Honest

Intro

3 types of honesty

intelectual

moral

being (being in the truth)

Intro

Virtue: Dishonesty comes from fear; honestly is the courage to face that fear.

Define truth/honest

honorable/honest

In meaning trustworthy words, “put away lies,” “speak the truth”

Ephesians 4:25 CSB

Therefore, putting away lying, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

truth: not what is believed but what is accurate (we don’t always like to acknowledge the truth).

Be careful to discern between things that MUST be true and things you happen to BELIEVE.

Speaking The truth

truth to yourself

to thine own self be true — shakey

By nature we hide who we are. Shakespeare and most modern thinking says we need to accept who we are. The scriptures say we need to accept who we are so that we can be saved from who we are.

truth to others

everyone is a liar cf. everyone is a sinner

lying—psychological perspective and memory

sinning—

Accepting your untruth is the path to truth in the same way that accepting your sinfulness is the pathway to righteousness.

Truth to others: What is dishonesty?

What is dishonesty?

something that isn’t true

withholding truth (emphasis, “speak the truth” not ‘speak only true things’)

dishonesty by perception—you cannot speak a truth if you believe a lie (cf. how memory works.—it is your nature to believe and perpetuate lies.)

working towards truth (Word)

— sanctify, word->truth

The path to honesty is God’s Word

The promises of God in the scriptures are the courage to speak righteously.

being in the truth

being in the truth

[TAB] — we are born into the father of lies

jesus in us; us in jesus ()

us in jesus

we are born in the devil’s lies; that’s why Jesus prays for us to be in Him, the truth.

members of one another (speak the truth with your neighbor, cf. [TAB])

Christians break the bonds of love and fellowship by which they have come to be bound when they try to deceive one another. (Francis Foulkes, Ephesians: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 10, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1989), 139.)

EXH: Undress the old self and dress in the new self; undress untruth, put on truth as a garment and as an identity.

Francis Foulkes, Ephesians: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 10, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1989), 139.

We dress to cover our shame; what if we dressed to