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“For without are…whosoever loveth and maketh a lie” (Revelation 22:15).
Usually, we talk about someone “telling” a lie. But do you know that you can tell a lie without speaking a word? Today in our Sunday school a man told us a story and showed us a picture. A long time ago (more than fifty years!) he was working with two other men on a small, barren island in the far north of Canada. A grizzly bear was on that island too, with no food, and he was looking for a good meal. In order to preserve their lives, it was necessary for one of the men to shoot the bear. The man who told the story showed us a picture of himself kneeling by the dead bear with a rifle in his hands. Then he asked the children to tell him who they thought had shot the bear. Of course they were all sure that he had done it! But the picture was “making a lie,” as our verse says. It was just a posed picture, as one of the other men had shot the bear.
God hates lying, no matter whether it is spoken with our lips, or just a picture that tells an untruthful story. Let us remember that God wants the truth, always.
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