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2Sa 17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come
into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David. 18
Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and
came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down. 19
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn
thereon; and the thing was not known. 20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman
to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them,
They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they
returned to Jerusalem.
Effects of lying
1. Lying destroys people’s freedom and dignity of our victims because it is always
manipulative. By lying to someone, we take away their ability to choose rationally, to make a
decision and form an opinion based on accurate information. It means that we are treating
people with contempt, as objects to fool and deceive for our own selfish ends.
2. Lying damages the personal freedom of the people who engage in it, because they quickly
become entangled in the sticky web of their own deception and manipulation. Abraham Lincoln
said: “No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” Truth tellers do not have
to strain to avoid the pitfalls they have set for themselves, but liars keep digging in deeper as
they lie more and more, attempting to cover their previous falsehoods.
3. Lying destroys trust. It is sometimes possible to deceive other people, but usually not for long.
Distrust and suspicion increase exponentially when a lie is discovered. Nobody trusts a liar.
And it is also true that no one is more suspicious than a liar. People who lie naturally don’t trust
other people. They assume that they are just like them.
4. Lying damages the liar’s sense of self-worth. Even if it is possible to deceive other people
for a while, it is very much harder to fool ourselves. I may be able to pull the wool over your
eyes, but I have done serious damage to myself, because I know that I am a fake and a hypocrite.
5. Lying destroys our relationship with God. This may be the least concern of someone
squirming in an effort to get out of trouble. But in the end it is the most devastating effect of
all. Let us look at this further.
IN CONTRAST
Joh 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer
from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a
lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. {of his own: or, from his own will or
disposition}