Lesson 7 - Honesty With God

Luke 16:10 If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities. NLT

Can we "fool" God?

We might fool ourselves and we tend to do so much of the time; because it arises from our "deceitful hearts".
We may even fool others, but we can never fool God.

The lesson asks "what is an honest heart?"

Is it someone who has good intentions? No, of ourselves we just have a carnal heart, which scripture says is "deceitful above all things".

There is only one way to obtain a truly honest heart and that is a heart fully given to Christ, for Him to cleanse and to ingrain His law and righteousness within it.


One of our biggest problems with "dishonesty" is that we have a deceitful heart, and are very good at deceiving ourselves, and rationalizing away truth. Until Christ gets hold of us and exposes the deceptions in our hearts and opens our eyes to His righteousness and truth and the huge contrast between our "honesty" and His honesty, we will not be completely honest.

But Christ leads us into the paths of righteousness for His name sake. He can make us like the 144,000 in whom was found no guile (deceitfulness) because they follow the Lamb everywhere He leads.