Tell The Truth Now

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10 COMMON LIES

• Ive never said this to anyone before
• I was only going 60
• You look great!
• Thats the cutest baby!
• This hurts me more that it hurts you
• I can quit anytime I want to

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10 COMMON LIES

• I dont look at the pictures in Sports
  Illustrated Swimsuit edition
• This will be a short meeting
• Your table will be ready in just a minute
• Im feeling sick. I wont be in today.

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By our own admission, 91 of us regularly lie
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Common Ways we Justify Our Lies

• Play Semantic GymnasticsDepends on your
  definition of lie just bend the truth a
  little

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Common Ways we Justify Our Lies

• Point to Our CircumstancesI didnt have a choice

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Common Ways we Justify Our Lies

• Ignore Itno one noticed

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Common Ways we Justify Our Lies

• Say Half Truthsdress a lie up real pretty

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Why not give false testimony? What does the 9th
Commandment show us about God?
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3 Characteristics We Can See About God in this
Commandment

• God is Just

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3 Characteristics We Can See About God in this
Commandment

• God is Just
• This Commandment protects us against perjury,
  which is something God hates. (Proverbs 619)

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3 Characteristics We Can See About God in this
Commandment

• God is Just
• This Commandment protects us against perjury,
  which is something God hates. (Proverbs 619)
• The Lord is known by His justice the wicked are
  ensnared by the work of their hands. Psalm 916

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3 Characteristics We Can See About God in this
Commandment

• God Exists in Community
• This Commandment protects us against injuring our
  neighbors with our words.

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3 Characteristics We Can See About God in this
Commandment

• God is Just
• God Exists in Community
• God is Truth

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3 Characteristics We Can See About God in this
Commandment

• God is Truth
• This Commandment protects us from alienating
  ourselves from God because God is truth.