Character - moral excellence and an immovable commitment to honor, integrity, strength, and righteousness.
(1 Timothy 4:12, NLT) Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.
I. Demonstrate Character with What You
(James 3:9–10, NIV) With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness. 10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.
(Ephesians 4:29, NIV) Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths [or device], but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
II. Demonstrate Character by Your
(Ephesians 5:3, NIV) But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity … because these are improper for God’s holy people.
III. Demonstrate Character in How You
(2 Corinthians 5:14–20, NIV) For Christ’s love compels us because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again… And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors [representatives]; God is making his appeal through us.