Husband lies and hides things full#

– You only tell part of it, just enough to get you by and get that guilt off your chest, but it’s not actually full. – Yeah, omitting the truth, which is also lying. And so, am I bearing false witness against you? Am i presenting untruths, falsities, lies to you in any part of my life? You know, it could be a white lie, it could be, you know– – Yeah, and so since, as we always say, your spouse is your closest neighbor, the things that the Bible teaches us about how we should be to outsiders or to the world, our spouse should be getting that first, and as and as well as everyone else.

– Everybody in your proximity and who you interact with and engage with are your neighbors. – Well, I mean, we’ve shared it in other episodes before but it’s just this idea that your closest neighbor is your spouse. And so that word neighbor is a good word, if you want to talk about that for a second. It says you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. We want you looking in the Scriptures and reading them for yourselves. – And don’t just listen to us read the Scripture. It’s where the Ten Commandments get first presented to the people of Israel.

– Yeah, so it’s in, the first place that the Ten Commandments shows up is in Exodus chapter 20. And, you know, we teach our children about the Ten Commandments and one of them is not to lie, and so why don’t you just read that verse real quick and we’ll talk about it? – Well, first off, you mentioned it’s one of the commandments and it’s in Exodus 20. And so, why don’t you start off and you can, you know, introduce some of the things that we’re gonna talk about today?

We’re gonna bring up some Scripture and we’re gonna talk about how we’ve struggled with it in the past and currently, you know, get tempted with it every, single day. It talks about all these other things that are not gonna be a part of that, and so He desires His children, us, especially marriages that are chasing after Him and are desiring to do ministry for Him, to evaluate ourselves and ask ourselves are we liars and is there any areas of our life that we lie in that we can, you know, ask for forgiveness in and actually ask God to change us in. The Bible actually tells us that liars will not inherit the kingdom of heaven. Even in the little things, God does not like lying. And so we just thought that we’d present the idea, the question that you guys could use this episode to discuss in your own marriage if there’s areas that you lie about. We know that in the Ten Commandments, which is the first place I think of when I think of the word lie, you know, God’s moral law tells us not to lie or to bear false witness. And you know what, the Bible is very clear about lying.

Husband lies and hides things full#

Another thing we do is we say oh, I don’t want to hurt my spouse so I’m just not gonna tell them the full truth. We see them as fudges of the truth, or white lies, or all these other ways we want to say it. – Yeah, because there’s things in our life that we lie about and we don’t see them as lies. So this week, we thought it’d be important to pose a question, are you a liar because sometimes, I don’t know if you guys can relate, maybe you don’t think you’re a liar, maybe you don’t think you struggle with being a liar or lying and so we thought hey, let’s pose this as a question and just put the the idea out there to consider whether or not you struggle with lying. – We’d also love to hear from you in the comments and also we know that you guys have married friends, so be sure to share this with them. As always, we want to invite you to subscribe to our channel so you get notified every time we upload a new episode. Are you a liar? Hey, thanks for joining us. – Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage. – Hey, we’re Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God. You can watch this episode, you can listen to it, or you can read it, all right here, whichever you prefer! No matter what be sure to subscribe! WATCH: Yes, we have lied to each other, and in ways I never thought were that bad, but lying is lying. In this episode we navigate God’s Word on this topic and we discuss our marriage and lying. We wanted to bring this conversation up to help us all confront the issue that our flesh and our enemy tempts us to lie.