MARKETPLACE FACTS
ETHICS – INTEGRITY Module 307 K Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
Marketplace facts: Ethics - 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: Ethics - integrity
Food for though • A businessman who is struggling to return to Christ after a 10 year hiatus. • In returning, one of his major conflicts centers on his claim that during that period he encountered professing Christian businessmen, but none who actually lived out a Biblical ethic.
Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
Food for though Keeping in mind our daily struggle with ethics and integrity, let us make three observations: Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
#1 All people believe in absolute truth: • Situation: Years ago a person picked up a hitchhiking teen-age girl, raped her and cut off her arms. • Throughout the region, irrespective of religious or philosophical persuasions, there was a universal sense of rage as this riffraff received a relatively light sentence for the crime.
Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
#1 All people believe in absolute truth: The Word of God tells us the source of that rage
Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
#1 All people believe in absolute truth: • “When the Gentiles (non-believers), who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves...since they show that the requirements of the law are written in their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.â€? (Rom. 2:14, 15)
Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
#2 The essence of morality is the Golden Rule: • We need not complicate the ethics issue, but simply ask this question the next time we are inclined to drop a piece of trash on the ground, or hedge on our income tax : “By engaging in this act, am I LOVING MY NEIGHBOR AS MYSELF?” (Gal. 5:14) Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
#3 The force of the Law is enhanced through accountability: • Given our depravity, we know that if there is no accountability, there is no keeping of the law
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No accountability, no law • “In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises...He says to himself, ‘God has forgotten; He covers his face and never sees.’” (Psa. 10:2, 11)
Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
No accountability no law • Conversely, the serious disciple of Christ is sobered by the reality of coming answerability, and chooses to live accordingly:
Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
Please Him... • “So we make it our goal to please Him...For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.” (II Cor. 5:9b, 10)
Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
Reflection time In which areas of ethics and integrity do you struggle?
Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
2 Corinthians 12:10 • For when I am weak in human strength, then am I truly strong, able and powerful in divine strength. - God can use anything and any situation. - He can even use us when we feel weak and powerless. Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
2 Corinthians 12:10 • His strength makes us strong. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Prayer: Lord, I need Your strength today! Come and empower me with Your divine strength. Amen.
Marketplace facts: Ethics - 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: Ethics - integrity
A new commandment I give unto you That you love one another as I have loved you That you love one another as I have loved you By this shall all men know that you are my disciples If you have love one for another By this shall all men know that you are my disciples If you have love one for another Â
Marketplace facts: Ethics - 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: Ethics - 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 marketplace by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity
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Blessings from Mario Denton
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Marketplace facts: Ethics - integrity