Preacher: Rev Gavino Fioretti
Reading: Genesis 27: 1 -38; James 3: 1 – 12
Text: Exodus 20: 16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. (ESV)
Question 76
Which is the ninth commandment?
The ninth commandment is, You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
Question 77
What is required in the ninth commandment?
The ninth commandment requires the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbour’s good name, especially in witness bearing.
Question 78
What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
The ninth commandment forbids whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own or our neighbour’s good name.
Introduction:
Against our neighbour:
Against our God:
- Principles behind it:
Truth:
Righteousness:
Love:
- Ways to break it:
Lies:
Silence:
Empty words:
Gossip: Tale-bearing especially when untrue.
Slander: “To report things of others unjustly”. Jeremiah: Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”
- Why we break it:
Prejudice:
Previous sins:
Selfishness: Jacob against Esau
Fear: Abraham and Isaac
- How to keep it:
Remember God’s character:
Remember God’s hatred: Proverbs 12:22 “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord”.
Remember God’s judgement: But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
Remember God’s Son: His words, his accusers, his sufferings
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