A detestable, stinking weed – Thomas Brooks

“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” John 8:44

Satan is the father of all sins, as well as the father of lies. By lying, he first brought sin into the world. Satan began his kingdom by a lie, and by lies he still labors to uphold it. He is the inventor and author of all the lies which are in the world. The devil’s breasts,” says Luther, “are very fruitful with lies.” Liars are the devil’s children by imitation. There are none who resemble him so much to the life, as liars do! They are as like him as if they were spit out of the his very mouth. Lying is a part of the devil’s image. Other sins make men like beasts; but this sin of lying makes men like devils.

Such as truly fear the Lord, they hate lying. Psalm 119:163, “I hate and abhor lying.” Proverbs 13:5, “A righteous man hates lying.” Lying is a detestable, stinking weed, and therefore a righteous man abhors to touch it, he hates to come near it, and can by no means endure the scent of it in othersleast of all in himself!