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Proverbs 21:28

Proverbs 21:28 Proverbs

Pastor Martin expounds Proverbs 21:28, which warns against false witness and promises perishing for liars, while those who speak truth will endure. He emphasizes the repeated biblical condemnation of lying and the severe consequences, drawing on Isaac Watts's 'Hymns for Children' to illustrate the abhorrence of deceit. The sermon serves as an encouragement to speak truth and a stark warning against the destructive nature of falsehood, reminding listeners of God's judgment on liars.

2 illustrations in this sermon

Isaac Watts's Hymn Against Lying
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Isaac Watts's Hymn Against Lying

The point: Walk in wisdom's way, fear a lie, and speak the truth to build trust.

Martin quotes an extended portion of Isaac Watts's 'Hymns for Children' to vividly illustrate the importance of truth-speaking, the untrustworthiness of liars, and the severe consequences of deceit, including God's judgment.

Marvelous little book with hymns on many of the subjects in Proverbs. Listen to the one against lying. Oh, tis a lovely thing for youth to walk betimes in wisdom's way, to fear a lie, to speak the truth, that we may trust to all they say. But liars we can never trust, though they should speak the things that's true.

0:36 - 1:04 Read in full sermon
The Gravity of Lying and God's Abhorrence
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Ananias and Sapphira

The point: Do not lie to hide a fault, as it only compounds the sin.

The biblical account of Ananias and Sapphira being struck dead for lying is used as a historical example to demonstrate God's immediate and severe judgment against deceit.

And he that does one fault at first, and lies to hide it, makes it two. Have we not known, nor heard, nor read, how God abhors deceit and wrong? How Ananias was struck dead, caught with a lie upon his tongue? So did his wife Sapphira.

1:05 - 1:27 Read in full sermon
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