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 ...
하나님의 말씀에 배가 고픈 사람 하나님의 말씀에 배부른 사람은 송이꿀보다 단 하나님의 말씀을 싫어하지만 , 그 말씀에 배가 고픈 사람에게는 말씀의 쓴 책망도 달게 여깁니다 ( 참고 : 잠언 27:7, 현대인의 성경 ; 참고 : 시편 19:10).