Sermonette: Lying <\/p>\n
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description: (hide) National Geographic’s, "Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways" and Psychology Today’s "Why Do We Lie," both contend that some lying is expedient, therapeutic, and beneficial. Satan, the father of lies, has scored a significant cultural victory over traditional values. Sadly, any departure from the truth, even through a so-called "white" lie, is straying into a deadly minefield. As Walter Scott proclaimed, "O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" When Jesus chastised the Pharisees in John 8:44, juxtaposing murderer and liar, the relationship between lying and all other sin becomes clear. Breaking one commandment breaks all the others. We must reject Satan’s siren song, proclaimed by faithless mankind, that lying is a survival tool. We have reached a time in our culture where we must be skeptical of everything in the media, realizing that the mainstream media has created a narrative embedded in incessant prevarication. The man of sin (II Thessalonians 2:9) will deceive with lying wonders so convincing that he will deceive even the elect, if they are not grounded in the truth. <\/p>\n
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Sermonette: Lying #1410s Mike Ford (1955-2021) Given 16-Dec-17; 21 minutes listen: description: (hide) National Geographic’s, "Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways" and Psychology Today’s "Why Do We Lie," both contend that some lying is expedient, therapeutic, and beneficial. Satan, the father of lies, has scored a significant cultural victory over traditional values. … Continue reading “Sermonette: Lying”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}