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Legal Dramas
Do you like Legal Dramas?
They are some of the most watched and longest running shows in television.
Law and Order (and all the varieties), The Practice, Murder She Wrote, Matlock, Perry Mason, Jag...
They all have something in common, each episode keeps us on the edge of our seat looking for one thing: “THE TRUTH”
Who done it?
Why did they do it?
Weeding through the lies and combing through the evidence, and we get to the end where the TRUTH is finally revealed.
The reason we love Legal Dramas is because we love TRUTH and our hearts long to find it.
9th Commandment
Pilate, in , asks a question we all have deep in our hearts “What is truth?”
Bold-faced Lie- saying something that just isn’t true.
He had just asked Jesus a question:
Law and Order (and all the varieties), The Practice, Murder She Wrote, Matlock, Perry Mason, Jag...
Exaggerating the truth- making the truth bigger than it actually is.
Twisting the truth- saying something that is true, but in a that isn’t fully true.
They all have something in common, each episode keeps us on the edge of our seat looking for one thing: “THE TRUTH”
- Jesus has an odd way of answering questions…He is saying “Truth is found in ME.”
Who done it?
Why did they do it?
Weeding through the lies and combing through the evidence, and we get to the end where the TRUTH is finally revealed.
What really matters Pilate is if YOU believe what I say is true, then who I am will make since.
Jesus has said this more directly in other places:
This is the thrust of the 9th commandment- to know what is truth and to live in the FREEDOM that the TRUTH brings.
The heart of this commandment is Living in the FREEDOM of the TRUTH and TRUTH is the very nature of who God is.
TRUE TRUTH, REAL TRUTH is found when God reveals Himself to us.
Reveals God to us
1) God is TRUTH.
The Hebrew phrase here literally says “Elo’him AMEN” The God of AMEN
We get the term “Amen” in our prayers from this word meaning, truthful and trustworthy.
God is a God of AMEN
He is trustworthy, He is TRUE, nothing false comes from Him because He is the origination of all that is truth.
Absolute truth is wrapped up into the very nature of who God is.
The 9th commandment is saying, “Be like God, don’t lie!”
2) God reveals TRUTH.
2) God reveals TRUTH.
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God doesn’t keep truth captive in Himself, but He reveals truth to us.
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The Word of God is God’s way of revealing TRUTH to us.
The 9th commandment speaks to God’s truthfulness and His desire to make TRUTH KNOWN.
but it also speaks to His abhorrence of dishonesty.
Confronts our sinfulness
proverbs
God confronts our DISHONESTY in the 9th commandment.
1) Confronts our HIDING .
We hide behind a lot of things:
Our self-righteousness- We point to our religious deeds, our
Our success and accomplishments-
We present ourselves as clean, together, religious people, and we convince ourselves and others that everything is good and
“Catch Me If You Can” Leo plays a kid who pretends to be a Doctor, a Lawyer, an airplane pilot, all to hide the failures of his parents, and to avoid having to live in the reality of the situation.
For years, Rachel Dolezal led a secret life in the Pacific Northwest.
Her friends believed she was a black woman with a passion for African-American issues.
Others saw her as a vocal civil rights leader who later became the local N.A.A.C.P. president in Spokane, Wash.
We hide behind a lot of things:
She was also a liar, her parents said.
Estranged from their daughter, her parents came forward in June 2015 to out her as a white woman who had carried on a giant ruse, exposing her in what quickly morphed from a local story into an international sensation.
She was also a liar, her parents said.
Estranged from their daughter, her parents came forward in June 2015 to out her as a white woman who had carried on a giant ruse, exposing her in what quickly morphed from a local story into an international sensation.
Our egos- Our pride causes us to build an image of ourselves that we must maintain and sale to others.
If our ego is threatened we get angry, depressed, or more deeply deceptive.
Our ego is built on our successes, our accomplishments, our gifts and talents, and all the things we can point to in order to proof who we are.
We try to defend it when it is threatened, we become despondent when we feel like we are losing it, and so we often dig deeper into the lie in order to protect it.
King David seeking to cover his sin with Bathsheba by having her husband killed.
Our religiosity- we hide behind our involvement in church, our religious language, our service and sacrifices.
We are much like the Pharisees Jesus calls out in - we are WHITEWASHED tombs, clean and shiny on the outside but dead on the inside.
“Catch Me If You Can” Leo plays a kid who pretends to be a Doctor, a Lawyer, an airplane pilot, all to hide the failures of his parents, and to avoid having to live in the reality of the situation.
There is a scene toward the end where Tom Hanks finally catches up to him and is going to arrest him.
He is running around grabbing counterfeit checks and can’t believe everything is finally over.
2) Confronts our INSECURITIES.
JD Greer says: “Lying grows out of a deep insecurity we all possess in life.”
I’m not comfortable with how God has made me, what He’s promised to me… I’m not content with what He’s doing with my life or how He’ll take care of me…
So we lie, we hide, we project, we do whatever we can to convince ourselves and others that we are valuable, successful, appreciated, whole, or whatever we are trying to prove.
genesis 3- hiding because we have lost the security of being image bearers of God.
Our insecurities lead us to lie to save face, lie to get something we do not have, lie to be accepted by others, lie to feel like we matter, lie to control a situation we feel is out of our control...
The 9th commandment is confronting our insecurities.
3) Confronts our GOSSIP and SLANDER.
Our insecurities and hiding often effect how we treat and speak about others.
The heart behind gossip and slander is making ourselves look better than someone else.
We share information in order feel important or to devalue the person we are sharing about.
We talk about them in often exaggerated ways in order to gain acceptance or to feel superior.
We slander others as we demean there character to others in order to create the image that we are more important, good, successful…or whatever we are trying to prove.
Gossip and slander are our ways to gain value, manipulate others into accepting us, or to devalue a person in order d
Instructs our following
1) Instructs us to BE HONEST.
The 9th commandment is a simple call to speak what is true.
And when we don’t we do large-scale damage, all to gain face or get something we desire to have...
Paul tells the Philippians to value what is TRUE, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, worthy of praise.
Though truth is mentioned, the rest of the list points further strengthens our need to place great value on the things that real and worthy of our attention.
2) Instructs us to BE AUTHENTIC.
Don’t be conformed to this world, or to someones perception of what you should be.
Don’t buy into the lies we are told that to be valuable you have to have certain toys, where certain clothing, be a part of certain groups.
That feeling of “fitting in” is a strong motivator to live deceptively.
Ground who you are in the reality that you were created in the image of a beautiful and glorious God.
You are dearly loved by your father in heaven.
Your identity is not dependent on what others thinks or the persona you create for yourself.
The 9th commandment is instructing us to be who God created and saved you to be.
Don’t hide behind self-righteousness or you ego, live authentically, confess your screw-ups, don’t hide, and BE REAL.
3) Instructs us to SPEAK TRUTH IN LOVE.
You guys have seen the Gieco commercial with Abraham Lincoln right?
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