Integrity According to the Bible

By PEDRO MONTOYA

Although secularly associated with a moral quality, integrity has nothing to do with morality. Integrity is the decision of the people to act according to the divine disposition. Integrity is the action that involves effort and boldness. 

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. Job 27: 5 

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. Proverbs 28:18 

Integrity is a virtue equivalent to wisdom. Who achieves it gets the reputation of being a person of dignity and honor, 

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Psalm 84:11 

Integrity develops the capacity to establish the Will of God on earth. Who is integrous is backed by God himself. 

And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. Isaiah 38: 3 

Integrity is the daily effort to achieve that for which we were reached by the Lord. 

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, Philippians 3:12, 13 

We cannot end this teaching without neglecting to mention the level of excellence in the integrity process: recognizing our failures, and amending them.

And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? Let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house. 2 Samuel 24:17

The integrity person is one who recognizes their mistakes, their faults, their sins, confronts those who offended, and knows how to ask for forgiveness ... and corrects the damage...

• Language: English
• Publisher: MINISTERIO APOSTOLICO Y PROFETICO CRISTO REY
• Release date: Oct 7, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386048930

PEDRO MONTOYA

!Que la tierra sea llena del conocimiento de la Gloria de Dios! Soy pastor y maestro de la Palabra, ministro ordenado por la Gracia del Señor para el establecimiento y proclamación del Evangelio del Reino de los Cielos. Trabajo bajo un llamado apostólico y profético. Nuestro ministerio es de rompimiento y guerra espiritual. Enseñamos sobre la liberación de la esclavitud satánica por causa de derechos legales que hombres y mujeres le han entregado a los principados de maldad. Capacitamos sobre el tema de la liberación y expulsión de demonios, y sobre cómo levantar la maldicion de la tierra. I am a pastor, a teacher of the Word and a writer. The Lord called me to the ministry in the year 1982 and since that date, I have been involved in the proclamation of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God over the earth. I exercise the ministry of Deliverance jointly by my wife, the prophetess Yolanda Montoya. We operate on an Apostolic and Prophetic platform, with the commitment of instructing and correcting in the Righteousness of the Kingdom of Heaven. Our ministerial emphasis is on teaching about how to lift the curse from the earth, about the causes of the curse and about the weapons of spiritual warfare. You can visit also our English blog: www.earthenwarevessels.blog Be blessed ... to bless

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Dedication

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.  Joshua 24:14

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Topic I

Why are we not Integrous?

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. Proverbs 10:9

In the Old Testament , the term in the Hebrew language that is translated into English for integrity is: תָם (tam), תָמִיםתָמִים (tamim, en plural), which literally means, be complete, be finished, be finalized .

But its significance goes beyond an etymological meaning; the word in Hebrew presents the idea that the person who is classified as integrous is the person who has exhausted all his strength, at the level of exhaustiveness, to reach the highest level of Excellence in his effort to show his true intentions.

The concept of integrity in the Bible has been formed from the contributions of men and women who have interacted directly with God.

Thus, for example, integrity in Abraham's time is defined as the disposition of the heart associated with an honest attitude. The person tries not to act moved by a hidden reason. His action is sincere, it does not hide any trap, nor does it seek to obtain a result that it has not manifested in advance. Integrity is defined as a mindset, equivalent to being genuine.

And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. Genesis 20:6

In the time of Moses, Joshua and the judges, integrity is associated with the effort to remain faithful to the truth. Being integrous means being truthful, it is the person who acts according to the truth. The person classified as integrous does not deceive, does not commit fraud, and does not disappoint the trust of those who trust in him.

Being integrous before God means to appear before Him believing that He is the only God, that apart from Him there is nothing, no one. Idolatry is considered as a symptom that the person suffers from an absence of integrity,

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. Joshua 24:14

At the time of the kings, integrity is associated with acts of righteousness. Integrity is the effort of the person to maintain a constant attitude according to the righteousness of God.

I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity....  ²⁶With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. 2 Samuel 22:24-26

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according