Nick Gerringer - Assisting Pastor's teaching references for 02/21/2019

Exodus 20:16 - The Truth the Whole Truth and nothing but the Truth, so help us God!

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 20:16)

In light of God’s love for us He gave us His word and His Spirt, to help us keep it. Not as burden, but as a blessing to experience the fullness of His love.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 20:16)

You can hate what God calls evil and seek to love people who do evil with the truth. God does this every day.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 20:16)

To be free from a world filled with lies, abide in Jesus and His word, and you will be made free.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 20:16)

One of the substiles of Satan is using truth with the wrong implications.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 20:16)

God has put in order the body of Christ to rightly deal with one another, based on established truth, and faithful and true witnesses.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 20:16)

Let your yes be yes and your no be no. If you don’t know, walk by faith, and say if the Lord wills you will do this or that.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 20:16)

Speculation, without (factual) information, and proper communication, can ultimately lead to gossip.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 20:16)

If you speak the truth without love, then it’s not the truth.  If you show love, but don’t desire to speak or walk in the truth then it’s not love.

John 14:15-16 NKJV

15 "If you love Me, keep My commandments.  16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever —

1 John 5:2-3 NKJV

2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

Prov 6:19 NKJV

A false witness who speaks lies,
And one who sows discord among brethren.

Rev 21:8 NKJV

But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

Prov 12:22 NKJV

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
But those who deal truthfully are His delight.

John 8:44 NKJV

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Zech 3:1-2 NKJV

1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him. 2 And the Lord said to Satan, "The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?"

Rev 12:10-12 NKJV

10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. 12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time."

Rev 3:14 NKJV

'These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God

Deut 17:6 NKJV

Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

Heb 10:28 NKJV

Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Matt 18:15-17 NKJV

15 "Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.  16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that 'by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.'  17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.

1 Tim 5:19 NKJV

Do not receive an accusation against an elder except from two or three witnesses.

Matt 5:37 NKJV

But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No.' For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.

James 5:12 NKJV

But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your "Yes" be "Yes," and your "No," "No," lest you fall into judgment.

James 4:13-16 NKJV

13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Prov 18:8 NKJV

The words of a talebearer are like tasty trifles, And they go down into the inmost body.

Eph 4:25 NKJV

Therefore, putting away lying, "Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor," for we are members of one another.

Heb 6:13-20 NKJV

13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."  15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. 17 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.
19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, 20 where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

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