Memory Verse for the Week: Matthew 5:37 (ESV)

“Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.”

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INTRO: When have you been hurt by a broken promise?

COMPLETE HARMONY
What is God’s design for the integrity between our words and conduct?

CONSUMERISM & MARKETING
What happens when our words are divorced (literally!) from character or our conduct?

REDEEMING INTEGRITY
How has the LORD, our Redeemer combined His vows with His saving love?

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …

1. Worship the LORD that He is faithful and true. Praise Him, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that He has never lied — and cannot — and that He has even suffered to keep His Covenant pledge to us, in Christ.

2. How have you lived as if God doesn’t see, or care about, your misuse of words — and therefore your mistreatment of people? Confess your pride and willfulness to Jesus, asking Him to forgive you and heal you.

3. Give thanks to Jesus for the wonder of His faithful pursuit of us in our spiritual unfaithfulness. Thank Him for saying “No” to every competing allegiance in order to say “Yes” to saving and marrying us by His grace.

4. Who do you know that lacks integrity, with a noticeable gap between what they say and how they live? Pray for them, asking the Lord to help them, and meet them in their brokenness as He has met you in yours.

5. Ask the Holy Spirit to bear in you His fruit of love, goodness and faithfulness. Pray for His work to grow you in your integrity, rooting out of you all false ways and grounding you more and more in truth and love.

Looking Back

The Facilitator is a study tool designed to help you engage with the weekly sermon through the five elements we incorporate in our Community Groups; Get Acquainted & Sharing, Sermon Study, Mission, Worship and Prayer. This tool will be made available Monday morning to give us the opportunity to look back at what we heard on Sunday.