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Heart of A Servant Leader

Hour of Power with Bobby Schuller

January 16, 2021

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♪ Joyful, joyful,we adore you ♪
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♪ God of glory,Lord of love ♪
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♪ Hearts unfold likeflow'rs before you ♪
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♪ op'ning to the sun above ♪
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♪ Melt the cloudsof sin and sadness ♪
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♪ drive the darkof doubt away ♪
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♪ Giver of immortal gladness,fill us with the light of day ♪
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♪ Amen,Amen ♪
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♪ Amen! ♪
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Bobby Schuller: This isthe day the Lord has made.
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We will rejoiceand be glad in it.
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Good morning.
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Hannah Schuller:And welcome visitorsand welcome church family.
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We are so happythat you're here.
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You know, the age of miracleshas not passed.
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God is still on the throne.
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Whatever impossible miracle youneed today is possible for God.
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You are so loved.
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Bobby Schuller: Amen, so much ofmiracles, too, is just believing
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something is possible and notkilling a miracle before it
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happens in your mindand your heart.
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So we're praying with all of youwho are going through a tough
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time and believing Godfor something that will--
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I'll just align my heart withyours, Hannah, and let's begin
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with a word of prayer.
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Father, we thank you so much foreverything you've given us, and
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we thank you, Lord, that you area God who loves us and you are a
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God who is at work in the world.
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You are a God who loves tosometimes break the rules of
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nature and help us.
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And so we just ask, God, inJesus's name for anybody who
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needs a miracle this morning orevening, wherever they are, that
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your Holy Spirit would do a goodwork in their body, in their
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mind, or in any other aspect oftheir life that we need
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your help.
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Father, more than anything, weask that you'd fill us with your
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Holy Spirit and help us to betrue disciples of you, Jesus.
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And it's in yourname we pray, amen.
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Haven Schuller: Amen.
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Turn to the personnext to you and say,
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"God loves you and so do I."
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♪ God is our refugeand strength ♪
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Hannah Schuller: In preparationfor the message, Philippians
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2:1, "Therefore, if you have anyencouragement from being united
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with Christ, if any comfort fromhis love, if any common sharing
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in the Spirit, if any tendernessand compassion, then make my joy
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complete by being likeminded andhaving the same love, being one
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in spirit and of one mind.
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Do nothing out of selfishambition or vain conceit.
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Rather, in humility value othersabove yourselves, not looking to
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your own interests, but each ofyou to the interests of others."
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Church family, God has called usto the heart of Jesus through
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his servant leadership, amen.
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♪ Holy Spirit,rain down ♪
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♪ rain down ♪
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♪ Oh, Comforterand Friend ♪
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♪ how we needyour touch again ♪
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♪ Holy Spirit,rain down ♪
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♪ rain down ♪
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♪ Let your power fall ♪
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♪ Let your voice be heard ♪
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♪ Come and changeour hearts ♪
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♪ as we standon your Word ♪
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♪ Holy Spirit,rain down ♪
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♪ rain down ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Holy Spirit,rain down ♪
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♪ rain down ♪
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♪ Oh, Comforterand Friend ♪
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♪ how we needyour touch again ♪
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♪ Holy Spirit,rain down ♪
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♪ rain down ♪
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♪ Let your power fall ♪
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♪ Let your voice be heard ♪
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♪ Come and changeour hearts ♪
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♪ as we standon your Word ♪
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♪ Holy Spirit ♪
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♪ Holy Spirit ♪
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♪ Holy Spirit,rain down ♪
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♪ rain down ♪
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♪ Rain down,rain down ♪♪
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Bobby Schuller:Thank you for joining us
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on "Hour of Power" today.
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We hope you've foundincredible hope
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and inspirationfrom this program.
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As we embrace the new year,Hannah and I want to say
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thank you for your continuedgenerosity that carries us
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through every season.
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Even in the faceof a global pandemic,
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your unfailing supporthas lifted this ministry
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up on eagle's wingsand empowered us
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to take the renewing strengthof Christ's love
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to millions around the world.
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Hannah Schuller:Isaiah 40:31 says,
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"But those who hope in the Lordwill renew their strength.
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They will soar on wingslike eagles.
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They will runand not grow weary.
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They will walkand not be faint."
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Friends, no matter how unsettledthings look around us,
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Jesus is all that we need.
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Whether you're in the valleyor on the mountaintop,
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his Spirit gives uswings to fly.
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As we rest in his strengthand sufficiency,
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our Savior suppliesdivine energy
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and profound endurancethat inspire us
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to soar above uncertainty.
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Bobby Schuller: That's right,and since the 1980s,
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our Eagle Partners have beena living reflection
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of God's faithfulnessand renewing strength to us.
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When viewers like you chooseto uphold "Hour of Power"
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with recurring monthly donation,it enables us to build a solid
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foundation from whichbig dreams are born
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and great heights are reached.
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As we move boldlyinto our next 50 years,
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we are committed to sendingthe liberating love of Jesus
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around the globeby embracing new technology,
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expanding our online outreach,
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This is why Eagle Partnershipsis so important,
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of your generositywill be great.
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Thank youand remember as always,
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God loves you and so do we.
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male announcer: Zim Flores is anentrepreneur, podcast host,
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and author.
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She founded Travel Noire, a highend online travel company that
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reaches millions of travelersevery month.
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After selling Travel Noire in2017, she founded the website,
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Italicist, a platform that helpswomen shop for modest
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clothing online.
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By finding her true identity inChrist and pursuing what he has
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called her to do, she wasinspired to write her latest
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book, "Dare to Bloom: TrustingGod through Painful Endings and
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New Beginnings."
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In the book, she explains howthe Lord is the true holder of
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our identity in anycircumstance.
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Please welcome Zim Flores.
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Bobby Schuller: Zim, hi,welcome.
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Hey, for those who have notmaybe heard what I think is an
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amazing story, can you pleaseshare a little bit about your
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business, and your life,and sort of how you got
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to where you are?
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Zim Flores: Yeah, absolutely.
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So I grew up in a small townin Minnesota.
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There weren't very many kids wholooked like me, so I was forced
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to kind of thinkoutside the box.
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So my life very much revolvedaround being able to talk to
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different people from differentbackgrounds and move in between
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different circles, and so I wasalways feeling different.
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I was always this weird kid.
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Moved to North Carolina, cloneda gene when I was 19 years old,
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and so that kinda catapulted mein the biology world.
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I was a freshman in college andso it all started there.
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After I graduated college, Isold everything that I owned
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and I moved to India,and I worked there.
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And so my life has just beena series of these really
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interesting,beautiful experiences.
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And so when I started my travelcompany, it was in the summer of
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2017 that I felt the Lordnudging me to give this thing
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up, this thing that I had verymuch tied to my own identity.
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And it was the most painfulexperience that I had ever kind
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of experienced in my life, butwhat I took away from that was
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that there are these beautifulthings that God has for us, but
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first we have to let go of whatwe're holding on to.
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And so that for me has been sucha beautiful lesson.
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So right now, my husband and I,we run six different businesses.
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We do a lot of reallyinteresting things, but all of
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that would not have beenpossible had I not leaned into
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what God was sayingand really obeyed him.
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Bobby Schuller: That's awesome.
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For those who don't know, Imean, I feel like you're really
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well-known for this travelbusiness you started.
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And I think you sold it, right?
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And tell me a little bitabout that business.
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I mean, to me it seemslike a dream job.
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I mean, I'm living my dream job,but to have a travel blog
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or to be able to travel and tellpeople where to go, I mean,
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I think my wife and Iwould love that.
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That must have been tons of funfor you.
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Zim Flores: You know, it wasborn out of my own experience.
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When I was livingin India, I was--
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at the time, we wouldhave $8 flights
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from India to Malaysiato Cambodia,
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and so I was alwayshopping around.
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And so I wanted other people tohave that same kind of
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experience, so it really was adream job like you say, but my
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identity got lost in that.
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And I think that was one of thebiggest lessons.
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Or the biggest thing that I tookaway was that there is the
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thing-- there are the thingsthat we do, but who we are is
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not attached to what we do.
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Bobby Schuller: What do you meanyour identity was lost in that?
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What does that mean?
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Zim Flores: So I was knownas a travel girl, right?
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Everybody would come to me fortravel advice, and literally
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anything that had to do withtravel, people came to me.
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And it got to a point where Iwas like, you know, I don't want
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to be a travel girl anymore.
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I want to be God's girl.
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And so what does that look like?
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It means that I have to becomfortable with living a life
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of sacrifice, and not sacrificein the way where, like, life
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isn't abundantly joyful, becauseI believe that that's what God
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wants for us, but sacrificial inthat we know that whatever God
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calls us to give up, there issomething better on the other
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side of that.
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Bobby Schuller: Yeah,that's awesome.
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Well, and that reallyleads you to your book.
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I mean, it sounds like whatyou've really struck is a nice
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balance because obviously youand your husband are doing well.
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You said you have six companies.
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I mean, obviously you believe inbuilding things.
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You believe in having a bigvision.
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But on the flip side of that isyou can get tied up in that and
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there's nobody to celebrate withwhen you cross the line.
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You have a sort of emptiness onthe inside, and so you really
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want people to strike both thosethings, don't you, with the most
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important thing being thatdiscipleship factor to the Lord.
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So that leads us to your newbook called, "Dare to Bloom."
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Tell us a little bit about whyyou-- why did you write this
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book, and what are you hopingpeople take away from it?
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Zim Flores: So I wrote the bookright after-- well, I wrote the
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book after the period that I hadwhen I was dealing with the
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company that purchasedTravel Noire.
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So I sold Travel Noire inSeptember 2017 and I stayed on
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with our acquiring company forabout 18 months.
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And during that period of time,everything changed.
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The company that I started wasno longer the company that I
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knew once I left, and it washeartbreaking, right?
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You have this thing you builtfrom the ground up and it's
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somehow unrecognizable anymore.
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It's just unrecognizable.
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And so for me, I knew that therewere some lessons that God had
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for me.
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During the period of time whereI just wanted to leave, there
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was a concept that I thoughtabout a lot called gutting
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the fish.
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And when we think about the bookof Jonah and how Jonah was
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swallowed by a fish, he-- Icould imagine that Jonah perhaps
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had a knife on him, and he had,like, a belt or something where
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he could have gut his way out ofthe fish.
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But the fish could've been 500feet below water, or 500 miles
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from the shore.
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If he would've cut himself outof the fish, he
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could've drowned.
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And so when I think about my ownlife and my own circumstance,
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I could have said,"You know what, God?
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I tap out.
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Like, I just want to go back tomy normal life and do the
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normal things."
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But the Bible says that Jonahwas delivered unto dry land.
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So that reminded me of how muchGod cares about where we
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actually land.
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If we just stay in the belly ofthe fish, or we stay where God
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wants us to be, then he willalways deliver us unto dry land.
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Bobby Schuller: That sounds likea good sermon.
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We should have youcome preach sometime.
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That's very, verysolid reflection.
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I agree, and it's-- I think oneof the hard things is really
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trying to sort out when,you know?
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Because they're clearly aretimes when you're supposed to
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wrap things up, but I guess whatyou're saying is God will show
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it to you.
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When the time comes,he'll make it plain.
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And that's what I reallyappreciate about your voice
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and your writing.
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I think you're really justhelping people clearly
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understand in these tough times.
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Like with COVID and everything,it's like the idea of thriving.
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Talk about good timing sellingyour travel business,
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by the way.
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I mean, with COVIDyou can't travel.
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Zim Flores: Thank God.
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I mean, it's really God'stiming, you know?
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It's pretty great.
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So, but I just want to say thankyou so much, Zim.
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And if you want to knowmore about Zim,
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you can check outher website, Zimism.
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So Z-I-M-I-S-M dot com.
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Like, maybe you're a go-getter,you like to build things,
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It'll really help you walkthat balance well.
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Zim, thank you so muchfor joining us today.
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Zim Flores: Thank youfor having me.
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Bobby Schuller:Thank you for joining us
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on "Hour of Power" today.
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We hope you've foundincredible hope
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and inspirationfrom this program.
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As we embrace the new year,Hannah and I want to say
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thank you for your continuedgenerosity that carries us
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through every season.
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Even in the faceof a global pandemic,
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your unfailing supporthas lifted this ministry
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up on eagle's wingsand empowered us
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to take the renewing strengthof Christ's love
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to millions around the world.
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Hannah Schuller:Isaiah 40:31 says,
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"But those who hope in the Lordwill renew their strength.
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They will soar on wingslike eagles.
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They will runand not grow weary.
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They will walkand not be faint."
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Friends, no matter how unsettledthings look around us,
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Jesus is all that we need.
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Whether you're in the valleyor on the mountaintop,
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his Spirit gives uswings to fly.
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As we rest in his strengthand sufficiency,
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our Savior suppliesdivine energy
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and profound endurancethat inspire us
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to soar above uncertainty.
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As we move boldlyinto our next 50 years,
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We're gonna say this together.
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I'm not what I do.
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I'm not what I have.
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I'm not what peoplesay about me.
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I am the beloved of God.
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It's who I am.No one can take it from me.
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I don't have to worry.I don't have to hurry.
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I can trust my friend Jesus andshare his love with the world.
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Thanks, you can be seated.
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You know, I am an avidfan of history.
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I love teaching the Bible,looking at it through the lens
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of history because, well, theBible is written in a historic
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language in a historic placefrom a historic people, and God
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used them to bring his Word andhis revelation to us.
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And so I always think tounderstand it rightly we have to
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understand where it came from,and that's what we taught--
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that that's what we're taughtin seminary too.
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But when I study history, onething is that history just ruins
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fiction for me, because some ofthese stories are incredible.
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And when I read history andstudy it, I feel like I get in
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some way the opportunity or weget the opportunity to see
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things the way the Lord sees it,you know?
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When God sees us, he sees uswithin this giant arc, this
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elongated story that has beengoing on for a long time, will
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go on for much longer hopefully,has a beginning and an end, and
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he knows where we are in it.
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But when you're in the story,it's so hard to know what's
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gonna happen next.
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So when you read something thathappened 2.000, 3.000, or even
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100 years ago, you always knowwhat's gonna come next and it's
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always interesting to think,"Why did he do that?"
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And yet you know if I was inthat position, I would do that,
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you know?
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And so you kinda see yourself onthe villain, you see yourself on
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the hero, and so I love historyfor that because it helps me
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sort of understand not onlyScripture, but understand myself
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and understand we as a people.
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Well, one of the things that Ifind super interesting as a fan
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of history--
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I'm no historian or whatever,but as a fan of history, I love
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to hear revisions by certaingroups who benefit by doing so.
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Today, I'm specifically talkingabout the so-called Blue Bloods.
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That's a hard phrase to say,Blue Bloods.
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You know, the aristocrats, thosewho say, you know, "I am a king,
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or a queen, or whatever," andhave this very strict lineage
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that sort of goes back,and a lot of pride
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that is found in that.
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And there's sort of a cleaningup of the historic line when, as
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a fan of history with regularred blood, you know, you read
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back and you're like, well, manyof these queens, we don't know
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if their kids were actuallysired by their kings,
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first of all.
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But two, there was a lot of--what's another word
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for inbreeding.
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That sounds bad.
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Whatever, inbreeding.
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And there's all sorts of stufflike this, but most of all when
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you look back, these people camefrom very often the same
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barbarians you came from.
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Recently, my sister overChristmas bought me a great
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gift, and I didn't know thatthis was possible, but
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apparently there's anorganization in Scotland that is
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trying to save the Highlands inAberdeen-- parts of Aberdeen
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from development.
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I've never been to Scotland, sokeep in mind I don't really know
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what I'm talking about, butbasically they're trying to keep
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it from development, and one waythat they're doing that is
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they're parceling out land thatcan never be developed because
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it's only a square or 2 meters,maybe 8 feet or so in a square.
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And then they're selling it toanyone who would buy it because
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Scottish law says if you ownland in Scotland, you can be a
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lord or a lady.
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So my sister took advantage ofthis and Hannah and I have now
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been proclaimed, according tothe laws of Scotland, Lord
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Robert Vernon Schuller and LadyHannah Rose Schuller, which is
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pretty serious.
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So now you have to call me LordPastor when you see me.
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And I had to really look it upand see, like, is this legit?
00:28:53.748 --> 00:28:57.118
Is this law really in place?
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And I found a news article from,of course, a British journalist
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who seemed very annoyed thatthis was happening because it's
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really messing things up,you know?
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And it seems silly, and it issilly, of course, but-- and I
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just want to say I'm sorry toall of my British, Canadian,
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or others who are in theCommonwealth of the
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United Kingdom.
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I mean, no offense at allto the Royal family
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or anything like that.
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They're wonderful.
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They seem like wonderful people,but I think all of this is very
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funny and silly.
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And he was writing and saidabout this thing--
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I had to google it.
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Like, am I really a Lord?
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Is Hannah really like a legitScottish Lady now?
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And the answer is kinda.
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Kinda.
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He said yes, you can put yourname on-- you know, "Lord"
00:29:41.563 --> 00:29:46.601
on your credit card, which I'mtotally gonna do now.
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I didn't even knowyou could do that.
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I was like, "Oh yeah, 'LordRobert Schuller' on my Visa."
00:29:51.539 --> 00:29:57.779
He said yes, you can use it toget a better table when you make
00:29:57.812 --> 00:30:00.915
a reservation.
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So technically you can use thetitle, but then, and I picture
00:30:02.417 --> 00:30:06.154
it in this voice, "But what doesit truly mean?
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It means that you are a weirdfraud with ideas far above
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your station."
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I hear it in that voice, maybepicture a monocle*.
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"Far above your station."
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That phrase, as an American, youknow, who, you know, we were
00:30:23.671 --> 00:30:28.977
like, "Death to King George.
00:30:29.010 --> 00:30:30.979
Down with the--"
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As an American, justgrinded my gears so much
00:30:32.814 --> 00:30:36.517
that I cannot wait to putthat "Lord Robert Schuller"
00:30:36.551 --> 00:30:42.123
behind my desk in my office.
00:30:42.156 --> 00:30:45.059
No, but all of this to simplysay that in the aristocracy and
00:30:45.093 --> 00:30:50.465
aristocracies of Europe, all ofthese families, especially in
00:30:50.498 --> 00:30:56.371
the northern parts of Europe,most of them all go back to the
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Franks and they all go back topeople like this guy, Clovis I,
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who was the founder of theMerovingian Dynasty.
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Now, when this painting was madeprobably hundreds of years after
00:31:11.853 --> 00:31:15.189
King Clovis of the Franks, theydefinitely cleaned this guy up.
00:31:15.223 --> 00:31:19.394
The Franks and the Germans ingeneral in those days were like
00:31:19.427 --> 00:31:24.532
an outlaw biker gang.
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Picture that.
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I mean, just picture a 5thcentury outlaw biker gang and
00:31:27.835 --> 00:31:31.739
you are seeing the Queen'sgreat-great-great-great-grandpa.
00:31:31.773 --> 00:31:35.443
They're called the Franks afterthe axe he's holding in his
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right hand called a franca.
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It's a type of skull-splittingaxe that you throw at people.
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And they-- you know, if you wereto see the real King Clovis walk
00:31:45.420 --> 00:31:49.190
in here, he'd be covered intattoos.
00:31:49.223 --> 00:31:51.960
He'd have wraps around his armsof this thing.
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He'd have mud and grease in hishair or his-- he might have been
00:31:54.228 --> 00:31:58.032
shaved up to the crown of hishead and then had a long hair
00:31:58.066 --> 00:32:01.369
turned into, like, a ponytail,which then he would wrap around
00:32:01.402 --> 00:32:04.439
his head.
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He would've looked like a legitBarbarian.
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The only reason I say all ofthis is because these kings who
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come from people, like evenCharlemagne, and Pepin the
00:32:14.415 --> 00:32:17.785
Short, and others like that,these were just really
00:32:17.819 --> 00:32:22.390
good gangsters.
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There's no such thingas blue blood.
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And when a king dies, he bleedsred like the rest of us.
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All of this to simply say youare a daughter of the King
00:32:34.135 --> 00:32:39.941
of kings.
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You are the son ofthe King of kings.
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These other kings don't make youmore or less fit for anything.
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And believe it or not, in thestory we're gonna read today,
00:32:52.820 --> 00:32:54.822
all of this is relevant.
00:32:54.856 --> 00:32:57.291
When we are the children of theKing of kings, we are not to
00:32:57.325 --> 00:33:03.264
look for glory, office,prestige.
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And though I have mycertificate, at the end of the
00:33:09.637 --> 00:33:12.373
day, it's for fun and it's in away to make fun of these things
00:33:12.407 --> 00:33:16.177
because I believe though officesare are important, when we find
00:33:16.210 --> 00:33:21.282
our identity in our offices asleaders, it begins to erode our
00:33:21.315 --> 00:33:27.255
ability to lead, as crazy asthat sounds.
00:33:27.288 --> 00:33:30.925
Today, we're gonna talk about,"Lead like Jesus," which is an
00:33:30.958 --> 00:33:35.563
actual seminar that is taughtall around the world.
00:33:35.596 --> 00:33:39.700
It was done by Blanchard andHodges.
00:33:39.734 --> 00:33:41.335
It's a wonderful seminar and wedo it internally for our staff
00:33:41.369 --> 00:33:44.639
and volunteers, but I reallythink it's important to teach
00:33:44.672 --> 00:33:48.876
throughout the whole churchand on "Hour of Power"
00:33:48.910 --> 00:33:53.214
because at the end of the day,you are a leader.
00:33:53.247 --> 00:33:57.218
You're a leader.
00:33:57.251 --> 00:33:59.253
Now, a leader, I define asanyone who wants to impute
00:33:59.287 --> 00:34:03.624
influence on the waysomething is going.
00:34:03.658 --> 00:34:06.627
You might think, "Bobby, I'm notmuch of a leader at all," but if
00:34:06.661 --> 00:34:09.530
you're a parent, you're leadingyour children.
00:34:09.564 --> 00:34:12.033
If you're trying to influenceyour spouse, you're leading
00:34:12.066 --> 00:34:14.735
your spouse.
00:34:14.769 --> 00:34:16.104
If you're in a team meeting atwork and you say or do something
00:34:16.137 --> 00:34:20.208
in that meeting, you are a partof the leadership of
00:34:20.241 --> 00:34:23.611
that meeting.
00:34:23.644 --> 00:34:25.480
In church, when you go outsideand talk to people, if you give
00:34:25.513 --> 00:34:28.716
someone advice or you offer todo something for someone, you're
00:34:28.749 --> 00:34:32.286
leading them.
00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:33.621
So I want to begin with the ideaof admitting that all of us are
00:34:33.654 --> 00:34:37.959
leading, but not all of us areleading well, and that we need
00:34:37.992 --> 00:34:42.263
to take responsibilityfor leading.
00:34:42.296 --> 00:34:45.533
Sometimes we need to step outand lead more, but most of all
00:34:45.566 --> 00:34:49.604
when we lead, we need to leadfrom a place of discipleship.
00:34:49.637 --> 00:34:53.808
We need to lead like Jesus.
00:34:53.841 --> 00:34:56.110
And although I'm gonna followthe ethos of the "Lead like
00:34:56.144 --> 00:34:59.113
Jesus" seminar, I'm gonna, like,de-Microsoft it a little bit.
00:34:59.147 --> 00:35:01.949
You know I mean by that?
00:35:01.983 --> 00:35:03.284
It's a little bit likecorporate language, which I
00:35:03.317 --> 00:35:05.386
don't love.
00:35:05.419 --> 00:35:06.754
I like historic and theologicallanguage, and so I'm gonna dial
00:35:06.787 --> 00:35:10.458
back some of the language, butI'm not gonna veer at all from
00:35:10.491 --> 00:35:14.562
the actual message.
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In the next four weeks, we'regonna talk about the heart of
00:35:15.963 --> 00:35:18.499
Jesus, the head of Jesus, thehands of Jesus, and the habits
00:35:18.533 --> 00:35:23.204
of Jesus.
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And so today, we'll be talkingabout the heart of Jesus.
00:35:24.605 --> 00:35:27.408
And the heart of Jesus is thatthe last will be first and the
00:35:27.441 --> 00:35:30.978
first will be last.
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As disciples of Jesus andChristians in general, we are
00:35:32.613 --> 00:35:37.351
called not to look first at theoutside results, but to first
00:35:37.385 --> 00:35:42.390
look at the heart, at the will.
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What is it I desire?
00:35:45.092 --> 00:35:47.895
What is it I'm moving towards?
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What is it I care most about?
00:35:50.565 --> 00:35:53.301
Jesus, when he teaches morals,he always begins with what's
00:35:53.334 --> 00:35:57.838
happening on the inside, in theinvisible parts, the stuff that
00:35:57.872 --> 00:36:02.443
nobody else sees, the stuff thatonly you can see when you stare
00:36:02.476 --> 00:36:06.781
at yourself in the mirror, whichI did the other day with my
00:36:06.814 --> 00:36:10.351
certificate and went, "Bobby,you are Lord Bobby."
00:36:10.384 --> 00:36:13.854
That sounds hilarious,Lord Bobby.
00:36:13.888 --> 00:36:15.556
That's enough of that.
00:36:15.590 --> 00:36:16.924
Anyway, but no, at the end ofthe day, Christ cares the most
00:36:16.958 --> 00:36:20.061
about what's happeningin our hearts.
00:36:20.094 --> 00:36:22.763
It's an inside-outtransformation.
00:36:22.797 --> 00:36:24.565
We change what's going on herebefore we change what's going on
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:27.668
out there.
00:36:27.702 --> 00:36:29.003
So this idea that the Europeanmedieval kings and queens took
00:36:29.036 --> 00:36:33.641
in terms of aristocracy and allof these things were effectively
00:36:33.674 --> 00:36:38.713
inherited by the Roman Empire.
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And of course, the Romansweren't the first to do it
00:36:42.116 --> 00:36:43.818
either, but by the time we gotto Jesus's day, there was
00:36:43.851 --> 00:36:47.154
definitely a hierarchy in place.
00:36:47.188 --> 00:36:49.724
It's interesting when you lookat the Roman Empire that this
00:36:49.757 --> 00:36:52.793
one little town that became abig town, that became a city in
00:36:52.827 --> 00:36:57.665
the middle of central Italy,swallowed up the whole
00:36:57.698 --> 00:37:01.302
known world.
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It's incredible the way thatthey did this.
00:37:02.670 --> 00:37:05.406
In Italy, the Roman Conquestreally began as, like,
00:37:05.439 --> 00:37:10.511
safety measures.
00:37:10.544 --> 00:37:11.846
They kept getting attacked bytheir neighbors, so they would
00:37:11.879 --> 00:37:14.582
adapt, and change, and conquertheir neighbors so they would
00:37:14.615 --> 00:37:18.052
just be left alone.
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And this began a process ofongoing, never-ending conquest
00:37:19.787 --> 00:37:25.593
by the Republic.
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This, paired with an ethos of aneed for fame and glory, caused
00:37:26.961 --> 00:37:30.765
many soldiers and generals torise up and want to
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conquer more.
00:37:33.067 --> 00:37:34.368
Early on in the Roman Republic,all the soldiers were land
00:37:34.402 --> 00:37:37.371
owners, but as the Republic grewand grew and eventually became
00:37:37.405 --> 00:37:41.776
an empire with an emperor, witha Caesar, soldiers now could be
00:37:41.809 --> 00:37:46.681
from anywhere.
00:37:46.714 --> 00:37:48.249
And the population, and itsaristocracy, and its caste
00:37:48.282 --> 00:37:51.852
system were changingdramatically over the years,
00:37:51.886 --> 00:37:55.690
where now you had a very clearsystem that looked a bit
00:37:55.723 --> 00:37:59.327
like this.
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I think we have a pyramid herewhere you have this guy here.
00:38:00.728 --> 00:38:05.900
Of course at the top is Caesar,and then you have the Patricians
00:38:05.933 --> 00:38:08.969
and the senators.
00:38:09.003 --> 00:38:10.304
Those are the old aristocracy,the old families that go way
00:38:10.338 --> 00:38:13.607
back in Rome.
00:38:13.641 --> 00:38:14.942
The equestrians,which are like knights.
00:38:14.975 --> 00:38:16.344
Plebeians, which isthe everyday guy.
00:38:16.377 --> 00:38:18.512
Freemans and soldiers.
00:38:18.546 --> 00:38:19.880
The freemans are slaves thathad been freed.
00:38:19.914 --> 00:38:21.816
And finally, the very lowest ofthe low, slaves.
00:38:21.849 --> 00:38:25.653
And if you were to go in Jesus'sday into the Roman Empire, you
00:38:25.686 --> 00:38:28.789
would see slaves everywhere fromeverywhere.
00:38:28.823 --> 00:38:33.661
So the Romans-- you know, whenwe study American slavery or
00:38:33.694 --> 00:38:36.931
European slavery in the earlyEnlightenment, late medieval
00:38:36.964 --> 00:38:40.434
eras, predominantly most slaveswere taken from--
00:38:40.468 --> 00:38:44.972
as indigenous peoplesor especially from Africa.
00:38:45.005 --> 00:38:47.742
And and in those days, though,Romans didn't care.
00:38:47.775 --> 00:38:50.611
They enslaved everybody.
00:38:50.644 --> 00:38:51.946
Anybody they conqueredcould be a slave.
00:38:51.979 --> 00:38:54.181
Women, children.
00:38:54.215 --> 00:38:55.683
Many of those slaveswere actually--
00:38:55.716 --> 00:38:58.152
were white, so like, if Iwould have been, you know--
00:38:58.185 --> 00:39:01.956
if you were to take meand throw me in the Empire,
00:39:01.989 --> 00:39:04.325
a 6' 3" half-Dutch, half-Irishwhatever guy,
00:39:04.358 --> 00:39:08.462
I would be, you know, inthose days, a Celt, or I would
00:39:08.496 --> 00:39:12.333
be from Gaul, or something likethat, or German, and I would
00:39:12.366 --> 00:39:16.871
be paraded.
00:39:16.904 --> 00:39:18.239
You'd see me walkin' around inthe Middle East around people
00:39:18.272 --> 00:39:20.841
whose average height was about 5feet tall, and I would have a
00:39:20.875 --> 00:39:23.711
long mustache going down likethis, and long hair, and I would
00:39:23.744 --> 00:39:27.448
have my tattoos, you know.
00:39:27.481 --> 00:39:28.916
And I'd probably be a soldier,or a worker, or something like
00:39:28.949 --> 00:39:31.919
that, but I would be a slave.
00:39:31.952 --> 00:39:33.854
And in those days, there wasnothing lower than a slave.
00:39:33.888 --> 00:39:37.425
A slave was property, valuableproperty, but at the end of the
00:39:37.458 --> 00:39:41.562
day, was property.
00:39:41.595 --> 00:39:43.731
And so what you had in the RomanEmpire in those days was a huge
00:39:43.764 --> 00:39:47.568
swath of the population thatcould be used, exploited
00:39:47.601 --> 00:39:52.072
for anything.
00:39:52.106 --> 00:39:53.741
Many of the children and most ofthe slaves who were women were
00:39:53.774 --> 00:39:58.379
sexually exploited,among other things.
00:39:58.412 --> 00:40:01.348
Horrible.
00:40:01.382 --> 00:40:02.983
And this of course existsin Jesus's day.
00:40:03.017 --> 00:40:06.020
This hierarchy is in place.
00:40:06.053 --> 00:40:08.756
And while this is happening,Jesus is preaching about this
00:40:08.789 --> 00:40:14.028
thing that he talks aboutconstantly, I think it's in
00:40:14.061 --> 00:40:17.331
every chapter of the gospels,called the kingdom of God or the
00:40:17.364 --> 00:40:21.302
kingdom of heaven.
00:40:21.335 --> 00:40:22.903
And no matter how much Jesususes parables and tries to
00:40:22.937 --> 00:40:26.240
explain to his disciples thatthe kingdom of God is something
00:40:26.273 --> 00:40:30.978
that comes from the inside out,that the kingdom of God is God's
00:40:31.011 --> 00:40:35.382
influence happening whereverit's happening, they are hearing
00:40:35.416 --> 00:40:39.320
an actual government.
00:40:39.353 --> 00:40:41.856
His disciples for sure arehearing what would sound like
00:40:41.889 --> 00:40:45.593
today a small room in a barsomewhere in some block of
00:40:45.626 --> 00:40:50.531
Europe, a group of Communiststalking about overthrowing the
00:40:50.564 --> 00:40:53.400
government and who's gonna dowhat when the
00:40:53.434 --> 00:40:56.203
revolution happens.
00:40:56.237 --> 00:40:58.172
In the wake of the Hasmoneanreign, for sure, Jesus's
00:40:58.205 --> 00:41:02.610
disciples think he's going to bea literal king in a room in
00:41:02.643 --> 00:41:08.115
Jerusalem and he's going toreign over a kingdom that's
00:41:08.148 --> 00:41:11.619
gonna conquer not only Rome,but the whole world.
00:41:11.652 --> 00:41:14.522
We see this everywhere, butthere's this funny story where
00:41:14.555 --> 00:41:18.592
this the sons of Zebedee,their mother--
00:41:18.626 --> 00:41:21.829
it sounds like somethingmy mom would do.
00:41:21.862 --> 00:41:24.365
Their mother goes to Jesus andsays to him, "Jesus.
00:41:24.398 --> 00:41:30.638
Hey, Jesus.
00:41:30.671 --> 00:41:31.972
Hey, when you come into yourkingdom, make my sons sit
00:41:32.006 --> 00:41:36.877
at your right handand your left hand."
00:41:36.911 --> 00:41:40.014
You know whatshe means by that?
00:41:40.047 --> 00:41:41.382
She doesn't mean, "When you goto heaven, let them in heaven
00:41:41.415 --> 00:41:43.551
and sit at your right hand."
00:41:43.584 --> 00:41:44.919
No, she's saying, "Let them bethe number two guy with power in
00:41:44.952 --> 00:41:49.423
your new Jesus theocracy andyour new Jesus government."
00:41:49.456 --> 00:41:53.027
And the other disciples getsuper upset by this.
00:41:53.060 --> 00:41:57.298
Why?
00:41:57.331 --> 00:41:58.632
Not because what she's doing istotally against what Jesus is
00:41:58.666 --> 00:42:01.302
preaching, but becausethey want that job.
00:42:01.335 --> 00:42:04.838
I want to be at the top.
00:42:04.872 --> 00:42:06.373
I've done most ofthe work for you, Lord.
00:42:06.407 --> 00:42:08.242
Let me sit at the right.
00:42:08.275 --> 00:42:09.610
Let me do the works.
00:42:09.643 --> 00:42:10.945
Let me be governor, lord,whatever it is, so-and-so
00:42:10.978 --> 00:42:15.249
in your--
00:42:15.282 --> 00:42:16.584
Haven't I been faithful?
00:42:16.617 --> 00:42:17.952
And you see all of this.
00:42:17.985 --> 00:42:19.286
They're arguing and they'refighting, and finally Jesus
00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:21.221
interrupts them and he says thisfrom Matthew chapter 20,
00:42:21.255 --> 00:42:24.992
verse 25.
00:42:25.025 --> 00:42:26.327
It says, "Jesus called themtogether and said, 'You know
00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:29.396
that the rulers of the Gentileslord it over them,'" meaning
00:42:29.430 --> 00:42:33.634
they dominate them, "and theirhigh officials exercise
00:42:33.667 --> 00:42:37.938
authority over them.
00:42:37.972 --> 00:42:40.007
Not so with you."
00:42:40.040 --> 00:42:42.543
See, Jesus usually is teachingin parables and stuff, but here
00:42:42.576 --> 00:42:45.879
he's like, "I'm done with this.
00:42:45.913 --> 00:42:47.247
I'm just makingthis plain to you."
00:42:47.281 --> 00:42:48.582
"Not so with you.
00:42:48.616 --> 00:42:49.950
Whoever wants to become greatamong you must be your servant
00:42:49.984 --> 00:42:57.591
and whoever wants to be firstamong you," and here comes this
00:42:57.625 --> 00:43:01.061
very weighty, political word.
00:43:01.095 --> 00:43:02.563
Remember, he's-- this is a partof the social class.
00:43:02.596 --> 00:43:05.399
"Whoever wants to be first,whoever wants to be at the top,
00:43:05.432 --> 00:43:08.669
must be your slave, just as theSon of Man did not come to be
00:43:08.702 --> 00:43:15.709
served but to serve and to givehis life as a ransom for many."
00:43:15.743 --> 00:43:21.448
Can you bring that pyramid upagain real quick?
00:43:21.482 --> 00:43:24.418
Jesus is saying--okay, they're probably here.
00:43:24.451 --> 00:43:26.687
They're Plebs, right?
00:43:26.720 --> 00:43:28.022
They're everyday workers,fishermen, carpenters,
00:43:28.055 --> 00:43:29.790
construction workers.
00:43:29.823 --> 00:43:31.125
Today, you might say they'rehere and they want to be like--
00:43:31.158 --> 00:43:34.261
Jesus is going to be up here.
00:43:34.294 --> 00:43:35.596
They want to be these guys.
00:43:35.629 --> 00:43:36.997
They wanna be, like-- 'cause allthat work, all that effort,
00:43:37.031 --> 00:43:39.933
they're gonna be fighting.
00:43:39.967 --> 00:43:41.268
They wanna be up here.
00:43:41.301 --> 00:43:42.603
And Jesus says, "No, no, no.
00:43:42.636 --> 00:43:43.971
If you want to be like me andyou think it's up here, you need
00:43:44.004 --> 00:43:47.641
to move from here to down here."
00:43:47.675 --> 00:43:50.110
You need to move from middleclass to the most disgraced,
00:43:50.144 --> 00:43:55.949
unliked, un-aristocraticgroup there is.
00:43:55.983 --> 00:43:59.720
You need to be like a slave.
00:43:59.753 --> 00:44:01.755
You need-- basically he's sayingyou need to let go of your ego,
00:44:01.789 --> 00:44:08.295
your desire for glory, andrecognition, and power.
00:44:08.328 --> 00:44:14.034
If you want to lead like Jesus,you can lead, but you have to
00:44:14.068 --> 00:44:18.405
let go of this need to befamous, this need to be a big
00:44:18.439 --> 00:44:24.845
deal, this need to be thankedall the time.
00:44:24.878 --> 00:44:28.816
And although all of those thingscan be enjoyable, at the end of
00:44:28.849 --> 00:44:32.519
the day, if you want to leadlike Jesus, you need to become
00:44:32.553 --> 00:44:35.456
like the least of these, not thegreatest of these.
00:44:35.489 --> 00:44:39.693
This is constantly in Jesus'steaching.
00:44:39.727 --> 00:44:41.361
We're gonna talk more and moreabout it, but it's not--
00:44:41.395 --> 00:44:43.964
it's totally inescapable that tolead like Christ means to serve.
00:44:43.997 --> 00:44:50.070
It means you let go of your ego.
00:44:50.104 --> 00:44:51.972
The "Lead like Jesus" seminarsays "EGO" is an acronym for
00:44:52.005 --> 00:44:55.843
"Edging God Out."
00:44:55.876 --> 00:44:57.411
The more my ego grows, the moreI push out my real calling, the
00:44:57.444 --> 00:45:01.815
more I push out God'sleadership, the more I push out
00:45:01.849 --> 00:45:04.852
the ultimate call of whyI'm here and what
00:45:04.885 --> 00:45:08.055
I'm supposed to do.
00:45:08.088 --> 00:45:09.423
And I would add to that, thesadder you'll get; that even
00:45:09.456 --> 00:45:11.625
if you succeed in all of that,the more empty you'll feel,
00:45:11.658 --> 00:45:14.495
the more you'll feel likeyou need another--
00:45:14.528 --> 00:45:16.864
and at the end of the day,we need that.
00:45:16.897 --> 00:45:19.066
We need to be where Christ is.
00:45:19.099 --> 00:45:21.502
To double down on this, there'sanother story and you've
00:45:21.535 --> 00:45:24.204
probably-- if you've gone tochurch at all in your life, you
00:45:24.238 --> 00:45:26.073
for sure heard at least onesermon on this.
00:45:26.106 --> 00:45:27.741
And that's probably better thananything I would preach, but
00:45:27.775 --> 00:45:29.810
there's this story about whenJesus washes the feet of
00:45:29.843 --> 00:45:32.780
the disciples.
00:45:32.813 --> 00:45:34.815
And John the Evangelist goes along way to show you that Jesus
00:45:34.848 --> 00:45:39.019
dresses like a slave.
00:45:39.052 --> 00:45:40.821
It's interesting because Jesusdid have this tunic that doesn't
00:45:40.854 --> 00:45:44.057
have a seam in it, which in hisday would have been
00:45:44.091 --> 00:45:46.360
very expensive.
00:45:46.393 --> 00:45:47.694
There's no explanationabout how he got it.
00:45:47.728 --> 00:45:49.062
It would have been super rareand very difficult to make, but
00:45:49.096 --> 00:45:51.532
basically an artisan tailorwould have measured your body
00:45:51.565 --> 00:45:54.468
and made the whole thing andweaved it so that it would slip
00:45:54.501 --> 00:45:58.705
over your head and it would fityou perfectly with no
00:45:58.739 --> 00:46:02.242
seams anywhere.
00:46:02.276 --> 00:46:03.677
So he had one of those, and heremoved that.
00:46:03.710 --> 00:46:06.013
He removed that wealthy piece ofclothing.
00:46:06.046 --> 00:46:09.116
He removed whatever rabbinic andOrthodox Jewish accoutrement he
00:46:09.149 --> 00:46:13.754
might have been wearing and heput on the sash of a slave and
00:46:13.787 --> 00:46:19.159
began to do one of the mostembarrassing things a slave
00:46:19.193 --> 00:46:23.630
can do.
00:46:23.664 --> 00:46:24.998
He began to wash the feet, washthe mud and animal stuff off of
00:46:25.032 --> 00:46:30.370
the feet of his disciples,which would've been filthy.
00:46:30.404 --> 00:46:33.674
And not only filthy,it's humiliating.
00:46:33.707 --> 00:46:35.275
It's humiliating.
00:46:35.309 --> 00:46:37.311
And he didn't care.
00:46:37.344 --> 00:46:38.679
And he says when he finishesthis in John chapter 13, "You
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call me," we'll say "Rabbi" sothe context is right.
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"You call me Rabbi and Lord,and rightly so,
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for that is what I am.
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Now that I, your Rabbi--
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Now that I, your Lord and Rabbi,have washed your feet, you also
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should wash one another's feet.
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I have set you an example thatyou should do as I have done
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for you.
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Very truly I tell you, noservant is greater than his
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master, nor is a messengergreater than the one who
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sent him.
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Now that you know these things,you'll be totally blessed."
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I added "Totally blessed."
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You will be blessedif you do them.
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Blessed.
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You want to be blessed?
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You want to be a joyful person?
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Then when we lead, theleadership should not come from
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a place of self-aggrandizementand ego.
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It should come from a desire toplease the Lord and to bless
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other people, to be a servantleader, to lead with
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Jesus's heart.
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That's a heart of compassion,of joy, of love, not of
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self-promotion, not of theseother things that we see so
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often in leadership today.
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So when you lead, and you dolead, lead with Jesus's heart.
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We see all kinds of leaders inthe world today, but as leaders,
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we ought to show what it meansto lead like Rabbi Jesus.
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In your business meetings, or inpolitics, or wherever you look,
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you're gonna find leaders thatare domineering.
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You're gonna find leaders thatare cowards.
00:48:13.473 --> 00:48:15.809
You're gonna find leaders thatare passive-aggressive.
00:48:15.842 --> 00:48:18.512
You're gonna find leaders thatare leading from the shadows,
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but they're still leading.
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But not so with you.
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You lead like Jesus, which isboth confidence and humility.
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Not pride, not ego, not gettingyour feelings hurt all the time,
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but leading from a place toserve others.
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The "Lead like Jesus" groupcalls it a servant leader versus
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a self-serving leader, oranother way of saying it is a
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called leader versus a drivenleader.
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And they think, and I agree withthem, that the-- really the only
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difference between those twothings is who owns what's
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being led.
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You know, obviously as a pastorI need to know I don't own
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this ministry.
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That's easy for me becauseI didn't start this ministry.
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I inherited it.
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I'm a curator of it until itgoes to the next person who
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leads after I'm here.
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And it's not eventotally led by me.
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It's also led by our-- I keepwanting to say classes, but this
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is Presbyterian.
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Our session, and that'simportant.
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But all of us in leadership, wesee the responsibilities, or we
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ought to see our responsibilitynot as something we own.
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But if you're a driven leaderversus a called leader, it's
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easy to see everything that I'mleading as mine, it's mine, and
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to feel threatened and bothered.
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But everything, even our bodies,is on loan from God.
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We're gonna lose everythingin this world.
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We can't take anythingout of here.
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And the Lord shows us that if weare trustworthy managing and
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curating his things, he'llentrust more to us.
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But if we try and hoard itand do all this,
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it'll be worthless*.
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So here's three questions andI'll finish with this.
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I'll go through this quickly.
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If you want to know if you're aservant leader versus a
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self-serving leader, these aregood questions to ask yourself.
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Try not to think aboutyour boss, by the way,
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while I'm saying this, okay,or something like this.
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Remember, as a leader, and thinkabout this as a parent, at work,
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if you're in ministry, whenyou're leading your ministry, if
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you're volunteering here in thechurch and you're leading a
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group or involved in group, howyou're leading those groups, ask
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yourself these three questions,okay?
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The first is, how do I respondto feedback?
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How do I respond to feedback?
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If you're married, when yourspouse gives you feedback,
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how do you respond?
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Husbands, your wife isa marriage book.
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She will be happy to tell youhow to improve your marriage.
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And at the end of the day, mostof us are gonna see every bit of
00:50:53.567 --> 00:50:57.337
feedback we get as either a giftor as a threat.
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We're gonna see it as aninsight, a blessing, especially
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when it comes from our enemies.
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Your enemies are gonna bethe most honest with you.
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They're not gonna tell youwhat your friends--
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Your friends won't tell you whatyour enemies will be happy
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to tell you.
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There's a gift in that.
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Or are we gonna take it as anoffense?
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Are we gonna take it as anattack on our authority, an
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attack on our office?
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So to lead like Jesus is firstto see feedback, even and
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especially negative feedback,as a gift.
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Number two, how is yoursuccessor planning?
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Jesus from the very beginningwas designing successors.
00:51:38.011 --> 00:51:43.150
He said, "Greater workswill you do."
00:51:43.183 --> 00:51:45.152
From the very beginning, hewanted the 12 to effectively
00:51:45.185 --> 00:51:48.688
replace him in leadership onEarth, and they too
00:51:48.722 --> 00:51:52.792
developed successors.
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When you are in your job, youneed to be developing leaders.
00:51:55.095 --> 00:52:00.867
You need to be a leaderof leaders.
00:52:00.901 --> 00:52:03.904
With your kids, you want to beraising your kids to be--
00:52:03.937 --> 00:52:09.309
it's more important that youraise your kids to be strong
00:52:09.342 --> 00:52:11.778
than it is that you raisethem to be safe.
00:52:11.811 --> 00:52:14.414
You need them as soon aspossible to become the kind
00:52:14.447 --> 00:52:18.318
of people that don't needyou anymore.
00:52:18.351 --> 00:52:20.020
You'll always be there for them,you'll always love them,
00:52:20.053 --> 00:52:21.888
you'll always comfort them,but what if you died?
00:52:21.922 --> 00:52:25.158
You will someday, and when youdo, you want to know that I did
00:52:25.192 --> 00:52:29.196
a good job of training mychildren to lead good lives the
00:52:29.229 --> 00:52:35.001
way I want them to lead.
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"Train up a child they shouldgo," as the Scripture says, "and
00:52:36.536 --> 00:52:38.672
they won't depart from it."
00:52:38.705 --> 00:52:40.473
As a pastor, I need to betraining up other pastors,
00:52:40.507 --> 00:52:44.044
preachers, leaders, churchplanters.
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In your job, you need to betraining people to fill
00:52:46.846 --> 00:52:49.616
your role.
00:52:49.649 --> 00:52:50.951
And as you do this, you're gonnabe learning a lot
00:52:50.984 --> 00:52:52.419
about yourself.
00:52:52.452 --> 00:52:53.753
People that-- especiallyfounding people, founding past--
00:52:53.787 --> 00:52:56.056
there's an old saying thatfounding pastors don't retire,
00:52:56.089 --> 00:52:58.992
founding pastors die.
00:52:59.025 --> 00:53:00.760
That's a sad thing to hear, thatsome of these gigantic,
00:53:00.794 --> 00:53:05.098
influential ministries that havedone so much, they have no
00:53:05.131 --> 00:53:09.202
successor plan and there's nogroup of people that can come up
00:53:09.236 --> 00:53:12.772
from the rear and take over.
00:53:12.806 --> 00:53:14.140
There's a lot of old legendsthat are going out that have no
00:53:14.174 --> 00:53:17.677
plan of what's gonna happen whenthey're gone.
00:53:17.711 --> 00:53:19.613
Okay, so you always, always needto be training leaders to lead
00:53:19.646 --> 00:53:24.317
like Jesus.
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That's what he--that's how he led.
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And number three-- so numberone, how do you respond
00:53:27.053 --> 00:53:29.489
to feedback?
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Number two, are you trainingleaders?
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Are you training successors?
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And number three, who leadsand who follows?
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It should be, ideally, if you'releading like Christ, that
00:53:37.631 --> 00:53:40.734
everything you're doing, you'redoing first as a follower, then
00:53:40.767 --> 00:53:44.371
as a leader.
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Paul said, "Follow me as Ifollow Christ."
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That the first question you'reasking anytime you're making a
00:53:49.376 --> 00:53:52.679
decision, anytime you're tryin'to give influence, is, what
00:53:52.712 --> 00:53:56.049
direction is the Lord going?
00:53:56.082 --> 00:53:57.917
How can I move this corporatemeeting, how can I move this
00:53:57.951 --> 00:54:01.521
family, how can I move thisministry, or this group that I'm
00:54:01.554 --> 00:54:05.859
in, or my classroom, if you'rein school or university?
00:54:05.892 --> 00:54:09.362
How do I find a way-- wherewould Christ be leading this?
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And do your bestto follow that way.
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And then you say, "Follow meas I follow Christ."
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So it's not about your personal,big vision of what you want to
00:54:18.305 --> 00:54:21.741
do, it's aboutwhat does Christ--
00:54:21.775 --> 00:54:24.377
How is Christ gonna bless thisgroup, and how's he gonna carry
00:54:24.411 --> 00:54:27.080
this group?
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And you'll find that it's muchmore endearing, first of all,
00:54:28.481 --> 00:54:30.784
and you'll find that you'll finda lot more joy because it's not
00:54:30.817 --> 00:54:33.720
about your vision, it's aboutthe vision that Christ has that
00:54:33.753 --> 00:54:36.856
he has put in you.
00:54:36.890 --> 00:54:38.892
All of this to simply say--actually, I want to challenge
00:54:38.925 --> 00:54:40.960
you if you're listening tothe sermon on television or
00:54:40.994 --> 00:54:43.797
wherever, and maybe you'renot a believer or a Christian.
00:54:43.830 --> 00:54:46.166
I want to encourage you toemploy these principles, because
00:54:46.199 --> 00:54:51.738
we not only trust Jesus as thespiritual Savior of our life,
00:54:51.771 --> 00:54:54.941
but we trust his wisdom, thatwhat he's teaching us is
00:54:54.974 --> 00:54:58.411
actually smart and good for us,that this is actually gonna be
00:54:58.445 --> 00:55:02.148
beneficial to you as a leader.
00:55:02.182 --> 00:55:03.950
Not only are you going to bemore successful in the long run
00:55:03.983 --> 00:55:07.120
if you lead like Jesus, butyou're gonna be a more joyful
00:55:07.153 --> 00:55:09.823
leader, and you might even cometo find out that Jesus is
00:55:09.856 --> 00:55:12.625
exactly who he said he was, thathe's the smartest person who's
00:55:12.659 --> 00:55:16.262
ever lived.
00:55:16.296 --> 00:55:17.597
He didn't say that, but I'msaying that.
00:55:17.630 --> 00:55:19.065
He is the smartest person who'sever lived, that he knows more
00:55:19.099 --> 00:55:21.368
than anybody's ever known, andthen, and that he truly is the
00:55:21.401 --> 00:55:25.305
way that we can come before theFather redeemed and rescued, and
00:55:25.338 --> 00:55:29.075
we thank him for that.
00:55:29.109 --> 00:55:30.877
Friends, I just think you'redoing much better than you think
00:55:30.910 --> 00:55:32.746
you are.
00:55:32.779 --> 00:55:34.114
You're a better parentthan you are.
00:55:34.147 --> 00:55:35.448
You're a better leaderthan you are.
00:55:35.482 --> 00:55:36.816
And continue to allow the Lordto do good work in you.
00:55:36.850 --> 00:55:39.919
Father, we thank you so much forall that you've given to us, all
00:55:39.953 --> 00:55:43.723
the ways that you entrusted us.
00:55:43.757 --> 00:55:45.892
And we pray, God, that we wouldlet go of our egos and our need
00:55:45.925 --> 00:55:48.995
to be recognized, and loved, andadmired, or titles, or offices;
00:55:49.028 --> 00:55:53.733
to let go of those things and tojust go where you want us to go.
00:55:53.767 --> 00:55:59.873
We're not afraid of beingembarrassed, Lord.
00:55:59.906 --> 00:56:02.008
We're not afraid of beingashamed.
00:56:02.041 --> 00:56:04.511
We're not afraid of not beingthanked or not
00:56:04.544 --> 00:56:07.680
getting recognition.
00:56:07.714 --> 00:56:09.115
We're not worried about beingtotally unique and special.
00:56:09.149 --> 00:56:12.619
Lord, we just gotta-- we'regonna let go of all of
00:56:12.652 --> 00:56:14.454
that stuff.
00:56:14.487 --> 00:56:15.822
We know that in your eyes, youtreasure us, and love us,
00:56:15.855 --> 00:56:18.992
and care for us.
00:56:19.025 --> 00:56:20.326
That's enough for us, Lord.
00:56:20.360 --> 00:56:21.694
What a gift that is that theKing of kings and the Lord
00:56:21.728 --> 00:56:24.330
of lords, he smiles over you.
00:56:24.364 --> 00:56:25.799
He blesses you.He calls you.
00:56:25.832 --> 00:56:28.501
He loves you.
00:56:28.535 --> 00:56:29.836
We don't needanybody else's love.
00:56:29.869 --> 00:56:31.204
Lord, we can serve, and trust,and do what you called us to do.
00:56:31.237 --> 00:56:34.474
We thank you.
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It's in Jesus's namewe pray, amen.
00:56:35.842 --> 00:56:38.645
And now, the Lord bless youand keep you.
00:56:38.678 --> 00:56:41.181
The Lord make his faceto shine upon you
00:56:41.214 --> 00:56:43.349
and be gracious unto you.
00:56:43.383 --> 00:56:45.185
The Lord lift his countenanceupon you and give you peace.
00:56:45.218 --> 00:56:48.288
In the name of the Father,and of the Son,
00:56:48.321 --> 00:56:49.722
and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
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