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Rick Warren - God Blesses A Heart of Integrity (Part 2)

July 12, 2026 | 27:29

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 2) | July 12, 2026

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Pastor rick warren: 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
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Actually 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, in psalm chapter 15, the 15 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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Lord," who may stand in your sanctuary and who may live on
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Your holy "mountain, 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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Here's the answer.
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"the one who walks with integrity."
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Circle that, walks with integrity, and then he gives us
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Eight characteristics of a man who has integrity, or a woman
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Who has integrity, and 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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He won't listen to gossip."
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Oh, now we're meddling.
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Says if you listen--not share it, but even if you just listen
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To it, you've lost your integrity.
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"he will not cast a slur on his fellowman...
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[instead] he honors those
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Who fear the lord, and he keeps his promises
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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, that's a mark
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Of integrity.
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"and he cannot be bribed by money.
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Whoever does these things, these things, will never be shaken."
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You want to have security in your life?
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You want to get rid of all the insecurity in your life?
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Get integrity in your life.
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You want to have stability in your life?
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Get integrity in your life.
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You want to have the confidence tom was talking about?
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Then you got to 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, and
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The whole reason you don't have security, the whole reason you
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Feel insecure so much of time is because you lack integrity,
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Wholeness, authenticity, and a unmixed motivation.
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What i want to do now is give you a little checklist.
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It's a pretty quick checklist.
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It's not going to take a lot of time for me to explain it.
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In fact, i don't have to illustrate it because once i say
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These things you'll understand it.
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Integrity demands that every area of your life is treated
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With the same intensity, that you say, "i'm going to have the
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Same commitment to excellence in my marriage as i have in
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My career.
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I'm going to have the same commitment to excellence in my
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Ministry and in my parenting as i do in making money.
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I'm going to have as much commitment to the right
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Motivation as i do to doing the right thing."
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So let me just give you six of the common ways, you can work on
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These this week, from the bible.
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Number one, you become a person of integrity by keeping
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Your promises.
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By keeping your promises.
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People of integrity keep their word.
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If they say they'll do it, they'll do it.
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If they say they'll be there, they'll be there.
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They say you can count on it, you can count on it.
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People of integrity keep their promises.
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This is verbal integrity, and the bible says in proverbs 25,
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Verse 14, "people who promise things that they never give," he
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Says they're, "like clouds and wind that bring no rain."
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He says they're worthless, just a bun a hot--bunch of hot air.
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They're just vapor.
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There's nothing to them.
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They don't bring wind.
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They don't bring rain.
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They don't bring any benefit.
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They're just all smoke and mirrors.
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So my question to you is this.
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What promises have you made that you have not kept, and you need
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To keep them for integrity's sake.
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Have you made some promises to your kids?
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Broken promises are the number one cause of bitterness
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In children.
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The number one cause of bitterness, broken promises that
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Parents said--i said--"mom, you said.
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Dad, you said," then they break a promise.
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Have you made a promise to your spouse about something you're
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Going to change, and you haven't done it?
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It's a broken promise.
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Have you made a promise to god, a spiritual promise, a vow, and
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You haven't kept it?
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That is a lack of integrity.
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Now, i know that what happens is we say, "well, the circumstances
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Have changed."
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Doesn't matter.
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If you made a promise you got to keep your word, even if it is
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Not beneficial to you.
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Do you remember that psalm 15 we just read?
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Let me look at it again here on the screen.
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Psalm 15, verse 4, "(god blesses)
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The one who walks with integrity ...
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Who keeps his promises even when it hurts."
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Even when it costs you more than you thought it was going to cost
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You, you keep your promise.
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I said i'd sell it to you for that.
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I'm going to sell it to you for that, even though it's worth
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A whole lot more, or whatever.
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You keep your promises even when it hurts.
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Number two, you become a person of integrity by paying
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Your bills.
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Now, you may not think this is a big deal, but it's a big deal
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To god.
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This is financial integrity, and the bible says over and over and
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Over and over again that the way you use your money is a test
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Of your integrity.
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Do you spend more money than you make?
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That is a lack of integrity.
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Do you get yourself in debt to things that you can't pay off?
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That is a lack of integrity.
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The bible says people of integrity pay their bills.
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It's like keeping your promises financially.
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Now, i'm not going to go into all the different ways, but let
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Me just give you a couple.
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Here's a couple of verses.
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First, you don't default on loans and you pay off your
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Credit card.
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Psalm 37:21 says, "the wicked man borrows and never
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Pays back."
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And not only that, this one's really meddling.
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Some of these are going to get a little personal here.
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You don't defraud the government of taxes.
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The bible says in romans 13, verse 6 and 7, "the authorities
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Working--are working for god ...
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Pay what you owe them; pay your personal and property taxes."
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You say, "but rick, the government is wasting my money."
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Of course i know that, okay, and they are--they don't--the
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Government lacks integrity because they're spending far
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More than they take in, okay, and they're doing deficit
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Spending, but you don't get to do that if you have integrity.
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What they do with my taxes they're going to be accountable
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To god for, but i am accountable to god to pay my taxes and to
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Not cheat on them because if i do i lack integrity.
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The bible says to do that.
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Okay, number three, you become a person of integrity by keeping
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Your promises, paying your bills, and number three, this
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One's really meddling, by refusing to gossip.
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That's what the bible says.
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This is relational integrity, and that is you don't talk one
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Way with one group of people and then go talk about them behind
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Their back.
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If you flatter somebody and you butter them up and you act like
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They're best friends, and then behind them you cut them off at
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The knees, and you say one thing here and one thing there, and
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You gossip, the bible says you lack integrity.
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You don't have it, and you're not going to have god's blessing
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On your life if you keep on gossiping like that, and the
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Bible says if you listen to it.
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Did you know that accepting stolen goods gets the same
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Criminal indictment as stealing it, and so accepting gossip is
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The same thing as offering it up.
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It's a wrong thing.
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Every time you gossip you lose integrity.
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Do you talk about other people behind their back?
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Can you keep a secret?
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The bible says this in proverbs 11, verse 13, "a gossip can't be
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Trusted with a secret, but someone of integrity won't
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Violate a confidence."
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Do you know what we need today?
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We need men and women of integrity who know how to keep
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A secret and not put it on facebook or blab it on twitter
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Or pass it around on social media.
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You know, one of the rules of our small groups is what's said
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In the group stays in the group, why?
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Because everybody needs a safe place of a few friends where you
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Can be real and be yourself and have not everybody go publish it
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About you.
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Real friends walk into your life when everybody else walks out,
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And when you mess up and you really blow it you need a few
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Friends in your life who don't rub it in, they rub it out, and
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That's the purpose of a small group, one of the purposes, and
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So what's said in the group stays in the group.
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Can you keep a confidence, or as soon as somebody says, "now,
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I've never told this to anybody," you immediately go
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Tell somebody else.
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If you do, you lack integrity.
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The bible says this, there on the screen, proverbs 10:18,
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"anyone who spreads gossip," god says you're a fool.
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"anyone who spreads gossip is a fool."
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It's a foolish, destructive thing to do.
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All right, number four, i'm just going through these
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Pretty quickly.
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Integrity is developed by keeping your promises, paying
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Your bills, refusing to gossip, number four, by
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Faithfully tithing.
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Did you know that the bible says that tithing is a test
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Of integrity?
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One of the ways god tests my integrity is through tithing.
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Do i trust him with my finances?
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Do i put him first?
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Whatever--wherever you put your money first is what's most
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Important to you.
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Let me say that again.
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Wherever you put your money first is what's most important
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To you, and the bible says that tithing is a test of integrity,
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Because jesus said wherever your heart is--wherever your treasure
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Is, that's where your heart's going to be.
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So you can always know what's important to people by looking
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At where they spend their money.
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Now, here's what god says about this.
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Malachi chapter 3, "is it right for a person to cheat god?
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Of course not!
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Yet you are robbing me, says the lord.
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'how?' you ask."
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You're spending my money.
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"by withholding your full tithe and offerings ...
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Bring to me the full amount of your tithe to my house.
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Put me to the test and you'll see that i will open the windows
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Of heaven and pour out so much blessing on you that you won't
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Even have enough room to receive it all!"
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This is a test, and this is a promise.
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It's the pepsi challenge verse.
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Jesus--god says, "i dare you to trust me on this.
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I dare you to trust me.
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Do you have the integrity to put me first in your finances?"
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♪♪♪
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Pastor rick: you become a person of integrity keeping your
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Promises, paying your bills, refusing to gossip, faithfully
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Tithing, by doing your best at work.
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By doing your best at work.
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This is business integrity or vocational.
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We--spiritual integrity, tithing, and relational
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Integrity, not gossiping, and financial integrity, paying
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Your bills.
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This is vocational integrity of having integrity where you work.
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Do you do your best at work, or do you just slough off when the
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Boss isn't watching?
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See, some people only work hard when the boss is around, when
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The supervisors around, and the rest of the time they're
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Goofing off.
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They're playing around.
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They're standing the water cooler gossiping.
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They're playing solitaire on the computer or reading some
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Online magazine.
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They're taking supplies home to their house, ripping off
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The office.
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They're, you know, taking breaks, coming in late, as long
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As they're not being noticed.
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You may have never realized what a serious sin god considers it
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For you to give a full day's work when you're paid a full
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Day's wage.
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You don't have the right to goof off.
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You say, "well, everybody else is slacking off.
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Nobody else works hard in my office."
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Well, so what?
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They're not a follower of christ, and maybe they don't
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Care about integrity, and maybe they don't care about leaving
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A legacy, rewards for eternity, and personal stability, but you
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Do, and so whether they work hard and well or not
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Is irrelevant.
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Let me show you some--just a few verses about this here on
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The screen.
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Proverbs 18, verse 9, says this, "slack habits and sloppy work
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Are as bad as vandalism."
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That's what god says about it.
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He says, you know, if you're just goofing off and you do poor
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Work and you don't really--that's good enough
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For this.
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You know, nobody's going to even notice.
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He said that's like vandalism.
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Let me show you in the living bible.
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The bible says this, "a lazy employee is as destructive as
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A saboteur."
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Whoa, now we're really getting deep here.
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He's saying that if i am not giving a full day's work for
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A full day's wage--i may hate my job.
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It doesn't matter if i hate it or not.
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I am actually vandalizing and i'm sabotaging somebody else's
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Business if i'm not giving it my best.
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If i don't give it my best, then i lack integrity.
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Let me show you a couple of other verses.
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Ephesians 6:6 says this, "don't work hard only when your
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Master," that's your supervisor, "is watching and then shirk when
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He isn't looking!
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Work hard and work with gladness," and that's
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Enthusiasm, "all the time," even if you hate your job, "as though
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Working for christ, doing the will of god with all
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Your heart."
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It is god's will that you work hard and with gladness all the
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Time, as if you were working for christ.
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You see, if you're a believer your boss isn't your boss.
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Your real boss is god, and whether anybody else sees it or
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Not--you say, "nobody's going to see whether i worked or not."
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God does, and he's your boss.
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Your boss isn't watching you all the time, but god is watching
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You all the time, and this is a test.
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It's a test of integrity, and it's god's will that i not waste
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The time and the money and the resources of the owner of the
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Business or my employer.
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Let me show you another one.
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Colossians 3:22 says this, "and don't just do the minimum that
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Will get you by.
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Do your best."
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That's integrity.
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Are you doing your best at work?
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If not, you need to change.
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You need to, what's called, repent.
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I need to not just do the minimum.
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I need to give it my best shot.
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Do your best.
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In fact, the next verse, colossians 3:23, it's on your
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Outline, says this, "work hard and cheerfully is whatever you
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Do, as though you're working for the lord rather than people."
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That is a mark of integrity.
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What kind of witness would we have in the world if we
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Were all like that?
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Let me give you one more.
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Give you one more.
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We become--you become a person of integrity by being real
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With others.
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You become a person of integrity by being real with others.
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You don't fake it.
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You are yourself.
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You don't pretend.
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It's what we're talking about earlier.
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You're authentic. you're genuine.
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You're not a hupokritos.
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You don't wear a mask and talk a certain way with this group, and
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Then go over here and wear another mask and act a certain
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Way with this group, and you don't act one way in church and
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One way at work and then another way in the golf course or when
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You're playing shooting some hoops or whatever.
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No, you're always the same.
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You're not perfect.
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You're not sinless.
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It's not that you don't make mistakes.
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You do make mistakes, but your heart's in the right direction
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And you are real with other people.
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You're not a phony.
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You're not a fake.
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You're not trying to be something that you're
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Not really.
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2 corinthians 4:2 says this, "we refuse to wear masks.
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We refuse to play games.
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We don't maneuver and manipulate behind the scenes.
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And we don't twist god's word to suit ourselves."
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In other words, we say, "well, i think this means this," when we
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Just don't like what it says.
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"rather, we keep everything we do and say out in the open."
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Your life is an open book.
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You're authentic.
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What you see is what you get.
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You are not a phony.
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You're not a fake.
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You're into integrity, not into image.
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How in the world do you keep it real?
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There's only one way.
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There's only one way.
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You got to care more about god's approval than the approval of
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Other people.
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That's the only way you'll ever become a man of integrity.
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That's the only way you'll ever come--become a woman of
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Integrity, because if you care about what god thinks then
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You're going to do the right thing.
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If you care about what other people think, you're going to
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Typically often do the wrong thing, 'cause what god thinks is
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Sometimes unpopular, sometimes it's difficult.
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The only way you can maintain integrity is to care more about
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God's approval, "well done, good and faithful servant," than to
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Care about the approval of other people.
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Psalm 119:9 says this, "how can i keep my way pure?"
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Blessed are the pure in heart.
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They get to see god.
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How can i keep my way?
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How do i live a life of integrity?
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"by living according to your word."
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You must stay in this book, and if you don't stay in this book
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You will not have the strength and the stamina to live
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With integrity.
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Now, this is why, friends, we need a savior, okay?
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What we just talked about today, this is why you need
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The--a savior.
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This is why we need the cross.
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This is why we need grace.
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This is why we need forgiveness, why?
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Because none of us measure up.
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None of us are perfect.
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The bible says there's not a just man on the earth who always
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Does what is right and never does what is wrong.
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The bible says we have all sinned and we have all fallen
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Short, so each of us have our own unique falling shorts.
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You have your falling shorts and i have my falling shorts, but
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Thank god he forgives all our falling shorts.
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"all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of god."
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This is why you need grace, you need a savior, 'cause there's no
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Way i can measure up to god's perfection.
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There's no way you can either.
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God doesn't expect you to be perfect.
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He does expect you to have integrity, which means you own
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Up, and the starting point to be a man of god or a woman of god
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Is to say, i admit it.
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"i just don't have integrity in some of these areas."
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What really matters is the direction of your heart.
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When you come to god and say, "god, this is my heart, and i
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Really want it to be in this direction," and god could say
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About you like he did about david, remember, the guy who
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Committed adultery and murder, "there's a guy after my
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Own heart."
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He looked past all the mistakes that had been made, and he
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Looked at the direction of david's heart, says the guy's
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Got a good heart.
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He's going in the right direction.
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He wants to do the right thing, and that comes from the power
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And the grace of god.
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Let's bow our heads.
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I'm going to pray a prayer, and you can just follow me in it.
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Make it your prayer to god.
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Dear jesus christ, i thank you that you were sinless.
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You never sinned, you were the ultimate example of integrity,
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And so you could pay the price for all my sins.
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Thank you for dying on the cross for me.
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Just say that in your mind.
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Thank you for dying on the cross for me, for paying all my sins.
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There is no way, god, that i can measure up to your standard of
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Perfection, and that's why i need your grace and that's why i
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Need your forgiveness and that's why i need your salvation, and,
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Jesus, thank you for loving me enough to pay for all my sins.
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The confession of bad works is the beginning of good works.
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So why don't you just have a little confession time with god?
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Why don't you say, "god, i admit that i don't always keep my
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Promises that i want to, and, god, i admit that i've spent
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More money than i make, and i've got myself really deeply in
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Debt, and i haven't paid off all my debts, but i want to, and i
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Ask you to help me stop spending more than i make so i can start
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Paying off my debts and be a person of integrity, and, god, i
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Admit that i have gossiped, i have shared secrets, i've
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Listened to gossip, i've slandered other people, and
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I'm sorry.
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I don't want to be that way, and, god, i haven't put you
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First in my money.
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I've paid everything except my tithe.
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I put you in last place, not first.
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As an act of integrity, i'm going to start tithing, and,
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God, i admit that i don't always do my best and i don't always
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Work hard, cheerfully.
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A lot of times i just slack off, 'cause i don't really like my
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Job some days.
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Help me to remember that whether anybody else notices what i do,
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You notice.
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Help me to do my work with excellence, with quality, and
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With integrity, knowing that i'm working for you as my real boss,
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And, god, i need you to give me the courage to be real with
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Other people.
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I'm tired of wearing masks.
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I'm tired of playing games.
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I'm tired of maneuvering and manipulating behind the scenes.
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I want to live my life as an open book, not perfect, not
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Sinless, but authentic and whole.
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I want today, jesus christ, to commit to becoming a man or
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A woman of integrity.
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I want a pure heart that you can bless.
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Help me to stay in the word every day, that it is your word
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That keeps me pure."
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If you've never invited jesus christ to forgive all your
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Sins and to be the savior and the lord of your life, say,
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"jesus christ, i don't understand it all, but i want to
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Thank you for dying for my sins and i ask you to become
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The leader, the lord, the manager,
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The boss of my life, and i want your purpose
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And peace and plan and power, and i humbly ask this in your
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Name, amen."
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♪♪♪
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Rick Warren - God Blesses A Heart of Integrity (Part 2)

July 12, 2026 | 27:29

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