Hello, I'm Mike Browning,
welcome to Let God Speak.
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Leadership is a
challenging role.
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Some people with
strong personalities,
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they're natural leaders,
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but most have to
learn how to lead.
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Regardless, all leaders have
a powerful influence on others.
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From the scriptures
today, we'll seek to understand
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the power of
spiritual leadership.
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Well, folks, on our panel today,
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we have Gayl Fong
and we have Colin Hone,
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and we're glad to have you both.
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Thank you for coming.
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And, Gayl,
welcome to the program.
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This is your first time,
we appreciate you being here.
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We'd like to invite
everyone to join with us
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in prayer today.
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Father in heaven,
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we come to You to
ask for Your guidance,
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the guidance of Your Holy Spirit
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as we study the Scripture today.
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Help us to understand
its message to us, please.
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In Jesus' name, we pray, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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All right.
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Now we need to talk about
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what qualities
make for a good leader.
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Colin, that's
our first step today.
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Well, let's go to 2 Kings 22:3,
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this is with Josiah
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where he restores true
worship back to Israel.
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And in verse 3, it says,
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"Then the king stood by a pillar
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and made a
covenant before the Lord
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to follow the Lord and
to keep his commandments
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and his
testimonies and his statutes
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with all his heart
and with all his soul."
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So he made a covenant with God
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that he was going to
keep God's commandments,
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restore worship,
and with all his heart.
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And then he not
just spoke about it,
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he then went about
in action and doing it.
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You see him,
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you know, shutting
down all the idol worship
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around Israel.
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You see him, you know,
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shutting down the
offering of sons and daughters
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where they are
offering their children
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to the god of
Moloch through fire.
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And he shut down that practice,
so he put it into action.
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He spoke it,
made a deal with God,
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with all his
heart to follow Him,
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keep His commandments.
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And then he actually
put into action what,
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you know, he was a
man of not just words,
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but of action.
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So that was good
leadership, wasn't it?
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A good leadership role.
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A lot of people
want to lead others.
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But is this really an easy job?
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I mean, that's the question.
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Well, I think leaders
have a huge responsibility.
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And this is certainly
shown throughout the Bible.
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They can exert a great influence
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for good or evil,
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just as Colin has
shared with King Josiah.
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And God is going
to actually ask us
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for an account of how we
deal with the responsibilities.
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He gives us.
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And it's an illustration
of that in Luke 16:1-2.
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I'll just read those verses.
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He said, "He also
said to his disciples
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there was a certain
rich man who had a steward,
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and an accusation
was brought to him
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that this man was
wasting his goods.
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So he called
him and said to him,
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'What is this I hear about you?
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Give an account
of your stewardship,
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for you can no
longer be steward.'"
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And it's quite serious
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when you think
about the responsibilities
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that God gives to leaders,
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whether we are a
leader of a great nation
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or if we are leader
in our home as a parent
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or in our community.
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Yeah, okay. Now,
thank you Gayl for that.
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That's true.
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I want to look now
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at some of the
experiences of the apostles
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in the New Testament.
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And I'd like to talk
about it for us, if you could.
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What do you think
of Peter and James
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and their approach to
dealing their leadership style,
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if you like, in dealing
with a very important issue
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that came up?
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There's a record of
the next Chapter 15.
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Yes. Well,
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what, to give
you some background,
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what was happening?
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Just like any church,
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they had disputes
back in their days.
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Their dispute there was
over circumcision, okay?
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That was a
long-held practice by.
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And was it to be applied
to the non-Jewish people?
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To the gentiles,
as they called them.
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And so there was a dispute.
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And so what happened
then is Peter and Paul get up
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and they start
giving their testimonies
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of how God worked
miraculously through gentiles
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and that they also have been
saved in the same way by Jesus.
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Yeah.
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And so, and so they
preach from the Word of God.
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And then they
even quoted scripture
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where Peter quote
scripture, where he says in...
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Well, he's quoting scripture
and he says in Acts 15:16-17,
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as the prophet said,
"After this I will return
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and will rebuild
the tabernacle of David,
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which has fallen down,
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I will rebuild its
ruins, and I will set it up.
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So the rest of
mankind may seek the Lord.
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The rest of
mankind, not just..."
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All of gentiles. "The gentiles.
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Even all the
gentiles are called by name."
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And so James gets up.
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And after Peter and Paul
have given their testimony,
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quoted from the Word of God.
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James gets up and
makes the decisions
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that the gentile should not
be troubled from turning to God
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and they're
accepted into the faith.
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So it's a
scripture driven decision
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that he was calling for.
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That's right.
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And I think
that's powerful lesson
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when it comes to leadership.
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And going back into
the Old Testament now
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and the experience
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that followed
the death of Solomon.
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His son Rehoboam took the throne
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and a delegation of people came
to Rehoboam and talk to him.
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And it's
recorded in 1 Kings 12:4.
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1 Kings 12:4.
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And this is what
the delegation of people
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said to Rehoboam the new king.
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"Your father
made the yoke heavy.
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Now, therefore, lighten
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the burdens in
service of your father
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and his heavy yoke."
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And he wisely said
to them in verse 5,
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"Depart for three
days, then come back."
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So he needed time to
think the answer through.
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That was good.
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And so then verse 6,
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"King Rehoboam
consulted the elders
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who stood before his father."
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These are the old
wise, experienced men.
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And he says, "How do you advise
me to answer these people?"
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In verse 7, they said,
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"If you will be a
servant to these people..."
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Now, isn't that
an interesting thing?
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Yes, it is.
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We've talked a lot
today about certain leadership
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and how powerful it is.
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And this is a long time ago.
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And they're saying,
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"If you will be a
servant to the people,
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and serve them and answer them,
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so on speak good words,
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they'll be your
servants forever."
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But verse 8, "He
rejected the advice
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which the elders had given him
and consulted the young man."
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What did they say?
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There is none. He asked them.
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In verse 10,
"The young man said,
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'Thus you should
speak to this people
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who have spoken to you,
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saying, 'Your father
made our yoke too heavy.'
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Say this,
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'My little finger shall be
thicker than father's waist.'"
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And they go on giving
some very unwise counsel.
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Verse 11, "Whereas my father
put a heavy yoke upon you.
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I will add to your yoke.
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My father
chastise you with whips,
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I'll chastise
you with scorpions."
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I mean, this was
really incredible.
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So how did this go?
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Well, it went disastrously
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because he did not follow
the wise advice of the elders
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who had learned,
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I'm sure over the
years of how to be a leader.
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And they gave
him excellent advice,
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but he didn't follow that.
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And from my study that,
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his character had been molded,
sadly, in his early years,
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not perhaps by the best example.
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And the first example
for us is always our parents,
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our mom or dad or
someone who is caring for us.
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And he,
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perhaps he missed out there
and his character was very,
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was not strong in
doing what was right.
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He obviously was a
very proud young man.
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And it says in 1 Kings
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12:16-17,
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it says, now, "When all Israel
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saw that the king
did not listen to them.
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The people
answered the king saying,
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'What share have we in David?
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We have no
inheritance in the son of Jesse.
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To your tents, O Israel.
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Now see to your
own house, O David!'"
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So Israel
departed to their tents,
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but Rehoboam reigned
over the children of Israel
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who dwelt in
the cities of Judah.
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So it actually was the beginning
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of the split of the empire.
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Yes.
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And Israel really went downhill
from that point, didn't it.
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So he did not
lead with humility.
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And he showed his
character was a very weak
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and vacillating character.
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We talked about the power
of humility a little while ago,
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and it seemed to
be seriously lacking
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in the experience
of this young man.
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So that was too bad.
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Compare this with
the leadership of Josiah
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that we mentioned earlier.
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Then, Colin, sorry, a
little bit earlier than that.
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We first of all,
before we come to that,
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we're going to talk about
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the experience of Jeroboam
and his son Nadab later.
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That's recorded for us in
1 Kings Chapter 15, folks,
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just a couple of pages over.
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So you've got Nadab or Nadab
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or however you
want to pronounce it.
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He becomes the king
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and he's a son of
Jeroboam and become...
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And in verse, chapter 15:25-26.
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It says,
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"Now Nadab the son of
Jeroboam became king over Israel
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in the second year
of Asa king of Judah,
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and he reigned over
Israel for two years.
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And he did evil in
the sight of the Lord,
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and walked in the
way of his father,
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and in his sin by which
he had made Israel sin."
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So what you found there
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is that the father
had influenced his son,
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and he walked in the same ways.
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Which shows us that as parents
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that we can have
a great influence
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for good or evil
over our children.
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And that's not always the case.
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Children can still
make their own decisions,
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but they can
influence in a negative way
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or a positive way.
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We pick up our parents'
model by osmosis almost,
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don't we, without
even thinking about it,
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unless we do
deliberately choose otherwise.
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But in this case,
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I noticed at the end of verse 26
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where you read there.
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It says that he made Israel sin.
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So his model not only
affected his children,
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but the entire nation.
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That's the incredible
thing about it all to me.
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The whole nation was affected.
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That shows that leaders,
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how leaders can actually
affect the whole nation.
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They can affect a
whole church potentially
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in the way that they're leading.
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Okay.
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The people of God are
definitely an influence,
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there's no doubt about it.
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Now we'll come to Josiah.
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Gayl, like we
mentioned earlier on.
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Now, just comparing
Josiah's positive leadership
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with what we just
read about with these men.
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Yes.
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Obviously, Josiah, he say,
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he comes to the
throne very young.
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I mean, he's only
eight years of age
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when he actually is placed
in such a responsible position.
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But we notice that,
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that a number of years later
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when he's in his
20s, as Colin was,
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has read out earlier
when we began the study,
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that he has set his
whole heart to follow the Lord
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and he wants to
bring the nation with him.
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They are just two
opposites that we see here.
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He is leading the people
upward to God spiritually,
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whereas we found that
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Jeroboam and Rehoboam actually
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led them downward
away from blessings.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You see the
influence on his life as well.
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There was the
influence in his life
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was by a priest who
was a man often after God.
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And he didn't have the
influence from his parents
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because obviously
his father died young
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and his grandma was ruling
and she was doing quite evil,
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but he was set
aside and trained up
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in the ways of the Lord.
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I thought that was
really interesting.
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Yes, it is very
interesting indeed.
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And what a powerful influence
a man of God can be on a child.
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Yes.
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You know a
powerful positive influence.
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Yes.
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Moving on to Nehemiah now,
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we've spent a lot of
time in Ezra and Nehemiah
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this last couple
of months of study
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which has been so interesting.
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I'd like to go to Nehemiah 1:3-4
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and look at the
kind of leadership
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we have here from Nehemiah.
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And this is what it
says, Nehemiah 1:3 and 4.
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"They said to me,
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"And the survivors who are left
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from the
captivity in the province
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are in great
distress and reproach."
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Nehemiah's back in Babylon
and he hears this news about
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the people back in Jerusalem.
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And he goes on
to say in verse 3,
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"The wall of
Jerusalem is broken down,
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its gates are burned with fire."
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Look at the
response of Nehemiah.
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Now here's a man who
has the capacity to lead.
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"So it was, when
I heard these words,
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I sat down and wept
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and mourned for many days."
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He didn't just cry and
worn and get sad and everything.
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He didn't wring his
hands, only, he says.
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I was fasting and praying
before the God of heaven.
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Now there's a good response.
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So compare this
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with what they've
just been reading about
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where these men
lead people into evil.
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Here's a man.
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What do you think
that his approach here?
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Well, there's two
things he was upset
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and sad about
what was happening.
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It really affected his heart.
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But what he did
is, he just said,
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okay, I'm gonna take action now.
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He comes and says, I'm
going to go to you, Lord.
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And it was with prayer
and fasting that he began,
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which means he was going to
God to ask Him, what do I do?
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I want direction from You,
not from what I think is right.
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But, you know, what's
your will in this situation.
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So prayer and fasting,
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you find that right
throughout the Bible,
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the great leaders were
men of prayer and fasting,
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and Jesus Himself was
always in prayer and fasting.
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Yeah, that's true. That's true.
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And Ezra did the same. Yes.
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He went to prayer and
fasting as well, yeah.
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Which means they're
relying on God to lead them,
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not on their own
selves and their own abilities
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or their own
giftedness in themselves.
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They're realizing that
that they need God to lead.
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And it's interesting in a crisis
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that they had already
set their heart towards God.
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Otherwise, they would
not have turned there.
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That's right.
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They were already spiritual men.
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And so they had the confidence
then to go to God in prayer.
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And not only that,
prayer and fasting,
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which indicated the earnestness
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of how they felt
about this whole problem.
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Despite all of that,
was everyone influenced
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by the leadership
of these great men
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of faith and
prayer like Nehemiah?
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Well, sadly, no. Not everyone.
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Although they had
a massive influence
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on the nation.
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It would appear
throughout their times
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that the tendency
for the people themselves
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to remain faithful did not last.
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Okay. And they often struggled.
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Although being a faithful leader
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does not mean that you
can always choose the outcome.
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No, that's
right. But they, they...
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But then as you pointed
out, they had a huge influence
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despite the fact that it
didn't always go so well.
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There's always opposition
when you step up for God.
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That's okay.
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Of course, that
makes sense, doesn't it?
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It makes lot of
sense. It does make sense.
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And I guess, they
have to be faithful.
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It's the faithfulness.
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But even Jesus,
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He wasn't always
followed and accepted
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with what He had to say.
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He didn't even always
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have a positive
influence for young people.
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Well, let's be honest, Israel
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in the whole rejected
Jesus and crucified Him.
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And you know, you
see what Jesus says
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in Matthew 23:37-38.
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His response to
that, to Jerusalem.
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You know, He'd
come, He spoke with them.
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He healed them.
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He'd done incredible
miracles, raise the dead people.
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And yet still they rejected Him.
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And he goes in verse 37,
"O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
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the one who kills the prophet."
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He says, you've killed
all the prophets before.
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"And stone, those
who are sent to you,"
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you know, sent to her,
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"how often I wanted to
gather your children together
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as a hen gathers her
chicks under her wings."
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He wants to gather them around
and love them and protect them.
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But you were not
willing. Usual picture.
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He says, "You
weren't willing..."
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And now, because of
you weren't willing,
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"See, your house is
left to you desolate.
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Wow.
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You know, He said, basically,
I've done everything I can.
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I've sent prophets, and
you've just rejected them.
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Now I've come Myself.
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You know, I'm God in the flesh.
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I've come down to
love and care for you.
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And you're even going to
reject Me and crucify Me.
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And now He's saying,
"Your time is finished."
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They missed their opportunity,
their great opportunity,
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defining moment
had come and gone,
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they hadn't even realized.
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That was very
true. Very true, indeed.
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Now back to Israel,
Nehemiah's time now.
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Again, they had
enemies there, didn't they?
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They had a lot of enemies.
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Nehemiah didn't
just once again step back
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and bring his
hands or even just pray.
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He did some
interesting things, didn't he?
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Yes, he did.
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When he was challenged,
he always prayed first,
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but then he was a man of action.
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And in Nehemiah
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4:15-16, "It happened,
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when our enemies heard
that it was known to us,
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and that God had
brought their plot to nothing,
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that all of us
returned to the wall,
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everyone to his work."
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But to work they
went, but they went armed.
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They did not just expect
God to do everything for them.
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They went with
their sword on one side
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and they implement to
build a wall on the other.
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So they were very
prepared, of course.
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This was very
intimidating to the enemy.
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Yes, that was fantastic.
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Not taking God for
granted, and we mustn't do that.
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Colin, how did Nehemiah
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demonstrate his
leadership qualities
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while he was
dealing with these issues?
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Well, one thing I found about
most leaders and even Nehemiah
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is they led by example.
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Yes. And they
also empowered others.
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They didn't just say,
let's do it all ourselves
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or let's dictate it.
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They actually empowered others
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and surround
himself with leaders
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who were even more
capable themselves.
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And you read in Nehemiah
3:1-3 where it says when the...
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about the
rebuilding of the wall.
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"Then Eliashib
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the high priest rose up
with his brethren the priests
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and built the Sheep Gate,
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they consecrated
it and hung its doors.
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They built as far as
the Tower of the Hundred,
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and consecrated it,
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then as far as
the Tower of Hananel."
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So he had cooperation,
and he empowered others to go
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and do their parts.
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"And next to Eliashib
the men of Jericho built.
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And next to them
Zaccur the son of Imri built."
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And he keeps on
continuing on that,
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that they all enabled others
and empowered them to lead.
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He didn't just dictate,
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you know, he was a
very empowering leader.
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Okay, and there was a
sign of good leadership
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to bring in
other capable people.
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Some leaders, I
think, are afraid to do that.
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But that would be a mistake,
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obviously, to
go down that track.
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Nehemiah quite showed other
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characteristics of
good leadership, too.
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Didn't he, Gayl?
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Yes, he certainly did.
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He was a true servant leader.
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As some Colin
has brought out about
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Jesus being an
excellent example,
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one of the best
example that we could ever have
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of, for a leader, Nehemiah,
00:19:24.63\00:19:27.20
he exemplified
servant leadership.
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He was a very humble
leader and a very godly man.
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He put his trust in God
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because he was continually
being bombarded by the enemy
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on personal
attacks against himself
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from within and from without.
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Okay.
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And so, yes, he just didn't,
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he just didn't
give instructions.
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He actually was
working on the wall with them.
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Everywhere you see, he
was there in boots and all.
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Okay, way to go.
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And that's real
servant leadership.
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That's good.
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Very good. Thank you.
00:20:00.63\00:20:01.96
there's an
interesting statement here
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I'd like to read.
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"Ezra came to
Jerusalem in the fifth month."
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That's when he
arrived, 7th year of the king.
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"On the first day
of the first month,
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he began his
journey from Babylon.
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And on the first
day of the fifth month,
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he came to Jerusalem,
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according to the good
hand of his God upon him."
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It was a spiritual
journey for him, for Ezra.
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And this is the
reason why God was with him.
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"For Israel had
prepared his heart
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to seek the law of
the Lord and to do it,
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and to teach statutes
and ordinances in Israel,"
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which is a really
interesting statement.
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Colin, what do you?
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You can see what's
driving Ezra here, can't you?
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Again.
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Did you notice that
there was a similar pattern
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with other leaders
we spoke about earlier,
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where the king, he
said with all his heart
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he wanted to make
a covenant with God
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and keep His
commandments and His statutes.
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And then Ezra went and taught
the people the same thing.
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He put it on his
own heart to do that.
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And then he taught the
people so they could do will,
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God's will.
00:21:01.06\00:21:02.39
And he just did,
he led by example.
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So, he says, I'm
making a covenant.
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I'm gonna keep the commandments
of God and statutes.
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And then he taught the
people about God's will.
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And because he knew
00:21:10.80\00:21:12.27
the covenant they'd made
with Israel and made with God
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is that when they
kept the covenant of God,
00:21:14.47\00:21:16.91
that God would
protect them and bless them.
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And when they didn't,
God withdrew their protection
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and disaster came upon Israel.
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So he knew it was in
the best interest of Israel.
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It was vital
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to the survival
of Israel, I think.
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There's something
very interesting about
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how they seek the Lord
00:21:30.82\00:21:32.35
because the Holy
Spirit is seeking us.
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And that's what
draws us to want to know
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God in the first place.
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And he, as it's been read,
00:21:40.53\00:21:42.63
he prepared his
heart to seek the Lord,
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so the Holy Spirit
has been moving him.
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And so as he gets into the word,
00:21:46.74\00:21:48.67
he is just so
blown away by the word,
00:21:48.70\00:21:52.04
he falls in love with
Jesus and his spirit filled
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and his passionate drives him.
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Thank you, it's lovely.
00:21:57.51\00:21:58.91
Yeah, I can see that
tears is definitely good.
00:21:58.95\00:22:02.18
And there's something else
00:22:02.22\00:22:04.02
that stands out in the
life of both Ezra and Nehemiah,
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Gayl, isn't there?
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They were both great.
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They were great leaders,
but they also had goals.
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I believe the Holy Spirit
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that God had put
goals upon their heart.
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And Ezra certainly, his goal,
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he longed for them
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to not only complete building
Jerusalem and the walls,
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but his passion
for them to know God
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and to teach them
the laws and the statute
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so that they would love
God and obey Him and follow Him
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and receive all the blessings.
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And Nehemiah was
passionate for Jesus.
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He was.
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Yeah, because he
could have gone and say.
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Finished the task.
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For 52 days
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they did under his
leadership to finish the wall.
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That was amazing, wasn't it?
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It was amazing. It was amazing.
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Now,
specifically, what do you see
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is the main goal that they had?
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Well, there was always
to uplift the Word of God.
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It was to restore
the temple worship.
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They always
wanted the temple worship
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because the temple
worship pointed to the Messiah,
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the sacrificing lambs.
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Yeah.
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They wanted to
restore the Word of God,
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restore visible
worship, true worship to God.
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So God's people write
about the Old Testament.
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I believe also in
the New Testament,
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the last days were
always want to restore
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true worship to
God, to His Word.
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And you can see
that right through
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the whole Old Testament,
New Testament of all leaders.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I think worship
is the highest form
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that we can give to God
is giving Him our heart,
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our soul, our
mind, all that we are.
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And that's true
worship, isn't it?
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But to do it God's way. Yeah.
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Not the way we
think. No, that's true.
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So it wasn't just a material,
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a material restoration of Israel
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that these men were
interested in, was it?
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They had been far beyond that?
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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Worship was at the
heart of it, true worship.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Restored relationship
with the living God.
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Yeah.
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Now getting back to
leadership qualities,
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which is what we're
trying to unwrap here today.
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The characteristics
of a great leader
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are definitely
being uncovered here.
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Colin, and what
stands out for you?
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Well, I see a lot of things
stand out but one thing I'd say
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is there are men of prayer,
fasting, two, they were humble.
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Now how you look
like, the most humble person
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in the whole Bible that
God speaks about was Moses.
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He was the most humble man.
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And so what, when you're humble,
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you're teachable.
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Yep.
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And when you're not humble,
your pride, your leaders,
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I know everything.
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I know what to do.
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But humble people can lead
because they can be teachable.
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They're
teachable from God Himself.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So that's one of the things
I think drives these people.
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And they also,
they led by example.
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They got involved themselves.
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They didn't just say it,
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but they actually led by action.
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Okay.
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Now we're going to move
on a bit more quickly here.
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Now, I'm going to
come back to you, Colin.
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There's another
leadership characteristic
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that's outlined here that
you do find a good leader,
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we've mentioned some of
these characteristics already.
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I'm going to refer in
Nehemiah here in Chapter 5,
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and I'm going to
read verses 14-15.
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Nehemiah 5:14-15,
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which says,
"Moreover, from the time
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that I was appointed
to be their governor,"
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this is Nehemiah
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speaking or writing for himself,
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"from the 20th year
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to the 32nd year
of King Artaxerxes,
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12 years,
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neither I nor my brothers
ate the governor's provisions."
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In other words,
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he was the governor
and they were allotted
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quite a lot of
substantial amount of provisions
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and he didn't use that.
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He used his own.
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Verse 15, he says,
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"The former governors
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who were before me
laid burdens on the people.
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Took from them bread and wine
besides 40 shekels of silver."
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A lot of money.
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"Yes, even their servants
bore rule over the people,
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but I did not do so
because of the fear of God,"
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which was interesting.
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So basically he didn't.
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He worked for nothing
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because he could see
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that the people were under
significant pressure already.
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So, again, you
know, there's some
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good
characteristic coming in here?
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Well, let's see.
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He didn't want to take advantage
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of the people
for financial gain,
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even though he had
a right as a governor
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to provisions and he provided
the table of food for them.
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He provided everything,
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he didn't take
advantage through money.
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So what does that
tell you about someone?
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That it was in his heart.
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Amen. Yeah.
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It was in his heart to,
to bring worship back to God,
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to build one of the
goal that God had given them.
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So once again,
the servant leader
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comes to the fore here,
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just as we see in
the life of Jesus.
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And Jesus just
very briefly, Gayl,
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did raise the issue
of servant leadership,
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didn't He there?
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Yes, He did.
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He certainly
showed those qualities.
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And in Luke 22:25,
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the Bible says
this reading there,
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"And he said to them,
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'The king of the
Gentiles exercises
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lordship over them,
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and those who exercise authority
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over them are
called benefactors."
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But just
skipping down to verse 27,
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"Yet I am among
you as one who serves.
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That's what Jesus did.
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And we're going to
finish right up there.
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Thank you. That
made it very clear.
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Jesus put His own signature
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on the servant leadership model.
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So, folks, the best leadership
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is driven and directed
by prayer, as we've seen.
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Enlisting power and direction
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from God makes
leaders vital and successful.
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Jesus being the
best model for this.
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He was a servant
and loved the people.
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They knew He
desired their best goods.
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No wonder the humble
people followed Him gladly.
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