HONESTY

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HONESTY

• January 2009
• Character Trait
• D. Chaney

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What would they be ?

• IF YOU COULD BEG 2 FAVORS FROM GOD,

Proverbs 307 O God, I beg two favors from you
let me have them before I die.
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First, help me never to tell a lie

• Second, give me neither poverty nor riches!

Proverbs 308
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A Lying Society

• Dishonesty has become the
• norm
• Dishonesty is promoted everywhere
• Presidents, politicians, parents, pupils, people
  of all sorts

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Doctors say these behaviors are signs that
someone is probably lyingwhen done in clusters

• Blinking, dilating the pupils
• Eye contact
• Speech pauses and changes
• Self-touching, hand shrugging

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Behavioral scientists say there are 4 basic types
of lies

• To protect someone, to help others
• To avoid embarrassment
• To protect yourself from punishment
• To hurt someone intentionally

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Psychologists say children progress through these
stages of lying

• Avoid punishment
• Doing right for self-serving reasons
• Fitting in with others
• Out of duty
• Following rules
• Acting on principles

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The Bible is full of verses on the topic

• Lying
• Cheat
• Deceit, deception
• Dishonesty
• Falsehood
• Untruth
• Fraud

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Bible stories and people, involved with
lies/dishonesty

• Adam/Eve
• Cain/Abel
• Noahs generation
• Abram/Sarai/Lot
• Isaac/Jacob/Esau
• Joseph
• And thats just Genesis!!!!!!

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The real issue is TRUTH!

• Jesus said,
• I am the way, THE TRUTH, and the life.
• John 146
• Jesus was The Word . John 114
• That means there is absolute truth, and absolute
  right and wrong
• Absolutes!

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Jesus and the Bible

• Reveal truth
• Declare truth
• Teach truth
• Call us to live the truth
• Challenge us to walk in
• truth
• Correct us when were
• not being truthful

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Jesus is 100 truth

• In him there is no falsehood, lies, deceit,
  cheating, fraud or dishonesty
• Over and over in the New Testament, He said, I
  tell you the truth
• (over 80 times)

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John 834-47 - Whos your daddy?
Jesus said

• I tell you the truth
• You are imitating your real father
• You are children of your father the devil
• You do the evil things he does
• He hated the truth , theres no truth in him
• He is a liar, the Father of lies
• Im telling you the truth

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The simple truth is

• When we align ourselves with truth, we align
  ourselves with Jesus
• When we align ourselves with lies, we align
  ourselves with the devil
• Lies following the devil
• Truth following Jesus

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Choosing the way of truth

• Our practiced decisions become habits
• Choosing truth and honesty develop not just
  honesty but integrity
• Integrity is the quality of being 100 morally
  sound in character
• We are called to be men and women of integrity
  thats our goal!
• Job 1 2 complete integrity

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3 John 4

• I could have no greater joy than to hear that my
  children are following the truth.

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If you could beg 1 favor from God, what
would it be?

• Help me not to tell a lie, and
• help me be a person of complete integrity
• Father, please forgive me