Adrian Rogers: Truth or Consequences [#1863]

[Music] welcome to love worth fun with pastor teacher and author Adrian Rogers reaching out with God's love bringing people to Christ touching lives around the world and helping you find the answers you need today join us as we prepare to open God's Word and discover how your life can be changed forever by his great love worth finding take if you will please your Bible and be finding the book of Exodus chapter 20 and today we look at verse 16 Exodus chapter 20 and verse 16 it simply says this thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor something tragic has happened in America we have gotten away from the very basic standard of morality that has rooted in the Ten Commandments there was a time when almost all Americans took for granted that the Ten Commandments are the standard and the basis of morality but we have seen one absolute after another go not primarily with the older generation but heartbreakingly it has happened with the younger generation in 1962 the Supreme Court ruled that voluntary prayer in the classrooms the public classrooms of the United States is unconstitutional quickly they followed that in 1963 when they said we could no longer read God's Word publicly in the classrooms it didn't take them long to go to the next step that said the posting of the Ten Commandments on classroom walls is illegal it is unconstitutional and then in 1982 the Supreme Court ruled that we cannot teach that we were created by Almighty God the teaching of creationism was ruled to be unconstitutional against the principles of this country that's 20 short years in 20 years 180 years of American history is reversed and from that time on something terrible has begun to happen in America today yes we can't post the Ten Commandments but I'll tell you what a child can do a child can go into a school-based clinic today and receive birth control devices without his or her parents knowledge of that now they can't get an aspirin without parental advice and consent but they can be given counseling concerning and abortion without parental advice consent or knowledge in America our boys and girls can be given birth control devices and counseled about an abortion and the parents completely oblivious to it and yet in America we cannot post the Ten Commandments on the classroom walls our boys and girls are being taught what is called now a values free education that is we're not going to take a stand on values now since that time the suicide rate among teenagers has soared astronomically since that time illegitimate births have become pandemic promiscuity is rising I listened the other day to television and they were talking about statistics and they said well one good thing in America are two good things is that among the teenagers number one drug abuse seems to be down a little and the use of contraceptives seems to be up that was a good sign to him that that the youth of the use of contraceptives is up among teenagers and they were boasting about that the problem is this we in America have lost the concept of absolute god-given truth I was reading in a news magazine US News and World Report and this is what it said our nation has become a nation built on falsehood governmental officials dissemble that's a fancy word for telling a lie scientists falsify research workers alter career credentials to get jobs and then this magazine asked this question what's going on here the answer a growing number of social critics fear is an alarming decline in basic honesty and then I was reading another research study the title of this study the day America told the truth what people really think about everything that really matters now the authors of this work are James Patterson of the J Walter Thompson company and Peter Kim now this is what they say they have done they have documented the problems America Americans have in ethics and I quote in the most massive in-depth survey of what Americans really believe that has ever been conducted now remember the title is the day America told the truth what people really think about everything that really matters if these statistics are anywhere near the truth their heart breaking heart breaking they said that 13% 13% that's 1/3 13% of the population believe in all of the biblical 10 commandments 13 percent believe in all the biblical 10 commandments this research went on to say that 9 out of 10 Americans lie regularly 9 out of 10 that's 90 percent one-fifth of Americans America's children 1/5 have lost their virginity by the age 13 they went on to find out that for 10 million dollars at least 7 percent said they would kill a stranger if you would pay them 10 million dollars this is so-called god blessed America now we know more and believe less than ever we're drowning in a sea of facts in the last 30 years we produce more information than in the previous 5 thousand years a person who reads up newspaper like the Los Angeles Times gets more information in that one newspaper than people who lived in the 16th century would get in a year those are facts but facts are no substitute for truth and we're becoming roadkill on the information superhighway while the information is coming and truth has been jettisoned now here's what Isaiah said about the truth in Isaiah chapter 59 in verse 14 and judgment is turned away backward and justice standeth afar off for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter listen to that verse again Isaiah 59 14 and judgment is turned away backward and justice stand at the far-off four truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot in it what is the picture here's the picture of a traffic jam here's equity justice and judgment and they're all backed up why because truth has fallen and because truth has fallen judgment justice and equity cannot get by how did truth fall where she's been kicked down by professors of philosophy she has been tripped up by dishonest politicians she has been chloroformed by liberal preachers and there is truth truth is fallen and what is long in America judgment justice and equity cannot get through because truth has fallen in the streets what is our job our job is to set truth back on her feet the Bible says thou shalt not bear false witness I want you to listen today as we think today about truth and consequences now our Truth or Consequences the first thing I want you to notice is what I'm going to call the liability of a false witness the liability of a false witness thou shalt not bear false witness have you ever thought about who the father of all false witness is he's Satan himself John chapter 8 and verse 44 Jesus speaking to the unsaved Pharisee said year of your father the devil and the lusts that is the desire of your father ye will do he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him there is no truth and Satan listens when he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he Satan is a liar and he is the father of it every time you tell a lie you're acting like the devil do you know what the word devil means the very word devil means slanderer that's the meaning of the word devil when you bear false witness when you slander you're like the devil when you tell the truth you're like the Lord Jesus whose name is truth I want you to see how Satan who is a slander I want you to see what he's done for example he used slander to corrupt the good man who was the good man he corrupted Adam Adam was there in the Garden of Eden and Satan came and he slandered the character of God before Adam he slandered God's honesty because God said in the day that you eat you'll surely die and he said oh he'll not surely die he slandered the character of God he made God a liar and any man who puts a question mark after the word of God is doing the work of the devil never forget it he slandered the honesty of God he slandered the goodness of God he said God doth know that in the day that you eat thereof you be like God knowing the difference between good and evil that is God really doesn't care about you God just has a monopoly on being God he wants to keep this all to himself and he's really slandering the goodness the righteousness and the honesty of God and and the slanderer did his work and Adam sinned he corrupted a good man then I want you to see not only did he use slander to corrupt a good man but he used slander and false witness to criticize a godly man if you were to turn to the book of Job chapter one you would find there that Satan appears before the throne of God and it begins to slander job job was a perfect man an upright man who loved God with all of his heart and Satan said something like this in job chapter 1 to God the Father he said well God the Father says - to Satan have you considered my servant Joe he's a good man and and Satan said to God the Father well he doesn't really love you God known the reason that he serves you is because you have bribed him you bought him off you've given him all these good things he's never known any heartache he's never known any trouble he doesn't really love you he's playing you for a sucker God the only reason he serves you is for what he can get out of it you see he corrupted a good man through slander he criticized a godly man through slander you find him coming against the Lord Jesus Christ the god man when Jesus was in the wilderness and Satan came to Jesus and he began to to slander the Lord Jesus by his accusations and and and by his temptations the truth of the matter is that Satan bears false witness against the Lord Jesus Christ today and he has been doing that for a long time when when Jesus was taken by the Pharisees and they wanted to crucify him listen to Matthew chapter 26 and verse 59 now all the chief priests and the elders and all the council sought witness against Jesus sought false witness against Jesus to put him to death and what am I saying I'm saying from the Garden of Eden to the time when they hung up Jesus on that cross to this day Satan is in the business of slander anytime you slander someone you are acting like Satan now he's the father of it and being the father of it he has a family and and who are these children of Satan you know children are like the father if you're guilty of perjury if you ever appear in a court and you perjure yourself you break this commandment that says thou shalt not bear false witness Exodus chapter 23 verse one says thou shalt not raise a fault rapport put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil now it doesn't matter what people think you speak the truth and tell the truth and if you perjure yourself ever in a courtroom one day you will stand in God's courtroom and the one who sets the murderer free will be condemned of murder and the one who accuses the innocent will suffer the penalty that that innocent person suffered the perjury is the child of his father the devil the rumor monger is a child of his father the devil it was rumored that Jesus was going to destroy the temple and Jesus did not say he's going to destroy the temple that was built there in Jerusalem he was talking about the temple of his body but rumors got started about that the Bible says in Exodus 23 verse 1 thou shalt not raise a false report if you're one that is given to rumors that is - spreading rumors what you say it's not really I'm not the one who starts all these things it's one I tell them - that does that the Bible clearly forbids the carrying on of a rumor I heard of a new pastor who came to church and you know pastors are vulnerable to rumors just like anybody else he came to church and people didn't know him very well but some of the ladies got a little rumor going that they were having a woman's a ladies meeting and the pastor had come to that meeting and the pastor had rudely told his wife she must leave the meeting and he almost snatched her out of the meeting and the girls the ladies began to talk about this how rude the pastor was to his wife and this was rumored all through the church he was new people didn't know him very well after a while he got news of the rumor and he had to talk about it from the pulpit he said I want to say several things about a rumor that's going around at first of all I I never tell my wife what meetings she can attend or what she cannot attend which one she cannot attend number two my wife did not attend the meeting in question number three I never appeared in the meeting in question number four I don't have a wife it's it's so easy for rumors unfounded rumors to get started now the perjury breaks this commandment the rumor monger breaks this commandment the flatterer breaks this commandment did you know that flattery is forbidden in the Word of God did you know that proverbs 26 verse 28 a lying tongue hated those that are afflicted by it and a flattering mouth worketh ruin a flattering mouth worketh ruin now I'm not talking here about giving encouragement you ought to give encouragement I'm not talking about giving thanks you ought to give things you ought to give honor encouragement Thanksgiving and honor that's the oil that just lubricates life if somebody has done a good job tell them so encourage them if they need your help flattery however is a way of using people Psalm 55 verse 21 the words of his mouth were smoother than butter but war was in his heart have you ever met anyone like that oh they flatter you to your face but when you're you don't have your face toward them it's an amazing thing what they will say about you do you know why flatterer and a hypocrite are so much alike the flatterer will save your face what he will not say behind your back the hypocrite says behind your back what he will not say to your face and both are really the heads and tails of the same coin and God's Word forbids it you can break this commandment by mere insinuation the Bible speaks in in 2nd Corinthians chapter 12 and verse 20 about whisperings when Jesus Christ was teaching the Pharisees insinuated that Jesus Christ was an illegitimate child John chapter 8 and verse 41 we be not born of fornication what's the implication you are you know that you can bear false witness just by insinuation just by the tone of your voice just by the arching of the eyebrows I've told you before about something that God convicted me of when I was a young preacher I was driving down in my little country church I was aware that one of the seal beams of my car had burned out and I was driving with one headlight hoping I could make it and get it fixed back to school the highway patrolman stopped me I got out tried to be courteous and respectful he said to me son do you know you only have one headlight you know what I said to him I only have one headlight I told him the absolute truth I only have one headlight but you see how I said I said it I insinuated that I didn't know that you see when I got back in the car he wrote and he said get that thing fixed young man I said yes sir I will when I got back in the car the Holy Spirit tore me up and said Adrian you lied to that man I said I didn't lie told him the truth I only had one headlight said you told a lie and I did tell a lie by mere insinuation we can lie I say with the tone of our voice and then of course sheer slander is a part of one of the family members of your father the devil the slanderer the Bible says in James chapter 4 verse 11 speak not he one of another brethren speak not evil one of another brethren it doesn't say whether it's true or whether it's not true we are not to slander we're not to speak with an evil spirit the Bible calls this in Jeremiah 18 verse 18 smiting with the tongue many people are smitten with the tongue do you know what a BB Simpson said the great Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor you know what he said listen to this quote I had rather play with forked lightning are taken my hands living wires with their fiery currents than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ or idly repeat the slander starts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others when you listen to slander you're as guilty as the person who gives it it's a small compliment to you that people want to use your ears for garbage cans you can even break the spirit of this commandment says thou shalt not bear false witness by simply being silent because the negative always implies the positive and when the Bible says thou shalt not bear false witness it implies you will bear true witness and if you're quiet and don't speak when you ought to speak you've sinned Leviticus chapter 5 verse 1 and if a soul sin and he had seen or known it if he do not utter it then he shall bear his iniquity that is if you simply say it's none of my business and you keep silent when a criminal deed is done or when you fail to speak up when a good man is criticized you break the spirit of this command a few things you could do more foolish and more hurtful than to bear false witness it is so hurtful to people and it is so hellish before God listen to what God says in proverbs 6 verses 16 and following these six things death the lord hate yay seven are an abomination unto Him a proud look a lying tongue in hens that shed innocent blood a heart that devises wicked imaginations and feet that be swift to running to mischief a false witness that speaketh lies and he that sows discord among brethren of the six things that God hates yay seven two of them deal with breaking this command which says thou shalt not bear false witness now you may think it's a small thing to lie but if you have a practice of lying I want to tell you plainly and clearly that you're of your father the devil and you will spend all eternity with him in hell well the Bible says hell was prepared for the devil and his angels and the very word angel means his messenger his witnesses you have become a witness for Satan and you will spend eternity with your father the devil in Hell hell was not prepared for you for me it was prepared for the devil and his angels and when you become a false witness you become one of Satan's angels one of Satan's messengers and the Bible says in Revelation chapter 21 and verse 8 all liars all Liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone that's the Word of God I can't change it I cannot amend it from the lightnings and thunders of Sinai God says thou shalt not bear false witness again I want to tell you you're never more like Satan than when you bear false witness when you perjure when you slander when you falsely criticize when you remain silent when you ought to speak when you insinuate things that are not true all of these things break God's holy commandment and we'll receive the judgment of Almighty God now there's a second thing I want you to see I've talked to you about the liability of a false witness I want you to see with me also now the reliability of a faithful witness because you see when God says thou shalt not bear false witness by implication God is saying you shall bear faithful witness Jesus Christ is called the faithful and the true witness of God and we're to be witnesses to him Acts chapter 1 in verse 8 the Bible says but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me my home and your home ought to be a witness to the saving power of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the Bible when the Bible says that they took the gospel from house to house that does not mean that someone went down the door not down the street knocking on doors and telling people about Jesus this house and then this house and then this house now that's well and good that's a good way to do evangelism but that's not what the Bible means when it says the faith went from house to house it means it goes from the Jones house to the Smiths house and from the Smith's house to the Brown's house and so forth and and one family becomes a witness to another family and our families our families are the are to bear witness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ now we are not to bear false witness against our neighbor we are to bear faithful witness to our neighbor our neighbors ought to know that Jesus that we know are you bearing a faithful witness to your neighbor do your neighbors know that your Christians you say well pastor Rogers I haven't been to seminary I'm not trained well let me ask you a question has Jesus Christ saved you has he changed your home is he real to you now remember you are called to be a witness a fateful witness well what does a witness do a witness tells what he is seen and heard as they used to say on dragnet just the facts ma'am that's all a witness tells what he has seen in her now Jesus did not call you to be his lawyer a lawyer argues a case a witness simply shares what he's seen in her and so you just tell people what Jesus Christ has done for you and how you know he has done it don't witness about things you don't know but witness about things you do know if you fail that's a part of your witness tell how you failed and how God forgave you and gave you another chance your neighbor is waiting to hear our neighbors are waiting to hear about the saving gospel of Jesus Christ there's the liability of a false witness there is the reliability of a faithful witness now let me come very quickly to close this message and talk to you about the responsibility of a family witness the responsibility of a family witness we are calling this series of messages a perfect 10 for homes that wind there is a crying need in America today for families that know the truth believe the truth love the truth teach the truth speak the truth and share the truth a home that is not built on truth will crumble now how do we take these things that I've talked about today and how do we transfer them to our children and that our children might go out into the school and into the workplace and to the government and repr me eight society with truth or three basic ways number one by precept you need to get this tape or you need to get a study like this and you need to get all of the scriptures that I've given you today and you need to teach them to your children literally teach them take the Word of God and show them that when they tell a lie they're acting like the devil show them that when they tell them the truth they're acting like the Lord Jesus Christ and don't just simply say you ought not to tell a lie that's bad that's naughty give them a theological reason tell them tell them why they ought to tell the truth talk of these scriptures when you rise up when you lie down make certain that your children understand the holy commandment so number one you transfer by precept by teaching number two by example and I cannot oh god help me I cannot say it well enough strongly enough how important it is mister that you as a father tell the truth one of the grandest things that has happened in America today is a movement called Promise Keepers where men have made up their mind under God that they will keep their word listen you need to be able to say to your children God says thou shalt not bear false witness and my child I want to tell you this I will never lie to you I will always keep my word to you come up close I'm gonna tell you something you can fail in many many many ways and still come out fairly good with your children but if you fail here if you fail to keep your word to keep your promises if you fail to tell the truth to your children I promise you that your home is on the road to disaster I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to have fathers that will tell the truth if you've ever made a promise to your child and fail to keep that promise ask that child for forgiveness one day I got all of my children together I said I want to ask you a question have I ever promised you anything that I didn't do I was sure they'd say oh no dad you've always kept your word but what I'm saying yeah there was a time when I just made little remarks that were taken as promises and and one of these days we'll do that or one of these days we'll do that I said forgive me I'm sorry and ask for forgiveness when you've done wrong and confess that you've done wrong let your children know that you are a truth speaker now dad's I'm going to plow real close to the corn right now do you have one of these little gizmos up on your dashboard called a fuzz Buster well I wanna ask you a question why do you have it there why does your child think you have it there now if you have one I'm not saying throw in the garbage can but I'm saying that you ought to say to your child I have this here in case AB --scent mindedly somehow I am breaking the law but my intent is not to get around the law my intent is to keep the law Amen ro me I'm telling you folks we better be careful what we're teaching our children this thing of integrity is so very very important what do you do when Throckmorton just turned 12 and you go to the show whatever it is and it says four children under 12 thus and such and entry fee and Throckmorton is twelve and three days old is it well just tell them you're 12 son you'll rue the day you do that I remember we took our family down to pirates world down in Fort Lauderdale I mean all the little kids like this and folks to take in one of those places you just have to you know you have to go in somewhere in hock your right eyeball to get enough money to to do it you know it's I don't even know where the pirate world is still there but they named it well and we're going into this thing I looked at my billfold brother Jim and I had just so much money and we were just like 75 cents short of having enough money and we got up there and I counted the money with the taxes and everything I didn't have enough little children their land a heartbroken I said well will you take a check no we can't take a check and then I looked and it said under 12 less my oldest was 12 by several days they said well daddy I just I just turned 12 it's a if we just say I'm under 12 we can get in they we had a moral crisis on our hands we're gonna ruin the whole day I said I'm sorry son we just can't do that we just can't do that and I won't tell you the rest of the story we did ultimately get in because kids won't let it go we got in with the rules and never broke the rules dear children know that you tell the truth do you ever teach children to lie for you the ever teach children pick up the phone and say Mama's not here mama says she's not here if we teach them to lie for us we should never punish them when they lie to us I actually heard about a mother one time with told her son Johnny if you don't stop lying there's a man a green man that lives on the moon he's gonna catch you and make you pick up sticks the rest of your life if you don't stop lying what do you do with children number one by precept teach them the Word of God number two by example live the Word of God moms and dads tell the truth and keep your word number three by discipline there are three deadly deeds that our kids knew about when they were coming up and now our kids are not perfect kids but they love God and they're saved the three deadly deeds that I would not put up with I'm talking about when they were look now way I'm not talking about such things as as stealing or using dope or anything I'm talking about when the little kids now the first was deliberate disobedience now a child could disobey and if it's not arrogant not deliberate then you have to deal gently with them but when it is deliberate disobedience friend you must you must deal with that immediately the second thing is defiance defiance that's the same as as disobedience but it is just simply a disrespectful attitude ad defiant disrespect deal with that immediately and the third is dishonesty dishonesty when a child tells a lie that our children knew that they get away with some things but if they were ever disrespectful to their mother ever disrespectful to the dad ever defiantly disobedient wherever were dishonest at that moment at that moment the judgment was sure and swift kind yes but Stern yes well time is gone let me tell you this folks if you want your home to win you better go back to what God has said you better take these Commandments one at a time beginning with the commandment that says I'm the LORD thy God thou shalt have no other gods before me and take them one at a time measure your life by them and teach them to your children let's bow our heads in prayer every head bowed and every eye closed while heads are bowed and eyes are closed I'm ask you this question do you know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior do you Jesus is the faithful and the true witness he is the truth he said I am the way the truth and the life and no man cometh unto the father but by me if you want to be saved today you can be saved to be saved means that every sin is forgiven to be saved means that every dishonest thing we've ever done is buried in the grave of God's forgetfulness never to be brought up against us any more to be saved means that the one who is who is the truth lives in us and helps us to live the truth to be saved means we have the joy of God the peace that passes understanding to be saved means that we have a home in heaven to be saved means that we have millions of people around the world who are now our brothers and sisters in Christ if you'd like to be saved I'd like for you to pray a prayer like this dear God I know that you love me and I know that you want to save me Jesus you died to save me and you promised to save me if I would trust you I do trust you Jesus I believe you're the Son of God I believe that you paid my sin debt with your blood on the cross I believe God raised you from the dead and now I receive you by faith to come into my life to be my Lord and Master to forgive my sin and to give me power to live for you take control of my life save me Lord Jesus pray that it mean save me Lord Jesus ask him to save you trust him to save you save me Lord Jesus did you ask him then pray this way thank you for doing it Lord I don't look for sign I don't ask for feeling I stand on your word you're now my Lord my Savior and my god and then say this to him Lord Jesus because you died for me I live for you and help me never to be ashamed of you because you're my god and my Savior in your name I pray [Music] we pray God has blessed you as you've watched this message if you'd like additional copies or information on other resources write us at love worth finding Bo box 38 800 memphis tennessee 38134 at lwf dot o-r-g in the US you can place Visa or MasterCard orders by calling 1-800 two seven four five six eight three Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Central Time thank you and may God richly bless you 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Length: 44min 34sec (2674 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 30 2017