Andy Stanley - Your Integrity, Our World (Part 1)

February 7, 2026 | 28:29

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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - Your Integrity, Our World (Part 1) | February 7, 2026

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Andy stanley: hi, everybody, welcome to "your move,"
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Where we help you make better decisions
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And live with fewer regrets.
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I'm andy stanley, and i'll be your guide.
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Quick question: have you ever lied to someone so they won't
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Think you're a liar?
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Isn't that strange?
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Sometimes we would rather look good than actually be good,
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And that's not good, so we're gonna talk about it
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Right here on "your move."
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Andy stanley: today, we actually begin a brand-new series
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Entitled "your integrity, our world," "your integrity,
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Our world," and i will explain the title in just a minute,
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And next week i'm gonna give you our official definition
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For "integrity" for this series.
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But to just get us started, we kinda know what integrity
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Is, right?
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I mean, integrity is the resolve and, really, the courage, as
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We're gonna discover, it's the resolve and the courage
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To do the right and noble thing just because it's
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The right and noble thing.
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You just do the right and noble thing because it's the right and
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Noble thing when it benefits you and you do it when it costs you
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Because people of integrity just do the right thing because it's
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The right thing.
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That is the reward, even when it costs you--
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Actually, especially when it costs you.
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Those are the people that we cheer for, those are the heroes,
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The people that do the right thing even when it costs them,
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Even when there was a less costly alternative.
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You may be familiar, you probably are, with this phrase,
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Structural integrity, structural integrity.
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Structural integrity is a building science phrase, and
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Here's the technical definition, "the ability of a structure to
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Withstand its intended load without failing due to fracture
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Or fatigue."
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And unfortunately, we have seen what happens when a structure is
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Cracked and is fatigued and is not able to bear the load it was
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Supposed to bear.
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We've seen the devastation when structural integrity
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Is compromised.
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And what we've discovered and what you know and what you've
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Seen throughout your life in some capacity is that the damage
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Isn't isolated.
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The damage isn't isolated to the compromised beam or the
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Compromised column, is it?
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The entire structure is affected, because, because when
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A load-bearing structure fails, the load is transferred.
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When a load-bearing structure fails, the load is always
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Transferred to and potentially overloads surrounding
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Support structures.
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The failure of one part impacts the failure of others, because
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The stress is transferred and the load is transferred to other
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Parts of the building.
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Now, as you would imagine and as you can guess where we're going
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With this, the same is true for you and the same is true for me.
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The same is true for all of us, that a failure, a failure of
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Personal integrity, a failure of personal integrity adds stress
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To the persons around us, right?
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I mean, this isn't new but this is easy to overlook, especially
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When we're being tempted to sacrifice our integrity because
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Not to is gonna cost us something and it just seems too
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Difficult to tell the truth and too costly to do the
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Right thing.
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But a personal failure of integrity for everybody, no
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Matter how old you are, you transfer the stress to the
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People closest to you and oftentimes the people you love
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The most.
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The failure of integrity of one family member, what happens?
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It transfers the stress to other members of the family.
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At companies we've seen this, entire companies have imploded
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Because of the decision of a ceo or a leadership team, where
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Hundreds and hundreds of people lose their job, right?
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The point is simply this: the load, we just can't kid
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Ourselves, the load is always, always, always
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Transferred; that the consequences are never isolated;
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That your personal failure of integrity impacts some
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Other persons.
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But your integrity, when you maintain your integrity, when we
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Maintain our integrity, when i maintain my integrity, it also
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Impacts some other persons as well.
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So this is a really-really-really big deal.
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In fact, when we think about our community and our nation, our
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World, our families, i don't know of anything that's more
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Important, corporately, nationally.
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Thus our title, "your integrity, our world."
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My integrity, our world; your integrity, your family, your
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Community; my integrity, my family, my world.
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This is one of the reasons why integrity is actually a
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Universal expectation, and this is very interesting, and this is
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What makes a hypocrite out of all of us.
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We're gonna talk about that i think in week three, so don't
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Miss week three 'cause everybody loves to be called a hypocrite.
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If it's been a while, don't miss week three, right?
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Here's the thing, we all--we may opt for loopholes.
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In other words, i might look for a work-around or a loophole so i
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Don't have to tell the whole truth or so i don't have to be
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Completely transparent or so that, you know, i'm not
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Completely honest.
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We might look for loopholes and we might make excuses when it
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Comes to our personal decisions but here's what i know about
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You, we've never met.
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You expect integrity from the people closest to you and people
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Around you.
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You expect it from your leaders, your preachers and your
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Teachers, your spouse, your boss, your employees.
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You expect integrity from the people around you whether you're
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A person of integrity or not.
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Or, just to be sort of crass, thieves don't expect to be
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Stolen from, they're like, "what, you stole from me?"
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Well, yeah.
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"well, i didn't expect that." well, you do it.
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"doesn't matter what i do, i did not expect that
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From you," right?
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Now, i know--this doesn't apply to any of you, but those
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Employees that waste time at work, not us, but there are,
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This happens, you know, this happens,
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There are people who just, you know, they shop online at work,
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They do all kind of stuff, it's crazy.
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Yeah, they waste--they're eating up their employer's resources
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Wasting time at work but--and they never tell their
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Employer, right?
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But when the paycheck comes out, when the hours are totaled up,
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When they get their check every couple of weeks, they expect for
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The employer to pay them exactly what they agreed to.
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I mean, i may cheat you at work, but by golly, if i think you've
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Deducted something from my paycheck or you didn't count
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Hours, i am in your face, why?
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Because regardless of our personal integrity, regardless
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Of our consistency, it's a universal expectation, it's an
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Inescapable expectation.
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And all of that brings us to something
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Extraordinarily significant.
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Integrity, the whole idea of integrity, assumes an "ought to"
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We readily appeal to that we assume everyone around us is
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Accountable to.
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Let me read that again, that integrity assumes--the fact
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That you just expect people to tell you the truth, they signed
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The contract, they're gonna follow through.
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Integrity assumes an ought to, "you just ought to do that,"
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That we readily appeal to, "you didn't do what you ought to do,
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We need to talk about that," that we assume everybody around
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Us is accountable to, "you lied to me, you lied to me."
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Implication: even though we've never discussed the
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Pros and cons of lying, i just assumed you know you're
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Not supposed to lie.
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I mean, we've never talked about it, we never sat down before we
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Signed a contract and said, "okay, before we go through this
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Contract, let's talk about what's right and what's wrong."
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You don't do that before you sign a contract, you don't do
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That before you enter into a relationship because you just,
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You just assume people know what they ought to do and what
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They ought not to do, and they're assuming the same thing
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About you.
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"you lied to me, you lied to me."
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Well, yeah, but we never talked about whether lying is right
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Or wrong.
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"well, i just assumed you know you're not supposed to lie."
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Now, i didn't decide lying is wrong and you didn't decide
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Lying is wrong, everybody just knows, don't they?
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I mean, here's something you rarely hear.
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I hope you've never heard this, and i'm not suggesting you say
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This, but here's something we rarely hear.
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"yes, i lied to you. so what?"
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Like, "well, why are you making such a big deal out of this?"
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But if there is no objective, outside of us, sense of justice,
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Injustice, right or wrong,
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Think about this: why make an excuse for our behavior?
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I cheated. yeah, i cheated, so what?
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What's the big deal? yeah, i lied to you, yeah.
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Well, why are you making such a big deal out of that?
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What we usually hear is, "i didn't lie, i didn't lie."
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Implication: lying is wrong, i didn't lie.
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So, we're gonna talk about this next time, we lie about lying so
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People won't think we're liars.
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Let me go over that again.
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We lie about lying because we don't want people to think we're
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Liars because we know there's something wrong with being a
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Liar even though we did it anyway.
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Somehow, we just, we just know, right?
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Now, what we might hear, what probably all of us have said at
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One point, is, "now, the reason i lied is..."
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Let me tell you why i lied.
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But why not just decide lying's not wrong, it'd be a lot easier.
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Then you don't have to make excuses, you go, "yeah, i lied,
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Yeah, i cheated, yeah, i was unfaithful, why are we even
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Talking about this?"
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I mean, come on.
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You're holding me to an account, you're holding me accountable to
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A standard you just made up.
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Somewhere along the way you just decided lying's wrong,
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Shooting's wrongs, unfaithfulness is wrong, you
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Just made that up, that's your standard, that's your truth,
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That's not my truth.
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You can't hold me accountable to a list of things you just
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Made up.
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Besides that, we never went over them, we never sat down and we
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Never even covered this stuff so you have no right, you have no
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Right to hold me accountable to some standard of right and
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Wrong, just and unjust, that you just made up any more than i
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Have a right to hold you to my standard.
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But we know better, it's inescapable, we just
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Know better.
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I mean, we may throw those things out as excuses from time
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To time but somehow we just know better because, as we're going
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To see, there is an ought to that stands outside of you and
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Over you that didn't originate with you.
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It just is, there is an ought to.
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And again, it's not applied universally the same way in
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Every culture and every, you know, season or in every
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Generation but there's a general sense of ought to that stands
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Outside of you, you did not make it up, and over you that didn't
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Originate with you or me, and we can't escape it.
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Now, here's--again, the hypocrisy is just amazing, we've
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All done this.
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We might deny the existence of ought to with our actions
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Because we don't always do what we ought to do, right?
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We may deny this universal sense of ought to with our personal
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Decisions, "because i know i ought to but i'm not gonna do
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What i ought to and i know i ought not do that
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But i'm gonna do it anyway."
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So we may kinda dismiss and deny that there's some universal
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Sense of ought to with our actions, but never with
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Our reactions.
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We react to ought to whenever someone doesn't do what they
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Ought to and it hurts us or it hurts someone that we love.
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Now, so what does all this have to do with integrity?
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Everything, here's what it has to do with it.
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If, if there is no ought to that stands outside of you and holds
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Sway over you, in other words, if that doesn't even exist and
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If you're someone who just believes that, you know, the
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Material world is all there is and nature's all that is--i
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Understand that, you have good reason, there's good arguments
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To be made for that.
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But if that's your worldview, if there is no ought to that stands
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Outside of you, that holds sway over you, that holds you to some
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Extent accountable, then integrity, let's just not kid
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Ourselves, integrity is nothing more than a tool that you use to
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Get your way until it gets in the way, and then we just throw
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It away and we just do whatever we want to.
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So, determining what's at the bottom or the foundation of
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Integrity, if there's an anchor at all, what it's built on has
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Huge ramifications because, if integrity, if integrity is not
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Connected to anything, if it's not supported by anything that
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Actually exists, if it's not grounded in anything other than
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Our opinion and if it's not grounded specifically, as we're
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Gonna see, in the divine, then again, let's not kid ourselves,
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Integrity, integrity, what's right and wrong, ought, ought
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Not, just, unjust, noble, virtuous, it's fluid, right?
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It's fluid, it will be defined and redefined by personal and
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Public opinion.
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It's just gonna be defined and redefined by majority rule.
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Okay, now let me ask you this question, and i'm gonna let you
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Vote on this a minute.
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And don't leave, okay?
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Just to make a point, should women be allowed to vote?
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Should they? let's just vote, okay?
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If you think women should be allowed to vote, let's just--
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Raise of hands, do you think women should--
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This is not a trick question, guys, it's like--
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But once upon a time, the majority said, "no," and then
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The majority said, "yes."
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And if there's nothing more to that topic than the majority,
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Where does that leave us?
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Somebody says, "what about the constitution?"
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Well, that's another good illustration.
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Are the rights--again, you don't have to answer this out loud,
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Just to get us thinking.
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Are the rights guaranteed by our constitution, are they
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Anchored to anything?
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Or do we just get to make this stuff up until it's inconvenient
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And we decide we wanna do something else?
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So, if there's no ought and ought not that stands outside of
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Us and holds sway over us, then right and wrong, just and
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Unjust, it's just determined by majority rule in the case of
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A democracy.
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But it's determined by minority rule in the case of a
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Dictatorship or a fascist regime or theocracy; people with the
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Power, they just make stuff up, they decide what's right, what's
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Wrong, what's moral, what's immoral.
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But it's even worse than that, okay?
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It's even worse than that.
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And you're thinking, "how could it be worse than that?"
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In fact, just say, "how could it be worst than that?"
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Yeah, i know, thanks for asking.
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How could it possibly--i mean, this is terrible and here's why,
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Because if there is no divine law giver, if all there is is
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What we see, and what you see is what you get and that's it, then
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We can't even hold the people in power responsible, we can't
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Judge them because there's no objective standard by which to
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Judge them.
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I'm just judging them based on my opinion, my truth, my life
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Experience, the way i was raised.
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You know, i'm just holding them to an account, i'm holding them
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Accountable to a standard they never subscribed to to begin
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With and i don't want them holding me accountable to a, you
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Know, a standard that i never subscribed to to begin with
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Either so we're at a stalemate.
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And it's even worse than that because, if there's no objective
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Standard by which to judge, if if all there is is matter, they
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Actually had no choice in the matter.
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Because matter doesn't decide, matter just is.
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Choices, decisions require free will.
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And in a purely, you know this, in a purely materialistic world,
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There's no free will.
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I mean, free will is an illusion, it's a trick of
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Evolution, it's not actual, it's not real.
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We experience decision-making but we're not actually making
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Decisions because of physics and chemistry, natural law, it can't
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Decide anything, it just, it just is.
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So at the end of the day, the people who see the world
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Differently than us, we can't judge them, we're holding them
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Accountable to something we just made up, unless there's an ought
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To that we're all accountable to that holds sway over us and
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Judges us.
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If that doesn't exist, in the end, it really is just survival
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Of the fittest, evolution by natural de-selection.
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If there is no divine and if there is no divine lawgiver,
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It's just self-serving opinion, it's just majority rule, and
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Integrity just becomes a useful tool to help other people feel
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Guilty and to hold them accountable and to meet our
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Expectations until it's not.
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And then at the end, ought to is just up to you, ought to
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Is just up to me.
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But we know better, we know better, we know better.
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Even if you aren't sure about a personal god, you know better.
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Even if you walked away from god, how many of you've read all
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The books?
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In your personal experience day to day, before this day is out,
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You know better, there is something outside of you
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That's bearing down on you.
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And here's the amazing thing, and this is what i don't think
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I can convince all of you of today, but if you'll hang with
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Us for the next few weeks i hope someone or something
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Will convince you.
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The moment, this is so amazing to me, the moment that
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We attempt to justify a behavior in our minds--
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Okay, think about this week, we're gonna have one of these
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Before the day's over--the moment, the moment you try to
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Justify a behavior in your mind,
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"i shouldn't but i'm going to, i should not tell her that, i'm
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Gonna tell her that anyway, you know, i shouldn't lie, i should
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Show them, i should but i'm not, i shouldn't but i am."
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The moment--as soon as you enter in to that internal argument
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With yourself, you acknowledge the divine whether you believe
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In it or not, you acknowledge accountability to something that
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You did not create and you can't shake.
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Paul, the apostle paul, he explained it different and
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Better, and his is a lot shorter so i'm just gonna read you his.
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But, you know, i get 30 minutes, so i just couldn't read this
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And dismiss.
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Okay, but i will tell you, this is better, and he's
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Writing to judean and galilean jesus followers.
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They're new christians, sons and daughters of abraham, who were
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Raised on torah, they were raised on the law.
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I mean, and here's something we can kind of understand if we
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Stop and think about it.
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They're conscious, these 1st century, 2nd century too, but
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Especially these 1st century judeans, galileans, sons and
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Daughters of abraham, their consciences were fine-tuned to
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The law of moses.
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I mean, fine-tuned.
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And sometimes, your conscience can be too active,
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Like, you're too sensitive to things.
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So like 10 years, i know it can't get off on this, but like
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10 years after the resurrection, such a great story, 10 years
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After the resurrection, peter, who's been with jesus the whole
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Time, the whole ministry, peter gets to the door of cornelius's
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House, and cornelius is a gentile and cornelius has
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Invited peter over to talk about jesus.
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And he gets to cornelius's house and it's like, ehhhhhh, and he
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Later says, he says, "this is the first time, the first time
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I've ever been in a gentile's home."
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It's like, "what?"
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Yeah, because their consciences was fine-tuned to the torah and
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To the 1st century teaching of how torah was supposed to be
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Lived out.
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So, when these judeans and galileans, sons and daughters of
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Abraham, when they realize these gentiles, people like most of
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Us, are beginning to worship their god and are gonna follow
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Their messiah and embrace jesus as their messiah as well, they
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Were like, "okay, wait-wait-wait, this, they, how
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Are they going to do this?
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They don't even know torah, okay?
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They don't even go to synagogue, i mean, they know nothing.
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How in the world are they gonna live a life that's pleasing to
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God when they don't have the law?"
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So paul's like, "that is a great question, so here is an answer."
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Here's what he says, "when gentiles," talking about most of
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Us, "who do not have the law," because they just didn't grow up
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With it, they don't have it in their hearts, their minds, their
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Consciences aren't fine-tuned.
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"when gentiles, who do not have the law, do instinctively things
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Required by the law," when they, as they begin to follow jesus
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And they become more honest and they quit stealing, they quit
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Cheating and they quit, you know, cheating with their
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Measure and their weights they were, you know, doing in
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The marketplace.
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When they begin to live better, more ethical, more moral lives,
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They--he says there's something that's intuitive, there's
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Something that their conscience begins to be more fine-tuned,
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Not to torah, not to, you know, the law as given to the jews.
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He says, "but god's doing something on the inside, they
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Just know those things are wrong."
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He says when that happens, when they're like, suddenly, you
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Know, "that didn't bother me before, but now i'm like, i'm
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Not doing that anymore."
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Remember zacchaeus, like he stole and stole and stole?
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Then he meets jesus, like, "i'm giving it all back, plus some."
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Like, whoa, what happened?
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What did you read?
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"i didn't read anything, i just met jesus, i didn't have to read
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It, it's like suddenly my eyes are open, i see the world a
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Different way."
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He says, paul, when that happens, "they are," he says,
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"they are a law for themselves, even though they don't have
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The law."
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They have a law, they don't have the law, they don't have torah.
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But where did that come from?
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Where does this enlightenment come from?
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Where does this sense of right and wrong that suddenly their
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Eyes are open to?
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Paul says, "they show," he said, "i've been around, i've, you
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Know, i've been all around the mediterranean basin, you know,
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Inviting gentiles to following jesus.
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Here's what i've discovered."
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"they show that the requirements of the law are written on their
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Hearts," they show that the requirements of the law, not the
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Sacrificial law, the how-you-treat-other-people law,
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"the law are written on their hearts, their consciences,"
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Their consciences are becoming, are starting to get fine-tuned
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To the divine law of god that's for everybody.
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Then, here's something we all experience every day, "and their
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Thoughts," this is so interesting, "and their thoughts
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Sometimes accuse them."
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Isn't that weird?
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It's like your body is moving in this direction because you've
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Decided what you're gonna do and your thoughts go,
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"don't do that."
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It's like, wait, who's-- how many of me are there?
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Okay, i just like had a thought that conflicts with
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The direction of my body and i'd already made up my mind.
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So do i have two brains?
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He says no, there's an internal tension now because they've been
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Awakened to the divine law of god, "their thoughts accusing
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Them, at other times defending them."
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Good job, good job, good job.
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Yeah, you're probably not gonna get a bonus now but you did
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The right thing, you know?
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She's in tears, he's in tears, your kids are upstairs crying
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But that was a conversation you needed to have, good job.
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Gentiles, who didn't have or know the 10 commandments, are
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Condemned by their conscience and encouraged by their
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Conscience anytime they intersected with the law of god
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Whether or not they had the official law of god.
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So, ought to, ought to is not completely up to you and ought
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To it's not completely up to me, there is an outside agent.
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And this is huge, i just want you to think about it but
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Especially if you're not a christian, or used to be or
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Rethinking it.
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The moment, the moment we attempt to justify a behavior in
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Our minds, we acknowledge the law of god written on
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Our hearts.
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You say, "i don't believe in god."
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I'm not saying you should or that you do, i'm just telling
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You, you've been wrestling with ought to your whole life and you
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Thought it was conditioned and societal conditioning and
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Certainly there are certainly some of that, right?
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But i'm just telling you, you have experienced, and apostle
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Paul talks about this in other places, you have experienced the
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Divine, you have experienced an encounter with a god who loves
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You who has written his law on your heart and you know you
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Didn't make it up and you can't escape it.
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And you made a big-big-big bad decision and the only way to
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Assuage your guilt and your conscience is you had to start
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Making other bad decisions, right?
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And your heavenly father says, "come back, come back from the
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Ledge, come back from the brink, and i want you to wrestle with
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This because to wrestle with your conscience is to wrestle
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With me, because i placed my law in your heart."
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The moment we attempt to justify behavior in our minds, we
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Acknowledge the law of god written in our hearts.
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The rule of god, the kingdom of god, this is why i love to say
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That everyone should consider following jesus because jesus
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Came to planet earth and he ignited and he launched and he
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Initiated the rule and the kingdom of god on earth and he
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Placed his law in our hearts.
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And when you do the right thing, when you do the costly thing--
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When you do the thing that costs you financially, costs you
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Relationally, costs you reputationally, costs you some
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Followers, now you're not gonna get invited back, now you're not
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Gonna get invited in, now it's your life's gonna be different
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Because you did the right thing--you have intersected
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With the divine because you obeyed the law of god
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Written on your heart.
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You have participated in it.
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These are jesus's words, i love this, "you are not far from it."
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So we're gonna talk about integrity, and from lots of
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Different angles.
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To get started, it's anchored to something beyond our fluid
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Opinions and it's anchored to something beyond anyone's fluid
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Opinions or majority opinion; it's informed by a value system
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That stands outside of us, that stands over us, that puts
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Pressure on us, and it represents what's best for us
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And it represents what's best for the people around us.
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And the reason you know it's what's best for you is because
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When someone treats you the way they ought not treat you, you
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Appeal to the law of god in your heart and you appeal to the law
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Of god that your hope is in their heart as well.
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It's more than simply being a good person, it's living in sync
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With the will of god.
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When you do what's right and it costs you, you declare the rule
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Of god over you.
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You're not just making a good decision, you're not--
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This is what's so amazing-- you're not just doing the right
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Thing; you are declaring the rule of god over you and you are
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Participating in the kingdom of god whether you meant to or not
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And whether you believe in god or not.
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And, when you insist that other people treat other people justly
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And when you insist that other people treat other people right
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And when you insist that other people treat other people fairly
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You're participating in the kingdom of god as well.
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So, wrapping this up.
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Integrity: we expect it, you can't not expect it; we
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Celebrate it; every time you see it you celebrate it; those are
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The heroes, right, and we can't escape it.
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But the questions is this, the questions are these, i guess.
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How do you get it?
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For some of you, how do you get it back?
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How do you guard it?
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How do you model it for your kids?
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That's what this series is all about.
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So, don't miss part two of "your integrity, our world."
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Next time, we're gonna talk about how to position integrity
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As your guide, so i hope to see you then.
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Andy: hey everybody, thank you so much for tuning in.
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If you'd like to watch this episode again or share it with a
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The website is the best place for you to find other "your
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More about our mission to engage culture with the teaching of
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Jesus because we're convinced following jesus will make your
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Life better and make the world a better place,
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And now it's your move.
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Andy Stanley - Your Integrity, Our World (Part 1)

February 7, 2026 | 28:29

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