Can we normalise mastering the "Mississippi pause" or at best two seconds break after asking "How are you?".
If you cared to ask, you should care to listen, if the one who was asked cares to share.
Allow space for the real answer, not scripts.
Tired of lying and the lifestyle? Want to change and its been a struggle?
Say this boldly:
Dear JESUS, save me from myself. Remove the urge, friendships and behavioural patterns that enables this sinful living. Amen.
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A lie is just the words. Deception is what happens when the lie starts living.
A lie is a seed. Deception is the tree with roots. Deception hurts more.
#YouCanLie Its a thread.
John 14:6 Jesus is "the Truth"
The destination for liars is hell.
The destination for the repentant is healing "go and sin no more."
That’s why Jesus keeps saying Lech v’al techeta od. He’s pulling people OUT of that list in Revelation.
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The bigger picture
Deception isn’t just telling a lie. It’s living in it until it becomes who you are. Then dragging people into it.
But the gospel doesn’t end at Rev 21:8.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, JESUS is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us.
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Context
John is listing people who practice lying as a lifestyle. The Greek word is pseudes = false, deceitful.
And right after that in Rev 22:15 he says the same thing about "everyone who loves and practices falsehood."
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But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life. Rev 21:27
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Revelation 21:8, 27
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 sulfur, which is the second death. Rev 21:8
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Go and do not sin anymore
Lech = go/live your life
v’al = and do not
techeta = חטא chata literally means "to miss the mark" like an archer missing the bullseye. It’s not just "breaking rules", it’s missing God’s intended design for you.
od = again, anymore, further
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