Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.

And today we got a question for you. Are you a liar?

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 a says a question.

And just put the the idea out there to consider whether or not you struggle with lying.

Yeah, because there's things in our life that we lie about and we don't see them as lies.

We see them as fudges of the truth or white lies or all these other ways we want to sit.

Another thing we do is we say, oh, I don't want to hurt my spouse.

So I'm just not going to tell them the full truth. And you know what? The Bible is very clear about lying.

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 so we just thought that we'd present the idea of the question that you guys could use this episode to discuss in your own marriage.

If there's areas that you lie about, even in the little things, God does not like lying. He hates it.

The Bible actually tells us that liars will not inherit the kingdom of heaven.

It talks about all these other things that are not going to 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 ask for forgiveness and actually ask God to change us in?

And so we're going to talk about it today. We're going to bring up some scripture.

And we're going to talk about how we struggled with it in the past and currently get tempted with it every single day.

And so why don't you start off and you can introduce some of the things that we're going to talk about today.

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