Cultivate | Part 6 – Cultivating Goodness!

Godly goodness is a life of integrity!

We Cultivate Goodness By – Integrity!

Integrity gives us !

Titus 2:7 (NLT) — Let everything you do reflect the integrity … of your teaching (what you say).

Proverbs 25:19 (NLT) — Putting confidence in an unreliable person is like chewing with a toothache or walking on a broken foot.

Integrity gives us !

Proverbs 10:9 (NIV)

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely …

Daniel 6:19-23

Integrity gives us a great !

Proverbs 20:7 (NLT)

The godly walk with integrity; blessed are their children after them.

We Cultivate Goodness By – Integrity!

We need to practice integrity!

Proverbs 18:9 (MSG)
Slack habits and sloppy work are as bad as vandalism.

Ephesians 6:6 (TLB)
Don’t work hard only when your master (boss) is watching and then shirk when he isn’t looking; work hard and with gladness (enthusiasm) all the time (even if it isn’t your dream job), as though working for Christ, doing the will of God with all your hearts.

We need to practice integrity!

Psalm 37:21 (TEV)

The wicked borrow and never pay back,

Romans 13:8 (TLB)

Pay all your debts except the debt of love for others—never finish paying that!

Malachi 3:8;10 (TLB)

“Will a person rob God? Surely not! And yet you have robbed me.” ’What do you mean? When did we ever rob you?’ “You have robbed me of the tithes and offerings due to me.”

¹⁰ Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so that there will be food enough in my Temple; if you do, I will open up the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing so great you won’t have room enough to take it in! “Try it! Let me prove it to you!”

We need to practice integrity!

Ephesians 4:25 (NIV)

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully …

Putting off falsehood means – we don’t lie or distort the truth!

Putting off falsehoods means – we don’t make empty promises!

Putting off falsehood means – we don’t gossip or slander!

Proverbs 11:13 (MSG)

A gossip can’t be trusted with a secret, but someone of integrity won’t violate a confidence.

Speaking truthfully doesn’t mean we’re to be “brutally honest” … it means we’re to be “lovingly honest!”

Proverbs 27:6 (NLT)

Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy.