#6 "A false witness who speaks lies"

Welcome to point number six.

6) A false witness who speaks lies. 
I have always found it interesting that two of the sins that God hates has to do with lying. In this instance it's referring to someone who gives a false report against another. 

This is another one of those sins that our society more and more has no problems with. In fact Hollywood uses this sin all the time in court dramas.
Sometimes they try to use it to get the guilty person off. They will get false witness to testify that the guilty person was with them at the time and could not have committed the crime. 

Others have been known to be false witnesses for friends to try and help them win money or put one of their enemies in jail. 

How many times have young people shared in a lie about what really happened to something that was broken. I can remember when I was staying at home and my brother was over and we began fight as brothers do sometimes. 
Well I was chasing after him and he locked the front door on me and at that time the upper part of our door was made of glass. 
I started yelling at him let me in or I will break this door down. Well like an idiot, as we all are sometimes, I punched at the glass and to my surprise my hand went right through the glass and I was cut. 

But do you think we told our parents what really happened?
No instead we made up a story and told them that we were running into the house and closed the door too hard and the glass broke. 
I was lying and my brother was being a false witness. What we did was wrong but this kind thing happens all the time but it shouldn't. 

Christians should do their best to never be a false witness for anyone. 
Proverbs 19:5 "A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who speaks lies will not escape." (NKJV)
Our first biblical example of a false witness comes from Jesus' illegal trial at night by the Jews. 
Mark 14:55-59 tells us "Now the chief priests and all the council sought testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, but found none. 56 For many bore false witness against Him, but their testimonies did not agree. 57 Then some rose up and bore false witness against Him, saying, 58 "We heard Him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.' " 59 But not even then did their testimony agree."
Jesus had done nothing wrong so the false witness had to come forward and make up lies, but as you can see their lies did not match showing them to be false witnesses.
This was in direct violation of the ten commandments but no one seemed to care about that because their focus was on taking Jesus down. 

Stephen the first Christian martyr had this same problem.
Acts 6:11-14 "Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God." 12 And they stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; and they came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council. 13 They also set up false witnesses who said, "This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law; 14 "for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us." 

Again we see Stephen was innocent yet these false witnesses came forward and lied so that he would be put to death. 
This also happened to Paul several times as the Jews followed him around stirring up trouble by spreading lies about what Paul was preaching. 

Any way you look at it being a false witness is wrong and God hates that sin and we should hate it as well. God bless until our next time.