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>>GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY
SABBATH. WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU
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IF YOU'RE JOINING US ONLINE
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TELEVISION OR RIGHT HERE IN
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WELCOME EVERYBODY TO OUR SABBATH
SCHOOL STUDY HOUR THIS MORNING.
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AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING
THROUGH THE BOOK OF PETER.
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1 PETER HAS BEEN OUR TOPIC
FOR THE - SEVERAL WEEKS AND THIS
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MORNING OUR LESSON, AS WE STUDY
TOGETHER IS LESSON #7 ENTITLED
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SERVANT LEADERSHIP - SERVANT
LEADERSHIP IS OUR TITLE THIS
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MORNING, AS WE
STUDY IT TOGETHER.
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I ALSO WANT TO MAKE YOU AWARE,
FOR ALL OF THOSE VIEWING, THAT
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IS THERE ANYTHING LEFT YOU CAN
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OUR CUSTOM IS, BEFORE WE JUMP
RIGHT INTO OUR LESSON, WE LOVE
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TO PRAISE THE LORD IN
SONG AND WE LOVE TO HEAR MUSIC.
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AND SO, BEFORE WE JUST JUMP
RIGHT IN, I LIKE TO ENCOURAGE
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YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY
THIS SPECIAL MUSIC THIS MORNING.
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>>I THOUGHT I DID WHAT'S RIGHT.
I THOUGHT I HAD THE ANSWERS. I
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THOUGHT I CHOSE THE SUREST ROAD
BUT THAT ROAD BROUGHT ME HERE.
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SO I PUT UP A FIGHT AND TOLD YOU
HOW TO HELP ME. NOW JUST WHEN I
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HAVE GIVEN UP THE TRUTH IS
COMING CLEAR. LORD, YOU KNOW
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BETTER THAN I, YOU KNOW THE WAY.
I'VE LET GO THE NEED TO KNOW
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WHY. FOR YOU KNOW BETTER THAN I.
IF THIS HAS BEEN A TEST I CANNOT
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SEE THE REASON, BUT MAYBE
KNOWING I DON'T KNOW IS PART OF
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GETTING THROUGH. I TRY TO DO
WHAT'S BEST AND FAITH HAS MADE
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IT EASY TO SEE THE BEST THING
I CAN DO IS PUT MY TRUST IN YOU.
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FOR YOU KNOW BETTER THAN I. YOU
KNOW THE WAY. I'VE LET GO THE
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NEED TO KNOW WHY. FOR YOU KNOW
BETTER THAN I. I SAW ONE CLOUD
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AND THOUGHT IT WAS A SKY. I SAW
A BIRD AND THOUGHT THAT I COULD
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FOLLOW BUT IT WAS YOU WHO TAUGHT
THAT BIRD TO FLY. IF I LET YOU
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REACH ME WILL YOU TEACH ME? FOR
YOU KNOW BETTER THAN I. YOU KNOW
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THE WAY. I'VE LET GO THE NEED TO
KNOW WHY. I'LL TAKE WHAT ANSWERS
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YOU SUPPLY. LORD,
YOU KNOW BETTER THAN I.
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>>THIS MORNING WE'RE
JUMPING INTO LESSON #7 - IT'S A
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POWERFUL LESSON
AS WE GET INTO IT.
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AND, AS I LIKE TO DO, I LIKE TO
KIND OF LOOK AT THE MEMORY VERSE
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FIRST - I LIKE TO LOOK AT THE
MEMORY VERSE HERE IN LESSON #7 -
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SERVANT LEADERSHIP - AND IT'S
A VERSE, I'M SURE, WE'RE ALL
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ACQUAINTED WITH - ALL OF US
FACE CARES AND THE CARES OF THIS
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WORLD - AND PETER GIVES US THIS
ENCOURAGING VERSE AS WE JUMP
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RIGHT IN THIS LESSON THIS
MORNING ON SERVANT LEADERSHIP.
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IT'S 1 PETER CHAPTER 5, VERSE
7. HE SAYS, "CASTING ALL YOUR
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CARE UPON HIM FOR HE"
- WHAT? >>CARES FOR YOU.
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>>"HE CARES FOR YOU."
AND SO, ULTIMATELY, AS WE GO
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THROUGH THIS LESSON ON SERVANT
LEADERSHIP, ONE POINT THAT
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WE'RE GOING TO SEE CONSISTENTLY
THROUGHOUT THIS LESSON IS THE
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FACT THAT GOD
CARES FOR HIS LEADERS.
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GOD CARES FOR HIS CHURCH AND
WE CAN CAST ALL OUR CARE ON HIM.
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I'VE BROKEN DOWN THE LESSON INTO
THREE SECTIONS THAT WE'RE GOING
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TO COVER AS WE GO THROUGH
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY,
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THURSDAY AND
EVEN SUNDAY'S LESSON.
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THESE ARE THE THREE TOPICS THAT
THIS LESSON BREAKS DOWN FOR US,
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AS PETER GETS INTO IT, AND WE'RE
GOING TO STUDY SPECIFICALLY
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1 PETER CHAPTER 5. THE
FIRST POINT - THE FIRST KEY
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LESSON OR POINT THAT THE LESSON
BRINGS OUT IS GOD'S BODY - OR
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THE CHURCH - NEEDS LEADERSHIP.
SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE
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NEED FOR LEADERSHIP AND WE'RE
GOING TO ACTUALLY SEE THIS EARLY
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ON IN THE EARLY CHURCH IN HOW
CHRIST DEVELOPS THE CHURCH AND
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HOW HE GIVES
LEADERSHIP TO THE CHURCH.
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THE SECOND POINT THE LESSON
BRINGS OUT IS THAT LEADERSHIP IS
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NOT SO MUCH ABOUT
POSITION BUT CHARACTER.
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IT'S THE CHARACTER OF THE
INDIVIDUAL AND PETER IS GOING TO
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DIVE INTO THE CHARACTERISTICS
THAT MAKE UP GOD'S LEADERS.
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NOW, I KNOW IT'S VERY EASY FOR
US SOMETIMES WHEN WE THINK OF
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LEADERSHIP - WE MAY NOT
PUT OURSELVES IN THAT PLACE, IN
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CHURCH LEADERSHIP.
'WELL, I'M JUST A MEMBER IN THE
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LOCAL CHURCH.' BUT AS PETER GETS
INTO THESE CHARACTERISTICS OF
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LEADERSHIP, WE BEGIN TO REALIZE
THAT ALL OF US CAN HAVE THESE
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CHARACTERISTICS AND WE
CAN, ACTUALLY, LEAD WHEREVER
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WE ARE IN THE CHURCH.
WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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WE CAN INFLUENCE PEOPLE THAT
ARE CLOSEST TO US AND AROUND US
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THROUGH THESE CHARACTERISTICS
THAT PETER DIVES INTO.
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THE THIRD POINT IS: AS LEADERS
WE MUST BE CLEAR MINDED, KNOWING
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THAT EVERY TURN
WE ARE BEING HUNTED.
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SO, THE LAST PART OF THE LESSON
TALKS ABOUT THIS ROARING LION -
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TALKING ABOUT SATAN
- WHO SEEKS TO DEVOUR.
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YOU KNOW, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
IT'S VERY INTERESTING.
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JESUS, HIS PLAN FOR THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL WAS THAT THEY WOULD BE
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THE HEAD AND NOT THE TAIL.
THEY WERE TO BE AN EXAMPLE TO
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ALL NATIONS AROUND THEM AND,
IN THEIR OWN WAY, EACH WAS TO BE
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A LEADER IN GOD'S MOVEMENT.
AND THAT DOESN'T CHANGE AND
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PETER KIND OF UNPACKS
THIS IN 1 PETER CHAPTER 5.
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HE UNPACKS THIS IDEA THAT
EVERYBODY CAN BE A LEADER, EVEN
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THOUGH THERE ARE SPECIFIC
LEADERS THAT GOD DOES RAISE UP
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IN HIS CHURCH. BUT,
WHEN YOU LEAD, REMEMBER
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THERE'S ALWAYS AN ADVERSARY AND
HE'S ALWAYS AROUND EVERY CORNER
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AND HE'S SEEKING WHOM HE
MAY DEVOUR. AND WHY IS THAT?
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BECAUSE HE WANTS TO DESTROY
GOD'S MOVEMENT. HE WANTS TO
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DESTROY GOD'S CHURCH. HE WANTS
TO DESTROY GOD'S PLAN FOR HIS
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CHURCH IN REACHING
THE WORLD WITH THE GOSPEL.
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SO THE LAST POINT WE'RE GOING
TO LOOK AT IS THIS IDEA OF BEING
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CLEAR MINDED - BEING SOBER
- BECAUSE WE ARE BEING HUNTED.
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IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES, I'D
LIKE FOR YOU TO OPEN UP WITH ME
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TO 1 PETER - WE'RE GOING
TO START - WE'RE GOING TO JUMP
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RIGHT IN - 1 PETER CHAPTER 5 - 1
PETER CHAPTER 5, VERSES 1 AND 2
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- 1 PETER CHAPTER 5, VERSES 1
AND 2. HE SAYS, "THE ELDERS WHO
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ARE AMONG YOU I EXHORT, I WHO AM
A FELLOW ELDER AND A WITNESS OF
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THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST,
AND ALSO A PARTAKER OF THE GLORY
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THAT WILL BE REVEALED:" - HE
GOES ON TO SAY - "SHEPHERD THE
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FLOCK OF GOD WHICH IS AMONG YOU,
SERVING AS OVERSEERS, NOT BY
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COMPULSION BUT WILLINGLY, NOT
FOR DISHONEST GAIN BUT EAGERLY;
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NOR AS BEING LORDS OVER THOSE
ENTRUSTED TO YOU, BUT BEING
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EXAMPLES TO THE FLOCK;" - PETER
BEGINS, IN THIS EPISTLE, IN HIS
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LETTER IN 1 PETER
CHAPTER 5 HE BEGINS BY TALKING
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TO WHOM DIRECTLY? >>ELDERS.
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>>HE'S TALKING TO
THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH.
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HE'S TALKING TO THE SHEPHERDS
THAT ARE TO SHEPHERD THE FLOCK
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THAT ARE TO GUIDE THE FLOCK
ALONG LIFE'S JOURNEY AS WE'RE
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PREPARING FOR THE SOON RETURN
OF THE CHIEF SHEPHERD PETER WILL
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IDENTIFY LATER AS
WE GO ON IN THE LESSON.
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AND SO, EARLY ON IN THE CHURCH'S
HISTORY, CHRIST ESTABLISHED
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DIFFERENT ROLES OF LEADERSHIP
- TEAMS OF LEADERSHIP, IF WE CAN
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PUT IT THAT WAY, TO CONTINUE
THE GROWTH OF THE CHURCH.
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NOW I'VE ASKED A COUPLE OF
VOLUNTEERS TO SHARE WITH US AND
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READ A FEW PASSAGES THIS MORNING
AND, IN JUST A MOMENT, WE'RE
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GOING TO COME TO THE FIRST
PASSAGE IN RELATIONSHIP TO THIS
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- THE EARLY CHURCH
AND GOD'S PURPOSES.
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BUT PRINCIPALLY, IT'S NO
DIFFERENT THAN THE JETHRO
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PRINCIPLE - YOU
FAMILIAR WITH THE
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JETHRO PRINCIPLE? YOU
GO BACK TO EXODUS, OKAY?
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IN EXODUS CHAPTER 18:21 TO 22,
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL - MASSIVE
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GROUP OF PEOPLE - COME OUT
OF EGYPT AND SOME OF THOSE WERE
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MIXED EGYPTIANS IN THAT
GROUP THAT LEFT WITH THEM.
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AND MOSES WAS THE ONE THAT
WAS ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE AND
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ANYBODY WHO HAD A SITUATION OR
A PROBLEM OR A CHALLENGE, THEY
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WOULD COME TO MOSES AND
MOSES MET JETHRO, AFTER THIS -
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HIS FATHER-IN-LAW AND HIS WIFE
AND HIS TWO SONS HAD COME TO BE
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WITH HIM AND JETHRO NOTICES ALL
THAT MOSES IS DEALING WITH AND
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HE BEGINS TO SHARE WITH HIM
THIS PRINCIPLE OF LEADERSHIP,
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EVEN AS FAR BACK AS EXODUS.
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I'LL READ FOR YOU EXODUS CHAPTER
18, VERSES 21 AND 22; HE SAYS,
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"MOREOVER YOU SHALL SELECT FROM
ALL THE PEOPLE ABLE MEN, SUCH
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AS FEAR GOD, MEN OF TRUTH,
HATING COVETOUSNESS; AND PLACE
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SUCH OVER THEM TO BE RULERS OF
THOUSANDS, RULERS OF HUNDREDS,
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RULERS OF FIFTIES,
AND RULERS OF TENS.
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AND LET THEM JUDGE
THE PEOPLE AT ALL TIMES.
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THEN IT WILL BE THAT EVERY GREAT
MATTER" - THIS IS INTERESTING -
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"EVERY GREAT MATTER THEY SHALL
BRING TO YOU, BUT EVERY SMALL
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MATTER THEY
THEMSELVES SHALL JUDGE."
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- AND YOU'RE GOING TO ACTUALLY
SEE THIS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT -
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THIS SAME PRINCIPLE COMING OUT
AS GOD ESTABLISHES HIS CHURCH.
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HE GOES ON, FINALLY, AND SAYS,
"SO IT WILL BE EASIER FOR YOU,
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FOR THEY WILL BEAR THE
BURDEN WITH YOU." OKAY?
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THEY WILL BEAR
THE BURDEN WITH YOU.
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BUT MOSES WAS TO DEAL
WITH WHAT KIND OF MATTERS?
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>>LARGE. >>HE WAS
TO DEAL WITH THE MAJOR
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MATTERS AND THESE OTHER LEADERS
HE WAS ESTABLISHING WITHIN THE
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CAMP WERE TO TAKE
ON THE SMALLER MATTERS.
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AND THERE'S NO DIFFERENCE
IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE NEW
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TESTAMENT AND THE
NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH.
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AND SO, IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN
CHURCH, WE START TO SEE THE SAME
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PRINCIPLE BEING APPLIED IN
THE RAISING UP OF THE DEACONS.
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NOW THIS IS A - THIS IS A MAJOR
TRANSITION IN THE BOOK OF ACTS,
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JUST LIKE WHEN JETHRO GAVE THE
PRINCIPLE TO MOSES, THIS WAS A
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MAJOR TRANSITION AS THEY
WERE COMING OUT OF EGYPT.
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IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH -
IN THE BOOK OF ACTS - THERE WAS
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MASSIVE GROWTH THAT
THEY WERE EXPERIENCING.
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YOU HAVE 3,000 THE FIRST
TIME THAT PETER PREACHES.
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AFTER THAT YOU HAVE THIS
INCREASE OF 4,000, YOU HAVE THIS
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INCREASE OF 5,000, YOU HAVE THIS
TREMENDOUS GROUP THAT CONTINUES
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TO GROW AND SWELL IN
THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
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AND SO, WHEN YOU HAVE THIS
INCREASE OF NUMBERS, YOU HAVE A
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SPECIFIC CHALLENGE THAT COMES,
BECAUSE SOME WIDOWS - THE GREEK
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WIDOWS - WERE BEING
NEGLECTED IN THE SERVICE.
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THEY WEREN'T BEING NEGLECTED
PURPOSEFULLY, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE
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THAT MANY PEOPLE, SOMETIMES
IT'S EASY TO BE OVERLOOKED.
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YOU DON'T TRY TO OVERLOOK
SOMEBODY, BUT THEY CAN BE.
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AND SO IT CAUSED A MAJOR ISSUE
IN THE EARLY CHURCH, BUT THE
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DISCIPLES - THE APOSTLES,
SPECIFICALLY - REALIZED THAT IF
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WE DEAL WITH THIS MATTER THEN,
ULTIMATELY WE WILL NEGLECT THE
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WORD OF GOD AND PRAYER - THE
PREACHING OF THE WORD - BECAUSE,
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ULTIMATELY, GOD WANTED THEM TO
GO TO THE REMOTEST PARTS OF THE
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EARTH. SO WHAT DID THEY DO?
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THEY LOOKED OUT AMONG THE
DISCIPLES AND THEY SAID TO THE
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DISCIPLES - THE MULTITUDE - 'YOU
CHOOSE SEVEN' AND THEY GAVE THEM
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SPECIFIC GUIDELINES AND THEN
THEY WENT OUT AND THEY FOLLOWED
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THOSE GUIDELINES. IT'S
KIND OF LIKE JETHRO, AS I
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READ IN EXODUS, HE SAID, 'CHOOSE
MEN - ABLE MEN - WHO FEAR
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GOD, MEN OF TRUTH,
HATING COVETOUSNESS' - OKAY?
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IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT IN THE
EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH - WE'RE
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TALKING ABOUT MEN THAT ARE
FULL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - NO
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DIFFERENT, REALLY, IN
EXODUS, BUT THERE'S CERTAIN
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QUALIFICATIONS AND SO, THESE
GROUP OF MULTITUDE - THIS MASS
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MULTITUDE OF DISCIPLES FIND
AMONG THEM SEVEN AND THEY SET UP
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THESE DEACONS TO
WATCH OVER THE CHURCH.
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AND SO, CHRIST BEGINS TO EXPAND,
WITHIN THE CHURCH, THE ROLES OF
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MINISTRY SO THAT EVERYBODY'S
NEEDS COULD BE MET AND EVERYBODY
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COULD CONTINUE TO BE EDUCATED AS
DISCIPLES AND CONTINUE TO GROW
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TO FULFILL THEIR
GOSPEL COMMISSION.
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BUT IT ALSO ALLOWED THE
APOSTLES TO FULFILL THEIRS.
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THIS IS A HUGE TRANSITION IN
THE BOOK OF ACTS - THIS IDEA OF
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EXPANDING MINISTRY ROLES.
IN ACTS CHAPTER 14, VERSE 23,
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WE READ THIS: "SO WHEN THEY
HAD APPOINTED ELDERS IN EVERY
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CHURCH, AND PRAYED WITH FASTING,
THEY COMMENDED THEM TO THE LORD
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IN WHOM THEY HAD BELIEVED."
SO IN ACTS CHAPTER 6, WE SEE
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THIS RAISING UP OF THE DEACONS.
LATER, IN ACTS, WE SEE THE
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CONCEPT BEING DEVELOPED
OF ELDERS AND OVERSEERS.
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SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE THIS PROCESS
- AS THE CHURCH IS GROWING - AS
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THE CHURCH IS EXPERIENCING
DIFFERENT SITUATIONS, GOD'S
00:17:13.29\00:17:17.03
SPIRIT MOVES UPON THOSE
DISCIPLES TO BEGIN SETTING UP
00:17:17.03\00:17:20.97
THIS STRUCTURE, OKAY?
TO HELP THE CHURCH CONTINUE
00:17:20.97\00:17:26.14
TO FULFILL ITS PLANS,
OKAY? NOW I WANT YOU TO
00:17:26.14\00:17:30.38
NOTICE SOMETHING. IF
YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES, TURN
00:17:30.38\00:17:31.81
WITH ME TO ACTS CHAPTER
15, OKAY? ACTS CHAPTER 15 -
00:17:31.81\00:17:36.55
LITTLE BIT LATER IN THE
BOOK OF ACTS - ACTS CHAPTER 15.
00:17:36.55\00:17:40.79
I WANT TO READ YOU SOMETHING
- SO YOU HAVE THE DEVELOPMENT OF
00:17:40.79\00:17:43.59
DEACONS AND THEN YOU HAVE THE
DEVELOPMENT OF ELDERS AND, YOU
00:17:43.59\00:17:49.86
REMEMBER, IN EXODUS THE JUDGES
OR THE LEADERS THERE OF FIFTIES
00:17:49.86\00:17:55.24
AND HUNDREDS, THEY WERE TO DEAL
WITH THE SMALL MATTERS, RIGHT?
00:17:55.24\00:17:58.44
AND MOSES WAS TO DEAL WITH THE
GREAT MATTERS. NOW, NOTICE, WITH
00:17:58.44\00:18:02.41
ME, IN ACTS CHAPTER
15, VERSES 1 AND 2, OKAY?
00:18:02.41\00:18:07.52
ACTS CHAPTER 15, VERSES 1 AND 2,
IT SAYS, "AND CERTAIN MEN CAME
00:18:07.52\00:18:11.09
DOWN FROM JUDEA AND TAUGHT
THE BRETHREN, 'UNLESS YOU ARE
00:18:11.09\00:18:15.82
CIRCUMCISED ACCORDING TO THE
CUSTOM OF MOSES, YOU CANNOT BE
00:18:15.82\00:18:19.76
SAVED.' THEREFORE, WHEN PAUL AND
BARNABAS HAD NO SMALL DISSENSION
00:18:19.76\00:18:25.97
AND DISPUTE WITH THEM," - I
WANT TO STOP THERE FOR A MINUTE.
00:18:25.97\00:18:29.40
SO THERE WERE JEWS WITHIN THE
EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH THAT WERE
00:18:29.40\00:18:32.84
STILL PUSHING THE NEED FOR
CIRCUMCISION AND PAUL SAID,
00:18:32.84\00:18:36.85
'LISTEN, THERE'S NO NEED FOR
CIRCUMCISION BECAUSE CHRIST HAS
00:18:36.85\00:18:41.45
DIED FOR US, OKAY? BUT
YET, THERE WAS STILL THIS
00:18:41.45\00:18:45.99
PUSH AND PAUL REALIZED
THIS WAS NO SMALL DISSENSION.
00:18:45.99\00:18:51.66
IN OTHER WORDS, THIS WAS A
BIGGER MATTER THAT WAS TO BELONG
00:18:51.66\00:18:54.76
TO WHO? THE
APOSTLES AND THE ELDERS.
00:18:54.76\00:18:58.77
IT WAS TO GO -
LIKE TO MOSES, OKAY?
00:18:58.77\00:19:01.47
NOTICE, AS HE CONTINUES: "THIS
WAS NO SMALL DISSENSION AND
00:19:01.47\00:19:05.37
DISPUTE WITH THEM, THEY
DETERMINED THAT PAUL AND
00:19:05.37\00:19:08.41
BARNABAS AND CERTAIN OTHERS OF
THEM SHOULD GO UP TO JERUSALEM,
00:19:08.41\00:19:12.15
TO" - WHOM? - "THE
APOSTLES AND ELDERS," -
00:19:12.15\00:19:15.88
SO THIS WASN'T
SOMETHING FOR THE DEACONS, OKAY?
00:19:15.88\00:19:18.99
THIS WASN'T SOMETHING
FOR DEACONNESSES, THIS WAS
00:19:18.99\00:19:21.39
SOMETHING, LITERALLY, WHERE THEY
HAD THIS JERUSALEM COUNSEL - A
00:19:21.39\00:19:24.76
SPECIAL COUNSEL WHERE,
SPECIFICALLY, THE APOSTLES AND
00:19:24.76\00:19:28.00
THE ELDERS WERE TO TAKE THIS
UP. THIS WAS A GREATER MATTER.
00:19:28.00\00:19:32.67
SO WE'RE SEEING THE PRINCIPLE IN
EXODUS ACTUALLY BE APPLIED HERE
00:19:32.67\00:19:35.90
EVEN IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT CHURCH.
00:19:35.90\00:19:38.07
SO THERE'S NEED FOR LEADERSHIP
- THERE'S NEED FOR STRUCTURE SO
00:19:38.07\00:19:42.21
THAT THE PEOPLE CAN CONTINUE TO
GROW AND ULTIMATELY ACHIEVE THE
00:19:42.21\00:19:46.72
GOALS THAT GOD HAS FOR THEM.
SO THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS -
00:19:46.72\00:19:50.89
ABOUT THIS QUESTION - SO THAT'S
WHY, WHEN WE GET INTO THE NEW
00:19:50.89\00:19:55.69
TESTAMENT CHURCH, WE UNDERSTAND
THE NEED FOR LEADERSHIP.
00:19:55.69\00:19:59.59
WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A
NEED FOR DEACONS, THERE'S A NEED
00:19:59.59\00:20:02.90
FOR DEACONNESSES,
THERE'S A NEED FOR ELDERS.
00:20:02.90\00:20:06.30
BY THE WAY, IN ACTS CHAPTER 6
- WE FINISHED WITH VERSE 7 - AND
00:20:06.30\00:20:11.27
THE WAY THAT THE APOSTLES
HAD DEALT WITH THE SITUATION IT
00:20:11.27\00:20:14.68
SAID, 'THE NUMBER OF DISCIPLES
CONTINUED TO MULTIPLY.'
00:20:14.68\00:20:19.55
ISN'T THAT THE GOAL, ULTIMATELY?
00:20:19.55\00:20:22.25
THAT THE CHURCH CONTINUED
TO GROW AND GROW AND ULTIMATELY
00:20:22.25\00:20:26.92
HASTEN THE
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
00:20:26.92\00:20:30.36
EVERYBODY HAS A PART TO PLAY
IN THE GREAT GOSPEL COMMISSION,
00:20:30.36\00:20:36.56
EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE
ROLES THAT GOD HAS ESTABLISHED,
00:20:36.56\00:20:40.04
BIBLICALLY, TO HELP THE
CHURCH CONTINUE TO GROW.
00:20:40.04\00:20:44.91
NOW I WANT YOU TO TURN TO 1
PETER CHAPTER 5 BECAUSE HERE IN
00:20:44.91\00:20:49.21
MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY,
PETER STARTS TO FOCUS ON THE
00:20:49.21\00:20:55.08
ISSUE OF CHARACTER
VERSUS POSITION, OKAY?
00:20:55.08\00:21:00.62
SO IF YOU GO TO 1 PETER CHAPTER
5, WHERE WE WERE - 1 PETER
00:21:00.62\00:21:04.59
CHAPTER 5, VERSES 2 THROUGH
4 - 1 PETER CHAPTER 5, VERSES 2
00:21:04.59\00:21:11.10
THROUGH 4 - NOTICE,
SPECIFICALLY, HE SAYS, "SHEPHERD
00:21:11.10\00:21:19.44
THE FLOCK OF GOD WHICH IS AMONG
YOU, SERVING AS OVERSEERS, NOT
00:21:19.44\00:21:25.38
BY COMPULSION BUT WILLINGLY, NOT
FOR DISHONEST GAIN BUT EAGERLY;
00:21:25.38\00:21:32.95
NOR AS BEING LORDS OVER THOSE
ENTRUSTED TO YOU, BUT BEING
00:21:32.95\00:21:38.33
EXAMPLES TO THE FLOCK; AND WHEN
THE CHIEF SHEPHERD APPEARS, YOU
00:21:38.33\00:21:43.30
WILL RECEIVE THE CROWN OF
GLORY THAT DOES NOT FADE AWAY."
00:21:43.30\00:21:49.07
ISN'T THAT AN
INCREDIBLE HOPE AT THE END?
00:21:49.07\00:21:52.14
SO THAT WHEN THE CHIEF SHEPHERD
COMES, WE'LL BE JUST LIKE THAT
00:21:52.14\00:21:57.78
CHIEF SHEPHERD AND FROM THE
CHIEF SHEPHERD, WHAT DOES PETER
00:21:57.78\00:22:02.75
SAY WE'RE GOING TO
RECEIVE? >>A CROWN.
00:22:02.75\00:22:06.19
>>PETER SAYS WE'RE GOING TO
RECEIVE THE CROWN OF GLORY THAT
00:22:06.19\00:22:10.33
DOES NOT FADE AWAY. NOW,
IN THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST,
00:22:10.33\00:22:14.10
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO
DO WITH THOSE CROWNS?
00:22:14.10\00:22:15.70
>>CAST THEM -
>>WE'RE GOING TO CAST THEM AT
00:22:15.70\00:22:18.00
HIS FEET BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO
RECOGNIZE WHO THE CHIEF SHEPHERD
00:22:18.00\00:22:22.74
IS. AND, BY THE WAY, LEADERS WHO
HAVE THESE CHARACTERISTICS, THAT
00:22:22.74\00:22:28.54
WE'LL UNPACK IN JUST A MINUTE,
THAT PETER IDENTIFIES, ARE THE
00:22:28.54\00:22:33.35
SAME KIND OF LEADERS THAT ARE
GOING TO TAKE THEIR CROWN AND
00:22:33.35\00:22:36.12
THEY'RE GOING TO THROW IT AT HIS
FEET BECAUSE THEY REALIZE WHO'S
00:22:36.12\00:22:39.32
REALLY THE LEADER. WHO,
ULTIMATELY, IS OUR LEADER?
00:22:39.32\00:22:44.49
JESUS CHRIST IS
THE HEAD OF THE BODY.
00:22:44.49\00:22:47.23
AND SO WE THROW
OUR CROWNS AT HIS FEET.
00:22:47.23\00:22:49.83
BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT
THESE PASSAGES I WANT TO BRING
00:22:49.83\00:22:52.67
TO YOUR ATTENTION IN
RELATIONSHIP TO CHARACTER - YOU
00:22:52.67\00:22:55.54
KNOW, SOMETIMES IN OUR WORLD,
LEADERSHIP, MANY TIMES, IS BASED
00:22:55.54\00:22:59.21
ON POSITION. SO WE
TRY TO CLIMB THE CORPORATE
00:22:59.21\00:23:04.08
LADDER BECAUSE WE
REALIZE IF WE JUST ONLY HAD THAT
00:23:04.08\00:23:09.95
POSITION - OKAY? -
THEN THINGS MIGHT BE BETTER.
00:23:09.95\00:23:16.69
YOU KNOW, I WOULD MAKE MORE, I'D
BE ABLE TO DO MORE - AND SO WE
00:23:16.69\00:23:20.43
LOOK AT IT BASED ON POSITION
MORE THAN WE LOOK AT IT IN
00:23:20.43\00:23:25.13
RELATIONSHIP TO CHARACTER.
BUT, WHEN YOU STUDY LEADERSHIP
00:23:25.13\00:23:28.74
FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE, YOU
REALIZE - AND TRUE LEADERSHIP,
00:23:28.74\00:23:32.27
EVEN TODAY, IS CHARACTER BASED
- REAL LEADERS HAVE A CHARACTER.
00:23:32.27\00:23:38.95
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE THEY
ARE, THEY CAN BE AT THE BOTTOM
00:23:38.95\00:23:42.65
OF THE FOOD CHAIN, SO TO SPEAK,
IN CORPORATE LIFE, BUT EVERYBODY
00:23:42.65\00:23:47.66
LISTENS TO THEM FOR SOME REASON,
AND WHAT THEY SAY - EVERYBODY
00:23:47.66\00:23:52.79
PAYS ATTENTION, BECAUSE IT'S
ABOUT WHO THEY ARE, NOT WHAT
00:23:52.79\00:23:59.90
POSITION THEY HAVE. AND
THIS IS WHAT PETER POINTS OUT.
00:23:59.90\00:24:02.74
NOTICE THESE VERSES AGAIN -
NOTICE THEM CAREFULLY, BECAUSE
00:24:02.74\00:24:06.27
WHAT PETER DOES IS HE SAYS HE
GIVES US WHAT SHOULDN'T BE AND
00:24:06.27\00:24:10.85
THEN RIGHT AFTER THAT HE
TELLS US WHAT SHOULD BE, OKAY?
00:24:10.85\00:24:16.18
AND SO HE BREAKS THIS DOWN.
NOTICE WITH ME, GOING BACK TO
00:24:16.18\00:24:19.95
THE VERSE, HE SAYS, "SHEPHERD
THE FLOCK OF GOD WHICH IS AMONG
00:24:19.95\00:24:24.03
YOU, SERVING AS OVERSEERS,
NOT" - NOTICE - "NOT" - SO HE'S
00:24:24.03\00:24:28.73
GOING TO TELL US WHAT SHOULDN'T
BE - HE SAYS, "NOT BY COMPULSION
00:24:28.73\00:24:34.10
BUT" - WHAT? - "BUT
WILLINGLY," - SO HE TELLS US
00:24:34.10\00:24:38.54
WHAT SHOULDN'T, THEN HE TELLS US
WHAT SHOULD - "BUT WILLINGLY".
00:24:38.54\00:24:44.11
THEN HE GOES ON AND
GIVES US ANOTHER ONE.
00:24:44.11\00:24:46.01
HE SAYS, "NOT FOR DISHONEST
GAIN BUT EAGERLY;" - AND THEN HE
00:24:46.01\00:24:53.69
SAYS, "NOR AS BEING LORDS OVER
THOSE ENTRUSTED TO" - "NOR AS
00:24:53.69\00:25:02.50
BEING LORDS OVER THOSE ENTRUSTED
TO YOU, BUT BEING EXAMPLES TO
00:25:02.50\00:25:09.04
THE FLOCK;" AND I WANT
TO LOOK AT THESE WITH YOU,
00:25:09.04\00:25:12.97
EACH KIND OF INDIVIDUALLY.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT WORD
00:25:12.97\00:25:17.28
'COMPULSION' AS PETER'S TALKING
TO US ABOUT IT, HE'S TALKING
00:25:17.28\00:25:20.95
ABOUT IN A MANNER
THAT CANNOT BE EVADED.
00:25:20.95\00:25:24.65
SO, IT'S - IT'S
ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED.
00:25:24.65\00:25:27.92
IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S KIND
OF FORCED ON AN INDIVIDUAL.
00:25:27.92\00:25:32.56
THAT IS LIKE SAYING, 'I'M HERE
BECAUSE SO AND SO PUT ME HERE'
00:25:32.56\00:25:37.97
RATHER THAN SAYING
'I'M HERE WILLINGLY'.
00:25:37.97\00:25:42.74
THIS MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN THE
CHURCH, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THE
00:25:42.74\00:25:46.68
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FORCED
LEADERSHIP AND LEADERS THAT, YOU
00:25:46.68\00:25:50.88
KNOW, SEE THE LORD MOVING AND
LEADING AND GUIDING AND THEY'RE
00:25:50.88\00:25:53.62
JUST WILLING. 'LORD, OKAY.
00:25:53.62\00:25:55.62
I'M WILLING.' ANOTHER VERSE
HERE, IN JUST A SECOND, IS JOHN
00:25:55.62\00:26:01.66
CHAPTER 10 - THAT I HAVE
SOMEBODY THAT'S GOING TO READ -
00:26:01.66\00:26:04.06
BECAUSE JESUS POINTS
THIS OUT IN HIS OWN LIFE.
00:26:04.06\00:26:07.20
IN 1 PETER WE GET TO THE CHIEF
SHEPHERD, SO IN EACH OF THESE
00:26:07.20\00:26:11.50
AREAS, WHAT SHOULDN'T BE
AND WHAT SHOULD BE, WE SEE
00:26:11.50\00:26:15.24
EXEMPLIFIED IN THE LIFE OF
CHRIST BECAUSE HE, ULTIMATELY,
00:26:15.24\00:26:20.51
IS THE LEADER ABOVE LEADERS.
THERE'S NO ONE LIKE JESUS TO
00:26:20.51\00:26:27.38
LEAD, AND SO, WE'RE GOING TO
COME TO THIS IN JUST A SECOND -
00:26:27.38\00:26:30.99
JOHN CHAPTER 10
IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:26:30.99\00:26:32.32
WE COULD SAY THAT THE LORD
NEEDED TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE,
00:26:32.32\00:26:37.33
OKAY, BUT HE WASN'T FORCED
TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE, WAS HE?
00:26:37.33\00:26:42.50
HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE - WHAT?
HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE WILLINGLY.
00:26:42.50\00:26:48.67
HE CAME TO SET THE
EXAMPLE WILLINGLY, OKAY?
00:26:48.67\00:26:53.78
SO THIS IS INTERESTING - JOHN
CHAPTER 10, VERSES 15, 17, AND
00:26:53.78\00:26:57.78
18 - HAVE SOMEBODY READING THAT
- FIRST - OR JOHN, EXCUSE ME,
00:26:57.78\00:27:02.28
CHAPTER 10,
VERSES 15, 17, AND 18.
00:27:02.28\00:27:07.82
>>"AS THE FATHER KNOWS ME, EVEN
SO I KNOW THE FATHER; AND I LAY
00:27:07.82\00:27:14.46
DOWN MY LIFE FOR THE SHEEP.
THEREFORE MY FATHER LOVES ME
00:27:14.46\00:27:18.83
BECAUSE I LAY DOWN MY
LIFE THAT I MAY TAKE IT AGAIN.
00:27:18.83\00:27:23.81
NO ONE TAKES IT FROM ME,
BUT I LAY IT DOWN OF MYSELF.
00:27:23.81\00:27:28.48
I HAVE POWER TO LAY IT DOWN,
AND I HAVE POWER TO TAKE IT
00:27:28.48\00:27:32.35
AGAIN..." >>JESUS LAID DOWN
00:27:32.35\00:27:35.48
HIS LIFE WHAT WAY? WILLINGLY.
00:27:35.48\00:27:39.82
AND SO, THE LEADERS, THE
SHEPHERDS - THE ASPECT OF
00:27:39.82\00:27:44.29
CHARACTER THAT EACH OF US NEED
IS THIS WILLINGNESS TO FOLLOW
00:27:44.29\00:27:48.36
WHEREVER THE LORD WANTS US TO GO
- TO DO WHATEVER THE LORD WANTS
00:27:48.36\00:27:52.30
US TO DO - WILLINGLY - TO
BE WILLING LEADERS, NOT JUST
00:27:52.30\00:27:57.71
LEADERS THAT ARE LEADING BECAUSE
WE'RE TOLD TO OR SOMEBODY ELSE
00:27:57.71\00:28:02.61
DID SO I HAVE TO, BUT IT'S
REALLY ABOUT A WILLINGNESS TO
00:28:02.61\00:28:07.75
LEAD. MATTER OF
FACT, JESUS ALSO SAID,
00:28:07.75\00:28:10.29
IN JOHN CHAPTER 17 - OR
CHAPTER 7, VERSE 17 - THIS IS
00:28:10.29\00:28:14.52
INTERESTING: HE SAID, "IF ANYONE
WILLS TO DO HIS WILL HE SHALL
00:28:14.52\00:28:22.03
KNOW CONCERNING THE DOCTRINE,
WHETHER IT IS FROM GOD OR
00:28:22.03\00:28:24.83
WHETHER I SPEAK
ON MY OWN AUTHORITY."
00:28:24.83\00:28:26.77
HE SAYS, 'IF ANYONE' - WHAT?
- 'WILLS TO DO HIS WILL' - GOD
00:28:26.77\00:28:31.11
IS NOT GOING TO
FORCE US TO DO HIS WILL.
00:28:31.11\00:28:35.54
GOD WANTS US TO FOLLOW WILLINGLY
AND, IF WE'RE WILLING TO FOLLOW,
00:28:35.54\00:28:41.02
THE CHIEF SHEPHERD, WHEREVER HE
LEADS, THEN WE SHALL KNOW OF THE
00:28:41.02\00:28:45.39
DOCTRINE. THEY'LL
BE KNOW QUESTION - HIS
00:28:45.39\00:28:47.19
TEACHING - BUT WE
NEED TO BE WILLING.
00:28:47.19\00:28:51.96
SO PETER ZEROES IN AND SAYS,
'LISTEN, LEADERSHIP IS NOT BY
00:28:51.96\00:28:55.40
COMPULSION, BUT IT'S WILLINGLY.'
WHAT DIFFERENCE WILLINGNESS
00:28:55.40\00:29:00.84
MAKES OVER COMPULSION, OKAY?
AND I'M SURE WE CAN ALL HAVE
00:29:00.84\00:29:07.48
LIFE EXAMPLES OF THIS -
BEING WILLING VERSES JUST KIND
00:29:07.48\00:29:12.08
OF BEING FORCED OR PUSHED.
PETER GIVES ANOTHER PRINCIPLE:
00:29:12.08\00:29:17.59
NOTICE, WITH ME, THE SECOND
ONE. HE SAYS, 'NOT FOR DISHONEST
00:29:17.59\00:29:22.39
GAIN, BUT' - WHAT? 'BUT
EAGERLY' - BUT EAGERLY -
00:29:22.39\00:29:30.17
LEADERS SHOULD BE EAGER BUT THEY
SHOULDN'T BE THERE - YOU KNOW,
00:29:30.17\00:29:33.10
WHEN YOU'RE FORCED, MANY TIMES
IT'S FOR DISHONEST GAIN, OKAY?
00:29:33.10\00:29:38.04
WHAT I GET OUT OF IT
THAT MATTERS AS MUCH.
00:29:38.04\00:29:42.68
YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE, THEY TAKE
ON LEADERSHIP BECAUSE OF A TITLE
00:29:42.68\00:29:50.02
OR RESPECT OR WHAT
PEOPLE WILL THINK OF THEM.
00:29:50.02\00:29:53.82
IT'S LIKE 'WHAT I
WILL GAIN' - OKAY?
00:29:53.82\00:29:57.29
YOU LOOK AT THE JEWS IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT AND YOU LOOK AT HOW
00:29:57.29\00:30:01.03
THEY LED, OKAY?
'LOOK AT ME' 'LOOK
00:30:01.03\00:30:04.97
AT ME' - RIGHT?
WHAT THEY COULD GAIN.
00:30:04.97\00:30:09.50
BUT YET, PETER GOES ON: IT'S NOT
FOR DISHONEST GAIN, BUT HE SAYS
00:30:09.50\00:30:13.71
IT SHOULD BE EAGERLY - OKAY?
IT SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT WHAT
00:30:13.71\00:30:18.11
I GIVE, NOT WHAT I GET.
REAL LEADERS ARE INDIVIDUALS
00:30:18.11\00:30:23.59
WHO ARE ALWAYS GIVING, RIGHT?
WHAT DOES JESUS ALWAYS DO?
00:30:23.59\00:30:29.42
HE GIVES
FORGIVENESS. HE GIVES BLESSINGS.
00:30:29.42\00:30:33.26
HE GIVES
INSTRUCTION. HE'S ALWAYS GIVING.
00:30:33.26\00:30:37.37
HE'S ALWAYS GIVING. AND
SO, PETER'S POINTING OUT
00:30:37.37\00:30:40.64
THAT PEOPLE NEED
TO BE EAGERLY LEADING.
00:30:40.64\00:30:45.37
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY'RE
INVESTING UNSELFISHLY - THEY'RE
00:30:45.37\00:30:48.74
GIVING UNSELFISHLY.
IT'S NOT ABOUT THEM, IT'S
00:30:48.74\00:30:54.48
ABOUT WHO THEY SERVE,
RIGHT? IT'S ABOUT WHO THEY
00:30:54.48\00:30:59.25
SERVE, NOT ABOUT THEM.
AND SO, PETER POINTS THIS OUT.
00:30:59.25\00:31:06.76
NOTICE IN LUKE - I WANT TO READ
FOR YOU LUKE CHAPTER 10, VERSE
00:31:06.76\00:31:09.56
27 - HE SAYS, "YOU SHALL LOVE
THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH" - WHAT?
00:31:09.56\00:31:14.27
IT'S A VERSE WE'RE FAMILIAR WITH
- "WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL
00:31:14.27\00:31:18.17
YOUR SOUL, WITH ALL YOUR
STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR
00:31:18.17\00:31:22.11
MIND,'" - EAGERLY.
00:31:22.11\00:31:24.08
WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THAT - WHERE
PAUL SAYS, 'NOT BY DISHONEST
00:31:24.08\00:31:27.32
GAIN BUT EAGERLY' COMES BACK TO
MY MIND - CHRIST'S WORDS WHEN HE
00:31:27.32\00:31:31.65
SAYS 'YOU SHOULD LOVE THE LORD
YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART,
00:31:31.65\00:31:34.99
WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, WITH
ALL YOUR STRENGTH, WITH ALL YOUR
00:31:34.99\00:31:38.93
MIND,' - AND THEN FINALLY -
"YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF" -
00:31:38.93\00:31:42.90
IT'S NOT ABOUT
US, IT'S ABOUT OTHERS.
00:31:42.90\00:31:47.47
IT'S ABOUT GOD.
IT'S ABOUT CHRIST.
00:31:47.47\00:31:50.84
AND FINALLY, THE LAST ONE HE
SAYS, "NOT" - OR "NOR" - HE USES
00:31:50.84\00:31:56.08
- "NOR AS LORDS OVER THOSE
ENTRUSTED TO YOU, BUT BEING
00:31:56.08\00:32:01.62
EXAMPLES TO THE
FLOCK." NOT AS LORDS.
00:32:01.62\00:32:08.66
YOU KNOW, THE JEWS HAD A HABIT
OF CREATING BURDENS FOR THE
00:32:08.66\00:32:11.86
PEOPLE TO
CARRY. YOU READ THIS IN
00:32:11.86\00:32:13.73
THE NEW TESTAMENT.
BUT THEY, THEMSELVES,
00:32:13.73\00:32:16.03
DID THEY CARRY
THEM? NO - 'WE'LL GIVE
00:32:16.03\00:32:19.73
YOU THE BURDENS. OH,
BY THE WAY, HAVE FUN.
00:32:19.73\00:32:22.77
ENJOY CARRYING THIS.'
BUT THEY DIDN'T DO IT.
00:32:22.77\00:32:27.71
THEY WANTED
EVERYBODY ELSE TO DO IT - WHY?
00:32:27.71\00:32:30.51
BECAUSE THEIR FORM OF LEADERSHIP
WAS LORDING IT OVER THEM.
00:32:30.51\00:32:35.52
YOU KNOW, I JUST STARTED
EXERCISING MORE CONSISTENTLY,
00:32:35.52\00:32:39.82
RECENTLY, AND I HAVE SOME
FRIENDS AND WE GO TOGETHER AND
00:32:39.82\00:32:43.63
WE GO EVERY DAY DURING THE WEEK
AND AS THEY'RE DOING THESE - I
00:32:43.63\00:32:50.30
KIND OF PLAN OUT THE WORKOUT AND
THEN WE KIND OF DO IT TOGETHER -
00:32:50.30\00:32:53.47
AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, YOU
KNOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF
00:32:53.47\00:32:57.01
ALL I DID WAS SAID, 'YOU DO
THIS' AND 'YOU DO THAT' AND 'YOU
00:32:57.01\00:32:59.61
DO THIS' AND I'M JUST SITTING
THERE VIDEOTAPING THE WHOLE
00:32:59.61\00:33:01.58
THING? OKAY? JUST
- 'I'LL JUST LAY THE
00:33:01.58\00:33:05.18
BURDENS RIGHT OUT THERE; YOU
GUYS JUST CARRY THEM.' AND, BY
00:33:05.18\00:33:07.78
THE WAY, I'M EATING OVER IN THE
CORNER, OKAY? IT DOESN'T WORK.
00:33:07.78\00:33:14.96
IT DOESN'T WORK.
IT WOULDN'T LAST VERY
00:33:14.96\00:33:16.86
LONG, THAT'S FOR SURE. BUT
WHEN WE DO IT TOGETHER - YOU
00:33:16.86\00:33:22.43
KNOW, JESUS SET THE EXAMPLE.
HE DIDN'T COME TO LORD OVER US,
00:33:22.43\00:33:27.70
BUT HE SET THE EXAMPLE IN
EVERY SINGLE WAY THAT HE COULD.
00:33:27.70\00:33:34.18
IN OTHER WORDS, IF GOD IS
CALLING US TO SOMETHING, HE
00:33:34.18\00:33:36.98
HIMSELF DID IT. HE DID IT.
00:33:36.98\00:33:41.52
YOU KNOW, IF SOME OF US ARE
CALLED ONE DAY AS LEADERS IN
00:33:41.52\00:33:45.12
CHRIST'S CHURCH, TO FACE
SUFFERING, TO COME TO THE CLOSE
00:33:45.12\00:33:49.89
OF OUR LIVES ON THIS EARTH AND
GOD SAYS, 'LISTEN, YOU'RE GOING
00:33:49.89\00:33:53.53
TO LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE' - JUST
LIKE HIS APOSTLES DID - OKAY?
00:33:53.53\00:33:56.63
YOU'RE GOING TO LAY DOWN YOUR
LIFE - HE'S NOT ASKING US TO DO
00:33:56.63\00:33:59.30
SOMETHING HE HASN'T DONE.
MATTER OF FACT, HE GOES EVEN
00:33:59.30\00:34:02.77
FARTHER THAN US IN DOING WHAT
HE'S ASKED AND HE GIVES US THE
00:34:02.77\00:34:08.34
STRENGTH AND WALKS NEXT TO US.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH
00:34:08.34\00:34:11.98
THE VERSE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 11?
HE SAYS, 'TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU
00:34:11.98\00:34:15.92
AND LEARN OF ME, FOR I
AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART.'
00:34:15.92\00:34:19.95
HE'S WALKING - 'TAKE MY YOKE
UPON YOU' - IT'S STILL NOT JUST
00:34:19.95\00:34:24.29
OURS, IT'S HIS AND OURS
- WE'RE WALKING TOGETHER.
00:34:24.29\00:34:27.60
AND SO, JESUS - OR PETER, HERE,
TALKS ABOUT LEADERSHIP IN A WAY
00:34:27.60\00:34:31.73
THAT WE DON'T LORD IT
OVER SOMEONE, BUT WE NEED TO BE
00:34:31.73\00:34:36.10
EXAMPLES TO THE FLOCK. IF
WE'RE GOING TO ASK SOMEONE TO
00:34:36.10\00:34:39.87
MAKE A SURRENDER OR A SACRIFICE,
ARE WE MAKING THE SAME
00:34:39.87\00:34:43.61
SURRENDER AND SACRIFICE?
THAT'S WHAT THE CHARACTER OF
00:34:43.61\00:34:48.15
THESE LEADERS
EXEMPLIFY HERE IN SCRIPTURE.
00:34:48.15\00:34:53.09
WHEN JESUS WALKED ON THE EARTH,
AMONG HIS VERY OWN DISCIPLES -
00:34:53.09\00:34:56.83
BY THE WAY, THIS KIND OF GETS
US - THIS SECTION TAKES US INTO
00:34:56.83\00:34:59.69
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WE TALK
00:34:59.69\00:35:03.63
ABOUT SERVANT LEADERSHIP
AND, SPECIFICALLY, WE'RE TALKING
00:35:03.63\00:35:07.77
ABOUT A CHARACTERISTIC CALLED
HUMILITY. MATTER OF FACT, IT'S
00:35:07.77\00:35:12.71
PROBABLY ONE OF OUR
GREATEST NEEDS IS TO BE HUMBLE.
00:35:12.71\00:35:18.31
AND JESUS EXEMPLIFIED THIS
IN HIS LIFE, ALSO, AS WE'LL SEE.
00:35:18.31\00:35:23.62
BUT, IN JUST A MOMENT, I HAVE
ANOTHER READER THAT WILL READ
00:35:23.62\00:35:25.89
MATTHEW CHAPTER 20, VERSES 24
THROUGH 28. JESUS HAD TO TEACH
00:35:25.89\00:35:31.23
THIS PRINCIPLE TO HIS
APOSTLES - THERE IS NO DOUBT.
00:35:31.23\00:35:34.93
MATTER OF FACT, THEY WERE ALWAYS
KIND OF WRESTLING OVER WHO WAS
00:35:34.93\00:35:38.03
GOING TO BE THE GREATEST IN THE
KINGDOM OF GOD AND THERE CAME A
00:35:38.03\00:35:42.87
CERTAIN POINT IN CHRIST'S
MINISTRY WHEN JAMES AND JOHN,
00:35:42.87\00:35:47.84
THEIR MOTHER COMES TO JESUS AND
SAYS, 'LISTEN, CAN MY BOYS SIT
00:35:47.84\00:35:51.75
AT YOUR LEFT HAND AND YOUR RIGHT
HAND WHEN YOU ENTER THE KINGDOM
00:35:51.75\00:35:55.12
OF HEAVEN? I MEAN,
CAN THEY BE THE TWO THAT
00:35:55.12\00:35:57.39
JUST, YOU KNOW,
ARE RIGHT THERE?' OKAY?
00:35:57.39\00:36:01.49
AND IT'S INTERESTING
WHAT JESUS HAS TO SAY.
00:36:01.49\00:36:04.06
MATTER OF FACT, HE SAYS, 'IT'S
NOT MINE TO GIVE.' BUT HE GOES
00:36:04.06\00:36:07.10
AND HE EXPOUNDS ON A
PRINCIPLE OF SERVICE - OKAY?
00:36:07.10\00:36:12.07
- RATHER THAN
KINGLY LEADERSHIP - OKAY?
00:36:12.07\00:36:16.57
- THE DISCIPLES HAD TALKED ABOUT
BEING THE GREATEST AND SO, NOW
00:36:16.57\00:36:19.97
IT'S INTERESTING AS JESUS
DEALS WITH THEM ON THIS POINT.
00:36:19.97\00:36:22.94
AFTER THE MOTHER GETS DONE
ASKING THE QUESTION, JESUS HAS
00:36:22.94\00:36:26.08
SOME VERY
INTERESTING THINGS TO SAY.
00:36:26.08\00:36:28.52
MATTHEW CHAPTER 20, VERSES 24
THROUGH 28 - MATTHEW CHAPTER 20,
00:36:28.52\00:36:33.52
VERSES 24 THROUGH 28.
>>"AND WHEN THE TEN HEARD IT,
00:36:33.52\00:36:38.09
THEY WERE GREATLY DISPLEASED
WITH THE TWO BROTHERS.
00:36:38.09\00:36:40.96
BUT JESUS CALLED THEM TO HIMSELF
AND SAID, 'YOU KNOW THAT THE
00:36:40.96\00:36:44.53
RULERS OF THE GENTILES LORD
IT OVER THEM, AND THOSE WHO ARE
00:36:44.53\00:36:48.17
GREAT EXERCISE
AUTHORITY OVER THEM.
00:36:48.17\00:36:51.34
YET IT SHALL NOT BE SO AMONG
YOU; BUT WHOEVER DESIRES TO
00:36:51.34\00:36:55.41
BECOME GREAT AMONG YOU,
LET HIM BE YOUR SERVANT.
00:36:55.41\00:36:58.75
AND WHOEVER DESIRES TO BE FIRST
AMONG YOU, LET HIM BE YOUR SLAVE
00:36:58.75\00:37:03.75
- JUST AS THE SON OF MAN DID NOT
COME TO BE SERVED, BUT TO SERVE,
00:37:03.75\00:37:09.92
AND TO GIVE HIS
LIFE A RANSOM FOR MANY.'"
00:37:09.92\00:37:12.69
>>OKAY, JESUS CHRIST CAME
NOT TO BE SERVED BUT TO WHAT?
00:37:12.69\00:37:16.63
BUT TO SERVE. AND
HE WANTED HIS DISCIPLES
00:37:16.63\00:37:20.40
TO UNDERSTAND THIS
INCREDIBLE PRINCIPLE.
00:37:20.40\00:37:24.24
IN THE LESSON - IN TUESDAY'S
LESSON, THERE'S A POWERFUL
00:37:24.24\00:37:27.68
STATEMENT IN DESIRE OF AGES
THAT THEY QUOTE HERE: IT SAYS,
00:37:27.68\00:37:32.85
"JESUS," - IN THIS SITUATION
THAT WE JUST GOT DONE READING IN
00:37:32.85\00:37:35.52
MATTHEW - "JESUS BEARS TENDERLY
WITH THEM" - HE'S SO GRACIOUS -
00:37:35.52\00:37:41.52
"NOT REBUKING THEIR SELFISHNESS
IN SEEKING PREFERENCE ABOVE
00:37:41.52\00:37:46.66
THEIR BRETHREN. HE
READS THEIR HEARTS, HE KNOWS
00:37:46.66\00:37:51.23
THE DEPTHS OF
THEIR ATTACHMENT TO HIM.
00:37:51.23\00:37:54.20
THEIR LOVE IS NOT A MERE HUMAN
AFFECTION; THOUGH DEFILED BY THE
00:37:54.20\00:37:59.84
EARTHLINESS OF ITS HUMAN
CHANNEL, IT IS AN OUTFLOWING
00:37:59.84\00:38:04.35
FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF
HIS OWN REDEEMING LOVE.
00:38:04.35\00:38:07.82
HE WILL NOT REBUKE,
BUT DEEPEN AND PURIFY."
00:38:07.82\00:38:13.19
GOD DIDN'T OPENLY REBUKE
THEM, BUT HE WANTED TO SHARE A
00:38:13.19\00:38:18.99
HEAVENLY PRINCIPLE SO THAT THEY
WOULD REALIZE REAL LEADERSHIP -
00:38:18.99\00:38:24.97
REAL LEADING - IS SERVICE BASED,
EVEN IF IT MEANS GIVING UP YOUR
00:38:24.97\00:38:32.74
LIFE. NO GREATER LOVE HAS ANY
MAN THAN THIS: THAT A MAN LAY
00:38:32.74\00:38:37.15
DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS - WHAT?
00:38:37.15\00:38:38.78
>>FRIEND.
>>FRIENDS. AND JESUS LAID DOWN
00:38:38.78\00:38:41.82
HIS LIFE. HE SERVED.
MATTER OF FACT, HE WASHED
00:38:41.82\00:38:45.05
THEIR FEET, DIDN'T HE? >>YES.
00:38:45.05\00:38:47.09
>>THE MASTER - THE TEACHER
- KNEELS DOWN AND LITERALLY
00:38:47.09\00:38:51.29
WASHES EVERY SINGLE ONE'S FEET
IN THAT UPPER ROOM - OR THAT
00:38:51.29\00:38:57.57
TIME WHEN THEY WERE
HAVING PASSOVER MEAL.
00:38:57.57\00:39:01.37
AND THIS LEADS US TO THIS
PRINCIPLE - THIS CHARACTERISTIC
00:39:01.37\00:39:05.61
THAT ALL OF US NEED IN OUR
LIVES, AND THAT IS HUMILITY.
00:39:05.61\00:39:11.15
YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING
TO ME, THIS CONCEPT OF HUMILITY.
00:39:11.15\00:39:15.22
IN MICAH CHAPTER 6, VERSE 8 IT
SAYS "HE HAS SHOWN YOU, O MAN,
00:39:15.22\00:39:19.72
WHAT IS GOOD; AND WHAT DOES THE
LORD REQUIRE OF YOU BUT TO DO
00:39:19.72\00:39:26.16
JUSTLY, TO LOVE
MERCY, AND TO WALK" - WHAT? -
00:39:26.16\00:39:31.30
"HUMBLY WITH YOUR GOD?"
TO WALK HUMBLY WITH THY GOD.
00:39:31.30\00:39:36.74
AND THE CHIEF SHEPHERD, WHO
PETER SAYS WE WILL MEET ONE DAY,
00:39:36.74\00:39:41.71
EXEMPLIFIED THIS
PRINCIPLE IN HIS LIFE.
00:39:41.71\00:39:45.88
NOTICE, WITH ME, PHILIPPIANS -
PAUL, WRITING TO THE PHILIPPIANS
00:39:45.88\00:39:49.88
- WE'RE GOING TO TURN IN OUR
BIBLES TO PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 4
00:39:49.88\00:39:55.09
- PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 4 AND
I'LL START WITH VERSE 3 - OOP -
00:39:55.09\00:40:06.17
EXCUSE ME -
MISPRINT - CHAPTER 2, OKAY?
00:40:06.17\00:40:12.17
- CHAPTER 2 - PHILIPPIANS
CHAPTER 2 - THIS IS UNITY
00:40:12.17\00:40:16.85
THROUGH HUMILITY - AND IT'S
HUMBLED AND THE EXALTED CHRIST -
00:40:16.85\00:40:21.35
AND WE SEE THIS PRINCIPLE -
AND I'LL START WITH VERSE 3 - IT
00:40:21.35\00:40:24.62
SAYS, "LET NOTHING BE DONE
THROUGH SELFISH AMBITION OR
00:40:24.62\00:40:27.19
CONCEIT, BUT IN LOWLINESS
OF MIND LET EACH ESTEEM OTHERS
00:40:27.19\00:40:34.03
BETTER THAN HIMSELF." -
NOT AMBITION OR CONCEIT, BUT
00:40:34.03\00:40:39.67
IN LOWLINESS OF MIND "LET EACH
OF YOU LOOK OUT NOT ONLY FOR HIS
00:40:39.67\00:40:44.41
OWN INTERESTS, BUT ALSO
FOR THE INTERESTS OF OTHERS.
00:40:44.41\00:40:51.08
LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU WHICH
WAS ALSO IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO,
00:40:51.08\00:40:54.15
BEING IN THE FORM OF GOD, DID
NOT CONSIDER IT ROBBERY TO BE
00:40:54.15\00:40:57.52
EQUAL WITH GOD, BUT MADE HIMSELF
OF NO REPUTATION, TAKING THE
00:40:57.52\00:41:02.26
FORM OF A BONDSERVANT, AND
COMING IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN.
00:41:02.26\00:41:07.40
AND BEING FOUND IN APPEARANCE
AS A MAN, HE HUMBLED HIMSELF AND
00:41:07.40\00:41:11.07
BECAME OBEDIENT TO THE POINT
OF DEATH, EVEN THE DEATH OF THE
00:41:11.07\00:41:14.44
CROSS. THEREFORE GOD ALSO HAS"
- WHAT? - "GOD ALSO HAS HIGHLY
00:41:14.44\00:41:19.04
EXALTED HIM" - NOTICE, IN HIS
HUMILITY - IN HIS HUMILITY GOD
00:41:19.04\00:41:25.65
SAYS, 'NOW I'M GOING TO EXALT
YOU AND I'M GOING TO LIFT YOU
00:41:25.65\00:41:29.58
UP." AND WHERE IS
JESUS NOW, BY THE WAY?
00:41:29.58\00:41:32.19
>>HEAVEN. >>HE'S IN HEAVEN.
00:41:32.19\00:41:34.46
HE'S AT THE RIGHT
HAND OF THE FATHER.
00:41:34.46\00:41:36.29
ISN'T THAT WHERE
YOU AND I WANT TO BE?
00:41:36.29\00:41:38.33
>>AMEN. >>ONE DAY,
ISN'T THAT WHERE WE
00:41:38.33\00:41:40.40
WANT TO BE, SITTING OR
STANDING, PRAISING THE LORD,
00:41:40.40\00:41:43.63
STANDING AT HIS RIGHT HAND?
THE LORD SAYS, 'LISTEN, JUST
00:41:43.63\00:41:46.60
LIKE I HUMBLED MYSELF AND
THE FATHER HAS EXALTED ME, YOU
00:41:46.60\00:41:50.27
HUMBLE YOURSELF
AND I'LL LIFT YOU UP.
00:41:50.27\00:41:55.38
I'LL LIFT YOU UP. AND
SO SERVANT LEADERSHIP HAS
00:41:55.38\00:41:59.15
THIS QUALITY ABOUT HUMILITY -
HUMBLENESS. YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY
00:41:59.15\00:42:06.65
INTERESTING, I HAD A FRIEND
OF MINE WHO WAS AN ELDER IN A
00:42:06.65\00:42:10.33
CHURCH IN NEW YORK AND THERE
WAS THIS ONE GENTLEMAN THAT WAS
00:42:10.33\00:42:15.10
FAIRLY NEW IN THE CHURCH AND HE
HAD A PASSION AND A ZEAL AND HE
00:42:15.10\00:42:21.00
SAID, 'OH!' - THE PASTOR WASN'T
THERE ALL THE TIME SO HE WENT TO
00:42:21.00\00:42:24.81
THE ELDER, WHO HAPPENED TO BE MY
FRIEND AT THE TIME, AND HE SAID,
00:42:24.81\00:42:27.31
'MAN, I WANT TO PREACH.
JUST GIVE ME THE OPPORTUNITY.
00:42:27.31\00:42:29.71
I WANT TO PREACH. I WANT
TO PREACH.' AND MY FRIEND
00:42:29.71\00:42:32.48
SAID, 'CLEAN THE TOILET.'
HE'S LIKE, 'WHAT? WHAT DO MEAN,
00:42:32.48\00:42:38.05
'CLEAN THE TOILET'?
NO, I WANT TO PREACH.
00:42:38.05\00:42:41.46
I CAN'T CLEAN THE TOILET, I WANT
TO PREACH.' HE SAID, 'NO, CLEAN
00:42:41.46\00:42:43.93
THE TOILET.' WHAT WAS HE TRYING
TO GET ACROSS TO THIS YOUNG MAN
00:42:43.93\00:42:49.53
WHO HAD JUST
COME INTO THE CHURCH?
00:42:49.53\00:42:50.80
HE SAID, 'LISTEN, IF YOU'RE
GOING TO STAND UP FRONT AND
00:42:50.80\00:42:54.20
YOU'RE GOING TO SHARE THE
MESSAGE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
00:42:54.20\00:42:57.74
LISTENING, DO IT
WITH A HUMBLE HEART, OKAY?
00:42:57.74\00:43:02.31
IN TIME GOD WILL GIVE YOU THAT
OPPORTUNITY, BUT HUMBLE YOURSELF
00:43:02.31\00:43:08.25
AND JUST DO WHAT YOU CAN WHERE
YOU ARE AND BE EFFECTIVE IN
00:43:08.25\00:43:12.95
DOING THAT, AND THE LORD, IN
TIME, HE WILL LIFT YOU UP AND HE
00:43:12.95\00:43:17.23
WILL GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY
BECAUSE NO LONGER WILL IT BE YOU
00:43:17.23\00:43:20.96
BEING THE CENTER OF FOCUS,
CHRIST WILL BE THE CENTER OF
00:43:20.96\00:43:24.30
FOCUS AND HE ALWAYS
NEEDS TO BE, ALWAYS.'
00:43:24.30\00:43:29.07
SO WE NEED TO BE HUMBLE
JUST LIKE JESUS WAS HUMBLE.
00:43:29.07\00:43:34.01
HE CAME, HE GARBED
HIMSELF IN HUMANITY.
00:43:34.01\00:43:37.45
BY THE WAY, DO YOU REALIZE
HE'S STILL LIVING IN THAT FLESH?
00:43:37.45\00:43:43.75
HE ROBED HIS DIVINITY IN
HUMANITY AND HE STILL HAS THAT.
00:43:43.75\00:43:49.76
TALK ABOUT HUMBLE - AND HE WEARS
THAT IN FRONT OF GOD AND ALL THE
00:43:49.76\00:43:54.13
ANGELS IN HEAVEN.
ONE DAY, IF WE'RE HUMBLE,
00:43:54.13\00:44:01.17
WE'LL BE IN THAT SAME PLACE,
WORSHIPING HIM, FELLOWSHIPPING
00:44:01.17\00:44:04.77
WITH HIM, LEARNING
ALL THAT WE CAN LEARN.
00:44:04.77\00:44:09.11
THIS IDEA OF
HUMILITY IS SO CENTRAL.
00:44:09.11\00:44:12.35
NOTICE, MATTER OF FACT, PETER
REALLY BRINGS THIS OUT - 1 PETER
00:44:12.35\00:44:15.18
CHAPTER 5 - GOING BACK TO
1 PETER CHAPTER 5 - 1 PETER
00:44:15.18\00:44:18.79
CHAPTER 5, VERSES 5 THROUGH 7
- HE SAYS, "LIKEWISE YOU YOUNGER
00:44:18.79\00:44:29.76
PEOPLE, SUBMIT
YOURSELVES TO YOUR ELDERS.
00:44:29.76\00:44:34.67
YES, ALL OF YOU BE SUBMISSIVE
TO ONE ANOTHER, AND BE CLOTHED
00:44:34.67\00:44:41.71
WITH" - WHAT? HUMILITY.
00:44:41.71\00:44:45.01
WE NEED TO BE CLOTHED WITH
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.
00:44:45.01\00:44:48.32
BE WE ALSO - HERE PETER
SAYS WE NEED TO BE CLOTHED WITH
00:44:48.32\00:44:51.82
"HUMILITY, FOR 'GOD RESISTS THE
PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE
00:44:51.82\00:44:59.76
HUMBLE.'" YOU KNOW
WHAT GOD'S GRACE IS?
00:44:59.76\00:45:02.33
GOD'S GRACE IS TWO PARTS:
YOU HAVE GOD'S UNMERITED FAVOR -
00:45:02.33\00:45:07.90
NOTHING WE DO CAN MERIT GOD'S
FAVOR - GOD GIVES US HIS FAVOR.
00:45:07.90\00:45:12.37
HE LOVES US THAT MUCH. >>AMEN.
00:45:12.37\00:45:15.28
>>OKAY? THE OTHER ASPECT OF
HIS GRACE IS GOD'S POWER, OKAY?
00:45:15.28\00:45:21.22
SO YOU HAVE HIS UNMERITED
FAVOR AND YOU HAVE HIS POWER.
00:45:21.22\00:45:25.52
IF YOU'RE HUMBLE, WHAT CAN
YOU EXPERIENCE IN YOUR LIFE?
00:45:25.52\00:45:29.22
HE GIVES GRACE TO
THE WHAT? TO THE HUMBLE.
00:45:29.22\00:45:33.70
HE GIVES HIS UNMERITED FAVOR
AND HE GIVES HIS POWER TO THE
00:45:33.70\00:45:37.80
HUMBLE, NOT TO THE PROUD.
HE HAS TO BRING LOW THE PROUD.
00:45:37.80\00:45:45.51
SO WHERE WOULD IT BE
BETTER FOR US TO BE STANDING?
00:45:45.51\00:45:48.01
THE PROUD OR THE HUMBLE?
HUMBLE, SO WE CAN EXPERIENCE
00:45:48.01\00:45:51.51
THE GRACE OF GOD REGULARLY.
VERSE 6 GOES ON: "THEREFORE
00:45:51.51\00:45:55.92
HUMBLE YOURSELVES UNDER
THE MIGHTY HAND OF GOD, THAT HE
00:45:55.92\00:46:01.22
MAY EXALT YOU IN" -
WHAT? - "DUE TIME," - IN HIS
00:46:01.22\00:46:05.33
TIME, NOT IN YOUR TIME.
THAT WAS WHAT MY FRIEND WAS
00:46:05.33\00:46:08.73
TRYING TO COMMUNICATE
- NOT IN YOUR TIME, OKAY?
00:46:08.73\00:46:13.10
BUT IN GOD'S TIME HE'LL EXALT
YOU, HE'LL LIFT YOU UP, HE'LL
00:46:13.10\00:46:17.97
GIVE YOU OPPORTUNITIES THAT
RIGHT NOW YOU REALLY WANT - AND
00:46:17.97\00:46:22.14
YOU WANT IT, BUT YOU NEED TO
HUMBLE YOURSELF AND LET THE LORD
00:46:22.14\00:46:26.51
LEAD, GUIDE, AND DIRECT AND GIVE
YOU THOSE OPPORTUNITIES, BUT YOU
00:46:26.51\00:46:31.69
CAN STILL LEAD WHERE YOU ARE.
IT DOESN'T MEAN, WELL, SOMETIMES
00:46:31.69\00:46:38.13
WE THINK, 'OH, IF I
PREACH THEN I'M THE LEADER'.
00:46:38.13\00:46:41.56
YOU CAN LEAD WHERE
YOU ARE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO
00:46:41.56\00:46:44.20
PREACH TO LEAD. IF
YOU'RE JUST HUMBLE, ALLOWING
00:46:44.20\00:46:48.60
THE LORD TO WORK IN YOUR
LIVES, HE HELPS YOU TO BE AN
00:46:48.60\00:46:52.57
INFLUENCE WHEREVER YOU
ARE. SO, IN VERSE 7, HE SAYS,
00:46:52.57\00:46:56.21
"CASTING ALL YOUR CARE
UPON HIM FOR HE CARES FOR YOU."
00:46:56.21\00:47:01.72
CASTING ALL YOUR CARE
UPON HIM FOR HE CARES FOR YOU.
00:47:01.72\00:47:04.79
WHAT BETTER PLACE TO BE THAN
UNDER THE MIGHTY HAND OF GOD,
00:47:04.79\00:47:09.42
RIGHT? THERE'S
NO BETTER PLACE THAN
00:47:09.42\00:47:14.56
LIVING UNDER THE
MIGHTY HAND OF GOD.
00:47:14.56\00:47:19.13
OUR HANDS AREN'T
AS STRONG AS HIS.
00:47:19.13\00:47:21.74
OUR HANDS CAN'T EVEN ACCOMPLISH
HALF OF WHAT HIS HANDS CAN
00:47:21.74\00:47:25.47
ACCOMPLISH AND PETER SAYS HERE,
'LISTEN, IF YOU HUMBLE YOURSELF,
00:47:25.47\00:47:28.61
YOU WILL BE UNDER
THE MIGHTY HAND OF GOD.'
00:47:28.61\00:47:31.98
GROWING UP I REMEMBER, YOU KNOW,
FOR A LITTLE CHILD, MANY TIMES,
00:47:31.98\00:47:35.75
THEY LOVE TO BE UNDER
THE HAND OF THEIR DADS.
00:47:35.75\00:47:40.92
I REMEMBER GROWING UP I ALWAYS
LOOKED UP TO MY DAD, OKAY?
00:47:40.92\00:47:44.83
STILL DO IN MANY WAYS, BUT I
REMEMBER ONE TIME - ON THE FARM
00:47:44.83\00:47:49.56
WE HAD SEVEN ACRES AND MY DAD,
EVERY YEAR DURING SPRING, HE
00:47:49.56\00:47:53.60
WOULD GO OUT TO THE DITCH - AND
WE HAD A LONG DITCH OF 75 YARDS
00:47:53.60\00:47:56.87
OR MORE - AND HE
WOULD BURN THE GRASS, OKAY?
00:47:56.87\00:48:01.34
AND THIS WAS JUST SOMETHING
WE DID EVERY SINGLE YEAR AND IT
00:48:01.34\00:48:04.35
JUST SO HAPPENED MY YOUNGER
BROTHER AND I AND MY DAD WERE
00:48:04.35\00:48:06.65
THERE AND HE
STARTS BURNING THE GRASS.
00:48:06.65\00:48:09.68
AND AS IT GOES ALONG AND
IT BURNS MORE AND MORE - IT'S
00:48:09.68\00:48:12.22
BEHIND OUR BARN - NOW, OUR BARN
WAS VERY LARGE AND IT HAD A LOT
00:48:12.22\00:48:15.39
OF HAY IN IT AND THE
HAY WAS VERY DRY, OKAY?
00:48:15.39\00:48:20.53
AND SO HE WAS BURNING AND ALL OF
A SUDDEN THE WIND SHIFTED AND -
00:48:20.53\00:48:25.53
AND THAT FIRE THAT WAS ALL THE
WAY DOWN THE DRIVEWAY, STARTED
00:48:25.53\00:48:29.97
COMING BACK TOWARDS THE BARN AND
ALL MY DAD HAD WAS THIS LITTLE
00:48:29.97\00:48:35.11
HOSE. NOW I
LOOKED UP TO MY DAD - IN
00:48:35.11\00:48:36.85
THIS MOMENT, MY DAD TOLD
ME, JUST RECENTLY, 'YOU KNOW,
00:48:36.85\00:48:40.15
THAT MOMENT I WAS SO SCARED.
I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO LOSE
00:48:40.15\00:48:43.12
EVERYTHING.' AND HE
STARTED PRAYING TO GOD.
00:48:43.12\00:48:48.16
HE WAS LIKE, 'LORD, YOU'VE GOT
TO HELP ME.' AND THIS FIRE WAS
00:48:48.16\00:48:51.96
GETTING OUT OF CONTROL AND
IT WAS BIG AND IT WAS COMING ALL
00:48:51.96\00:48:54.40
THE WAY BACK TOWARDS THE BARN
AND HE TOLD MY YOUNGER BROTHER,
00:48:54.40\00:48:58.50
'RUN INTO THE HOUSE AND CALL THE
FIRE DEPARTMENT.' AND HE CALLS
00:48:58.50\00:49:00.84
9-1-1 AND THE FIREMEN COME OUT
THERE, BUT THE WIND, AS MY DAD
00:49:00.84\00:49:04.24
IS PRAYING AND WE'RE DOING
ALL THAT WE CAN - A NEIGHBOR HAD
00:49:04.24\00:49:07.01
COME OVER AND HE'S BEATING OUT
THE FIRE AND - JUST TWO OF THEM
00:49:07.01\00:49:09.31
GOING AT IT - I'M CARRYING
BUCKETS - WE'RE GOING AS FAST AS
00:49:09.31\00:49:11.95
WE CAN BUT, IN THIS SITUATION,
EVEN THIS WAS OUT OF MY DAD'S
00:49:11.95\00:49:16.89
CONTROL. EVEN THOUGH I LOOKED TO
HIM AND I LOVED BEING UNDER HIS
00:49:16.89\00:49:23.09
HAND, EVEN THAT
WAS OUT OF HIS CONTROL.
00:49:23.09\00:49:27.50
WE NEEDED SOMEONE STRONGER.
WE NEEDED SOMEONE MORE ABLE.
00:49:27.50\00:49:34.37
AND THE WIND STARTED DYING DOWN
AND I REMEMBER WHEN THE FIRE
00:49:34.37\00:49:37.07
DEPARTMENT GOT THERE AND THEY
STARTED WORKING ON IT, THE FIRE
00:49:37.07\00:49:41.51
HAD GONE ALL THE WAY AROUND
OUR BARN AND IT HAD JUST STOPPED
00:49:41.51\00:49:45.91
BEFORE THE CAR AND IT HAD
STOPPED SIX INCHES FROM THE
00:49:45.91\00:49:48.85
BARN. THEY HAD
GOTTEN THERE JUST IN
00:49:48.85\00:49:51.65
TIME, BUT THE WIND HAD DIED - IF
THE WIND WOULD HAVE KEPT GOING
00:49:51.65\00:49:55.49
AS FAST AS IT WAS GOING - AND
THIS WAS IN WISCONSIN, BY THE
00:49:55.49\00:49:58.49
WAY, IF THE WIND - JUST OPEN
- IF THE WIND KEPT GOING AS FAST
00:49:58.49\00:50:02.20
AS IT WAS GOING,
THERE WAS NO WAY.
00:50:02.20\00:50:04.17
THAT BARN WAS GOING UP - IT
WASN'T TOO FAR FROM THE HOUSE -
00:50:04.17\00:50:07.50
WE'RE TALKING A
HUGE EXPLOSION, OKAY?
00:50:07.50\00:50:11.84
BUT THE LORD'S HAND WAS MIGHTY
AND THE LORD'S HAND WAS MIGHTIER
00:50:11.84\00:50:17.41
THAN MY DAD'S
HAND. THAT'S THE HAND WE
00:50:17.41\00:50:20.88
SHOULD BE LIVING UNDER. >>AMEN.
00:50:20.88\00:50:22.95
>>WE SHOULD BE EXPERIENCING THE
GRACE OF GOD DAILY, AS WE HUMBLE
00:50:22.95\00:50:27.66
OURSELVES. AND YOU KNOW IN
WHAT WAYS YOU NEED TO HUMBLE
00:50:27.66\00:50:32.33
YOURSELF. THE LORD CAN HELP US
UNDERSTAND. HE CAN GIVE US THE
00:50:32.33\00:50:36.73
STRENGTH TO DO THAT.
BUT, WHEN WE HUMBLE OURSELVES,
00:50:36.73\00:50:39.83
HE, IN TURN, WILL
LIFT US UP. >>AMEN.
00:50:39.83\00:50:44.91
>>WE MUST STOP TRUSTING SELF AND
BEGIN ENTRUSTING OURSELVES TO
00:50:44.91\00:50:50.41
THE KING OF KINGS
AND LORD OF LORDS.
00:50:50.41\00:50:53.95
THIS SAME KING THAT KNELT DOWN
TO WASH THE DISCIPLES' FEET WHEN
00:50:53.95\00:50:59.25
HE WAS UPON THE EARTH, WAS THE
SAME LORD, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
00:50:59.25\00:51:03.43
THAT LAID LOW
THE HIGH AND MIGHTY.
00:51:03.43\00:51:09.80
ISAIAH CHAPTER 13, VERSE 11
- OUR LESSON POINTS TO THESE
00:51:09.80\00:51:12.47
PASSAGES - "I WILL PUNISH
THE WORLD FOR ITS EVIL AND THE
00:51:12.47\00:51:16.37
WICKED FOR THEIR INIQUITY; I
WILL HALT THE ARROGANCE OF THE
00:51:16.37\00:51:19.31
PROUD, AND WILL LAY LOW THE
HAUGHTINESS OF THE TERRIBLE."
00:51:19.31\00:51:24.41
JOB CHAPTER 40, VERSES 11 AND
12, "DISPERSE THE RAGE OF YOUR
00:51:24.41\00:51:29.08
WRATH; LOOK ON EVERYONE
WHO IS PROUD, AND HUMBLE HIM.
00:51:29.08\00:51:35.09
LOOK ON EVERYONE WHO IS
PROUD, AND BRING HIM LOW;
00:51:35.09\00:51:39.13
TREAD DOWN THE
WICKED IN THEIR PLACE."
00:51:39.13\00:51:42.43
ONE DAY GOD IS GOING TO HUMBLE
THE PROUD, BUT IF WE HUMBLE
00:51:42.43\00:51:48.64
OURSELVES NOW, IN THE SAME DAY
THAT GOD HUMBLES THE PROUD, HE
00:51:48.64\00:51:52.91
WILL LIFT UP THE HUMBLE AND
HE WILL LITERALLY SET THEM RIGHT
00:51:52.91\00:51:58.25
NEXT TO HIMSELF IN
THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM.
00:51:58.25\00:52:03.99
WHAT KIND OF LEADERS IS GOD,
THROUGH PETER'S EPISTLE, CALLING
00:52:03.99\00:52:08.96
US TO BE? AND,
FINALLY, WHEN WE ARE THESE
00:52:08.96\00:52:14.46
KINDS OF LEADERS, WE NEED
TO BE SOBER - PETER GOES ON
00:52:14.46\00:52:20.47
- WE NEED TO BE SOBER. WE
NEED TO BE CLEAR MINDED, HE
00:52:20.47\00:52:24.41
SAYS, "...BE VIGILANT; BECAUSE
YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL WALKS
00:52:24.41\00:52:28.78
ABOUT LIKE A ROARING LION,
SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR."
00:52:28.78\00:52:33.28
WHEN WE ARE LIVING HUMBLY AND
GOD IS LIFTING US UP, REMEMBER,
00:52:33.28\00:52:38.22
THERE'S AN ADVERSARY RIGHT
AROUND THE CORNER AND HE'S GOING
00:52:38.22\00:52:41.46
TO DO EVERYTHING THAT HE
POSSIBLY CAN TO DEVOUR YOU.
00:52:41.46\00:52:46.36
BUT, IN VERSE 9, PETER GOES ON
AND SAYS, "RESIST HIM, STEADFAST
00:52:46.36\00:52:52.47
IN THE FAITH," -
HOW DO YOU RESIST HIM?
00:52:52.47\00:52:56.57
STAYING STEADFAST IN THE FAITH.
PETER SAYS STAND STEADFAST IN
00:52:56.57\00:53:04.85
THE FAITH - RESIST HIM, "KNOWING
THAT THE SAME SUFFERINGS ARE
00:53:04.85\00:53:09.48
EXPERIENCED BY YOUR
BROTHERHOOD IN THE WORLD."
00:53:09.48\00:53:12.89
SOMETIMES WE SUFFER AND
WE THINK WE'RE THE ONLY ONES.
00:53:12.89\00:53:15.52
PETER SAYS, 'NO,
YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES.'
00:53:15.52\00:53:17.63
THERE'S PEOPLE ALL OVER
THE WORLD THAT ARE FACING
00:53:17.63\00:53:19.93
CHALLENGES AND FACING
TRIALS AND THAT ARE SUFFERING.
00:53:19.93\00:53:23.50
BUT WE CAN PRAISE THE LORD AS WE
STAND FAST IN OUR FAITH, EVEN IF
00:53:23.50\00:53:28.00
WE SHOULD SUFFER IT'S OKAY. WHY?
00:53:28.00\00:53:31.01
BECAUSE STANDING FAST, WE'RE
RESISTING OUR ADVERSARY SO THAT
00:53:31.01\00:53:36.54
ONE DAY GOD CAN LIFT US UP TO BE
WITH HIMSELF IN THE KINGDOM OF
00:53:36.54\00:53:42.82
HEAVEN. POWERFUL PASSAGES.
00:53:42.82\00:53:46.45
AND, FINALLY, VERSE 10, "BUT MAY
THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO CALLED
00:53:46.45\00:53:52.66
US TO HIS ETERNAL GLORY BY
CHRIST JESUS, AFTER YOU HAVE
00:53:52.66\00:53:58.57
SUFFERED A WHILE, PERFECT,
ESTABLISH, STRENGTHEN, AND" -
00:53:58.57\00:54:05.37
WHAT? - >>SETTLE -
00:54:05.37\00:54:06.84
>>"SETTLE YOU." THIS IS
AWESOME. IT SAYS, THROUGH ALL OF
00:54:06.84\00:54:10.81
THIS, WHAT IS GOD
DOING? HE'S STRENGTHENING YOU,
00:54:10.81\00:54:14.22
HE'S PERFECTING YOU, HE'S
ESTABLISHING YOU, AND HE IS
00:54:14.22\00:54:18.39
SETTLING YOU IN THE TRUTH -
THE TRUTH AS IT IS IN JESUS.
00:54:18.39\00:54:26.39
"BUT MAY THE GOD OF ALL GRACE,
WHO CALLED US TO HIS ETERNAL
00:54:26.39\00:54:29.30
GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS,
AFTER YOU HAVE SUFFERED A WHILE,
00:54:29.30\00:54:33.30
PERFECT, ESTABLISH,
STRENGTHEN, AND SETTLE [YOU]."
00:54:33.30\00:54:37.07
MAY WE BE ALL OF THESE THINGS AS
GOD'S LEADERS WHEREVER WE ARE.
00:54:37.07\00:54:43.88
MAY WE INFLUENCE OTHERS FOR HIS
HONOR AND FOR HIS GLORY, BECAUSE
00:54:43.88\00:54:48.28
ONE DAY, THE CHIEF
SHEPHERD IS COMING.
00:54:48.28\00:54:53.15
HE'S COMING. >>AMEN.
00:54:53.15\00:54:55.89
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MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND
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(MUSIC) >>HELLO,
FRIENDS. WE ALL KNOW A
00:55:16.34\00:55:26.12
MARATHON IS ONE OF THE
LONGEST AND HARDEST RACES A
00:55:26.12\00:55:28.59
PERSON CAN RUN. BUT DID
YOU HEAR ABOUT THE ULTRA
00:55:28.59\00:55:31.53
MARATHON THEY USED
TO HAVE IN AUSTRALIA?
00:55:31.53\00:55:34.46
IT WAS 544 MILES FROM MELBOURNE
TO SYDNEY; IT ATTRACTED AS MANY
00:55:34.46\00:55:38.90
AS 150 WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES.
BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT
00:55:38.90\00:55:43.04
NO ONE WOULD EVER FORGET: IN
1983 A 61-YEAR-OLD POTATO FARMER
00:55:43.04\00:55:48.61
NAMED CLIFF YOUNG
DECIDED TO ENTER THE RACE.
00:55:48.61\00:55:51.48
PEOPLE WERE VERY AMUSED BECAUSE
HE HAD ON RUBBER GALOSHES OVER
00:55:51.48\00:55:54.48
HIS BOOTS AND WHEN THE RACE
BEGAN AND ALL THE RUNNERS TOOK
00:55:54.48\00:55:57.75
OFF, SURE ENOUGH OLD CLIFF WAS
LEFT BEHIND SHUFFLING ALONG VERY
00:55:57.75\00:56:02.22
SLOWLY - BUT HE WAS
SHUFFLING VERY PERSISTENTLY.
00:56:02.22\00:56:05.76
NORMALLY, DURING THIS SEVEN-DAY
RACE, THE RUNNERS WOULD GO ABOUT
00:56:05.76\00:56:09.03
18 HOURS RUNNING AND THEN THEY'D
SLEEP FOR SIX HOURS, BUT NOBODY
00:56:09.03\00:56:12.83
EVER TOLD CLIFF THAT.
WHEN THE OTHER RUNNERS STOPPED
00:56:12.83\00:56:15.97
TO REST DURING THE NIGHT,
CLIFF JUST KEPT ON RUNNING.
00:56:15.97\00:56:19.37
SOME PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OLD
CLIFF WAS GOING TO HAVE A HEART
00:56:19.37\00:56:21.58
ATTACK AND THEY WERE ASKING THE
RACE ORGANIZERS TO SHOW MERCY
00:56:21.58\00:56:24.85
AND STOP THE CRAZY OLD MAN,
BUT HE WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT.
00:56:24.85\00:56:28.28
EACH DAY HE WAS GAINING ON
THE PACK BECAUSE WHEN THEY WERE
00:56:28.28\00:56:31.22
SLEEPING, HE WAS PLODDING ALONG.
DURING THE LAST NIGHT OF THE
00:56:31.22\00:56:35.36
RACE CLIFF PASSED ALL OF
THESE WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES.
00:56:35.36\00:56:39.46
NOT ONLY WAS CLIFF ABLE TO
RUN THAT 544-MILE RACE WITHOUT
00:56:39.46\00:56:43.26
DYING, HE WON, BEATING ALL
THE OTHER RACERS BY NINE HOURS,
00:56:43.26\00:56:47.70
BREAKING THE RECORD, AND
BECOMING A NATIONAL HERO IN THE
00:56:47.70\00:56:50.54
PROCESS. WHAT'S
REALLY AMAZING IS WHEN
00:56:50.54\00:56:52.67
THEY TOLD HIM HE WON THE
$10,000.00 PRIZE HE LOOKED
00:56:52.67\00:56:55.84
CONFUSED AND SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW
THERE WAS A PRIZE AND HE DECIDED
00:56:55.84\00:56:58.75
TO SHARE IT WITH
THE OTHER RUNNERS.
00:56:58.75\00:57:01.05
WHEN ASKED HOW HE WAS ABLE
TO RUN ALL NIGHT LONG, CLIFF
00:57:01.05\00:57:04.35
RESPONDED THAT HE GREW UP ON A
FARM WHERE THEY HAD ABOUT 2,000
00:57:04.35\00:57:07.06
HEAD OF CATTLE AND, BECAUSE THEY
COULDN'T AFFORD HORSES, HE USED
00:57:07.06\00:57:09.89
TO HAVE TO ROUND THEM UP ON
FOOT, SOMETIMES RUNNING TWO AND
00:57:09.89\00:57:12.73
THREE DAYS NON-STOP. SO,
THROUGHOUT THE RACE, HE JUST
00:57:12.73\00:57:16.00
IMAGINED HE WAS CHASING
AFTER THE COWS AND TRYING
00:57:16.00\00:57:18.33
TO OUTRUN A STORM. OLD
CLIFF'S SECRET WAS TO KEEP
00:57:18.33\00:57:22.00
ON RUNNING WHILE
OTHERS WERE SLEEPING.
00:57:22.00\00:57:24.81
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US
THAT THE RACE IS NOT NECESSARILY
00:57:24.81\00:57:27.81
TO THE SWIFT - SOMETHING LIKE
AESOP'S FABLE OF THE TORTOISE
00:57:27.81\00:57:31.41
AND THE HARE - THE TORTOISE
JUST KEPT ON PLODDING ALONG.
00:57:31.41\00:57:35.22
THAT'S WHY JESUS TELLS US IN
MATTHEW 24:13, "HE THAT ENDURES
00:57:35.22\00:57:39.12
UNTO THE END THE
SAME WILL BE SAVED."
00:57:39.12\00:57:41.69
NOW YOU MIGHT SLIP
AND FALL DURING THE RACE.
00:57:41.69\00:57:44.09
YOU MIGHT EVEN GET
OFF TO A BAD START.
00:57:44.09\00:57:46.19
BUT IN THE CHRISTIAN RACE THAT
WE RUN, THE MAIN THING IS YOU
00:57:46.19\00:57:49.23
WANT TO FINISH WELL.
KEEP ON RUNNING, FRIENDS
00:57:49.23\00:57:51.63
AND DON'T GIVE UP. (MUSIC)
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