Resolve to be a person of Integrity

Daniel 1: 8 Daniel & his friends RESOLVED not to defile themselves with the royal food and wine.

We need some Daniels in our society, who will stand up, full of integrity and resolve not to defile themselves.

How do we defile ourselves?

By not guarding our spiritual gates.

Eye Gate:

Ps 101:3 I will set before my eyes no vile thing. The deeds of faithless men I hate; they will not cling to me.

What you allow in your eye gates clings to you. (trapped in your mind)

You will never walk in Integrity if you allow evil to enter through your eye gates.

Matthew 6:22-23 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Ear Gate

Some things that we should avoid letting pass through our ear gate.

* Music
* Foul language and cursing is not good.

A person of Integrity will guard what comes into his spirit through his ear gates.

Mouth Gate

The mouth is like our soul barometer.

Matthew 12:34 For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 15:18-19 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man unclean. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

A person of Integrity resolves to guard his mouth gate.

Psalms 17:3 Though you probe my heart and examine me at night, though you test me, you will find nothing; I have resolved that my mouth will not sin.

Just as Daniel and his 3 friends RESOLVED to keep themselves from being defiled by their world, God wants us to RESOLVE to keep from being defiled by our world.