This is Pastor Rick's Daily Home, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Well, today we continue with our series called The Keys to a Blessed Life.

In these lessons, Rick shares the practical steps found in Jesus' sermon on the Mount

that will help you live the hopeful and purpose-filled life God planned for you.

In just a few moments, we're going to tell you how you can go deeper in Pastor Rick's teaching

by getting his video-based Bible study for this series. You can find out more by going to

pastorrick.com or by texting the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4. That's the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called,

God blesses a heart of integrity. Second Corinthians 4, 2 says this,

we refuse to wear masks. We refuse to play games. We don't maneuver and manipulate behind the scenes.

And we don't twist God's word to suit ourselves. In other words, we say, well, I think this means

this one. We just don't like what it says. Rather, we keep everything we do and say out in the open.

Your life is an open book, your authentic. What you see is what you get. You are not a phony,

you're not a fake, you're in integrity, not into image. Now, in a world that is absolutely

obsessed with appearance and with image, how in the world do you keep it real? When everybody

else is fake in it and everybody else is trying to live an image, be an image and act like they know

this and do that and they don't have integrity and they're they're scooting by and they're skimming

and they're cheating and they're doing all they're not keeping their promises and all those things.

How in the world do you keep it real? There's only one way. It's only one way. You've got to care more

about God's approval than the approval of other people. That's the only way you'll ever become

a man of integrity. That's the only way you'll ever become a woman of integrity because if you care

about what God thinks, then you're going to do the right thing. If you care about what other people

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