This post is a follow-up message from Pastor Ben's sermon entitled "Truth or Consequences". [Watch video]

Ephesians 4:25 - "Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another."

One of the ways Christians often speak falsely to one another is duplicity. According to dictionary.com, duplicity is “deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing.”

Do you ever act and speak one way with one person, but then totally different with another? That is not speaking truth with your neighbor. It is duplicity, and duplicity is falsehood. And falsehood is, well, lying. These things ought not to be for those who are “members of one another”!

What do you think? How destructive is it when someone says one thing to one person and then something totally different to another? What’s behind it? What is the answer? See also James 4:8!