PLUMBLINE(“HULOG”)

3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.

PROVERBS 11:3

INTEGRITYINTEGRITYWHEN YOUR WHEN YOUR

BEHAVIOR MATCHES BEHAVIOR MATCHES YOUR BELIEFS. YOUR BELIEFS.

REPUTATIONREPUTATION is who others think you is who others think you

are.are.--------

INTEGRITY INTEGRITY is who you really are.is who you really are.

A PICTURE OF A PICTURE OF THE LIFE OF THE LIFE OF INTEGRITYINTEGRITY

Lord, who may dwell in your sacred tent? Who may live on your holy mountain? 2 The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart; 3 whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on others; 4 who despises a vile person but honors those who fear the Lord; who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind; 5 who lends money to the poor without interest; who does not accept a bribe against the innocent. Whoever does these things will never be shaken.

PSALM 15:1-5

BENEFITS BENEFITS OF OF

INTEGRITY INTEGRITY

YOU CAN YOU CAN WALK WALK

CLOSELY CLOSELY WITH WITH GODGOD..

YOU HAVE A YOU HAVE A BUILT IN BUILT IN GUIDEGUIDE..

YOU HAVE YOU HAVE CONSTANT CONSTANT PEACEPEACE IN IN

YOUR YOUR HEART.HEART.

YOU GAIN YOU GAIN TRUST, TRUST,

RESPECT, RESPECT, HONOR, AND HONOR, AND INFLUENCEINFLUENCE..

25 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

MATTHEW 23:25-26

28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

MATTHEW 23:28

WHAT’S WHAT’S YOUR YOUR

INTEGRITY INTEGRITY WORTHWORTH??

5 I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity. 6 I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.

JOB 27:5-6

When When you have you have integrityintegrity—nothing else —nothing else

matters!matters!

When you When you don’t have don’t have integrityintegrity—nothing else —nothing else

matters!matters!

WHAT IF YOU WHAT IF YOU DON’T HAVE DON’T HAVE INTEGRITY?INTEGRITY?

APOLOGIZEAPOLOGIZE..

START START DOINGDOING WHAT’S WHAT’S RIGHTRIGHT

——BELIEVEBELIEVE IS IS

RIGHTRIGHT..

What is What is convenientconvenient often often

overwhelms overwhelms what is what is rightright. .

Integrity is Integrity is easier to keep easier to keep

than to than to recoverrecover..

Success Success doesn’t provedoesn’t prove

integrity, it integrity, it revealsreveals it. it.

I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity.

1 CHRONICLES

29:17

2 I put in charge of Jerusalem my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah the commander of the citadel, because he was a man of integrity and feared God more than most men do.

NEHEMIAH 7:2

May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you.

PSALM 25:21

INTEGRITYINTEGRITYmoral soundness, state or moral soundness, state or

quality of being unimpaired, quality of being unimpaired, wholenesss, completeness. wholenesss, completeness.

Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to everything you said to me and have set a king over you. 2 Now you have a king as your leader. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have been your leader from my youth until this day. 3 Here I stand. Testify against me in the presence of the Lord and his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe to make me shut my eyes? If I have done any of these things, I will make it right.”

1 SAMUEL 12:1-5

The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.

PROVERBS 10:9

Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God.

2 CORINTHIANS

1:12

Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason."

JOB 2:3

His wife said to him, "Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!" 10 He replied, "You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?"

JOB 2:9-10

"I desire so to conduct the "I desire so to conduct the affairs of this affairs of this

administration that if at administration that if at the end, when I come to the end, when I come to

lay down the reins of lay down the reins of power, I have lost every power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I other friend on earth, I shall at least have one shall at least have one

friend left, and that friend friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of shall be down inside of

me." me." ABRAHAM LINCOLNABRAHAM LINCOLN

"It takes 20 years to "It takes 20 years to build a reputation build a reputation

and five minutes to and five minutes to ruin it. If you think ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do about that, you'll do things differently." things differently."

WARREN BUFFETTWARREN BUFFETT

WE ALIGN OUR WE ALIGN OUR HEARTSHEARTS, ,

WORDSWORDS, AND , AND ACTIONSACTIONS WITH WITH GOD’S WORD.GOD’S WORD.