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Don't Look Over Your Shoulder · Men's Morning Devotional

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  SPEAKER_01: Gentlemen, every day is a battle.
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  SPEAKER_01: A battle for your faith, your family, and your purpose.
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  SPEAKER_01: The men who stand strong don't prepare when the battle arrives.
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  SPEAKER_01: They prepare before it begins.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the men's morning devotional.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's get into God's word.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's time to man up.
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  Christian Calatayud: Good morning, gentlemen.
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  Christian Calatayud: Christian Kaladiud back here with your man up moment this beautiful Tuesday.
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  Christian Calatayud: We're here in Proverbs chapter 10, and today's devotional is called The Man Who Doesn't Look Over His Shoulder.
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  Christian Calatayud: The scripture verse we're going to be reading today is Proverbs 10, 9 that says, Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.
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  Christian Calatayud: You know, there's a specific kind of freedom in this verse that frankly a lot of men never experience.
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  Christian Calatayud: Walking securely.
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  Christian Calatayud: Not confidently because we're skilled, or not confidently because we're strong, but securely because we have nothing to hide.
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  Christian Calatayud: Because there is nowhere our path can't be checked.
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  Christian Calatayud: You see, the crooked path, it always feels faster than the first.
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  Christian Calatayud: And that's exactly why we take it sometimes, man.
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  Christian Calatayud: But Solomon says the man on the crooked path will be found out.
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  Christian Calatayud: Not might, not maybe, not you know, at some point, no, will be found out.
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  Christian Calatayud: And it's really not a threat.
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  Christian Calatayud: It's a description of how a moral universe actually works.
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  Christian Calatayud: As much as the world does, the Bible refuses to separate a man's private choices from his public character.
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  Christian Calatayud: There's no crooked path a man can walk in secret that doesn't eventually shape the man, his family, his church, his co-workers, his friends actually get.
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  Christian Calatayud: You see, today we need to understand integrity as a wholeness.
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  Christian Calatayud: A man who is the same person, whether he's being watched or not.
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  Christian Calatayud: That's where the word actually comes from, undivided.
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  Christian Calatayud: A man of integrity, he isn't sinless.
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  Christian Calatayud: He's undivided.
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  Christian Calatayud: What you see is what is actually there.
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  Christian Calatayud: And that's why the secure men don't need to manage two versions of themselves.
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  Christian Calatayud: They're not spending energy remembering which story he told to which person.
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  Christian Calatayud: He's not looking over his shoulder, wondering who might find out.
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  Christian Calatayud: There's nothing to find because there's nothing hidden.
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  Christian Calatayud: Gentlemen, crooked paths cost more than they promise.
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  Christian Calatayud: And frankly, they cost a man his rest.
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  Christian Calatayud: So here's our man up challenge for today.
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  Christian Calatayud: Ask yourself Is there a version of me that only exists because someone hasn't found out yet?
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  Christian Calatayud: And if that's the case, that's a crooked path.
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  Christian Calatayud: No matter how small.
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  Christian Calatayud: We need to take one step today to straightening it out.
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  Christian Calatayud: To tell the truth that we've been avoiding, to close the account, to end the practice.
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  Christian Calatayud: Walk today so you don't have to look over your shoulder tomorrow.
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  Christian Calatayud: Let's pray.
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  Christian Calatayud: Lord, we thank you.
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  Christian Calatayud: We thank you that integrity isn't perfection.
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  Christian Calatayud: It's a wholeness.
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  Christian Calatayud: And it's a wholeness before you.
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  Christian Calatayud: So, Lord Jesus, forgive us for the crooked paths that we've told ourselves were harmless.
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  Christian Calatayud: Make us the same man in every room, in every relationship, in every aspect, Lord, whether someone's watching or not.
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  Christian Calatayud: Lord, let us walk securely, because we have nothing left to hide.
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  Christian Calatayud: We love you, we praise you, and we thank you.
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  Christian Calatayud: In Jesus' name.
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  Christian Calatayud: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, gentlemen, you've heard God's word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now go live it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lead well, stand strong, honor God in everything you do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Share this devotional with another brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember, every day is another opportunity to man up.