KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE:
If commitment, responsibility, and accountability are the end goals, then INTEGRITY is the means to ensuring you get there.
Convictions (like most things in the spiritual life) are not transactional; rather, they are constitutional.
Being made in the image of our Creator, we must have integrity TO our Creator!
Integrity has no “quit” in it; otherwise, it is no longer integrity.
Strength comes from a man’s convictions, and it manifests as integrity.
“desire” – from teshuqah – expresses an intense turning of the will toward another. It connotes ardent longing that may be either good/kind, as in marital affection, or evil, as in the predatory pull of sin. The context alone determines whether the impulse blesses or threatens.
SIN is the perverter of God’s good gifts. Sin causes godly duties to become burdens rather than privileges!
Only sin takes issue with authority. From God’s perspective, authority and order are two sides of the same coin. Order is divine. Disorder is evil. From this perspective, “authority” is simply a descriptor of that which keeps order (integrity underpins authority). It’s only offensive to sin; otherwise, it’s beautiful.