Everybody knows about the
fictional character and story of Pinocchio, the wooden marionette who could move
independently without the help of overhead wires because the wood he was made
out of is supernaturally animated, Pinocchio’s character generally has a good
disposition but he has a problem with the peer pressure of unsavory companions,
this influence caused him to exaggerate which leads him to fabricate lies, and
every time Pinocchio lies his nose grows bigger; there is more to the story and
character of Pinocchio but the plot of this fictional character’s life is that
he could not hide his prevarication because it exhibited upon the middle of his
face.
Some people think that it is okay
to lie, they have no problem saying one thing but meaning another, sometimes promises
are made to family, friends and colleagues with no actual intent in executing the
words spoken, a friend will make a commitment to lend a hand to help but when
the time comes the expected hand does a vanishing act, a leader makes a vow
that you will have a position in his office once your present situation changes
but is puzzlingly silent once you are free to make the transition, at one time
a man’s word used to be his bond, he meant what he said, but today a man’s word
is like a cheap cigar, you can puff it to make it smoke but the aroma makes you
plug your nose.
You may presume the natural man
to twist the truth, to make promises he has no intention of keeping, because
his words are hatched from an unregenerate heart, his spirit is still being led
by the sinful nature, sometimes he doesn’t even realize that he is lying
because his soul has no one to guide him, his ear is still natural, his
perception is guided by darkness, his understanding has no Godly discernment,
he is still living in a consciousness where he thinks good is evil and evil is
good, when he lies he is just speaking like his father who is the father of all
lies.
You do not expect a spiritual man
to say anything but truth, you depend that his words are always going to be honest
and truthful, you believe that he will never deceive you and that his promises
you can count on, if he makes a promise you
are sure that he will keep it even if it is hard to fulfill that
promise, you would never expect him to go back on his word, the believer is
supposed to have the Holy Spirit dwelling within their spirit who works to
check us and lead us into all righteousness, a righteous man should not lie and
if he does then he must make it right before God and the person whom he
deceived.
On Friday, September 07, 2018,
the former United States President, Barack Hussein Obama, gave a speech to the
students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and then
again on Saturday he rallied the Democratic Party faithful at the Anaheim
Convention Center in Anaheim California; Saturday’s event was an
invitation-only affair.
As was to be expected, the former
POTUS took potshots at Donald Trump on Friday before the students at UIUC, Trump
bashing is as common with the Left as ice-cream is with apple pie but it is
usually not something that former presidents do with their incumbents, but we
are looking at a bitter Democratic Party that is still seething because they
lost the 2016 Presidential election, and especially because they lost it to a
man they thought would have gave Hillary Rodham Clinton the US Presidency in
the bag.
Obama used the platform of his
first back-on-the-road political speech from Illinois to speak nationwide to the
American electorate, to express his and the Democratic Parties deep-seated
sentiments towards the Donald Trump Presidency, he expressed in speech many
things that I am sure have weighed on his chest for the past year and eight
months, but were the things he aired to the audience true, were the words the
former president spoke accurate, if you
only listen to leftwing propaganda then you would say his words were true, but
if you listen to the facts and are in touch with reality you would know that if
Obama was Pinocchio then his Trump rant and many other things he said would
have made his nose grow.
Most politicians are known for
the words they speak more than for the actual work they do, some can speak aristocratic
like Barack Obama, and some are not so genteel like the current President,
Donald Trump, who is accused of by the American press as anything but polite,
but it does not matter how eloquent a politician speaks what matters is if the
speeches he gives are either true or fake, his discourse can only be one of the
two, there is no middle ground, there is no grey areas when a person speaks,
what comes from a man’s mouth is either black or white, his words express
either truth or lies, when an audience has heard a politician’s address they go
away believing what they heard was either truth or fabrication.
Words are important, they can be
positive or they can be negative, words can speak life or they can speak death,
words can be deceitful or they can penetrate the heart purely with honesty,
words can be smooth like creamy peanut butter but still come from a sour heart,
a man can give a speech that wins your heart but once your back is turned he can
plan to do you harm.
Today many church leaders are
like politicians, some will only engage with you when they want you to do
something, when they think they can use you, like a politician that will only
shake your hand when he wants you to vote for him, the politician will kiss the
babies to make himself look like he cares for his constituents, the church
leader will weep gushing crocodile tears as he broadcasts his false love for
the congregation, this is not a popular thing to say and there may be
consequences to my candor, but only a church leader that is like a politician
will react with anger, you can tell who the church leaders are that are
building the members of God’s house upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, as you can also recognize the church leaders that treat the members
of God’s household like they are still strangers and foreigners, many leaders
forget that they are only stewards of God’s household and forget that the
members belong to Jesus Christ.
When a believer in Christ makes a
promise, they must then do what they can to keep that promise, when he gives
his word he should then perform it, unfortunately many that believe in Christ make
promises and instead of moving heaven and earth to achieve their obligation
just let it fall by the wayside thereby breaking their word, if an unbeliever
makes a commitment or gives his word and then he breaks his agreement and does
not keep his word it is common for some
believer’s to be the first people to criticize the unbeliever, it is sometimes
typical for a believer to say that the unbeliever cannot be trusted, how ironic
it is that the believer thinks it is okay for him to break his word but on the
other hand thinks the unbeliever is going to hell for being a liar, the
believer should not say he will pray for another person and then not do it, he
should not say to his brother or anybody else that he will do this or that and
then not get around to doing what he undertook to do; who is the liar.
There is a record in the books of
First kings and repeated in Second Chronicles about a meeting in the throne
room of God, the Lord is discussing a battle strategy with all the host of
heaven, these are certain angels of God assigned and trained to be warriors in
the spiritual realm, the Lord’s plan is to bring an end to the life and rule of
wicked King Ahab, he asks those that can hear during this meeting who will
convince Israel’s King to attack Ramoth Gilead, a city east of the Jordan River
that Israel lost previously in battle to Aram (Syria), because God has decreed that
this is the place where Ahab’s life and rule of Israel will end.
The angels of God presented their
suggestions before the Lord, but after a while a spirit steps forward and
situates himself before the Lord of Hosts with an idea, the Scripture clearly
says it was a spirit and not an angel, angels both holy and fallen had access
into God’s presence even back in Job’s day, spirits and angels are
distinguishable from one another, this
spirit must be aligned with Satan because this spirit is a lying spirit, I
figure this lying spirit must be the inner being or pneuma that lives forever of a dead Nephilim rather
than the spirit of a man that has passed away, this lying spirit suggests that
he will go and speak through King Ahab’s gang of false prophets, the Lord said
this will work and sent the lying spirit to the prophets of Ahab to speak
through them to entice the King to go into battle against the King of Aram,
where his life and rule over Israel came to an end.
Does God sanction lying spirits
today to go forth and lie through people, why would God use a lying spirit if
God is the embodiment of truth, does a believer in Christ have the right to deceive
others just because God sent a lying spirit to carry out a task in Ahab’s day,
when a believer lies is it because a lying spirit was sent forth to speak
deceit, is it okay for a believer to be dishonest?
The paragraph above are questions
that I have in my mind when I put together this story of Ahab and the lying
spirit, and the reason why believer’s in Christ would lie to one another or be
dishonest even with an unbeliever, I cannot tell you how many times over my
sanctified life that an unbeliever has said to me that the Christian they have
as a neighbor or the religious freak they work with cannot be trusted because
he lies, I cannot tell you how many times because I do not keep track how that certain
brothers think it is okay to not keep their word to me, the Spirit of God must
convict them of lying so why do they not make it right and accomplish the words
they have promised even if it is not right away.
We are living in the day and age,
the hours in fact before the rapture of
the Body of Christ, when the Scripture predicts that some believers will turn away from Christ as stated
by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit unequivocally declares that they will turn from
Christ and turn their attention to spirits of deception, spirits that are quite
similar to the lying spirit back in King Ahab’s day, these believers will also
give heed to the instructions of demonic deities like the fallen angels, the doctrine
of devils that some will turn to come out of the mouths of fake ministers that speak lies rather than the truth.
When a believer lies and does not
repent, he does not make it right, it is because his conscience is seared, he
either is not aware that he is lying anymore because he does it so often or he
just does not see the need to set it right, because he believes that speaking
lies rather than the truth is okay in some cases, after following this rule for
some time the believer does not know right from wrong anymore, a lying spirit
has attached itself to the lying believer and when it is appropriate to not
tell the truth the lying spirit dominates the words that come out of the lying believer’s
mouth.
The unbeliever follows his father
who is the devil, they actually cannot help themselves because they have no
power to do otherwise whether they believe it or not, there is no truth in
Lucifer as he gave that purity up long ago, when he lies he speaks his own tongue
because he is a liar and the patriarch or the old man of every lie, yet the
believer makes a choice when they lie, they are taking a willful position when
they lie and that is they choose to abide by the direction of the devil, when
the believer makes the choice to tell the truth then he is choosing to remain
in the truth of God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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