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Most
people are raised learning the simplified teaching the ninth
Commandment as, “Do not lie”... The translation of course
reads”:
Exodus
20:16
“You
do not bear
(anah) false
(sheqer) witness
(eyd).
Anah
- a1) to answer, respond to. a2) to testify, respond as a witness.
b1)
to make answer. b2) to be answered, receive answer.
Sheqer
- a) deception (what deceives or disappoints or betrays one).
b)
deceit, fraud, wrong. b1) fraudulently, wrongfully (as adverb).
c)
falsehood (injurious in testimony). c1) testify falsehood, false
oath, swear falsely.
d)
falsity (of false or self-deceived prophets).
e)
lie, falsehood (in general).
f)
in vain.
Eyd
- a) witness, testimony, evidence (of things)
b)
witness (of people)
As
you can see from the various meanings in the Hebrew, this Command is
addressing far more than just lieing!
This
article is going to address a subject that is badly in need of
sorting out as so many so-called believers are running around
accusing and pointing fingers at other believers without evidence or
going to the brother or sister that the accusations are about. So
many times we have been witnessed, or it has been brought to our
attention that this is happening among believers.
Firstly we would
like to say that before anyone of us points a finger or accuses
another brother they first should take a long hard look at themselves
and sin they need to address in their own lives before running around
accusing others.
Look
at what Yahushua said:
Luke
6:41-42 “And why do you
see
the splinter in your brother’s eye, but are not
aware
of the plank in your own eye? 42
“Or how are you able to say to your brother, ‘Brother, let
me
take out the splinter that is in your eye,’ not seeing the plank
in
your own eye? Hypocrite,
first take the plank out of your own eye,
and then you shall see clearly to take out the splinter that is in
your brother’s eye.”
Through
the years people have always thought that their opinion is right and
have rights to accuse and pass judgement on others, it has gotten
that bad that we now have countries and governments and rulers
passing judgement on other countries. They are torturing and killing
millions a year even passing laws to support this, all because they
have pointed the finger and made a judgement. They did not stop to
think about asking people in those countries what they thought. NO!!
They just send planes and bombs over to kill as many as they can,
including Women and Children.
Do
you see how this has happened? And some think they have the right to
run around accusing and emailing people and accusing them of
wrong-doing without even asking the person first; but rather threaten
the person to email as many people as they know to discredit or
expose that person.
A
false witness and a false accuser is someone that hears one side of a
story, then makes a judgement against another. Friends, this is very
serious and no one who does this will be punished:
Proverbs
19:5 “A
false
witness does not go unpunished,
And he who breaths out lies does not
escape.”
YAHUSHUA
- OUR EXAMPLE
If
you are the judge (which you are not) then you put yourself above
both Yahweh and Yahushua. He did not judge anyone, so who do you
think you are to judge another?
Here's
what Yahushua said:
John
8:15 “You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one.”
16 “But even if I
do
judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone but I and the
Father who sent Me.”
James
4:11 Brothers, do not speak against one another. He
that speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against
Torah and judges Torah. And if you judge Torah, you are not a
doer of Torah but a judge.”
James
4:12 “There is one Lawgiver and Judge, who is
able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?”
Romans
14:10 “Why do you judge your
brother? Or why do you despise your
brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of
Messiah.”
Too
many times people listen to one side of a story and make a judgement,
possibly because we may be closer to one person than another; or we
might not like the other person, so our ears are more open to hear
stories. Let's see what His Word says about a false witness and a
false accuser:
Proverbs
19:9 “A false witness does not go unpunished,
And
he who breathes out lies perishes.”
Deuteronomy
19:18-19 “The judges shall diligently search and see if the
witness is a false witness, who has falsely accused his brother, 19
then you shall do to him as he thought to
have
done to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil
from your midst.”
Revelation
22:15 “Outside are the dogs and those who
enchant
with drugs, and those who whore, and the murderers, and the
idolaters, and all who love and do falsehood.”
Exodus
23:1 “Do not bring a false
report. Do not put your hand with
the wrong to be a malicious witness.”
Exodus
23:7 “Keep yourself far from
a
false matter, and do not kill the
innocent and the righteous, for I do not declare the wrong
right.”
Deuteronomy
5:20 “You do not bear false witness against
your
neighbour.”
Proverbs
6:16-19 “These
six matters
YHWH
hates,
And seven are an
abomination to
Him... 19 A
false witness breathing
out lies,
And one who causes strife among brothers.”
Proverbs
12:17 “He who speaks truth declares
righteousness, But a false witness,
deceit.”
Proverbs
14:5 “A trustworthy witness does not lie, But a
false witness breathes out lies.”
Proverbs
17:4 “An evil-doer gives
heed
to wicked lips; A liar gives ear to
a tongue of desire.”
Proverbs
25:18 “A man bearing
false witness against his neighbour
Is like a
club and a sword and a sharp arrow.”
Zechariah
8:17 “And do not plot evil in your
heart against another, and do not
love a false oath. For all
these I hate,’ declares YHWH.”
A
false witness & false accuser is called a fool.
Proverbs
18:6 “A fool’s lips enter into strife, And his
mouth
calls for blows. 7 A
fool’s mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his
life.”
Before
you rush to your email to accuse another; look at these scriptures:
Proverbs
20:3 “For a man to cease from strife is esteem, But every
fool bursts out.”
Look
at this... Yahweh judges falsehood alongside adulterers, witchcraft:
Malachi
3:5 “And I shall draw near to you
for
right-ruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers
of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and
against them that swear to falsehood,
and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows
and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not
fear Me,” said YHWH of
hosts.”
Look
again closely. We cannot rely on our own judgement if we only hear
one side of a story... We must repent and ask for fogiveness for he
says those that bear false witness have a wicked heart. If we contact
the other party and accuse them without knowing their side; we are
slanders and have a wicked heart. Wow!
Matthew
15:19 “For out of the heart come
forth wicked reasonings,
murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false
witnessings, slanders.”
Yahushua
repeated the Commands:
Matthew
19:18 “He said to Him,
“Which?”
And Yahushua said,
“ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit
adultery,’
‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You
shall not bear false witness,’
”
You
are called a murderer when you hate your brother. Some may deny
hatred, but when your emails and conversations are filled with
hateful, accusing words; they are not like honey or reflecting the
Father or Yahushua.
1
John 3:15 “Everyone hating
his
brother is a murderer, and you know
that no murderer has everlasting life staying in him.”
Scripture
warns about hearing one story and not the other. If you do not like
the person that the story is about then you must pass it onto someone
impartial that can hear both stories. Do not sit around listening to
stories (no matter how bad you think the situation is) and passing
judgement as we have seen - this is an abomination to Yahweh and no
where did you see Yahushua sitting around listening to stories,
pointing fingers and accusing people or gossiping.
Proverbs
18:17 “The first to state his
own case, seems right, Until
another comes and examines him.”
So
many times we have experienced people setting up fellowships and
putting themselves at the top and become judge and jury over
believers rather than the Scriptural mandate of elders or helpers.
This is not Scriptural and no one should be in charge of any
believer. Our Head is Yahushua and His Father.
Matthew
23:8-10 “But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi,’
for One is your Teacher, the Messiah, and you are
all brothers.... 10 Neither be called leaders,
for One is your Leader, the Messiah.”
Again,
the Scriptural assembly is described:
1
Corinthians 14:26 “What then is it, brothers? Whenever
you come together, each one has a psalm, has a
teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let
all be done for upbuilding.”
People
spend endless hours and days and years on judgemental behaviour with
one man as 'teacher' and it is such a waste of valuable time... Time
that could be used to reach those that are lost or need help. We must
always encourage people to seek His truth through His Word.
1John
2:27 “But the anointing which you
have received from Him stays in you, and you
have no need that anyone should teach you.
But as the same anointing does teach you concerning all, and is true,
and is no falsehood, and even as it has taught you, you stay in
Him.”
1
Corinthians 2:13 “...which we also
speak, not in words which man’s
wisdom teaches but which the
Set-apart Spirit teaches, comparing
spiritual matters with
spiritual matters.”
Because
Yahweh's people have not heeded these verses, we have rabbis, popes,
pastors, ministers, leaders, governments and kings over us. His
people have never been pleased to simply have His Word and this is
how we end up with footnotes and talmud and extra man's doctrines and
so many study books and learning material.. WHO FROM? A MAN! Man has
always mislead people, in fact for the past six thousands years man
has misled so many. Wake up! Judgement is coming upon the world, and
He is not pleased that His people have acted this way.
As
you can see it is a very serious matter to be a false accuser or a
false witness, there is NO place for those that falsely accuse
another brother/sister and they will be dealt with severely. One who
has accused another without first hearing both sides will not enter
in, there is no place for them.
Revelation
21:27 “And there shall by no means enter into
it
whatever is unclean, neither anyone doing abomination and
falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s
Book of Life.”
We
can always talk ourselves into believing that we think our judgement
is right and what we think is more important, but what you or I think
does not matter. It is what HE thinks that matters and what HIS WORD
says.
We
only deceive ourselves when we sit around pointing fingers, judging
others and gossiping. Sadly, so many people are dieing around the
world without knowing the truth and yet people have time to sit
around gossiping and trying to look important sitting in judgement
against another.
Proverbs
10:18 “He who hides hatred has
lying
lips, And he who sends out a slander
is a fool.”
You
are called a FOOL when you fasely accuse another and think you know
both sides of a story when you do not. A fool thinks he has the whole
story and thinks he can make a judgement.
Proverbs
18:13 “He who answers a matter before he hears it,
It is folly and shame to him.”
Sovereign
Dawid knew what it was like to be on the brunt end of these types of
people - people who profess to follow Him and yet gossiped, lied and
hunted Dawid down most of his life. This was his Prayer to the Father
about these types of people:
Psalm
140:9-13 “Those who surround me lift up their head; The
trouble
of their lips cover them; 10 Let burning coals fall on them; Let them
be made to fall into the fire, Into deep pits, let them not rise
again. 11 Let not a slanderer be established in the earth; Let evil
hunt the man of violence speedily. 12 I have known that YHWH
maintains The cause of the afflicted, The right-ruling of the poor.
13 Only, let the righteous give thanks to Your Name, Let the straight
ones dwell in Your presence.”
We
need to use the limited time we get wisely and not use it for sitting
around gossiping, running down believers and making judgements. The
bottom line is: it does not matter what a beleiver does if he is
sinning; Yahweh will deal with him. Yahweh is bigger than any of us
and deals with people at the Judgement. He does not need man to sit
in judgement over His people; He has His Son for that. The reason why
the world is like it is, is because man has pushed Yahweh aside and
taken up the judge and jury position just like the Yahudim did over
Yahushua's death. They decided to have him put to death because He
spoka against them. They were false witnesses and brought lies
against Him:
Matthew
26:59 And the chief priests, and the
elders, and all the council were seeking false
witness against Yahushua
to put Him to death, 60 but found none.
Although
many false witnesses came forward,
they found none. But at last two false
witnesses came forward.”
A
FOOL ALWAYS LOOKS GOOD IN HIS OWN EYES.
People
who judge other beleivers without knowing the whole truth always
feels he is wise because he has put himself in that judgement seat
and made himself important. Check these verses out and see what He
thinks of you.
Proverbs
28:26 “He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,
But he who walks wisely is delivered.”
Proverbs
21:2 “All a man’s ways are right in his own
eyes, But YHWH
weighs the hearts.”
Proverbs
12:15 “The way of a fool is right in his own
eyes,
But he who listens to advice is wise.”
Deuteronomy
12:8 “Do not do as we are doing here today – each
one
doing whatever is right in his own eyes.”
Sadly,
all around the world believers have been used to destroy and judge
other believers with wicked words out of ones mouth. Sha'ul saw the
same problem back in his time... (see the verses below). Shaul never
put himself above anyone, nor he did not spend countless hours
judging others and sitting around learning from man year after year,
but spent his life going out into all the world to reach those that
had ears to hear.
2
Corinthians 12:20 “For I fear lest, when I come, I do not
find
you such as I wish, and I be found by you such as you do not wish
–
lest there be strife, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish
ambitions, slander, gossip, puffings up,
unrests, 21 and lest,
when
I come again, my Elohim should humble me among you, and I shall mourn
for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the
uncleanness, and whoring, and indecency which they have
practised.”
James
4:17 “To
him, then, who knows to do good and does not do it,
to him it is sin.”
Many
so-called believers run around involving themselves in these matters
when they themselves are in sin. Usually those whose heart is filled
with sin are attracted to this kind of behaviour. They love to
involve themselves in any kind of judgement and gossip to make
themselves feel good, decieving themselves, thinking that they have
done something good, when in fact they have done wickedness.
REMEMBER
THIS: WE ARE NOT ANSWERABLE TO NO MAN.
Who
on earth do we think we are? We are but mere humans, sitting high and
mighty in our chairs making judgements and statements in judgement
against a brother or sister, exalting oneself above another. Yahushua
never acted in this way, but humbled Himself to be a Servant to
others - loving and compassioniate and kind. No vile was found in His
mouth.
Over
the many years we have travelled and met other believers, we have
rarely met anyone that agreed and followed the Torah and His Word as
it is stated. We have sadly found so many that say it does not mean
this, or it does not mean that. There are people in these fellowships
that use jesus, lord, god and still eating pork and working on the
Sabbath, cooking, lighting fires and travelling on the Sabbath, but
if one comes to the fellowship to point out what is said in the Torah
and Laws, they are accused of being high and mighty and pushed out!
The common thing in all these fellowships is that there is ONE MAN in
control who dicates and judges what he thinks is right and
exceptable, even if it is against His Word. Yes, we are all learning
but we must come together in Truth. No light has anything to do with
darkness.
Ephesians
6:12 “Because we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against authorities, against the world-rulers
of the darkness of this age, against spiritual matters of wickedness
in the heavenlies.”
THE
SCRIPTURAL WAY TO SORT OUT A PROBLEM.
Scripture
instructs how this is supposed to work so that the body of Yahushua
can be of one mind - uplifting and encouraging others - not hurting
or ripping others down because we think we know better. We must
encourage people to let go and let Yahweh deal with things.
What
were the judges appointed by Yahweh instructed to do throughout
Scriptures? They allowed both people to make their case, and they
were not partial to anyone person.
Deuteronomy
19:15 “One
witness does not rise up against a man concerning any crookedness or
any sin that
he commits. At the mouth of two
witnesses or
at the mouth of three
witnesses a
matter is established.”
Leviticus
19:15 “Do no unrighteousness in right-ruling. Do not be
partial
to the poor or favour the face of the great, but rightly rule
your neighbour in righteousness.”
Do
we ever see Yahushua in Scripture sit in jugdment, running others
down, sitting high and mighty in His chair and making judgements on
one side of a persons story? Was not our Saviour honest and upright
in all His dealings? No where did you see Yahushua running people
down and speaking evily against another and not allowing the other to
state their case.
We
have heard and seen so called believers make statements out of their
mouths, in emails and conversations that were so rude and evil beyond
words. These people will stand before Yahweh and His Son in heavy
judgement and if you took all the Scriptures above you will see they
are not saved and that Yahweh does not take to them kindly.
1Corinthians
6:7 “Already, then, there is a
failure with you, that you have lawsuits among you. Why
not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?”
This
Scripture above is so true! Why not rather be wronged and cheated
than to waste countless hours on meetings and problem sorting and
organizing special meetings to work out what to do with this person
or that person becasue you think you are right in your judgement?
Why
waste hours and days on bitterness and words that are not uplifting?
Our minds should be on pure and uplifting thoughts.
Philippians
4:8 For the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble,
whatever is righteous, whatever is clean, whatever is lovely,
whatever is of good report, if there is any uprightness and if there
is any praise – think on these.” 9
And what you have learned and received and heard and saw in me,
practise these, and the Elohim of peace shall be with you.”
When
we do not forgive or let Yahweh deal with situations, then He cannot
forgive our sin. It truly makes no difference whatsoever if someone
cannot forgive and move on and let things go then they harbour this
problem and it turns into hatred and bitterness and it grows in a
person. If we are hard done by or a believer has done something
against us; take it to the Father and barak your brother and sister
as Yahuhusa said, that way you hand it over to the Father athrough
His Son to deal with the brother and then you are free to move on in
peace.
Lets
see what Yahushua said to do:
Mark
11:25 “And whenever you stand praying, if you hold whatever
against anyone, forgive, so that your Father in the heavens
shall also forgive you your trespasses.” 26
“But if you do not forgive, neither shall your
Father in the
heavens forgive your trespasses.”
Luke
6:38 “Give, and it shall be given to you. A good measure,
pressed down and shaken together and running over shall be put into
your lap. For with the same measure with which you measure, it
shall be measured back to you.”
Matthew
18:21 “Then Kĕpha came to Him and
said, “Master, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I
forgive him? Up to seven times?” 22
Yahushua said
to
him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but
up to seventy times seven.”
Too
many times we lie to ourselves... Your sins are not forgiven ever if
you do not forgive and forget forever other people who hurt you.
Many
I talk to or hear say, “I forgive.” Or, “I have
forgiven.”
Then an hour or so later hate or judgement comes out of their mouth
against the brother or sister! Believers really need to understand
what forgiveness means.
Let
me share something that happened a number of years. I used to nurse
at a large public hospital and worked on a ward for the mentally ill.
They would call myself and other nurses the most horrible names that
would make your hair stand on end and is used to get to me so each
day I started work I would pound the stair muttering words against
this patient and that patient until one day I heard a voice that
said, “Turn around and go home.” It shocked me to the bone
that
it took the air out of my lungs and I fell on the step and sat there,
and said, “Why?” His Spirit said, “If you cannot take
each day
as a new day with forgiveness so that the patients are new and fresh
then you are wasting your time and you should turn around and go
home, never to return.” It took me a few minutes to realise what
was said was so right. I picked up myself up and put a huge smile on
my face and from that day on I never remembered the bad words spoken
against me the day before. Guess what happened? The patients were so
much easier to deal with and much more happier.
I
have tried to take what was said to me into my personal life. I see
people in a different light and do not see the hurtful things they
said and did against me and my family. I really do not remember
things like this and can easily sit down with anyone that was hateful
towards me in the past.
Brothers
and Sisters we really need to stop wasting hours, days and years with
unforgiveness in our hearts, as it truly turns into bitterness and
hatefulness and eats a person away and worst of all, your sins are
not forgiven while you sit for days and years with no forgiveness
from the Father and His Son and have wasted years which could have
been used to do His work and lead many to truth.
YOU
CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE NOW!!! And bring esteem to the father and his
son and release yourself from the bondage.
Remember
there is always conditions to His promises. If we OBEY, we will be
with Him forever.
Here
is the last Words from the Father... when you forgive someone,
forgive like He does.
Psalm
103:2-3 “Bless YHWH,
O my being, And do not forget all His dealings, 3
Who forgives all your crookednesses.”
Psalm
103:12 “As far as east is from west, So far has He removed
our
transgressions from us.”
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