MANY WHO LEFT THE COUNTRY CROOKEDLY THROUGH ORGANIZED ARRANGED MARRIAGES ARE NOW MOST FRUSTRATED
THERE ARE THOSE, EVEN INSIDE THE CHURCH WHEN THEY SAY GOOD AFTERNOON. CHECK THE WATCH BECAUSE IT MAY NOT BE AFTERNOON, IT MAY BE EVENING.
I TELL PEOPLE WHO ARE INTO COMEDY THAT YOU DON’T NEED TO LIE TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH
SOME PEOPLE TELL LIES AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO LIVE LIES.
THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO JOKE AND TELL LIES IN THE JOKE, FORGETTING THAT GOD HAS ZERO-TOLERANCE FOR LIES NO MATTER HOW THEY ARE TOLD.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO TOOK TESTIMONIES WE TOLD IN OUR CHURCH, TOOK IT, SAID THE SAME THING IN THEIR OWN CHURCH, AND OWNED IT AS IF IT HAPPENED THERE.
-Pastor Paul Enenche at Dunamis International Gospel Centre on ‘DESTINY DESTROYING CHARACTER (4)’ at Power Communion Midweek Service, Glory Dome.
Father, we give You all the praise tonight, we appreciate Your love, we appreciate Your faithfulness. Church Gist. Thank You because You are God, from everlasting to everlasting You are God, Your years have no end. Church Gist. What mighty, massive, awesome testimonies we heard tonight. Thank You because You have not stopped the business of changing lives, changing stories, and shocking us. We worship You, we honor You, we adore You, we love You.
Father, give us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. Let the eyes of our understanding be enlightened, that we may know the hope of our calling. Let today mark that turning point. Church Gist. Thank You, Master, in Jesus Precious Name.
Give the Lord a big clap of hand as you take your seat in the Precious Name of Jesus.
Hallelujah. I welcome everyone to this service tonight and I believe this will one of the most important messages you would have heard after tonight.
DESTINY DESTROYING CHARACTER (4)
2 Corinthians 6:17-18
Our objective is to understand character traits that destroy destiny.
Would you lift up your right hand and ask the Lord to speak to you tonight.
Tonight, a second major destroyer of destiny we shall look at is:
LIE (FALSEHOOD),is behind the destruction of many lives and many destinies throughout history.
Throughout the Scriptures, we are going to see examples of lies.
- Lucifer, officially is the father of all lies or the originator of lies – John 8:44.
So, whenever you see people who live in lies, they are living according to the nature of their father, and you know we live in a very false world today. Church Gist. Go to the internet, it’s filled with lies. You see a lot of stories that are total lies.
- Cain: Genesis 4:9.
You see, a lie happens to cover up more evil. Most people won’t lie until there is something to cover. - Achan: Joshua 7:17-18.
Most times, denial is a department of lies. Who did this? ” I don’t know”. - Gehazi: 2 Kings 5:26-27.
Most times lies go hand in hand with greed and fraud. Church Gist. When people are greedy and fraudulent, lie is always in them. - The young Amalekites: 2 Samuel 1:8-16, 1 Samuel 31:3-5.
That man died at the frequency of lie because he claimed he killed Saul. Church Gist. Saul committed suicide.
Most times, people try to lie in order to gain favor but it backfires. He lied thinking that it was going to get him favor with David but it backfired. - Ananias and Sapphira. Acts 5:1-10.
In the early days of revival, Ananias and Sapphira lied and lost their lives for it.
The whole Church were giving all they had. Everybody sold everything they had to give. Ananias sold some and kept some. Church Gist. The problem that Peter had was, ” If you didn’t sell it, nobody would force you to sell it and nobody would stop you from coming to Church. If you sold it and you said I have sold everything but this is fifty per cent I want to give, nobody would hold you. Why are you giving three thousand naira and you said that it is thirty million naira.
Most times, people tell lies to create a false good impression. Church Gist. To create a reputation that does not exist. To give themselves a respect and an honor that doesn’t exist. That was what Ananias and Sapphira tried to do. They told this lie, to feel honorable, to feel respectful and it backfired.
Is this necessary to preach in Church? Yes, it’s necessary and you will find out very soon.
DEPARTMENTS OF LYING :
- Untruth, falsehood, dishonesty: when a person is outrightly untruthful, false, dishonest.This is the realm where people can actually conspire and gang up and lie against a person. Something that this person knows nothing about.
- Denial – refusal to own up to truth or reality. ‘Who saw this thing? I didn’t see it”, ” who did this? I don’t know “.
- Fabrication, concoction, trumped-up stories: where something is fabricated, where a story is manufactured, where it is trumped up. There are concocted stories and manufactured testimonies, fabrications. I read a book, they said someone was telling a story about how honest Abraham Lincoln was. He was trying to tell a story that was depicting the honesty in a particular activity, action, and life of Abraham Lincoln. Church Gist. It was discovered later that the story the person told concerning the truthfulness of Abraham Lincoln was a lie. You can see the extent to which people can go to use a lie to try to portray the truth. Abraham Lincoln was honest but you didn’t need to tell a false story to depict the honesty of the man.
I heard of a man who would be talking or preaching and he will be telling all manner of untrue testimonies. And someone asked him one day and said, “this testimony you
have told is not true. And he said, but can God not do it? There are human beings like that. Church Gist. There are people who took testimonies we told here, took it, said the same thing in their own Church, and owned it as if it happened there.
When you see your children grow up, please watch for this. Children can have a way of fabricating things from an early age.
- Falsification – misinformation and disinformation. This is where dates of birth are changed, documents are forged, certificates that are not true, where people have two ages ( one is a civil service age and the other is a real age).
A Young man went into medical school with his brother’s result, I think the brother has died or something. The challenge is, you can go to the medical school with someone’s result but you can’t study with somebody’s brain. Church Gist. So it became a challenge.
- Half-truths – where only a portion of the truth is spoken. You see this kind of thing when a man and his wife are having issues and those kind of things. Someone said that “a half-truth is a whole lie”.
- Deception: This is word or deeds designed to mislead. Words or actions that are designed to mislead. Some people tell lies and there are people who live lies.
Young man and young woman acting that they are husband and wife and there is nothing legal between them.
Under deception, false pretense is inside it. Where someone is just acting up in many ways and it is not real.
- Exaggeration: that is the stretching of truth. To make it more interesting. The stretching of truth to make it more colorful. Church Gist. When stories are told and a lot of flavor is added to the story.
- White lies – this is what they call harmless or trivial lies that are told either to please a person or to avoid hurting a person’s feelings or to escape something.
There are a lot of people who joke and tell lies in the joke. Those who jest and tell lies inside the jest.
I was in the aircraft one day in Abuja and a man was on the phone seating by me, big man. He picked his call and was telling someone he was in lagos moreover he was still at the airport in Abuja. Church Gist. He was seating beside me about to board a flight and you are lying like that before stepping on a flight. Supposing anything happens to the flight.
There are those who crack jokes to make people laugh. I tell them, you don’t need to lie to make people laugh. There are many genuine stories that are humorous enough to tell without fabricating things. You may think you understand the lie but God does not understand it.
God is truthful and He has zero allowance for lies
WHAT IS THE OUTCOME OF LIES?
- Lies disconnect people from God’s Presence: Psalm 101:7.
- Lies can cut life short: Psalm 101:7, 2 Samuel 1:8-16.
- Lies favor the activities of Satan, the father of lies: the easiest way to have the company of the devil is to be a liar. Amos 3:3, John 8:44.
- Lies frustrate the ministry of the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of truth. John 14:16-17, John 15:26, Ephesians 4:30-31.
- Lies abort God’s plan and destiny for man. Acts 5:1-10
- Lies attract frustration from God: that is, God frustrates liars. Isaiah 44:25.
Some of the most frustrated people outside this country are those who crookedly left the country. Church Gist. Who crookedly organized marriage or arranged something.
Those who suffer in most careers the most are those who are crooked. God Himself frustrate liars because He is the God of truth.
If you have a certificate that is a lie, you will go before God today and redress your steps, and if possible retrace your steps.
One young man met me and said he came into our workforce, he had a degree but the degree wasn’t correct. Church Gist. I said you know what we are going to do? I said, retrieve the degree certificate and return to OND which was the neatest certificate he had back then. So your degree is canceled. Now go ahead and get a new degree. It didn’t cost him his job, it didn’t cost him anything because he came on the platform of truth.
One man went to His boss in the office and he said, “I want to say that the certificate I used to get this job is not correct, please I want to resign”. And the boss said, ” who will let a person like you go, how many people are as truthful as you? We won’t release you”.
- Lies guarantee eternity in hell : If God is truth and the devil is the father of lies. Church Gist. It is normal to expect that liars will spend their eternal holiday with their father the devil. Revelation 21: 8.
Liars who are men but changed to women, and those who are women but changed into men will spend their eternal holiday with their father the devil in hell fire.
The reason why truth must be told is because God will hold the teacher accountable for the lives of the people.
Now, you didn’t kill a person, you didn’t commit adultery. The only thing you did, you used the wrong certificate, you didn’t repent out of it. All liars shall have their part in the lake of fire. Church Gist. God will help us out of that in the Name of Jesus Christ.
There are those who lies small and there are those when they say stand, be going. There are those, even inside the church when they say good afternoon. Check the watch because it may not be afternoon. There are some, nothing is true about them including their name. There are some, the only thing that is true about them is that nothing is true. The only thing that is consistent is that they are inconsistent.
WHAT IS THE THERAPY/TREATMENT OF LIES?
- Live in the consciousness of the eternal outcome of lying: Be conscious that hell is the eternal destination for all liars. Revelation 21:8, Mathew 12:37-38. Don’t let any profession turn you into a liar. Don’t make lying for your boss to be an assignment. If you must say what he said, the only way to say it and not lie is, ” he said I should tell you he is not around”.
If your work is to argue for people in court, don’t use lies to argue for them just because of money.
One small boy made me laugh in my wife’s village at the crusade. After the people got healed, I said, ‘say the devil is a liar. He said the devil is a lawyer.
Medical doctors, don’t give false dates of birth, false medical reports to anybody. Don’t let any form of pressure make you to write a report that is untrue. Church Gist. It’s professionally wrong. There are people who get all manner of reports that are false/untrue.
- Never get used to lying: confess promptly and receive forgiveness. Any time you noticed that you have exaggerated or you have been dishonest or you lied. Church Gist. Never get used to it, confess promptly, and receive forgiveness.
1 John 1:9-10.
This is one thing I want you to go home with tonight, the repetition of the wrong action is the consolidation of the wrong character. The easiest way to have a character that is wrong is to repeatedly do the wrong things.
- Make pleasing God the major objective of your life, not pleasing men or pleasing people: there are people who struggle to please people and they go to any extent to tell lies. Galatians 1:10.
- Avoid excessive talk: Proverbs 10:18-19. Wise people talk minimally and once they talk they set you thinking.
- Be filled with the Word of God: John 17:17, 2 Corinthians 6:17
- Be filled with the Spirit: John 14:17, John 15:26.
- Overcome lying spirits by the Blood of the Lamb: 1 Kings 22:21-21.
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