Men of Torah Day--Taming Your Tongue 30 Day Fast--Thou Shalt Not Bear A False Witness Against Thy Neighbor

Proverbs 12

30 Days to Taming Your Tongue by Deborah Smith Pegues

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Teaching from the book:  30 Days to Taming Your Tongue by Deborah Smith Pegues

Witness false witness throughtout the Bible:  H8267 sheqer spelled shin, qof, resh--lie,
deception, disappointment, falsehood
&
h5707 `ed spelled ayin, dalet--witness, testimony, evidence

Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false H8267 witness H5707 against thy neighbour.

Torah: Deuteronomy 19:18
Prophets: Jeermiah 29:23, Malachi 3:5
Writings: Psalms 27:12, Proverbs 6:19, 12:17,14:5, 19:5, 25:18

Proverbs 19:9 A false H8267 witness H5707 shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are an abomination to Adonai, But those who deal faithfully are his delight.

The Lying Tongue

False witness is among the six things God hates, king Solomon says. False testimony is among the things that defile a person, Yeshua says.

Lying comes in four primary forms: deceitfulness, half-truths, exaggerations, and flattery. The command against false testimony is seen as a natural consequence of the command to “love your neighbor as yourself.” This moral prescription flows from the command for holy people to bear witness to their deity.

Deceitfulness

Some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia came upon Stephen and seized him and brought him before the council and set up false witnesses against him. These false witnesses said: "This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place (Temple of Jerusalem) and the law, for we have heard him say that this Yeshua will destroy this place (Stephen said that the temple of Yeshua's body had been destroyed by others but raised up by Him in three days, according with what Yeshua had said and the customs that Moses delivered to us."(Stephen said what Yeshua had said namely He had come to fulfil the Law of Moses and the prophets and gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw Stephen′s face was like the face of an angel.

Many testified falsely against Yeshua, but their statements did not agree. At last two witnesses said they had heard Him saying He would destroy that temple and in three days built another, not made with hands, He really had meant the resurrection of His body, as a temple of the Holy Spirit, destroyed by others but raise it up by Him. Yet even about this, their testimony did not agree.

1 PETER 3:10
“Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech”.

Half-Truths

2 Samuel tells of an Amalekite, who was probably on Mount Gilboa to strip the dead of their possessions, appearing to David with Saul’s crown and royal armband and giving testimony that he had himself killed King Saul. David immediately ordered that the Amalekite be put to death, saying, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the LORD’s anointed.'" The truth of the Amalekite’s testimony did not need to be determined for the sentence to be carried out: either the Amalekite had killed King Saul, or he had given false testimony to David regarding Saul’s death. Both crimes were seen as equally deserving of the death penalty.
The ancient understanding of false testimony not only includes testifying with false words but also failing to come forward with relevant testimony in response to a public charge. “If a person sins because he does not speak up when he hears a public charge to testify regarding something he has seen or learned about, he will be held responsible.

Everything happens for a reason.
God helps those who help themselves.
God won’t give you more than you can handle.
God said it, I believe it, that settles it.
Love the sinner, hate the sin.

Exaggerating

The Book of Acts describes the disciple Stephen being seized and brought before the Sanhedrin. Those who opposed Stephen persuaded false witnesses to testify that Stephen was guilty of blasphemy against Moses and against God. Stephen used the occasion of his trial to remind the Sanhedrin of the Old Testament testimony of rebellion, idolatry, and persecution of the prophets that culminated in the death of Yeshua. The crowd was so angry that Stephen was stoned to death.

PSALM 120:2 “Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue”.

There are six things that the LORD strongly dislikes, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.  — Proverbs 6:16–19

Have you been trusting God by telling the truth and leaving the consequences to Him, or do you need to join the psalmist in his prayer for deliverance?

PSALM 120:2 “Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue”.

In Romans 13:9, Paul lists a number of the Ten Commandments which can be summed up in the saying "You shall love your neighbor as yourself". The Textus Receptus and the King James Bible include "You shall not bear false witness", but this commandment is missing from some early manuscripts containing Romans 13 and the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges suggests that it is "perhaps to be omitted, on documentary evidence"

Romans 13:9  For the commandments, “Don’t commit adultery,” “Don’t murder,” “Don’t steal,” “Don’t covet,” and any others are summed up in this one rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
 Principles under the 9th Commandment---

550. You shall appoint Judges and Officers in all your cities to judge the people with righteous judgement-- Deuteronomy 16:18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

551. You shall do according to the judgement of the Kohanim, the Levites, and the Judge-- Deuteronomy 17:9-11 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

552. You shall not differ from or disobey the judgement of the Kohanim, the Levites and the Judge-- Deuteronomy 17:9-11

553. You shall not speak in the name of the gods of others-- Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

554. You shall not speak falsely in the Name of God-- Deuteronomy 18:20

555. You shall establish the Cities of Refuge-- Deuteronomy 19:3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

556. You shall not pity the one who murdered--Deuteronomy 19:13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

557. A single witness shall not stand up against any man for any iniquity, error or sin--Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

558. A false witness shall receive the punishment he conspired to bring upon his neighbor-- Deuteronomy 19:19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

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