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Telling the truth is always the right response to false accusations

1. God is a “just” God.
   1. God is a holy and “just” God and must punish sin.
   2. Deut 32:4, “He is the Rock, His works are perfect, and all His ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is He.”
   3. 2 Chron 12:6, “The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is just.”
   4. Luke 18:7-8, “And will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will He keep putting them off? I tell you, He will see that they get justice, and quickly.”
2. God is truth; therefore, He honors truth.
   1. Jesus is the way and the truth and the life. (John 14:6)
   2. Since we’re made in His image, we are to reflect God’s attribute of truth. “Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment. The Lord detests lying lips, but He delights in men who are truthful.” (Prov 12:19, 22)
3. God is sovereign
   1. His purposes cannot be thwarted. (Isa 14:27)
   2. He controls the king’s heart like a watercourse such that we find favor in the eyes of the authority. (Prov 21:1)