If we obey the Lord's commandments, we have integrity. No? Can we be happy without our integrity? Can we be defeated if we have integrity? Does the Lord want us to have integrity?
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Patrick1966
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1stCenturyLady
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I would even say in order to repent we must have integrity to tell the truth about ourselves. Integrity of heart is the basis of true repentance. At least, that's what it took for me to experience being supernaturally born again of the Spirit
Some people seem to believe that repentance takes no effort on our part. They seem to think the Lord does all the work. But I believe it is up to us make that effort. I find that I need a lot of help from the Lord, but I have to make the effort.
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*Waits for the inevitable follow up post accusing the op of "works based righteousness" for dare implying Christians must put in effort.*
It's like Christianity Board Bingo. The free space is the accusation "legalist".
The word "integrity" does not occur in the New Testament, but its equivalents may be seen in "sincerity," "truth," the "pure heart," the "single eye," etc. In the above sense of simplicity of intention it is equivalent to being honest, sincere, genuine, and is fundamental to true character
Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Proverbs 19:1
Better [is] the poor that walketh in his integrity, than [he that is] perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Proverbs 20:7
The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him..
Psalms 7:8
The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity [that is] in me.
Being transparent before God and then walking in his righteousness has to be true integrity of a believer.
Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Proverbs 19:1
Better [is] the poor that walketh in his integrity, than [he that is] perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Proverbs 20:7
The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him..
Psalms 7:8
The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity [that is] in me.
Being transparent before God and then walking in his righteousness has to be true integrity of a believer.
Grailhunter
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Spot on....
A lot of things we read in the Bible if we put them in motion it makes sense.
What is repentance.....it is a simple thing and part of what would occur if we are saved and are followers of Christ.
If we believe and are saved.....how we look at things change, we change, our life changes to conform to the teaching of Christ and the Apostles. In its simplest form that is repentance......we recognize what we were doing was wrong. Are we sorry for doing wrong? I would say that is what would happen.
Christianity is not like a club that you sign up for and go on doing the same things. If you are not changed, odds are good that you are not saved. Not that there is not a learning curve, we learn as we go, working out our salvation with fear and trembling.
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1stCenturyLady
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Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith, but we must have His Spirit from Him to work through. And how do we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit? REPENTANCE! LOL
Bob there is a very popular Christian denomination that sounds like, but it is a cult. Most everything they teach is a false doctrine, but itching ears love them.
Randy Kluth
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Unless we model Christ, who will pay attention to our testimony?
Okay, lol ....you opened the door.
John 6:28-29
[28]Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
[29]Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Lots of effort on our part, yes... but then God takes up the slack. Without Him we can do nothing.
Give God the glory!!
| Job 2:3 | And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause |
| Job 2:9 | Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. |
| Job 27:5 | God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. |
| Job 31:6 | Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity. |
Randy Kluth
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1stCenturyLady
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There are a few different denominations, but they have the same founder from the Reformation and use his name. Hint: he created cessationism. Demons hate the Spirit.
1stCenturyLady
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There are a few meanings and all true of Jesus. Honest, high moral principles. But the greatest was that his relationship with the Father had integrity - undivided.
Our own repentance must have integrity of heart. That is the honesty we have for ourselves that we LACK moral principles but we WANT them. We are not looking to Jesus to just give us a ticket to heaven, but to change us to be like Him. Only those are true repentance that Jesus will honor and give the Holy Spirit to.
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So one group of churches are perfect, and the others have been led astray?
1stCenturyLady
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The cult has been a major influence in every denomination so the church at large. I even heard some of their lies spoken in a Pentecostal church. I think it is more the Laodecian church era of the "falling away." So we are living in the very last years.
Read and BELIEVE what the Bible says about Jesus especially about sin where most of the doctrines of demons twist scripture.
Romans 8:8-9
8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
Romans 6
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been [b]freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, [c]reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 John 3:1-24
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know [b]us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, 12 not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.
13 Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love [c]his brother abides in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall [e]assure our hearts before Him. 20 For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. 22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
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