Building our Integrity According to the Bible

By PEDRO MONTOYA

Nobody is born being integrous, integrity is cultivated, and it is reached with effort; of course, in the measure of the willingness to expose ourselves before God. Integrity is the openness that the human spirit acquires of allowing the inheritance of sin to be exposed to the light; No one who is unwilling to expose himself before God can be integrous.

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. Genesis 3:10

Integrity has nothing to do with morality, although of course, there will be those who strive to define it in terms of it. Integrity is a human virtue of a spiritual nature, and therefore, to cultivate it, it is necessary to eradicate all the secular models and morality patterns on which it was intended to be built first.

Integrity is ordered from the personal decision to act according to divine dispositions; it can only be integrous who is willing to honor God through his executions. The basic reason why we cannot be integrous is because very few have decided to have God in their knowledge.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Romans 1:28

To think that we can become integrous without Him is to move away from the possibility of being it, appeal to morality as an alternative resource just wraps us in a spell; So, those who want to expose themselves to the possibility of being integrous in God, welcome, and forward in the effort.

• Language: English
• Publisher: MINISTERIO APOSTOLICO Y PROFETICO CRISTO REY
• Release date: Dec 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386831419

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

Contend

Topic I

Why are we not integrous?

Topic II

Our Evaluation Platforms are Distorted

Topic III

We do not submit to the processes of teaching through the lived experience by which God enables us

Topic IV

We do not Give Ourselves Enough Time to Internalize the Teaching

Topic V

We Cultivate Wicked Conducts

Hypocrisy it is wickedness.

Iniquity it is wickedness.

Idolatry it is wickedness.

Abuse of power it is wickedness.

Adultery it is wickedness,

Deception it is wickedness.

Embezzlement it is wickedness.

Witchcraft it is wickedness.

Enchantments it is wickedness.

Raise up rumors against someone it is wickedness,

Defame as well as talk behind the back of someone it is wicked,

Topic VI

See-to-Believe,... or Do-To-Believe?

Believing begins with the recognition of Jesus as God

Believing is doing

Topic VII

You shall know the Truth ...

Topic VIII

... And the Truth will set you free.

The Truth of the Facts

The Truth of One’s Convictions

Absolute Truth

What is the task?

Topic IX

How to impart life through our words? ...

Topic X

Living by Faith

Learn to await and persevere in the Lord

Learn not to resort to external resources

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Notas

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 to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.    Psalm 7:8

This concept is also present in the time of the patriarchs, 

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. Job 31:6

Thus, integrity, although presented as a condition of life, integrity is built through the effort of the person to show that his intentions are in accordance with an honest disposition of the heart, according to the truth, according to righteousness. The degree of effort determines the quality of the integrity.

When we come to Jesus' time, the concept has completely lost its validity, and the people lack integrity.

Hence, in his doctrine, He adds other definitions. Thus, in his teaching in the Sermon on the Mount, the integrous is the person who does not refuse to do tasks even if they do not correspond to him, even though they are not his responsibility.

And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. ⁴¹And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Matthew 5:40, 41

Integrous is who gives, who does not retain, who does not take for himself, who develops the quality of not clinging to material things, because doing so accumulates treasures in the heavens.

Integrous is one who spares no effort to show others that his intentions are not based on petty, selfish interests. His effort is aimed at showing others that his feelings are true, not just appearance.

In another section of his teachings we find Jesus presenting the parable of the three servants to whom talents are given,[1] and the parable of the ten servants to whom ten pounds were given.[2]

In both parables, both the evil servant, from the parable of the talents, and the evil servant in the parable of the mines, both are judged by their lack of integrity. There was no effort in them to achieve what was entrusted to them. The harshness of the punishment is in accordance with the degree of integrity expected of them.

Integrous is one who cannot be reproached for not striving to be faithful towards something, or towards someone, or for not achieving