RRR_Integrity
Integrity is one of those words that everyone thinks that they understand what it means and they probably basically do. And that they would define it, as don't ever lie. However, there's a lot more to integrity than that.
Because in the considerations of what it means to have a leader who has bearing,
courage decisiveness, dependability, endurance, enthusiasm, who has this quality of initiative. Then, there is integrity, but there's also a sense of justice, a sense of judgment, knowledge, loyalty, tact and unselfishness.
But integrity is the prime factor when you're talking about, who, what, when where, how or why of any event that takes place in a person's life, and any information concerning that event, no matter what the event is, the event can be as simple as a family dinner well, who's going to be involved? In it, where's it going to be? When's it going to take place?
What are we having to eat? And why are we having this? This family dinner at this time is a regular thing.
Do we always meet and have dinner every night?
Which you're going to find in America is not usually the case anymore used to be my family always had dinner regularly at 5:30 in the afternoon. And everybody in the family was expected to be there.
Then, there were few exceptions. And if you didn't show up, you better have a very good reason because Grandma Tot had been cooking all day and she would let you know. "I've been cooking all day and you couldn't even be here on time?" On time was part of the thing.
And on time is part of integrity, because integrity encompasses who you are not just what you are not just why you're doing, what you're doing, not just when you're doing it. And not just, you know, whereabouts, you're doing it or who you're doing it with integrity involves all of those things. So integrity is a big word, and to a leader; to someone who's who's going to lead people, the primary factor is this.
Can they trust you? Can they trust you?
Can these people put their faith in you now when it comes to disciples?
And it comes to Jesus, my suggestion is always bring people back to Jesus which means in our time, bring them to prayer and the Holy Spirit but mostly bring them to what the Bible, the word of God. And defend the truth of the Bible, defend the absolute factual truth of the Bible.
The archeological discoveries that have supported the Bible, the fact that the Bible constantly says that there are archeological facts that at first many people who are into archeology deny, and then later on, they discover "guess what?" the Bible was right.
For example in Luke, he says that the reason that Joseph and Mary had to go to Bethlehem to get her to have Jesus, was to be measured, measured for a census, because Quranius was the governor do you know for years?
Historians said Quranis wasn't the governor that was a mistake. Guess what they've discovered within the last couple decades. Yeah, as a matter of fact, he was the governor; as a matter of fact;
the political climate and scenario of that realm involving Pontius Pilate and everything else had to change in order; that Quranius would be the governor so when Luke said that he was exactly correct, the Bible is exactly correct.
We're talking about a set of writings that historically read you; as you read them. Put together by 40 different authors over a period of 1500 years. On as many as 5 or six different continents, or as many as I've heard 15 different continents; and in as many as 4 primary different languages, Greek Hebrew, Latin and Aramaic, but also I think there's maybe a fifth language in there that has to do with ceriliac or Sumerian languages. So the Bible is an absolutely truthful document.
Why? Because it has over 16000 different links between the prophets and the book of revelation of John, there are over 16000 connecting links of interlinking facts. There's over 315 times that the prophecies of Christ, as the messiah, are exactly correct down to the fact that he would ride a donkey into Jerusalem that had never been broken.
Which is exactly like, what is prophesied of him?
So when you're talking to your disciples about integrity, and you're talking to your disciples about working with their people in a way that they can be trusted, what does that really add up to I think in your case, because you're taking the time to learn this. Yes, it means a lot.
I think Christ and the Holy Spirit and God are proud of the fact that you're getting involved in. Trying to help people come back to Jesus and come back to Jesus, in the New Testament, come back to the Bible, come back to prayer, rededicate, reconfess and repent, and live a life of repentant. Solidarity, and that is integrity, I think.
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