Flawed But Faithful /Part 8/Be True
Pastor Lee Faust
Part of Sermons
May 26, 2024

Stephen Carter says, integrity requires three steps:
1) Discerning what is right and what is wrong.

2) Acting on what you have discerned, even at personal cost.

3) Saying openly that you are acting on your understanding of right and wrong.

away from .

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
1 Peter 2:11 ESV

Don’t let yourself be victimized by the age you live in.
There’s a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that and you pay with your soul. What limits people is character. —Tom Robbins

God wants you to silence stupid and ignorant people by doing right.
1 Peter 2:15 CEV

respect for .

Make the Master proud of you by being good citizens. Respect the authorities, whatever their level; they are God’s emissaries for keeping order.
1 Peter 2:13-14 TM

Be good servants to your masters—not just to good masters, but also to bad ones. What counts is that you put up with it for God’s sake when you’re treated badly for no reason.
1 Peter 2:18-19 TM

God in .

This is the kind of life you’ve been invited into, the kind of life Christ lived. He suffered everything that came his way so you would know that it could be done, and also know how to do it, step-by-step. He never did one thing wrong, Not once said anything amiss. They called him every name in the book and he said nothing back. He suffered in silence, content to let God set things right.
1 Peter 2:21-23 TM