Break the Chains - Lesson 12 - Upright

Upright (walk worthy)

Integrity, what you do in the dark when no one is looking.
The opposite of integrity is dishonesty.

Job 31:5-6, ‘If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.’

Psalm 15:2, ‘He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.’

Isaiah 33:15-16, ‘He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;’
‘He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.’

Zechariah 8:16-17, ‘These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:’
‘And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.’

Ephesians 4:25, ‘Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.’

Yes it is hard to walk with integrity and uprightness, but we need to.

Romans 8:18, ‘For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.’

Romans 8:38-39, ‘For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,’
‘Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’

For our children’s sake.

Psalm 37:25, ‘I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.’

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