YOU ARE BEING LIED TO!

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YOU ARE BEING LIED TO!
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STATISTICS

• One to two times daily, 30 times/week
• 30-38 of all our interactions
• College students - ½ of all conversations with
  their mothers
• 10M lie to IRS (200B/year)
• 80 on resumes
• 70 doctors to insurance companies

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STATISTICS

• Dating couples 1/3 of conversations
• 20-30 managers fraudulent reports
• 95 college students to win a job
• (41 had already done so)
• We are lied to 200 times a day
• Children learn to fib by age 3, lie frequently by
  age 6
• Taught to lie by their parents

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WHY

• DO PEOPLE
• LIE?

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OTHER EXAMPLES

• POLITICIANS
• TELEVANGELISTS
• DENOMINATIONAL PREACHERS 2 Thessalonians 29-12

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BIBLICAL EXAMPLES

• 1 Kings 1311-26 The prophet of God
• Genesis Chapter 3 Serpent in the garden
• Genesis Chapter 4 Cain lied to God
• Genesis Chapter 37 Jacob told Joseph killed
• 2 Kings 520 Gehazi
• Matthew Chapter 23 Pharisees called
  Hypocrites
• Acts Chapter 5 Ananias Sapphira
• Revelation 31 Church _at_ Sardis Reputation

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HONESTY vs. DECEIT

• It is discouraging to think how many people are
  shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
  Noel Coward
• No one has a good enough memory to be a
  successful liar. Abraham Lincoln
• You can fool some of the people all the time, all
  the people some of the time, but not all the
  people all the time. Abraham Lincoln
• Make the lie big, make it simple, and keep saying
  it, and they will believe it. Adolph
  Hitler
• Trust, but verify! Reagan to Gorbechev 1987

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WHERE DOES LYING COME FROM?

• JOHN 844bdevilhe is a liar and the father
  of it.
• MARK 721-23evil things come from within and
  defile
• JEREMIAH 179heartdeceitful.desperately
  wicked

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THE SCRIPTURES SAY

• You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your
  Neighbor. Exodus 2016
• Deliver My Soul, O Lord, From Lying Lips And From
  A Deceiving Tongue. Psalm 1202
• Romans 128-32 List Of Sins To Be
  Punished
• Revelation 218 List Of Sins To Be
  Punished

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HOW SHOULD WE REACT?

• Psalm 1017 he who tells lies shall not continue
  in My presence
• Ephesians 425 speak the truth
• Colossians 28 lest anyone cheat you
• 2 Timothy 31-7 (v. 5) from such people turn
  away
• 2 Corinthians 614 be not unequally yoked
  together with unbelievers
• Acts 1711 searched the Scriptures daily to find
  out whether these things were so.

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Gospel Call

• HEAR ROMANS 1014
• BELIEVE ACTS 837
• REPENT ACTS 1730
• CONFESS ROMANS 1010
• BE BAPTIZED MARK 1616 ACTS 238
• REMAIN FAITHFUL UNTIL DEATH REVELATION 210