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Proverbs 19:5, 9

Proverbs 19:5-9 Proverbs

Pastor Albert N. Martin expounds Proverbs 19:5 and 19:9, emphasizing the certainty of punishment for false witnesses and liars. He highlights that God's judgment is inescapable, even if human authorities are evaded. Martin applies this truth directly to parenting, urging parents to rear their children with a keen conscience, using both encouragement and 'sanctified, holy threats' to impress upon them the destructive consequences of lying and bearing false witness.

2 illustrations in this sermon

Admonishing Children with Holy Threats
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False Witness in Court vs. Friend

The point: Warn your children that if they bear false witness, they will not be unpunished, whether in formal or informal settings.

Martin provides examples of false witness, from formal legal settings to informal conversations with friends, to illustrate the broad scope of the sin and its applicability to children.

You'll damage their psyches, will you? Not so, Solomon. Here he is threatening his son. He is saying that if you take the place of a false witness, whether in a formal position, where you are called upon to bear witness of the sin of another in a legal court structure, or whether talking to a friend, supposedly bearing witness to truth, what you've known and heard, it's not hearsay, but you are in the role of a false witness, mark it, son, mark it, my dear daughter, you will not be unpunished.

0:40 - 1:22 Read in full sermon
Inescapable Divine Judgment for Lying
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Cheating in School

The point: Impress upon your children that they cannot escape God's accounting for their lies and false witness.

He uses the example of a child cheating in school and claiming it as their own work to illustrate how children bear false witness and the futility of trying to escape detection.

When it's not, you've picked it off the page of the student next to you. Mark it well, my son or daughter, you will not escape. You cannot escape. God will settle accounts.

1:47 - 2:00 Read in full sermon
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