Where Lying Takes You

I heard this from a sermon: “People will tolerate you as a liar when they are corrupt.”

Is that not true? I have to agree with that, Pastor. I will add this, though: The circle of liars stays close, proving their deeds. Only will they part ways when they have reached “eating each other up.”

Between reading God’s Word and His warnings that He gives, and doing my research and studies of “lying”, I have concluded that it is God’s worst hate. Besides not worshiping Him and His Son, this is the worst. Why, you might ask? This is because it leads to all other sins. It is a downward spiral and takes them down dark roads with no light left. If we look at it from earthly terms, no decent person can stand a liar. There is no ability to trust them in anything when you know about their lies. You eventually turn away from them because it is so sickening. We see a world full of lies, and we see people accepting it, tolerating it. If they cannot find it in themselves to turn away from them, they become chained to them, under their control.

When a ruler or a leader of any kind is given to lies, he will gather those around him who will tolerate lying. He will draw in corrupt people. A lying ruler accumulates wicked ministers. They attract the evil and the corrupt, and they will reject the honest people. Their darkness cannot stand the light. So, they put the light out, one way or the other.

Liars despise truth, and they despise truthful people. People who approve of such evil because they practice the same thing the evil do.

What is God’s Response to a Liar?

For a time, God will try to pull the person toward doing what is right. The conscience is at work inside them. Time and time again, they will shrug off the pull to do what is right. They will ignore it and go on. If they lose control of themselves and the habit is stamped on their heads, they shall fall deeper into other sins. If they can get by with all the lies, they also learn they can get by with other things. What is the lie, and what is it for? It is to conceal something that you don’t want to come to light. Something you would like to keep secret. Something that you know is wrong. So, what does God do after a time? He lets go. He gives man up to his lies and his choices. He is left to his vile self. Before, there was a restraining grace period. Now, it is removed. The conscience goes dark. No more jabs, no more pull. Just silence. The person will move on to face the consequences of their own choices.

Lying brings more temptations and more darkness. They become filled with self-assurance and realize they won’t get caught. They won’t even notice when they lose their dignity or respect from others. It won’t matter to them at all. It eventually leads to a worthless mind that God speaks about. The shame they may have felt for their past lies and dark deeds will fade away. This, in turn, makes them more vulnerable to more temptations and worse deeds.

Your Conscience is Your Judge

While you are walking the earth, refusing God, rejecting Him, and His Son, you are left with only a conscience. When you think you've gotten rid of that thing and feel safe in your world, think about your future! That conscience may not be tapping you on the shoulder or poking your heart anymore; but that conscience is still there. It serves another purpose. It stores everything you do and every choice you make. Every time you ignore it, it stores that. It’s like a snapshot in memory. It might not matter today, but down the road, you might want to scream out excuses for yourself. Deep down in that conscience is the knowledge of not only God’s Law, but God as well. You were ignoring God. In the time when you stand before God, that conscience will serve as a testimony against you. No lying, no more excuses. It only went dormant. You will confess that Christ is Lord and that God is just. Your lips will bring down their wrath and judgment on you. It is like a High Court.

A person might convince themselves that no one sees or knows what they have done or are doing. This is not so. We know that God sees all things and knows all things. What else know? Your conscience. It knows our innermost thoughts, desires, and deeds.

Have you noticed that many liars tend to blame everyone else and God for every mistake they have ever made? Every failure and every wrong turn. Instead of facing the truth about themselves, they project their deeds onto someone else. Eventually, it always leads to blaming God. Even the medical field fills people with all kinds of medications to cover their sins. They cover the guilt for them. Take this, and you will feel better; it may even help you not feel so guilty. If you fail to listen to your conscience, you have no other help if Christ does not save you. Now, you are left to face the consequences.

A person in Christ knows immediately if there are sins in their mind and heart. They listen to the Holy Spirit, and they quickly turn. It can be something very small or a bottled-up anger they are holding onto. But the Holy Spirit can draw us closer, heal our pains, and help us to hand it over to God. God is the Avenger, and when we truly understand what that means, it takes all the pressure off. We stand on His promises to make all wrongs right. That way, we do not act on our anger. His vengeance is so much worse than we could ever do on earth. God knows the hearts of all people. He knows who is capable and who will change. We are not the judge of that. His will and His all-knowing take care of all things.

Sins of the mind will ultimately destroy a person. Once the conscience is seared, they have no helpmate. They cannot escape the sins of the mind. It does not switch off. Your imagination and desires will control you, making your entire soul dark. I heard it said that “there is nothing more dark than the secrets in one’s soul.” That sounds creepy in itself! Eventually, a person will act upon the thoughts they cherish in their mind. Thoughts bring actions.

Take an Adulterer

The thoughts come up. Conscience is pushed away. Thoughts come back and back again. Those thoughts need to be fed. So, they begin imagining. That leads to dreams and lingering thoughts. They will wonder, and it will lead to wandering. The desires are building and have turned into lust. How will they fight that? The only way they could have was to respond to their conscience and do what is right. Stamp it out and turn from it right then and there. Their character, body, and soul become desolate. You become what your mind feeds on. Feed your mind what is foul, and you will become foul. You go on long enough, and you will not be able to find anything clean. Then, you won’t want to find clean at all.

Memories of Sin

People revisit their minds. They want to grasp that sin again and feel what it made them feel before. Since the conscience lies low now, all they have is pleasure from sin. If they cannot do that sin at this moment, they will revisit those memories of when they did it. There are pictures and feelings stored inside us for that. Vivid sensations haunt them, presenting them with shiny, newly recalled memories. It is rehearsed in their minds over and over. In their mind, they are scheming to do them all again. This is so very true with porn. Works just like that—a web of memories that do not go away. I am sure this happened like this (in a way) with satan. He kept visiting those thoughts.

This is why every child of God needs to thank Him and the Holy Spirit for keeping that pure mind. It is up to us to stay in God’s word and trust the Spirit to keep us and bring us closer to God.

A reprobate mind is the end of the end. Not a place to go.