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“For which, rejecting the lie, speak truth each one with his neighbor; because we are members some of others.”-Efesios 4:25

    Here apostle Pablo begins to apply the dynamics of “remove and set” to specific things. In this case it is a question of the lie. The lie is a part of the robes of the old creature. Everything the one that lies is a liar. Therefore, the Christian cannot be a liar like not Christians. That about that “Jorge Washington never said a lie” is of for itself a big lie - “earlier well he is a truthful God, and every lying man” – Romans 3:4

    “Rejecting the lie” So the first piece of the garb of the old creature that it is necessary to throw to the garbage is the lie. In the Greek original the word that to be uses for the lie is “to pseudos”, that in good Spanish it means falsely. As in case of a writer who uses a pseudonym, that is to say that is using a false name to conceal his. 

    The lie is a concealment of the truth. We can do it, denying, adding, remaining, they exaggerate, keeping silent about it, distorting. The motives for lying also can be different: not car to be accused, to protect a false appearance, to achieve a target, to cheat, to justify itself or to justify something, to suit, etc. But it does not matter what the motives are, in the last analysis, the liar is not another thing than a poor scared deceitful devil, who does not support to face in public the truth with which it faces to alone itself. The psychology labels this persistent conduct as a pathology that names it "mitomanía", a psychological - paranoid disorder. The Bible calls him by his name “sin“. And because it corresponds to the clothing of the old man, any that one that loves and practises the lie will be excluded from the Eternal Life – Apocalypse 22:14-15.

    But a liar it stops being, not when he stops lying, but when only he tells the truth – “rejecting the lie, speak truth each one with his neighbor”. The truth and only the truth is a part of clothing that corresponds to the Christian. And there is another big reason not to lie to us: "because we are members some of others.” We are members of Christ and members some of others. As Christ's members, when we lie, we commit a sacrilege against what He is, against what He has done to us  

and against other members of the same church in which God has put us. Martyn Lloyd-Jones says, that the one that lies to a brother, also is lying to himself that it is a part of the same body.

    We agree in that one becomes a liar for the habitual practice of lying. That does not mean that when we are born again, automatically it will eliminate this old sinful habit. But yes that you have to fight seriously in spite of undressing something of our sinful nature that Christ already crucified and won in the cross. We have to die to the lie and live for the truth that he is Christ. The devil is a lie father, and when he speaks about lie of himself he speaks (Juan 8:44). We are not children of the devil but God's children.

    As well as lying is a habit that took time and practice, to tell the truth also will take time and practice to us to turn into a new habit of the new creature created to Christ's image. Possibly some of them must begin the change confessing to God his sin and the men his lies. And the church might help them confronting them with them, and excusing them.