Pst. E.A. Adeboye 3
November
DO
YOU HATE LIES?
Memorise:
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, arid cometh to
shame. Proverbs 13:5
Read:
Proverbs 13:1-5
One
of the fruits of righteousness is the hatred of lies. Today, the world has
stratified lies. Some are called heavy lies, some feather weight lies, some are
white lies, some are green lies, some are business ties, some are ministerial
lies; some are lies that cannot hurt a fly, while some are dangerous and
implicating lies etc. No matter how men by their own opinions choose to
classify lies, deciding what a lie is, is not in the purview of men but of God;
hence such classifications holds no water. If you are a lover of lies, you are
far from being righteous. If you tell lies at all, you are miles from being
righteous. Do you know that it you keep away from sin and the only crime found
on you after death is a lie, it will keep you from entering through the pearly
gates? Revelation 21:8 says all categories of liars will be found in the lake
of fire, not in Heaven. Revelation 21:27 says:
And
there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever
worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the lamb's
book of life.
This
means nothing can ever take anyone in the above categories into Heaven. If you
are a lying leader, you are on your way to hell. Period!
A
righteous fellow cannot stand lies because he or she is a chip off the old
block - a child of truth whose father is the Truth (Revelation 19:11 -16), In
John 8:44, Jesus says the devil is a liar and the father of all liars. If you
are a General Overseer or superintendent, a senior pastor or believer and you
tell lies, your father is the devil. A day is coming when everybody will go
back to their father. After death, the devil will stand in the way to claim his
own. He will ask some popular leaders and believers, "Where are you
going?" "I am going to Heaven of course", they would say.
"Heaven, which heaven?" The devil will laugh them to scorn. "Did
you not read that all liars will go to hell in Revelation 21:8? You are my
child, come with me to the lake of fire our eternal abode". Restitute on
the lies you told. Have you' offered some people some benefits in a business
transaction and you received the payment but for one reason or the other, you
did not give them what you promised? Go and return their money or else that lie
cum covenant breaking may not allow you into Heaven.
PRAYER
POINT
The
truth a liar is trying to hide from a few will eventually be revealed to
everybody.
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