Speaker 1: Jesus says, there are eight things that bring God's blessing
Speaker 1: in your life. I want your life to be blessed.
Speaker 1: I want my life to be blessed. And Jesus says,
Speaker 1: these are the keys to being blessed by God. Now
Speaker 1: you know, our culture is absolutely obsessed with appearance, how
Speaker 1: you look.
Speaker 2: We're all about image.
Speaker 1: And if you're beautiful, then you're considered bright and you're
Speaker 1: considered the best, which leaves most of us not in
Speaker 1: the brightest and best. Now you could be sexy like me.
Speaker 1: But the Bible says God couldn't care less how you look.
Speaker 1: God is not into appearance. God couldn't care less about
Speaker 1: your achievements, your accomplishments, or your acquisitions. God isn't interested
Speaker 1: in how educated you.
Speaker 2: Are or how wealthy you are.
Speaker 1: God doesn't care about how popular or how famous you are.
Speaker 1: What God cares about is not your image. But he
Speaker 1: cares about your health and your heart and what's inside you,
Speaker 1: the real you, the Bible says. In the Book of
Speaker 1: First Samuel, chapter sixteen, it says this in verse seven.
Speaker 1: Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks
Speaker 1: at the heart. And so today we come to the
Speaker 1: sixth of Jesus eight beatitudes of ways to be blessed,
Speaker 1: And in Matthew chapter five, verse eight, talking about heart,
Speaker 1: it says this, God blesses those whose hearts are pure,
Speaker 1: for they will see God.
Speaker 2: Now, what in the world does that mean.
Speaker 1: God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will
Speaker 1: see God.
Speaker 2: First, what does it mean they will see God?
Speaker 1: This verse says, the people whose hearts are pure, they're
Speaker 1: the ones who get up close to God, get to
Speaker 1: experience the presence of God. They get to feel the
Speaker 1: power of God. They get to know the purpose of
Speaker 1: God for their life. They get to live in the
Speaker 1: peace of God. They experience the pardon of God. These
Speaker 1: are the people who really have it, he says. God
Speaker 1: blesses those who are pure in heart. They're the ones
Speaker 1: that God says. This guy, he's my friend. This woman,
Speaker 1: she's my friend. So what does it mean to be
Speaker 1: pure in heart? That's not a term we use in
Speaker 1: today's language. We don't talk about saying, oh, she's got
Speaker 1: a pure heart. The word for pure in heart today
Speaker 1: is the word integrity. Integrity. Now, the Bible uses the
Speaker 1: word integrity a lot, but it actually even uses.
Speaker 2: The word blameless.
Speaker 1: More. Now, what does it mean to have integrity? Because
Speaker 1: if God says I bless those who have integrity, what
Speaker 1: does it mean to have integrity doesn't mean sinless, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean perfect, Then it doesn't mean you don't
Speaker 1: make any mistakes. If you have to be sinless to
Speaker 1: have integrity, nobody's got integrity.
Speaker 2: Because we all blow it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean perfect because if you have to be
Speaker 1: perfect and never do anything wrong to have integrity, then
Speaker 1: none of us will ever have integrity. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you never make any mistakes. If that were true, none
Speaker 1: of us would ever have integrity. So it's not talking
Speaker 1: about being perfect being sinless. What does it mean to
Speaker 1: be pure in heart? Let me explain something to you.
Speaker 1: God is more interested in the direction of your heart
Speaker 1: than he is in the sins you commit. He's more
Speaker 1: interested in your attitude even than your actions. He's more
Speaker 1: interested in why you do what you do than what
Speaker 1: you do. In the Bible, there are many examples of
Speaker 1: people who did the right thing for the wrong motivation,
Speaker 1: and God says doesn't count. It doesn't count at all.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, the Bible tells us about a
Speaker 1: number of leaders different kings of Israel who actually didn't
Speaker 1: always do the right thing and actually did some sin,
Speaker 1: and yet God.
Speaker 2: Said they're okay, They're okay.
Speaker 1: They didn't remove all of the idols that were in
Speaker 1: the thing, but they were a good king. And so
Speaker 1: God is actually more interested in your heart the direction
Speaker 1: of your heart, than he is in your actual sins
Speaker 1: and what you do and don't. So what is integrity.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that Noah had integrity. The Bible says
Speaker 1: that Abraham had integrity, that David had integrity, that Moses
Speaker 1: had integrity, that Paul had integrity. Yeah, none of these
Speaker 1: guys were perfect. I mean, let's just take David an example.
Speaker 1: God says about King David, there is a man who
Speaker 1: has a heart like mine.
Speaker 2: He's a man after my own heart. You read that.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who committed adultery and murdered the
Speaker 1: girl's husband one time. He pretended he was mentally insane
Speaker 1: to get out of a thing.
Speaker 2: He did all kinds of weird things.
Speaker 1: He was not perfect in any sense, and yet God
Speaker 1: says that guy over there, yeah he's really messed up,
Speaker 1: but he's got a heart like mine. I want you
Speaker 1: to have a heart like God's. I want to have
Speaker 1: a heart like God. I want us to be people
Speaker 1: of integrity. So excuse me. Wow, that felt good and
Speaker 1: you didn't even have to say God, bless you. Oh
Speaker 1: you did, Thank you, God bless you too. You have integrity.
Speaker 2: Thank you? All right?
Speaker 1: Write down three words, three words that define what it
Speaker 1: means to be a man of integrity, what it means
Speaker 1: to be a woman of integrity. The first meaning of
Speaker 1: integrity is wholeness, whole. It means your life isn't divided
Speaker 1: up in the compartments.
Speaker 2: It's not divided into segments.
Speaker 1: You don't have your life all divided up in little,
Speaker 1: little categories. Your life is one large hole. We get
Speaker 1: the word integrity from the word integer or integer. You
Speaker 1: remember in math, an integer is a whole number. It's
Speaker 1: not a fraction, it's not a part of a number,
Speaker 1: it's not a decimal.
Speaker 2: It's a whole number.
Speaker 1: And integer means whole, and integrity means your life is
Speaker 1: a whole. We get the word integration from the word
Speaker 1: integer or integrity. Integration is the opposite of segregation. Segregation
Speaker 1: means you you divide things up, or divide people up,
Speaker 1: or whatever into different categories. Integration means no, no, we're
Speaker 1: all part of the same family. We don't think the same,
Speaker 1: look the same, smell, the same, act the same, don't
Speaker 1: have the same background, don't have the same skin.
Speaker 2: Color, don't have but we are all in.
Speaker 1: The same family. We are integrated. That's part of integrity.
Speaker 1: When you segregate your life, you don't have integrity. You see,
Speaker 1: it's like this. A lot of people they think of
Speaker 1: their life as like a pie, and the different things
Speaker 1: in their lives are the different parts of the pie.
Speaker 1: And I see, this slice of the pie is my career.
Speaker 1: That's my work life. And then this slice of the
Speaker 1: pie this is church. This is my spiritual life. And
Speaker 1: then this is my family life. That's the slice. And
Speaker 1: then over here this is my social life, my sports life.
Speaker 1: And then here is my sex life. That's a part
Speaker 1: of my pie. And then over here is my secret life,
Speaker 1: my compulsions, my addictions are the things that nobody else
Speaker 1: knows about my secret life.
Speaker 2: And then over here this is my my friendship life.
Speaker 1: If you segment your life like that, you lack integrity
Speaker 1: because it's the exact opposite of your life being a whole.
Speaker 1: Integrity is not the parts of the pie, it's the
Speaker 1: filling in the whole pie. And it means you're exactly
Speaker 1: the same with everybody you talk to. You no matter
Speaker 1: which part of your life you're dealing with, you don't change,
Speaker 1: You don't wear a mask, you don't pretend. And that's
Speaker 1: the second word I want you to write down. Integrity
Speaker 1: means authenticity. Authenticity. It means you keep it real. It
Speaker 1: means you're the real deal. You're not a fake, you're
Speaker 1: not a phony. You're not blowing people off with some scam.
Speaker 1: You're not faking it till you make it. You're not pretending,
Speaker 1: you're not copying anybody else. You're not trying to be
Speaker 1: somebody you're not. You are exactly who you appear to be.
Speaker 1: And if you have integrity, you act the same no
Speaker 1: matter where you are. That is, I act the same
Speaker 1: way with my grandkids as I do with you, as
Speaker 1: I would with the Prime Minister of England. It's what
Speaker 1: you see is what you get. It's warts and all.
Speaker 1: It's not like I'm trying to be one way here
Speaker 1: and one way there in one way here.
Speaker 2: Now, you're just who you are, for good or for bad.
Speaker 1: Thousands of years ago, during the great Greek culture, when
Speaker 1: Plato and Socrates and Aristotle and Euripides and Aristophanes and
Speaker 1: all these guys are writing these plays, these classic plays,
Speaker 1: Homer and the Iliad and the Odyssey, all of these things. Well,
Speaker 1: they used to have in Greek plays multiple roles.
Speaker 2: By one actor.
Speaker 1: And what is a guy would come from backstage out
Speaker 1: into the forum to play a part, and he would
Speaker 1: hold up a mask, and he'd wear a mask, and
Speaker 1: he would say certain things and play that role. Then
Speaker 1: he'd walk backstage, get another mask, come back out, and
Speaker 1: he'd play another role wearing another mask. Then he'd walk backstage,
Speaker 1: change it, get another mask, and come back out. And
Speaker 1: in Greek plays, one guy could have multiple roles in
Speaker 1: many masks, and he was called in Greek the hohopocretos,
Speaker 1: the hip. We get the word hypocrite from it. What
Speaker 1: does it mean to be a hypocrite. It means you're
Speaker 1: not the same with everybody. It means you talk one
Speaker 1: way with this group, and you talk another way with
Speaker 1: this group, and you use this kind of language over there,
Speaker 1: that kind of language over there, and you actually are
Speaker 1: wearing masks. That is the exact opposite of integrity. You
Speaker 1: lack authenticity. You're not the same with everybody. Integrity means
Speaker 1: you don't pretend to be something you're not, so it's
Speaker 1: wholeness and authenticity. The third thing that antigrity is write
Speaker 1: this down is it means unmixed motivation. It means you
Speaker 1: do the right thing, but you do it for the
Speaker 1: right reason. Unmixed motivation, it means you're sincere. It means
Speaker 1: you're straightforward. It means you are pure in heart.
Speaker 2: Pure in heart.
Speaker 1: Means you don't have a mixed motive. In other words,
Speaker 1: you're doing it for the right reason. You can pray
Speaker 1: to talk to God, or you can pray to impress
Speaker 1: other people. One has integrity and one doesn't. Integrity is
Speaker 1: what you are when nobody else is looking. Integrity is
Speaker 1: what you are in the dark. Integrity is what you
Speaker 1: really think, act and do when nobody else will ever
Speaker 1: find out. That's the real you. Integrity. You see, we're
Speaker 1: more interested in image, but God's interested in integrity. We're
Speaker 1: interested in reputation. God is interested in character. Reputation is
Speaker 1: what everybody thinks you are. Image, I mean, integrity is
Speaker 1: what you really are. Reputation is what you are in public.
Speaker 1: Integrity is what you are when you're all alone with God.
Speaker 1: It's just you and God. And God says, God blesses
Speaker 1: those who have integrity. They get to be the friends
Speaker 1: of God. Now what does God say about this this
Speaker 1: verse up here on the screen Proverbs chapter three. The
Speaker 1: Lord hates people with twisted hearts. What's a twisted heart,
Speaker 1: a perverse heart, a perverted heart, a deceitful heart, a
Speaker 1: demeaning heart, a fake, a phony heart. It's not you know,
Speaker 1: you don't really, you're not the real you. The Lord
Speaker 1: hates people with twisted hearts, but he delights. He delights
Speaker 1: in those who have integrity. I want God to delight
Speaker 1: in you. So what we're gonna do this weekend is
Speaker 1: two things. First, I want us to look at some
Speaker 1: of the benefits of being a man of integrity or
Speaker 1: a woman of integrity. And Tom is gonna come and
Speaker 1: share in just a minute two or three benefits. There
Speaker 1: are many, many benefits in scripture. We just don't have
Speaker 1: time to cover them all, so we'll only look at
Speaker 1: three of the promises that God says, if you live
Speaker 1: with integrity, then this is what's going to happen in
Speaker 1: your life, and then I'm gonna come back and we're
Speaker 1: going to look at a little checklist on how to
Speaker 1: get started and how even this week you could start
Speaker 1: working on becoming a woman of integrity or a man
Speaker 1: of integrity. Hi, everybody, I'm Pastor Rick Warren. You know,
Speaker 1: when I started Saddlebacked Church over forty years ago, just
Speaker 1: a handful of people in our living room. I also
Speaker 1: began writing a simple devotional just for the people in
Speaker 1: our church to help them start each day with hope
Speaker 1: and with truth and with peace that comes from Jesus Christ. Well,
Speaker 1: you know that little devotional grew and grew and grew
Speaker 1: in today, Daily Hope is one of the largest email
Speaker 1: devotions in the whole world, and each day people all
Speaker 1: around the globe are reconnecting with God's promises and finding
Speaker 1: fresh strength in his word to face whatever comes their way.
Speaker 1: Here's the best part. It's absolutely free. Okay, we don't
Speaker 1: have any charge for this. Every day you'll get a
Speaker 1: quick devotional read and a podcast that you can listen.
Speaker 2: To on the go.
Speaker 1: Now, you know, in a world it's more distracted and
Speaker 1: uncertain than ever, I want to help you start your
Speaker 1: day centered on what never changes. And what never changes
Speaker 1: is a God's love is unconditional love for you and
Speaker 1: his promises to you. You know, if you'll just spend
Speaker 1: just a few minutes a day in the morning with
Speaker 1: the Lord, it can bring so much more clarity, more purpose,
Speaker 1: more peace to everything that happens in your day. Particularly,
Speaker 1: a psychologist has said that what you do with the
Speaker 1: first five minutes of your day pretty much sets the tone. So, friend,
Speaker 1: you were never meant to go through life alone. I
Speaker 1: want to personally invite you to just sign up for
Speaker 1: the Daily Hope devotional. Do it today. I think it's
Speaker 1: going to bring fresh encouragement to your walk in God,
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 3: Would you like to sign up for Pastor Rick's email devotional.
Speaker 3: You can just scan the QR code or go to
Speaker 3: dailyhopetv dot com.
Speaker 1: So let's have Tom come and talk about some of
Speaker 1: the blessings that happen when I get this quality in
Speaker 1: my life.
Speaker 4: One of the great blessings, one of the great blessings
Speaker 4: that comes when we have integrity is the blessing of
Speaker 4: personal confidence. You just live with a different kind of
Speaker 4: confidence because you're not trying to be a phony all
Speaker 4: the time. You're not trying to make sure that you're
Speaker 4: putting the right front with the right person all the time,
Speaker 4: so you're able to have a different kind of confidence.
Speaker 4: When you have integrity, you become the kind of person
Speaker 4: that other people like to be around because you know
Speaker 4: who you are, you know where you're going. You're even
Speaker 4: able to be upfront about your faults. You're not to
Speaker 4: be a phony. And there's just something about that kind
Speaker 4: of confidence that not only is it attractive in others,
Speaker 4: it's relaxing, it's strengthening in our own lives. I've always
Speaker 4: loved this picture Proverbs ten to nine, of the kind
Speaker 4: of confidence that integrity brings. It says here, people with
Speaker 4: integrity have a firm footing, but those who follow crooked
Speaker 4: paths will slip and fall. So when I have integrity,
Speaker 4: I'm standing on solid ground. But when I don't have integrity,
Speaker 4: it's like back east in a snowstorm. That path is
Speaker 4: all icy, and you're trying with all your might not
Speaker 4: the fall, and every bit of energy is making sure
Speaker 4: you don't slip and fall.
Speaker 5: That's what it feels like not to have integrity.
Speaker 4: You're putting too much energy into making sure that you
Speaker 4: put the right fault.
Speaker 5: Front when you could just be honest, just be yourself.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget talking to a business guy years ago
Speaker 4: and I asked him, what's the number one thing that
Speaker 4: changed in your life now that you've become a follower
Speaker 4: of Jesus. He just started following Jesus a few months before,
Speaker 4: and he said, the number one thing that's changed, said
Speaker 4: it right away is the way I answer the phone.
Speaker 5: He said.
Speaker 4: I used to answer the phone and I would tell
Speaker 4: a different lie to everybody in my business, and I'd
Speaker 4: have to look at their name and realize what lie
Speaker 4: did I tell this guy? And before I answer the phone,
Speaker 4: know what lie in my mind. But now I can
Speaker 4: just answer because I tell them the truth. I can
Speaker 4: just answer and they not even have to look at
Speaker 4: the name. That's what integrity does for you. It gives
Speaker 4: you this different kind of confidence. The Bible says in
Speaker 4: Problems eleven three, let's read this one together. The integrity
Speaker 4: of the honest keeps them on track. So integrity shows
Speaker 4: you the right way to go. It also shows you
Speaker 4: what to do next. Sometimes you start to wander through
Speaker 4: life you're not sure what to do next, maybe in
Speaker 4: a transition, maybe when your kids, is going off to college.
Speaker 5: Maybe you just change jobs. What do you do next?
Speaker 4: Well, the Bible says that when you have purity of heart,
Speaker 4: when you have integrity, you see God better. When you
Speaker 4: see God, you know what to do next. Because God
Speaker 4: has a purpose. God has a plan for your life.
Speaker 4: Integrity helps you to see God's plan and purpose for
Speaker 4: your life better. That's one of the things that gives
Speaker 4: you a greater confidence to live with. One of the
Speaker 4: great blessings of integrity, a second blessing of integrity is
Speaker 4: a lasting legacy.
Speaker 5: You get this lasting legacy.
Speaker 4: In fact, if you think about your life, your greatest
Speaker 4: legacy is in your integrity, because it's a legacy that
Speaker 4: will last from generation to generation to generation. Everything else
Speaker 4: that we do, it gets lost. The money that you
Speaker 4: earn in the end, it's going to get divided amongst
Speaker 4: your kids. If you have any money left, and it's
Speaker 4: going to get spent the work that you do, it's
Speaker 4: going to be given to somebody else, and then you're
Speaker 4: going to be forgotten. All the trophies that you've earned.
Speaker 4: It's going to be thrown in the trash someday and
Speaker 4: taken to the dump. Isn't this encouraging about our lives.
Speaker 4: But the integrity that you have, the character that you have,
Speaker 4: it's going to be translated into the lives of the
Speaker 4: people that are around you, and then into the lives
Speaker 4: of the next generation and the next generation. It is
Speaker 4: a lasting legacy. Next verson you're outlined. Proverbs twenty seven
Speaker 4: is especially encouraging for parents. It says a righteous person
Speaker 4: lives on the basis of his integrity. Blessed are his
Speaker 4: children after he is gone. It's the blessing, moms and
Speaker 4: dads of the character that you've given. I know there's
Speaker 4: no such thing as a perfect parent here, but you've
Speaker 4: made some good choices, and in those good choices, you're
Speaker 4: passing them on. And you might think, not me, I
Speaker 4: haven't made any good choices. I mean, I messed up
Speaker 4: on this one. I did not show integrity in my relationships,
Speaker 4: and because of that, I guess I don't get this blessing. Well,
Speaker 4: I just want to say to you, the story is
Speaker 4: not over. You can still have integrity in your life,
Speaker 4: and sometimes the greatest integrity you show is in a
Speaker 4: time when it seems like there's no blessings. A lot
Speaker 4: of us know the story of job if you're brand
Speaker 4: new in church, you might even know that story the
Speaker 4: guy who lost it all and he decided to have integrity.
Speaker 5: Even though he lost it all.
Speaker 4: He didn't know why he lost it, but he decided,
Speaker 4: I'm going to have integrity through this and the next
Speaker 4: verse in your outline, Job eight five to seven, one
Speaker 4: of his friends gives him this advice, I pay to
Speaker 4: God and seek the favor of the Almighty. If you're
Speaker 4: pure and you live with complete integrity, God will rise
Speaker 4: up and restore your happy home. And though you started
Speaker 4: with little, you will end with much. And that is
Speaker 4: exactly what happened. Job decided to have integrity even through
Speaker 4: a difficult time, and because of that, in the end
Speaker 4: he was doubly blessed.
Speaker 5: He was blessed even more in the end.
Speaker 4: Some of you, you've gone through a tough time, maybe
Speaker 4: even a loss of integrity, and because of a loss,
Speaker 4: you start to think, what does it matter? I already
Speaker 4: messed up, so I may as well just keep messing up,
Speaker 4: because what does it matter now? But I just want
Speaker 4: to say to you, the story is not over, and
Speaker 4: the truth of the matter is your greatest integrity might
Speaker 4: be what you do after a loss of integrity.
Speaker 5: You can still.
Speaker 4: Respond with integrity then, and somebody's watching, and you know what,
Speaker 4: They're going to have a loss of integrity someday in
Speaker 4: their life, and you can show them even now what
Speaker 4: to do. You can still leave a lasting legacy. It's
Speaker 4: never too late. The story's not over. It's one of
Speaker 4: the blessings of integrity, a lasting legacy, a personal confidence.
Speaker 5: And then there's this third.
Speaker 4: Blessing amidst all the others that we're looking at today,
Speaker 4: and that is the.
Speaker 5: Blessing of rewards in eternity.
Speaker 4: Now, this, in one sense is the greatest blessing because
Speaker 4: it's the one that lasts forever, the rewards that we
Speaker 4: get in eternity. Look what the Bible says about this
Speaker 4: in Matthew twenty five twenty one, God will say, one day,
Speaker 4: well done. You are a good and trusted servant. Because
Speaker 4: you were faithful with small things. I will now put
Speaker 4: you in charge of much greater things. So come and
Speaker 4: share your master's happiness. Now, would you circle for me
Speaker 4: two words in that verse? Would you circle the words
Speaker 4: small things? That's where the rewards are. We think that
Speaker 4: the rewards, the real integrity is in the big moments
Speaker 4: of life. It's easy to have integrity, easier because you
Speaker 4: know everybody's watching.
Speaker 5: You can build yourself up for it.
Speaker 4: But it's in the small moments that you show real integrity.
Speaker 4: As Rick said earlier, integrity is who you are when
Speaker 4: no one's watching, no one's noticing. So what kind of
Speaker 4: integrity do I have in the small things of life?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 4: When it comes to integrity in the small things, when
Speaker 4: no one else is watching, we can all list the
Speaker 4: areas we've failed there. No one would want all of
Speaker 4: the small choices we made in our lives this last
Speaker 4: week even put up on the screen, because there'd be
Speaker 4: some things we did not want people to see. It's
Speaker 4: easy to make a list of your sins and failures
Speaker 4: in the small things.
Speaker 2: But let's put those.
Speaker 4: Let's take those and put them on the forgiven in
Speaker 4: Christ's side of the ledger, because he forgives those things.
Speaker 4: But I want to remind you, and this verse reminds us,
Speaker 4: there is another side of the ledger, and that is
Speaker 4: when you choose to have faith, when you choose to
Speaker 4: have integrity in the small things, that is on the
Speaker 4: rewarded side of the ledger. Every small thing you do
Speaker 4: every small word of encouragement you give this next week,
Speaker 4: it is rewarded eternally. Every small kindness active kindness that
Speaker 4: you give towards someone else rewarded in eternity.
Speaker 5: Every time you reject a temptation, rewarded in eternity.
Speaker 4: Every time you pray a small prayer of faith, just
Speaker 4: a quick prayer of faith in a moment, that is
Speaker 4: rewarded in eternity. That's the power of integrity. And when
Speaker 4: you make these small choices, when you make these small
Speaker 4: choices for eternity, it changes not all your life now,
Speaker 4: but also your life forever.
Speaker 1: Now, if you're talking about what Tom just talked about,
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I'm interested in these benefits.
Speaker 1: I'm interested in personal stability, I'm interested in leaving a legacy,
Speaker 1: and I'm interested in rewards for eternity. And God says
Speaker 1: all three of these are wrapped up in having integrity.
Speaker 1: So how do you get it? How do you get integrity?
Speaker 1: What does it even look like?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: In Psalm Chapter fifteen, the fifteenth Psalm, David gives us
Speaker 1: eight characteristics of what it means to walk or live
Speaker 1: with integrity.
Speaker 2: Let me read it to you. So I'm fifteen one
Speaker 2: to five.
Speaker 1: Lord, who may stand in your sanctuary? And who may
Speaker 1: live on your holy mountain? And what's he talking about here?
Speaker 1: This is a metaphor, he said, God, who gets to
Speaker 1: be close to you? That's what he's saying. Who gets
Speaker 1: to be your friend? All that thing stuff I just
Speaker 1: was talking about earlier. Who gets to live in your presence?
Speaker 1: Who gets to experience your power? Who gets to understand
Speaker 1: your peace? Who gets to live your purpose?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 1: Who gets to be your friend? That's what he's saying.
Speaker 1: Who may stay in your sanctuary and.
Speaker 2: Live on your holy mountain? Here's the answer.
Speaker 1: The one who walks with integrity, circle that walks with integrity.
Speaker 1: And then he gives us eight characteristics of a man
Speaker 1: who has integrity or a woman who has integrity. Here's
Speaker 1: what they are. At number one, he speaks the truth
Speaker 1: from his heart. You don't lie when you have integrity,
Speaker 1: he refu he uses to slander others with his tongue.
Speaker 1: WHOA anytime you put down anybody else, you've just lost integrity.
Speaker 1: Anytime you slander anybody else for their politics, or their religion,
Speaker 1: or their lifestyle or any other difference, cultural difference, whatever.
Speaker 1: He says, you've just lost your integrity. He refuses to
Speaker 1: slander others with his tongue. He won't listen to gossip. Oh,
Speaker 1: now we're meddling. He will not cast a slur on
Speaker 1: his fellow man. Instead, he honors those who fear the Lord,
Speaker 1: and he keeps his promises even when it hurts. He
Speaker 1: lends his money freely without charging interest. In other words,
Speaker 1: he's very, very generous. That's a mark of integrity. And
Speaker 1: he cannot be bribed by money. Whoever does these things,
Speaker 1: these things will ever be shaken. You want to have
Speaker 1: security in your life. You want to get rid of
Speaker 1: all the insecurity in your life. Get integrity in your life.
Speaker 1: You want to have stability in your life, Get integered
Speaker 1: in your life. You want to have the confidence Tom
Speaker 1: was talking about. Then you've got to get integered in
Speaker 1: your life. When you lack integrity, you go through life insecure.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, the man of integrity walks securely. And
Speaker 1: the whole reason you don't have security, the whole reason
Speaker 1: you feel insecure so much of time, is because you
Speaker 1: lack integrity, wholeness, authenticity, and an unmixed motivation.