The Life of a Seed

THE POWER OF PROMISES (INTEGRITY)

Pastor Hope Flask

May 18, 2025

Main Scripture: Matthew 26

Additional Scriptures: Proverbs 16:18, Hebrews 12:15, Romans 7:15, 1 Peter 5:8, John 21

POINTS:

• Promise breaking = avoidance

• Once you start breaking promises in one area, you will start breaking promises in other areas.

• Integrity: doing what you say you are going to do.

• Pride is the main cause for promise-breaking.

• Apostasy: the renunciation and abandonment of Christianity (falling away).

• Jesus tells us that yeses and noes should be treated as a commitment.

• Making and keeping promises protects our hearts from bitterness.

• Our ability to make and keep promises affects our identity.

• When we break our promises we break ourselves.

• Satan will attack your word, because by doing so he attacks your identity and the church simultaneously.

• The result of promise-breaking will eventually be aloneness.

• The two responses of breaking promises is stop making promises and overcommitment.

• Jesus shows us a third way to make promises, and that is to make a promise in love.

• Before we can be a promise-keeper, we have to be a promise-maker.

• The power to make and keep promises is found in our attachment to Jesus.