.990
  • In deuteronomy 17, verse 7,
  • 00:19:27.990 --> 00:19:30.459
  • "the hand of the witnesses
  • 00:19:30.459 --> 00:19:32.661
  • Shall be the first against him to put him to death,
  • 00:19:32.661 --> 00:19:35.697
  • And afterward the hand of all the people."
  • 00:19:35.697 --> 00:19:38.700
  • If somebody was found guilty
  • 00:19:38.700 --> 00:19:40.302
  • On the basis of two or three witnesses
  • 00:19:40.302 --> 00:19:43.005
  • And was sentenced to be stoned to death,
  • 00:19:43.005 --> 00:19:45.540
  • Guess who got to throw the first stone?
  • 00:19:45.540 --> 00:19:48.710
  • They were ordered to throw the first stone,
  • 00:19:48.710 --> 00:19:50.979
  • Those two or three witnesses.
  • 00:19:50.979 --> 00:19:52.781
  • They were the ones who inflicted the death blow.
  • 00:19:52.781 --> 00:19:56.852
  • In other words, you better be careful what you testify to
  • 00:19:56.852 --> 00:20:00.656
  • Because you're going to be the one to carry out the execution.
  • 00:20:00.656 --> 00:20:04.426
  • And if you're lying in what you said,
  • 00:20:04.426 --> 00:20:08.530
  • You're guilty not only of breaking the ninth commandment,
  • 00:20:08.530 --> 00:20:11.633
  • You're guilty of breaking the commandment,
  • 00:20:11.633 --> 00:20:13.368
  • "you shall not murder."
  • 00:20:13.368 --> 00:20:14.770
  • You're the one responsible for taking another life.
  • 00:20:14.770 --> 00:20:19.074
  • God hates lying about other people
  • 00:20:19.074 --> 00:20:21.843
  • Because it perverts justice.
  • 00:20:21.843 --> 00:20:23.412
  • But secondly, bearing false witness robs reputations.
  • 00:20:23.412 --> 00:20:28.850
  • Look at colossians 3:8,
  • 00:20:29.351 --> 00:20:31.320
  • "but now, also put them all aside:
  • 00:20:31.320 --> 00:20:34.389
  • Anger, wrath, malice, slander,
  • 00:20:34.389 --> 00:20:38.226
  • And abusive speech from your mouth."
  • 00:20:38.226 --> 00:20:40.829
  • Circle that word, slander.
  • 00:20:40.829 --> 00:20:43.332
  • You know to understand what he's saying
  • 00:20:43.332 --> 00:20:45.334
  • When he's saying lay aside slander.
  • 00:20:45.334 --> 00:20:47.903
  • You have to look at slander's first cousin: gossip.
  • 00:20:47.903 --> 00:20:52.808
  • Gossip in the bible is the greek word psithyristes.
  • 00:20:53.809 --> 00:20:57.713
  • Psithyristes, it's what we call in english an onomatopoeia.
  • 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:03.585
  • It describes by its sound what it is defining.
  • 00:21:04.553 --> 00:21:08.557
  • Psithyristes, gossip.
  • 00:21:08.557 --> 00:21:10.459
  • (dr. jeffress shushing)
  • 00:21:10.459 --> 00:21:13.695
  • That's what a gossip does.
  • 00:21:13.695 --> 00:21:15.897
  • He's always involved in secret communication.
  • 00:21:15.897 --> 00:21:18.367
  • He doesn't want it traced back to him.
  • 00:21:18.367 --> 00:21:21.203
  • He's whispering secretly accusations
  • 00:21:21.203 --> 00:21:24.272
  • Against another person, that's gossip.
  • 00:21:24.272 --> 00:21:26.641
  • But the word here, slander,
  • 00:21:26.641 --> 00:21:28.477
  • You know what that means?
  • 00:21:28.477 --> 00:21:29.611
  • It means to strike out against.
  • 00:21:29.611 --> 00:21:31.747
  • It means to openly judge another person.
  • 00:21:31.747 --> 00:21:35.050
  • A person who commits slander
  • 00:21:35.050 --> 00:21:36.451
  • Doesn't even try to hide what he's doing.
  • 00:21:36.451 --> 00:21:38.487
  • He is so sure he's right and the other person is wrong,
  • 00:21:38.487 --> 00:21:41.456
  • He doesn't mind killing somebody's reputation.
  • 00:21:41.456 --> 00:21:45.293
  • James has a word about that in james 4:11 to 12.
  • 00:21:45.293 --> 00:21:48.697
  • "do not speak against one another,
  • 00:21:48.697 --> 00:21:50.899
  • Slander one another.
  • 00:21:50.899 --> 00:21:52.467
  • Brethren, for he who speaks against a brother
  • 00:21:52.467 --> 00:21:54.770
  • Or judges his brother
  • 00:21:54.770 --> 00:21:56.338
  • Speaks against the law and the judges."
  • 00:21:56.338 --> 00:21:58.573
  • Verse 12, "for there is only one law giver and judge,
  • 00:21:58.573 --> 00:22:01.943
  • The one who is able to save and to destroy,
  • 00:22:01.943 --> 00:22:04.513
  • But who are you to judge your neighbor?"
  • 00:22:04.513 --> 00:22:08.150
  • What he is condemning is making a judgment
  • 00:22:08.150 --> 00:22:10.519
  • About another person that you're not qualified to make.
  • 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:14.456
  • It means being so certain you're right and they're wrong
  • 00:22:14.456 --> 00:22:16.992
  • That you serve as both judge, jury,
  • 00:22:16.992 --> 00:22:19.861
  • And executioner of another person's reputation.
  • 00:22:19.861 --> 00:22:23.999
  • It is a serious thing to do.
  • 00:22:23.999 --> 00:22:25.967
  • The fact is words we speak about somebody else,
  • 00:22:25.967 --> 00:22:30.272
  • Words that we use to destroy somebody's reputation
  • 00:22:30.272 --> 00:22:33.975
  • Can never be retrieved.
  • 00:22:33.975 --> 00:22:36.344
  • When i think about that truth,
  • 00:22:36.344 --> 00:22:38.046
  • I think about a man named raymond donovan.
  • 00:22:38.046 --> 00:22:41.516
  • You may remember him in the 1980s,
  • 00:22:41.516 --> 00:22:44.052
  • He was the secretary of labor under president ronald reagan.
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  • He was accused of several crimes.
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  • He was indicted by a grand jury.
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  • But later, he was acquitted of any wrongdoing
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  • And i'll never forget watching the press conference he had
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  • After the acquittal came.
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  • Somebody asked him, "mr. donovan,
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  • What are you going to do next?"
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  • He answered, "does anybody know what office i go to
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  • To get my reputation back?"
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  • There is no such office.
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  • Once you've lost your reputation,
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  • It is lost forever.
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  • The truth is the most valuable thing
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  • Any of us possesses is a good name.
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  • Proverbs 22, verse 1 says,
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  • "a good name is to be more desired than great wealth.
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  • Favor is better than silver and gold."
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  • We live and we die with our name
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  • And that's it is so important
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  • That we take extra precautions
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  • To guard the reputation of others.
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  • How do we do that?
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  • By refusing to bear false witness against our neighbors.
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  • (triumphant music fades)
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  • Just as we go to great lengths
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  • To protect our own reputation,
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  • We must also safeguard the reputation of others.
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  • Well, every day, we take one step closer
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  • To the return of the lord jesus christ
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  • And my god-given mission is to get god's word
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  • To as many people as possible
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  • While there's still time.
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  • Now, stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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  • In just a moment.
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  • Most of us grew up seeing the 10 commandments
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  • Posted in our schools and courthouses,
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  • So why don't we seem to follow
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  • Those 10 commandments anymore?
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  • In "the 10," dr. robert jeffress
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  • Shows us these ancient truths
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  • Were not given to us to take away our freedom.
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  • They were given to enhance our happiness
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  • And to invite us into a deeper love relationship with god.
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  • In a culture where moral confusion reigns,
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  • Where what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right,
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  • We desperately need to get back to the basics of morality
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  • And that's exactly what the 10 commandments help us do.
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  • "the 10" by dr. robert jeffress.
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  • A copy is yours today
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  • When you give a generous gift to "pathway to victory."
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  • You will never make it to heaven
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  • By keeping the 10 commandments,
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  • But you will have a much better life
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  • Here on earth if you do.
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  • That is the promise that god is making.
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  • For 30 years,
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  • "pathway to victory" has been sharing god's truth
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  • With a world that needs it now more than ever.
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  • Thank you for helping us pierce the darkness
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  • With the light of god's word.
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  • Perhaps i'm speaking to someone today
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  • Who's fallen into the habit of telling lies.
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  • Those little fibs may seem innocent or harmless to you,
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  • But all lies, big and small, are hated in god's eyes.
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  • Next time, we'll have come to the 10th
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  • And final commandment and together,
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  • We're going to look at both the source and the solution
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  • For the problem of covetousness.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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  • In our series, "the 10."
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  • Discontent, desire for something more
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  • Or different than what we have isn't always bad,
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  • But dissatisfaction can also be the foundation for sin.
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  • In fact, it's a foundation of just about every sin
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  • We've looked at in this series on the 10 commandments.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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  • "the 10th commandment: control yourself and be content"
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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  • (triumphant music fades)
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