To whom do we owe the truth?
From sermon video “Do We Owe
the Truth to Everyone?”
Pastor David Whitney, Pastor
of
Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church
in Pasadena, Maryland
Notes by Stephen M Golden,
Copyright © 4 April 2015
I. No Compulsion to tell all the truth
II. No
compulsion to answer at all
You have the
right to remain silent
Everything
you say will be used against you
Lawlessness
in Law Enforcement
III. We
Don’t Owe the Truth to Everyone
In Matthew
12:38,39 Jesus felt no compulsion to tell everything to anyone. Likewise, we are not obligated to give all the
information someone is demanding or in the manner that they are demanding it.
We are not
obligated to answer in a way that will not further the mission God has given us
here on earth. In fact we are obligated
to answer in a way that will not derail the mission God has given us here on
earth.
There is a
false priority given to us by Satan that we are supposed to be nice to
everyone. Jesus was not nice to the
servants of Satan, he rebuked them. We should do the same.
Don't let
questions of the evil one become our priority. Jesus said do not cast your
pearls before swine.
We are to
understand there are those in this world whose goal it is to defeat the work of
Christ in this world.
Matthew 15:1-5
Jesus discerns their intention and responds with a question. He points out their violation of God’s law.
If the questioner’s intent is to undermine the work I the Bible, we
are not obligated to answer them at all.
Mark 11:27 First answer my question and then I'll answer your
question.
Matthew 26:62-63 Jesus remained silent.
Matthew 27:11ff
This is the origin of our God-given right against self-incrimination.
You are not safe talking to the police.
YouTube:
Don't Talk to the Police/Cops | James Duane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkZf6_jK3Zs
Any time you talk to the police, it will be used against you.
The police can use what you say against you. The court considers it evidence. However, the court does not recognize anything
you say that could help you as admissible. The court considers anything you say that
might help you “hearsay.”
There is lawlessness in our law enforcement community. They are
walking in disobedience to the oath they have taken.
DUI checkpoints are a violation of the 4th Amendment as
well as violation of state laws in most jurisdictions. They are “general warrants.” Everyone is targeted. General warrants are illegal. They are unconstitutional.
We have a duty to protect ourselves from unlawful actions on the
part of civil government. The civil
government does not have our best interests at heart. We should be on our guard against them. The militarization of local police forces
declares that the citizens are the enemy.
There is lawbreaking going on throughout our government from the top
town. The America we have today is not
the America that our founders established. We need to discern the deceptions, evil
intentions, and lawlessness so that we are not part of thwarting the true law
of God.
Exodus 1:15-21
The women lied and God blessed them for it.
[19] The midwives said
to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they
are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them.”
Rahab said she didn’t know where the visitors were from.
Joshua 2:4
[4] But the woman had
taken the two men and hidden them, and she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but
I did not know where they were from.
Rebekah, Jacob's mother, deceived Isaac, who was blind at that
time, by placing goat skins on Jacob’s hands and neck.
— Genesis 27:16; 22-23[1]
Pharaoh was viewed as God living among the people. The two women feared the one true God who created
the universe. Because they feared the
true God, they refused to commit the wicked sin of murder.
How to speak to a tyrant
The Godly do not fear the tyrant, and the Godly are willing to
disobey the tyrant whenever what the tyrant commands is in violation of God’s
law.
The two Egyptian women communicated that they did not owe the
tyrant anything, even the truth. Most commentators
commend the women for obeying God but criticize them for lying to Pharaoh. However, notice in the text that God did not
rebuke them at all! God rewarded
them!
When human civil government goes rogue, instead of doing what He
designed civil government to do, instead of protecting and defending our
God-given right to life …the saints owe nothing to that government because that
government has declared itself an illegitimate government. Those women essentially said, “we do not owe
obedience to that government, and we do not owe the truth as well.”
When civil government goes rogue, and begins a campaign of murder,
are the saints any longer obligated to that organization? Are they obligated to obey that organization with
its murderous campaign? Are they any
longer obligated to speak the truth when that truth is demanded of them?
Consider America today, if you would. While Pharaoh probably never even killed one million
babies, consider what our Federal and State governments have done since 1973:
sixty million babies murdered in their mothers’ wombs. That's just the tip of the iceberg when you
consider the money our government has sent to other countries to have them murder
their babies. Some estimate the number
to be over one billion babies.
What do we owe to that criminal, murderous regime in Washington D.C.?
We do not owe them obedience, nor do we
owe them the truth.
For another example, turn to Joshua, chapter 2. Rahab the harlot helped the two spies, Joshua
and Caleb by giving them aid and hiding them and told the authorities that the
two men left, and she did not know where they were.
Joshua 2:4
[4] But the woman had
taken the two men and hidden them, and she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but
I did not know where they were from.
Side note, the king of Jericho recognized the “Castle Doctrine”
and did not break down her door to search for the men. The king of Jericho was more righteous than
our civil government.
God justified and blessed Rahab (Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25). She completely undermined the security of the
city of Jericho. God commends this as an
act of faith! God blessed Rahab so
greatly that she became one of the ancestors of our LORD, Jesus Christ. In a time of war, we do not owe the truth to
God’s enemy.
Our Federal and State Governments are rejecting God’s Law
wholesale. They are redefining God’s institution of marriage. They are saying, “Law is whatever we say it
is.”
God describes a government as this in Daniel, chapter 7, starting
at verse 7. It is a bloodthirsty
insatiable monster. Instead of being a
minister of God as Romans 13:4 indicates civil government is supposed to be, it
has become minister of Satan, doing Satan’s work. They have become empires of evil. They are
building a one-world beast system.
What are Christians to do? We
do not owe answers to everyone who asks us. We should know our mission here on Earth and
not let the questioner derail is from what God has called us to do. We must fear God above all else. We must have a commitment to follow Jesus
Christ no matter what come.
We must learn to discern the difference between legitimate civil
government from illegitimate civil government. We have no reason to put participate in
illegitimate civil government, and we owe no obedience nor truth to such a
government.