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Let God Be True And Every Man A Liar
Contributed by Bruce Hadley on Oct 7, 2019 (message contributor)
Summary: One of my very favorite scriptures in the Bible is Rom. 3:4 “Let God be true and every (not some people, most people) but every man (all people a liar). The word "liar" is the Greek word: ψεύστης, ου, ὁ pseustés (psyoos-tace'); which means, falsifier, deceiver...
Or if I sinned, pre-Christ, post-Christ, it doesn’t matter that I didn’t know it was sin, believed it was a sin, ignored it was a sin, I sinned nonetheless, that’s a fact! That doesn’t change!
When some is an atheist, their denial does not change the fact God exists. What about those that say there is no hell; hell still burns on any way and awaiting them. Though Kyrie Erving wants to promote the earth is flat, the earth doesn’t stop rotating and circling round the sun. Our state of mind doesn’t dictate truth; whether belief or don’t belief, in no way affects those facts of, and truths of God. That’s why Jesus said, “If they don’t praise me, the rocks would cry out in praise of me”. Our state of mind only affects our own character and destiny. Did you get that? Whether we believe what God said or don’t believe what God said matters nothing to the universe or to God, His Word is forever settled in Heaven it tells us (Ps. 118:89).
Paul explains this argument to us in verses 5-7, when he says,
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Paul here is referring to the incident of King David when he committed adultery with Beersheba and facilitated the death of Uriah. When Nathan came to David on behalf of the Lord and addressed David’s abominable sins. David was overwhelmed with grief; he saw his crime to be awful; he feared the displeasure of God, and trembled before him. Yet David, held a fixed, indisputable principle, that God is right, just and true. David never once thought of calling into question what he had done was somehow excusable or justifiable before the Lord. And, that the very things he had done was against the very truths and commands God had given to man.
Notice what David says after being confronted by Nathan, and God’s pronouncement of Judgment upon him for the sins he committed: “I have sinned against the Lord”. David further expounds on this in Ps. 51:4-6
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:
David said, against thee, thee only, have I sinned. Not that David was playing down the damage and harm he brought upon Beersheba, Uriah and Uriah’s family; what he is saying is, Lord your laws, your commands, your Words are just, righteous and true, and I have violated your commands from the beginning. Not when I committed the act of adultery or murder, but when I was on the roof top looking at another man’s wife, coveting another man’s wife, when I was told that it was another man’s wife, when I brought another man’s wife into my bedchambers, I falsified, misrepresented, mislead, justified, excused and rationalized my intents and motives, which lead to me being deceived and deceiving myself and others.