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Intro
3 types of honesty
intelectual
moral
being (being in the truth)
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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”
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.
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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
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