Let God Be True And Every Man A Liar

One Sunday as I was in the youth service, the youth pastor asked the class, “what is fruit?” It seemed like all the kids raised their hands to answer. However, he called on me. I was clueless and gave I gave a simple answer of, “I don’t know apples or some other fruit.” The whole class started laughing. Now, I wasn’t embarrassed, because I knew my answer was just trying to get him to call on someone else. However, the youth pastor admonition the kids and told them that’s not right to laugh at me. He then began explaining to me that fruit was love we produce back unto God. Wow! That blew my mind.

Everything changed that day! Fruit was giving love back unto God! After that, I came across Rom. 3:4 “let God be true and every man a liar…” and Heb. 4:12 “The Word of God is sharper than any two-edge sword, dividing asunder bone from marrow, soul from spirit, it is a discerner of the intents and motives of a man’s heart”. Walla! I knew what it meant! God’s Word is true! God’s Word exposes the truth of ourselves, our intents, our motives, our thoughts, why we do what we do, say what we say, act how we act, believe how we believe, what excuses we give ourselves, what falsities, misrepresentation, misleadings and distortions of truth we use to rationalize, justify, excuse and deceive ourselves for our feelings, acts and behaviors. I now know the truth behind my sin. Rationalization, misrepresentation, justifications, excuses and lies.

We are all falsifiers, we are all liars. Every man or woman? Yes, every man or woman. All human beings have broken their word and told lies at times. That is a universal truth. All man are liars because all man/woman are sinners. That’s why Paul in his exhortation in Romans Chapter 3, goes on to say in Roms. 3:10 “There is none righteous, no, not one” & 3:13: “With their tongues they have used deceit”.

Every human being lies because everyone is a liar in his natural state. Born in sin, every human is a sinner by nature. Out of his naturally depraved heart, man lies about to and about the things and Words of God. He lies about the nature of God. He even lies to himself about his own inward state. Some people say, “well I’m not a liar”. Neither am I. However, let me ask you a question.

Have you ever had thoughts in your mind that you wouldn’t want others to know about? There it is!

Why? Because you know those thoughts show that there is something wrong with your heart? Don’t those thoughts reveal the contamination of your heart? And isn’t it true that if you were absolutely forced to reveal those thought you would give some slippery answer about those thoughts? You’d give some sort of rationalization or excuse, try to dodge answering about your thoughts, wouldn’t you? All of us lie in ourselves, to ourselves, rationalize to ourselves. Misrepresent to ourselves, falsify to ourselves to justify ourselves.

Many people speak of the story of Job and only consider what they have been taught about the Book of Job, and that is “Job had faith”, and Job did have faith in the Lord. But, what most miss is that Job spent a lot time and effort rationalizing, justifying himself, while complaining against God, to the point, God Himself had to set Job straight, had to reprimand Job. God basically told Job, watch your mouth Job, before you get yourself in trouble, I Am the Creator and my ways are justice and true. Listen to the interaction