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All right, everybody. Welcome to church. Good to have you. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Very excited to teach today. If you've got a Bible, go to Exodus chapter 20.

We're taking about a year. We're going through the book of Exodus.

Next up will be a sermon series on freedom is for worship,

and that'll be an Exodus 25 through 40, but this week we're going to finish our study on

the 10 commandments. Today we're at the ninth commandment.

Now shall not lie, no lying. Before I jump into the text, I want to set a little bit of context.

This is the word of God. This is the only perfect thing in the earth on the planet.

This is from the Lord himself. We believe every single word of the word of God.

And what's really interesting is in the history of our nation to get people to

not violate the ninth commandment and to tell the truth, we tended to make them swear an oath on

this book. This book. This book has been foundational for truth telling in the history of our nation.

And when we want people to testify under oath or make a pledge, we have them placed their hand

on the word of God. And we're holding them accountable to the God of the word and we're asking

them not to violate the ninth commandment. I did a little research this week. You might find this

interesting. Here's where it all started. Oath started in 817, 89 on April 30th of George

Washington being sworn in as our first president. So this history of oath telling George Washington

first president, starting the precedent of leadership in America, put his hand on the Bible,

and he swore to tell the truth, the whole truth, that nothing but the truth.

And then he kissed the Bible. It was our president saying, I submit to this word and I love it.

I love it. I tell you this, any politician that does that, there's hope and encouragement

for their future because God would be more willing to bless them who are obedient to him.

And so when George Washington did this, he started a precedent that carries to our very day.

They have a rendering of it from the ancient world. There is. That's where America started in

presidential leadership began. Now compare that to where we are today. I want to talk a little

about the rise of Islam in the United States of America and the fact that that is a different book

with a different God and it's about lying and not truth telling. And so their book is the Quran

and according to certain interpretations and certain Muslim scholars of the Quran,

it is permissible for a Muslim to lie to a non-Muslim. I'll show you the two texts.

Number one, this is the primary text. Let not believers take disbelievers as allies rather than

believers and whoever does that has nothing with all law except when taking precautions against them

in prudent fear. In addition, this text says, whoever disbelieves in all after his belief,

except one who has compelled while his heart is firm and faith, but whoever opens his

breast to disbelief among them is wrath from a law. What it's saying is you can lie,

you can lie. And that God is that demon God who is a lying God is okay with lie.

So here's the classical definition of what's called takia. It is fourfold. Number one,

are you under duress, possible death or harm? If your heart is still true to Allah,

if the lie is temporary and if it is not used to harm a Muslim, only a non-Muslim,

then you can lie. Then you can lie. What's wild is we have people running for office in America

putting their hand on the Quran. And we have naive Americans saying they're telling the truth.

Actually, their God is nothing but a liar, their false prophet is nothing but a liar,

and their book is nothing but lies. So why would O thing over that lead to the truth?

I'll show you this. Here's where we see. In 2007, Keith Ellison, he was the first Muslim elected

to Congress for Minnesota. He was sworn in office by putting his hand on a Quran. He is the

first American politician to do so. He was born in where? To try it, then he moved to Minneapolis,

two demonic strongholds for Islam. This is profoundly spiritual. You can see him being inaugurated.

That's the Quran. How about the next one? I've got three, since we're having a good time.

In 2019, Elhan Omar, born in Somalia, moved to Minneapolis. We've had some problems in Minneapolis.

And Rashida Talib, she is ultimately from Detroit, Michigan. We now have Sharia law and call to prayer

in both cities. They were sworn in as the first female Muslim members of Congress by

placing their hand on the Quran. There it is. This is profoundly spiritual.

This is saying, I come under the authority of this book, and I come under the authority of the

God who demonically inspired the writing of this book. If you believe in the ninth

commandment, you believe that there is one God and His name is Jesus Christ. And when God tells

us not to lie, we'll give an account to Jesus Christ if we do.

And there's one more, New York City. In 2026, Zoran Mondami, who was born in Uganda,

was sworn in as New York's first Muslim, thereby placing his hand on the Quran. And there it is.

There it is. Now, here's what I need you to know. The Bible says, thou shalt not bear false

witness in lie. That's the ninth commandment. For the entire history of our nation up until 2007,

leaders would say, I swear to tell the truth, I honor the Word of God and I am submitting to Jesus

Christ. Now, whether they did or didn't end their heart, this was foundational for our nation.

And now what is happening is politicians are saying, no, it is Allah, not Jesus. It is the Quran,

not the Bible. What I find very interesting, this is just a free rant and then I'll get into the

sermon. But there is no problem with Islamic nationalism. There's only a problem with Christian

nationalism. And it's because stupid people believe that if they say they're going to do something,

they're telling the truth. And I just proved to you that their book indicates that they can lie to us.

So you need to know that for us, truth telling is foundational and essential for who our God is

and how we live for our God. We cannot lie, we cannot believe lies, we cannot tolerate lies.

In the name of diversity, equity, inclusion, we have allowed lies, falsities, and demons.

We believe in the truth and his name is Jesus Christ. So that being my rant, now we'll get into

the sermon. Commandment number nine, no lying. Here it is, Exodus 20 verse 16, you shall not bear

false witness against your neighbor. Let me set up the context. They have just been released from

slavery in Egypt. They're on their way to set up the nation of Israel that still exists to this day,

despite what some on the right would say. And what happens is God causes them to me and he gives

them commandments. This is for nation building. You can't have a nation if it's founded on lying and

liars. So God tells them to tell the truth. God literally writes the 10 commandments with his own

proverbial finger on two tablets of stone. Might I submit to you that if God hand writes something,

it must be of the utmost importance. Here is a definition of a lie for our time together.

A lie is a statement made by one who does not believe it with the intention that someone else

shall be led to believe it. This is really important, friends. Lying includes both telling what

is untruth, that's falsity, and not telling all that is true, that's a half truth. You only have

the truth if you have the whole truth. And when you tell something that is untrue or tell something

that is half true, you are lying. You are lying. Now there are some practical reasons why we lie.

I'll share five with you. We lie to avoid negative consequences for ourselves. If the truth came

out, we get in trouble so we'd rather lie. We lie to get what we want. That's deception and manipulation.

We lie to hurt other people, that is weaponization and character assassination.

Number four, we lie to create or protect an illusion of who we are. It's called Instagram.

Instagram exists for the express purpose of lying. I'm thin, young, happy, and winning.

That's lying and a filter. We all know none of those things are true.

Okay, social media exists to promulgate lies. And number five, we lie to remain in control of a

situation, which is a denial of God's sovereignty. I'm not in charge and I don't know what the outcome

is, and so I need to control it rather than trusting God who reigns over it. So we're going to talk

about lying and false witness. And here in Exodus, it narrowly refers to what we would call

perjury, lying under oath, falsifying evidence. Proverbs six says there are six things that the Lord

heard what. I thought he was the God of love. He is. He loves the truth and he hates lies.

Let me say this. If you're going to love some things, you're going to hate some things.

If you love life, you hate murder. If you love truth, you hate lies. That's our God.

There are six things that the Lord hates. Seven that are abomination to him. One of them is

a false witness who breeze out lies. God hates that. God hates that. How about this?

Proverbs 25, 18, a man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club or a sword

or a sharp arrow. What it is, it's demonic and it's spiritual warfare. Lying is demonic,

spiritual warfare, and the lie is a weapon used by the enemy to assault truth and goodness.

That is the narrow definition would be legal. It would be falsifying evidence, perjury under oath.

More broadly speaking, it is the telling of any lie. Another way you could summarize the

ninth commandment is don't lie. Don't lie. And this is profoundly spiritual because in an age of

spin and narrative and cover up and misinformation and disinformation, you need to know that anything

that isn't true is demonic. It's actually not just an alternative perspective. It's a demonic

perspective. I'll show it to you. Titus 12, God never what? God never lies. Isn't that good news?

I love that. How difficult would it be to worship a God who was dishonest?

You're forgiven, am I? I kind of need to know that with a degree of certainty. God never lies.

You know what? That means everything in the scriptures is of God from God. All scripture is God

breathed. It is all together entirely true. All of it. That's what it means. Our God never lies.

In addition, John 844, Satan is the father of lies, Jesus says. If you're lying, what you're doing

is you're echoing your spiritual father. Lying is demonic. Lying is satanic. You need to know that

if you are a person who practices habitual lying, your father is the devil. So Jesus is saying.

So you can repent and start telling the truth. And the first truth is to say, I'm a liar.

In addition, the scriptures say about lying. Proverbs 12, 22, lying lips are a

abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight. An abomination comes with God's

condemnation. If you are lying, God says that's an abomination and then on you comes a condemnation.

You're actually bringing divine judgment on yourself. Those who lie have no fear of God.

They have no fear of God and they should. We all should. I know that God is a loving God. I know that

God is a forgiving God. I also know that God is a holy God and God is a vengeful God. And I'll be

honest with you if I'm going to air. I'm going to air on the side of not getting in trouble.

Not lying and deceiving and manipulating and controlling, but instead truth telling and

worshipping and serving and repenting. In addition, here's what the scriptures say. And this is from

the Lord Jesus and it is terrifying. On the day of judgment, then there will be a day of judgment.

Let me just say this. We're all going to stand before Jesus. You're going to be there and you're

going to be there and you're going to be there. And I'm going to be there. We're all going to be there.

And in the Bible and Revelation, it's called the white throne of judgment means purity.

No corruption. See, there's corruption in the political system. There's corruption in the

legal system. There's not corruption in the kingdom of God. There's no corruption. It's all

together just in pure. And we're all going to be there and we're going to stand before God and

we're going to give an account to God and you're going to be judged by God. And when people say

you need Jesus to be saved, they don't necessarily tell you, but the truth is you're saved by Jesus,

you're saved from Jesus and you're saved to Jesus because you're going to stand before Jesus

and get judged by Jesus. Rinse knows that greatness takes time, but so does laundry.

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to us. Rinse, it's time to be great. And here's what Jesus says will happen on that day.

On the day of judgment, people will give an account for everyone.

Careless word they speak. This was before we had the internet.

Now we're in real trouble. Now we're in real trouble.

Friend, take this with all seriousness and sobriety before you say something or repose something

or echo something. Is it true? So we say, well, I didn't say it, but if you echoed it or posted it,

you're responsible for it. This should cause. So this is why my wife, by the way, she doesn't do

social media. She does not. I do. And I get in trouble for it. And I think my wife is probably

wiser than I. But just think of all of the communication that we have. And I'll be honest with you,

friends, I take this so seriously. My job as a pastor, as a preacher, as a herald of God's word,

is to be a true teller. I write a lot. I speak a lot. I post a lot. And I got to give an account

for every word that I say. It is a it is a sober thing. And I don't understand clergy who get in

the pulpit and just pontificate or lie and have no fear of God and don't understand that the judgment

for them will be stricter and harsher because the Bible says not many of you should presume to be

teachers. You'll be judged more harshly. Well, thank you for joining us here on Spotify. If you

don't know me, my name is Pastor Mark Driscoll. I have been in the pulpit for a little more than

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And I appreciate you allowing me to help you learn God's word. That being said, there are

occasional rare times when we have to save life and we need to be in a position where we're left

with two options. One is worse and so we choose the better of the options. What I'm saying is this,

there are times, rare times. Most of us will never be in those times. When lying is required to stop

people, we're in Exodus. In Exodus chapter one, the government said, hey, we're going to kill all

the baby boys. So the Hebrew midwife said, yeah, we haven't seen any. You're lying. Well, they're

going to murder the babies. So we're going to say we don't know where the babies are. Most of us

are never going to be in that situation. But when the government comes to murder the children,

feel free to protect the life of the children because that's the greater good. And just 10

generally as well, the two things that caused God's eye are to destroy Egypt was life and liberty.

They were killing the children and they didn't let the believers worship so God crushed the nation

because what God really cares about is life and liberty. In addition, there's another occasion

where the gal named Rahab, she's a prostitute, and God's people come in to spy on the land.

This is right after the Exodus book into the book of Joshua and God's people show up to scout

it out. And then the government shows up and they're like, have you seen God's people? We're going

to kill them. She said, I haven't seen them. I haven't seen them. There are rare occasions. But

let me say this virtually none of us will have those occasions. But there are times when evil is

going to take life and God's people need to preserve life. That being said, there is the spirit of

the law, there is the letter of the law. Let me give you some specific, would you like some specific

examples of how we violate the ninth commandment? Let's just do some specifics. Number, we'll start

with this one, lying by slander or by libel. So slander is when you lie and violate the ninth commandment

and you do so verbally, libel is when you write it down or you post it on the internet.

Just so you know, not everything on the internet is true. Just so you know, just so you know,

just so you know, I'll just verbal process a little bit. So I recently looked up who my wife

was on the internet and it was some other woman that I've never heard of and says we've been married

since 2017 and I told Grace, that's a violation of the ninth commandment. That is not true.

There's just wild stupid crazy stuff on the internet. So you got to be careful and you got to be

discerning. Leviticus 1916 says this, you shall not go around, excuse me, yeah, you shall not go

around as a slanderer. A slanderer is this. It's character assassination. You're trying to

Jesus calls this heart murder. Jesus says, you know what, if you hate someone in your heart,

you've murdered them in your heart and what Jesus says is that sometimes we also murder with our

words because out of our heart comes our words. And so if you hate someone, if you want to slander

them, if you want to libel them, if you want to destroy them, if you want to assassinate them,

what you do is you speak evil and malice against them. Now, what I need you to know is this and

this is important. Blogs, social media and YouTube, they do not count as journalism.

Sarah, they're not held to journalistic standards. Most people don't know this. See, journalism

technically actually has standards or at least they used to. Now, social media is still the

Wild West that law hasn't caught up with. And so what happens is, let's say you find a left-leaning

news outlet like CNN or MSNBC or Christianity Day, some left-leaning democratic operative,

they will put garbage on blogs and they'll put garbage on social media posts and podcasts

that they know or lies and they'll put it under the banner of the news organization knowing that

you will think it's news and it's not because it's not held to the same legal standard.

It's deception. If they called it a news article, they would get sued, but if it's a blog, it's not.

And so we have technically the greatest opportunity to violate the ninth commandment

in the history of the world. Now, before I get into the details that ensue in the sermon,

I had a bit of a week and I was lied about a lot all week. My job is to tell the truth and get

lied about. That's literally what it says on my job description. Tell the truth and get lied about.

Okay? So here's my week, not just my week, my last two days. So there was this article yet.

Protestia. Breaking. Mark Truskel has a woman pastor, preacher, this church, and promotes her

message. How many of you women were there and love that message? All right. So this goes crazy.

What they didn't say was, it was a woman preaching to women at a women's meeting about not being

feminists. They're like, oh, those are details. I know, they're details. I know.

Just to increase the scandal, I will also publicly state that I'll be using the men's restroom

later today. Okay. All of these scandalous things. So what they didn't tell you was that it was

preaching to so it goes nuts on the internet, nuts on the internet. So publicly, let me say this.

Millie, you did a great job. We love you. We'll have you back and you got no problem here.

All right, we love you. You're great. Plus, she's pregnant. You're trashing a pregnant lady.

Shame on you. Her husband was with us this week. He preached at men's. We love them.

We love them. They love you. They love you. So everybody online is like, you need to cancel

them and you need to say something. I cancel you and I tell you to stop. That's my statement.

Okay. We pick people who tell the truth and if you don't like it, we still love you but you need

to repent and you need to hear more truth. Okay. So I had an interesting week. It was a fun week.

I wouldn't know these things unless people texted them to me because I don't go, I don't do

interneting. I just don't. But I had this last night. I'll snuggle up with grace on the couch

and Candace Owens decided to take a shot at our church. Yep. Yep. So what she said was the pastor

at Trinity Church. I know that guy, by the way. In Scottsdale, said that Charlie Kirk called them

a few days before September 10th and told me that he was going to be killed. He mentioned this to

all of us that assisted in the urgent service he made to pray for him after the incident.

So this is a lie. This is a violation of the ninth commandment. When you're trying to lie,

you try to bring as many people into your lie as possible to try to make it credible to the naive

and gullible. Charlie was my friend. I loved him. I missed him. I still shed tears when I think

about him. I pray for his wife and kids. I encourage you to do the same. And when he was shot,

we hosted a gathering to pray and to let you process. But none of that was ever said that's a complete

lie. That's a complete lie. But these are examples of what happens when people who have platforms

weaponize them trying to build their case to do what is libel and slander, character assassination

and a violation of the ninth commandment. So you're needing to be discerning. Let me say this.

If you give me the honor of being your pastor, you're going to need to have a little thicker

skin than the other church members. I am one in five star reviews for 30 consecutive years.

I will always tell the truth. I will never pull a punch. And when I am wrong, I will repent so

that I can be in agreement with the truth. And so you just need to know that. And so when people

come to you and they're like, your pastor gets in a lot of trouble. Here's your answer. Yeah,

how come your pastor doesn't? How come your pastor doesn't?

Our goal is to reach as many people as possible with the truth of Jesus Christ. And that means

that there will be a backlash from those who violate the ninth commandment. And just know,

I'm fine with this. I've signed up for the job. I have total joy. And we are going into a building

campaign, both at real faith and trendy church for new buildings and headquarters. Because last

year, we had 1.7 billion impressions. And by God's grace, that is the first fruits. And that will

only increase. And our goal is to get as much Bible teaching out to as many people that we possibly

can in Jesus' name because we are a truth telling church. And for those of you women who follow this

sort of drama and nonsense, repent, repent. Jezebel, husband, Ahab, Elijah, that's officially

what happened last night. And I'll just tell you this, men, lead your wives. And if they're living

online, consuming sewage and garbage, then lovingly tell them that it is time to open the word of God

and to close their social media app. All the men are, yes, and all the women are like, I don't know.

Let me say this. If you spend too much time with lies, you start getting fearful. You start

getting conspiratorial. You start living in the flesh. And instead of the spirit, you start

worrying instead of worshipping. And you start echoing them instead of echoing him.

Did I make my point? Okay. In addition, there are other ways to lie. There is lying through false

teaching. It's everywhere. Whole denominations have become abominations. Certain pulpits, they are

not honoring the Lord. Second Peter 2, one, false prophets also arose among the people. Just as

there will be false teachers among you, he's speaking of our dead. Who will secretly bring in

destructive what? Heresies. No, they won't use that word. They'll call it alternate interpretations.

Because that's what heretics do. They rebrand. And in Orbe too, just so you know this, the

heresy is entered in through something called deconstructionism. Deconstructionism isn't just

overtly saying, God believes that there are an infinite number of genders and sex is fine as long

as it's two consenting adults and the murder of a child is a good thing in choice. And that ultimately

there is no such thing as demons and we're all good people in our hearts. Sometimes the heretics

won't just come out and say that. They'll just ask questions to deconstruct what is true.

I'm just asking. And what about this? And what about that? And what about this? And what about that?

And it's like, oh, I know how this started in Genesis 3. The world collapsed when Satan started

asking the wrong questions. That's what is happening, friends. One way to attack the truth is head

on and the other is to undermine it through constant questioning and deconstructing. And the great

lie that is being promulgated in the church today is that our first job is to love our neighbor,

our first job is to love our God. Jesus said when he summarized the Ten Commandments,

he said, love the Lord your God and love your neighbor. Today we don't love our God. We love our

neighbor. What about your immigration neighbor? What about your trans neighbor? What about your

Muslim neighbor? You're like, well, love your God. Love your God first. Be loyal to your God first.

Serve your God first. Be devoted to your God first. And then deal with your neighbor.

Then deal with your neighbor. And so, friends, this is of the utmost important because lying about God,

that's the most damnable, despicable lying of all. So horrific. And the great lie today is the

preaching of tolerance of sin instead of repentance of sin. See, God preaches and commands repentance

of sin. Lying, Satan, demons, they preach tolerance of sin. You don't need to change your fine,

you're great. God loves you just as you are. You be true to you, all of which is damnable,

it's demonic, it's diabolical. The truth is that God's word never changes and that we need to

conform to the scriptures. They do not conform to us. We come under their authority. We don't exercise

authority over the scriptures. And when we disagree with the word of God, we are wrong. But if you

are a person who has incessant, unrepentant sin in your life, you will go find a damnable liar

to tell you exactly what you want to hear. You will find that person. You will find that person.

It may even be, you know, a bishop in a dress wearing a rainbow cross. And you're quoting them.

And what I would say is they cross land and see to make a convert and they are twice the son of

L. You need to know that pastors are going to hell, that many clergy are liars, that there is

profound, deep compromise, even within evangelicalism. The platforms, the publishing houses,

the schools, the denominations, many of them are varying degrees of corrupt. And those who would

preach repentance and have a prophetic voice will be silenced and lied about. You need to know

that if you want the truth and only the truth, you cannot seek out those who tell you what

you're itching ears want to hear. They only tell you what our sovereign God has to say.

In addition, we lie through gossip. There's an entire industry online that exists for nothing

but gossip. How many of you have been gossiped about? And who have you gossiped about?

First, Timothy 513, not only idlers, but also gossip and busy bodies, saying what they should not.

What this is, is this is taking private information and making it public. This is talking about

someone rather than talking with them. Rather than going to them and saying, let me talk to you about

this. I'm just going to post and I'm going to publicly trash you rather than privately serve you.

And what happens with gossip, let me say what happens with gossip. So if it's somebody you love,

you only talk about their best days. If it's somebody you hate, you only talk about their worst days.

The truth is, we've all got both days. True. Gossip is when you are disclosing information

that's not your news to tell. This is what I say, people call to me because I'm a pastor so they

know that I know people and I know some things. Well, what about them? That's not my news to tell.

If you want to know, go ask, go ask them. That's their news to tell. That's their news to tell.

Christians, you can't make this a non lie by calling it a prayer request.

So you've seen this. Yeah, they're having a tough time. He committed adultery and she ran off with

the kids and pray for them. Gossips and busy bodies. Busy bodies are people who aren't busy

with the right things so they get busy with the wrong things. Some of you, you spend way too much

time on social media following people. Follow the Holy Spirit, follow the Lord, follow your calling,

follow your destiny. Why would you follow them? Just think of all the time that you, oh my gosh,

what are they wearing? What are they saying? What are they eating? What are they doing? Who's

Taylor Swift eating today? Because I want to know what the next album will be about. I mean,

it's just weird. It's weird. True, it's weird. Oh, what kind of underwear are they wearing?

I'm like, that's the world we live in. That's the world we live in. And it's stupid. And it's

a waste of time. And foolish ignorant people spend their days scrolling and gossiping and busy

bodying when they should be working and serving and worshipping. Okay, none of you like that, but it's

true. Lying is also flattery. And you may have just violated this one with those cheap claps.

Some 12, too. Everyone utters lies to his neighbor with flattering lips and a double heart, they speak.

How many of you, do you know what a flat, okay, without raising your hand or pointing at your neighbor,

how many of you know a flatterer? What do they do? They butter you up and they puff you up.

So, you are amazing. You look incredible. Have you lost weight? Right? What did you do with your hair?

Men do this all the time. All the time. It's an epidemic. Why do we flatter people? Why?

Because we want to manipulate or use them or benefit from them, so we want to praise them and

flatter them so that they will benefit us. Where does this happen most frequently? Work, politics,

and dating. All just different kind of nasty relationships. How many of you at work, you've got a

flatterer at work. Every time they talk to the boss, it's just, you're amazing. This is the best

company I've ever worked for. I love it here. It's because they want to raise or a promotion.

In politics, do we get flattered? All the dye. How about ladies? Can I talk to the single ladies?

Is this a tactic that some men use in the septic tank that is the dating pool?

How many women have met a guy who's just a flatterer? What you know is this. He is trying to set you

up so that you will ultimately reduce your discernment, you will increase your trust, and then he can

have his way with you. Can have his way with you. One woman just got delivered. He's got delivered.

How do we learn? Her boyfriend, however, did not. That's where we find ourselves on this faithful day.

And this is not, this is not, by the way, discounting what the Bible calls the spiritual gift of

encouragement. This is the demonic counterfeit of the gift of encouragement. See, some of you have

the gift of encouragement. I don't, but you do. And so you're trying to encourage people. That's

not flattery. What you're trying to do is build them up, not puff them up. See, there's a big

difference. Puffing up is appealing to pride. Building them up is to encourage the spirit to work

in and through them. How about this one? Lying by deception. This is intentional. This is malicious.

This is not accidental. These are occasions where people intentionally craft a narrative.

They will bring together false evidence. They will create a conspiracy. And it is intentional and

malicious. It is deceptive by nature. For Psalm 37, little children, let no one deceive you.

Where did deception start? Genesis 3 was Satan.

That's it. God told the truth. You could partake of any tree, but not that one. Satan comes along.

He says, you should eat of that tree. That's a lie. He's violating the 9th commandment.

Did God really say now he's deconstructing? He's undermining and questioning. And he says,

you know what, when you eat of it, you'll be like God. He's deceptive. That's deception.

The truth is, in the text, God already said, I made you in my image and likeness. God already

made you like him. You don't need to sin to be like him. When you sin, you'll be like Satan,

not God. It's all deception. In addition, we are so used to deception that most of us are just

totally jaded. Can I get in there, man? Much of what I read, I'm like, this is probably not true.

We have seen in recent years, unbelievable political deception.

Unbelievable political deception. Oh, yes, cognitive ability is fantastic. Yes. He's

why does he have the resting 25th amendment face and drool coming out the side of his mouth?

He's doing great. He's not doing great. He's not doing great. Take grandpa home.

All right. I mean, it's just wild. And we get all of these news cycles of complete dishonesty and

deception. And then sometime later, after it's done all the dim as they're like, yeah, we found out

that wasn't true. Okay, great. Great. And you just need to know that you don't need to be jaded,

but you do need to be discerning. We have advertising fraud. We have academic fraud. We have

embezzlement. Just think of it in this way. How much of advertising is just a violation of the

ninth commandment? Take this and you'll get skinny and smart. Well, for your smart, you won't take it

because you're not going to get skinny. It's deception. It's just deception. And the deception is

pervasive. I saw it on the TV today, too, since I'm just verbal processing with you all.

Hey, we bombed Iran. Yay! Bom Iran. Bom Iran. There's some great Iranians and they want to get rid of

the demonic regime that is oppressing them, murdering thousands of their own citizens,

funding and weaponizing their proxies, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Hamas. And so America has

decided in alliance with Israel. We're going to bomb strategic targets to cause regime change.

And then before I left the house today, they had one of their representatives get on TV.

It was adorable. It wasn't the supreme commander because he may be taking a dirt nap. We'll see.

But what this political representative said, he said, we were in the middle of negotiating a

peace agreement and we were right at the end. We don't know why America would bomb us. We were

acting in good faith. We're all victims. I was like, I'm sure the pen was right here when the

button got hit. I'm sure that's exactly how, let me say this about terrorists. If they murdered

their own people, sometimes they lie. Some, they lie. But this is all just deception because

people who are intentionally deceptive, they know that there's a percentage of people that are

going to believe it. They're going to believe it. Don't be those people.

Lying by hypocrisy, I've got a few more. Luke 121, Jesus says, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,

which is what? Hypocrisy. Hypocrisy. See, hypocrisy is where you don't just lie with your words,

you lie with your life. Your whole life is a fraud. I'll be honest with you guys, the constant

day luge in the news of pastors, many of whom I know that have been preaching on marriage for

years while having a wife and a girlfriend. That's a violation of the ninth commandment. Lying,

that's a violation of the seventh commandment, adultery, and a violation of the tenth commandment

coveting someone else's wife. If your full-time job is being a pastor and your part-time job is

violating the commandments, you need a different job. You need a different job.

Hypocrisy undermines Christianity because if someone is in the pulpit saying God says and then

they're living not just a flawed life because we're all sinners and are imperfect but malicious,

intentional, pernicious, constant disobedience to God, that's hypocrisy. It is hypocrisy.

It is hypocrisy to preach family and then to be negligent to your own children and grandchildren.

It is hypocrisy to preach marriage and not work on a loving, faithful covenant with your spouse

all the days of your married life. It is hypocrisy and I am so absolutely frustrated

with the constant news cycle. Here's another fraud. Here's another fraud. Here's another fraud.

There's another fraud. No fear of God, no honoring of God, no obedience to commandments.

And how frustrating must it be for the people who say, well, we were supporting you and funding

you and trusting you and following and you were lying to us and you were deceiving us and you

were misleading us. Damnable sins, especially among clergy and religious leadership. Let me start with

those who hold my office first because if the leader does not obey God then the people are not

going to be loved and led in the will of God and that is a complete disservice to God and the people.

It is a complete dishonest and a complete disservice.

We see this all the time as well. I am just ranting today parallel in a mood.

But I'm even seeing this among a Christless conservatism

where people who are, oh, I'm a Christian but then once you get to dig behind the scenes

and curtain of their life to see their personal life and behavior, this is all deception and its

hypocrisy. There are people with massive platforms preaching marriage and family who are committing

adultery. There is a fraudulent nature both on the right and the left, my friend.

And so I am politically conservative because I'm a Bible-believing Christian but because I'm a

Bible-believing Christian, I also believe if you're in sin and on the right, you too should repent.

You too should repent.

And then, last, we'll bring the band up, it'll get fun in a moment. Just hang in there.

Fake news and disinformation. How many of you, the violation of the ninth commandment,

is now so profitable, so pervasive and persuasive, you don't even believe that it is anymore.

Some years ago I came up in high school as a journalist and then in college I got a degree in

communications and journalism. We were told things like you need to have a source. An anonymous

source is a lie. Just so you know. And we were told that that journalistic integrity mattered and

today it's absolutely gone. It's horrifying. I'll share some of the statistics with you. Only

32% of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of trust in mass media. Those 32% are drunk.

They're all drunk. You're like, I think the news is honest. I believe it. Wow. Wow.

You need a drug test. You are not doing well. How many of you, when you read the news,

are you here? The news your first thought is, that's probably a lie. It just probably is.

Here's another study. Researchers at MIT have found that fake news spreads

10 times faster than true news on social media. So Charles Spurgeon, he's one of my favorite

preachers, he lived in the 1800s. He says a lie can travel halfway around the world while the

truth is putting its shoes on. That was before the internet. That's before the internet.

So lies, let me ask you, why do lies spread 10 times faster than truth?

Because Satan and demons help. They're in the algorithms. They're pushing their narrative

in agenda. This is all spiritual warfare, my friends. It's all spiritual warfare.

Well, what we're going to do now, we're going to sing. And when we sing, we're telling the truth.

That's what we're doing. We're doing that, which the ninth commandment seeks to preserve.

And that is the proclamation of truth. So when we sing, it is an act of spiritual warfare.

And together we are renouncing the father of lies and the violation of the ninth commandment.

And we are going to tell the truth about our God. Let me summarize this. If you follow the truth,

it always leads to Jesus Christ. I said this for 30 years when I meet with people who are not

yet Christians. They're like, where do I start? Just follow the truth and you'll end up at

Jesus Christ. The truth only leads to Jesus Christ. The truth always leads to Jesus Christ.

Because Jesus Christ said in John 146, I am the, he said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

And he said, I'm the truth. If you're like, what is the truth, Jesus is the truth. Everything

that obeys Jesus is truth. Everything that honors Jesus is truth. Everything that serves

Jesus is truth. Because Jesus is the truth. 40 times in John's gospel, Jesus says, I tell you

the truth. I tell you the truth. I tell you the truth. 40 times. Jesus is the truth. Jesus

tells the truth. And those who wanted to silence him, they violated the ninth commandment.

They arrested Jesus and they told him, deny your claims to be God.

Jesus, my friend, is the only founder of any major world religion who said he was God.

That statement is so unprecedented in human history. It's either true or false.

They looked at Jesus and they said, you need to stop saying that you are God or we will kill you.

Jesus couldn't stop saying that he was God because that would have been a violation of the

ninth commandment and he would have been a liar. So he keeps telling the truth. No, I am God.

Now to murder him, to execute him, they bring to testify against him what? False witnesses,

literal violation of the ninth commandment. They bring a couple clowns into the court.

The Bible says they couldn't even get their story straight because the truth is usually very

clear and lies get very confusing. So they brought Jesus, they beat him, they scourged him,

they mocked him, they crucified him. And while he was on the cross, he only told the truth.

Father, forgive them, he prayed. He prayed for us. And then he died to answer that prayer.

And Jesus died for telling the truth. Jesus died for telling the truth.

And he told us that three days later he would raise from the dead and he told the truth.

Three days later he rose from the dead. Three days later he rose from the dead.

And then he ascended into heaven and Christianity exploded as the largest movement of any sort

or kind in the history of the world. And they just kept telling the truth. Jesus is God.

Jesus is without sin. Jesus died in our place for our sins. Jesus rose from the dead to reconcile

us to God. Jesus has returned to his heavenly throne. Jesus is the way the truth in the life.

And no one comes to the Father but by him. Jesus is the only God. Jesus is the only Lord.

Jesus is the only Savior forever and ever.

Stand in worship with us. Lord Jesus, we thank you that you're the truth. We thank you that you

tell the truth. We thank you that you're coming again and that you will bring to an end all

lies and liars. To the Father of lies, we say the Lord rebuked you in Jesus' name. In this house,

we are committed to the truth and the truth is Jesus Christ who we now come to sing the truth

about in Jesus' name. Amen.