# Crowning Ignorant Kings - Dr. Myles Munroe (Leading Edge Leadership 9)

An episode of [Crowning Ignorant Kings](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1609667064), 2 Mar 2025, 57 min.

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[0:09] Speaker 1: You're listening to Crowning Ignorant Kings, a podcast for citizens
[0:14] Speaker 1: with like minds who love God, follow Christ, and have
[0:17] Speaker 1: a desire to be an ambassador for the Kingdom of
[0:21] Speaker 1: Heaven on Earth. We are John and Charlene Donaldson with
[0:25] Speaker 1: teachers building a Kingdom community. Thank you again for joining us.
[0:30] Speaker 1: Now let's adjust our crowns.
[0:38] Speaker 2: Sorry. The twelve principles of leadership.
[0:40] Speaker 3: I'm going to give you them very quickly, and then
[0:45] Speaker 3: for the next few sessions that I have I'm going
[0:49] Speaker 3: to deal with them personally.
[0:50] Speaker 2: So write this down please, everyone take notes.
[0:53] Speaker 3: You want to focus our next few minutes on the
[0:55] Speaker 3: twelve principles.
[0:56] Speaker 2: For developing your personal leadership. What did I say?
[1:01] Speaker 3: Twelve principles for developing personal leadership. I want you to
[1:08] Speaker 3: focus on the word principles for a minute, because the
[1:11] Speaker 3: word principle actually is important.
[1:13] Speaker 2: A principle is a law. It's a law, and it's.
[1:18] Speaker 3: A law that affects function. Principles are not facts. Facts change.
[1:28] Speaker 3: You don't want to live your life by facts according
[1:30] Speaker 3: to the facts of life.
[1:31] Speaker 2: Don't do that.
[1:32] Speaker 3: Facts are unpredictable, they always change. Principles are constant. These
[1:37] Speaker 3: are laws or sometimes we call them precepts that are
[1:43] Speaker 3: created or inherent in creation, or that are built into
[1:48] Speaker 3: life that if you follow them, you will guarantee success.
[1:55] Speaker 3: So the facts don't do that. Principles guarantee scls. So
[2:00] Speaker 3: I'm going to teach you principles of developing yourself into
[2:06] Speaker 3: a leader.
[2:07] Speaker 2: Now, principle means that it's a law, which.
[2:10] Speaker 3: Means that it works everywhere, It works for anyone, and
[2:15] Speaker 3: it works any time in every situation. That's the powerful
[2:20] Speaker 3: principle or principle has no respect for anybody.
[2:24] Speaker 2: You got to respect the principles.
[2:26] Speaker 3: So if you learn principles, you become wiser than people
[2:29] Speaker 3: who know facts.
[2:31] Speaker 2: Plus, principles give you the power to always.
[2:36] Speaker 3: Know what to do. They simplify life. So principles are critical.
[2:40] Speaker 3: So what I'm going to share with you then, is
[2:43] Speaker 3: these twelve principles that I have discovered, learned, applied, and
[2:48] Speaker 3: also researched in the lives of people who were effective
[2:54] Speaker 3: in influencing the world. I live by them myself, and
[2:58] Speaker 3: that's probably why my influence is becoming broader daily. These
[3:04] Speaker 3: principles work for anyone and everyone, which means that really
[3:10] Speaker 3: anyone can become a leader. I notice sounds almost impossible,
[3:15] Speaker 3: but God's plan was never for anyone to be a follower.
[3:21] Speaker 3: We became followers because we lost our leadership spirit when
[3:27] Speaker 3: we declared independence from the source of leadership, which is
[3:31] Speaker 3: God himself. And we are therefore victims of our context
[3:38] Speaker 3: and our cultures. And my hope is that I can
[3:43] Speaker 3: set you free from your culture, which I was a
[3:46] Speaker 3: part of myself. I mean, I was a prisoner of
[3:48] Speaker 3: the culture in which I was born. And that culture
[3:53] Speaker 3: does not develop leaders. That culture encourages servitude.
[4:00] Speaker 2: And I think all of you in this room are
[4:02] Speaker 2: suffering from that culture, and those watching this television program
[4:05] Speaker 2: all of us because we are born in a culture
[4:08] Speaker 2: that does not believe in us. And that's a fact.
[4:13] Speaker 3: The culture we were born into are designed to make
[4:16] Speaker 3: you an employee, to make you dependent, and to guarantee
[4:21] Speaker 3: that all you will ever have in life is a job.
[4:25] Speaker 3: That's the culture we are in. All of our systems
[4:28] Speaker 3: and education and our training and even our upbringing is
[4:31] Speaker 3: designed to maintain that environment that you behave yourself. As
[4:36] Speaker 3: a matter of fact, one of the common statements I
[4:38] Speaker 3: heard growing up was this.
[4:42] Speaker 2: Know your place. That's a serious statement.
[4:46] Speaker 3: But what that really means is there are some boundaries
[4:49] Speaker 3: you ain't supposed to cross, there's some areas you ain't
[4:52] Speaker 3: supposed to leave, there are some restrictions you're supposed to
[4:55] Speaker 3: live for the rest of your life. And you are
[4:57] Speaker 3: a victim of what we say you can cannot do.
[5:01] Speaker 3: This is the environment we were born into. This is debilitating,
[5:05] Speaker 3: it is oppressive, and we even have accepted it as life,
[5:10] Speaker 3: which to me is tragic because we have surrendered to
[5:14] Speaker 3: what I call the context. This is my lot. We say,
[5:18] Speaker 3: this is what I have to deal with, this is
[5:19] Speaker 3: what I have to put up with, and so we
[5:21] Speaker 3: end up surrendering to the culture, and the culture designed
[5:25] Speaker 3: to bury us before we die.
[5:29] Speaker 2: Most of us are actually already buried.
[5:32] Speaker 3: We bury it in a culture that has completely devalued us. Now,
[5:39] Speaker 3: what I'm hoping to do is to set you free
[5:41] Speaker 3: from that culture, which really created your mentality. And of
[5:45] Speaker 3: course your mentality becomes your own prison. And what I
[5:51] Speaker 3: try to do is to break into your mentality and
[5:53] Speaker 3: change your ideas. You are simply the manifestation of your
[6:00] Speaker 3: own ideas, that's what you are. But until you change
[6:03] Speaker 3: your ideas, you will never change your life. So what
[6:06] Speaker 3: I do is I introduce. I don't want to use
[6:09] Speaker 3: the term new ideas. I introduce the original ideas that
[6:15] Speaker 3: you lost back to you.
[6:18] Speaker 2: I want to begin this segment then talking a.
[6:20] Speaker 3: Little bit about leadership motive, because this is the context
[6:24] Speaker 3: we're dealing with.
[6:25] Speaker 2: First of all, write this down.
[6:28] Speaker 3: True leadership must lead to change and that change.
[6:34] Speaker 2: Translated into social betterment.
[6:37] Speaker 3: Anyone who says that they are a leader must focus
[6:42] Speaker 3: on changing their environment, their context. You cannot be a
[6:48] Speaker 3: leader and everything remains the same. If you claim to
[6:53] Speaker 3: be a leader and nothing is changing around you, or
[6:57] Speaker 3: you are not changing anything, you are simply a manager,
[7:02] Speaker 3: not a leader.
[7:03] Speaker 2: That leads.
[7:03] Speaker 3: To point number two, true leadership should not and must
[7:08] Speaker 3: not support any vision or process that perpetuates or gives
[7:14] Speaker 3: continuance to social injustice.
[7:18] Speaker 2: A leader will never imprison people or oppress people. Leaders
[7:26] Speaker 2: set people free. True leaders deliver.
[7:29] Speaker 3: People from the inhibitors of life. They help people discover
[7:34] Speaker 3: that there is no limit to what they can do
[7:37] Speaker 3: or become. Any leader that does not introduce that kind
[7:43] Speaker 3: of life to you is not a leader. That's a
[7:45] Speaker 3: dictator that leads the point number three, True leadership is
[7:53] Speaker 3: always committed to the essence of life. In other words,
[7:58] Speaker 3: a leader believe in the noble values of life. They
[8:03] Speaker 3: believe you should rise to the higher calling on behalf
[8:06] Speaker 3: of other people. They never destroy people. They heal people.
[8:12] Speaker 3: They never oppress people, They release people. If you want
[8:16] Speaker 3: to become a leader, you have to become a servant
[8:18] Speaker 3: of humanity.
[8:21] Speaker 2: If you claim that you want to.
[8:22] Speaker 3: Be a leader in your generation, you're going to have
[8:24] Speaker 3: to find a vision and a cause that improves other
[8:28] Speaker 3: people's lives, not your bottom line or your pocketbook. So
[8:36] Speaker 3: most of the people that we call leaders, we need
[8:38] Speaker 3: to measure them against these three principles.
[8:42] Speaker 2: These are principles.
[8:43] Speaker 3: The first one, leaders are interested in the betterment of
[8:46] Speaker 3: other people. Number two, they are against injustice. And number three,
[8:51] Speaker 3: they always work on the behalf of humans. They help
[8:55] Speaker 3: humans grow, expand achieve greatness. This is the spirit of
[9:01] Speaker 3: true leadership. Now I want to give you what I
[9:06] Speaker 3: call the seven lessons of leadership. And I mentioned these
[9:10] Speaker 3: in the last session. I want to just reiterate them.
[9:15] Speaker 3: Those who are going to lead in the future are
[9:17] Speaker 3: going to have to have these seven attitudes. Number one,
[9:21] Speaker 3: they must understand that leaders don't wait.
[9:25] Speaker 2: And this is an important.
[9:26] Speaker 3: Statement A leader doesn't wait for things to happen. They
[9:34] Speaker 3: make things happen. Leaders don't wait for someone else to
[9:39] Speaker 3: do something, They decide to do it themselves. Leaders don't
[9:44] Speaker 3: pray for change. Leaders initiate change. So you can always
[9:52] Speaker 3: tell a leader when a leader is present. They act
[9:56] Speaker 3: on things. They don't wait for instructions. They literally instruct,
[10:04] Speaker 3: and the first person they instruct is themselves.
[10:09] Speaker 2: Someone has to do something about this. That's our leaders talk.
[10:13] Speaker 2: Someone has to change this.
[10:14] Speaker 3: You know, when you think of people like mister Nelson Mandela,
[10:17] Speaker 3: who was born in a country that was under aparthei
[10:20] Speaker 3: for over seventy years, I mean there were many black
[10:23] Speaker 3: leaders who complained about that, but nobody decided something has
[10:28] Speaker 3: to be done. M mister Nelson Mandela, who was a
[10:31] Speaker 3: lawyer who had a good job and a good practice, decided,
[10:35] Speaker 3: I'm gonna surrender my private ambition for the sake of
[10:39] Speaker 3: the other people and i I'm gonna do something about this.
[10:43] Speaker 2: He did not wait.
[10:45] Speaker 3: And every other leader you think about that you are
[10:47] Speaker 3: respectful of probably is the same way, including people like
[10:51] Speaker 3: Sir Lindon Penling and and Nelson Mandela, and Matin Luther
[10:54] Speaker 3: King Junior and mother, Teresa and Helen Keller, so many
[10:58] Speaker 3: people in that category. They all have the same spirit.
[11:01] Speaker 3: I'm not gonna wait, let's do something. My question is
[11:05] Speaker 3: what are you observing in your environment that you are
[11:09] Speaker 3: complaining about and doing nothing about it. That means you
[11:13] Speaker 3: are not a leader, You are a complainer. The second
[11:17] Speaker 3: principle is leaders no character comes. Leaders are very careful
[11:22] Speaker 3: to protect their character. And thirdly, leaders have their heads
[11:27] Speaker 3: in the clouds. They have a big vision, but they
[11:29] Speaker 3: also keep their feet on the ground. They're in touch
[11:31] Speaker 3: with the compassion needed of the people who are not
[11:34] Speaker 3: where they are. Leaders should always be ahead of people,
[11:38] Speaker 3: but never out of sight.
[11:41] Speaker 2: Can I say it again? Leaders must be ahead of
[11:44] Speaker 2: the people, don't be with the people.
[11:46] Speaker 3: Gotta be ahead of them. But you must not be
[11:48] Speaker 3: of a sight. In other words, the people. The people
[11:51] Speaker 3: don't know where to go if they can't see you.
[11:54] Speaker 3: So you're supposed to be with your head in the
[11:57] Speaker 3: clouds with a massive vision, a big dream, all these
[11:59] Speaker 3: great ideas, but don't let your feet leave the ground.
[12:03] Speaker 2: Because some people ain't in the.
[12:04] Speaker 3: Clouds, so they are in touch with the infirmities of
[12:09] Speaker 3: the people. They come back and teach and train and
[12:12] Speaker 3: motivate and.
[12:12] Speaker 2: Help those people.
[12:14] Speaker 3: Third, le leaders have their Leaders must be aware of
[12:17] Speaker 3: their shared values.
[12:18] Speaker 2: Their values are important.
[12:20] Speaker 3: They believe that they the things they value the people
[12:23] Speaker 3: should value, and they share their values.
[12:26] Speaker 2: Number four.
[12:27] Speaker 3: Number five, Rather, leaders know you cannot do it alone.
[12:30] Speaker 2: Leaders are very driven.
[12:33] Speaker 3: But they like people in the back seat with them.
[12:36] Speaker 3: They know they can go alone. They always know that
[12:39] Speaker 3: they need a team. They need people, They need a group.
[12:42] Speaker 3: Leaders do not achieve anything alone.
[12:45] Speaker 2: Dictators do. Number six.
[12:49] Speaker 3: Leaders know the legacy you live is the life you live.
[12:52] Speaker 3: Leaders live by example. They don't live by instructions. Leaders
[12:59] Speaker 3: live by living. Would they say manifesting what they say.
[13:04] Speaker 3: They don't give instruction, they live instructions. So a true
[13:08] Speaker 3: leader actually demonstrates what they tell you to do. They
[13:14] Speaker 3: live what they give you instruction on. And of course,
[13:18] Speaker 3: number seven, leaders know that leadership is everyone's business, that
[13:22] Speaker 3: everyone should be involved in leadership. A true leader is
[13:25] Speaker 3: always driving other people to become more responsible, to become
[13:31] Speaker 3: more independent, to become more of a of a thinker themselves.
[13:35] Speaker 3: So leaders always want people to become leaders. Again, those
[13:41] Speaker 3: who are not leaders want to make sure you never
[13:43] Speaker 3: join that category. They try to keep you out of
[13:46] Speaker 3: their space. They they think the space is only for them.
[13:49] Speaker 3: And these are not leaders, these uh parasites with titles
[13:53] Speaker 3: of course.
[13:54] Speaker 2: All right, that leads me then to the next point.
[13:56] Speaker 3: I want to give you an example about qualifications. And
[14:00] Speaker 3: there's a reason why I want you to see this.
[14:03] Speaker 3: You just can't decide I'm going to be a leader.
[14:06] Speaker 3: You have to be trained and also have to have
[14:08] Speaker 3: some qualifications. And I want to make a reference to
[14:10] Speaker 3: the first century leader whose name was Paul. Paul was
[14:15] Speaker 3: trained highly by the University of Gamelliel. He was one
[14:18] Speaker 3: of the top students from that school. So Paul was
[14:21] Speaker 3: very well educated. And Paul was also a Roman citizen
[14:25] Speaker 3: even though he was a Jew, so he was exposed
[14:27] Speaker 3: to a lot of the leadership environment of the pagan world.
[14:31] Speaker 2: And Paul began.
[14:33] Speaker 3: To train leaders to take positions in churches that he
[14:36] Speaker 3: built all over Asia Minor. And Paul began to appoint
[14:40] Speaker 3: people to take leadership positions, but he knew that they
[14:43] Speaker 3: had to be trained, and he laid out in this
[14:45] Speaker 3: statement in his letter to one of his young leaders,
[14:48] Speaker 3: whose name is Timothy. Paul says, if you're going to
[14:51] Speaker 3: appoint people, here's some qualifications they should have. I want
[14:54] Speaker 3: you to read them with me. In the Book of Timothy.
[14:58] Speaker 3: For Timothy, chapter three, Paul's if anyone sets his heart
[15:02] Speaker 3: on being an overseer, overseer there means manager or leader, Okay,
[15:07] Speaker 3: not a religious term. If he desires that, he says,
[15:12] Speaker 3: that's a what a noble time. In other words, if
[15:15] Speaker 3: you decide you want to be a leader, Paul says,
[15:17] Speaker 3: that's a good decision.
[15:19] Speaker 2: You know, I have heard so many people, especially religious people, you.
[15:22] Speaker 3: Know, you know, I don't really want to be you know,
[15:23] Speaker 3: I don't want to be a French you know, I
[15:25] Speaker 3: just I just want to sit back.
[15:26] Speaker 2: What are you telling me?
[15:28] Speaker 3: Paul says, Look desire to be a person of influence,
[15:34] Speaker 3: and if you do it, that's a good thing. Paul
[15:38] Speaker 3: had the same problems two thousand years ago. Then we
[15:41] Speaker 3: have today people who just like to attend church. They
[15:47] Speaker 3: don't want to get involved in nothing. They don't want
[15:49] Speaker 3: to be about, you know, respond for nothing. They don't
[15:51] Speaker 3: want to make any difference, any changes in life. They
[15:54] Speaker 3: just want to kind of just come and warm up
[15:56] Speaker 3: pew and.
[15:56] Speaker 2: Then go back home watch TV.
[15:58] Speaker 3: Paul says, you should have a desire desire to be
[16:02] Speaker 3: a leader, one who oversees something. And then he says
[16:09] Speaker 3: that if you desire that, that's a good thing. But
[16:13] Speaker 3: now he cautions us. He says, there are some qualifications.
[16:16] Speaker 2: Let's read them.
[16:17] Speaker 3: He says, now the overseer must be above what reproach.
[16:21] Speaker 3: We ain't gonna deal with these in detail tonight because
[16:23] Speaker 3: it's too too heavy stuff. But I just want to
[16:25] Speaker 3: list his qualification. They must be above what reproach. Secondly,
[16:29] Speaker 3: the husband of but one wife. Notice Paul didn't even
[16:34] Speaker 3: get the power and authority and stuff first.
[16:36] Speaker 2: He's dealing with something different.
[16:38] Speaker 3: First, he's dealing with personal life style. He's dealing with
[16:43] Speaker 3: private issues. Because you lead out of your life, not
[16:47] Speaker 3: out of your position. Can I say it again, write
[16:50] Speaker 3: it down. You don't lead out of your position.
[16:52] Speaker 2: You lead out of your life, and your life could
[16:55] Speaker 2: destroy the position. Your life is more important than the position.
[17:02] Speaker 3: How many people you know have high position but their
[17:06] Speaker 3: lifestyle destroyed it. So pauses, before you desire a position,
[17:12] Speaker 3: Let deal with you first, be above reproach. Husband of
[17:17] Speaker 3: one wife temperate, don't let that word slip by temperate.
[17:21] Speaker 2: Temperate means you don't get angry quickly. Let me tell
[17:25] Speaker 2: you why. Paul said that when you are in.
[17:27] Speaker 3: Leadership, the people will test you every day, all day,
[17:32] Speaker 3: every minute or the day.
[17:33] Speaker 2: Matter of fact, Moses lost his leadership through the word temperate.
[17:39] Speaker 2: That's how he lost his leadership. Moses lost it.
[17:41] Speaker 3: He never went to the Promised Land because of that
[17:43] Speaker 3: word temperate.
[17:46] Speaker 2: You remember Moses.
[17:48] Speaker 3: Why did Moses lese's leadership? He became angry at the people. Now,
[17:55] Speaker 3: you know, you're being people for forty years. You probably
[17:57] Speaker 3: you suppose to be used to their foolishness. But I
[17:59] Speaker 3: think most once he didn't eat well that morning or whatever.
[18:02] Speaker 2: You know, maybe his wife didn't do him well. I
[18:04] Speaker 2: don't know. If the guy was off.
[18:05] Speaker 3: And the Bible says, and the people start complaining, and
[18:09] Speaker 3: they were crying out to him for water. Moses cursed,
[18:13] Speaker 3: the Bible says, and he struck the rock instead of
[18:15] Speaker 3: speaking to it.
[18:17] Speaker 2: God told us to speak to the rock and the
[18:19] Speaker 2: water will come out. And Moses said, the stiff necked people.
[18:22] Speaker 3: I can't say other ways you say, because I don't
[18:24] Speaker 3: know what he said, but the Bible says he cursed.
[18:26] Speaker 2: Okay, in other ways.
[18:27] Speaker 3: You'll be amazed how many times you tempt a pastor
[18:30] Speaker 3: the curse.
[18:32] Speaker 2: Not me now, of course you know I'm a holy man.
[18:34] Speaker 3: But you'll be amazed the things that people do that
[18:39] Speaker 3: irritates a leader.
[18:40] Speaker 2: And Paul says, you gotta be what temperate?
[18:43] Speaker 3: Self control It's his next word, self control, right next
[18:46] Speaker 3: to it, self control, control yourself. People will disappoint you,
[18:52] Speaker 3: they would abuse you, they will gossip about you, they'll
[18:55] Speaker 3: criticize some of the folks who were nearest to you.
[18:57] Speaker 3: We'll go back and talk about you at the dinner
[18:59] Speaker 3: table and take you, make you apart. I would to
[19:01] Speaker 3: just ignore that, be temperate, be cool. Some of you
[19:08] Speaker 3: have been coming to this place.
[19:09] Speaker 2: For thirty years.
[19:10] Speaker 3: You never saw me angry, never angry. Why I was
[19:15] Speaker 3: the most shorter.
[19:16] Speaker 2: Patience person in my family.
[19:18] Speaker 3: My mother used to actually warn me, your temper is
[19:21] Speaker 3: gonna get you in prison. She says, you need to
[19:23] Speaker 3: get your temper under control. I was one of eleven children.
[19:27] Speaker 3: I was the one, she said, who had the hottest temper.
[19:30] Speaker 3: I used to get mad and strike out, and she
[19:33] Speaker 3: sat me down one day. She says, if you don't
[19:35] Speaker 3: get this under control, it will destroy you. And I
[19:37] Speaker 3: heard my mother. I must have been abod eleven years
[19:40] Speaker 3: old when she told me that. She says, son, you
[19:42] Speaker 3: need to get your temper under control. See the word
[19:45] Speaker 3: temper write there, temperate temper. She says, you cannot live
[19:49] Speaker 3: like this, you cannot get angry at everything. So I'm
[19:53] Speaker 3: very cool and that has saved me a lot of
[19:57] Speaker 3: my life's time. Just be cool, cause people will always
[20:03] Speaker 3: test your peace. Paul says, be respectable. He hes talking
[20:08] Speaker 3: about leadership with qualifications. Now be what respectable? That means,
[20:13] Speaker 3: make people respect you one day days i'm'a teach you
[20:15] Speaker 3: on respect. Cause somebody that don't know what makes what
[20:17] Speaker 3: makes a poison respect you. I'll give you one hint.
[20:20] Speaker 3: Respect comes from consistency of conscience. That's a deep way
[20:25] Speaker 3: ready down, man. When a person doesn't change their convictions,
[20:31] Speaker 3: you gotta respect them, even if you disagree with them.
[20:35] Speaker 3: You gotta respect the fact that they are stable, unsteady,
[20:39] Speaker 3: and they believe in their convictions.
[20:42] Speaker 2: That's what you respect.
[20:45] Speaker 3: You can't respect people who keep compromising and changing their
[20:48] Speaker 3: minds and agreeing one day and then disagree in the
[20:50] Speaker 3: next day and then agreeing again.
[20:52] Speaker 2: These people are not worthy of respect.
[20:54] Speaker 3: To be respectful means of convictions, standards, values.
[20:58] Speaker 2: I will never sacrifice.
[21:01] Speaker 3: Some people don't like me, that's fine, but they gotta
[21:03] Speaker 3: respect Miles Monroe because you know, the greatest thing that
[21:06] Speaker 3: people say to me. Someone said to me on Sunday,
[21:08] Speaker 3: they said, Pastor Miles, I went on YouTube they might
[21:11] Speaker 3: be hid and I don't know what it was. And
[21:13] Speaker 3: they said, I listened to a take from you from
[21:16] Speaker 3: nineteen ninety four and you are still saying the same
[21:21] Speaker 3: thing today.
[21:22] Speaker 2: They said. They said, that's one thing I like with you. You
[21:25] Speaker 2: are consistent.
[21:29] Speaker 3: How many leaders in the world today have changed their minds,
[21:33] Speaker 3: can't dress.
[21:33] Speaker 2: Them consistency of conscience. Then he says what the next one? Hospitable?
[21:41] Speaker 2: Hospitable means you know, s uh.
[21:44] Speaker 4: Be nice to people, Smile with people, take time to
[21:49] Speaker 4: be with people, hug people, bless people, listen to people,
[21:57] Speaker 4: talk to people, don't walk past people.
[22:00] Speaker 2: Don't poach your mote off. Hospitable.
[22:04] Speaker 3: You'll be amazed how many people avoid you because you
[22:07] Speaker 3: are so unhospitable. Some of you all think I'm the
[22:13] Speaker 3: nicest Guy's the nicest guy in the world. I always
[22:15] Speaker 3: got something good to say to you.
[22:16] Speaker 2: You see me anywhere? Hey, Hi, Why leader gott.
[22:20] Speaker 3: To be hospitable to even his enemies, because enemies are
[22:23] Speaker 3: simply temporary, they're always temporary. Hospitable means I am willing
[22:28] Speaker 3: to be always open to you, to serve you hospitality,
[22:35] Speaker 3: and it might be giving you a smile, or giving
[22:38] Speaker 3: you a cup of water, or giving you my time
[22:42] Speaker 3: or even my air hospitality. Then he says, they must
[22:45] Speaker 3: be able to teach. It is important. He said, you
[22:50] Speaker 3: can be a leader unless you are able to effectively
[22:52] Speaker 3: communicate your ideas, and that comes through what training, practice, reading,
[22:59] Speaker 3: studying content coming too. Accession like this is very important
[23:04] Speaker 3: for you. It makes you a better teacher. You're learning
[23:06] Speaker 3: new ideas and you'll be able to explain them more
[23:09] Speaker 3: effectively if you understand them yourself.
[23:12] Speaker 2: You gotta be able to teach.
[23:17] Speaker 3: The next one is not given to drunkenness or pauses. Look,
[23:22] Speaker 3: you're gonna be a leader. You cannot be a victim
[23:24] Speaker 3: of substances. By the way, please put in that sentence drunkenness,
[23:30] Speaker 3: getting high, sniffing, shooting up, whatever affects your mental state.
[23:39] Speaker 2: Is considered drunkenness.
[23:42] Speaker 3: So don't let anyone tell you that marijuana in the
[23:44] Speaker 3: Bible and cocaine in the Bible and bitches in the Bible.
[23:47] Speaker 3: And that's foolishness. It's there that includes sniffing glue. Whatever
[23:53] Speaker 3: affects your mental stability is drunkenness.
[23:59] Speaker 2: He says.
[24:00] Speaker 3: You must not be given to drunkenness. A leader must
[24:03] Speaker 3: never be disoriented. Why cause people are depending on your decisions.
[24:12] Speaker 3: I never forget reading in the book the twenty four
[24:14] Speaker 3: chapter of Proverbs, it says a king should never drink
[24:17] Speaker 3: wine when it moveth in the cup.
[24:20] Speaker 2: Mean tay what he means by that, It means fermentation.
[24:24] Speaker 3: The two types of wine, see the fresh grape juice
[24:26] Speaker 3: and then the kind that is fermented. Solomon is a king.
[24:29] Speaker 3: Solomon says a king should not drink wine when it
[24:32] Speaker 3: moveth in the cup. It's fermenting. He says, lease, he
[24:37] Speaker 3: clows his judgment and destroy the people.
[24:43] Speaker 2: You know politicans who are alcoholics.
[24:44] Speaker 3: They're dangerous because they're making decisions for you behind closed doors,
[24:50] Speaker 3: and they could be affected mentally by the subs that
[24:53] Speaker 3: they are being influenced by. So leaders must not be
[24:56] Speaker 3: controlled by any substance. Very important. Then the next one
[25:03] Speaker 3: is what not violent but gentle lashing out at people
[25:07] Speaker 3: you know, some people you're afraid to talk to because
[25:09] Speaker 3: they always seem to be angry or they seem like
[25:12] Speaker 3: they irritated by anger.
[25:13] Speaker 2: You you, you normally avoid those people.
[25:15] Speaker 3: The Bible said, you're gonna be a leader, you gotta
[25:17] Speaker 3: be very gentle, you know, open kind and some folks
[25:21] Speaker 3: got not nice things to say about you, you know,
[25:23] Speaker 3: or to you. You gotta still be non violent. I
[25:27] Speaker 3: think Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Junior showed this
[25:30] Speaker 3: beauty of non violence. Uh, they were gentle. Next one
[25:36] Speaker 3: is what not given to quarrelsome? Oh boy, I sound
[25:40] Speaker 3: like a beham in a not quarrelsome. You cannot be
[25:44] Speaker 3: a leader if you always creating arguments, picking fights, quarreling
[25:49] Speaker 3: over little things that are not important. Sometimes it's just
[25:54] Speaker 3: easier to just be quiet and let the people do
[25:57] Speaker 3: what they do and maintain your integrity.
[26:01] Speaker 2: You don't get involved in quarrels. Yeah.
[26:04] Speaker 3: The next one is what not a lover of money?
[26:08] Speaker 3: Why poor put it on the list because he had
[26:11] Speaker 3: that problem. There are people who go into positions to
[26:15] Speaker 3: secure themselves, not to secure the people. They go into
[26:19] Speaker 3: positions so that they can become rich, not to enrich
[26:22] Speaker 3: the people. Paul says, you should never be motivated by
[26:25] Speaker 3: money if you're going to be a leader, because you
[26:28] Speaker 3: would sacrifice to people for money.
[26:30] Speaker 2: And also sell your integrity for it.
[26:33] Speaker 3: The next one, he says, they must be one who
[26:35] Speaker 3: manages his own family well and see that his children
[26:39] Speaker 3: obey him or her with proper respect. You know my life.
[26:46] Speaker 3: I have to live my life a certain way for
[26:47] Speaker 3: your to respect me. So my son and daughter, they
[26:50] Speaker 3: are my greatest tests of my leadership. And you all
[26:54] Speaker 3: know my children and both of them respect me, and
[27:01] Speaker 3: they work with me now and they're helping me do
[27:04] Speaker 3: what I do.
[27:05] Speaker 2: I didn't ask him to come and join me. They
[27:07] Speaker 2: decided that themselves.
[27:10] Speaker 3: This is a part of qualifications for leadership. Now, there
[27:14] Speaker 3: are sometimes your children they don't behave properly.
[27:18] Speaker 2: What you gotta always remember in your mind is that
[27:20] Speaker 2: you did your best with them.
[27:22] Speaker 3: You can make children do certain things, you can't force them,
[27:25] Speaker 3: and they have become adults.
[27:26] Speaker 2: They got to make their own decisions.
[27:27] Speaker 3: But you need to know that I did my best
[27:30] Speaker 3: and also I was the example that they needed. If
[27:36] Speaker 3: you were good examples to your kids, then they are
[27:38] Speaker 3: responsible for their decisions after they are adults, and you
[27:41] Speaker 3: must be able to know that publicly and say that publicly.
[27:43] Speaker 3: You know, that's my son and that's not what I
[27:45] Speaker 3: taught him.
[27:47] Speaker 2: So you must. They have to respect you.
[27:51] Speaker 3: It's the point that's important here. It didn't say they
[27:53] Speaker 3: gotta love you. You know, read it it kissed me. You
[27:55] Speaker 3: don't to love you, but they gotta respect you. They
[27:57] Speaker 3: would say, boy, you know, I'm quite into what mya
[28:00] Speaker 3: are he doing, but boy gotta respect him. He into that,
[28:03] Speaker 3: he believed in God, you know, so the kid gotta
[28:05] Speaker 3: respect you.
[28:07] Speaker 2: Very important.
[28:09] Speaker 3: Then he says that his children must obey him. Now
[28:11] Speaker 3: knows the difference between you know, you know children and adults.
[28:20] Speaker 3: Adults don't obey, but children's supposed to obey. So when
[28:23] Speaker 3: they're small, they should obey you. If you're gonna be
[28:26] Speaker 3: a leader, you got to instill in your children or
[28:29] Speaker 3: respect for authority. And you are their first authority and
[28:33] Speaker 3: you must instill that in them.
[28:35] Speaker 2: Okay.
[28:35] Speaker 3: Anyhow, I want to end this by saying, if anyone
[28:37] Speaker 3: does not know how to manage his own home, family,
[28:39] Speaker 3: well how can he take care of God's church? Paul
[28:42] Speaker 3: is comparing that he must not be a recent convert
[28:48] Speaker 3: it's important. That's a whole news teaching. And he may
[28:52] Speaker 3: become or he may become conceited and fall under judgment
[28:56] Speaker 3: like the devil did. And I remember how Satan felt
[28:59] Speaker 3: he was one of God's top share of BIMs and uh,
[29:04] Speaker 3: his position rent to his head. He was usually that
[29:07] Speaker 3: c couldn't handle that kind of power, and he began
[29:09] Speaker 3: to think that he and God was company. You know,
[29:12] Speaker 3: they keep company with each other and God, see right,
[29:14] Speaker 3: excuse me, Uh, I created you, you know in my class.
[29:17] Speaker 2: Kay.
[29:18] Speaker 3: And of course it ren to his head. And that
[29:20] Speaker 3: happens to some people, you know, y if if you
[29:22] Speaker 3: give them positions.
[29:23] Speaker 2: To too early.
[29:25] Speaker 3: Uh, they claim they can handle it, they can't handle it.
[29:28] Speaker 3: And sometimes people wonder why even in this church we
[29:32] Speaker 3: be pastor where we we him we be, we don't
[29:35] Speaker 3: put positions for a long time. It's because we we
[29:38] Speaker 3: we be testing things. Your talent doesn't qualify you for leadership.
[29:44] Speaker 3: Your gifts don't qualify you for leadership. You gotta be
[29:48] Speaker 3: what test it. Matter of fact, it says in the
[29:50] Speaker 3: next statement, he must also have a good reputation with
[29:53] Speaker 3: people outside. How are you to know your reputation if
[29:56] Speaker 3: I didn't give you time to find out who for
[29:58] Speaker 3: people saying about you. You know, and sometimes people move around,
[30:03] Speaker 3: you know, they move around. People come in, they move around,
[30:06] Speaker 3: and you move around too. Fires I get nervous, you know. Uh,
[30:10] Speaker 3: you and that church and then that church the next
[30:12] Speaker 3: you in that church, and I'm saying this church, and
[30:13] Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you wanna do something. I'm like,
[30:14] Speaker 3: excuse me, uh, sit down. Yeah, but you know how
[30:19] Speaker 3: talented I am. Excuse me, sit down. I got experience.
[30:24] Speaker 3: I'd being the five different church. That's why you sitting down,
[30:26] Speaker 3: because you being a five and I I wanna know
[30:28] Speaker 3: why you left.
[30:29] Speaker 2: I think it is very rich. See. The problem is
[30:32] Speaker 2: applying can grow if you keep rooting it up. That's right. Hm.
[30:44] Speaker 3: When we appoint people, we know hardly miss. Couple of
[30:49] Speaker 3: times you miss Jesus missed. He missed one, but you
[30:55] Speaker 3: know Jesus was cool.
[30:55] Speaker 2: Jesus ain't know one of y'all is a betrayal, wrong,
[30:57] Speaker 2: you know not. Otherways, I keep your enemies close so
[31:00] Speaker 2: you know where they are all the time.
[31:01] Speaker 3: Anyhow, some ideas there, but Paul, look at poor statements. Now,
[31:05] Speaker 3: let me just summarize Paul's qualifications for you real quick.
[31:08] Speaker 3: Number one he dealt with four qualifications.
[31:12] Speaker 2: Matter of fact, five.
[31:13] Speaker 3: He dealt with, first spiritual qualifications, secondly intellectual qualifications, thirdly
[31:19] Speaker 3: physical qualifications taking care of your body. And then number
[31:23] Speaker 3: four emotional qualifications not becoming angry and bitter and violent.
[31:27] Speaker 3: And then relational qualifications. You must be in relationship with
[31:31] Speaker 3: your family and your your spouse or your children, or
[31:34] Speaker 3: your parents or whatever. He dealt with five qualification areas.
[31:40] Speaker 3: If you want to become an effective leader, you can
[31:42] Speaker 3: look at this list and start working on this list.
[31:49] Speaker 3: I got an email from someone recently. They might be watching,
[31:52] Speaker 3: I don't know be watching now, but they said I
[31:54] Speaker 3: had to leave my church because I finally realized that.
[31:58] Speaker 2: The pastor's wife don't come to church anymore. Oh that's serious.
[32:05] Speaker 2: That's very often. That happens very often. You'd be amazed.
[32:08] Speaker 3: In other words, the poison realized that not even the
[32:10] Speaker 3: wife believing with the pass preaching, she goes to another church.
[32:13] Speaker 2: Why should I stay?
[32:15] Speaker 3: Paul says that that person is disqualified. If your own
[32:24] Speaker 3: family don't believe what you're saying, why should I they
[32:30] Speaker 3: group with you? You know, you don't know what the
[32:34] Speaker 3: blessing it is for me, in this organization and this
[32:36] Speaker 3: ministry to have my father, all my sisters, and my
[32:40] Speaker 3: brothers who have come under this ministry and have been
[32:43] Speaker 3: served here for years. You know that means so much
[32:45] Speaker 3: to me. I am their younger brother. They believe what
[32:51] Speaker 3: I'm saying because they know my life. They see my life.
[32:56] Speaker 3: And who knows you better than your own siblings. They
[33:01] Speaker 3: know my standards, they know my quality of life, they
[33:04] Speaker 3: know my habits. They they they grow up with me.
[33:09] Speaker 3: I qualify relationally? Do I qualify emotionally? I tell you
[33:13] Speaker 3: I don't get mad at your Do I qualify physically?
[33:16] Speaker 3: Look at this guy man? You know, hey, I'll be
[33:19] Speaker 3: sixty next year. I know you don't believe that. No sickness,
[33:23] Speaker 3: no disease, ain't being hospital for thirty two years.
[33:26] Speaker 2: This is physical health.
[33:27] Speaker 3: Why I don't drink, don't smoke, don't take no drugs.
[33:30] Speaker 3: I don't sniff nothing. I eat healthy. I drink water.
[33:35] Speaker 3: I drink you know, good juices. I take vitamins. Why
[33:39] Speaker 3: cause my body must be healthy physical. I can't be drunk.
[33:46] Speaker 2: Leadership requires this.
[33:49] Speaker 3: If you're going to be a leader, you're gonna have
[33:51] Speaker 3: to qualify in these five areas. Intellectually, well, you could
[33:56] Speaker 3: probably tell that I am always a l a student,
[34:00] Speaker 3: I'm always learning, and spiritually my life is wrapped up
[34:05] Speaker 3: in my prayer life with God. This is leadership, and
[34:09] Speaker 3: Paul says that person is capable of overseeing anything, and
[34:13] Speaker 3: that could be a person or a country. Now ten
[34:16] Speaker 3: leadership essentials. Number one, you must believe that you are
[34:20] Speaker 3: designed to lead. Number two, matter of if I dc
[34:23] Speaker 3: it to twelve. Number two you must discover yourself. These
[34:28] Speaker 3: are the twelve leadership principles. Number three, you must capture
[34:34] Speaker 3: your vision. I'm just giving you statements right now. Each
[34:37] Speaker 3: one of these is a whole session I will teach, okay.
[34:41] Speaker 3: Number four, you must share your inspiration if you're going
[34:44] Speaker 3: to become a leader. Number five you must commit to
[34:48] Speaker 3: principles and values that you will never violate. In other words,
[34:52] Speaker 3: you set standards that you will never sacrifice. And number six,
[34:57] Speaker 3: you must express your passion to people. Talk about what
[35:01] Speaker 3: you are passionate about. Publicly, tell people what you want
[35:04] Speaker 3: to do, what you want to see change. You gotta
[35:06] Speaker 3: talk about it. Don't keep your passion silent. Leaders actually
[35:13] Speaker 3: talk about what makes them angry. They express their passion.
[35:18] Speaker 3: Number seven, leaders empower other people. They don't pursue power,
[35:24] Speaker 3: They pursue empowering other people. Number eight Leaders discipline themselves
[35:31] Speaker 3: to protect their purpose. Purpose is your reason for living.
[35:35] Speaker 3: Leaders live a life of discipline to protect that. In
[35:40] Speaker 3: other words, they don't want to cancel their assignment by
[35:45] Speaker 3: decisions that they make about their lives. They protect their
[35:49] Speaker 3: lives by protecting their purpose.
[35:52] Speaker 2: They discipline themselves and number nine.
[35:56] Speaker 3: Leaders coordinate their resources effectively. They know how to have
[36:00] Speaker 3: handle material and money, and equipment and buildings and time
[36:05] Speaker 3: and all these resources. Leaders coordinate resources. Number ten Leaders
[36:11] Speaker 3: manage their priorities. If you're going to become a leader,
[36:15] Speaker 3: you can get to develop your priorities.
[36:18] Speaker 2: Now.
[36:20] Speaker 3: Priorities are important because they protect you from other people
[36:24] Speaker 3: interfering in your lives. Without priorities, you will end up
[36:30] Speaker 3: living other people's priorities.
[36:33] Speaker 2: If you don't.
[36:34] Speaker 3: Establish what's important to you. I'll give you some things
[36:36] Speaker 3: that are important to me. So you got to know
[36:40] Speaker 3: your priorities. You must establish them, and then you must
[36:43] Speaker 3: protect them, manage your life according to them. And then
[36:46] Speaker 3: number eleven, you must mentor someone greater than yourself. Leader
[36:52] Speaker 3: will always live their lives through their success or they
[36:56] Speaker 3: produce people. They don't just produce buildings. They develop people.
[37:00] Speaker 3: They don't just develop programs. Leaders leave the world people.
[37:05] Speaker 3: They don't leave them some monument. They leave the world people.
[37:10] Speaker 3: And I always think of Jesus Christ and as such
[37:13] Speaker 3: an amazing experience because Jesus never built a building, never
[37:17] Speaker 3: established a program. He simply built people, and he left
[37:22] Speaker 3: us these people, and these people change the world. My question,
[37:26] Speaker 3: who are you mentoring right now to take your place.
[37:29] Speaker 2: And whatever you're doing.
[37:31] Speaker 3: Have you identified a few people that you are going
[37:33] Speaker 3: to pour your life into and you're gonna turn things
[37:35] Speaker 3: over to and you're gonna allow them to test their
[37:38] Speaker 3: skills through your privilege. This is leadership and number twelve.
[37:46] Speaker 3: Leaders must understand management. Leaders must understand that they have
[37:51] Speaker 3: to manage even though they are not managers. And explain
[37:55] Speaker 3: what I mean by that. All leaders are managed before
[37:58] Speaker 3: they are are leaders. But a leader is aware that
[38:04] Speaker 3: management is only a small part of what he does.
[38:08] Speaker 3: He must understand management might's have more to do with
[38:10] Speaker 3: delegation delegating responsibility to other people.
[38:15] Speaker 2: Leaders share power.
[38:18] Speaker 3: They allow people to to have value around them by
[38:21] Speaker 3: giving them responsibility that's what management is about. So these
[38:26] Speaker 3: are the twelve principles essential to leadership development. I will
[38:30] Speaker 3: teach each one of these separately. You'll be amazed that
[38:33] Speaker 3: each one of them is a book in itself, like
[38:35] Speaker 3: Number one to me is a book so much to
[38:38] Speaker 3: learn about just your design for leadership. And we will
[38:42] Speaker 3: deal with that in the coming months weeks. Rather, I
[38:45] Speaker 3: just wanna give you a little bonus here tonight. I
[38:48] Speaker 3: wanna give you twelve principles of leadership that I have
[38:51] Speaker 3: distilled in my books. Number One Purpose, I'm gonna give
[38:56] Speaker 3: you this statement next to them write him down.
[38:57] Speaker 2: To become a leader, you must discover your.
[38:59] Speaker 3: Purpose, But its purpose is discovering your sense of destiny.
[39:03] Speaker 3: You become aware that you were not born just to
[39:06] Speaker 3: make a living and breathe oxygen. You discover that you
[39:09] Speaker 3: were born to give life something else. You were born
[39:13] Speaker 3: to do something for humanity. Number two vision. A leader
[39:16] Speaker 3: must have a perception of the future that is respectable
[39:20] Speaker 3: and noble. They see a future that's better than the present,
[39:23] Speaker 3: and they're willing to go to it at any cost.
[39:27] Speaker 2: Number three passion.
[39:28] Speaker 3: All leaders must have a commitment beyond their own safety.
[39:34] Speaker 3: They must be willing to handle the tests, the opposition,
[39:39] Speaker 3: the criticism because of their passion. Passion is the only
[39:43] Speaker 3: thing that can stand up against opposition, and passion is
[39:49] Speaker 3: is a desire that is stronger than the threat of death.
[39:54] Speaker 3: A person who has passion, you can't threaten them, cause
[39:58] Speaker 3: it's too late. And this is why I define passion
[40:02] Speaker 3: as not finding something to live for, but finding something
[40:06] Speaker 3: to die for. If you find something that's worth dying for,
[40:10] Speaker 3: you've discovered your passion. And that could even be a
[40:13] Speaker 3: business idea. You know, you have a business idea you
[40:16] Speaker 3: believe in so much that you actually would refinance your
[40:18] Speaker 3: house to go into this idea.
[40:21] Speaker 2: That's a passion.
[40:23] Speaker 3: Life normally eventually pay that person off. Life will watch
[40:28] Speaker 3: you to see how far you will go for your passion.
[40:30] Speaker 3: Then life will pay you off. Number four convictions very
[40:34] Speaker 3: important one. Leaders must have a deep belief in their rightness.
[40:40] Speaker 2: Now what I mean by that is leaders must.
[40:42] Speaker 3: Believe in what they believe is right and they must
[40:47] Speaker 3: never have it for sale. Conviction means I believe in
[40:53] Speaker 3: something so deeply that you will not be able to
[40:57] Speaker 3: buy me to give it up. This is lacking in
[41:02] Speaker 3: leadership all over the world. Very few leaders I see
[41:05] Speaker 3: on the horizon have conviction. A matter of fact, I'm nervous.
[41:08] Speaker 3: I look at some of the religious leaders, I say,
[41:11] Speaker 3: some of the political leaders, some of the corporate leaders.
[41:14] Speaker 2: And this leaders, how can they don't have any conviction?
[41:18] Speaker 2: No conviction?
[41:19] Speaker 3: And this is dangerous and today the pressures of life.
[41:25] Speaker 3: But you know what they call it current affairs. This
[41:29] Speaker 3: term current affairs is very dangerous.
[41:31] Speaker 2: Lately. There's a current MM in our affairs.
[41:35] Speaker 3: And if you can't swim with your convictions, you can
[41:38] Speaker 3: float down with the current M. And so far a
[41:41] Speaker 3: whole lot of folks just floating. The minute you float,
[41:45] Speaker 3: you are not a leader. Leaders do not follow the crowd.
[41:53] Speaker 3: What makes a personal leader is the fact that they
[41:56] Speaker 3: oppose the convention, the conventional things.
[42:02] Speaker 2: That's what leaders are made en of.
[42:03] Speaker 3: People who defy the context, who say to life, this
[42:07] Speaker 3: is not right and I am not going with this.
[42:12] Speaker 3: The pressures that the people are fitting today leadership.
[42:14] Speaker 2: Is exposing their lack of leadership because they have no conviction.
[42:21] Speaker 2: I can hardly find a leader in the world right now.
[42:24] Speaker 2: Very few.
[42:25] Speaker 3: And you know, I think I traveled a little bit
[42:27] Speaker 3: and I meet them, and you could see even in
[42:29] Speaker 3: my own country. I'm trying to identify, Okay, who has conviction.
[42:36] Speaker 3: Conviction the opposite of conviction. Write it down, compromise. You know,
[42:46] Speaker 3: I believe that compromise was created for things that are
[42:50] Speaker 3: not important, but for things that are important in life.
[42:55] Speaker 3: Whatever you consider to be important, there's no compromise.
[43:00] Speaker 2: This is why people go to jail. Like Nelson Mandela.
[43:03] Speaker 3: His conviction was so strong that he was right. He decided,
[43:08] Speaker 3: I'm going to prison for twenty four.
[43:10] Speaker 2: Years for this one.
[43:11] Speaker 3: How where are these leaders lately? In other words, leaders
[43:15] Speaker 3: don't look for approval or even to be liked. They
[43:19] Speaker 3: wanna be right. And i'm'a tell you something about life.
[43:23] Speaker 2: If you are always on the right side, life will
[43:26] Speaker 2: always keep you alive.
[43:28] Speaker 3: Even after you die. Your convictions actually help you live forever.
[43:37] Speaker 3: Mm think about the leaders who died, like Mahama Gandhi.
[43:41] Speaker 3: His convictions about the oppression of Indians by the colonial
[43:46] Speaker 3: powers of Britain were so deep he said, I'm gonna
[43:50] Speaker 3: stout myself to debt in prison, and he refused to eat.
[43:55] Speaker 3: He was skinning bones when they delivered him. And they
[43:59] Speaker 3: actually dismantled colonialism in India. The largest country in the
[44:06] Speaker 3: world at that time because of a skinny little man
[44:09] Speaker 3: who was sticking bones, who decided I have a deep
[44:12] Speaker 3: conviction if my people are not free, I'm not eating
[44:15] Speaker 3: another mossel of food, and I'm gonna die on your
[44:18] Speaker 3: hands and the world will know that you killed me.
[44:22] Speaker 2: What a conviction? Are there any politicians around like that?
[44:28] Speaker 3: Or are we just making deals on the tables or
[44:30] Speaker 3: deals in conference rooms or deals in boardroom.
[44:33] Speaker 2: I'm just making deals. What about conviction?
[44:39] Speaker 3: You young people here tonight, please find something we're dying for.
[44:43] Speaker 2: Please me.
[44:47] Speaker 3: I've been criticized all my life in the Bahamas. Criticism
[44:52] Speaker 3: actually qualifies you for respect. Criticism is normally when people
[45:00] Speaker 3: you don't like the fact that you have too much
[45:01] Speaker 3: deep convictions. People want you to go with them, and
[45:06] Speaker 3: when you refuse to go with them, then they become
[45:08] Speaker 3: very uncomfortable with you and sometimes last showed at you.
[45:13] Speaker 3: But your convictions are your deep belief in what is
[45:16] Speaker 3: right leaders. Secondly, number five of compassion. Compassion is love
[45:24] Speaker 3: for the dignity of humans. All leaders have a deep
[45:28] Speaker 3: love for humanity. If you study again, just call the
[45:33] Speaker 3: names I called. These people gave themselves for people.
[45:39] Speaker 2: They they they were willing to sacrifice for the dignity
[45:46] Speaker 2: of other humans.
[45:47] Speaker 3: That's compassion. That's what Jesus did on the cross for humanity.
[45:51] Speaker 3: He laid his life down, not for himself. He had
[45:55] Speaker 3: compassion on humanity, and he decided, I'm gonna set them
[45:59] Speaker 3: free if he kills me.
[46:01] Speaker 2: And it killed him.
[46:03] Speaker 3: Of course he rose again to check make sure it happened.
[46:08] Speaker 3: Number six Leaders must live by principles, and this will
[46:13] Speaker 3: be the focus of our event coming up in November.
[46:18] Speaker 3: The principles are the standards that you decide to live by,
[46:22] Speaker 3: to function by certain days.
[46:24] Speaker 2: You will not violate.
[46:26] Speaker 3: I will not steal, I will not bear false witness.
[46:29] Speaker 3: I will not take deals on the table. I will
[46:31] Speaker 3: not lie. I will not commit adultry with other people property.
[46:36] Speaker 3: I will not steal. I will not take what they
[46:40] Speaker 3: call it kickbox. I will not pad invoices. I will
[46:44] Speaker 3: not over invoice a project. In other words, these people
[46:48] Speaker 3: have standards. A leader has standards.
[46:54] Speaker 2: Where are the leaders?
[46:58] Speaker 3: Number seven? Leaders have values. Values are what we call
[47:02] Speaker 3: codes of ethics. Uh, the ethical it's it's it's like
[47:08] Speaker 3: a poisoner contract with yourself about what is important to you.
[47:13] Speaker 2: Code of ethic Number eight.
[47:16] Speaker 3: Leaders must have a clear plan, always a clep plan,
[47:20] Speaker 3: always be a planner. A leader gonna have a plan
[47:22] Speaker 3: all the time. I have a plan that they were
[47:24] Speaker 3: working on in their lives. Their life is planned.
[47:26] Speaker 2: Uh.
[47:27] Speaker 3: This is important because leaders are not people who are
[47:29] Speaker 3: looking for a current to take them somewhere. They already
[47:32] Speaker 3: got their gsp or worked out. They got the destination
[47:37] Speaker 3: clocked in. They they they put the coordinates in their
[47:41] Speaker 3: lives in to life. They know exactly where they're going.
[47:45] Speaker 3: They uh how they say in in in aviation. They
[47:48] Speaker 3: they got their flight plan already logged in. So when
[47:52] Speaker 3: the hurricanes come and the storms come, and the lightning
[47:54] Speaker 3: flashes and the thunder comes and the rain comes, they know,
[47:58] Speaker 3: that's okay, i'm'a bump around a little bit, but I
[48:00] Speaker 3: got my coordinates in.
[48:02] Speaker 2: They have a plan.
[48:04] Speaker 3: Leaders are not afraid of setbacks and side tracks. All
[48:08] Speaker 3: they know is that they have a main track. They're
[48:11] Speaker 3: gonna stay on track. They may even fall and get up,
[48:13] Speaker 3: but they're gonna get back on track. Leaders have a.
[48:17] Speaker 2: One track mind. Yes.
[48:20] Speaker 3: Number nine, persistence big one. Leaders are committed to success.
[48:25] Speaker 3: The word commitment is important here. Persistence is insisting on
[48:32] Speaker 3: what you desire. Persistence means I insist on getting what
[48:39] Speaker 3: I dream. I insist on it, which means that life
[48:43] Speaker 3: is gonna have to let this go.
[48:46] Speaker 2: Life could hold this as long as it once. I'm
[48:48] Speaker 2: gonna get this.
[48:49] Speaker 3: Persistence means bearing up under pressure. It is the foundation
[48:54] Speaker 3: of courage. It is the very thing that gives the
[48:57] Speaker 3: leader stickability systems. Means that I believe in the future
[49:03] Speaker 3: so much that the present have to let me go.
[49:07] Speaker 2: This is persistence. By the way, those who are.
[49:12] Speaker 3: Watching me online, you can put that quote right there
[49:15] Speaker 3: and send it out.
[49:18] Speaker 2: Persistence is when you tell the present.
[49:24] Speaker 3: The future is more important than you. I'm going there.
[49:29] Speaker 3: That's what leaders are. They don't leaders. They don't live
[49:32] Speaker 3: in the in the present. They live in the future,
[49:34] Speaker 3: their bodies in the present. They believe in the hope
[49:41] Speaker 3: more than they believe in the environment that they are in.
[49:44] Speaker 3: Leaders have this powerful persistence. And number ten is dedication.
[49:49] Speaker 3: I'm write a book on this one someday. But the
[49:51] Speaker 3: dedication is so more so important. I just covered the
[49:54] Speaker 3: dedication is more important than loyalty, faithfulness, and commitment, and
[50:00] Speaker 3: some day I'll explain that. But dedication is the highest
[50:03] Speaker 3: form of relationship dedication. Uh, you can be loyal and
[50:10] Speaker 3: not be dedicated. Hm, I could be loyal to you
[50:15] Speaker 3: for the wrong reason, That's what I'm saying. In other words,
[50:19] Speaker 3: I could show up every single day loyal to you.
[50:22] Speaker 3: Why cause I want your job? They you in love.
[50:29] Speaker 3: Faithfulness is also not as important as dedication. You can
[50:34] Speaker 3: be faithful to something for the wrong reason. That's why
[50:38] Speaker 3: marriages don't work. Marriages don't wait because people marry people
[50:41] Speaker 3: who are faithful and committed and loyal.
[50:45] Speaker 2: Let me tell you something.
[50:46] Speaker 3: Your marriage is not safe if the person who loves
[50:48] Speaker 3: you is committed, cause they can be committed to you
[50:52] Speaker 3: come home every day but still got sweetheart, So they are.
[50:56] Speaker 2: Committed to coming home every night. But where they being before?
[50:59] Speaker 2: That is the question. See.
[51:00] Speaker 3: So the commitment is not doesn't mean that you're safe.
[51:05] Speaker 3: And the loyalty they can be coming home every day.
[51:07] Speaker 3: They come home every day, that's loyal. I got a
[51:08] Speaker 3: loyal husband, loyal wife. They always come home. Yeah, but
[51:10] Speaker 3: the way they being on the way there. So the
[51:12] Speaker 3: loyalty doesn't mean that you are safe either, Am I
[51:17] Speaker 3: coming home?
[51:18] Speaker 2: See? Dedication is a different story. Dedication means I live
[51:24] Speaker 2: on you.
[51:26] Speaker 3: I exist on you. If you fail, I fail. If
[51:32] Speaker 3: you survive, I survive. I live for you only a dedication.
[51:41] Speaker 3: Leaders must be dedicated to the task. You know, there's
[51:46] Speaker 3: some folks who are loyal to you until pressure comes.
[51:50] Speaker 3: Come on, talk to me, leaders.
[51:51] Speaker 2: They wit you. Yeah, I'm rich, your brother.
[51:53] Speaker 3: How many people left the Matluther King and them dogs
[51:55] Speaker 3: and them hoses to show up?
[51:56] Speaker 2: They gone? They just mind crazy. A lot of people
[51:59] Speaker 2: left them.
[52:01] Speaker 3: Why they weren't willing to be bitten with dogs and
[52:05] Speaker 3: thrown into prison in Alabama. They said, look, be m
[52:09] Speaker 3: be in march with you, but we ain't going that far.
[52:12] Speaker 3: So we're loyal and we're faithful and committed to a point.
[52:17] Speaker 3: But the man who decided to go to jail with him,
[52:20] Speaker 3: like Andrew Young, was dedicated. Dedication means if you go,
[52:26] Speaker 3: I go. If they kill you, I am dead. That's
[52:31] Speaker 3: what marriage should be built on. How dedicated are you
[52:38] Speaker 3: to your vision? Are you willing to take all the criticism,
[52:44] Speaker 3: all the abuse.
[52:52] Speaker 2: Leadership? But they say, take a licking, keep on a ticket.
[52:59] Speaker 2: That's what leaders do. They take a good liking and
[53:02] Speaker 2: then they get up and keep on take it. That's
[53:04] Speaker 2: what leadership is.
[53:05] Speaker 3: About I hope this has been helpful for you tonight.
[53:08] Speaker 3: And number seven and eleven sacrifice. If you're going to
[53:12] Speaker 3: be a successful leader, you're gonna have to be willing
[53:15] Speaker 3: to be a sacrifice. You must be willing to suffer
[53:21] Speaker 3: for the cause of your vision what you want to do.
[53:25] Speaker 3: And finally, number twelve, and it is an important one.
[53:28] Speaker 3: A leader must be accountable. You're not an authority unto yourself.
[53:33] Speaker 3: You are accountable to someone else. Leaders are always submitted
[53:38] Speaker 3: to a higher authority. First of all, it must be.
[53:41] Speaker 2: A person or persons on earth. Don't tell me you
[53:45] Speaker 2: submitted to God.
[53:48] Speaker 3: Leaders have a human accountability. There are people that they
[53:53] Speaker 3: look to for covering under be accountable to. Never trust
[53:58] Speaker 3: the person who is not accountable to someone else. Never
[54:03] Speaker 3: trust the person who cannot be rebuked by someone else.
[54:08] Speaker 3: Never trust the person who cannot be corrected by someone else.
[54:14] Speaker 3: And I tell you, as you study the leaders in
[54:16] Speaker 3: the world, the ones who fell are the ones who
[54:20] Speaker 3: was not accountable. And you study them, you'll find out
[54:25] Speaker 3: that's true. That last one is important. There must be
[54:29] Speaker 3: someone who can correct, rebuke, instruct and fire.
[54:38] Speaker 2: The leader.
[54:41] Speaker 3: Everyone needs a covering. There are people in my life
[54:47] Speaker 3: as you all know them. I'm accountable to them, and
[54:52] Speaker 3: they have a right to call anyone in this church
[54:55] Speaker 3: and ask you how I'm doing.
[54:58] Speaker 2: They can call my wife and ask how's your husband doing.
[55:02] Speaker 3: They can call my son and daughter any day and say,
[55:05] Speaker 3: tell me how's your father doing?
[55:06] Speaker 2: What's he doing? That's accountability. Don't you ever take the
[55:15] Speaker 2: spirit that says the buck stops with me.
[55:22] Speaker 3: Of course, the final point is you are accountable to God.
[55:27] Speaker 3: If we don't get you, God gonna get you. There
[55:31] Speaker 3: are many people who died without human accountability, and they
[55:35] Speaker 3: can stand before the throne of God and God gonna.
[55:38] Speaker 2: Say how did you do? What did you do? He
[55:42] Speaker 2: will be the ultimate source of authority.
[55:47] Speaker 3: So we live with an awareness that we got to
[55:51] Speaker 3: give two accounts to the human authority and to the
[55:57] Speaker 3: divine authority, and these will keep a leader humble and fearful.
[56:05] Speaker 3: A leader without fear in his life or her life
[56:10] Speaker 3: is a dangerous leader.
[56:13] Speaker 2: Never trust the leader who is not afraid.
[56:18] Speaker 3: The first qualification God gives in the Bible for leadership.
[56:23] Speaker 2: The first qualification is they must fear God. And there's
[56:28] Speaker 2: a reason why God said that, because if you don't
[56:31] Speaker 2: fear God, I'm in trouble, no conscience.
[56:37] Speaker 3: That's why you could kill humans. You could abuse humans,
[56:40] Speaker 3: you could oppress humans.
[56:42] Speaker 2: You don't fare God, but if you fear God, you
[56:46] Speaker 2: would always respect his image.
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