Title: WALKING WITH A HOLY GOD

Text: PSALM 15

Date: 5-07-06.am

The Question! Verse 1

         Who is able to walk in fellowship with a holy God?

Not just how we get there -

Obviously the matter of salvation is priority - You must be born again.

The Answer!! Verse 2

         The person who can walk in fellowship with a holy God characterized by three things

1. Honest Living –

         Integrity

         A simple definition: Honest Living!

         Integrity is soundness of moral principle and character; the quality of being honest and morally upright.

2. Righteousness

         Outward actions which are the results of inner character.

3. Truth

         Acknowledges the truth in the heart

Jesus said You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free - John 8:32 Not just knowing true facts

John 14:6 - I Am

         Specific Examples in Verses 3-5

1. Integrity in relationships

                  No Slander

         Making a false and malicious statement that is damaging to a persons reputation

                  Meanness

         Cause harm by word or deed It specifically I think relates to how you can cause harm to a person by what you say not only to their reputation but also to their person.

                  Discredit?

         Gossip

The idea is that of "taking up," or receiving listening to gossip believing it as truth, or readily giving credit to something said about someone else and spreading it. Whether it’s true or not.

         Specific Examples in Verses 3-5

2. Integrity in fellowship

         Despises one who is rejected by the Lord

Those rejected by the Lord are those who have rejected the Lord.

Doesn’t mean you can’t have friends who are unsaved.

What it means though is what we saw in Ps 1:1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! (NAS)

They are not to be the influences of our lives - this is hard sometimes

Sports heros or Rock stars movie stars political figures

         Honors those who fear the Lord

While we can have a desire to play or act or whatever like someone those we want to honor in emulating how they live are those who trust the Lord. They are to be our true heros in life.

         Specific Examples in Verses 3-5

3. Integrity of commitment

         We keep our word

         We mean what we say

         Our yes is yes

Dependability

         who keeps his word

         whatever the cost,

         Specific Examples in Verses 3-5

1. Integrity in relationships

2. Integrity in fellowship

3. Integrity of commitment

4. Integrity in financial matters

Exploitation of others refers to giving money to others

         usury – high interest

         taking advantage

         Loan Sharking

Exploitation of others refers to getting money from others

         bribes - extortion

         The Results of a life of integrity.

         the one who does these things will never be moved. Ps 15:5 (HCSB)

ut his delight is in the law of the

Psalm 1:3  And he will be like a tree {firmly} planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers.

         “No storm shall tear him from his foundations, drag him from his anchorage, or uproot him from his place.” Charles Spurgeon

This only happens when we allow Jesus to be Lord of all our Lives.