Chapter 7: Emptying “Falsehood” In the previous chapter, we examined “hypocrisy,” which arises from the gap between the way we appear before people and who we actually are before God. If hypocrisy is putting on a mask to hide who we really are, falsehood is hiding or altering the truth for our own benefit and, beyond that, even distorting the truth of God. Falsehood does not end simply with saying something that is contrary to the facts. Falsehood begins in a heart that rejects the truth and accepts what is advantageous to itself as though it were true. In John 8:44, Jesus referred to the devil as “a liar and the father of lies.” At the root of falsehood is a power that causes us to believe something other than the Word of God and ultimately leads us away from God. Therefore, before trying to identify the falsehood in others, we must first ask ourselves: “Am I living truthfully before God?” “Am ...
Rather than “I can’t forgive you even if I die!”,
I forgive you until I
die.
People belonging to the current age, dominated
by the evil one,
may say, "I will never forgive you!"
However, the people of God's kingdom, belonging
to the coming age (heaven),
forgive even until death, just as Jesus forgave
until He died on the cross
(Luke 23:34; 1 Corinthians 15:40, 48, 49;
Philippians 3:20; 1 John 5:19).
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