Lies

"And then she understood the devilish, cunning of the enemies' plan.  By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger."  C.S. Lewis

It all began in the garden.

Lies.

"Think about how much falsehood and deceit there is in the world!  How much exaggeration!  How many untruths are added to a simple story!  How many things are left out, if it does not serve the speaker's interest to tell them!  How few there are around us or whom we can say that we trust their word without question?"  JC Ryle

Ephesians 4:25 says, Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

"A lie consists on speaking a falsehood with the intention of deceiving."  Augustine

Sometimes a lie is just that:  a falsehood spoken to make another person look bad just make oneself look good.  Other times a lie can be an exaggeration to make a story funny in it's telling.

Sometimes a lie can be by omitting 'part' of the whole story.

Lies are told to ruin another person's character.  They are told in anger, envy, jealousy and bitterness.  Some are told in hatred.

And sometimes, lies are told to make ourselves look good in the eyes of others.

You would think that lies are only told by the lost.

Unfortunately that is also a lie. 

Ephesians 4 was written to Christians. 

Lies destroy.  Lies lead people astray.  

Lies don't just affect the one person the lie is told too.  It affects the whole body of Christ.  (1 Cor. 12:12-27) Why?  Because we are all members, joined one to another.

Lies cause discord and our unity is broken.

Lying also affects the liar.

Lies hurt all those involved, the teller and the hearer.

It separates best friends.  (Proverbs 16:28)

I not only want to be able to trust those around me, but I want those around me to know that they can trust me-

    But that's just me!

"There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coal pit and twice as foul."  

Henry Ward Beecher