When The Leaders Lie

“When The Leaders Lie”

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - This week while watching the news the one thing that stood out to me among all the chaos and buffoonery and the blatant ambush on the Military Hero the Ukrainian President Zelensky was when the President of France Emmanuel Macron (whose first name means God with us – that will preach) caught Donald Trump in a blatant lie and corrected him in front of the entire world. Trump just shook his hand and retold the exact same blatant lie again.

Lamentations 2:14 says, “Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment”. God’s people were experiencing judgment! God had removed His blessing from them! They were running into so many problems! The reason was poor leadership.

Today, our world is filled with poor leaders who lie to control us and line their continuously deepening pockets. They gain power, but they aren’t pleasing to God. They may be popular on the world stage, but they aren’t concerned with eternal truths. They have perfected the skill of manipulation and enticement of people to pursue the wrong paths. They ignore God’s standards and the teachings of His Word both in the spiritual and natural aspects.

Their leaders deceive the people with false promises, blatant lies, and pursue foolish goals. As a result, We the people, have been deceived, lied to, and fired. Because we have failed to set a godly standard and live according to God’s Word.

There is a question I heard many years ago from an old golfer – What is the difference between golf and government - in golf you can't improve your lie. This rule in golf prohibits improving the lie, the area intended for making a swing, the line of play or the area in which the ball is to be dropped or placed – simply put you are not allowed to improve your shot ability. If you break this Rule, you are considered to have played from the wrong place, which is a breach that comes with a two-stroke penalty. WATCH THIS there is a penalty for breaking this rule that can cost you the game and disqualify you. Lies by our spiritual leaders will cause people to spend eternity in Hell and they must face God’s judgment. However, lies by our Government Officials violate the Constitution and deprive people of their Rights, dignity, security, safety, jobs, Medicare, Social Security, and cause the entire Economic structure to be affected. Yet all is done is another lie is told.

When we look at what is going on in our world, the lies that are being told by our so-called leaders, the political shifts that are taking place, the total disregard for human, civil, educational rights and freedoms that are being flushed down the proverbial toilet. How Donald Trump is using executive orders like an action movie kill count to get his way with Elon Musk as the ultimate unstoppable Terminator terrorizing everyone that seems to be operating totally outside the Constitution. “We the People” no longer have a voice, we are angry, we protest and boycott, yet our leaders are not listening to our concerns, they tell lie after lie to line their pockets, benefit the billionaires, establish an oligarchy, and become allies with dictators, try to belittle true military and honorable people with disgusting lies, while people die of starvation, children are contracting measles at an epidemic rate, families are ripped apart under the lies of immigration deportation, Medicare and Medicaid is literally obliterated, Federal workers are told they don’t deserve a pay check yet anyone with 5 million dollars is offered a gold card citizenship free pass to become a citizen, while people just looking for a better way of life are victimized and ostracized. The question is so what do we do when our leaders lie.

The Bible serves as both a warning and a guide teaching us the importance of ethical leadership and the need for accountability.

PRAYER

SCRIPTURE: - Exodus 32:1-5 & 24 “And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord. And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf”.