# Crowning Ignorant Kings - Dr. Myles Munroe - The Moral Force of Leadership

An episode of [Crowning Ignorant Kings](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1609667064), 15 Dec 2024, 1 h 20 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, who
[0:25] Speaker 1: are teachers building a Kingdom community. Thank you again for
[0:29] Speaker 1: joining us. Now let's adjust our.
[0:31] Speaker 2: Crowns on the topic that you see in your note,
[0:41] Speaker 2: And I have a picture on the screen for those
[0:46] Speaker 2: who are listening to the CD in your car. You
[0:50] Speaker 2: cannot see what's on the screen, but there is a
[0:54] Speaker 2: picture of a statue that's a very famous statue in
[0:58] Speaker 2: the Bahamas. It is found right in the center of
[1:02] Speaker 2: the capital city of the Bahamas, Nassau downtown, right next
[1:09] Speaker 2: to the government houses of administration. It is a statue
[1:16] Speaker 2: that was there before I was born. When I was
[1:21] Speaker 2: a child, I was introduced to this statue as a
[1:23] Speaker 2: little kid, and that woman is still sitting there. She's
[1:31] Speaker 2: been there for a couple hundred years, and she has
[1:37] Speaker 2: gone through all the hurricanes that we've had, She've gone
[1:42] Speaker 2: through all of the heat waves we've experienced. She had
[1:47] Speaker 2: gone through the coal spells when once in a while
[1:50] Speaker 2: the North East Siller. Winds would blow south beyond Florida,
[1:55] Speaker 2: and she never tried to cover herself from the coal
[2:00] Speaker 2: or she never acts for an umbrella in the heat,
[2:04] Speaker 2: and she never runs for cover during the hurricanes. There
[2:09] Speaker 2: were hurricanes in this country that blew up to two
[2:12] Speaker 2: hundred to twenty miles per hour, and that woman was
[2:16] Speaker 2: the only one outside. This is an important woman, and
[2:23] Speaker 2: I want to talk about her a little bit tonight.
[2:27] Speaker 2: So I want to speak to you on character, the
[2:31] Speaker 2: moral force of leadership. I'm going to move very fast,
[2:39] Speaker 2: so you need to write fast or do what most
[2:43] Speaker 2: people do steal my PowerPoint by taking photographs. Just remember
[2:50] Speaker 2: to give me credit and tell them where a photograph
[2:53] Speaker 2: came from. Otherwise you are plagiarizing and stealing. And I
[2:59] Speaker 2: know that no one steals in this place. We have character.
[3:04] Speaker 2: I want to focus tonight on understanding the priority and
[3:09] Speaker 2: the power of the process of leadership and character and
[3:17] Speaker 2: our I'm going to do something very unique tonight. I'm
[3:22] Speaker 2: going to combine the session that we did not complete
[3:27] Speaker 2: this morning with the session tonight, So you're going to
[3:30] Speaker 2: get two focuses tonight and you see them come together.
[3:35] Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about understanding this concept of character
[3:49] Speaker 2: and how to define it, and then we're going to
[3:52] Speaker 2: talk about how that affects your moral force. So I'm
[3:57] Speaker 2: going to talk about this key, the foundation key of
[4:05] Speaker 2: twenty first century leadership. We will not survive the next
[4:10] Speaker 2: ten years if we continue the way we're going globally.
[4:15] Speaker 2: The defects of character are so deep that there's no
[4:20] Speaker 2: way our countries can survive, that includes your country, if
[4:25] Speaker 2: we do not address the issue of defective character in leadership.
[4:34] Speaker 2: I will show you this photograph fairly often tonight because,
[4:39] Speaker 2: or should I say, one of the only remaining images
[4:43] Speaker 2: of a living leader who has embodied some measure of
[4:49] Speaker 2: character that must be admired is the President of South Africa,
[5:01] Speaker 2: mister Nelson Mandela. We have a few left on the
[5:05] Speaker 2: planet that we can emulate as people who have shown
[5:11] Speaker 2: us and demonstrated this measure of character that we are
[5:16] Speaker 2: looking for. We want to mention a little bit about
[5:20] Speaker 2: the components of character, which includes ethics and morality. And
[5:29] Speaker 2: I will also show you a number of statues tonight
[5:31] Speaker 2: for a reason, because this will be the heart of
[5:34] Speaker 2: my definition of character. So our focus tonight is on
[5:42] Speaker 2: the moral force of character. Now in our session that
[5:47] Speaker 2: we did not complete this morning. Please write this down.
[5:51] Speaker 2: I want to first of all, take a quick look
[5:53] Speaker 2: at the fact that character matters. We should not even
[5:58] Speaker 2: have to say this, but apparently it is so lacking
[6:03] Speaker 2: we have to say it. Character does matter. As a
[6:09] Speaker 2: matter of fact. I hope by the time I am
[6:11] Speaker 2: finished that you would agree with me about my convictions
[6:16] Speaker 2: that character is the most important thing that matters, because
[6:23] Speaker 2: in the end, all you have to protect you is
[6:28] Speaker 2: your character. Let's talk a little bit about leadership first,
[6:34] Speaker 2: and I want to stress that much of what I'm
[6:37] Speaker 2: going to talk about tonight you'll find in the new book,
[6:42] Speaker 2: and so please, if you didn't catch all of the information,
[6:46] Speaker 2: be sure to invest in that material and take your
[6:50] Speaker 2: time and read the book. Leadership is valuable and powerful.
[6:57] Speaker 2: Let's talk about them quickly. Nothing happens leadership. Nothing changes
[7:02] Speaker 2: without leadership. Nothing develops without leadership, nothing improves without someone
[7:07] Speaker 2: taking leadership. Nothing is corrected in any situation unless someone
[7:12] Speaker 2: emerges and decides I'm gonna fix this. Like Martin Luther
[7:16] Speaker 2: King Junior, or Mother Teresa or Mapma Gandhi. These are
[7:20] Speaker 2: people who decided something's wrong with this. I'm gonna correct this.
[7:24] Speaker 2: Leadership is necessary for correction in society. Also, nothing succeeds
[7:32] Speaker 2: without leadership. And the problem is everybody is always being
[7:36] Speaker 2: led by somebody, even though you may not be conscious
[7:39] Speaker 2: of it, because you are being influenced by someone. And
[7:43] Speaker 2: so it's important for you to be aware of who
[7:46] Speaker 2: is leading me, or who am I following, or who
[7:50] Speaker 2: am I allowing to influence my life? Are you gonna
[7:54] Speaker 2: see why in a minute? That's so important. Let's talk
[7:57] Speaker 2: a little bit about some questions about leadership. Everyone thinks that,
[8:01] Speaker 2: you know, leadership is a simple matter, But here's some
[8:04] Speaker 2: questions about leadership. Is leadership about power? Is it about
[8:09] Speaker 2: position or talent or skill authority? Or is it about
[8:14] Speaker 2: physical traits? Is the leadership about social status? Maybe something?
[8:20] Speaker 2: The leadership is about family heritage, And I was born
[8:24] Speaker 2: into a family of politicians, so I'm automatically air marked
[8:28] Speaker 2: to be a national leader or something. Or I was
[8:31] Speaker 2: born into a family of pastors, so I'm automatically airmarked
[8:35] Speaker 2: to be a spiritual leader or something. This is not
[8:38] Speaker 2: necessarily true, but people take these kinds of this kind
[8:41] Speaker 2: of thinking and they try to make that a part
[8:44] Speaker 2: of their leadership. Mentality. But here's a big one is
[8:49] Speaker 2: leadership about charisma, which is a very important study that
[8:53] Speaker 2: the Greeks did and the Romans adopted, and of course
[8:56] Speaker 2: they have exported that to us in our colonization experience,
[9:02] Speaker 2: that there's certain gifts that a person has that makes
[9:05] Speaker 2: them different from everybody else. This is very dangerous. They
[9:08] Speaker 2: call it charisma, which is a Greek word that means
[9:11] Speaker 2: giftings of the gods. What about leadership concepts and philosophy,
[9:16] Speaker 2: I always give you mind. This is my belief about leadership.
[9:19] Speaker 2: I believe that everybody was born to be a leader,
[9:21] Speaker 2: but not necessarily over people. You were born to be
[9:25] Speaker 2: a leader in an area of gifting, and therefore, trapped
[9:28] Speaker 2: in every follower is a hidden leader that needs to
[9:31] Speaker 2: be released, and you were born to become that leader.
[9:34] Speaker 2: But the process is important. Every human being possesses, I believe,
[9:39] Speaker 2: the capacity to be a leader, but most of them
[9:42] Speaker 2: will die never manifesting that capacity. And I also believe
[9:46] Speaker 2: that you were born to be a leader by attracting
[9:50] Speaker 2: people to your gift, and you serve them your gift.
[9:55] Speaker 2: It is that service that makes you valuable to the people.
[10:00] Speaker 2: So leadership is not about your personality. It's not about
[10:04] Speaker 2: your skills or your academic achievement. It's really about you
[10:07] Speaker 2: serving your gift to your generation. The problem is, if
[10:12] Speaker 2: you never find your gift, you will never find your leadership.
[10:17] Speaker 2: And so leadership has more to do it self discovery
[10:20] Speaker 2: than it has to do with finding followers. This is
[10:24] Speaker 2: why all true leaders never sought followers, none of them.
[10:28] Speaker 2: They were too busy pursuing a passion based on a
[10:32] Speaker 2: gift that they discovered that they were born to serve
[10:35] Speaker 2: their generation. So leadership really is about serving yourself to
[10:39] Speaker 2: the world. I call it self distribution. I remember the
[10:43] Speaker 2: question was asks who wants to be the greatest? The
[10:45] Speaker 2: answer was whoever can be the greatest servant not necessarily
[10:50] Speaker 2: slave or subservient. Is talking about whoever can serve yourself
[10:55] Speaker 2: to the world the best. The world will consider him great,
[11:00] Speaker 2: of course in the eyes of the creator as well.
[11:02] Speaker 2: So this is what my philosophy is now. My definition
[11:06] Speaker 2: of leadership is always important for me to repeat because
[11:09] Speaker 2: I never assume that everybody heard me before, and plus
[11:12] Speaker 2: these CDs travel the world. What is leadership? My definition
[11:16] Speaker 2: is simple yet complicated. Write it down. Leadership is a
[11:21] Speaker 2: capacity to influence others through what inspiration, not manipulation, And
[11:28] Speaker 2: an inspiration is generated by a passion, motivated by a
[11:33] Speaker 2: vision that the leader develops or exposes, and that vision
[11:39] Speaker 2: is breathed from a conviction in the heart of the leader.
[11:43] Speaker 2: That conviction comes from a sense of purpose that they discover.
[11:48] Speaker 2: So it's a very interesting complication of becoming a leader.
[11:51] Speaker 2: It's a process. I would tell people. To become a leader,
[11:54] Speaker 2: you have to turn the centers upside down and start
[11:57] Speaker 2: from the bottom. In other words, to become a leader,
[12:00] Speaker 2: discover your purpose, which then leads you to a deep
[12:02] Speaker 2: conviction that you were born to do something important for humanity.
[12:06] Speaker 2: That conviction it shows to be in pictures, so we
[12:09] Speaker 2: call it vision. That vision becomes a passion for the person.
[12:13] Speaker 2: That passion inspires other people. And once you inspire people,
[12:17] Speaker 2: you can influence them or they allow you to influence them,
[12:20] Speaker 2: and that influences what we call leadership. So true leaders
[12:24] Speaker 2: never seek leadership. They are too busy pursuing a purpose.
[12:31] Speaker 2: So when a person wants to be a leader, tries
[12:34] Speaker 2: to be a leader, pursues to be a leader, that's
[12:38] Speaker 2: a very dangerous person. If you study true leaders, most
[12:43] Speaker 2: of them are reluctant leaders. They never want it to
[12:47] Speaker 2: be leaders. Circumstances drove them, or a passion drove them,
[12:52] Speaker 2: or a conviction took over their lives. This is why
[12:58] Speaker 2: true leaders never seek power. Matter of fact, some of
[13:01] Speaker 2: them actually hate power. They love to empower, completely opposite.
[13:11] Speaker 2: Their desire is to make other people great, to free
[13:15] Speaker 2: other people, to make other people prospers. True leaders are
[13:19] Speaker 2: completely contradictory to those today we call leaders, because they
[13:26] Speaker 2: seek the good of other people, not the good that
[13:29] Speaker 2: people can give them. When I read about leadership, a
[13:36] Speaker 2: reminder of these two statements won by Abraham Lincoln. He
[13:39] Speaker 2: is a man who is a reluctant leader. He says,
[13:42] Speaker 2: concerning the position he had on slavery, he told his party,
[13:47] Speaker 2: his own political party, he says slavery is wrong. Black
[13:52] Speaker 2: people should be freed in America. Do you know that
[13:54] Speaker 2: most of his party members owned slaves, and they said
[13:59] Speaker 2: to him, you are crazy, We're gonna kill you. He
[14:04] Speaker 2: went against his own political body. Show me apologies who
[14:09] Speaker 2: do that today? Your conviction should be bigger than your
[14:15] Speaker 2: political platform. You know, think about this, all those who
[14:21] Speaker 2: in his party and government at the time, we remember
[14:26] Speaker 2: none of them. Write this down. Your convictions make you historical.
[14:35] Speaker 2: You are not remembered for what you compromised on. You
[14:41] Speaker 2: always remember what you stood for. If you compromise, I
[14:46] Speaker 2: guarantee you be forgotten easily. He said these words. I
[14:53] Speaker 2: have said nothing but for what I am willing to
[14:57] Speaker 2: live by, and if it be the pleasure of the
[15:00] Speaker 2: Almighty God to die by. End quote. The guy says, look,
[15:03] Speaker 2: I'm already dead when it comes to this conviction about slavery.
[15:09] Speaker 2: I always say that real leaders are dead people. That's
[15:12] Speaker 2: why you can't hurt them. You can't insult them, you
[15:15] Speaker 2: can't criticize them, you can't oppose them. Why they can't
[15:19] Speaker 2: feel they are dead. They've made a decision already. They
[15:25] Speaker 2: have an agreement on a contract with death. Some of
[15:31] Speaker 2: them actually invite death into their lives, like Mahama Gandhi,
[15:37] Speaker 2: who sat in that prison and said, I'll never eat
[15:40] Speaker 2: another mossel of food until the people of India are
[15:43] Speaker 2: free from the yoke of colonialism from Britain. He imposed
[15:48] Speaker 2: his own death. No wonder why they had to make
[15:52] Speaker 2: sure he didn't die on their hands. Yes, another one,
[15:59] Speaker 2: almost one hundred years later, read it says what It
[16:02] Speaker 2: is an ideal for which I hope to live for
[16:05] Speaker 2: and to achieve, but it needs me. It is an
[16:09] Speaker 2: ideal for which I am prepared to die. End quote.
[16:12] Speaker 2: Don't they soundly? They know each other, two different lifetimes,
[16:19] Speaker 2: separated by a years and years and decades, and yet
[16:23] Speaker 2: the same spirit. These are dead men. That's why you
[16:28] Speaker 2: couldn't kill them. I believe one of the greatest statements
[16:33] Speaker 2: of leadership is found in these words. If you save
[16:37] Speaker 2: your life, you will lose it. But if you're willing
[16:43] Speaker 2: to lose your life for a cause that is noble,
[16:47] Speaker 2: they will never erase you from the books of life.
[16:52] Speaker 2: You know, in this conference you got a choice whether
[16:54] Speaker 2: you will be remembered or forgotten. And most people are
[16:59] Speaker 2: so useless to their generation that they literally need a
[17:03] Speaker 2: tombstone in the earth to remind us that they used
[17:07] Speaker 2: to be here. I hope that this conference will destroy
[17:16] Speaker 2: your need for a tombstone. That you would etch your
[17:21] Speaker 2: name in the hearts of humans because of your willingness
[17:24] Speaker 2: to die for a cause to help humanity become what
[17:29] Speaker 2: they were intended to be, that you will never be forgotten. Leadership, therefore,
[17:34] Speaker 2: is not about finding something to live for It's about
[17:40] Speaker 2: finding something to die for. This is leadership, and this
[17:47] Speaker 2: is why all who claim to be true leaders suddenly attested.
[17:51] Speaker 2: And the test is not to destroy. The test is
[17:54] Speaker 2: to prove. The moment you decide to step on an
[18:00] Speaker 2: your gift, all hell breaks loose. The good news is
[18:05] Speaker 2: heaven also breaks loose at the same time. Go ahead
[18:09] Speaker 2: and clap o the clap. When you find a cause
[18:13] Speaker 2: that is worthy of self sacrifice, you've become the beginning
[18:18] Speaker 2: of a leader. Write this statement down. True leadership is
[18:22] Speaker 2: born when you discover the problem in life you were
[18:25] Speaker 2: born to solve. I am of the deep conviction that
[18:30] Speaker 2: every human came to Earth to solve a problem. Most
[18:36] Speaker 2: people don't ever find the problem, so they basically get
[18:40] Speaker 2: a job. The fourth statement on this snider is very important.
[18:52] Speaker 2: True leadership is a personal commitment to sacrifice yourself for
[19:00] Speaker 2: a public cause. This is very important. Tru leadership is
[19:06] Speaker 2: what a willingness to personally sacrifice for a public cause.
[19:17] Speaker 2: Some of the things I've been through in this country,
[19:20] Speaker 2: what they did to me personally, I was willing to
[19:23] Speaker 2: bear it. You think about mister Nelson Mandela, who I
[19:30] Speaker 2: will refer to a lot tonight This man had a
[19:33] Speaker 2: wife and children and decided he would give up his
[19:39] Speaker 2: family for twenty seven years, a personal sacrifice for a
[19:49] Speaker 2: public cause. Martin Luther King Junior had a wife and children.
[20:01] Speaker 2: I spoke to his daughter many times, Bernice, and she
[20:04] Speaker 2: would say to me, I don't know my father. I
[20:07] Speaker 2: don't know him, she says. I never saw him. I
[20:10] Speaker 2: saw him on TV as a child. I saw him
[20:13] Speaker 2: leading all these people with hoses and dogs. But he
[20:16] Speaker 2: never was my daddy. It was a personal sacrifice for
[20:20] Speaker 2: a public cause. And that's why we can't forget him.
[20:24] Speaker 2: Your problem is you are so protective of your personal protection.
[20:29] Speaker 2: You have no public contribution. This is leadership. You cannot
[20:40] Speaker 2: change the world and have a normal life. I know
[20:45] Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. I hardly sleep in my home.
[20:50] Speaker 2: I was coming in the days I spent at home
[20:52] Speaker 2: this year, and I'm embarrassed. But it's the public passion
[21:01] Speaker 2: that demands the private sacrifice, and that's why most people
[21:09] Speaker 2: prefer to be followers. Followers can have a nine to
[21:14] Speaker 2: five job and watch TV from six o'clock, and we
[21:22] Speaker 2: forget them, and we put tombstones where we lay their
[21:26] Speaker 2: bodies to remind us that they used to be here.
[21:31] Speaker 2: What a tragedy I put it to you when I
[21:36] Speaker 2: think of this woman, mother Teresa, a simple teacher of
[21:41] Speaker 2: high school in India, decided I'm going to click my
[21:45] Speaker 2: job and she used her last paycheck to buy food
[21:51] Speaker 2: from the street vendors to distribute to the beggars and
[21:56] Speaker 2: the lepers on the street. Would you use use your
[22:00] Speaker 2: last paycheck for other people? Personal sacrifice for a public cause?
[22:11] Speaker 2: Write this now. True leaders do not seek followers. True
[22:15] Speaker 2: leaders attract followers. Why because followers are attracted to the
[22:23] Speaker 2: person's gift. They are attracted to the person's passion that
[22:27] Speaker 2: makes them attractive, and that's what makes the leader the leader.
[22:32] Speaker 2: People are attracted to their gift. It's like a fruit tree.
[22:40] Speaker 2: A fruit tree never brings its fruit to you because
[22:45] Speaker 2: its fruit is its gift. It attracts you. And this
[22:50] Speaker 2: is why attraction inspires people to submit their energy and
[22:56] Speaker 2: their time and their resources to your public cause. Can
[23:03] Speaker 2: I just warn you that when people start gathering around you,
[23:07] Speaker 2: never believe it's about you. See the problem begins when
[23:12] Speaker 2: you think it's all about you, that you are the leader.
[23:16] Speaker 2: Now you have something that they want. And this is
[23:24] Speaker 2: why most of the worldly. Celebrated people. Famous people always
[23:30] Speaker 2: collapse under the weight of what they call fans because
[23:38] Speaker 2: they think people come to them. I know why you here.
[23:45] Speaker 2: You came here to this country, not because of me
[23:48] Speaker 2: as a person. I know my gift and it doesn't
[23:56] Speaker 2: belong to me. Can I suggest it this way? A
[24:02] Speaker 2: fruit tree never eats his own fruit because the fruit
[24:10] Speaker 2: is never for the tree. It's really not about you.
[24:16] Speaker 2: And the mystery is when you go to a fruit tree,
[24:19] Speaker 2: you ignore the leaves, ignore the branches, You never look
[24:24] Speaker 2: at the bark. You don't care how big the tree is.
[24:29] Speaker 2: You have one focus. Tell your friends calm down, this
[24:36] Speaker 2: is not about you, So give them the fruit. Clap
[24:39] Speaker 2: your hands right there. This is the leadership is about service.
[24:42] Speaker 2: It's about serving that fruit to the world. And this
[24:46] Speaker 2: is why true leaders don't have ego problems. They have
[24:50] Speaker 2: no pride problems. Why because they know it's not about them.
[24:54] Speaker 2: I like what Jesus said, the great leader. He said,
[24:59] Speaker 2: I didn't come to be served, but to serve myself
[25:08] Speaker 2: a ransom to many. He knew what made him famous,
[25:15] Speaker 2: not his personality. That's why today we have no idea
[25:20] Speaker 2: about his personality. Have you ever thought about it. We
[25:23] Speaker 2: don't know what kind of man he was. We have
[25:27] Speaker 2: no photographs of him. No one knows how he looks, nobody,
[25:32] Speaker 2: and yet he's in people's minds every day. What picture
[25:36] Speaker 2: do you see. You don't see a photograph of a person.
[25:39] Speaker 2: You see his character, You see his fruit, his works.
[25:45] Speaker 2: He called it. Great leaders never need tombstones. Reminds you
[25:56] Speaker 2: of Moses. Huh. We have no idea he's buried, don't
[26:03] Speaker 2: know how he died, and we assume God killed him.
[26:09] Speaker 2: The Bible simply said he was no more and that
[26:11] Speaker 2: means God killed him. But you know, they said in
[26:13] Speaker 2: a nice way. And the reason why God did that
[26:16] Speaker 2: is because he wanted to prove that your life is
[26:20] Speaker 2: bigger than your cemetery resting place. Live in a way
[26:30] Speaker 2: that it doesn't matter where they bury you. Let your
[26:38] Speaker 2: life be bigger than your grave. And that happens when
[26:43] Speaker 2: you find your gifts and you serve it to the world.
[26:46] Speaker 2: Write this down. True leadership is therefore not measured by
[26:50] Speaker 2: how many people serve you, but by how many people
[26:55] Speaker 2: you serve. The more people you serve, the less you
[27:01] Speaker 2: will be forgotten of the people on the planet Earth.
[27:11] Speaker 2: Focus on self preservation looking over their own selves. You
[27:18] Speaker 2: spend your life living for people you will never die.
[27:27] Speaker 2: This is true leadership. I want to therefore say to
[27:31] Speaker 2: you that leadership really is not just finding a job.
[27:37] Speaker 2: Let me give you a list of what I call
[27:39] Speaker 2: the kind of leader we need in this century. First,
[27:41] Speaker 2: we need leaders who can plan. Secondly, leaders who can
[27:46] Speaker 2: make tough decisions. Thirdly, leaders who can inspire and motivate
[27:51] Speaker 2: people instead of manipulating them. Fourthly, we need leaders who
[27:56] Speaker 2: can respond to change, flexible. And then we need leaders
[28:05] Speaker 2: with honorable character. And I put it at the bottom
[28:09] Speaker 2: because that's what we want to focus on in the
[28:11] Speaker 2: next few moments. Character. True leadership is not a right.
[28:18] Speaker 2: They say it's a privilege. People don't have to follow you.
[28:23] Speaker 2: And I always make a point here, write this down.
[28:26] Speaker 2: Trust is the currency of leadership in the economy of
[28:31] Speaker 2: human influence. Trust is the currency. You cannot lead people
[28:39] Speaker 2: who don't trust you. So the problem is where do
[28:45] Speaker 2: you get trust from? And my conclusion is trust is
[28:50] Speaker 2: a product of character. A person of character can be
[28:57] Speaker 2: trusted even in their absence. That woman downtown in my country,
[29:09] Speaker 2: we are not there. We are on a different island tonight.
[29:13] Speaker 2: But I can tell you exactly what she's doing in
[29:16] Speaker 2: her absence, why she is character. She can be trusted
[29:27] Speaker 2: in a hurricane to still be there. She can be
[29:31] Speaker 2: trusted in the heat wave at one hundred degrees fahrenheit.
[29:35] Speaker 2: She can be trusted when the rain comes like acid,
[29:40] Speaker 2: she just sits there. I wonder what makes you collapse
[29:49] Speaker 2: temptations in the dark? What do you do when everyone
[29:56] Speaker 2: is sleeping? What would you do if no one would
[30:01] Speaker 2: ever find out? What do you do when no one
[30:07] Speaker 2: is watching? These are questions of character. Character is displayed
[30:21] Speaker 2: in public, but test it in secret. And if you
[30:36] Speaker 2: want to be trusted, you have to pursue with all
[30:42] Speaker 2: your passion. The direction of character has been my life's goal.
[30:54] Speaker 2: I live right so you can trust me. Because trust
[30:58] Speaker 2: is not a gift. God doesn't give you trust. There's
[31:06] Speaker 2: no gift of the spirit called trust. Trust is earned
[31:12] Speaker 2: by consistency. What did I say? Write that down place?
[31:20] Speaker 2: Because you see the problem with leaders today is they
[31:23] Speaker 2: change every day, not only day. They change a few
[31:28] Speaker 2: times in the day. Trust. Character is the source of trust,
[31:40] Speaker 2: and so if we can focus on trust, we can
[31:42] Speaker 2: understand how leaders can fulfill their roles quickly. Let me
[31:45] Speaker 2: give you the roles of a leader real quick. Leaders
[31:48] Speaker 2: first of all, are supposed to provide vision for people,
[31:54] Speaker 2: and then they transferred that vision to the people. They
[31:56] Speaker 2: supposed to build a team to carry the vision out.
[31:59] Speaker 2: They suppose to empower that team and trust them with responsibility.
[32:03] Speaker 2: They supposed to direct the team toward results. They supposed
[32:06] Speaker 2: to manage priorities, which is very important. And then leaders
[32:10] Speaker 2: must possess and live by values, which means that they
[32:16] Speaker 2: must cultivate a high standard of moral ethics. I don't
[32:23] Speaker 2: trust a visionary who has no values. Your big vision
[32:29] Speaker 2: doesn't impress me because I don't know who you're sleeping
[32:31] Speaker 2: with in the night. Values are more important than vision,
[32:39] Speaker 2: Principles more important than power. And sometimes we pursue the
[32:46] Speaker 2: academics of leadership and not the morals of leadership. We
[32:53] Speaker 2: become experts with clay feet skill people with no foundation.
[33:03] Speaker 2: This is dangerous and that's what we have today. Let
[33:11] Speaker 2: me give you quickly the twelve keys of leadership. You
[33:13] Speaker 2: want to become a leader, Take a photograph of this
[33:15] Speaker 2: and then I'll charge you later. The twelve keys to
[33:19] Speaker 2: becoming effective leader. Number one, what is it? Purpose? Number
[33:23] Speaker 2: two passion number three, Compassion number four, vision number five,
[33:28] Speaker 2: principles number six, trust number seven, competence number eight, inspiration
[33:33] Speaker 2: number nine, Priority number ten, moral conviction number eleven, dedication
[33:39] Speaker 2: to a cause. A number ten character, and I put
[33:43] Speaker 2: it on the bottom because it is the foundation of
[33:46] Speaker 2: the whole building. Leadership is vital, the most powerful four
[34:03] Speaker 2: of a leader his character. It's a force. It has
[34:15] Speaker 2: its own energy. Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had
[34:21] Speaker 2: two weeks to talk to you about this. I really
[34:23] Speaker 2: wish I did, because please read the book. I spent
[34:26] Speaker 2: twelve years with that book when I realized that character,
[34:31] Speaker 2: a poisoner character don't have to say a word. They
[34:37] Speaker 2: can walk into a room and change the atmosphere by
[34:41] Speaker 2: their physical presence. There's such a force. Write this down, please.
[34:48] Speaker 2: Number two. Character protects the leader. It protects the leader's life,
[34:56] Speaker 2: his leadership, and his legacy. Character protects the leader's life.
[35:03] Speaker 2: It protects the leader's leadership and protects the leader's legacy.
[35:10] Speaker 2: When mister Bill Clinton die, what will you remember that
[35:16] Speaker 2: a young lady's name still comes back? His legacy was canceled.
[35:32] Speaker 2: Who's more famous, Delilah or Sampson? You answer the question.
[35:41] Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, your character is all you got, and
[35:50] Speaker 2: I hope that this summit will put so much fear
[35:55] Speaker 2: in you that you will never again consider the possibility
[36:01] Speaker 2: of selling your character for any price. Clap Man, you
[36:09] Speaker 2: make me nervous. Sound like YO want to make deals
[36:12] Speaker 2: with your character. I would rather walk away from everything
[36:17] Speaker 2: and keep my character. I'd rather lose all of your
[36:21] Speaker 2: friendships and keep God's love with me. Don't sell your character.
[36:33] Speaker 2: Write this down, please. Character is the manifestation that shapes
[36:44] Speaker 2: who you will become. Your character controls your development. It
[36:53] Speaker 2: tells you what you will become. You can actually control
[36:57] Speaker 2: what you will become. By protecting your character. With our character,
[37:06] Speaker 2: every other aspect of leadership is at risk. You know
[37:10] Speaker 2: that you've seen the Fli's fall. You've seen the big
[37:15] Speaker 2: heavy players collapse. Somehow we think we are so smart
[37:23] Speaker 2: it will never happen to us. I've come to make
[37:27] Speaker 2: an announcement. It will if you tamper with your character.
[37:39] Speaker 2: Character extends the longevity of a leader. Write it down
[37:45] Speaker 2: if you want to make it to the end. It's
[37:46] Speaker 2: not difficult. Just decide in this session that you will
[37:52] Speaker 2: live the rest of your life protecting the integrity of
[37:57] Speaker 2: your character. I won't to leave you without instruction. Before
[38:02] Speaker 2: we close, I'll show you what character is so you
[38:05] Speaker 2: can know exactly what to do with it. But it
[38:08] Speaker 2: will determine your longevity. In my circles that I move in,
[38:14] Speaker 2: which is a few circles, I meet people in politics,
[38:17] Speaker 2: in business, and religion, in all kinds of corporate settings,
[38:21] Speaker 2: and I could almost am the ones who won't make it.
[38:27] Speaker 2: I meet some powerful preachers, and after two minutes for them,
[38:30] Speaker 2: I go This one is on his way down, and
[38:33] Speaker 2: everybody's clapping while I'm weeping, because they confuse gift with character.
[38:43] Speaker 2: Your gift is only as safe as your character. Your
[38:50] Speaker 2: gift can never keep you. How many gifted people today
[38:58] Speaker 2: are walking the street because they violated their character. Ladies
[39:05] Speaker 2: and gentlemen, I want to give you what I call
[39:09] Speaker 2: the moral force of character. Character is in the long run, rather,
[39:17] Speaker 2: it is the decisive factor in the life of an
[39:20] Speaker 2: individual and also of a nation alike. Roosevelt said that
[39:29] Speaker 2: he's the president of a country. Maybe we need more
[39:32] Speaker 2: presidents to learn that statement. He says, character in the
[39:38] Speaker 2: long run is the decisive factor in the life of
[39:43] Speaker 2: an individual and of nations alike. I like this one.
[39:49] Speaker 2: This is Miles Monroe. Here's what he says. A leader's
[39:54] Speaker 2: gift is only as safe as the character that contains it.
[40:01] Speaker 2: Your character exists to hold your gift. It is only
[40:09] Speaker 2: as safe as your character. What you are now could
[40:14] Speaker 2: be destroyed next week. Another one I thought was interesting,
[40:25] Speaker 2: and you'll find us in a new book. I talk
[40:27] Speaker 2: about this. A leader's values are personal, but they are
[40:32] Speaker 2: never private. I repeat, as a leader, your values are personal,
[40:41] Speaker 2: but they're never private. In leadership, there's no distinction between
[40:46] Speaker 2: your personal life and your public life. We got this
[40:51] Speaker 2: idea somehow. It exists in our leadership psyche that what
[40:56] Speaker 2: I do privately is no one's business. Everybody's business. The
[41:05] Speaker 2: minute you spend my tax money, your private life is
[41:09] Speaker 2: my business. Oh boy, you know you hear stories of
[41:20] Speaker 2: politicians going on vacation or going to a seminar somewhere
[41:24] Speaker 2: and they spend fifty thousand dollars for a weekend and
[41:28] Speaker 2: now they're in jail. But it was a private seminar.
[41:42] Speaker 2: Your values are personal, but they're not private. I keep
[41:50] Speaker 2: myself privately clean to protect my public life. How about you,
[42:00] Speaker 2: Because your private life can cancel your public life. What
[42:11] Speaker 2: are you doing right now that we don't know about
[42:14] Speaker 2: that can destroy your future. You came to this conference
[42:23] Speaker 2: to cancel that behavior because you are too important to
[42:31] Speaker 2: us to lose you. The gift you have is so
[42:37] Speaker 2: vital that the world will be robbed by your private foolishness.
[42:44] Speaker 2: I need you to be faithful. I need that because
[42:49] Speaker 2: you are my friend. Everywhere I go, I carry all
[42:57] Speaker 2: of you with me everywhere I go, even in the dark.
[43:03] Speaker 2: I carry you with me because I say they trust me.
[43:10] Speaker 2: Live with people's trust on your head. That's all you get. Charisma.
[43:26] Speaker 2: It's a dangerous thing. Write this down. Please. People become
[43:30] Speaker 2: leaders when they make the decision not to sacrifice their
[43:35] Speaker 2: principles on the altar of convenience or compromise. That's when
[43:42] Speaker 2: a leader is born. A leader is born when somebody
[43:46] Speaker 2: captures a conviction that they refuse to compromise. That's when
[43:51] Speaker 2: leadership is born. In other words, the greatest leader of
[43:59] Speaker 2: all time said these words, what good will it be
[44:04] Speaker 2: for a man if he gains the whole world and
[44:12] Speaker 2: yet forfeits his soul? And then he asked a question,
[44:19] Speaker 2: what would you give in exchange for what? You could
[44:23] Speaker 2: become with all that's ahead of you. You got another
[44:28] Speaker 2: twenty years of greatness. It could be canceled in twenty
[44:31] Speaker 2: seconds by a bad decision in the present. I live
[44:37] Speaker 2: in the present to protect the future. I make decisions
[44:43] Speaker 2: consciously with the future constantly on my mind. I told
[44:47] Speaker 2: the young people in our organization and our ministry for
[44:51] Speaker 2: the last five or sixty I said, look, God always
[44:54] Speaker 2: gives you instructions, and if you obey them, you are
[45:01] Speaker 2: wise because all the laws of God are given to
[45:07] Speaker 2: help you enjoy your memories. Please buy the CD just
[45:13] Speaker 2: for that statement. Because you don't understand what I just said.
[45:16] Speaker 2: The laws of God are given to protect your memories.
[45:23] Speaker 2: We put another way. Before you make any decision, ask
[45:28] Speaker 2: this simple question, will I enjoy remembering this? It's a
[45:38] Speaker 2: tough question. You know, this woman ain't your wife. She's
[45:45] Speaker 2: been calling you for the last five months, and you
[45:53] Speaker 2: got to the point where your weakness has grab a
[45:58] Speaker 2: whole of your sanity and you about to call her back.
[46:06] Speaker 2: And the auditor in your mind calls you first on
[46:13] Speaker 2: the phone of life and say will you enjoy remembering this?
[46:20] Speaker 2: You see there people sitting right next to you who
[46:23] Speaker 2: got memories they wish they could forget, and it happened
[46:27] Speaker 2: fifty years ago. If you do right, you'd enjoy your memories.
[46:42] Speaker 2: I was a vision that I married my wife and
[46:44] Speaker 2: so was she. Boy, what a wonderful memory, What a memory?
[46:53] Speaker 2: Not Mann in his room got that joy made some
[46:58] Speaker 2: dumb decisions. Don't add to the ones you hate to remember.
[47:09] Speaker 2: Thank God for forgiveness. You know, the Bible is an
[47:15] Speaker 2: interesting book. The Bible never says that you will forget them.
[47:23] Speaker 2: It says what God will forget them. It didn't say
[47:26] Speaker 2: you you gotta live with that. God says, I said,
[47:30] Speaker 2: dumb decision you made. You live with that. I'll forget
[47:33] Speaker 2: them and see your forgetfulness. But you got your own ocean.
[47:39] Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor. If you won't enjoy it, don't do it.
[47:43] Speaker 2: Say it again. If you won't enjoy remembering it, don't
[47:47] Speaker 2: do it. Look them in the eye, just in case
[47:50] Speaker 2: they think about doing something next week. Come on, tell them.
[47:52] Speaker 2: If you don't remember, don't even think about it. He says,
[48:05] Speaker 2: you got to enjoy your memories if you live right.
[48:09] Speaker 2: Is this good stuff? Yeah? I want to give you
[48:19] Speaker 2: them some things about character and write this down. Character
[48:23] Speaker 2: prevents the leader from hurting those around him. Write that
[48:28] Speaker 2: down somewhere, repeat that in a speech. Character does what
[48:33] Speaker 2: prevents a leader from hurting those around him? Wow, oh,
[48:42] Speaker 2: what a beautiful thing. If Tiger Woods had only thought,
[48:46] Speaker 2: my personal decision is not private, he heard millions of people,
[48:55] Speaker 2: including me. Sure he did. I am so proud of
[49:01] Speaker 2: this young man. Character is about protecting the people who
[49:14] Speaker 2: trust you. Number two. Leaders influence the mindset of the followers,
[49:24] Speaker 2: and therefore leaders influence the characteristics of the followers. The
[49:32] Speaker 2: last one is most important. Leaders influence the more moralogy
[49:36] Speaker 2: of the followers. Therefore, leaders influence the destiny of the followers.
[49:41] Speaker 2: You can destroy people's destiny by your personal character. Default,
[49:50] Speaker 2: we must have leaders who protect the people by their character.
[50:00] Speaker 2: It's good to talk about this in a meeting like this,
[50:02] Speaker 2: in a summit like this, because you are people who
[50:05] Speaker 2: believe the same thing. So you gotta support system here
[50:10] Speaker 2: and I hope you come back every year thinking I'm
[50:13] Speaker 2: going with my friends. We are a different breeder. Leaders.
[50:16] Speaker 2: We are the ones who set new standards. We gotta
[50:19] Speaker 2: we found some people who believe you can live right
[50:22] Speaker 2: and still become a billionaire. Clap loud leaders influence the
[50:34] Speaker 2: destiny of followers. You know, the greatest leader ever lived
[50:38] Speaker 2: said these words. If the blind lead the blind, they
[50:44] Speaker 2: don't go in different ditches. They both fall into the ditch.
[50:56] Speaker 2: Can I suggest to you you are going exactly where
[50:59] Speaker 2: your leader is going. You know some people ask me
[51:03] Speaker 2: the strangest questions. Often they say, doctor Monroe, I know
[51:07] Speaker 2: my past ain't living right. But he's a good man,
[51:10] Speaker 2: and he's a good preacher. What should I do? Leave
[51:13] Speaker 2: the church? Yeah, but he's my bishop, and he is
[51:20] Speaker 2: my daddy's bishop. No wonder why your daddy's dead. You
[51:29] Speaker 2: don't cover for nobody if the blind lead you same destination.
[51:40] Speaker 2: There are some people who I could call a thousand names,
[51:44] Speaker 2: who are associated with and then I discovered something about
[51:47] Speaker 2: their character. I confront them. I always do. I confront
[51:50] Speaker 2: them privately, and they refuse to change. I tell him
[51:55] Speaker 2: I will never come back here again. Sometime you notice
[51:59] Speaker 2: I don't go to anymore. It's because of a character discovery,
[52:10] Speaker 2: because I am not a ditch dweller. Tell your neighbor
[52:16] Speaker 2: I'm not a dish dweller either. I don't dwell in ditches.
[52:20] Speaker 2: You're on your way to a ditch. You go by yourself, sir,
[52:31] Speaker 2: Your destiny is tied to people's character. Write this down.
[52:36] Speaker 2: Why character matters to you? I want to this is
[52:38] Speaker 2: the conclusion of this segment. Then I'm going to close
[52:41] Speaker 2: a little bit on morality. But let's write this down.
[52:43] Speaker 2: Why character matters? Number one? Why does character matter? I
[52:47] Speaker 2: want everyone to get this CD please. Matter of fact,
[52:49] Speaker 2: these two CDs are the most important cities you love
[52:52] Speaker 2: in your life for a while, the one you heard
[52:54] Speaker 2: just now about this one thing? What's powerful? Doc? Thank
[52:58] Speaker 2: you so much? Oh you got me give another hand?
[53:04] Speaker 2: That's awesome stuff. Yeah, write this down? Please? Why does
[53:11] Speaker 2: character matter to you? This is number one question. Here's
[53:15] Speaker 2: the answer. It matters to you because, first of all,
[53:19] Speaker 2: character establishes and strengthens your inner life so that you
[53:24] Speaker 2: are a person of integrity and honor. Number two, Why
[53:29] Speaker 2: does it matter to you? Because it enables you to
[53:32] Speaker 2: effectively fulfill your purpose and potential. Why does character matter
[53:37] Speaker 2: to you? Number three? Because it protects your leadership and
[53:41] Speaker 2: your vision. It prevents you from canceling your vision and
[53:47] Speaker 2: leadership permanently and enabling you to leave a legacy for
[53:51] Speaker 2: your own generation and for your generations. Character lives beyond you,
[53:58] Speaker 2: and that's why it is import to you. It is
[54:01] Speaker 2: important to you because it protects you and generations. When
[54:10] Speaker 2: my wife had my son and the doctor gave me
[54:13] Speaker 2: the baby to hold, I held this little boy in
[54:16] Speaker 2: my hand, and I'll never forget, you know. My wife
[54:19] Speaker 2: and I talked about what we're gonna name our son.
[54:22] Speaker 2: He's the one you saw us standing next to me today,
[54:25] Speaker 2: a little handsome fellow. And I said, I'm gonna give
[54:28] Speaker 2: him my name. But I had to think it through
[54:32] Speaker 2: for a minute because I knew if I ever gave
[54:35] Speaker 2: my son my name, it will force me to live right.
[54:42] Speaker 2: Otherwise he'll be cursed forever. I want my son to
[54:54] Speaker 2: enjoy being named Miles. I want him to go into
[55:01] Speaker 2: the bank after I die and they say to him, oh,
[55:04] Speaker 2: you the other Miles. Your father's name was good. The
[55:11] Speaker 2: only way I can do that is with my character,
[55:16] Speaker 2: because a good name is better than silver and gold
[55:28] Speaker 2: protect generations. Second question, why is character important to the world?
[55:34] Speaker 2: First to you, but why is it important to the
[55:36] Speaker 2: people around you? Number one, because it is the key
[55:41] Speaker 2: to inspirational leadership. People need the encouragement and the influence
[55:47] Speaker 2: of genuine leaders. If they are to fulfill their own
[55:50] Speaker 2: purpose and live peacefully and productive lives, they need people
[55:55] Speaker 2: with character around them to help them do that. Secondly,
[55:59] Speaker 2: it is safeguarding the well being of those who are
[56:03] Speaker 2: under the authority of leaders or are otherwise affected by
[56:07] Speaker 2: leaders' actions and influence. That's why it's important to the world.
[56:12] Speaker 2: And thirdly, why is character important to the world around you?
[56:15] Speaker 2: Because it enables leaders to build and maintain a healthy
[56:20] Speaker 2: communication of communities around them while addressing critical problems with
[56:25] Speaker 2: ethics and integrity. You know, it's very difficult for you
[56:28] Speaker 2: to talk about stuff that you ain't doing. Now, this
[56:34] Speaker 2: is where we get into the moral force of leadership.
[56:37] Speaker 2: The moral force of leadership is character. Because character is
[56:41] Speaker 2: the only thing that gives weight to your words. You
[56:46] Speaker 2: always have no weight. The weight of your words is
[56:53] Speaker 2: in your character, not your volume. The weight of your
[57:01] Speaker 2: words is in your character, not in the size of
[57:06] Speaker 2: the words you use. The weight of your words are
[57:14] Speaker 2: in your character, not in the sophisticated sentences that you
[57:18] Speaker 2: can complicatedly put together. How many times have you sapped
[57:25] Speaker 2: listening to a speaker and every word they spoke you're
[57:28] Speaker 2: canceled in your mind because you know too much about them.
[57:36] Speaker 2: I wonder if people are canceling your words. I live
[57:45] Speaker 2: my life to make my words heavy. Write that down.
[57:52] Speaker 2: Live your life in such a way that every word
[57:55] Speaker 2: is heavy. But I will give you even a better suggestion,
[58:00] Speaker 2: where if your life is such a way that your
[58:02] Speaker 2: silence is heavier than your words. A person of character
[58:15] Speaker 2: has a heavy silence. It's a moral force. Never give
[58:32] Speaker 2: an excuse for not trying to be perfect. I'm gonna
[58:39] Speaker 2: say it again. Never give an excuse for not trying
[58:43] Speaker 2: to be perfect. I didn't say you perfect, but never
[58:52] Speaker 2: give an excuse for not trying to be Let your
[58:56] Speaker 2: words be heavy by your character. Oh my heart is
[59:04] Speaker 2: so heavy with this. I look at this picture. I
[59:06] Speaker 2: love this picture. Martin Luther King Junior, tru heavy words.
[59:17] Speaker 2: Have you ever heard anywhere in history where people took
[59:21] Speaker 2: a day to celebrate a man's speech. Let me say
[59:28] Speaker 2: it again, this is unheard of in our times. All
[59:33] Speaker 2: over the world. Two months ago, the whole world celebrate
[59:37] Speaker 2: a man's speech.
[59:44] Speaker 3: There are millions of books on the shelves.
[59:46] Speaker 2: And no one celebrates them. It wasn't his words, you see,
[59:56] Speaker 2: all of us can say I have a dream, but
[59:58] Speaker 2: we only remember one person who said it because his
[1:00:03] Speaker 2: character made the words heavy. How heavy are your words?
[1:00:13] Speaker 2: I've heard preachers, preacher, I know that, get this. I'm
[1:00:16] Speaker 2: sitting to turn it off. Why I know you, man,
[1:00:25] Speaker 2: and you got people shouting amen after you. They are
[1:00:27] Speaker 2: so stupid. Some of them even know you and still
[1:00:30] Speaker 2: saying amen. I mean, I'm like everybody's blind. Jesus said,
[1:00:34] Speaker 2: they both go into the ditch. And really, I'm not
[1:00:41] Speaker 2: taking this lightly. This is serious. Your weight of your
[1:00:44] Speaker 2: words is your character. Don't prepare a sermon, prepare your life,
[1:00:57] Speaker 2: because your sermon is only as good as the life
[1:01:00] Speaker 2: that backs it up. Your character gives your content weight.
[1:01:09] Speaker 2: This is this is what it's about. Man. It's not
[1:01:14] Speaker 2: about getting applause because people can clap from a musician
[1:01:19] Speaker 2: or a magician. You go to a circus, you clap
[1:01:26] Speaker 2: for a clown. Don't look now, but there's a wonder
[1:01:30] Speaker 2: behind you. Everybody's a character. It's the moral force. Write
[1:01:39] Speaker 2: this down. Please. To educate a man in the mind
[1:01:44] Speaker 2: and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
[1:01:50] Speaker 2: Write that one down, doc. When I read it. By
[1:01:53] Speaker 2: the way, this is my new book. I had to
[1:01:55] Speaker 2: put it in. This is so powerful. To educate a
[1:01:59] Speaker 2: man mind but not his morals makes him a menace
[1:02:04] Speaker 2: to society. That's why our crime rates are so high.
[1:02:11] Speaker 2: We're not educating people morally. We tell them to go
[1:02:14] Speaker 2: to school and get an education, but they don't get
[1:02:16] Speaker 2: the right education. We tell them how to make money,
[1:02:21] Speaker 2: but not how to spend it. We tell him how
[1:02:27] Speaker 2: to make friends, but know how to make the right ones.
[1:02:32] Speaker 2: The moral force of leadership. Write this down pleas very important.
[1:02:36] Speaker 2: A people who values its privilege above its principles soon
[1:02:43] Speaker 2: loses both. I repeat, a people who values their privileges
[1:02:53] Speaker 2: above their principles will soon lose both of them. And
[1:02:59] Speaker 2: we've seen it happen, and it's happening again. As a
[1:03:03] Speaker 2: matter of fact, I think those from the United States
[1:03:07] Speaker 2: you are in danger because it seemed like your social compass,
[1:03:18] Speaker 2: your moral compass is going off the scale where you
[1:03:23] Speaker 2: are so proud of your privilege and your right to
[1:03:26] Speaker 2: be certain things, you don't care about the principle behind it.
[1:03:32] Speaker 2: I've come to the conclusion that rights are not always right,
[1:03:40] Speaker 2: and one of the greatest witnesses of democracy is rights.
[1:03:49] Speaker 2: Not all rights are right. You have a right to
[1:03:55] Speaker 2: tell somebody a piece of your mind. But is it
[1:03:59] Speaker 2: right to tell them? You have a right to sleep
[1:04:08] Speaker 2: it who you want to. But is it right to
[1:04:11] Speaker 2: sleep it who you want to? Not all rights are right.
[1:04:26] Speaker 2: A person of character doesn't just pursue their rights. They
[1:04:32] Speaker 2: pursue what's right, and sometimes it's right goes against the rights.
[1:04:40] Speaker 2: And I say to all politicians in this room, you
[1:04:43] Speaker 2: be careful of what rights you protect, because your rights
[1:04:48] Speaker 2: that you protect may be wrong. Yes, sir, there is
[1:04:58] Speaker 2: a built in moral monitor the creative put in every
[1:05:03] Speaker 2: human being where they know what's wrong. Never ignore your
[1:05:12] Speaker 2: moral compass. You never win. Whatever you compromise, the gain
[1:05:21] Speaker 2: you will lose. And the story goes on. Doesn't it
[1:05:28] Speaker 2: write this one down? If an individual has strong values,
[1:05:34] Speaker 2: he doesn't need a lot of external laws or rules
[1:05:40] Speaker 2: to govern his life. The stronger your values, the less
[1:05:47] Speaker 2: laws you need. You can tell when a country is dying.
[1:05:53] Speaker 2: The law books continue to grow. The more laws you
[1:06:01] Speaker 2: create is a sign that the country is disintegrating morally.
[1:06:10] Speaker 2: They made a law some years ago that a child
[1:06:16] Speaker 2: could take their parents to court. Now that's a sign
[1:06:20] Speaker 2: that that that society is about dead. When the children
[1:06:27] Speaker 2: can take their parents before a judge. It's over and
[1:06:33] Speaker 2: you put a law in the book. When the government
[1:06:39] Speaker 2: becomes the custodian of your own children and tell you
[1:06:44] Speaker 2: how to correct them, your society is dying. Your personal
[1:06:52] Speaker 2: values have gone. But I get hope. You know, the
[1:07:01] Speaker 2: Global Leadership Summit is producing leaders over the last twenty
[1:07:05] Speaker 2: years who are changing their countries. Man. They are bringing
[1:07:10] Speaker 2: back moral conscience into the social conversation. They are bringing
[1:07:14] Speaker 2: back moral sensitivity back to the political arena. They're bringing
[1:07:18] Speaker 2: it back to the religious arena, bringing it back to business.
[1:07:21] Speaker 2: I want you to leave here with such a power
[1:07:25] Speaker 2: that your speech will be less and your impact will
[1:07:28] Speaker 2: be more. What a force. And so I thought I
[1:07:38] Speaker 2: would close on this woman again. What makes this woman
[1:07:44] Speaker 2: the perfect example of character? Here's why. Because the word
[1:07:48] Speaker 2: character actually is defined in the simplistic term as fixed.
[1:07:54] Speaker 2: It means fixed. It also means predictable. When I did
[1:07:59] Speaker 2: the research on this for this book, which is over
[1:08:02] Speaker 2: twelve years ago, I began researching this, I discovered that
[1:08:06] Speaker 2: character is very simple. It simply means statue. I used
[1:08:12] Speaker 2: to wonder why God caused his word statutes same word.
[1:08:17] Speaker 2: Why because they don't change the words actually means set. Now,
[1:08:28] Speaker 2: this is the word that the contractors use. You know,
[1:08:31] Speaker 2: the masons use this when you have red cement. You know,
[1:08:33] Speaker 2: you kind of work it and then you let it set.
[1:08:38] Speaker 2: Set means it's over, it's dry. You can't play with
[1:08:44] Speaker 2: it anymore. That's the word use for character. Set. Let
[1:08:49] Speaker 2: me ask you, are you dry yet? Are you dry
[1:08:56] Speaker 2: in the most important areas of your life? No one
[1:09:01] Speaker 2: can play with you anymore? Fixed statue. Character also means image.
[1:09:20] Speaker 2: Amazing word image same a statue, an image set. A
[1:09:29] Speaker 2: person with character is fixed. Therefore, character, simply put, is
[1:09:37] Speaker 2: the quality which is unchanging. That's what it means. You
[1:09:41] Speaker 2: are not for sale. Yeah, no one can play with
[1:09:47] Speaker 2: you anymore. You're dry? Are you dry? When it comes
[1:09:57] Speaker 2: to money? Are you fixed? What we heard tonight was
[1:10:05] Speaker 2: so important about obeying God. It means that you are
[1:10:09] Speaker 2: so fixed on God's word you don't compromise it for nothing,
[1:10:14] Speaker 2: including your best friends. You fixed? I like number two
[1:10:24] Speaker 2: in my book. I talk about this a lot. Everybody
[1:10:26] Speaker 2: say predictable. The word character mean is predictable. So I
[1:10:34] Speaker 2: can talk about the woman downtown and I can say this,
[1:10:38] Speaker 2: she's sitting on a chair with a scepter in her hand,
[1:10:43] Speaker 2: and she's holding a law book. She's smiling, and she's
[1:10:47] Speaker 2: wearing a robe, and she's sitting down on a throne.
[1:10:52] Speaker 2: I can say that in her absence. Why she's predictable.
[1:10:58] Speaker 2: I can tell you what she would say in her
[1:11:01] Speaker 2: absence if you called her stupid. I can tell you
[1:11:04] Speaker 2: what she would say to you. If you spit on her,
[1:11:08] Speaker 2: I will tell you what she would say to you
[1:11:10] Speaker 2: and what she will do. I know what she will do.
[1:11:14] Speaker 2: Why she's fixed. If it rains cats and dogs, I
[1:11:19] Speaker 2: can tell you exactly what she's doing. If it rains,
[1:11:24] Speaker 2: I can predict what she does if there was a hailstorm.
[1:11:30] Speaker 2: I can predict what she does if a pigeon sits
[1:11:34] Speaker 2: on her head and releases himself. I can predict without
[1:11:39] Speaker 2: even being there, what she would do if you tell
[1:11:41] Speaker 2: her you hate the color of her skin. How can
[1:11:46] Speaker 2: I predict that she's fixed? Can I predict what you
[1:11:53] Speaker 2: would do in every circumstance? I mean, if somebody offered
[1:11:59] Speaker 2: you to pay off your mortgage, if you just kind
[1:12:03] Speaker 2: of wink at the invoice or give them give their
[1:12:09] Speaker 2: company the contract, I mean, are you fixed? Are you
[1:12:20] Speaker 2: still red? Cement. A person of character cannot be bort
[1:12:28] Speaker 2: Let me just say something important. If someone approaches you
[1:12:36] Speaker 2: to do evil.
[1:12:39] Speaker 4: Or to break a law, it's already too late for you.
[1:12:45] Speaker 2: You are in trouble. I'm gonna say it again.
[1:12:54] Speaker 3: If they approach you to break a law or compromise.
[1:13:05] Speaker 2: Her responsible position, you are already in trouble.
[1:13:12] Speaker 3: Because somehow your values were not loud enough.
[1:13:21] Speaker 2: Your morals stands for so weak that they actually thought
[1:13:26] Speaker 2: you would do it. You are in trouble. Let it
[1:13:34] Speaker 2: be said of you in your absence. Don't even ask
[1:13:38] Speaker 2: her why I know her. Don't even go to him.
[1:13:45] Speaker 2: You waste your time in him? Why he is fixed?
[1:13:51] Speaker 2: Where's your character? Can they speak about you in your absence?
[1:14:07] Speaker 2: Take this CD, give it to your friends back home,
[1:14:11] Speaker 2: especially those in top leadership in your country, because they
[1:14:17] Speaker 2: were never taught any session on character. And that's why
[1:14:26] Speaker 2: we get policemen going to jail. Soldiers go into jail,
[1:14:31] Speaker 2: Politicians go into jail, preachers go into jail, past us
[1:14:36] Speaker 2: go into jail. Corp and executives going to jail. See yours.
[1:14:40] Speaker 2: Everybody's going to jail. Why because no one had taught
[1:14:43] Speaker 2: them The most important part of leadership. I'm never impressed
[1:14:55] Speaker 2: by a man's title. I'm never impressed by his position.
[1:15:01] Speaker 2: I'm never impressed by the way she is dressed. I'm
[1:15:05] Speaker 2: never impressed by how much money they have. I'm never
[1:15:09] Speaker 2: impressed by how well you preach or how you speak
[1:15:11] Speaker 2: in towns. I really don't care. I want to know
[1:15:15] Speaker 2: about your character. Let's close this. Each one of these
[1:15:28] Speaker 2: is called characters. Can you tell me why I look
[1:15:30] Speaker 2: at them? Do you know why? Because they never change.
[1:15:35] Speaker 2: A is always a in any part of the world,
[1:15:38] Speaker 2: and A is a in the dark. One and two
[1:15:47] Speaker 2: is always one and two whether you are in China, Asia, Japan, Bahamas,
[1:15:52] Speaker 2: all the United States, or Canada. The number doesn't change.
[1:15:56] Speaker 2: That's why they are called characters. Principles never change. People
[1:16:12] Speaker 2: think I'm a good teacher. I'm not a good teacher.
[1:16:15] Speaker 2: I just have a good memory. That's all I remember
[1:16:19] Speaker 2: the principles. If you want to be a great teacher,
[1:16:24] Speaker 2: just learn principles. All of my books are just principles.
[1:16:30] Speaker 2: That's why they are sold all over the world in
[1:16:31] Speaker 2: every language, fifty nine languages. Why Because it doesn't matter
[1:16:35] Speaker 2: what language is in or what country goes into principles
[1:16:38] Speaker 2: are the same in every environment. That's why character is
[1:16:47] Speaker 2: simply living by principles. We've heard it tonight. You never
[1:16:52] Speaker 2: sacrifice your convictions for anything. Are you glad you came
[1:17:01] Speaker 2: up here tonight? All right, we gotta do a little
[1:17:05] Speaker 2: bit of a classroom exercise. Read number one or a
[1:17:08] Speaker 2: loud everybody go one, two three read. Character is a
[1:17:12] Speaker 2: commitment to a set of values without compromise. Number two
[1:17:17] Speaker 2: character is dedication to a sense of standards without wavering.
[1:17:22] Speaker 2: Number three character is self impulse discipline in keeping with
[1:17:28] Speaker 2: moral convictions. Number four character is a constant effort to
[1:17:33] Speaker 2: integrate one's words, deeds, and action. Number five character is
[1:17:40] Speaker 2: sacrifice for principles. And number six character is integrity. All right,
[1:17:47] Speaker 2: I got a lot more to say, but we can
[1:17:48] Speaker 2: pick up here. Now. Listen to me last word. Write
[1:17:52] Speaker 2: the word integrity down. I'm gonna show you some integrity.
[1:17:54] Speaker 2: The word integrity is from the word integrate. Write the
[1:17:58] Speaker 2: word integrate down into great means one. It means one,
[1:18:06] Speaker 2: oh and e one. Okay. I want to demonstrate this.
[1:18:12] Speaker 2: Can I have one of you come here? Please? Yeah,
[1:18:15] Speaker 2: just come come here, just anyone? Yeah, run quick? Can
[1:18:19] Speaker 2: you come? Leo? Stand here? Okaya, stay right there. Stare
[1:18:22] Speaker 2: right there. Okay, you stand here, face each other. Okay.
[1:18:26] Speaker 2: Now I want to show you what integrity is, which
[1:18:29] Speaker 2: is the same as character. Okay. This is the same person. Okay,
[1:18:37] Speaker 2: but they got two different lives. This is Leo in
[1:18:42] Speaker 2: the day, this is Leo in the night. They're the
[1:18:47] Speaker 2: same person. I'm talking to a lot of people in
[1:18:50] Speaker 2: this room. Most people struggle with these two persons. That's
[1:18:56] Speaker 2: the struggle we're talking about. This person shouts at this
[1:19:01] Speaker 2: person all the time, and this person shouts at this
[1:19:06] Speaker 2: person all the time, and they try to tell each
[1:19:10] Speaker 2: other what to do. So in the day, this person says,
[1:19:16] Speaker 2: I'll take over. In the day, I'll show a certain
[1:19:19] Speaker 2: lifestyle in the day. Then the night, this person says
[1:19:24] Speaker 2: I'll take over. So you go to sleep. I come
[1:19:28] Speaker 2: alive after nine o'clock in the night. Okay, And you
[1:19:32] Speaker 2: got these two diametrically opposed persons.
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