Integrity Determines Authority
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A House Divided
A House Divided
Integrity
Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.
And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Dividing ourselves from the Body
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Integrity and Authority
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Double minded
Integral-
necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental.
1.necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental.
integrity
1 completeness, fulness
1 completeness, fulness
2 innocence, simplicity- lack of guile or corruption; purity. freedom from guilt, the quality or condition of being plain or natural.
3 integrity
Abide
2 in reference to state or condition
1 to remain as one, not to become another or different
Structural integrity is the ability of an item—either a structural component or a structure consisting of many components—to hold together under a load, including its own weight, without breaking or deforming excessively.
He made known his ways to Moses,
his acts to the people of Israel.
Integrity of Our Body- goats, UNITY
“Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
Integrity of heart
Integrity of heart
Excuses
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
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Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others; the act is also known as dishing or tattling.
Integrity of mind
Lack of integrity
Talent without integrity
If you have faith in the Word you can not be
But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
redeem me, and be gracious to me.
Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love,
but a faithful man who can find?
The righteous who walks in his integrity—
blessed are his children after him!
O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent?
Who shall dwell on your holy hill?
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right
and speaks truth in his heart;
who does not slander with his tongue
and does no evil to his neighbor,
nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
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in whose eyes a vile person is despised,
but who honors those who fear the Lord;
who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
who does not put out his money at interest
and does not take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be moved.
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,
but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,
There are 5 main enemies of unity:
1 Poor Communication- distrust
2 Gossip- You have 1 option: hand the problem UP to someone who can do something about it. Negative up Positive Down
I do not understand people that pee in their cereal and then complain that it tastes bad -Henry Cloud
3 Unresolved Disagreements- Most people will only think about the disagreement and not perform until it is resolved
4 Lack of Shared Purpose: everyone doesn't know where we're going.- Football team has 1 goal, that ball over that line, if the running back drops the ball then the entire team becomes a running back because the purpose is to get the ball over the line. If a football team functioned like most teams then when the running back dropped the ball they would all continue blocking because its his job to carry the ball not mine. The purpose takes precedent over my job.
5 Sanctioned incompetence. Allowing people to continue in behaviors that hinder the organization.
Show up, tell the truth, do the right thing and you will outlast 95% of the competition