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Matthew 15:19
" For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, FALSE WITNESS, slanders.
Matthew 19:18
... And Jesus said, " YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER; YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY; YOU SHALL NOT STEAL; YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS;...
I started to think about what it meant to "Bear False Witness/lie or Bear a False Report". What first came to my head was what I had been taught all my life, don't lie if someone asks you a question. But as I thought on it more a dim light clicked on in my little brain and began to brighten as I started to think on it more. I asked myself, can one
"Bear a False Witness" with the way he/she lives his/her life? If you are a COP and dress as a Firefighter while on the job, you are bearing false witness to the truth of what you really are. You are deceiving the public to believe otherwise. You don't have to go down and shout it in their faces or really even say a single word to them, but rather by subconscious reasoning the average passerby is going to assume you are a Firefighter. Now say you really wanted the people to believe you were a cop. So, you run into the street, grab people by their collar, stare them straight in the eyes and tell them that you are a cop. My guess is, many won't believe you but I suppose out of the few that do they will most likely ask you, "why then are you wearing a firefighters uniform?"
I think in the same way we can at times "Bear False Witness" against the Lord Jesus Christ. We claim to be born again and yet put on the uniform of sin in our every day life. We tell people about Christ and how we were washed new in His blood but when they look at our lives they see the very opposite. The Lord commands us not to Bear False Witness and yet we do it so often. This was really convicting to me and caused me to really rethink my life, knowing that at times though I may be saved I wear the uniform of this world and am regarded to the average passerby as no different then everybody else.
Don't lie to this world about who truly lives in and through you. Put on the garment of righteousness so that they may see the glory of a living and active God and not a false image of who He is through the putting on of our old, ugly and disgusting nature.
1 Corinthians 15:15-19
Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.
Matthew 5:16
"Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
This is copied from my friend Paul Rogers' note. Because he needs more publicity, and also because it was amazing. =)