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Someone said, “You can borrow brains but you can’t borrow character.”
Integrity is a sure path
- Integrity is a guide that goes before you. It is a roadmap. It says this is the path I walk and when I’m faced with a temptation, I will remember that this is the path I walk.
- Integrity’s guide
- Decision to do right before its time to do right.
- Decision to have the right attitude before it’s time to have the right attitude.
- Decision to speak right before it’s your turn to talk.
- Integrity is accountability and responsibility.
- Variegated edge on coins so people wouldn’t shave off the silver. Did that because people have no integrity.
- Leadership
- One who leads themselves before and while they lead others.
- One who earns respect instead of demanding it.
- One who uses what he has to benefit others
- One who gives without strings attached.
Integrity is safety
- Psalms 25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
- Integrity prevents trouble rather than trying to fix trouble
- The world, the flesh, and the devil will beat you up if you have no integrity
- Some of you are unhappy because you waver back and forth in sin and out of sin and you blame others for your misery. Your problem is you lack integrity and you’re just getting beat up by the flesh, the world, and the devil.
- It is wise to walk with the idea that something is at stake. Because something is at stake
- Integrity’s value is the result of many good decisions.
Integrity is strength
- Integrity is critical in building. Structural strength.
- People with no integrity, won’t show up to work, won’t be honest in relationships, they can’t be relied on.
- We are fascinated by people who are immovable, full of resolve, steadfast. Job asks the following questions for you and I.
- Is there a circumstance adverse enough to get you to yield to the flesh? Martyrs amaze us because they are not moved.
- What will it cost to get you to yield to the flesh? Judas sold Jesus out for 30 pieces of silver, we’re willing to do it for less than that.
- What opportunity is convenient enough to get you to yield to the flesh? What do you do when you think none are looking. That’s called a breach in your character and it’s an area you lack integrity. That’s a weakness that will be exploited.
- Do you have a desire strong enough? Is there a demand of your flesh so strong that you have given in to it and no longer yield to the spirit? That is an area where you’ve justified a lack of integrity.
