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 ...
지식을 미워하는 미련한 자들 지식을 미워하는 미련한 자들은 자신의 어리석음을 좋아하며 자신의 거만함을 기뻐하므로 지혜가 외쳐 부르는 소리와 책망을 듣고 돌이키기보다 그 부르는 소리를 듣기 싫어하고 거들 떠 보지도 않을 뿐만 아니라 지혜의 모든 교훈을 멸시 ( 무시 ) 하고 지혜의 책망을 받지 않습니다 . 그 결과 미련한 자들에게는 두려움이 광풍 같이 임하겠고 그들의 재앙이 폭풍 같이 이르겠고 그들에게 근심과 슬픔이 임할 것입니다 ( 잠언 1:20-27, 현대인의 성경 ).