I hope this has never happened to you: You have an appointment with a doctor only to later discover that the person you met with wasn’t a real doctor at all. Who was that? You met with a counterfeit doctor, a person masquerading as someone professional.
Man, none of us have to look very far these days to see how often fraud and cheating actually happens:
Let's consider what God in the Bible has to say about cheating or committing fraud.
It’d be good to know huh. What does the Bible say about these sins?
Currently one political party in America has been caught cheating.. a whole lot. Yes, they've be caught cheated on a massive scale. Just today I heard over four hours of credible eyewitnesses testifying on what they first hand saw and experienced regarding this. This particular party has chosen to become known for this and now don’t even seem to care.
Will those who've cheated go to a real place called hell if they remain unrepentant? Yes. Will all of them go to prison? Hopefully. You know that's a time-out kind of place where they could learn to submit to Authority. This time I believe several will get locked up for fraud. You and I didn’t know that all the votes from our last election where counted in Frankfurt Germany did you?
On Nov. 18, 2020 did you hear Rudy Giuliani reveal the info on the voting system by Dominion and Smartmatic? We didn’t know that when American votes are calculated, they are digitally sent to Smartmatic’s servers located in Frankfurt, Deutschland, and in Barcelona, Spain. We didn’t know there was a backdoor where votes could be added in. We learned that the machine devices are extremely vulnerable to hacking and manipulation.
Google the history of Smartmatic, which actually helped the dictator Chavez fix the elections by vote fraud in Venezuela.
Now 79% of Conservative Voters Believe ‘Election Was Stolen‘. So it's probably higher than that even.
Yesterday Joe Biden Gets Only 1,000 Viewers to Watch His Thanksgiving Address Live — But He Got 80 Million Votes (more votes they say than any other president in all of history)?
Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with any part of the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, voter suppression or depressing the vote share of rival candidates.
Cheating is essentially acting dishonestly, illegally, or unfairly in order to gain a personal advantage. Of course Biased Big tech, Media, and Social Media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are complicit in this massive fraud this time.
You know many people go to prison for breaking the law by committing fraud. It's very serious and God sees and catches every one of them. Rudy Giuliani is currently catching a lot of fraudsters in their illegal scams.
What is this cheating and fraud? It's when people disregard set rules or laws in favor of personal gain or for their so called success. When a selfish desire for victory or accomplishment outweighs a moral commitment to truthfulness, integrity and equality, cheating can become a temptation. But as new creations in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17), we can choose to refuse harmful temptations to commit fraud or cheat out other people. (Matthew 26:41; 1 Corinthians 10:13). You don't want to offend God or be known as a real thief or a robber do you?
Christians must strive to glorify the Lord with their thoughts and actions (1 Corinthians 3:16). Cheating or committing fraud, they go against the goodness and obedience that will glorify the Lord. Dishonesty mars an individual’s integrity and reputation. It can taint or sully you on the inside until you're foul or perverse (Proverbs 10:9). Not presenting oneself truthfully is lying, and lying is a sin simple as that and unforgiven sinners go to hell instead of heaven (Leviticus 19:11; Proverbs 12:22). Is that what you want?
Even though the world excuses dishonesty when it deems it trivial, God asks His followers to be truth-tellers all the time. If those of a a party keep losing they might become tempted to cheat in an election.. and then they get caught and go to prison where they belong.
If a student does poorly on a test because he didn’t study, his low grade is a natural consequence of a poor choice. God will honor that honesty, and the student can learn from his mistakes. A bad grade on a test may teach and motivate a student to study harder ahead of time or get a tutor or get enough sleep the night before. Grades in school should represent what has been learned in the class and the subsequent work of the student. Cheating seeks to bypass the learning process and manipulate consequences through dishonesty.
Followers of Christ need to walk in the light, and cheating prevents people from seeing Christ’s glory. Dishonesty taints the goodness the children of God should have (Philippians 2:15; Ephesians 5:8). If our own Heavenly Father condemns lying (Proverbs 6:16–19), there is no way a believer can justify even a “harmless” lie such as cheating.
Cheating is a selfish act that gives us an advantage over others who are facing the same challenge. As Christians, we should seek to help others fairly and justly while maintaining moral integrity and a godly reputation. Cheating simply does not help uphold that standard.
What are the consequences of cheating or committing fraud.. what's the consequences of any sin of omission or commission?
The ultimate—and severest—consequence of sin is death. People who commit fraud go to jail and people who cheat end up single again, or kicked out of school. The Bible says that “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). This not only refers to physical death, but to eternal separation from God: “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear” (Isaiah 59:2). This is the foremost consequence of man’s rebellion against God.
Yet many want to believe that God is so “loving” that He will overlook our “little faults,” “lapses” and “indiscretions.” Little white lies, cheating on the tax return, taking that pen when no one is looking, or secretly viewing pornography—these are peccadillos, not worthy of death, right? The problem is, sin is sin, big or small. Though God loves us, His holiness is such that He cannot live with evil. The prophet Habakkuk describes God this way: “Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong” (Habakkuk 1:13). God does not ignore our sin. On the contrary, “you may be sure that your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23). Even those secret sins we hide in the recesses of our hearts will one day be brought to light: “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account” (Hebrews 4:13).
Paul made it abundantly clear that sin has consequences: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Galatians 6:7). Paul then describes the end of those who indulge in sinful behavior: “The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction” (Galatians 6:8). The phrase “sinful nature” refers to one’s unregenerate, shameless self. Though the sin nature may promise fulfillment, it can result in nothing but “destruction.”
Paul told the believers in Galatia that “the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other...” (Galatians 5:17). Then he lists the sordid works of the sin nature and specifies the ultimate consequence of such behavior: “Those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God” (see Galatians 5:19-21). Those who live in debauchery and sin sow the seeds of destruction in their present-day life and forfeit any hope of eternal life.
The Bible describes those who choose to indulge in sin as being “darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more” (Ephesians 4:18-19). One of the consequences of sin, therefore, is more sin. There’s an insatiable “lust for more,” attended by a dulling of the conscience and a blindness to spiritual truth (1 Corinthians 2:14).
The consequence of suppressing the truth is that God gives the sinner over to “the sinful desires of their hearts,” “shameful lusts” and “a depraved mind” (Romans 1:24, 26, 28). This means that God may allow the sinner to serve as his own god and to reap the destruction of his body and soul. It is a fearful thing to be “given over” to our own destructive ways.
God has made it clear that “the soul who sins will die” (Ezekiel 18:4, NASB). Those who habitually live their lives outside of Christ, yet whose hearts have been convicted by the gospel of Christ, should follow the example of the first converts of the church: “They were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, ‘Brothers, what shall we do?’” The answer was simple yet profound: “Repent!” (Acts 2:37-38).
Jesus’ first words when He began His ministry were, “The time has come. The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!” (Mark 1:15). What is the good news? “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
