Why would we have to be told to not lie to each other? We automatically know it is wrong. We lie to stay out of trouble most of the time. If we told the truth, they would react negatively toward us. In that case we are saying that our popularity is more important than someone getting the truth. So, we keep our self out of trouble and it appears that it has helped us. If this continues, we will not only lie to keep the peace, it grows to a place where we start lying so as to cheat people.

Mat 13:13-17 (NIV) This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.

Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’ But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. FOR I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”

This type of life and ministry isn’t the popular way of doing things. You will have to pray to be willing to be different from the typical way of talking, living, and ministering. You will have to let Jesus make you into a person who says things in a way that some will be offended but where many can be healed. Truth will have to flow in and through you like a river. Jesus’ life and ministry will have to be set free to say and do things Jesus’ way out of your mouth and body.