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The Fourth CommandmentExodus 20:16
Excerpted from: 'But I Say to You' (Part Five): OathsNow, the ninth commandment, Exodus 20:16, is "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." This commandment covers both legal proceedings, that is, formal testimony in a court of law in which an oath is almost always required, and in everyday conversation, in which many often glibly swear. Things like, I swear I saw this or I swear I heard her say that, and whatever it was is detrimental to the other person and they repeated it in the form of gossip or rumor. But they knew, because they heard it, that it was false or greatly exaggerated to make either oneself look good or the other person look bad.
So swearing falsely, in either case, is plainly lying and deceit. Both lying, perjuring oneself in a court of law, and one gossiping about another person or saying something false or deceitful about someone else, both break the ninth commandment. Jesus is trying to give His disciples in Matthew 5 a little bit more backing to these two commandments, the third commandment and the ninth.
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Excerpted from: Keeping God's StandardsIn Richard's recent article, it said one lie is told by the average man every eight minutes, seven lies per hour, 40,000 plus a year. And if he lives 70 years, it is estimated that the average man would tell 2.8 million lies in his lifetime. That is almost unbelievable. What would "You shall not bear false witness" do to the scandal sheets at the checkout stand? They would be empty. What would it do to politicians? I would love to see it. I really would. But what it would promote would be honesty rather than just hurling epitaphs. In the Middle East people would start to trust each other because they knew what they said would be truthful. And this type of thing, obeying this standard, would promote character and trust and it can certainly be a long way into coming into peace, go a long way into that.
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Excerpted from: Principled Living (Part 5): Witnessing of GodThis brings it down more into the human plane, but the same thing in principle applies. We are not to lie about anything to our neighbor, another human being; and we certainly should not be lying about the nature of God, or the promises of God, or anything of God that He has given to us to witness or testify to everyone who sees us. Thus, we see here that two commandments impact upon our witness: God says not to take His name in vain, and He says to never bear false witness.
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