“A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.” Proverbs 19:9
We all need to be very careful how we speak to others.
We are responsible to God for how we conduct ourselves and that includes
controlling our tongue. God never has lied, lying is from Satan and when Christians
lie, they are disobeying God and doing the will of Satan. God said of Satan in John
8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for
he is a liar, and the father of it.” Now, while here God is speaking about
lost people God never approves of His children lying. It is true that Jesus Christ died and
shed His blood for all our sins, however, we do not have the freedom to sin. When
Christians lie it is one of the worst sins that we can do because it shows us
doing the will of Satan and not the will of God, and as God said, we cannot
serve two masters. “No servant can serve two masters: for either he will
hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Luke 16:13 Therefore, while we
are serving Satan in our disobedience to God, we are serving the will of Satan.
God said that we are only in fellowship with Him while we are serving Him in spirit
and truth. “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.” John 4:24 The truth here is in the truth of His word
which boldly tells us not to lie. Because liars are what we were before God
graciously saved us from. “But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath,
malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. (9) Lie not one to
another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;” Colossians
3:8 Spreading rumors is the same a telling lie, because rumors are almost
always lies. It has been said “rumors are like ringing a bell, easy to start
and hard to stop”. God said in 1 Timothy 5:13 “And withal they learn to
be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers
also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.” A “tattler” is
one who is always meddling in other people’s business or affairs, never having
all the facts, and are out telling rumors of misunderstanding which are
classified as lies. A “busybodies” is one who has nothing to do but to busy
themselves so they find their main employment by looking into the affairs of
their neighbors and friends. God said these people are walking in a disorderly manner.
“For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working
not at all, but are busybodies.” 2 Thessalonians 3:11
As Christians we need to be careful in our Christian
walk and not to walk disorderly because that is what Jesus saved us from. Christians
ought not never lie to anyone or talk about rumors or to be nosing around in
other people’s business. It is not true until we know the truth, and partial
truths are not enough facts to tell it. As Christians the last thing we should
ever do is to walk disorderly. When Christians walk disorderly, they are not in
fellowship with God. “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 Christians ought to never lie, not
even if we think it is for the good. Repeating rumors is never a Christian walk
because the very definition of rumor is telling uncertain facts.
