R1209 One Word

Jesus Christ came to save us free.

Jesus didn't come to replace what Moses told the people from God.

He came to fulfilling that word to fulfill it.

He came to make it possible to complete because Christ not only enables us to live the power of 10 but he gives us the means to be able to with these battles that we have not human disposition, and with the sin in our lives. There is not one passage in Scripture and this is not an excuse that says when you give your life to Christ that you become immune from sin. When you give your heart and life to Jesus Christ you become sensitized to sin. Sin bothers the believer because the spirit of God will, according to one welcome to The Encouraging Word, featuring the Bible-based king of Dr. Don Wilton, and today this message on one word takes us straight to the book of Exodus and as we discover these 10 Commandments are not something this just for the Old Testament. It's for New Testament living. It's for the way you and I can live this Wednesday to the fullest. Note that were in the center, not the permissive will the center of God's will, as we study the word together know the rear for you connecting online@theencouragingword.org.

A great place to hear this message and others. Plus we also got a phone line at 866-899-WORD at 866-899-9673. We'd love to connect. Now Dr. Donald open your Bibles to Exodus chapter 20 in Exodus chapter point living to the power of 10. This is what God see it on the top of Mount Sinai, and judging by the massive response that we are getting probably the biggest response that I've ever had in my 36 years of ministry coming from everywhere related to living to the power of 10. This is what God said to Moses, God told Moses this is the way it is and we are in the ninth commandment. This is what God said. Exodus chapter 20 in verse 16 you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Now we gave Aust the Lord to help us to understand this want you to turn very quickly to Matthew chapter 5 Matthew chapter 51322 versus because Jesus had something to say about this. Matthew chapter 5 in verse 11 Jesus said blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and watch this next one. After all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Rejoice and be glad, because your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who live a long time before you. I think Jesus contextualize this now watch this. This is very important for us we going to talk about bearing false witness, and there are two categories of people worshiping today.

I'm on there. Although scared today who are guilty of bearing false witness. I'm going to tell you what the Bible tells us about their there, although scared today who are guilty of bearing false witness, and folks I'm about to show you something incredible is with discovering something in the Bible that really strikes very deep. Who amongst us is not guilty.

I didn't say that there are one or two of you who are self righteously perfect.

We discovering the school right throughout these 10 Commandments. I want everybody to watch me if you want Moses to run your life. Have a good time.

Legalism comes from Moses. Legalism is that thou shalt not about Christian faith. Jesus Christ came to save us free.

Jesus didn't come to replace what Moses told the people from God.

He came to fulfilling that word to fulfill it. He came to make it possible to complete because Christ not only enables us to live to the power of 10 but he gives us the means to be able to with these battles that we have not human disposition, and with the sin in our lives. There is not one passage in Scripture and this is not an excuse that says when you give your life to Christ that you become immune from sin. When you get your heart and life to Jesus Christ you become sensitized to sin.

Sin bothers the believer because the spirit of God wills you according to one John he comes to live in you, so that when sin begins to enter into the life of a believer they receive top black box through his Spirit.

Paulson against Batson because God can in no way tolerate sin he takes against it. That's why Paul says make sure every day that you put on the whole armor of God, why bother.

Why should we need to have, if we are not going to be attacked so there is one group of people worshiping right now that are guilty of bearing false witness this. A second group of people right now all the bearers of the brunt of false witness there all the bearers of false witness and there are all those who bear the brunt of those who bear false witness, bearing false witness is an endemic sin in the heart of man that has catastrophic consequences for people cues are never bothered by the things that we say that are not true. People get very hurt by in some people's lives, get destroyed by God is. Give me a word for those of us who are guilty of bearing false witness, and God has given us a word today for those of us who have borne the brunt from those who have borne false witness against us as many different ways to tell the truth in the Scriptures we can come affect the truth from many different ways. One of my favorite Christian apologists is Ravi Zacharias and he told a story and I just share the story about this young man who went to' church a small church that had been split broken wide open devastated was on the rocks. I mean it was over finish this young man arrived there's posture and God began to brace the ministry in the church group at Bruce so much that were packed out.

They eventually had to boot a new century.

Ravi Zacharias reported in the story. I mean everything was busting at the seams. The problem was the new century that they need to boot would cost millions of dollars will it just so happened that they were two men were brothers who were members of that congregation and they were both rascals.

I mean they were just renegades. I mean these two gentlemen were very wealthy. They had a lot of means but everybody knew they were crooked and one of them died, so the surviving brother went to the pasta of this booming little church and state him pasta here is a check for you and it's a check for $1 million to help build the new century and I'm going to give it to you on one condition. The pasta say what might that be, he said at the funeral service of my brother.

I want you to get up and tell everybody that he was assigned by the way if any of you want to try that on me. I'm open to which the pasta thought for a minute he thought, okay, you got a deal.

He took the check for $1 million and the day came for the funeral. Three days later little church respect.everybody was sitting there saying I wonder what he's going to say about this deceased man who was such a Roscoe so the pasta got up and he's mind was turning and he stood up and he said well it's Joe's funeral today.

And folks every single one of us in here know that he was just a Roscoe. I mean, if ever there was a crooked man in this world.

It was Joe. I mean this guy came out sideways. Everybody knew that he was a crook. I mean, he had a bad temper.

He operated in an untoward manner. I mean this man, quite frankly, folks. He was just a disgrace, and the whole congregation was sitting there in the brother who had this promise from the pasta was just about the guy on the front row in the pasta said well all of us knowing what a crook. Joe was and then he looked over and he said, but compared to his brother.

He was assigned a lot of different ways you can get to the truth right you could come of it from all different angles.

You know that many illustrations in the Bible about bearing false witness lot of the mark. I came up with so many Joseph about how Joseph was sold into slavery and then part of his wife bore false witness against them and he was imprisoned Moses how many times was was Moses borne false witness against I mean right throughout his illustrious career David when David killed Goliath, Gary was a young man a young lad and yet people came and said he had an ulterior motive. He wanted the kingdom of soul label, false witness against Amir my BMI was God's servant went to remove the wool and they came against him from every which way but loose and they bore false witness against him. Joe, I mean, what a story about Joe so far, who bore false witness against Joe Peter and John to great preachers of the word, how repeatedly they bore false witness poll was accused they bore false witness against St. Paul the apostle and I said to him many times. Listen your conversions just follow me like they tried to indict him all over again. Jesus, of course, class.

That's what St. Jesus to the cross bearing false witness against him forgive the interruption. Dr. Wilton insists I am right in your listing to Dr. Don Wilton in case you didn't know you just tuned in this is The Encouraging Word broadcast and this features the Bible-based preaching of Dr. Don Wilton and in these moments, we are diving into God's word, especially about the 10 Commandments and how they apply to the way we live out our life today.

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Now back to today's message one word with Dr. Don Wilton. That's what St. Jesus to the cross bearing false witness against him time without Norman Jesus made the state. The statement that I just read said blessed are you when you all falsely accused for my sake, he put it into a spiritual context and the reason he did that was he was putting troops alongside falsehood. That's what Jesus was saying everything that truth is measured against me because I am truth. Anything outside of my measurement is false. If God cannot accept. It's not true. Does God accept what you're saying. If he doesn't accept it.

It's not true that's the standard of measurement so what is what is bearing falsehood will lose so many ways of talking about a line fabricating making up exaggerating salon that we could go on and on and on and in the Bible tells us all these illustrations to bear false. What what is it mean it means to spread like to throw in the to spread things out that are not true it means to join hands with others so many illustrations in the Bible of people bearing false witness by actually coming into agreement with someone else who is saying something false to indulge. It's like looking at a slice of chocolate cake and sign. You know, I know that I shouldn't have it but I'm going indulge myself God's word says you can bear false witness by indulging even though you don't want to do indulge in that it means to determine that's a determinate foreknowledge, you make it definitive issue to conspire bearing false witness is a conspiracy coming against a particular person or an organization bearing false witness in the Scripture accommodating it carries with it an insipid form of silence. It also means to fail to come forward. You know that somebody on that campus at school you're in the lunchroom and you know that they somebody saying something about someone else. That's not true.

You know it, but you just failed to come forward. You don't say anything you guilty of bearing false witness. According to Scripture to insinuate that little word insinuate means you don't say it like that but if you just would listen carefully, you're actually line you bearing false witness. You're in the business of character assassination course the big one is to gossip, gossip.

I think the biggest and easiest means of gossip's prayer.

I've say that you we we must pray we need to pray for each of them so grateful that we gather together, we pray, but I challenge all of us to examine our hearts, always sharing prayer requests or we just spreading gossip about somebody well you know I needed. I just want you because you cannot just ask you to pray for so-and-so. Of course I'll pray for them. Well you know you know what they did. Don't you gossip, gossip, tears people apart talking about people in and discussing other people and then of course to salon the slaughtering carries the awful thing of bullying slaughtering is bullying. It smacks of Arnold bullying is folks. I went to boarding school. You want someone to talk to about bullying not understand bullying.

I went to an all boys school in the bullying was on believable I was in the Miller Triano would bullying bullying is an insipid awful thing folks and the Bible allies that with widths laundered with God and the New Testament comes along when you get the New Testament I want Jesus to show me how to live my Moses, that's what I want I want Jesus to help me to control what Moses tells me about an end.

The New Testament has a distinct view.

The New Testament does six things specifically related with bearing falsehood. It affirms there are many passages in the New Testament where Jesus brings up the issue of bearing false witness it on paint defies it on paint defies. If you go, for example, I know we don't have a lot of time to go to all these passages, but in Matthew chapter 15 I'm just giving you an illustration. Matthew chapter 50 and verse 18 God's word on paint defies this whole issue of bearing false witness of line of saying things about other people. This this is what the Bible says, but what comes out of the mouth, proceeds from the heart and this defiles a person of the heart come evil thoughts and murder and adultery and sexual immorality, theft, false would this.

These are the things that defile a person you know. By the way, every time you tell them the truth you live you bear false witness. You not only grieve the heart of God. But you defile yourself that would defile they means that you spoil yourself, you let yourself go to small, you become rancid. You lose your flavor and you lose your flavor with your fellow man and with God. It it hurts you. The New Testament affirms and identifies God would God's word also tells us in the New Testament that is in excess word is it is a legal term bearing false witness is in trouble. It carries with it the idea that if you go into a court of law and you say that which is not true. You are bearing false witness, and you your self become the subject of the criminal investigation into be in direct it means that where is one time you would bearing testimony to ward the crime you now part of the crime you bring your self into the guidance it describes.

Acts chapter 6 and chapter 7 tells us about Stephen incredible story. Stephen was the first martyr. You know what killed Stephen by the way, anyone false witness. They came against Steve and I got a group of people and they both false witness against and it ended up with Stephen losing his life and being being stubborn. The New Testament points asked to be witnesses and when the great commission took place in the coming of the Holy Spirit and God's word tells us that you pointed to become witnesses at all of us are commission marries not to bear false witness.

This is to the truth of God's word. The New Testament motivates us. It does motivate us. Doesn't forgive the interruption.

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