‘Avoid Falsehood.’
a) Proverbs 20:17. Its bread is sweet, but afterwards our mouths are filled with gravel.
b) Deuteronomy 5:11. In using the Name of the Lord.
c) Job 11:11. God recognises and knows people of falsehood.
d) Job 21:34; Isaiah 59:3. It makes our speech so empty.
e) Job 31:5. We should not walk with it.
f) Psalm 5:6. If we speak it we may be destroyed.
g) Psalm 7:14. It is aligned with wickedness.
h) Psalm 26:4. We should not fellowship with people living in it.
i) Psalm 40:4. We should be careful not to lapse into it.
j) Psalm 119:78. Lest we wrong other people with it.
k) Psalm 119:163. We are to hate and abhor it.
l) Isaiah 28:15. It is a bad shelter.
m) Isaiah 57:4; Jeremiah 16:19. It is often passed on to the next generation.
n) Isaiah 59:13. It comes from a heart in bad condition.
o) Jeremiah 8:8. It may cause intellectual people to distort God’s Word.
p) Jeremiah 13:25. We should not trust in it.
q) Jeremiah 14:14; 23:26; Ezekiel 13:6. It must not be used in “prophecy” in the Name of the Lord.
r) Jeremiah 23:14. This is especially important for Servants of the Lord.
s) John 1:47. Like Nathanael.
t) Revelation 21:27; 22:15. Because it keeps us out of Heaven.
(This QT encourages me to Avoid Falsehood)
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‘The Lord’s Grace For Straying People.’
a) Jeremiah 31:19-20. He loves to Restore them.
b) Luke 15:20. The picture of the father’s love for his prodigal son.
c) Luke 15:10. The rejoicing in Heaven in the presence of the Angels over one sinner who repents.
(Through this Second one I find the Compassion of the Lord: The Lord’s Grace For Straying People)
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Chris.
We should be careful not to lapse into falsehood. There will always be times in our fellowship with other people that we enjoy telling stories about our lives and experiences. This is open and free fellowship. At such times we need also to be careful, firstly, not to “compete” with another person’s story, and, secondly, not to lapse into falsehood.
