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Hey there, sprouts. Today is Wednesday, October 25th, 2020. This week we are talking about the Eighth Commandment. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. But before we get

there, please join me in calling down the power

of the Holy Spirit to guide us and steer us always closer to God and live in truth. In the name of the

Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Come Holy Spirit, Creator blessed, and in our souls, take up thy rest.

Come with thy grace and heavenly aid to fill our hearts which thou hast made. O comforter, to thee we

cry, O heavenly gift of God most high, O fontforter, to thee we cry, O heavenly gift of God most high.

O font of life and fire of love and sweet anointing from above. Amen.

So we've already talked about the fact that God is truth, that we need to live in the truth of Jesus Christ and live as Christians,

since we have been baptized into God's own family.

Now, today we're going to dig a little bit deeper into the various ways that we can

commit the sin of telling a lie, and hopefully this can really stick with you as you prepare for your next

confession because there's a lot of different ways that we can fall into falsehood. So first of all,

just to be clear, when we tell a lie, we can say things that are true or false. And sometimes

we say things that are false without realizing it.

We can make a mistake.

And I want you to know that whenever, whatever kind of sin we're talking about, a sin is something that we deliberately choose to do and we know that it is wrong while we are doing it.

So when we tell a lie for it to be a lie,

we need to know that we are deceiving someone in front of us

and that it is wrong, and yet we choose to do it anyway.

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