Friday, May 15, 2020

Do You Love Jesus? Do Not Bear False Witness.


Do you love Jesus?

Joh_14:23  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Do you love Jesus?

Joh_14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Exo_20:16  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Mat_15:19  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies

Mat_19:18  He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness

False witness. Lying. To witness falsely is to lie plain and simple. You lie about another, and when you lie you are given false testimony, false witness. You are being deceptive.  Is there anything good about being a false witness? Is there any good in lying?

Some know firsthand what it means to be falsely witnessed against.  Once the accusations are made you are in shock. You protest you are being falsely accused but it scarcely matters. The words are spoken, the belief of them is out there. Your intense righteous indignation is pushed to the extreme. You want the truth to be out there, not lies.  Some people suffer horrifically under false witnesses. Some have been condemned to death at the mere lying words of another person. Others have ended up in jail for life over lies, unjustly accused and they have to suffer a life time of imprisonment. Bearing false witness is a sin. Every variant that exists connected to bearing false witness, to lying, is a sin in need of forgiveness, of repentance.

Jesus says if we love Him we will not bear false witness against others. Do you love Jesus? Are you keeping His commandments?

Do not sugar coat a single lie! Do not excuse one falsehood spoken against another!

Seek forgiveness!

Repent and give up any lying, do not bear any false witness ever!

Speak only truth of all others, always!

Love Jesus.

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