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A Test
Seeking God and having the ultimate relationship with Him requires complete honesty.
Covering our faults and failures is no good to anyone.
This message challenges the hearer to examine how honest he/she is with the Lord, himself and others.
A survey conducted asked the question "do you lie?" 50% admitted they lie from time to time - the other 50% are liars.
Have you ever heard these famous sayings?
- Abe Lincoln said if a person doesn't lie, he wont have so much to remember
- Honesty is the best policy
- "Let me be honest with you"
- "Honest to goodness"
- "He is honest as the day is long" (it's what a man does at night that can be scary)
- "Some people are just brutally honest"
- A little white lie will never hurt anyone
SLIDE WE LIE
We lie every day.....many times a day.
Here are some common every day lies:
- we lie about where we have been
- checks in the mail
- said we did a chore, but didn't
- I need 5 minutes of your time
- Let's have lunch sometime
- went somewhere when you were supposed to be somewhere else
- claim you didn't say something that you really did
- money cheerfully refunded
- open wide, this won't hurt
- is the time card at work accurate or do you "fudge it" from time to time?
What is "fudging anyway?
- you seen the car accident but are not telling who was at fault.
- have you ever taken credit for something you didn't do?
THERE IS IN ACTS A STORY ABOUT A COUPLE WHO LIED AND MET A HORRIBLE FATE.
AS A MATTER OF FACT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME CHURCH WAS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE SO THIS IS MOST PROBABLY THE FIRST CHURCH.
THE STORY GOES LIKE THIS:
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BUT LET ME SET THE STAGE FOR YOU BECAUSE THIS IS WHY WE DO THINGS SOMETIMES,
GOING BACK TO AT THE END WE SEE THE CHURCH ASSEMBLE ITSELF.
BARNABAS WHOS NAME MEANT ENCOURAGER SOLD HIS LAND AND GAVE THE MONEY TO THE CHURCH.
THE FOLLOWERS MOST LIKELY SPOKE ABOUT IT AND THIS GOT ANANIAS GOING ABOOUT HOW HE COULD LOOK THE SAME IN THE PEOPLES EYES.
the significance of this death is that sin causes death a separation from God
separation from God
DID THEY KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING WAS WRONG?
In the book, The Day America Told the Truth, authors James Patterson & Peter Kim reveal some shocking statistics on how far people in this country are willing to go for money:
(25%) Would abandon their entire family
(23%) Would become prostitutes for a week or more
(16%) Would leave their spouses
(10%) Would withhold testimony and let a murderer go free
(7%) Would kill a stranger
(3%) Would put their child up for adoption
Money is a very powerful thing!
People sell their souls for money.
What would you do?
Would you…lie, steal, inflict pain, manipulate, cheat, bend the rules, compromise your integrity, take someone’s job, threaten someone or even kill?
MATTHEW 6:1
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Charles Swindoll tells the story about a man who bought two chicken dinners late one afternoon.
The attendant at the fast food outlet, however, inadvertently gave him the proceeds from the day’s business--a bucket of money (much of it cash) instead of fried chicken.
The man didn’t have a clue.
It was only when he arrived at the picnic spot with his date that he opened the bag.
It was at that moment they discovered the $800.
The man and his date did the honest thing.
They put the money back into the bag and drove back to the restaurant.
He walked in and handed the money filled bag to the manager.
He said, “I think this is yours.”
Obviously, the manager was relieved and thrilled to death.
He looked at the man and said, “Don’t go anywhere.
’Let me call the newspaper.
I’m going to have your picture put in the local paper.
You must be the most honest man in this community.”
The man begged him not to call the newspaper.
He point to his date and said, “This young woman isn’t my wife.
She is married to someone else.
I am married to someone else.
Our spouses don’t need to know we are together.”
One can be honest and still not have integrity.
If you want to be a person of integrity then you must be true.
Here is the whole of the message.
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There is no sin so great that God can't forgive
2. There is no sin so small that you can afford to keep it hidden
3. The weight of lies is too great to endure for any period of time
4. The longer you wait to come clean, your physical, emotional and spiritual health will deteriorate and die.
C.H. Spurgeon once said: "Nothing can enter heaven which is not real; nothing erroneous, mistaken, conceited, hollow, pretentious, nothing dishonest can be smuggled through those gates.
Only truth can dwell with the God of truth."
EXAMINE YOUR HEART
SONG IF WERE HONEST
SONG - IF WE HONEST
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