Honesty is the Foundation
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🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re launching a brand-new series looking at the role of honesty in getting the most out of our time alone with God, and the most out of life. And we’re starting that series off by looking today at how honesty is the foundation. May God give us the courage to be who we truly are with him, with ourselves, and with others today. And may newfound freedom be the fruit in our hearts and lives.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Peter 3:10, and today's worship is Nothing Else by Cody Carnes.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're launching a brand new series, |
| 0:05.0 | looking at the role of honesty |
| 0:09.0 | and getting the most out of our time alone with God |
| 0:12.0 | and the most out of life. |
| 0:14.0 | And we're starting that series off by looking today |
| 0:17.0 | at how honesty is the foundation. |
| 0:20.0 | May God give us the courage to be who we truly are with |
| 0:24.3 | him, with ourselves, and with others today. And may newfound freedom be the fruit in our hearts |
| 0:31.3 | and our lives. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. Our verse for today. |
| 0:38.3 | Our verse for today comes from 1 Peter 3, verse 10, where Scripture says, |
| 1:03.0 | Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. |
| 1:13.6 | Deciding to live openly and honestly is foundational to experiencing fullness of life in God. |
| 1:24.6 | God doesn't deal with our facades. He doesn't speak to, love on, heal, deliver, |
| 1:32.3 | or empower the fake self we try and portray. Rather, he faithfully pursues who we really are, |
| 1:41.6 | drawing us out from the walls we've built up around our hearts. |
| 1:47.0 | 1 Peter 310 says, |
| 1:50.0 | Whoever desires to love life and seek good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. |
| 2:03.6 | When the Bible talks about honesty, it isn't just talking about God's heart for us, not to speak lies, |
| 2:08.6 | but also that we wouldn't believe or live out lies. |
| 2:12.6 | In living honestly, we will love life and see good days. |
| 2:18.3 | Nothing good comes from being dishonest. |
| 2:21.3 | There's no life in trying to appear as something we're not. |
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