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Rick Warren - God Blesses A Heart of Integrity (Part 1)

July 5, 2026 | 27:29

Rick Warren - God Blesses A Heart of Integrity (Part 1)
Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - God Blesses A Heart of Integrity (Part 1) | July 5, 2026
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  • Pastor rick warren: jesus says there are eight things that
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  • Bring god's blessing in your life.
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  • I want your life to be blessed.
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  • I want my life to be blessed, and jesus says these are the
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  • Keys to being blessed by god.
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  • Now, you know, our culture is absolutely obsessed with
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  • Appearance, how you look.
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  • We're all about image.
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  • And if you're beautiful, then you're considered bright and
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  • You're considered the best, which leaves most of us not in
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  • The brightest and best.
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  • Now, you could be sexy like me, but the bible says god couldn't
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  • Care less how you look.
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  • God is not into appearance.
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  • God couldn't care less about your achievements, your
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  • Accomplishments, or your acquisitions.
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  • God isn't interested in how educated you are or how wealthy
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  • You are.
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  • God doesn't care about how popular or how famous you are.
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  • What god cares about is not your image, but he cares about your
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  • Health and your heart and what's inside you, the real you.
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  • The bible says in the book of 1 samuel chapter 16, it says this
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  • In verse 7: "man looks at the outward appearance, but the lord
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  • Looks at the heart."
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  • And so today we come to the sixth of jesus's eight
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  • Beatitudes of ways to be blessed, and in matthew chapter
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  • 5, verse 8, talking about heart, it says this: "god blesses those
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  • Whose hearts are pure, for they will see god."
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  • Now, what in the world does that mean?
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  • "god blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will
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  • See god."
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  • First, what does it mean they will see god?
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  • This verse says the people whose hearts are pure, they're the
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  • Ones who get up close to god.
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  • They get to experience the presence of god.
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  • They get to feel the power of god.
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  • They get to know the purpose of god for their life.
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  • They get to live in the peace of god.
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  • They experience the pardon of god.
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  • These are the people who really have it.
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  • He says god blesses those who are pure in heart.
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  • They're the ones that god says, "this guy, he's my friend.
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  • This woman, she's my friend."
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  • So what does it mean to be pure in heart?
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  • That's not a term we use in today's language.
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  • We don't talk about, say, "oh, she's got a pure heart."
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  • The word for pure in heart today is the word
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  • Integrity, integrity.
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  • Now, the bible uses the word integrity a lot, but it actually
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  • Even uses the word blameless more.
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  • Now, what does it mean to have integrity?
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  • Because if god says, "i bless those who have integrity," what
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  • Does it mean to have integrity?
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  • Well, it doesn't mean sinless, and it doesn't mean perfect, and
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  • It doesn't mean you don't make any mistakes.
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  • If you have to be sinless to have integrity, nobody's got
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  • Integrity 'cause we all blow it.
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  • It doesn't mean perfect 'cause if you have to be perfect and
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  • Never do anything wrong to have integrity, then none of us will
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  • Ever have integrity.
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  • It doesn't mean you never make any mistakes.
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  • If that were true, none of us would ever have integrity.
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  • So it's not talking about being perfect, being sinless.
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  • What does it mean to be pure in heart?
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  • Let me explain something to you.
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  • God is more interested in the direction in--of your heart than
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  • He is in the sins you commit.
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  • He's more interested in your attitude even than your actions.
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  • He's more interested in why you do what you do than what you do.
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  • In the bible, there are many examples of people who did the
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  • Right thing for the wrong motivation and god says
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  • Doesn't count.
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  • It doesn't count at all.
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  • On the other hand, the bible tells us about a number of
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  • Leaders, different kings of israel who actually didn't
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  • Always do the right thing and actually did some sin and yet
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  • God said they're okay, they're okay.
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  • They didn't remove all of the idols that were in the thing,
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  • But they were a good king.
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  • And so god is actually more interested in your heart--the
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  • Direction of your heart than he is in your actual sins and what
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  • You do and don't.
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  • So what is integrity?
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  • The bible says that noah had integrity.
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  • The bible says that abraham had integrity, that david had
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  • Integrity, that moses had integrity, that paul
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  • Had integrity.
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  • Yeah, none of these guys were perfect.
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  • I mean, let's just take david as an example.
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  • God says about king david, "there is a man who has a heart
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  • Like mine.
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  • He's a man after my own heart."
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  • You read that and you go, "what?
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  • This is the guy who committed adultery and murdered the
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  • Girl's husband.
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  • One time he pretended he was mentally insane to get out of
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  • A thing.
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  • He did all kinds of weird things."
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  • He was not perfect in any sense and yet god says, "that guy over
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  • There, yeah, he's really messed up, but he's got a heart
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  • Like mine."
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  • I want you to have a heart like god's.
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  • I wanna have a heart like god.
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  • I want us to be people of integrity.
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  • So--excuse me.
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  • Wow, that felt good and you didn't even have to say god
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  • Bless you.
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  • Oh, you did? thank you.
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  • God bless you, too.
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  • You have integrity. thank you.
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • All right, write down three words, three words that define
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  • What it means to be a man of integrity, what it means to be
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  • A woman of integrity.
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  • The first meaning of integrity is wholeness, wholeness.
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  • It means your life isn't divided up into compartments.
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  • It's not divided into segments.
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  • You don't have your life all divided up in little,
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  • Little categories.
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  • Your life is one large whole.
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  • We get the word integrity from the word integer or integer.
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  • You remember in math an integer is a whole number.
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  • It's not a fraction.
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  • It's not a part of a number.
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  • It's not a decimal, it's a whole number.
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  • An integer means whole, and integrity means your life is
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  • A whole.
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  • We get the word integration from the word integer or integrity.
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  • Integration is the opposite of segregation.
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  • Segregation means you divide things up or divide people up or
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  • Whatever into different categories.
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  • Integration means, "no, no, we're all part of the
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  • Same family.
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  • We don't think the same, look the same, smell the same, act
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  • The same, don't have the same background, don't have the same
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  • Skin color, don't have--but we are all in the same family.
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  • We are integrated."
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  • That's part of integrity.
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  • When you segregate your life, you don't have integrity.
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  • You see, it's like this.
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  • A lot of people, they think of their life as like a pie and the
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  • Different things in their lives are the different parts of the
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  • Pie, and they say, "this slice of the pie is my career.
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  • That's my work life.
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  • And then this slice of the pie, this is church.
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  • This is my spiritual life.
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  • And then this is my family life.
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  • That's a slice.
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  • And then over here, this is my social life, my sports life.
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  • And then here is my sex life.
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  • That's a part of my, you know, pie, and then over here is my
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  • Secret life, my compulsions, my addictions, the things that
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  • Nobody else knows about, my secret life.
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  • And then over here this is my--like, my friendship life."
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  • If you segment your life like that, you lack integrity because
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  • It's the exact opposite of your life being a whole.
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  • Integrity is not the parts of the pie; it's the filling in the
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  • Whole pie, and it means you're exactly the same with everybody
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  • You talk to no matter which part of your life you're
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  • Dealing with.
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  • You don't change.
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  • You don't wear a mask.
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  • You don't pretend, and that's the second word i want
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  • You to write down.
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  • Integrity means authenticity, authenticity.
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  • It means you keep it real.
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  • It means you're the real deal.
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  • You're not a fake.
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  • You're not a phony.
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  • You're not blowing people off with some scam.
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  • You're not faking it till you make it.
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  • You're not pretending.
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  • You're not copying anybody else.
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  • You're not trying to be somebody you're not.
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  • You are exactly who you appear to be.
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  • And if you have integrity, you act the same no matter where
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  • You are.
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  • That is, i act the same way with my grandkids as i do with you,
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  • As i would with the prime minister of england.
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  • You--it's--what you see is what you get.
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  • Warts and all.
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  • It's not like i'm trying to be one way here and one way there
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  • And one way here.
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  • No, you're just who you are for good or for bad.
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  • Thousands of years ago, during the great greek culture, when
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  • Plato and socrates and aristotle and euripides and aristophanes
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  • And all these guys were writing these plays--these classic
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  • Plays, homer "the iliad" and the "odyssey," all of these things,
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  • Well, they used to have in greek plays multiple roles by one
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  • Actor, and what is--a guy would come from backstage out into the
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  • Forum to play a part, and he would hold up a mask and he'd
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  • Wear a mask and he would say certain things and play that
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  • Role; then he'd walk backstage, get another mask, come back out,
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  • And he'd play another role wearing another mask; then he'd
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  • Walk backstage, change it, get another mask, and come back out.
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  • And in greek plays, one guy could have multiple roles in
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  • Many masks, and he was called in greek the hypokritos, the
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  • Hyp--we get the word hypocrite from it.
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  • What does it mean to be a hypocrite?
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  • It means you're not the same with everybody.
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  • It means you talk one way with this group and you talk another
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  • Way with this group and you use this kind of language over
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  • There, that kind of language over there, and you actually are
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  • Wearing masks.
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  • That is the exact opposite of integrity.
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  • You lack authenticity.
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  • You're not the same with everybody.
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  • Integrity means you don't pretend to be something
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  • You're not.
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  • So it's wholeness, it's authenticity.
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  • The third thing that integrity is, write this down, is it means
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  • Unmixed motivation.
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  • It means you do the right thing, but you do it for the
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  • Right reason.
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  • Unmixed motivation, it means you're sincere, it means you're
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  • Straightforward, it means you are pure in heart.
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  • Pure in heart means you don't have a mixed motive.
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  • In other words, you're doing it for the right reason.
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  • You can pray to talk to god, or you can pray to impress
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  • Other people.
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  • One has integrity, and one doesn't.
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  • Integrity is what you are when nobody else is looking.
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  • Integrity is what you are in the dark.
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  • Integrity is what you really think, act, and do when nobody
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  • Else will ever find out.
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  • That's the real you, integrity.
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  • You see, we're more interested in image, but god's interested
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  • In integrity.
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  • We're interested in reputation.
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  • God is interested in character.
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  • Reputation is what everybody thinks you are.
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  • Image--i mean, integrity is what you really are.
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  • Reputation is what you are in public.
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  • Integrity is what you are when you're all alone with god and
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  • It's just you and god, and god says--god blesses those who
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  • Have integrity.
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  • They get to be the friends of god.
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  • Now, what does god say about this?
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  • Look at this verse up here in the screen, proverbs chapter 3.
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  • "the lord hates people with twisted hearts."
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  • What's a twisted heart?
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  • A perverse heart, a perverted heart, a deceitful heart,
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  • A demeaning heart, a fake, a phony heart.
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  • It's not--you know, you don't really--you're not the real you.
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  • "the lord hates people with twisted hearts, but he delights,
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  • He delights in those who have integrity."
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  • I want god to delight in you.
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  • So what we're gonna do this weekend is two things.
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  • First, i want us to look at some of the benefits of being a man
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  • Of integrity or a woman of integrity, and tom is gonna come
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  • And share in just a minute two or three benefits.
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  • There are many, many benefits in scripture.
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  • We just don't have time to cover them all, so we'll only look at
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  • Three of the promises that god says if you live with integrity,
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  • Then this is what's gonna happen in your life.
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  • And then i'm gonna come back, and we're gonna look at a little
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  • Checklist on how to get started and how even this week you could
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  • Start working on becoming a woman of integrity or a man
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  • Of integrity.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick: hi, everybody. i'm pastor rick warren.
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  • You know, when i started saddleback church over 40 years
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  • Than ever, i want to help you start your day centered on what
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  • Never changes, and what never changes is that god's love, his
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  • Unconditional love for you and his promises to you.
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  • You know, if you'll just spend just a few minutes a day in the
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  • Morning with the lord, it can bring so much more clarity, more
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  • Purpose, more peace to everything that happens in
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  • Your day.
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  • Particularly, psychologists have said that what you do with the
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  • First 5 minutes of your day pretty much sets the tone.
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  • So, friend, you were never meant to go through life alone.
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  • Pastor rick: so let's have tom come and talk about
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  • Some of the blessings that happen
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  • When i get this quality in my life.
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  • Tom holladay: one of the great blessings--
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  • One of the great blessings that comes when we
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  • Have integrity is the blessing of personal confidence.
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  • You just live with a different kind of confidence 'cause you're
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  • Not trying to be a phony all the time.
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  • You're not trying to make sure that you're putting the right
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  • Front with the right person all the time, so you're able to have
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  • A different kind of confidence.
  • 00:16:05.447 --> 00:16:07.316
  • When you have integrity, you become the kind of person that
  • 00:16:07.316 --> 00:16:09.952
  • Other people like to be around because you know who you are,
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  • You know where you're going.
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  • You're even able to be upfront about your faults.
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  • You don't have to be a phony.
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  • And there's just something about that kind of confidence that not
  • 00:16:18.961 --> 00:16:21.430
  • Only is it attractive in others, it's relaxing.
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  • It's strengthening in our own lives.
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  • I've always loved this picture, proverbs 10:9, of the kind of
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  • Confidence that integrity brings.
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  • It says here, "people with integrity have a firm footing,
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  • But those who follow crooked paths will slip and fall."
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  • So when i have integrity, i'm standing on solid ground.
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  • But when i don't have integrity, it's like back east in
  • 00:16:43.986 --> 00:16:47.656
  • A snowstorm the path is all icy and you're trying with all your
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  • Might not to fall and every bit of energy is making sure you
  • 00:16:50.993 --> 00:16:54.329
  • Don't slip and fall.
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  • That's what it feels like not to have integrity.
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  • You're putting too much energy into making sure that you put
  • 00:16:57.900 --> 00:17:00.836
  • The right fault front when you could just be honest,
  • 00:17:00.836 --> 00:17:02.838
  • Just be yourself.
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  • I'll never forget talking to a business guy years ago, and i
  • 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:07.976
  • Asked him, "what's the number one thing that changed in your
  • 00:17:07.976 --> 00:17:11.113
  • Life now that you've become a follower of jesus?"
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  • He'd just started following jesus a few months before.
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  • And he said, "the number one thing that's changed," he said
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  • It right away, "is the way i answer the phone."
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  • He said, "i used to answer the phone and i would tell a
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  • Different lie to everybody in my business, and i'd have to look
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  • At their name and realize, 'what lie did i tell this guy?'
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  • And before i answer the phone know what lie in my mind, but
  • 00:17:29.598 --> 00:17:32.167
  • Now i can just answer--'cause i tell them the truth, i can just
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  • Answer and they--not even have to look at the name."
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  • That's what integrity does for you.
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  • It gives you this different kind of confidence.
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  • The bible says in proverbs 11:3, let's read this one together,
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  • "the integrity of the honest keeps them on track."
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  • So integrity shows you the right way to go.
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  • It also shows you what to do next.
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  • Sometimes you start to wander through life, you're not sure
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  • What to do next.
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  • Maybe in a transition, maybe when your kids is going off to
  • 00:17:58.927 --> 00:18:01.029
  • College, maybe you just changed jobs, what do you do next?
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  • Well, the bible says that when you have purity of heart, when
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  • You have integrity, you see god better.
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  • When you see god, you know what to do next 'cause god has
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  • A purpose, god has a plan for your life.
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  • Integrity helps you to see god's plan and purpose for your
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  • Life better.
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  • That's one of the things that gives you a greater confidence
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  • To live with, one of the great blessings of integrity.
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  • The second blessing of integrity is a lasting legacy.
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  • You get this lasting legacy.
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  • In fact, if you think about your life, your greatest legacy is in
  • 00:18:30.225 --> 00:18:34.897
  • Your integrity because it's a legacy that will last from
  • 00:18:34.897 --> 00:18:39.535
  • Generation to generation to generation.
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  • Everything else that we do, it gets lost.
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  • The money that you earn, in the end it's gonna get divided
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  • Amongst your kids, if you have any money left, and it's gonna
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  • Get spent.
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  • The work that you do, it's gonna be given to somebody else and
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  • Then you're gonna be forgotten.
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  • All the trophies that you've earned, it's gonna be thrown in
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  • The trash someday and taken to the dump.
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  • Isn't this encouraging about our lives?
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  • But the integrity that you have, the character that you have,
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  • It's gonna be translated into the lives of the people that are
  • 00:19:07.029 --> 00:19:09.731
  • Around you and then into the lives of the next generation and
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  • The next generation.
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  • It is a lasting legacy.
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  • Next verse in your outline, proverbs 20:7, is especially
  • 00:19:16.038 --> 00:19:18.707
  • Encouraging for parents.
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  • It says, "a righteous person lives on the basis of
  • 00:19:20.042 --> 00:19:23.712
  • His integrity.
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  • Blessed are his children after he is gone."
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  • It's the blessing, moms and dads, of the character that
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  • You've given.
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  • I know there's no such thing as a perfect parent here, but
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  • You've made some good choices, and in those good choices,
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  • You're passing them on.
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  • And you might think, "not me.
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  • I haven't made any good choices.
  • 00:19:40.128 --> 00:19:41.530
  • I mean, i messed up on this one.
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  • I did not show integrity in my relationships, and because of
  • 00:19:45.133 --> 00:19:48.403
  • That, i guess i don't get this blessing."
  • 00:19:48.403 --> 00:19:51.139
  • Well, i just wanna say to you the story is not over.
  • 00:19:51.139 --> 00:19:54.443
  • You can still have integrity in your life, and sometimes the
  • 00:19:54.443 --> 00:19:58.013
  • Greatest integrity you show is at a time when it seems like
  • 00:19:58.013 --> 00:20:00.415
  • There's no blessings.
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  • A lot of us know the story of job.
  • 00:20:01.917 --> 00:20:03.619
  • If you're brand new in church, you might even know that story,
  • 00:20:03.619 --> 00:20:06.154
  • The guy who lost it all; and he decided to have integrity, even
  • 00:20:06.154 --> 00:20:10.259
  • Though he lost it all.
  • 00:20:10.259 --> 00:20:11.627
  • He didn't know why he lost it, but he decided, "i'm gonna have
  • 00:20:11.627 --> 00:20:13.595
  • Integrity through this."
  • 00:20:13.595 --> 00:20:15.397
  • In the next verse in your outline, job 8:5-7, one of his
  • 00:20:15.397 --> 00:20:18.500
  • Friends gives him this advice: "if you pray to god and seek the
  • 00:20:18.500 --> 00:20:22.571
  • Favor of the almighty, if you're pure and you live with complete
  • 00:20:22.571 --> 00:20:25.974
  • Integrity, god will rise up and restore your happy home.
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  • And though you started with little, you will end with much."
  • 00:20:30.412 --> 00:20:34.349
  • And that is exactly what happened.
  • 00:20:34.349 --> 00:20:36.752
  • Job decided to have integrity even through a difficult time,
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  • And because of that, in the end he was doubly blessed.
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  • He was blessed even more in the end.
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  • Some of you, you've gone through a tough time and maybe even
  • 00:20:46.628 --> 00:20:49.564
  • A loss of integrity, and because of a loss, you start to think,
  • 00:20:49.564 --> 00:20:53.168
  • "what does it matter?
  • 00:20:53.168 --> 00:20:54.503
  • I already messed up, so i may as well just keep messing up 'cause
  • 00:20:54.503 --> 00:20:57.239
  • What does it matter now."
  • 00:20:57.239 --> 00:20:58.573
  • But i just wanna say to you the story is not over, and the truth
  • 00:20:58.573 --> 00:21:01.476
  • Of the matter is your greatest integrity might be what you do
  • 00:21:01.476 --> 00:21:05.180
  • After a loss of integrity.
  • 00:21:05.180 --> 00:21:06.915
  • You can still respond with integrity then and somebody's
  • 00:21:06.915 --> 00:21:09.551
  • Watching, and you know what?
  • 00:21:09.551 --> 00:21:10.886
  • They're gonna have a loss of integrity someday in their life
  • 00:21:10.886 --> 00:21:13.121
  • And you can show them even now what to do.
  • 00:21:13.121 --> 00:21:15.023
  • You can still leave a lasting legacy.
  • 00:21:15.023 --> 00:21:16.858
  • It's never too late.
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  • The story's not over.
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  • It's one of the blessings of integrity, a lasting legacy,
  • 00:21:19.561 --> 00:21:22.297
  • A personal confidence.
  • 00:21:22.297 --> 00:21:23.632
  • And then there's this third blessing amidst all the others
  • 00:21:23.632 --> 00:21:25.867
  • That we're looking at today, and that is the blessing of rewards
  • 00:21:25.867 --> 00:21:29.671
  • In eternity.
  • 00:21:29.671 --> 00:21:31.707
  • Now, this in one sense is the greatest blessing because it's
  • 00:21:31.707 --> 00:21:34.843
  • The one that lasts forever, the rewards that we get in eternity.
  • 00:21:34.843 --> 00:21:37.879
  • Look what the bible says about this in matthew 25:21.
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  • God will say one day, "well done!
  • 00:21:40.882 --> 00:21:44.386
  • You are a good and trusted servant!
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  • Because you were faithful with small things, i will now put you
  • 00:21:48.323 --> 00:21:51.993
  • In charge of much greater things.
  • 00:21:51.993 --> 00:21:54.096
  • So come and share your master's happiness!"
  • 00:21:54.096 --> 00:21:57.866
  • Now, would you circle for me two words in that verse?
  • 00:21:57.866 --> 00:22:00.369
  • Would you circle the words "small things"?
  • 00:22:00.369 --> 00:22:04.272
  • That's where the rewards are.
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  • We think that the rewards, the real integrity is in the big
  • 00:22:06.141 --> 00:22:08.777
  • Moments of life.
  • 00:22:08.777 --> 00:22:10.112
  • It's easy to have integrity, easier, because you know
  • 00:22:10.112 --> 00:22:12.681
  • Everybody's watching.
  • 00:22:12.681 --> 00:22:14.049
  • You can build yourself up for it.
  • 00:22:14.049 --> 00:22:15.384
  • But it's in the small moments that you show real integrity.
  • 00:22:15.384 --> 00:22:19.488
  • As rick said earlier, integrity is who you are when no one's
  • 00:22:19.488 --> 00:22:22.224
  • Watching, no one's noticing.
  • 00:22:22.224 --> 00:22:23.692
  • So what kind of integrity do i have in the small things
  • 00:22:23.692 --> 00:22:27.462
  • Of life?
  • 00:22:27.462 --> 00:22:28.797
  • Now, when it comes to integrity in the small things, when no one
  • 00:22:28.797 --> 00:22:31.533
  • Else is watching, we can all list the areas
  • 00:22:31.533 --> 00:22:34.302
  • We've failed there.
  • 00:22:34.302 --> 00:22:36.271
  • No one would want all of the small choices we made in our
  • 00:22:36.271 --> 00:22:38.974
  • Lives this last week even put up on the screen 'cause there'd be
  • 00:22:38.974 --> 00:22:41.777
  • Some things we did not want people to see.
  • 00:22:41.777 --> 00:22:43.678
  • It's easy to make a list of your sins and failures in the
  • 00:22:43.678 --> 00:22:46.481
  • Small things.
  • 00:22:46.481 --> 00:22:47.849
  • But let's put those--let's take those and put them on the
  • 00:22:47.849 --> 00:22:50.218
  • Forgiven in christ's side of the ledger 'cause he forgives
  • 00:22:50.218 --> 00:22:53.054
  • Those things.
  • 00:22:53.054 --> 00:22:54.423
  • But i wanna remind you--and this verse reminds us there is
  • 00:22:54.423 --> 00:22:56.625
  • Another side of the ledger, and that is when you choose to have
  • 00:22:56.625 --> 00:22:59.561
  • Faith, when you choose to have integrity in the small things.
  • 00:22:59.561 --> 00:23:02.297
  • That is on the rewarded side of the ledger.
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  • Every small thing you do, every small word of encouragement you
  • 00:23:05.901 --> 00:23:09.204
  • Give this next week, it is rewarded eternally.
  • 00:23:09.204 --> 00:23:13.341
  • Every small kindness--act of kindness that you give towards
  • 00:23:13.341 --> 00:23:17.746
  • Someone else, rewarded in eternity.
  • 00:23:17.746 --> 00:23:20.282
  • Every time you reject a temptation, rewarded
  • 00:23:20.282 --> 00:23:22.984
  • In eternity.
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  • Every time you pray a small prayer of faith, just a quick
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  • Prayer of faith in a moment, that is rewarded in eternity.
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  • That's the power of integrity.
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  • And when you make these small choices, when you make these
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  • Small choices for eternity, it changes not only your life now
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  • But also your life forever.
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  • Pastor rick: now, if you're talking about what tom just
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  • Talked about, i don't know about you, but i'm interested in
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  • These benefits.
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  • I'm interested in personal stability, i'm interested in
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  • Leaving a legacy, and i'm interested in rewards for
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  • Eternity; and god says all three of these are wrapped up in
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  • Having integrity.
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  • So how do you get it?
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  • How do you get integrity?
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  • What does it even look like?
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  • Well, in psalm chapter 15, the 15th psalm, david gives us eight
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  • Characteristics of what it means to walk or live with integrity.
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  • Let me read it to you.
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  • Psalm 15:1-5, "lord, who may stand in your sanctuary, and who
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  • May live on your holy mountain?"
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  • And what's he talking about here?
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  • This is a metaphor.
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  • He's saying, "god, who gets to be close to you?"
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  • That's what he's saying.
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  • "who gets to be your friend?"
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  • All that thing--stuff i just was talking about earlier,
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  • Who gets to live in your presence?
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  • Who gets to experience your power?
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  • Who gets to understand your peace?
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  • Who gets to live your purpose?
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  • God, who gets to be your friend?
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  • That's what he's saying.
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  • "who may stay in your sanctuary and live on
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  • Your holy mountain?"
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  • Here's the answer.
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  • "the one who walks with integrity--"
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  • Circle that, walks with integrity.
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  • And then he gives us eight characteristics of a man who has
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  • Integrity or a woman who has integrity.
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  • Here's what they are.
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  • Number one, "he speaks the truth from his heart."
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  • You don't lie when you have integrity.
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  • "he refuses to slander others with his tongue."
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  • Whoa.
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  • Anytime you put down anybody else, you've just
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  • Lost integrity.
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  • Anytime you slander anybody else, whether politics
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  • Or their religion, or their lifestyle,
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  • Or any other difference, cultural difference, whatever,
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  • He says: you just lost your integrity.
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  • "he refuses to slander others with his tongue.
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  • He won't listen to gossip."
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  • Oh, now we're meddling.
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  • "he will not cast a slur on his fellowman."
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  • Instead, "he honors those who fear the lord, and he keeps his
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  • Promises even when it hurts.
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  • He lends his money freely without charging interest."
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  • In other words, he's very, very generous.
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  • That's a mark of integrity.
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  • "and he cannot be bribed by money.
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  • Whoever does these things will never be shaken!"
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  • You wanna have security in your life?
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  • You wanna get rid of all the insecurity in your life?
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  • Get integrity in your life.
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  • You wanna have stability in your life?
  • 00:26:29.704 --> 00:26:31.239
  • Get integrity in your life.
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  • You wanna have the confidence tom was talking about?
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  • Then you gotta get integrity in your life.
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  • When you lack integrity, you go through life insecure.
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  • The bible says the man of integrity walks securely.
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  • And the whole reason you don't have security, the whole reason
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  • You feel insecure so much of the time is because you
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  • Lack integrity.
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  • Wholeness, authenticity, and an unmixed motivation.
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  • ♪♪♪
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