Subject: Integrity: Integrity is doing what is right even if what happens next is wrong
Core Scriptures: Genesis 39: 1-23
Memory Verse: Proverbs 11:3 (NASB) “The integrity of the upright will guide them, but the crookedness of the treacherous will destroy them.”
Discussion Questions:
• What situation was Joseph in? What are some of the ways he chose integrity? What did the choice for integrity cause Joseph to do? What did the choice for integrity cause Joseph not to do?
• What is YOUR definition of integrity? How do you feel about people who have integrity? What about people who don’t?
• What are some of the things integrity leads us not to do? What are some of the things integrity leads us to do?
• Have you ever been in a situation where you had to make a decision based on your integrity, a time when no one else would have known the difference? What choice did you make? How did you feel about it afterwards?
Bottom Line:
• Joseph decided that his commitment to God and his master meant far more than a sexual affair or a comfortable life. His story shows us that integrity is doing what is right even if what happens next is wrong.
• Integrity is doing what is right even if what happens next is wrong. If we try to skirt the rules and get away with as much as we can, we cheat God and ourselves. But we can be like Joseph and choose to live with the successory of integrity.
• We need to weed out unwise decisions and replace them with the successory of integrity so that we can begin laying a foundation of Wise Choices in our lives. We will always face the choice between integrity and the easy way out. But imagine how much different your life would be if everyone lived this way. This is truly a better kind of life.
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