Deception on the rise:
Lying is one of the most prevalent ways to deceive someone. Statistics show that 60% of people aged 18 and older are unable to have a conversation without lying at least once. Deception has been on the rise in today’s digital landscape. It deals with being led away from the truth, to err, and to being seduced. Allowing oneself to be deceived is a matter of choice. The choice of how tolerant one is of lying depends on how close one is to the truth. Walking in the truth is what the scriptures call a greater joy (3 Jhn 1:4). David was desirous to learn how to walk in God’s truth (Ps 86:11). Jesus prayed that God would sanctify in the truth those who choose to follow him (Jhn 17:17). The benefits of walking in truth are aligned with those who follow after Christ. It involves living authentically, building relationships, and obeying. To walk in truth requires the help of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said that the Spirit would come once he was gone (Jhn 16:13). Walking in truth, once practiced, becomes a good custom that believers hold true to. The believer is accustomed to talking about the truth.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Customs that are founded on truth, which is Christ, become a habit of practice for the believer. Evil communications deal with personal relationships, ideas, and conversations, and they distort good customs. Paul warns the church in Corinth about some corrupt people who had joined the church. Those corrupt individuals came with the teachings that there was no such thing as the resurrection of the dead, a teaching from the Sadducees. Resurrection is a foundational teaching of the Christian faith (1 Cor 15:12-14). Paul tells the church that if Christ did not rise from the dead, then their faith is dead. The bible teaches us that Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his death. He appeared to 500, including the disciples who were on their way to Emmaus, as they conversed about what had happened (Lk 24:21). It is a good custom to believe and talk about the resurrection, because it builds hope of a better place. Resurrection is about putting death, which is the last enemy to be destroyed under Christ’s feet.
3 John 1:4
4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
Psalms 86:11
Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
John 17:17
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 16:13
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
1 Corinthians 15:12-14
12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
Luke 24:21
21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.