God & Lies 🚷

Lesson on Lies

Believers are the bride are the Church and of the local Church. She is to be pure and holy. 

One lie caused God to kill 2 Christians in front of the church, and great fear came over the whole church. We cannot lie. God is serious about lies. He wants his church purified. Judgment begins at the house of God. 

In Revelation 1-3 John saw the Lord moving among the Church, his eyes were finding sin, and he was stamping out sin by judgment in the church wherever it is found. Jesus says to the Churches: "Repent or I will come quickly and make war against them [the churches] with the sword of my mouth." "I gave her time to repent of her immorality but she wont, so I will throw her on a bed of sickness and those who joined with her into great tribulation unless they repent of their deeds. I search the mind and hearts and will judge your sins." Jesus said, "Therefore if you do not wake up I will quickly come to you like a thief." And, "Those whom I love i reprove and discipline, therefore be zealous and repent." Jesus will judge the church according to the deeds of their sins. 

The vision was so frightening John said "I fell at Jesus feet like a dead man." Christ wants a pure and holy church. Purification is at the heart and very life of the Church. 

In 2 Cor 12:20 Paul to a Church of trouble said I am afraid I wont like what I find when I come, and you won't like me. I am afraid I will mourn over many of you who have not repented of your sins. Ch 13 he says after the 3rd time had to go deal with them, to those who have sinned i will not spare anyone. That is a loving Pastor. The Church is marked by purity. We are to be presented to Christ as the pure, holy, spotless Bride, his Church. 

We dare not lie or sin and if we stumble into it off the right path, we must quickly forsake it, repent of it, turn from it, and not do it again. 

There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.  Proverbs 6:16-19

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Footnotes

Credits: Heaven in Earth part 2 of 4 

The verses and quotes are not full, they do list various sins besides lying.