A man acts dishonestly, purposely lying or making false claims, acting with malicious intention or ill will. When this is done, he later claims he is an honest man as he tries to establish himself as acceptable and good.
Such a man is not honest, neither is he being honest when he claims honesty as a trait or characteristic. In order that this man establish honesty, that he can rightly claim, he must first reconcile the harm and/or error he committed when he acted dishonestly and with malicious intentions.
Without this reconciliation, that man can never claim he is honest, because honesty demands he take responsibility for his wrongs and recompense those who he has harmed or done ill toward.
A dishonest man cannot claim honesty.
I have experienced such people, both in and out of the position of authority outside of the Church, but not in this Church, especially not with any person in the position of Church authority.
It seems that those who are not of God, not working to be his faithful are the ones most prone to this dishonest man syndrome. I have experienced this problem a lot with Anti-Mormons and some Ex-Mormons, because once they break the faith, their hearts and minds become focused on wrong things and wrong beliefs.
Early in my life I realized that I carried the ability to discern dishonesty from honesty. Since being a convert to this Holy Church (1999), my ability to discern dishonesty increased. I know that this increase occurred each time I learned and lived the Lord’s righteous principles and true doctrines of God. They strengthened and developed my ability greater than I ever have been. Recently, I experienced certain people in a position of authority expressing dishonesty as they tried to claim honesty and integrity.
From that negative experience, I learned more about the true principles that teach when a person is honest and when he or she is dishonest. I learned that repentance is a crucial part of becoming honest, for without this part, there is no honesty, only dishonesty. God’s light cannot increase in any person when any dishonesty remains and any time God’s light enters a person, the parts that remain in dishonesty will rise up and appear. This is the result of light shining in the darkness and revealing truth and the reason for repentance.
To the world, repentance means to apologize or to make the appropriate recompense and needed correction. Without this act of repentance, no person can succeed in developing a sincere and honest relationship with anyone, because his or her heart is closed to change.
Honesty to God is imperative to achieve his grace, else any dishonesty is subject to the law and grace cannot cheat justice. All are judged by God according to their works and that includes works of the heart and mind.
People tend to think that spewing out good or nice words proves their honesty and sincerity, but these people fail to understand the “spirit of the word”. A person who can make this spiritual discernment will see that the good words that carry a bad spirit, especially the bad spirit that is unrepented, will be false words and will manifest as evil fruit for them. When the evil fruit manifests, these people will claim they knew nothing about it or claim the contrary to what has manifested before them. Such are dishonest because they try to falsify the truth with the false image of feigned innocence. Such are despicable persons and trust cannot be extended to these people.
The act of self-responsibility will show as any true act of recompense (repentance) and will carry the spirit of peace and release. The spirit of dishonesty always feels as a heavy spirit laying like a dark cloud. Evil has a specific “feel”, a weight to it and Satan cannot change the experience of his kind of spirit for that would be changing his nature and he has no such power. Recompense must come directly from the offender, it cannot come from another who acts in their place because the intent of recompense and honesty must come directly from the heart of the offender to those he or she has hurt or harmed.
The experience from a dishonest man will feel heavy, an honest man light.
A dishonest man cannot claim honesty.
Amen.
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