You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
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… applies to your income tax too. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Don't lie about your neighbor and you shall not covet. Ouch. Do you see why now Jesus said that, or the Bible says there's only one name that can save you? You know how lost you are if you don't have him? I'm gonna pray right now and we're not gonna play any games right now. We've got all the time in the world for you. We're gonna pray right now and I'm going to ask you to make a decision for Jesus Christ today because he's that great. Some of you have been circling the drain on this one for a while. You've been thinking, I should do this, I should do this sometime, maybe later. Today's the later. Now's the time. close the deal. End the doubt. Make the commitment. Let's bow our heads. Father, we pray right now in the name of Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior, King of kings. And we pray right now, Father God, that as this sanctuary is hushed and stilled, that there'd be those right now having conviction that they're guilty of one or ten of the Ten Commandments, making them now either condemned in their own sight or, while they have breath, able to run to the foot of the cross to experience forgiveness. …
… We're not surprised to read that in the list of the Ten Commandments one of them includes you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. When God led Solomon to write the Proverbs, he included the seven things that he hates. Among them, a false witness that speaks lies. I can't speak for you. I can speak for a few whom I know. but for most of you, I have no idea what you are living with as it relates to someone else's tongue. But if you have been spoken against unfairly, unjustly, if you have been falsely accused, you understand real pain. Often you find yourself at a loss to know how to defend yourself. you try, but frequently false witnesses aren't there to listen. They're just busy talking and spreading the venom, which has a way of poisoning not only a few people, but can even poison a church. There was this young pastor who went to a church that had been split apart in so many ways, but especially by a loose tongue that had been allowed, and the church had pretty well reduced to just a bare survival, and this young man arrived and decided to open his Bible and just preach truth. …
… be going to verse 17. Exodus chapter 20, verse 11 through 17. And it reads this way from the New International Version and a portion of the New Revised Standard Version, beginning with verse 11. We have verse 12 printed, but we're going to start with verse 11. And it reads this way, For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Honor your father and your mother so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. you shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male or female servants, his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor. Another translation is don't get jealous of your neighbor. …
"You shall not commit adultery." Little will I say on this Commandment, but here is our Lord's own exposition of it, "Whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart." Fornication may thus abound in us to our defilement—and our souls' ruin—even though we may still be kept back by fear, perhaps, from the commission of the evil deed. Beware, then, you who can gloat over evil, you who can suck the forbidden sweet behind the door, you who can roll the sweet morsel under your tongue—beware lest you shall have your portion with those who fall into the sin! I say not that the thought of the sin is as bad as the sin, itself—it cannot be so, certainly, in its result to others—but it is still a sin—and a sin to be answered for in that tremendous Day when the Judge of all the earth shall allot their portions unto men! "You shall not steal "Every envious thought of another man, every desire to possess myself of what is not mine. Everything of this sort, in which I would grasp that which does not belong to me, is a constructive theft! The thief does not so much steal when he puts out his hand to take his neighbor's purse, as in the thought which led him to do it, for the hand may sometimes take the purse without offense—it may be to protect the property of one who is disabled and incapable of guarding it himself. Such a thing is supposable—that one man might legitimately take another's purse and have a right to do so. It is not the act, but the motivewhen he deliberately ventures to take that which is not his own and would possess himself of his neighbor's goods to his neighbor's injury—this constitutes the very virus and soul of the theft. "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor "If I think harshly of my neighbor without a cause. If I conceive an unjust prejudice against him. If I look coldly upon him when he really does not deserve it. If I make up my mind out of some whim or fancy that he is a bad fellow, and shrug my shoulders, and I know not what, besides—though I have never said a word—yet still in thought I have injured my neighbor! Above all things, Brothers and Sisters, avoid that shoulder-shrugging—it is an abomination! We sometimes see it in company. Ah, they will not dare to say what it means, the cowards! You might suppose that the man against whom it is directed had killed his mother if you liked, for you are sure to suppose the worst. Be brave enough, if it must be spoken, to speak it! And if it must not be spoken, well then, do not say it in that mysterious language which may ruin a man in the estimation of others. Avoid any false witnessing in your thoughts and you will not bear it in your words. …