Is there Any Such Thing as a "Good Lie?"

You'll notice the title of the sermon is, Is There Such a Thing as a Good Lie? People shaking their head, no. Have you ever known a politician not to lie? I've known quite a few politicians, and I can honestly say I don't know one that I did this. I haven't heard a lie from.

It ran through my mind as I was putting this sermon together. Back in the 1970s, there was a music group called Three Dog Night. I don't know if any of you remember that. And they had a song that had a chorus in it about every 30 seconds, where the lead singer would sing this about somebody who had done him wrong or something, and then the group would join in and say, Liar! Liar! You remember it? William does there. And that chorus went through time and time again, if you remember the song. Well, I brought this sermon forward before we go into prophecy in the next few weeks, because this election year and the next 60 to 90 days in which we will be having to exist on this earth, we are hearing constantly that the two individuals running for the presidency of the United States are liars.

One says the other one's a liar, and the other one comes back and says, No, you're the liar. And they even have these websites you can go to. One's called Fact Check, and the other is Political Check, and then there's different TV stations that actually have what the people say, the candidates say, and then they have Pinocchio noses that come out. And so some of the noses are longer than the other, because they're bigger lies than the other.

Well, it's interesting because this year is the first time I've really noticed that they've come out and said, He's a liar, she's a liar. They would always in the past try to smooth it over a little bit by saying, I think the person misspoke. I think they're disingenuous, which in case you want to know what disingenuous means, it means not sincere, dishonest, and deceitful. But it sounds so much better than liar. Is this anything new? No, you might remember if you grew up here as I did.

We had a president who stood before people and said, I am not a crook. You might remember that, Richard Nixon. And what was he? He was a crook! So he was a liar. He was disingenuous. Excuse me, let me say that. Then we had a George W. Bush that came out and said, read my lips, no new taxes. And in February, he signed a bill for new taxes. Very disingenuous. Then we had another president that said, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms.

Lewinsky. And it wasn't long before he found out he did. So we lied. And even our president today. I saw a Time magazine in 2013 on the cover of their magazine, said the biggest lie of the year was by our President Obama. And it was, and he said it 36 times in a matter of two months, was, if you like your health plan, you can keep it. When he knew they couldn't.

So, do you think there's going to be a change? Both parties are disingenuous. Both parties lie. It's part of the business. I've been here 57 years on this earth. And I've been hearing the same thing that I can remember for 51 of those years. I was five or six years old, living in Indiana at the time.

Didn't know a clue about politics. Didn't really care. Didn't know anything. But I liked the man that ran the business right beside my father's restaurant. Because he would have me move Coke bottles or whatever for anything, go over on his counter where his candy was and get some of it. So, man, this was like great! I loved this guy! My dad, if I went into the restaurant, have anything you want, but you can't eat sweets. So, this was a relationship I built with this man. But he was very big into politics, my father would say.

I didn't know what that really meant. So, it was, I think, 1964, 1965, whatever, when the election was. And so, this man that used to give me candy, the name was Bud Myers. Bud Myers said, well, hey, I've got these stickers. They were big stickers, bumper stickers then. I mean, they're bumper stickers like that. You know, they used to make them that wide, that tall, put them across those metal bumpers that he used to have on cars.

And this was Barry Goldwater stickers. Okay? In case you don't know, he didn't win. Okay? But these stickers, they really stuck. I mean, they put serious glue on them back then. So, he said, would you like to have one of these little sandwich bags and go and just fill that thing up with all the candy you want, anything you want over there? I said, well, yeah! He said, well, I will give you this whole stack of these stickers.

And your job is to go around town, in a small town, and put them everywhere. And then you come back, and you can have that bag. You can have all the candy. Oh, man! Within about two hours, I had all those stickers put on every car that was anywhere near. I put it on stop signs, which that was a problem. And then I got in the biggest trouble because he said, you got to make sure that they're all somewhere, and you can't put them all in the same place.

So, I had one or two left. So, I went by my house that my parents were renting, and I put one on the mailbox. Wasn't supposed to do that either. Nobody told me. But then I had one left, and I didn't know because I'd covered all that territory.

I was about a half a mile from the... So, what happened? I went inside my room, and they had this real nice wall paneling, and I put it on this paneling. To find out later, it wouldn't come off. And my dad had to end up sanding and painting the entire room because of my thing. And I think before he died, he still reminded me of that.

But he never forgot it. Suck with him. Suck with him.

But this is not a political sermon. I don't do those. I don't get involved in the politics of this world.

But we are seeing such issues and problems and dividing of this country.

And it's going to get worse and worse, obviously.

But this election has shown one thing, if you can call it positive. It has actually debunked Darwin's theory of evolution. Because the theory of evolution is that we evolve to a higher species.

We're going to the zoo tomorrow, right?

It is showing we are devolving. Not evolving when you look at what we have. As I actually heard one guy on the radio, it was neither party, who said, come on, there's 310 million people. He comes down to these two. So I'd like to look at a real problem in America today. And not only America, but the entire world.

And that is, at the... We have reached the point in America where breaking the Ninth Commandment is no big deal.

No big deal at all. It's accepted. And if I said that statement out on the street, they would be going, what are you talking about? Ninth Commandment, which shows where the world is spiraling down. And to make the point that made a movie, I don't know how many years ago it was, maybe five or ten years ago, Time Flies.

It was a Jim Carrey movie called Liar Liar. Anybody see that? It was actually almost half. And it was actually about a lawyer who, by some magical thing, he couldn't, his son wished he couldn't tell a lie. One day. Oh, was it just one day? Okay, for 24 hours. And then it goes and shows, very comical, but in reality it really shows just how much lying is alive and well in this country. He couldn't hardly get through a statement because he was so used to lying.

Does the Ninth Commandment say, thou shall not lie?

If you're a lawyer, you're going to say absolutely not, because it does not say that.

Right? It says, thou shall not bear false witness.

Technical matter, right?

But it is about, you know, as a matter of fact, Jesus Christ mentioned on the Sermon on the Mount, where he actually brought that out about don't swear, which is actually talking about when you're to give testimony or when you're to, you know, like a trial or whatever, or whenever you say something. But he brought it to the Spirit of the Law when he says, just don't do any of that, but let your yes be yes and your no be no.

And what did he say? If anything passed, that is what? Of the devil.

So I want to quote from a June 7th, 1996 article.

by the New York Times. And it states that 91% of people confess that they regularly don't tell the truth.

Now, 20 years, 2 months, 14 days later, do you think we are any more truthful than we were?

And that is the same. 91%. I grew up and they taught us in school about the presence of the United States, right? And the very first one, they said, George Washington. And I remember, not a whole lot about Washington, other than about presidency, except they said, he's famous for, I cannot tell a lie. Anybody remember that? I did not cut down the charity. I cannot tell a lie. Well, I hate to tell you, but that was a lie. Okay? That, I cannot tell a lie, was actually concocted by an ex-preacher named Mason Weems to humanize Washington's boring image. Because Washington did not say much when he said something, it meant something.

He was a man of integrity. But here, it's so funny because I did not know that all growing up, that it was a lie. I thought, well, because he's a very honest man. In the world today, truth is a precondition of justice. Without truth, there will be no justice. Anywhere, there will not be justice in your homes. There will not be justice in the streets. There will not be justice in Washington. Without truth, there will not be justice even in the Church of God. It's that important. Dr. Laura Schlesinger actually wrote in her book about the Ten Commandments and about this commandment, and said that the liar lowers himself to a level no better than the animal kingdom. And God says that we are above that. Because, she said, it says that we are created in his image, and God does not lie. So we can either look towards this image or another image in how we live. I'd like you to turn with me to Deuteronomy 19. Deuteronomy 19. As they say, here we get to the skinny. Nineteen, in verse 15. This is God's instructions. It's too bad we don't have it today in this country. But he says in 19, in verse 15, One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or sin that he commits. So you just can't say, you did this to me. You did this, and you're guilty. And it's accepted. Because it's one man's word against someone else's word. But it says, by the mouth of two or three witnesses, the matter shall be established. Great! If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. And the judge shall make diligent inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness who has testified falsely against his brother, then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother. So you shall put away the evil person from among you, and those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you.

So, wouldn't that be great today? You stole this from me, or you stole that from that person, so guess what? They find out you didn't, now you've got to pay it back. If you actually testified at that time that you saw this person kill someone, and you didn't, which would lead to your death, you were put to death. Lying was that big of a deal. Would that ever change things today? Definitely would. Would you like to see that? I would, but there's quite a few lawyers that definitely wouldn't. They'd put them out of work, and then they would probably not want to talk so much.

I'd like to go with me to another place. Proverbs 19. I'll read from the New Living Translation. Proverbs 19, please.

Proverbs 19, verse 5. Now, it's interesting that God inspired this. And you may think, well, that doesn't always happen, but maybe it's not over with. And Proverbs 19, verse 5 says, A false witness will not go unpunished, nor will a liar escape. You're going to say, well, that doesn't really take place. Oh, yes. Is the divine court in session? I think it is. So just because you get away with something today, you may think, ah, nobody saw me, nobody caught me. The court is in session. There is a TV show. I have to admit, I have only seen this show, and I've never seen it all the way through, at any time, and it's been on for a decade or so, better, they say. But I found it interesting when I was reading the article about it, so I had to go and do some little research myself. And it's a TV show called Judge Judy. Have most of you seen the show? I had tuned in and went and saw it because it is the most popular court show, and the longest running court show of any of them. And so they interviewed her as well. As a matter of fact, she's one of the highest paid, and she didn't start out that way. She didn't really do it to make much money because there were other court shows at the time, but she had been on the bench for 20 years in New York, and she is a no-nonsense woman.

And she thought with her ideas that people needed to see, that it isn't just about lawyers and what lawyers can get you off. But she actually says that she pursues the truth in front of the cameras and not lawyers, and that in her courtroom, according to her, the most important thing for justice to be served is to find out who is telling the truth, or if anyone is telling the truth.

So they actually said that makes her show because she does not care about cameras, she does not care about fancy stuff and having good-looking people come on and something that will drop. But she wants to her, the most important thing, is she needs for people to see that the truth is the biggest thing, and that you need to tell the truth. And so I just had to go on YouTube just to see where she was showing.

She is, boy, no-nonsense. I had never seen her before, but I just thought she was some old bitty that was, ahh! And so I didn't really realize. Now I have a lot more respect because I saw, she doesn't let them talk very much because she actually said, the longer they talk, the more they make up stuff. And if you tell the truth, it can be short and concise. Kind of reminded me of what Jesus Christ said, let your yes be yes and your no be no.

And if when she would ask the questions, they would have to be thinking of, okay, how do I answer? She said, someone that knows the truth, and they're telling truth, they don't have to think about it. So I thought that was rather interesting. So who is the biggest liar you've ever known?

I have a thought run through my mind because each, everyone knows someone like you know, you know, someone, and you just know that they like. Well, personally, I asked Mary, who's the biggest liar? You know what the amazing part was?

She told me the very same person I have written down on mine because we both know him, okay? But I actually woke up this morning about 4.30, and I don't know why, well, I was going through the sermon before I went to bed, and another name popped up, and boy, the guy I worked with, and I have to say, once I thought about him and all the lies that he told, except he would tell him to eat, and no, he was lying, and knew you know he was lying, and he'd still continue on.

And it would be unbelievable. We were construction, and he was hired with us, and me and the other guy really didn't...he just talked all day long as we were trying to work, and he just talked, talked, talked, talked, talked, talked, talked. And the other guy, finally, about the second week, the guy that worked with me, my partner at the time, he was very quiet and didn't say much during the day, and he liked it. So finally he missed one day, and I said, man, he never misses. And I asked him, he said, man, I just had to have a break.

I just couldn't take him. But this guy would actually, since we were in Nashville, and he tried to play the guitar. Okay? And he said he was really, really, really, really, really, really good. Okay? But when you heard him, he's like, what is this? You know? I mean, you're near Nashville, Tennessee. I mean, real musicians. So we were actually talking one day and said, yeah, it's interesting. So, not good on me. Me and the other guy made up this thing.

He said, oh, did you know Jerry Reed, who was actually a very good picker of every type, was actually staying over here at the Holiday Inn? Motel? We told him that. He goes, I mean, we just made it up, okay? Because no matter what, he always asked, you know what he said? Well, yeah, I was over there last night. I said, really? He said, yeah. He said, he gave me, he said, we were talking and then I said, he said, are you a picker? And he said, oh, yeah, I'm a picker. And he said, then I went out and got my guitar and played for him.

And he said, boy, you are blankety-blank good. That's what flashed in my mind at 4.30 this morning, because I remember that story. Jerry Reed wasn't anywhere around town. He wasn't even in Tennessee, but this guy. Well, he didn't last long. He didn't actually get fired. I thought he was going to get fired, but he actually quit because he said he hurt his leg and got workman's comp, and then he was gone.

And I didn't see him for 25 years. And just before I moved to Florida, I went into a Christian bookstore, and he was working in a Christian bookstore. And you know what he told me? I found Jesus, and I had to say, I didn't say, I wanted to say, oh yeah, because you never told the truth about anything else. Wow. Is a little white lie acceptable in your life? It is in the world we live in, and it's actually promoted, little white lies. A white lie, according to the dictionary, is a harmless or trivial lie, especially one told to avoid hurting someone else's feelings.

Thedictionary.com actually says a white lie is a minor, polite, harmless fib. It's something that's no big deal in this world today. The biggest liar or most famous liar in the Scripture? Who would it be? Satan. Let's go there. Let's go to John 8 and verse 44. Christ says it's so, I believe it's so.

John 8, the Gospel, John 8, verse 44. As he was talking to the religious leaders of the day, and he says, You are of your father the devil, and the desire of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

So where to start? Satan. Lucifer. But it's very interesting. You see, as I typed in Google, famous lies of the Bible, and it popped up, Peter's. I did not know, I don't know that man three times, as he denied his knowing Christ, but yet six months before that, he actually stood there and he said, Who do they say I am? And he said, You are the Christ! But under pressure, it didn't go so well. And you also see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, almost a family trait that they would lie. Something that I don't think is inherited, but it's a family trait you can definitely pick up, because, hey, if younger brother sees that older brother gets away with it by lying, what do you think younger brother is going to do? You bet! And why not?

Exodus 23 verse 7. Exodus 23 verse 7. One short sentence. And I want you to think about that. God says, Keep far away from lying. Okay? That's it. Keep far away from lying. That's loaded. How do you keep far away from lying?

Don't live near politicians. Yeah, Dwight's got it there. Right? How do you keep far away from lying? Well, for one thing, it'll help if you keep far away from liars. Right? And if you're going to keep far away from liars, you're not going to go near liars. So if you want to keep from lying, you need to make sure you don't go near the border in your mind of what the truth is not. Right? Because I like how Proverbs 10 verse 19, you don't have to go there because I want to read from the New Living Translation. Because it helps me to see that point that God is trying to make to keep far away from lying because it says, Too much talk leads to sin. Too much talk leads to sin. And then it says in here, the rest of the sentence, Be sensible and keep your mouth shut. Wow! So we have to be sure that we don't go too far when we cover that ground. Because also in Proverbs 12 verse 22, it actually says that lying lips are an abomination to God. Lying lips are an abomination to God. You know, each year in Cumbria, England, you know exactly what I'm going to say, don't you? You weren't there, were you? Okay, good, good, good. That makes me feel good, Courtney. Because each year in Cumbria, England, at the bridge inn, they have this contest and it's the world's biggest liar contest. And they have prizes and they have people from all over the world come into this now. It's a big deal. And it's been going on, I think, since 1974. So you were never there. I was in England with no company. Okay, okay. Just wanted to make sure.

Now, what's interesting is they have it every year and people come from all over. But there's a guy by the name of John Graham that won it seven years, not all in a row, but seven of the last 15 years. He's won for telling the biggest lies. It's a contest. Now, I know Annie's back there and she's, you know, said, what do you do, Annie? And she said, well, I'm a nurse. What does this guy say? I'm a liar. I'm the world's biggest liar. That's what I'm known for. Would you want to be known for that? Can you imagine him trying to discipline his kids about lying? What?

Tell his wife, why did you lie to me? I had to. You're the world's biggest lawyer.

Amazing what this world has come to. But then again, you get people who say, maybe I'm too truthful.

Well, I kind of tell it like it is. You ever met one of those people? I'm just an honest person, right?

Well, I like the famous saying that says, honesty means everything you say must be true.

Anybody agree with that? Honesty means that everything you say must be true, but not everything that is true must be said. Right?

Because I think that's why God gave us a book of James, and James just constantly talks about the tongue all through his five chapters.

Yeah, it says the tongue is a fire. And if you don't watch your tongue, you will end up in the lake of fire, what he actually says.

So it all comes down to what comes out here. Because a lot of stuff goes in here, but we've got to make sure what comes out here. We have control over, so we're not guilty of breaking that ninth commandment 91% of the time.

There are some amazing statistics that I can't even...I didn't even write them down because I could not believe them.

That for every minute someone is talking to you out here, 20 seconds of it is some way a lie.

I don't know that I can believe it. I don't know how you actually find that out, so I just didn't write those statistics down.

But the ramifications of a lying tongue are eternal.

I want you to think about that. Let's go back to Revelation. Revelation 21, verse 8.

Revelation 21. Revelation 21 and verse 8.

Because in verse 7 he actually says, "'But he who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.' But then he says, "'But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderer, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.' Wait a minute! I just lie! I'm not a murderer!

Remember what God said about Satan? He's a murderer and a liar from the very beginning.

Well, James said, if you've broken one, you've broken them all.

Lying is a big deal to God.

Because how could he give you eternal life to serve with him and live with him and just know that you're not going to tell the truth? It's tough whenever you work with an employee like I did back then, and most of you have worked with an employee, hopefully not as bad as Wendell, but that just lies. Because pretty soon you can't believe anything they say.

And God's not going to have someone living eternally who's going to lie eternally forever!

When that's nowhere near his character!

You know, pretty soon when you raise your kids, he just got rid of another one. Hopefully, he says, right? But hopefully when you raise your kids, you're thinking sometime, because all kids lie. They find out at a very young age. I can get away with this. You know? Nobody saw me.

But eventually you catch them because they're not really good at it yet.

And you hope by the time they get on up older that you've worked that out of them. I didn't say beat them out, beat that out of them. Okay? I went and some is laughing back there.

But you hope that they grow out of it, but you see adults! Right?

They've never grown out of it. Revelation 22 and verse 15. Revelation 22 and verse 15.

Talking about outside the kingdom. Not in his kingdom, but outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral murders and idolaters. And whoever loves and practices...what? Lies! Lies! That's why we have to work on it. That's why we work with our kids. It's very, very important. Because you see, if lying is such an affront to God, He actually says it's an abomination, which actually means something of disgust and pure evil.

We need to know all about it so that we can be, as the Scriptures say, far away from lying. Okay? Because all of us lie. Chances are we've lied about something already today. We may not know that we lied. If somebody else may have sent us something that we sent or said something, we don't know, but it's a lie and we spread it. Or we say something. So, if I could get Joshua and Tafari to come up for me today, I have one more handout for all of you. And that's how we'll wrap it up today in the next six or seven minutes. I'd like you boys to hand out one of these to everybody, even the smallest ones in here.

Oh, and make sure you get one for yourself.

On here is a sheet. I've handed this when I first got here four years ago, but I want to go through it again because it's very, very important. Okay? And it actually talks about lies, the ninth commandment. And it says it comes in all shapes and sizes.

And they do. And we do.

Myths, misinformations.

So, as soon as they get all that back there, I want to look at the three categories here. Our byline. Three categories.

And the first one is falseness. And you can read the Scripture there, so I won't take up that time that says in Proverbs 6 and verses 16 through 19. Okay? It's talking about a false witness who speaks lies.

So, this discord among these are the six things, the eight and seven, that God hates.

If God hates it, you're not going to have us around Him if He hates something and you're just full of it, literally.

Or some of these other things that happen. Why would He want to bless you? You call and need God to bless you? Thank you, young man. Did you get one for yourself? All right. Good.

Do you say He needs two copies? He needs two. Just kidding, Tovari. Just kidding.

But think about that. Look at all those words. Falsify, misrepresent, pervert, belie, fabricate. Thank you, Joshua. Appreciate it.

Look at all that. To cook up, to sham. I want you to look... Any of those fit for if any of you have ever read a resume?

You ever written a resume? Ah, yeah. Well, let's fudge you a little bit. I don't think fudge is on there, but I mean, that's what I think about, right?

Fabricate, perhaps? A little something? Yeah, I did this job because I actually stood by somebody who was doing that job.

Look at that. That's just out now, falsus. But what about falsify? The very first one. Do you know a thing that's called tax returns?

Nobody, yeah. Right? Everybody justifies a little something extra in their mind.

I got broken from that. I don't think I even told you this, so you may want to leave me after this. Before I ever got married, I remember we were married, I didn't know. I was doing the taxes when I first got married, so I don't know. I did tax one year, and so one year they didn't send me. No, I was not married. I remember that now. I got a tax return back, but they said it was going to be late that year. And so it wasn't late by a month or two months. I didn't get mine until like November, and I filed April 15th.

And so I called back and kept calling back because at 21 years old, I needed that money. I had a date. It was big, you know? I needed the money. So what happened? Finally, after four or five phone calls, they said, well, was there anything after August the 15th you will be paid when you get it? You'll be paid interest on top of your return. I go, okay. So wait until December. I'm okay. I got it at the end of October. There was no interest. I was upset. So the next year, what did I do?

I made sure that I fudged to get my money that I thought was due me. And I sent it off. And it was only a matter of $70 or $80 that I would have gotten. But to me, it was right. But you know what happened? That year, they said the IRS was really going through every return, and they were really... And so here, I'm sitting there. I didn't make much money anyway, but I'm going. I'm going to jail. You know? And I had sent mine in April 15th. It didn't come. I'm going, man, they're going to...

Oh, to me, I'm going to jail. I got mine about July and went... For three months, it ate on my stomach that they're going to come back. Good lesson for me. I never want to do that again just for that little stuff. But I had to learn. Nobody could have... No one could have told me. But think about that as you're looking at this. Go down to number two. Exaggeration. Right? We're all guilty.

But it says to overstate, to magnify, to embellish. As Humberto did to me earlier today, he said, haven't I told you a million times? But look at all this. Look at... You say, well, I don't do that. Really carry too far. Make a federal case out of it. Make much of it. We even saw the Olympics this time where you had guys get in trouble in Brazil. And then there were two sides of that story. And find out neither one is really telling the total truth. But they both lied because they were doing this.

But exaggeration. You remember? Everybody did. The fish stories. Remember? Any guy that said, oh, well, yeah, how big? Oh, I was about that big. No. We don't need to be doing that. And then there's the sports stories. Right? All guys played sports. I look back now, that's been 40 years. 35 or 40 years. Man, was I good back then. But I wasn't that good back then. But then you're sitting over time, you start thinking, and then you have these glory days that people talk about this.

And I so remember I went into a restaurant one time, I was sitting there, and I played ball with this guy, and he was like the seventh or eighth person. He hardly ever got off the bench. But one game, we blew people out, and he got in the game. And I remember because I looked at the box scores, you know, we would always keep the box score. I looked at the box scores, he got seven points, which was really big. He was sitting behind me, and he didn't think I could hear him, but he was talking, this was 20 years later, and he's telling the guys, yeah, I remember that one game, man, I got 17 points.

I wanted to say, no, you didn't. But then I would have to say, well, man, you know, there's a few times that I kind of embellished, too.

Finally, the third, deception. Deception. Deceive. It's part of the line. They have a term here. They have it in Florida. They had it in Tennessee. For any of you who went and bought something, I won't name the place, because I don't want it in case they don't do that, but it's called bait and switch. Know what bait and switch is? They advertise something. You go in to buy that, and then they only have one, or what they do, they try to get over and say, oh, well, that's not really as good. You need this one over here that's a little bit more, and it's so much better. Right? Everybody's been... had a piece of that, right? As a matter of fact, the government set it up now so that what people say to you is not really that important. I know Florida has a three-day right of rescission, because I know that Tennessee does. And Tennessee's right of rescission, three-day right of rescission, means that any contract you sign, even if you put money down, you have till midnight the third day to come back and cancel. And you know why they had to do that? Because people just lie! Because they're lying, so they're giving you a chance to find out if the guy is actually lying to you. And just look at some of those words. To build, misguide, misdirect, snare, gossip, overreach, trap, mock. Like you take those home today. Like you to keep that. To me, it's very good because we're more effective with what we just said. Where I originally got this from, it was on the guy's coffee table. And so when we had services at the house one time, it was sitting there, and how do you not talk about that? And you can look and go, wow! It really helps you make you accountable. But when it gets to the heart of the matter, there used to be a TV show here called, To Tell the Truth. I don't know if anybody even watched that show today, would they? Why do we want that? It's too bad we can't have politicians on that show. Wouldn't that be great? Put them on to Tell the Truth, you know? Telling the Truth is a lesson seldom taught today in schools, in homes, and sadly even in churches. We have to. We have to be the person that's honest. We have to be the one that people can go to. We have to be truthful. Even when it hurts, we need to tell the truth. We need to do it for not only our kids, but we need to do it for the world. Because to make this world a better place, it needs to start with us today. We know it's not going to be solved until Christ comes back, but we can make it a better world today, and it starts with us. Ann Lander said, The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie, which is a very good point. So is there such a thing as a good lie? The honest truth? No.