June 3, 2025 • 26 mins
Today on BOLD STEPS with Pastor Mark Jobe … we’re discovering the meaning behind the ninth Commandment. As we move forward in our series on Rock Solid Living, we’re going to be looking at the ninth Commandment and the reasons why God includes it, and why Jesus affirms it in passages of the New Covenant. The title of this sermon is Thou Shall Not Lie … but it goes even deeper than that—it’s about bearing false witness against your neighbor.
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Today on Bold steps with Mark job, we're discovering the
meaning behind the ninth commandment.
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The lies the enemy come. And as soon as the
language of the enemy is starting to be spoken somewhere,
then the culture of the enemy starts to be present
in that place. Language comes before culture, but it opens
up the door for the culture that follows.
S1 (00:38):
Welcome to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe, senior pastor of
New Life Community Church and president of Moody Bible Institute
in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. As we move forward in
our series Rock Solid Living. Mark, we're going to be
looking at the ninth commandment, nine out of ten, the
reasons why God includes it, and why Jesus affirms it
in the New Testament.
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Wayne. The Ten Commandments were given to the people of
Israel to help shape their culture. It's a reflection of
God's heart, what he values, he was saying, I want
this to shape the culture in which you operate. And
truth is a culture of the kingdom. So lies is
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a culture of the kingdom of darkness. And I know
that every believer listening to me today would agree thou
shalt not lie. However, studies tell us, surveys tell us
that 91% of Americans regularly lie about something.
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Oh my goodness.
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Which means that we have accepted this thought that as
long as it's not a very severe lie, it's okay
to bend the truth and not always have to be honest.
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Yeah, we buy the myth of the white lie, don't we?
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We do. And so the Ten Commandments and Jesus reiterates
it in the New Testament. Again, any kind of bending
of truth, any kind of lying, any kind of deception
is incompatible with the kingdom of light.
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Let's let God's Word guide our thinking now. Thou shalt
not lie. Here's Mark Jobe.
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I know that if I were to do a survey
today and ask how many of you whether lying is
wrong or not. I think that 98% of this crowd
would say, absolutely lying is wrong. We should not do it.
It shouldn't be a part of our lives. We should
be truthful. We should not deceive people. And so we'd
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all be in agreement in that. However, I read recently
that Leo Burnett, who's a advertising agency, uh, they have
a branch here in Chicago. The headquarters may be here. Uh,
did a nationwide telephone survey a few years ago. Online cataloging.
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When we lie, how we lie, and why we lie.
The results were very interesting. 91% of Americans confess that
they regularly lie. That's 91%. That means that there's only
about 9% of Americans that don't regularly lie. And who knows,
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maybe some of them were lying. But this is pretty widespread. 79%
had given out false phone numbers or invented new identities
when meeting strangers. One out of every five people interviewed
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admitted that they couldn't get through even one day without
going along with some previously manufactured lie. So 20% of
the people in America say, I can't go even one
day without Perpetuating some lie that I'm living. Well, that's
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a pretty high percentage of them. Uh, do you know
what we lie most about? Well, in doing a survey
and asking what we lie most about, there's a couple
of things we lie about. We lie most about our income,
our weight, and our age. The funny thing about weight,
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of course, is that it's pretty obvious sometimes if you're
lying or not. The other fourth lie that came in
sort of hand in hand in place number four, was
the true color of our hair. So what I've discovered
is that although most of us believe that lying is wrong,
it seems to be that our culture accepts lying as
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a way of life, and the great majority of us lie. Now,
some of you would say, well, pastor, I know people lie, but.
But I'm talking about white lies. I don't really know
where the color coding of lies came in, but I'm
not really sure I've ever heard of the Bible talk
about a white lie. You would define a white lie
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as a lie that it doesn't hurt anybody. It's not bad.
It's like when someone calls and the boss is saying, no, no,
you say sorry, he's not here right now. Well, that's
kind of a white lie, right? He is here. He
doesn't want to talk. He doesn't want to be rude.
It's just a busy time. And so we say, well, well,
he's not here right now. Someone invites you to something
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you don't want to go to, and you say, I'd
really love to go. Oh, I'd be there in a heartbeat,
but I'm sorry. We have another commitment. When really you don't.
You say, well, there's nothing wrong with a lie like
that because I'm just basically I don't want to offend them.
I'm just telling a little bit of a twisting of
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the truth that really has no bad repercussions. I mean,
can't we all? And okay, so I go to renew
my driver's license, and I tell them what I weighed
15 years ago. I mean, really? I mean, that doesn't
really hurt anybody. That's what I'm planning on being in
two months from now once I get on my heavy diet.
But really, it's not much of a lie, is it?
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I mean, seriously, when I apply for the job and
they ask if I have a college degree and I
tell them that I have a BA degree from from
Roosevelt University downtown, you know, I'm only four credits short.
So I mean, technically I don't have a degree, but
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I mean, seriously, four credits. I mean, who's going to
care about four credits? Technically, I guess it's a lie,
but in reality, is it such a big deal? I
think most of us here would kind of say, yeah, pastor.
Come on. Don't be so hard. I mean, we all
bend the truth a little bit. But here's what I
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want you to understand. I want you to understand what
we call bending the truth a little bit is pretty
big deal in the eyes of God. It may not
have serious consequences to what you are currently doing, but
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in the spiritual realm, there's some pretty heavy consequences. And
I want to talk to you about that. Why do
we lie? Well, I believe that we lie to impress people,
to create an image, cover up our insecurities. We lie
to escape consequences. We're late to work. Hey, my car
broke down. It's been your fourth time. Your car broke down.
Get a new car. Um. We lie to make a profit.
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A sales guys always are out there. I tell you what, uh,
two years ago, I was looking around to try to
buy a used car for my daughter. And, man, I
tell you, you want to hear some stories. People spend stories.
Try to buy a used car. I checked Carfax and
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I said, well, last time you went to the mechanic,
this had like 150,000 miles on it, and now it
only has 90,000 miles on it. Something wrong with that picture?
To make a profit. Oh, we lied to get revenge
or to hurt someone else. We lie for convenience sake.
Just because it's easier to lie. Sometimes we lie to
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protect ourselves from the consequences of others. And so there's
a whole series of reasons why we lie. But I
want to understate here. I want to make sure that
we have very clear that the fact that we break
the ninth commandment has some serious spiritual implications, although it
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may be fully accepted in our Our society and small
lies may be a part of our culture in the
Kingdom of God. Mathematics or dynamics? This is a huge issue.
And let me tell you why. The best way that
I could describe it is this language is the precursor
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to culture. When I'm traveling around, for example, I'm at
an airport. I like to kind of play a game.
I see someone and I, I try to figure out
what country they're from. And sometimes you can tell by
the way someone looks or the way they dress, but
then when they open their mouth and you hear them
speaking French, obviously you deduce they're from France or they're
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speaking German, you know, they're from Germany, because the language
that they speak indicates the place that they're from. Because
and and once you know the language that they speak,
you know, that the country that they're from and you know,
the culture that they come from. Even with Spanish, for example,
when I hear someone say, Joe and Voss, I know
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they're Argentinian because that's what they say there. If you
hear someone speaking Spanish and they say Zanahoria and Zapato
and Zamora, you know that they're Castilian, that they grew
up in Spain because they had this thing going. And so,
you know where they're from. If you're from the US
and someone says, how y'all doing today? We say, you're
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not from here, right? We know they're from the South
because there's a lot of y'all want some iced tea
for us. And we know, hey, they're not from here.
My daughter was studying in California. She says, dad, all
these people are. When I start talking, they're all kind
of laughing and they're saying, where are you from? You
have to be from Chicago or somewhere. And I didn't
even know I had an accent. But the Californians all
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think I have an accent because they say mom, not mom.
So the language that you speak indicates the culture that
you come from And the environment in which you live.
Language tells you that. Well, Jesus is talking to his
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disciples and Jesus is talking to some, to his disciples
and to some people that he was trying to speak
into their lives. And in John chapter eight, I will
begin reading in verse 4343 through 47, Jesus looks at
some people that are not understanding him, not because they
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don't speak the same technical language that he spoke, but
because they don't speak the same spiritual language. And he says,
why is my language not clear to you? Because you
are unable to hear what I say. You belong to
your father. Your father has taught you a language. That's
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not my language. You understand your father's language, but you
don't understand my language. Well, what father is he talking about?
He says your father. The devil. And you want to
carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from
the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is
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no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his
native language. For he is a liar and the father
of lies. Yet, because I tell you the truth, you
do not believe me. What Jesus was telling his disciples
and people that were unwilling to receive his message, is
that he was telling them that the native language, that
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the original language of the kingdom of darkness is the
language of lies, beguilement, deception, and the bending of truth.
If you speak the language of lies, then it indicates
that you are being influenced by the culture of darkness,
because that is the language that is spoken in the
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culture of darkness. On the other hand, when you speak
the language of truth and integrity, it's the language that's
spoken in the kingdom of light. The language of God
is truth. The language of the enemy is lying and deception.
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You're listening to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe. We'll continue
today's message in a moment. But first, Mark, I want
to talk about something that's become a growing concern within
Christian leadership circles. Our world is going through a whirlwind,
pretty dramatic developments and changes, not just here in America,
but around the globe. And we need to remind ourselves,
as Christians, we have a much higher calling than any
political movement, don't we.
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Wayne? Turn on the news. And there is drama all
over the place.
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From rumors of wars to economic crisis to polarization, to
actual wars that are happening to bombings, and it is
easy to get distracted by all this. Worried by it.
Anxious by it. Sort of sucked into it. But here's
what I want to say. This is a great time
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for the good news of Jesus Christ and the hope
of the gospel.
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Amen.
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There are a lot of people coming to Christ throughout
the world, and you may not hear about it, because
there's other news that is prominent and is taking people's attention.
But there is an undercurrent of a harvest evangelism. And
that's what we're all about right now, is a moment
where people are shaken, where there's concern. But there are
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so many people that are turning to the heavens, and
we at Bold Steps have determined we will not miss
that moment. And so we are asking you to partner
with us, help us out, because right now is a
great time to be calling people to Jesus.
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We urge you to give online at Bold steps.org. Or
you can call us. The number is 800. D.L. Moody
and that works out to be (800) 356-6639. And when you
do give, we'll be sure to send you a special
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program today. Well, thank you for that, Mark. But let's
go back to your message now here on bold Steps.
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Hebrews chapter six verse 18 basically says God cannot lie.
Titus chapter one, verse two says, A faith and knowledge
resting on the hope of eternal life, which is God
who does not lie. God can't even lie if he
tried to. It's not his language. It's like saying to you, hey,
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can you give me a phrase in Mandarin from China?
And you're not from China? You don't even know how
you couldn't if you wanted to, because it's not the
language that you speak. God cannot lie. He doesn't speak
the language of lies. Yet the Bible says that the
language of the darkness, the language of the enemy of
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our souls, that is his native language. He can't tell
the truth if he wants to. He only tells the
truth to mix it with deception and lies, because his
native tongue is that of deception and lying. He's called
the father of lies. On the other hand, just like
God cannot lie, God cannot bend the truth. God cannot
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distort the truth on the same hand. Deceit, just like truth,
prepares the way for the kingdom of God culture. Deceit
prepares the way for the kingdom of darkness. Culture. Hear
me well. Look up at me. This is really important.
Whatever words you speak are making way for a culture
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that you're introducing. If there's resentment and bitterness and anger
that you speak in your household, you're beginning to create
a culture of resentment, bitterness, and anger. If you're leading
a football team of junior high kids and you speak
encouragement and confidence and ability to win, then you're creating
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a culture of winning and confidence into that team. Whatever
words you speak into your world are precedes the culture
that you're introducing into your world. This is exactly what
happened in the beginning with the Garden of Eden. If
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you look at Genesis, Genesis chapter three, you realize that
God created Paradise. He created a world in which people
walked with him and talked with them. He created a
world in which there was no bigotry, in which there
was no rape and there was no murder, and there
was no anger, and there was no distinction of color.
And people walked with him in freedom. And that world
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was the world that God created us to live and
walk in. However, it tells us in Genesis chapter three
that the serpent, the way he wiggled his way into Paradise,
was through the language. What language? The language of beguilement
or deception? Notice what it says in Genesis chapter three,
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verse one. Now the serpent was more crafty than any
of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He
said to the woman, Did God really say, you must
not eat from the tree in the garden? What the
serpent did is he put in question the truth of God.
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God had not said that they couldn't eat from any
tree of the garden. They could only not eat from
one tree in the garden. So he he misled Eve
in his statement. It was only half true. He had said,
don't eat from one tree. Not all the trees. He
lied about the righteousness of God. The serpent said, God said,
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you shall truly die. But. But I don't think you will.
He lied about the goodness of God. God doesn't want
you to eat from this tree, because if you do,
you will be like God. Listen, he sowed seeds of
deception before he brought in the culture of darkness. I.
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Are you tracking where I'm going with this? Before the
kingdom of light comes in, truth comes before the kingdom.
Before someone comes to Christ. They hear the gospel. They
hear the truth. And then the culture of the kingdom
invades their life before the kingdom of darkness comes. The
lies of the enemy come. And as soon as the
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language of the enemy is starting to be spoken somewhere,
then the culture of the enemy starts to be present
in that place. Language comes before culture, but it opens
up the door for the culture that follows. Now, why
is this so important? Because some of you love Jesus.
Follow God, carry your Bibles, come to church, raise your
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hands on Sunday and worship of God. And you consider
yourself a follower of Jesus Christ. But you where you go,
you speak the language of darkness through deception that you
don't think is an important thing. You're bending the truth.
Lying about this line about that and what you're really
doing is you're spreading the kingdom of darkness. You're opening
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up doors for kingdom of darkness. Although you follow God,
you're violating the ninth commandment, and you are speaking the
language of the devil. And you wonder why he has
a foothold in your life. You're speaking the language of darkness,
and you're giving the enemy a foothold in your household.
Because we're the language of deception is spoken. Then the
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culture of darkness comes in and you speak lies into
your marriage, you start deceiving one another, bending truth. And
I can guarantee you that you are giving the enemy
a huge foothold in your household and in your marriage
to begin to bring the culture of the kingdom of
darkness there.
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Line isn't just about the words we use. That's the
topic of today's message from pastor, author, and Bible teacher
Mark Jobe. And this is bold steps. To learn more
about Mark and this ministry, be sure to visit us
online at Bold Steps org. Well, Mark, today we're joined
by two special guests, Aaron and Jason Davis, who've written
a book that tackles a challenge every Christian parent faces
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how to help our boys navigate the lies our culture
is throwing at them. The book is called Lies Boys
Believe and the Epic Quest for truth.
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That's right Wayne. You know, last month we offered the
companion to this resource lies girls believe I.
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Remember.
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So Aaron, as a mother of four boys. Yeah, you
heard it. Four boys. What motivated you to write this book?
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Well, obviously my own sons. You're right. So everybody listening.
It's okay for you to gasp at that. Four sons.
That's what Jason and I have. So it's a rowdy house.
But there are primary concern. But they're also a good
indicator of what's happening in the wider culture. And everybody
seems to be talking about boys in crisis, secular and Christian.
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But we want to point our boys to the truth,
and the truth is found in God's word. And so
we let our boys go first. They were super involved
in the project, and I hope this is an outflow
of our parenting, but we also hope they're just four
examples of what can happen when God gets Ahold of boys,
when they're young and they fall in love with His
word when they're young and they start living for truth.
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So, Jason, you have built in research, huh?
S5 (22:52):
Yeah, it's made it easy. We didn't have to travel
a lot to do the market research for this one.
S3 (22:58):
And, Jason, what ages would you say this book is
targeted towards?
S5 (23:03):
Uh, young men, uh, probably 6 to 12 would be
the target demographic. That's probably not the right terminology, but, um,
we found that our boys in that age group really
resonated well with the content and the message.
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You know, I think this type of book is so needed.
There are so many, so many parents struggling with just
the lies that our culture is just saturating our young
people with. But young boys especially, are at a disadvantage
these days when the image of what it means to
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be a man or grow up to be a man
is really been erased and very confusing.
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This is critical, isn't it? Yeah. Aaron and Jason, thank
you so much for writing this book and making it
available to our listeners.
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It's been a real pleasure.
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Yeah, we're just honored to get to serve families in
the church in this way.
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the Ninth commandment is so important. It's the conclusion of
today's message called Thou Shalt Not Lie. And it's coming
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Bible Institute.
Today on Bold steps with Mark job, we're discovering the
meaning behind the ninth commandment.
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The lies the enemy come. And as soon as the
language of the enemy is starting to be spoken somewhere,
then the culture of the enemy starts to be present
in that place. Language comes before culture, but it opens
up the door for the culture that follows.
S1 (00:38):
Welcome to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe, senior pastor of
New Life Community Church and president of Moody Bible Institute
in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. As we move forward in
our series Rock Solid Living. Mark, we're going to be
looking at the ninth commandment, nine out of ten, the
reasons why God includes it, and why Jesus affirms it
in the New Testament.
S2 (00:58):
Wayne. The Ten Commandments were given to the people of
Israel to help shape their culture. It's a reflection of
God's heart, what he values, he was saying, I want
this to shape the culture in which you operate. And
truth is a culture of the kingdom. So lies is
(01:20):
a culture of the kingdom of darkness. And I know
that every believer listening to me today would agree thou
shalt not lie. However, studies tell us, surveys tell us
that 91% of Americans regularly lie about something.
S1 (01:39):
Oh my goodness.
S2 (01:40):
Which means that we have accepted this thought that as
long as it's not a very severe lie, it's okay
to bend the truth and not always have to be honest.
S1 (01:52):
Yeah, we buy the myth of the white lie, don't we?
S2 (01:54):
We do. And so the Ten Commandments and Jesus reiterates
it in the New Testament. Again, any kind of bending
of truth, any kind of lying, any kind of deception
is incompatible with the kingdom of light.
S1 (02:08):
Let's let God's Word guide our thinking now. Thou shalt
not lie. Here's Mark Jobe.
S2 (02:15):
I know that if I were to do a survey
today and ask how many of you whether lying is
wrong or not. I think that 98% of this crowd
would say, absolutely lying is wrong. We should not do it.
It shouldn't be a part of our lives. We should
be truthful. We should not deceive people. And so we'd
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all be in agreement in that. However, I read recently
that Leo Burnett, who's a advertising agency, uh, they have
a branch here in Chicago. The headquarters may be here. Uh,
did a nationwide telephone survey a few years ago. Online cataloging.
(02:58):
When we lie, how we lie, and why we lie.
The results were very interesting. 91% of Americans confess that
they regularly lie. That's 91%. That means that there's only
about 9% of Americans that don't regularly lie. And who knows,
(03:22):
maybe some of them were lying. But this is pretty widespread. 79%
had given out false phone numbers or invented new identities
when meeting strangers. One out of every five people interviewed
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admitted that they couldn't get through even one day without
going along with some previously manufactured lie. So 20% of
the people in America say, I can't go even one
day without Perpetuating some lie that I'm living. Well, that's
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a pretty high percentage of them. Uh, do you know
what we lie most about? Well, in doing a survey
and asking what we lie most about, there's a couple
of things we lie about. We lie most about our income,
our weight, and our age. The funny thing about weight,
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of course, is that it's pretty obvious sometimes if you're
lying or not. The other fourth lie that came in
sort of hand in hand in place number four, was
the true color of our hair. So what I've discovered
is that although most of us believe that lying is wrong,
it seems to be that our culture accepts lying as
(04:50):
a way of life, and the great majority of us lie. Now,
some of you would say, well, pastor, I know people lie, but.
But I'm talking about white lies. I don't really know
where the color coding of lies came in, but I'm
not really sure I've ever heard of the Bible talk
about a white lie. You would define a white lie
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as a lie that it doesn't hurt anybody. It's not bad.
It's like when someone calls and the boss is saying, no, no,
you say sorry, he's not here right now. Well, that's
kind of a white lie, right? He is here. He
doesn't want to talk. He doesn't want to be rude.
It's just a busy time. And so we say, well, well,
he's not here right now. Someone invites you to something
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you don't want to go to, and you say, I'd
really love to go. Oh, I'd be there in a heartbeat,
but I'm sorry. We have another commitment. When really you don't.
You say, well, there's nothing wrong with a lie like
that because I'm just basically I don't want to offend them.
I'm just telling a little bit of a twisting of
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the truth that really has no bad repercussions. I mean,
can't we all? And okay, so I go to renew
my driver's license, and I tell them what I weighed
15 years ago. I mean, really? I mean, that doesn't
really hurt anybody. That's what I'm planning on being in
two months from now once I get on my heavy diet.
But really, it's not much of a lie, is it?
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I mean, seriously, when I apply for the job and
they ask if I have a college degree and I
tell them that I have a BA degree from from
Roosevelt University downtown, you know, I'm only four credits short.
So I mean, technically I don't have a degree, but
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I mean, seriously, four credits. I mean, who's going to
care about four credits? Technically, I guess it's a lie,
but in reality, is it such a big deal? I
think most of us here would kind of say, yeah, pastor.
Come on. Don't be so hard. I mean, we all
bend the truth a little bit. But here's what I
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want you to understand. I want you to understand what
we call bending the truth a little bit is pretty
big deal in the eyes of God. It may not
have serious consequences to what you are currently doing, but
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in the spiritual realm, there's some pretty heavy consequences. And
I want to talk to you about that. Why do
we lie? Well, I believe that we lie to impress people,
to create an image, cover up our insecurities. We lie
to escape consequences. We're late to work. Hey, my car
broke down. It's been your fourth time. Your car broke down.
Get a new car. Um. We lie to make a profit.
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A sales guys always are out there. I tell you what, uh,
two years ago, I was looking around to try to
buy a used car for my daughter. And, man, I
tell you, you want to hear some stories. People spend stories.
Try to buy a used car. I checked Carfax and
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I said, well, last time you went to the mechanic,
this had like 150,000 miles on it, and now it
only has 90,000 miles on it. Something wrong with that picture?
To make a profit. Oh, we lied to get revenge
or to hurt someone else. We lie for convenience sake.
Just because it's easier to lie. Sometimes we lie to
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protect ourselves from the consequences of others. And so there's
a whole series of reasons why we lie. But I
want to understate here. I want to make sure that
we have very clear that the fact that we break
the ninth commandment has some serious spiritual implications, although it
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may be fully accepted in our Our society and small
lies may be a part of our culture in the
Kingdom of God. Mathematics or dynamics? This is a huge issue.
And let me tell you why. The best way that
I could describe it is this language is the precursor
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to culture. When I'm traveling around, for example, I'm at
an airport. I like to kind of play a game.
I see someone and I, I try to figure out
what country they're from. And sometimes you can tell by
the way someone looks or the way they dress, but
then when they open their mouth and you hear them
speaking French, obviously you deduce they're from France or they're
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speaking German, you know, they're from Germany, because the language
that they speak indicates the place that they're from. Because
and and once you know the language that they speak,
you know, that the country that they're from and you know,
the culture that they come from. Even with Spanish, for example,
when I hear someone say, Joe and Voss, I know
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they're Argentinian because that's what they say there. If you
hear someone speaking Spanish and they say Zanahoria and Zapato
and Zamora, you know that they're Castilian, that they grew
up in Spain because they had this thing going. And so,
you know where they're from. If you're from the US
and someone says, how y'all doing today? We say, you're
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not from here, right? We know they're from the South
because there's a lot of y'all want some iced tea
for us. And we know, hey, they're not from here.
My daughter was studying in California. She says, dad, all
these people are. When I start talking, they're all kind
of laughing and they're saying, where are you from? You
have to be from Chicago or somewhere. And I didn't
even know I had an accent. But the Californians all
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think I have an accent because they say mom, not mom.
So the language that you speak indicates the culture that
you come from And the environment in which you live.
Language tells you that. Well, Jesus is talking to his
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disciples and Jesus is talking to some, to his disciples
and to some people that he was trying to speak
into their lives. And in John chapter eight, I will
begin reading in verse 4343 through 47, Jesus looks at
some people that are not understanding him, not because they
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don't speak the same technical language that he spoke, but
because they don't speak the same spiritual language. And he says,
why is my language not clear to you? Because you
are unable to hear what I say. You belong to
your father. Your father has taught you a language. That's
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not my language. You understand your father's language, but you
don't understand my language. Well, what father is he talking about?
He says your father. The devil. And you want to
carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from
the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is
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no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his
native language. For he is a liar and the father
of lies. Yet, because I tell you the truth, you
do not believe me. What Jesus was telling his disciples
and people that were unwilling to receive his message, is
that he was telling them that the native language, that
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the original language of the kingdom of darkness is the
language of lies, beguilement, deception, and the bending of truth.
If you speak the language of lies, then it indicates
that you are being influenced by the culture of darkness,
because that is the language that is spoken in the
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culture of darkness. On the other hand, when you speak
the language of truth and integrity, it's the language that's
spoken in the kingdom of light. The language of God
is truth. The language of the enemy is lying and deception.
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You're listening to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe. We'll continue
today's message in a moment. But first, Mark, I want
to talk about something that's become a growing concern within
Christian leadership circles. Our world is going through a whirlwind,
pretty dramatic developments and changes, not just here in America,
but around the globe. And we need to remind ourselves,
as Christians, we have a much higher calling than any
political movement, don't we.
S2 (13:44):
Wayne? Turn on the news. And there is drama all
over the place.
S3 (13:49):
From rumors of wars to economic crisis to polarization, to
actual wars that are happening to bombings, and it is
easy to get distracted by all this. Worried by it.
Anxious by it. Sort of sucked into it. But here's
what I want to say. This is a great time
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for the good news of Jesus Christ and the hope
of the gospel.
S1 (14:13):
Amen.
S3 (14:14):
There are a lot of people coming to Christ throughout
the world, and you may not hear about it, because
there's other news that is prominent and is taking people's attention.
But there is an undercurrent of a harvest evangelism. And
that's what we're all about right now, is a moment
where people are shaken, where there's concern. But there are
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so many people that are turning to the heavens, and
we at Bold Steps have determined we will not miss
that moment. And so we are asking you to partner
with us, help us out, because right now is a
great time to be calling people to Jesus.
S1 (14:52):
We urge you to give online at Bold steps.org. Or
you can call us. The number is 800. D.L. Moody
and that works out to be (800) 356-6639. And when you
do give, we'll be sure to send you a special
gift which will tell you more about later in the
program today. Well, thank you for that, Mark. But let's
go back to your message now here on bold Steps.
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Hebrews chapter six verse 18 basically says God cannot lie.
Titus chapter one, verse two says, A faith and knowledge
resting on the hope of eternal life, which is God
who does not lie. God can't even lie if he
tried to. It's not his language. It's like saying to you, hey,
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can you give me a phrase in Mandarin from China?
And you're not from China? You don't even know how
you couldn't if you wanted to, because it's not the
language that you speak. God cannot lie. He doesn't speak
the language of lies. Yet the Bible says that the
language of the darkness, the language of the enemy of
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our souls, that is his native language. He can't tell
the truth if he wants to. He only tells the
truth to mix it with deception and lies, because his
native tongue is that of deception and lying. He's called
the father of lies. On the other hand, just like
God cannot lie, God cannot bend the truth. God cannot
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distort the truth on the same hand. Deceit, just like truth,
prepares the way for the kingdom of God culture. Deceit
prepares the way for the kingdom of darkness. Culture. Hear
me well. Look up at me. This is really important.
Whatever words you speak are making way for a culture
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that you're introducing. If there's resentment and bitterness and anger
that you speak in your household, you're beginning to create
a culture of resentment, bitterness, and anger. If you're leading
a football team of junior high kids and you speak
encouragement and confidence and ability to win, then you're creating
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a culture of winning and confidence into that team. Whatever
words you speak into your world are precedes the culture
that you're introducing into your world. This is exactly what
happened in the beginning with the Garden of Eden. If
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you look at Genesis, Genesis chapter three, you realize that
God created Paradise. He created a world in which people
walked with him and talked with them. He created a
world in which there was no bigotry, in which there
was no rape and there was no murder, and there
was no anger, and there was no distinction of color.
And people walked with him in freedom. And that world
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was the world that God created us to live and
walk in. However, it tells us in Genesis chapter three
that the serpent, the way he wiggled his way into Paradise,
was through the language. What language? The language of beguilement
or deception? Notice what it says in Genesis chapter three,
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verse one. Now the serpent was more crafty than any
of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He
said to the woman, Did God really say, you must
not eat from the tree in the garden? What the
serpent did is he put in question the truth of God.
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God had not said that they couldn't eat from any
tree of the garden. They could only not eat from
one tree in the garden. So he he misled Eve
in his statement. It was only half true. He had said,
don't eat from one tree. Not all the trees. He
lied about the righteousness of God. The serpent said, God said,
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you shall truly die. But. But I don't think you will.
He lied about the goodness of God. God doesn't want
you to eat from this tree, because if you do,
you will be like God. Listen, he sowed seeds of
deception before he brought in the culture of darkness. I.
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Are you tracking where I'm going with this? Before the
kingdom of light comes in, truth comes before the kingdom.
Before someone comes to Christ. They hear the gospel. They
hear the truth. And then the culture of the kingdom
invades their life before the kingdom of darkness comes. The
lies of the enemy come. And as soon as the
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language of the enemy is starting to be spoken somewhere,
then the culture of the enemy starts to be present
in that place. Language comes before culture, but it opens
up the door for the culture that follows. Now, why
is this so important? Because some of you love Jesus.
Follow God, carry your Bibles, come to church, raise your
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hands on Sunday and worship of God. And you consider
yourself a follower of Jesus Christ. But you where you go,
you speak the language of darkness through deception that you
don't think is an important thing. You're bending the truth.
Lying about this line about that and what you're really
doing is you're spreading the kingdom of darkness. You're opening
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up doors for kingdom of darkness. Although you follow God,
you're violating the ninth commandment, and you are speaking the
language of the devil. And you wonder why he has
a foothold in your life. You're speaking the language of darkness,
and you're giving the enemy a foothold in your household.
Because we're the language of deception is spoken. Then the
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culture of darkness comes in and you speak lies into
your marriage, you start deceiving one another, bending truth. And
I can guarantee you that you are giving the enemy
a huge foothold in your household and in your marriage
to begin to bring the culture of the kingdom of
darkness there.
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Line isn't just about the words we use. That's the
topic of today's message from pastor, author, and Bible teacher
Mark Jobe. And this is bold steps. To learn more
about Mark and this ministry, be sure to visit us
online at Bold Steps org. Well, Mark, today we're joined
by two special guests, Aaron and Jason Davis, who've written
a book that tackles a challenge every Christian parent faces
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how to help our boys navigate the lies our culture
is throwing at them. The book is called Lies Boys
Believe and the Epic Quest for truth.
S3 (21:52):
That's right Wayne. You know, last month we offered the
companion to this resource lies girls believe I.
S1 (21:58):
Remember.
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So Aaron, as a mother of four boys. Yeah, you
heard it. Four boys. What motivated you to write this book?
S4 (22:08):
Well, obviously my own sons. You're right. So everybody listening.
It's okay for you to gasp at that. Four sons.
That's what Jason and I have. So it's a rowdy house.
But there are primary concern. But they're also a good
indicator of what's happening in the wider culture. And everybody
seems to be talking about boys in crisis, secular and Christian.
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But we want to point our boys to the truth,
and the truth is found in God's word. And so
we let our boys go first. They were super involved
in the project, and I hope this is an outflow
of our parenting, but we also hope they're just four
examples of what can happen when God gets Ahold of boys,
when they're young and they fall in love with His
word when they're young and they start living for truth.
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So, Jason, you have built in research, huh?
S5 (22:52):
Yeah, it's made it easy. We didn't have to travel
a lot to do the market research for this one.
S3 (22:58):
And, Jason, what ages would you say this book is
targeted towards?
S5 (23:03):
Uh, young men, uh, probably 6 to 12 would be
the target demographic. That's probably not the right terminology, but, um,
we found that our boys in that age group really
resonated well with the content and the message.
S3 (23:18):
You know, I think this type of book is so needed.
There are so many, so many parents struggling with just
the lies that our culture is just saturating our young
people with. But young boys especially, are at a disadvantage
these days when the image of what it means to
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be a man or grow up to be a man
is really been erased and very confusing.
S1 (23:46):
This is critical, isn't it? Yeah. Aaron and Jason, thank
you so much for writing this book and making it
available to our listeners.
S5 (23:51):
It's been a real pleasure.
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Yeah, we're just honored to get to serve families in
the church in this way.
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And we'll send you a copy of this book when
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I'm Wayne Shepherd. Join us tomorrow and we'll see why
the Ninth commandment is so important. It's the conclusion of
today's message called Thou Shalt Not Lie. And it's coming
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