91 % lie routinely about matters they consider trivial

36 % lie about important matters

86 % lie regularly to parents

75 % lie regularly to friends

73 % lie regularly to siblings

69 % lie regularly to spouses

Our Culture of Lies

Genesis 3:4 (ESV) “The serpent said to the woman,

‘You will not surely die.’”

John 8:44b (NIV) “He was a murderer from the

beginning, not holding to the truth,

for there is no truth in him. When he

lies, he speaks his native language,

for he is a liar and

the father of lies.”

Proverbs 6:16-17a (NIV) “There are six things the Lord

hates, seven that are detestable

to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying

tongue…”

Proverbs 21:6 (ESV) “The getting of treasures by a

lying tongue is a fleeting vapor

and a snare of death.”

Proverbs 20:17 (ESV) “Bread gained by deceit is

sweet to a man, but afterward

his mouth will be full of gravel.”

Titus 1:2 speaks of the

God “who never lies.”

The word ‘lie’ in Hebrew means

‘falsehood’…in the Greek it means ‘to

willfully misrepresent or mislead’

So a good, biblically founded

definition of lying is “to speak falsely

with the intent to deceive”

Isaiah 59:13 (NIV) “We know we have rebelled and have

denied the LORD. We have turned our

backs on our God. We know how

unfair and oppressive we have been,

carefully planning our

deceitful lies.”

Acts 5:4b (ESV) “Why is it that you have

contrived this deed in your

heart? You have not lied to man

but to God.”

We live a lie

Matthew 15:7-8 (NIV)

“You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah

prophesy of you, when he said: 8 ‘This

people honors me with their lips, but

their heart is far from me.’”

We lie to ourselves

Galatians 6:3 (NIV)

“If anyone thinks they are something

when they are not, they deceive

themselves.”

We lie to others

Matthew 5:37 (NLT)

“Just say a simple, ‘Yes, I will,’ or ‘No,

I won’t.’ Anything beyond this is from

the evil one.”

Ephesians 4:25 (ESV) “Therefore, having put away

falsehood, let each one of you

speak the truth with his

neighbor, for we are members

one of another.”

“What upsets me

is not that you

lied to me, but

that from now on

I can no longer

believe you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher

Ephesians 4:15 (NLT) “We will speak the truth in love,

growing in every way more and

more like Christ, who is the head

of his body, the church.”

Steps to defeat a lying tongue:

1. Admit that you lie

King David says in

Psalm 116:11 - “All men are liars.”

Steps to defeat a lying tongue:

1. Admit that you lie

King David says in

Psalm 116:11 - “All men are liars.”

2. Ask God for forgiveness

Steps to defeat a lying tongue:

3. Seek the forgiveness of those you lied to

Steps to defeat a lying tongue:

3. Seek the forgiveness of those you lied to

4. Commit yourself to speaking truth

Let’s put an

end to a lying

tongue, and

speak the truth!