Sermon 7-28-02 Proverbs 14:25 6 16-17
Bible is full of lies
· Satan to eve…
· Rebekka & Jacob to Issac
· Josephs brothers to Jacob
· Herod to wisemen
· Peter…denying Jesus
Our job is not to tear others down, its to build them up
Lying
Talking about others
Love your neighbor as yourself
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
Tell the Truth
Bearing false witness [sometimes we are too nice….]
john walker lind is nelson mandella
mother of solider who killed wife at ft bragg…..he was trained to kill
`I truly in my heart believe that his training was such that if you can't control it, you kill it,''
Politician speech
Things we say about each other
Often the hurtful things we say are about our pain, more so than about the reality of the situation.
Conclusion
I was raised to keep all the family secrets and present myself in such a way that people would be either envious or approving. But keeping up a façade like that takes so much energy. When my friend Pammy was going through chemotherapy, and I asked her if the dress I was wearing made me look fat, I was making a fuss about the dumbest things, and Pammy looked at me and said, "Annie, you just don't have that kind of time." It was so profound, it was like I was in a cartoon and somebody conked me over the head. I got it. Pammy died seven years ago. But I still live by her words: You don't have time to live a lie. You don't have time to get the world to approve of you. You only have the time to become the person you dream of being. You only have the time to clean out your mean and ugly spots, areas that drag you down and hurt other people. You only have the time to accept yourself as you are and start getting a little bit healthier so you can be who God needs you to be. In a way, it's exhilarating to say, "This is really who I am, and I'm not going to pretend just because I have the sneaking suspicion I'm not good enough." God meets you where you are
What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you.
Bible is full of lies
· Satan to eve…
· Rebekka & Jacob to Issac
· Josephs brothers to Jacob
· Herod to wisemen
· Peter…denying Jesus
Our job is not to tear others down, its to build them up
Lying
Talking about others
Love your neighbor as yourself
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
Tell the Truth
Bearing false witness [sometimes we are too nice….]
john walker lind is nelson mandella
mother of solider who killed wife at ft bragg…..he was trained to kill
`I truly in my heart believe that his training was such that if you can't control it, you kill it,''
Politician speech
Things we say about each other
Often the hurtful things we say are about our pain, more so than about the reality of the situation.
Conclusion
I was raised to keep all the family secrets and present myself in such a way that people would be either envious or approving. But keeping up a façade like that takes so much energy. When my friend Pammy was going through chemotherapy, and I asked her if the dress I was wearing made me look fat, I was making a fuss about the dumbest things, and Pammy looked at me and said, "Annie, you just don't have that kind of time." It was so profound, it was like I was in a cartoon and somebody conked me over the head. I got it. Pammy died seven years ago. But I still live by her words: You don't have time to live a lie. You don't have time to get the world to approve of you. You only have the time to become the person you dream of being. You only have the time to clean out your mean and ugly spots, areas that drag you down and hurt other people. You only have the time to accept yourself as you are and start getting a little bit healthier so you can be who God needs you to be. In a way, it's exhilarating to say, "This is really who I am, and I'm not going to pretend just because I have the sneaking suspicion I'm not good enough." God meets you where you are
What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you.
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