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Jack Graham - A Matter of Intergrity

November 2, 2025 | 27:29

Jack Graham - A Matter of Intergrity
Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.
#Integrity #TenCommandments #Truth #Law #Satan #Lies #Deception #Commandment #TrustGod #Faith #Obedience #Character #IdentityinChrist #NewCreation #JackGraham

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| Jack Graham - A Matter of Intergrity | November 2, 2025
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  • There is no person that god cannot save!
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  • There is no promise that god will not keep!
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  • There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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  • Most americans, you know, really don't believe in the ten
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  • Commandments these days, much less practice them. upwards to
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  • 75 percent of our fellow citizens in this great country
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  • No longer believe that truth has... that there is
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  • Authoritative truth in our lives, that there's no clear
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  • Cut right and wrong, that we live now by situational
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  • Ethics... preferences. you have a truth, i have a truth.
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  • There's no black and white, it's just many shades of gray.
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  • And therefore, we are never to say "this is right and this is
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  • Wrong."
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  • And it's a problem. it's a terrifying problem in america
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  • Because it's time now that the word of god be declared, that
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  • The commandments of god be taught, starting with our own
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  • Families. because remember, god is not mocked. he will not be
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  • Mocked! and just as there are laws that govern the
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  • Universe... gravity, physics, and so on... there are moral
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  • Laws that govern humanity. and we will either obey those laws
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  • Or be broken on those laws. you really don't break the ten
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  • Commandments. you are broken on the commandments of god if you
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  • Choose to disobey them.
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  • Deuteronomy 5:29: “oh, that they had such a mind as this
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  • Always, to fear me and keep my commandments, that it might go
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  • Well with them and with their descendants forever!”
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  • God says, “dads, this is our legacy to live, that we are to
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  • Pass the faith, including the commandments of god to our sons
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  • And our daughters, from generation to generation, to
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  • Generations yet unborn.”
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  • But unfortunately our children today are not being led by the
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  • Laws of god. even in many churches where worship is
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  • Superficial and the word of god is not clearly taught, the
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  • Gospel is not openly given. soft talks about whatever
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  • Subject. there's no clear call to follow the ways and the will
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  • Of god. so what's happening? our children are listening to
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  • Lies and believing them. a new breed of atheists attacking the
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  • Faith, attacking our families. or on a much more common level,
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  • A media... a celebrity driven culture that denies god and the
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  • Word of god, anti-god and anti-christ system. and
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  • Therefore, the lies of satan who slithered into humanity in
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  • The garden of eden and raised a question: "has god really
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  • Said?" same old lie!
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  • And a war is being raged against the family, and the
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  • Chief weapon is deception and the battle is for truth! satan
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  • Is a liar; jesus said he is a liar from the beginning and
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  • “the father of lies”. he is the source of all lies! he is a
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  • Thief, jesus said, “who comes to steal, kill and destroy!”
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  • And he's killing and thieving and cheating and lying and
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  • Destroying our nation!
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  • Our nation, america, is now divided by lies... lies the
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  • Enemy tells! again, most americans do not believe in
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  • Moral absolutes, and this includes many christians and
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  • Kids that are growing up in church who are not being taught
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  • The moral, ethical demands of a holy god! no wonder this
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  • Generation has lost its direction! the foundation is
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  • Cracking and quaking. and the scriptures says, "if the
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  • Foundations be destroyed, what will the righteous do?" if you
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  • Destroy the foundation, it all comes tumbling down!
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  • Powerpoint, the ministry mission outreach of our church
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  • To the world is seen in over eighty countries, and i would
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  • Say to those of you who are watching this powerpoint
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  • Presentation from prestonwood church in dallas, texas,
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  • America, we would ask that you pray for america because our
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  • Country is in trouble. like the western world... most of the
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  • Western world, our country is turning their backs upon god,
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  • And we need a spiritual awakening. morality, those
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  • Subjects regarding right and wrong, are now subject to
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  • Political debate and decision... what is
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  • Marriage-what is not marriage... and all the rest!
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  • There is no longer in the culture an objective standard
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  • For truth!
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  • When our fathers... our forefathers established this
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  • Nation, it was built upon the rock, rib, revelation of god's
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  • Word and god's commandments! but [applause] now man's
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  • Opinion prevails. you have a version of truth and i have a
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  • Version of truth, and if you dare to disagree... if you dare
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  • To say the bible says, or the commandments say, you're viewed
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  • As intolerant or insensitive or a bigot or narrow-minded! and
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  • Even in the church, if you dare to proclaim the inerrant,
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  • Infallible word of god, there are some who will say you are
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  • Pharisaical or you are legalistic or you're too pious
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  • Or even worse. if really want to gets you, just say you are a
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  • Fringe, fanatical, fundamentalist!
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  • If these truths are not proclaimed... if the ten
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  • Commandments are not taught, starting with dads in our own
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  • Families, the future of our homes and of this great nation
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  • Will be an epic fail.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Just because i'm a pastor doesn't mean stress doesn't
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  • Affect me. the weight of responsibilities, the pressure
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  • Of deadlines, the burden of caring for others - it all can
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  • Add up. but here's what i've discovered. god has never
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  • Intended for us to carry these burdens by ourselves. that's
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  • Why i want to put my book “breaking free from stress” in
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  • Your hands today.
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  • This isn't just another self-help guide of time
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  • Management, but it is the truth, straight out of god's
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  • Word, to help you break free from the stress that can
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  • Enslave, chain, and shackle us. in “breaking free from stress”
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  • You'll discover biblical principles for finding peace in
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  • The middle of all that chaos. practical tools for managing
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  • Life's pressures, and most importantly, how to rest in the
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  • Promises of god when everything can seem overwhelming.
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  • Breaking free from stress is my gift to thank you for your
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  • Now, did you know this program is only possible because of
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  • Friends just like you? that's right. this program is 100%
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  • Supported by viewers like you. so please help us keep sharing
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  • The good news of jesus, the testimony and the word of god
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  • Of our savior through your gift today.
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  • Thank you for giving, and may you break free from the stress
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  • That can hold you back for your good and for god's glory.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Commandments 8 and 9 are simple and clear. you don't need a
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  • Hebrew lexicon; you don't need a seminary degree. simple,
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  • Straight up! “do not steal.” “do not lie.” teach yourself,
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  • Train yourself and your family to love the truth and to live
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  • The truth.
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  • As we obey god's commandments we need to ask ourselves this
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  • Question: am i a trustworthy person? am i a man... a dad who
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  • Keeps his promises? am i someone who can be trusted? is
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  • My character and my reputation reputable, credible? if you go
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  • To get a loan... if you go to a bank or a lending institution
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  • They're going to check your credit. they're going to do a
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  • Thorough review of whether or not you are honest, if you are
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  • Trustworthy, if you pay your bills, if you pay back your
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  • Loans. and your credit report is essential... a good credit
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  • Report is essential if you're going to get that loan. well, i
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  • Promise you, people are all around us, starting with own
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  • Children, are checking out our credit... our credibility.
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  • Whether we are who we say we are.
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  • The word integrity... it's a matter of integrity... integer
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  • Is in that word. integrated is in that word. integrity means
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  • That we are the same person on the inside and on the outside.
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  • It's akin to the word character: that our character
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  • Is consistent, and that we are faithful in what we profess
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  • Both privately and publicly. someone has said character is
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  • What you are in the dark. character is who you are when
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  • No one is watching. but, of course, someone is always
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  • Watching, starting with god almighty, and including those
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  • Little eyes, our children and our grandchildren. they're
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  • Looking up and wondering, "are you, dad... are you, mom, a
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  • Person of integrity? can i trust you?"
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  • Now jesus is the truth. he said, “i am the way, the truth,
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  • And the life.” god is the one true god, as compared to all
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  • The false gods and all the false religions. there is a one
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  • True god! and god says, “i can never lie.” it is impossible
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  • For god to lie. if we are the people of god, we're to be
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  • People of truth. if we want to follow christ, it means that we
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  • Want to be like him.
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  • Now, let me... let me be clear, that we know that none of us
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  • Keeps these commandments perfectly. "we've all sinned
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  • And come short of the glory of god." it's the commandments of
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  • God that drive us to the grace of god! it is... it is our
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  • Broken lives on the commandments, when we disobey
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  • God, that drive us to jesus, into the arms of jesus. but the
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  • Fact is that in christ we are made brand new. we are to be
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  • Different. "if anyone is in christ he's a new creation."
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  • Therefore while we do not keep these commandments perfectly,
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  • We should keep them progressively, growing and
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  • Developing in our lives, and teach them to our children. do
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  • Not lie. always live and speak truthfully, straight up. do not
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  • Steal.
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  • Now you could be thinking, "well, you know what, i'm
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  • Pretty good on this one. i've got these two commandments
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  • Pretty much down. i really don't steal that much.
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  • [laughter] i don't tell a lot of lies... a few white lies."
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  • With god a lie is a lie, whether it's white or black or
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  • Technicolor. a lie is a lie. but you know you're thinking,
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  • "at least i haven't murdered anybody. i'm not an adulterer.
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  • And so god really doesn't care if i lie a little bit." oh,
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  • Really?
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  • Proverbs 6: 16-19 tells us what god thinks about lying and
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  • Stealing."there are six things that the lord hates... (now
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  • That has my attention. if god hates something, i want to know
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  • About it. so...) these six things [he] hates..." (and then
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  • As though he had forgotten one,) oh, there's seven which
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  • Are an abomination." (an abomination? this has got to be
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  • Something really depraved, debauched.) well, "haughty eyes
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  • (that's pride, arrogance), a lying tongue, hands that shed
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  • Innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans (that is
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  • Fraud), feet that make hast to run to evil, a false witness
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  • Who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers
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  • (slander)." of the seven things that god hates, four of them
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  • Have to do with deception and dishonesty! it's a big deal to
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  • God! satan stole the innocence from mankind with a lie and
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  • He's still telling them today.
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  • But jesus said, “you shall know the truth (and “i am the
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  • Truth”) and the truth shall set you free.” truth sets us free
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  • To live fully and completely. a lie is wrong! stealing is
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  • Wrong! because it not only hurts those around us, but it
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  • Hurts our own lives. we are broken by our own sin.
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  • You know, there's more than one way to tell a lie or to steal
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  • Something. i just started making a list. obviously you
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  • Can steal something by force or by stealth. or you can steal
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  • Something when you borrow and do not return what you borrow.
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  • Some of you need to bring back those hymnbooks you took from
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  • The church years ago. [laughter] you just borrowed
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  • Them for the last twenty years.
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  • When you have debts that you do not pay. the scripture says
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  • We're to "owe no man anything except to love." so when the
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  • Bill comes due we're to pay it. and to do otherwise... not to
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  • Pay our debts... breaks this commandment.
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  • Slander and gossip! when you gossip... when you slander
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  • Someone... when you pass along an untruth or a half truth, or
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  • Part of the truth or a rumor... i heard about a woman in a
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  • Church. she was known to be a gossip. she went to the
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  • Hospital and on the prayer list it said mrs. so-and-so went to
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  • The hospital for the removal of a rumor." [laughter] supposed
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  • To have said tumor! the removal of a rumor! and if you've got a
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  • Rumor caught in your throat somewhere, you need to get it
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  • Out! rumors and lies and slanders, insinuations have
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  • Destroyed so many lives! and often we pass this stuff along.
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  • Either we say it or we allow somebody to use our ears as
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  • Garbage cans. "i don't know. people just tell me stuff."
  • 00:18:47.583 --> 00:18:53.689
  • "they said". i always want to know who "they" are. and
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  • Usually if you come to me and say, "well, they said..." i'm
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  • Going to ask you who "they" is. cause we want to nip rumors in
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  • The bud. we... we want to stop lies from being spread about
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  • People. "love covers a multitude of sin." and
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  • Sometimes we even categories our gossip as a prayer request.
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  • "oh, we need to pray for so-and-so because boom, boom,
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  • Boom, boom, boom." [laughter] you don't have to tell
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  • Everything you know. you don't have to listen to everything or
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  • Anything somebody brings you.
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  • Now i know that sometimes it's hard to always tell the truth.
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  • Like when your wife buys a new dress and says to you, “does
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  • This make me look fat?” [laughter] you are now on the
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  • Horns of an ethical dilemma. [laughter] and you have to make
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  • A wise decision as to how you're going to respond kindly.
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  • Or you go to somebody's house and they've prepared a meal and
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  • Served it and really it tasted like dog meat, and they ask
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  • You, “how'd you like that?” [laughter] lie or tell the
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  • Truth.
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  • When we were in our first church in oklahoma... our
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  • Second church actually; our first fulltime church...
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  • Hobart, oklahoma, there was a lady... very kind lady but
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  • Couldn't cook. and ah... she brought us a cake and we... we
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  • Tried to eat the cake but it was inedible. it could not be
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  • Eaten. so we took the cake and we wrapped it up and we put it
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  • In the garbage can. and, of course, the next sunday mrs.
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  • So-and-so... i have to be careful because people watch in
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  • Hobart [laughter] and in oklahoma. but she walked up to
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  • Me and said, "how did you like my cake?"
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  • Now we pastors have to learn how to finesse such situations
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  • To tell the truth and not lie, but at the same time, you know,
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  • We do like to keep our jobs, right? well, she said, "how'd
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  • You like the cake?" and i said... i'm just 24 years old
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  • But i'm growing in wisdom and stature right there. i said,
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  • "that cake didn't last long around our house!" [laughter]
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  • [pastor chuckles] and she was so happy about that! the only
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  • Problem is she kept bringing cakes! [laughter]
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  • Look, i know it's difficult sometimes to tell the truth.
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  • Sometimes it's easier to tell a lie than to tell the truth. but
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  • As we taught our children through the years, through the
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  • Commandments of god, it's never right to do wrong. never right
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  • To do wrong. never wrong to do right.
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  • It is always right to do right.
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  • So there are many ways that we can break this commandment, and
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  • Not only in substance but in spirit. when i am silent in the
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  • Face of false accusations. someone says something about a
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  • Friend of yours or a church member, and you don't know
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  • Whether it's right or wrong, but you don't defend your
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  • Friend. you're just silent. you don't stand up. you don't raise
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  • Your hand and say, “well, i know that person and that
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  • Person would have never said this. let's don't talk about
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  • That.” you know, this is the way a christian responds
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  • Because we are people of truth and honesty and we want to give
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  • And not take away through lies.
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  • There's no excuse. so if someone blasphemes god are you
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  • Going to stand up and stand out as a follower of jesus, or are
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  • You just going to slink away and let the name-calling of our
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  • Dear god go on? will you stand up for truth? will you stand up
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  • For what is right? not to do it is to deny jesus. it is a
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  • Deception!
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  • We're to be people who are faithful! faithful to god,
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  • Faithful to our churches, faithful to our friends,
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  • Faithful to our family, faithful to our co-workers.
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  • It's a matter of integrity! of us being who we say we are!
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  • We all know that little lies lead to big lies. all of these
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  • Commandments are interrelated; they're connected and... and
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  • When you start lying and cheating in just a little way,
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  • Ultimately you're caught in a web of deceit that will destroy
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  • Your life and those around you. typically it just starts with
  • 00:24:34.996 --> 00:24:39.834
  • Something so small and seemingly insignificant that
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  • Becomes a monster in our lives.
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  • Every day our integrity is being tested, checked out.
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  • Let's be faithful. let me be clear, as jesus said, “let your
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  • Yes be yes, and your no be no.” speak the truth in love.
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  • One other way that we can steal and lie relates to our talent,
  • 00:25:13.368 --> 00:25:21.810
  • Our time and our treasure. first corinthians 6:19 and 20
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  • Says, "do you not know that you are bought with a price...
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  • (that you belong to god)... you are bought with a price,
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  • Therefore, glorify god with your body, with your life which
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  • Belongs to him." if i take what belongs to god and abuse it and
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  • Misuse it, that breaks this commandment... these
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  • Commandments in a big way. god has given us, every one of us
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  • Talents and gifts and abilities, and air to breathe
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  • And opportunities. don't waste your life;
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Hello, everyone. pastor jack graham here, and i want to
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  • Personally invite you to join me for something very special.
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  • It's the patriot tour to washington, dc, april 22nd
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  • Through 27th, 2026. as we celebrate the 250th birthday of
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  • The united states, we're going to visit some of the most
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  • Powerful and historic places in our nation's capital, like the
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  • U.s. capitol, arlington national cemetery, the national
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  • Monuments, mount vernon, and the museum of the bible.
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  • This won't be just a tour. it will be a spiritual journey,
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  • Really. i'll be opening god's word along the way, teaching us
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  • About the spiritual foundations, the biblical
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  • Foundations of our nation, and the hope that we have for the
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  • Future. so registration is now open, and i'd love for you to
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  • Be a part of this unforgettable experience. for more
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  • Information and to reserve your spot today,
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