MARKETPLACE FACTS
INTEGRITY Module 307 A Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Integrity
Marketplace facts: Integrity
Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace. • Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.
Marketplace facts: Integrity
According to Webster, integrity is “Uprightness of character; probity; honesty. The condition or quality of being unimpaired or sound.� Marketplace facts: Integrity
According to Webster, integrity is
Marketplace facts: Integrity
Marketplace facts: Integrity
In our relativistic society without a moral compass to guide us we have replaced “Is it right?” with “Does it work?” Marketplace facts: Integrity
Marketplace facts: Integrity
Job held the line on integrity by saying • “As long as life is in me, and the breath of God is in my nostrils, my lips certainly will not speak unjustly, nor will my tongue utter deceit… Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me… My heart does not reproach any of my days.” (Job 27:36) Marketplace facts: Integrity
Job’s standard of integrity Reaped a life void of personal reprehension.
Marketplace facts: Integrity
Marketplace facts: Integrity
CHALLENGE Let’s determine to speak and act as men and women of principle… Men and women of INTEGRITY!. Marketplace facts: Integrity
Marketplace facts: Integrity
THE REWARD FOR INTEGRITY AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR DUPLICITY "The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity." (Prov.11:3)
Marketplace facts: Integrity
Case • Andy finally let his Christian brothers know of his alcoholic struggle of many years…After his wife demanded that he move out of the house. • For years there was a serious problem of some type, but he would never allow anyone access to his personal life.
Marketplace facts: Integrity
QUESTION: Work through the following slides and decide into which column do you fall?
Marketplace facts: Integrity
RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE versus UNRIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: • RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: "Righteousness guards the man of integrity
• UNRIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: But wickedness overthrows the sinner." REF. 13:6
Marketplace facts: Integrity
RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE versus UNRIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: • RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: "He whose walk is blameless is kept safe
• UNRIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: But he whose ways are perverse will suddenly fall." Ref. 28:18
Marketplace facts: Integrity
RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE versus UNRIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: • RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: "The man of integrity walks securely
• UNRIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: But he who takes crooked paths will be found out." Ref. 10:9
Marketplace facts: Integrity
RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE versus UNRIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: • RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: "The righteousness of the upright delivers them
• UNRIGHTEOUS PEOPLE: But the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires." Ref. 11:6
Marketplace facts: Integrity
The reality of it is that God rewards people of integrity while the double minded can look forward to harsh consequences for their actions. (See Psa 25:21; 73:18-20; 125:5; Prov. 26:11)
Marketplace facts: Integrity
REFLECTION: • In to which column do you fall? • If it is the "unrighteous" column, are you prepared to live with the inevitable consequences of your double life?
Marketplace facts: Integrity
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Marketplace facts: Integrity
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Marketplace facts: Integrity
Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this principle in my market place by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. Marketplace facts: Integrity
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
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Marketplace facts: Integrity
Blessings from Dr Mario Denton as the Africa: Continental Program Director - Marketplace
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