Lying

The full power of God can be felt today as the wind and the rain beats down upon us. Oh what a marvellous sight it is, when one feels the full force of the wind as one crosses the road.
But sadly a majority of people moan, and refuse to accept it is our creator that is showing us he is still here and in control.
The same was said after the ninth commandment was given to Moses...Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. And again in Romans 13:9...Thou shalt not bear false witness.
People accept this commandments at first then continued to break it and denying it is from God.
However a few people do not fully understand what damage can be done by not obeying this commandment. It can cause a lot of grief and hurt. Lying can destroy, the words that come out of a lie can be painful.
In Psalms 12 (KJV) David talks about the words that we speak and what damage they can do even when we lie. David tells us...
Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
They speak vanity everyone with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Who have said, with our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: Who is Lord over us?
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times.
Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
The wicked walk on everyside, when the vilest men are exalted.
Lies are all part of what the Devil wants. He wants us to lie and speak lies. He also wants false teachers to lie and to hide the truth of eternal life. The gift that God has given to all of us who follow and obey him.
In Isaiah 45:18-22 KJV...
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a God that cannot save.
Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: Who hath declared from this ancient time? Who hath told it from that time? Have not I the Lord? And there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
Look into me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the Earth: For I am God, and there is none else.
So we all have to stop listening to lies and rebuke them as God has just told us. We need to start reading and listening to the truth that is written in the Bible.
As one day all the lies and the words that are ever spoken will be judged. So beware you have been warned, start to tell the truth. Leave the lies to those who wish to go to Hell with the Devil and his demons because that is where liars are going to go.
As it is written in Revelation 21:8 KJV... But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.

Thieves

The days are closing much quickly than ever before. Once the day seemed too long, now it seems to short. The reasons for this is the age we live in. There are more things to occupy us now like television, computers and game consoles.
People are forgetting that God is control of the weather, the beauty that is surrounding us, and relationships with one another. Instead people are relying too much on man made objects to keep them busy rather than spending quality time worshipping and studying the word of God as well as with one another.
The more that new inventions come onto the market, the more we want it. But sometimes these things cost too much money, so many people resort to stealing.
God sees this as a sin, breaking both civil and God's law, as it is written clearly in both the Old and New testament...Thou shalt not steal.
Now we live in an age with security cameras, it is making it harder to steal from shops, and from one another. But we all have to be on our guard over identity theft which is becoming rife during this age of technology where there are little measures in place to stop this.
However this is the only one of two commandments that are made into civil law.
1. Thou shalt not kill.
2. Thou shalt not steal.
Both of these commandments are of punishable offence, and lead to a term in prison defined by the Judge and the court of civil law.
In Philippians 2:4 KJV...
Look not every man on his own things, but everyman also on the things of others.
In other words do not look at the things that other people possess, but to things that reflect the creation of God, and to come to worship God for he is our creator. The more we look to God we realise that it is God that always provides for us, and so there is no need to steal. We just need to put our faith and trust in our creator, as he gives us everything that we need in order to survive in this life.