Doing the Right Thing

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Doing the Right Thing
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THE POINT

• Faith, plus a standard of right and wrong is the
  foundation of doing anything well.

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PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH

• GROWTH POINTOne place in your life youd like
  to focus on moving to the next level
• Accepting Jesus as your Savior and becoming His
  disciple
• Being bolder in sharing your faith
• Spiritual gifts such as tongues, prophecy, and
  healing
• Leading a cell group or other ministry
  responsibility
• Accepting a promotion, moving into management,
• Starting a new business
• Learning a new skill, sport, or musical
  instrument
• Starting or deepening a romantic relationship

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GROWTH POINTS

• 2 Peter 15-7 (NIV) For this very reason, make
  every effort to add to your faith goodness and
  to goodness, knowledge and to knowledge,
  self-control and to self-control, perseverance
  and to perseverance, godliness and to godliness,
  brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness,
  love.

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GOODNESS

• STRONGS NT703 arete (ar-et'-ay) manliness
  valor, excellence (intrinsic or attributed)
• 2 Peter 15 (NASB95) Now for this very reason
  also, applying all diligence, in your faith
  supply moral excellence, and in your moral
  excellence, knowledge,
• 2 Peter 15 (AMP)For this very reason, adding
  your diligence to the divine promises, employ
  every effort in exercising your faith to develop
  virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy)

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GOODNESS

• Virtue
• Honor
• Integrity
• Character
• Doing the Right Thing
• Being a Stand-up Guy

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THOUGHTS ON INTEGRITY

• The heroes of stories and movies do the right
  thing, even if the actors playing them dont.
• Nobody admires the compromiser, the lazy, the
  sleazy, the whiny, or the dishonest.
• In business, in relationships, in spiritual
  growth, were (deep down) attracted to people who
  do the right thing and repulsed people who dont.

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WHEN ITS HARD TO DO THE RIGHT THING

• When you just dont feel like it
• When youre tired
• When doing the right thing is embarrassing
• When doing the right thing causes you to lose
  something

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PEOPLE WHO DIDNT END WELL

• Saul
• Samson
• Moses
• King David
• Solomon

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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

• If you approach a growth point without moral
  excellence, youll only grow toward loss and
  misery.
• If you set integrity in place at the beginning of
  your growth point, it will make all the other
  decisions easier from that point on.

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GOODNESS

• Former Senator Alan Simpson said "If you have
  integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't
  have integrity, nothing else matters."
• Reader's Digest, March 2001, p. 61

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WHAT THEN SHALL WE DO?

• What are some current, personal, real-life issues
  where its hard to do the right thing?
• What keeps you on track?
• How do faith and integrity fit together?