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It's good to be here with all of
you this morning, we appreciate 

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your presence. 
So very much. 

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It is a privilege to worship God
together and I am honored as 

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always, to be your speaker. 
I'd ask you to bear with my 

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voice. 
I don't know why I woke up so 

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hoarse today, but I hope I don't
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of his lesson. 
I'll do my very best, please 

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bear with me as an introductory 
text. 

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I've chosen the book of Acts the
27th chapter and beginning there

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in verse 1. 
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they should sail to Italy, they 
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prisoners to one named Julius a 
centurion of the Augustine 

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regimen, so entering a ship of a
dream idiom. 

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We put to see meaning to sail 
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aristarchus a Macedonian of 
thessalonica was with us. 

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This morning, I want to talk on 
a very important subject. 

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I want to talk on kle leadership
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true leader. 
And you might think that it's a 

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strange place. 
The book of Acts chapter 27, to 

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discuss a subject like 
leadership. 

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But in this narrative, there are
great things that we can learn 

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from the great Apostle, Paul a 
prisoner the Bible says, and on 

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his journey to Rome becomes a 
tremendous and terrific leader. 

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Now, one of the most critical 
challenges, I think that face 

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the church today is the lack of 
strong effective leadership. 

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In fact, leadership remains, one
of the glaring needs. 

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I think in the church people are
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Vision but too frequently. 
They have no exposure to either 

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Vision or true leadership. 
And you know this is not just in

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the Lord's church. 
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Christian professing religions 
in fact statistician George 

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George Barna, panting some 
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his research of Christian 
professing religions and he 

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wrote The Following after 15 
years of digging into the world 

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around me. 
I have reached several 

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conclusions regarding the future
of the Christian church in 

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America. 
The central conclusion is that 

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the American church is dying due
to the lack of strong leadership

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in this time of unprecedented 
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resources. 
The church is actually losing 

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influence. 
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of leadership. 
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leadership. 
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to discuss some things that 
would encourage us to practice 

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transformational leadership. 
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makes a difference in the life 
of other people. 

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I'm going to tell you, you may 
think of this and say you know 

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what, this sermon is for the men
that lead, so I'll just kind of 

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check out this would be good for
them. 

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But I'm going to tell you this 
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us. 
You might think I'm not a 

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leader. 
Surely, I'm not. 

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I'm a follower. 
I've actually heard from people 

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that have said, you know, I 
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I just kind of sit. 
I occupy my seat and I'm not a 

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leader to anyone, but that's not
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In fact, you have an influence 
over somebody in your life that 

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nobody else does and if that's 
the case, it's very sobering. 

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If somebody is watching me in my
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And I am a leader in their eyes.
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understand what it means to be a
strong effective leader. 

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Well, I want to talk on the 
subject that Corporate America 

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brings up and it's called the 
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leader. 
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they look at in the corporate 
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A strong natural leader is 
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ways. 
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leader, is a visionary. 
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Looks to the Future and plans, 
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A strong natural leader is one 
who is action oriented, somebody

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that gets things done. 
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leader, is somebody that's 
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He's a risk taker. 
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In other words, he's a type A 
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He's the guy that is extremely 
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Also objective oriented and not 
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I'm going to get back. 
To this in just a minute because

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while this sounds like a really 
good idea, there are faulty 

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aspects of the strong natural 
leader theory in the corporate 

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world. 
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paternalistic. 
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in charge. 
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was large and in charge as to 
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egocentric. 
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self-absorbed. 
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Intolerant of incompetence. 
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got to keep the level of 
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And view self as indispensable 
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whole system that they are part 
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without them. 
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the theory. 
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of biblical leadership and that 
it is that you can only 

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accomplish God's goal through 
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yourself. 
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The difficulty comes because I 
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organize and lead a whole bunch 
of people who are all 

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volunteers, none of whom you can
command, all of whom, you have 

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to say, oh, please and none of 
whom you can fire and many of 

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whom when you make a mistake, 
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Sure to let you know about it. 
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that. 
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something, there's something 
about being a leader and I might

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go back to these this chart 
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It's true that we need to be 
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Absolutely. 
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can't move forward. 
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That's true too. 
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all of those things but 
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people oriented over objective 
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leaders somebody they can get 
every aspect of all people, 

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doing their very best. 
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coached football and coach 
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thing that I learned when it was
all said and done that, if an 

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effective coach is not someone 
that can get the most out of the

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star athlete, you know, it's 
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star athlete. 
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you got to start, he makes you 
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And sometimes in spite of you a 
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athletes can make a coach look 
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But if you want to be really 
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that little guy over there, the 
third-string guy, it doesn't 

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play much, but he does have a 
role and effective coach gets 

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the most out of every single 
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And so does an effective leader 
objective oriented know. 

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We want to be people oriented, 
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And when move forward, acts 27 
verse 1, as we begin, we're 

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talking about something that 
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Who had been a prisoner in 
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He was taken prisoner during his
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Paul had enjoyed great success. 
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the gospel and because of that, 
the Jewish opposition was great 

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against him. 
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nothing. 
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and for two years he was in 
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Now please make this. 
If you taking notes, write it 

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down. 
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Have you ever noticed that Paul 
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Rome, never He never said that. 
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Because there were no 
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He was guilty of nothing. 
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wrote to Philemon he said I Paul
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In other words, he was a 
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preached and when he took the 
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Jews that rejected Jesus, they 
absolutely hated him for it so 

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what they do they drummed up 
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So he's imprisoned where Ever, 
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prison, but he is imprisoned in 
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Now, as a Roman citizen, he 
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And that was to go to Caesar and
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And that's where this entire 
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journey to make that appeal, 
appealing to Caesar. 

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Now, I got to tell you when you 
think about all the people there

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on the ship. 
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And when Paul got on that ship, 
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everybody that was on the ship 
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Let's talk about some of those 
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number one. 
There would have been a man that

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was a centurion. 
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They were a man that was in 
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Over 100 soldiers, there would 
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There would have been soldiers 
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There would have been a First 
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If there's a captain there's 
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would have been Sailors there 
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bottom of all of that. 
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find that he emerges and he 
rises to the top, he comes from 

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a position of weakness, he rises
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a leader and people follow Don't
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Have you ever heard people say 
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No, he's not. 
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when you're naturally born, 
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you're in need, you're a taker 
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that way they need, they take 
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they're not a leader, so you are
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leader, what you are, you come 
into the world as a follower and

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in need and self-centered and 
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And what happens is in life 
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And sometimes out of the ashes, 
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position of leadership in life, 
that you least expect, you know,

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why? 
Because leaders emerge, they are

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developed and they emerge, and 
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A great Apostle Paul. 

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Let's go to verse 1 of Acts 
chapter 27, and when it was 

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decided that we should sail to 
Italy, they delivered Paul and 

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some other prisoners to one 
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Augustine regimen. 
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referring to Paul obviously, but
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Luke wrote the gut wrote, the 
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And so in this narrative and 
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Luke is referring to himself and
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They A delivered Paul. 
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to one named Julius, a centurion
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Also in verse 2, so entering a 
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We put to Sea, meaning to sail 
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aristarchus. 
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with us. 
All right, Adrian medium was a 

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city of Asia Minor on the coast 
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You look at verse 3 and I must 
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Let's go to verse 3 and the next
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Now this is very significant, 
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coast of Israel not very far at 
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far. 
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Also, it says and Julius treated
Paul kindly and gave him Liberty

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to go to his friends and receive
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Have you ever stopped to 
consider why it was that Julius 

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when Paul had not been On the 
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All of a sudden he says 
something like this as I might 

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paraphrase. 
You know what, Paul you've been 

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on the ship all day. 
You had kind of a long day so 

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you can just leave, you can get 
off the ship. 

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You can go to your friends and 
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receive care in other words to 
refresh yourself. 

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Think of it this way. 
Paul was one of the most highly 

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resented men in Jewish 
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Can you imagine what it 
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What could have happened? 
If Paul is released to leave the

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ship, if he's running loose and 
really as they came to side and 

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Julius. 
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In other words, Paul you've been
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yourself. 
I think what this shows is Paul 

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was extremely trustworthy or 
worthy of trust. 

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What an example, he's a 
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and that really brings up 
principle number one of 

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principles of leadership and 
that is to be trustworthy. 

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I'm going to get to these two 
things in just a minute, but 

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let's talk about being 
trustworthy in this particular 

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narrative, all right? 
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sudden Paul being trustworthy is
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I don't know what all that he 
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narrative later, a lot of things
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when Julius looks to Paul, he 
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can, trust him, I guess in 
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trust that they won't get in 
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wrong. 
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If you trust him to go out, I 
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but there was an honor Farm in 
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was a place that people that you
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There was no fence or anything, 
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of trust. 
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He's allowed to go to his 
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his friends? 
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How many times? 
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something. 
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their friends jump ship. 
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of a specific instance of that. 
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the last two years he was 
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he vehemently denies. 
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there's a difference, some of 
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Included are still his friends. 
Let it play out. 

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Not just all of a sudden have no
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though he's been your friend for
a lot of years and bail on him 

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because he's accused of 
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How many times do people do 
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These friends of Paul could have
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minute what Paul do now. 
He's been in prison for two 

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years after all. 
He must be guilty of something. 

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He was also trustworthy to his 
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and be refreshed by them 
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and lose confidence because of 
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And, you know, I think about 
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the people in my life perhaps 
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have any kind of influence over 
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How many people could be better 
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Now listen trust is earned we 
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be better than they've ever been
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When you constantly doubt 
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and strive for greatness, you 
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You have to demonstrate that 
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Now, respect is earned 
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earned it you give it and just 
maybe it raises the bar in their

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mind of the status that they 
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in the future than they've even 
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to tell you something, when it 
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leaders are servants. 
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who fail to practice, servant 
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And by the way, nobody likes the
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around. 
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And I'll just tell you if you 
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anyone, I will tell you this, 
you can be a boss, you can be a 

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coach, you can be a leader of 
all manner of things, okay. 

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If you're in a position of 
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guarantee you this, you will get
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love appreciate and respect you 
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You get a whole lot more out of 
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Out of respect. 
I'm going to talk about being a 

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servant here. 
You don't Paul said Paul 

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referring to the apostles. 
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greatest leaders ever. 
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left on the earth and the early 
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When the church was established,
they had to be walking Bibles 

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and preach the gospel. 
We have Apostles doctrine. 

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That was preached because the 
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The New Testament didn't exist. 
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They were the great leaders in 
the Lord's Church. 

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You know what Paul said in first
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He said we are under rowers. 
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That's the third-level galley 
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As the guys all the way down in 
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where the raps lived. 
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rowers, servant leadership. 
This is the picture that Paul is

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saying, we are under rowers. 
We are down there in the third 

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deck, we are rolling all the way
down the bottom. 

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We are rolling rowing, so the 
ship can move under Rose. 

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This is one of my favorite 
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One of the greatest greatest 
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and it was Nehemiah And 
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In about 400 44, BC the 
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Jerusalem was terrible. 
The city was in destruction, and

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laying in that condition. 
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people have been outside of 
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years, but they still couldn't 
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A man had to come to the rescue 
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He just happened to be over 
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was Nehemiah and Nehemiah said I
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there's five principles for 
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to the sixth thing in just a 
moment. 

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Five principles notice what he 
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with the need. 
I think that's has to happen 

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regardless of who we are and 
what we're trying to accomplish.

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If there's a need, we got to 
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In other words, I see the need a
lot of people saw the need they 

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couldn't do anything, but I can 
identify with the need. 

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I can do something about it. 
You know, what he does, he came 

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up with a solution now, 
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think of the problem, but we 
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Okay, and I got to tell you I'm 
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little bit here too. 
Okay. 

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Sometimes as we flow through 
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Nate, I can do something about 
it coming up with a solution. 

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That's all great. 
He decided, you know, my do, I'm

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going to go to The King and I 
got a plan. 

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So what does he do? 
He takes action, and he doesn't.

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Okay, I'm going to tell you 
something times, this gets all 

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of us. 
We may identify with the need. 

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We may even have a solution but 
we never take Action. 

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It's kind of like the guy that 
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things we should do. 
But does nothing. 

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We should do this. 
We should do that. 

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We should do this. 
We should do that. 

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Or what are you going to do? 
Oh, nothing. 

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It kind of gets all of us 
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solution and he took action. 
And then this is the one right 

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here that I've had to work on 
and I'm still working on. 

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I think it's a weakness of mine 
and that is he delegated 

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responsibility? 
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someone doing something and 
maybe they're green at it, maybe

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they're new at it and we think 
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So we want to take the task away
from them. 

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It's kind of like you remember 
when your kids were little and 

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where they're sweeping something
up in the backyard, you know, 

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you can grab that broom and do 
better than they can. 

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Absolutely. 
But they need to learn, they 

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need to know. 
So in time, they'll be as good 

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as you are at it. 
That's a hard concept. 

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Well, let me tell you about my 
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What I've always done is I've 
neglected Delegate 

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responsibility. 
That is not a good quality in a 

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leader. 
We have to delegate 

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responsibilities, so everybody 
else is involved. 

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Everybody else is getting 
better, too. 

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But I love this when he put 
together the entire thing, he 

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came up with this plan and he 
worked alongside the people in 

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this plan though, when he 
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said to this family, you just 
build this section right here 

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and this family over here, you 
just build what this section 

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right here and this family over 
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But it wasn't the boss. 
No, he got down there with them 

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and he worked alongside the 
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Oh, that's a great leader. 
Somebody that will do just that,

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a good leader folks is not 
someone that just bosses 

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everybody and lines them all 
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And then notice don't you think 
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Nehemiah? 
And said, man I want to great 

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job Nehemiah know. 
He was resented. 

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He was hated and there was 
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But do you know what happened? 
This is amazing to me. 80 years.

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They couldn't build the wall. 
Couldn't do it Nehemiah with 

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proper leadership. 
Identify with Annie come in a 

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solution, taking action delegate
responsibilities work alongside 

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the people, you know what 
happened? 

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They built the wall in record 
time in 52 days. 

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They could they did what they 
couldn't have done without him 

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for 80 years and they did it in 
52 days. 

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So yeah we have to have leaders 
like that there are trustworthy.

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But number two, We need leaders 
that have good judgment. 

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I'm talking about being cautious
and careful and those that seek 

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wise counsel, you know, there's 
a lot of things that we all have

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as shortcomings, perhaps one of 
which is not mine, this is not 

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my shortcoming, but I have a lot
of shortcomings, but I was 

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always raised to go and respect 
those that are older than we are

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and be able to accept their 
wisdom, and their knowledge, and

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their guidance. 
And I try as I go through The 

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out and preached all over the 
country. 

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I try to encourage young people 
to look to these precious older 

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folks that have silver hair and 
wrinkles on their face as life 

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swarm apps and go to them and 
listen to their wise counsel, 

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like Proverbs talks about Hardy 
Council. 

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It's wonderful, a good leader. 
Could be a young person, but a 

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young person that uses good 
judgment. 

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Being cautious, careful, and 
seeking wise counsel, asking, 

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for advice, you've heard me say 
this before so it's not new. 

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But I will tell you this every 
bad decision I ever made in my 

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life. 
Usually every one of them there 

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was always somebody there dumber
than I was telling me. 

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I got a great idea. 
It's great idea. 

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That's not your friend. 
One that is wise will seek wise 

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counsel and we'll use good 
judgment in verse 11 listen to 

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this. 
Nevertheless in Acts 27, the 

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center Ian was more persuaded by
the Helmsman and the owner of 

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the ship then then the things 
which Paul spoke you know, why? 

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Paul was just a prisoner. 
He was just a prisoner. 

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He was of the lowest. 276, man, 
and he was at the very bottom, 

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but leaders emerge. 
Number one, number one, be 

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trustworthy number to be of good
judgment. 

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And number three, a good leader,
strengthens others. 

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A good leader makes everyone 
around him. 

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Better makes everyone around him
stronger and more effective and 

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so by speaking with confidence 
and Authority, a leader can 

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strengthen others. 
I want to note something here, 

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too in a negative way, you know,
Hitler was a man that spoke of 

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authority but it was a it was a 
tyrant. 

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Just because you speak of 
authority. 

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Doesn't mean a tyrant. 
Okay. 

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It's not what that's not what 
I'm talking about. 

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But when you speak the truth and
love you speak at bowling, you 

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speak the word of God boldly and
a good leader is somebody 

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strengthening others speaking 
boldly, the truth of the word of

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God, a good leader will 
strengthen others. 

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Now there's three kind of people
that leaders in the church have 

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to work with. 
I don't like the term deal with.

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I like to term work with first 
Thessalonians. 

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Chapter 5. 
And first Thessalonians, chapter

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5 verse 14. 
What Paul said, now we exhort 

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you Brethren, warn those that 
are unruly Comfort the 

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faint-hearted, uphold the weak 
and be patient with all unworthy

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or unruly, by the way, unruly 
means to walk disorderly so that

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they need some fences, built 
some parameters. 

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Now, sometimes we have to do 
that from a negative standpoint,

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we have to warn people. 
Okay. 

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That are Unruly. 
But I want to talk about the 

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second one and that is Comfort 
or encourage the faint-hearted. 

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You know, some translations say 
feeble-minded and that's doesn't

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mean mentally. 
Irresponsible Thayer says, these

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are those who are inclined to be
easily discouraged in the 

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presence of Trials. 
And they need to be pushed 

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along. 
You know, the third one is, the 

463
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third one, is those who need 
some special attention, 

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upholding the week, some have 
less ability than others. 

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And Paul said in Romans 15 and 1
we would have the stronger ones 

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to support and encourage them. 
In verse 1 of Romans chapter 15,

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we then who are strong ought to 
bear with the Scruples of the 

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weak and not to, please our 
self. 

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What else? 
What else? 

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We have to be optimistic. now, 
you know that I believe in this,

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you know, I've said this many 
times but I'm going to give you 

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a quote here Optimism within the
bounds of Reason creates energy 

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excitement and Hope. 
Now, I clarify that. 

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Do you see that optimism within 
the bounds of Reason creates 

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energy excitement and hope I'm 
not saying optimism regardless 

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of the circumstances. 
In other words, the guy that's 

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rose-colored glasses and is 
naive. 

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I'm talking about within reason 
based on fact, it's about 

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perception. 
On the other hand being 

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pessimistic. 
We don't want that guy. 

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Pessimism literally debilitates 
everyone. 

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It Literally sucks the life out 
of others. 

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Paul said to them, be of good 
cheer. 

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Let's get excited about this. 
Paul would say And I have lost 

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some slides. 
So that brings us to our Final 

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point. and that is, Paul said, 
in Paul's case, he's an example 

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of someone who never compromises
obsoletes things that are 

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absolute in Acts chapter 27, 
beginning in verse 22. 

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Now, I urge you to take heart 
for there will be no loss of 

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life. 
This is the encouragement here, 

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but you only of the ship for 
there, stood, by me, this night,

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an angel of God, to whom I 
belong. 

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And to whom I serve saying do 
not be afraid. 

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Paul. 
You must It brought be brought 

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before Caesar and indeed God has
granted you all those who sail 

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with him the next verse 
therefore take heart men for I 

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believe that God I believe God 
that it will be just as it was 

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told to me verse 26. 
However we must run aground on a

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certain Island. 
We must run aground on a certain

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Island in other words, these are
absolutes. 

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In verse 27, and verse 27. 
It says, now when the 14th night

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had come as we were driven up 
and down the Adriatic Sea about 

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midnight, the sailors sensed 
that they were Drawing Near some

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land and they took soundings and
found it to be 20 fathoms. 

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And when they had gone a little 
further, they took soundings 

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again and found it to be 15 
fathoms. 

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Then fearing, lest we should run
aground on the Rocks. 

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They dropped four anchors from 
the stern and prayed for the day

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to come. 
And as the say, Sailors were 

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seeking to escape from the ship 
when they had let down the skiff

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into the Sea Under pretense of 
putting out anchors from the 

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prow. 
In other words, Paul gave me 

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absolutes, got to stay in the 
ship, right? 

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Got to stay in the ship. 
You know what they did? 

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They pretended, as if they were 
going to do just that and cast 

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The Anchor off the prowl, or off
the front, But they were trying 

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to get the dinghy, the skiff and
get it out of there because they

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were bailing out. 
And Paul knew it. 

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00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:01,000
Now Paul said it's going to be 
okay, it's going to be fine. 

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The only damage in the only 
danger is the lost to the ship. 

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Your life is going to be fine. 
It is, as God has told me great 

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00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:13,200
encouragement, but it took faith
on their part to didn't it. 

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So what they said is no we're 
going to bail out. 

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We're going to act like we're 
throwing the anchor out the 

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front, but we're getting in the 
dinghy and we're taking off. 

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You know what Paul said? 
In verse 31? 

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Paul said to the Centurion and 
the soldiers, unless these men 

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stay in the ship, you cannot be 
saved. 

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Now, I'm going to tell you 
something. 

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It's really bad when the crew 
jumped ship. 

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It's really bad when the crew 
leaves you know how many times 

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you've heard. 
They're saying that when a ship 

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00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,900
is sinking, it's the wraps that 
jump first and all that let me 

534
00:32:44,900 --> 00:32:47,300
tell you it's really bad when 
the crew bails out. 

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00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,600
I thought about this this 
morning, I remember a coach one 

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00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:55,000
time and it was in Bakersfield 
and we were on the sidelines and

537
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,400
man it was hot and Lompoc High 
School came to Bakersfield to 

538
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:04,400
play us that night and it was 
very, very, very hot and we were

539
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:08,800
used to the Heat In Bakersfield,
we were okay, we were properly 

540
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,100
hydrated. 
But all these people that came 

541
00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:15,700
from Lompoc where it's beautiful
all year long weren't really 

542
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,100
ready for that. 
Okay, one by one. 

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They're dropping. 
And then the medic that they 

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00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,100
brought he went down to and I'll
never forget a coast and they 

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00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:29,400
speak with man it's bad when the
Met it goes down you know it's 

546
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,100
really bad when the medic goes 
down. 

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00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:35,300
It's really bad. 
When the crew jumped ship. 

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00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,900
Paul knew that Paul says, no, 
you got to stay, you got to stay

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00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:41,900
in the ship. 
Here's the rule, here's the 

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condition he says. 
Leadership never compromises 

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00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,700
absolutes. 
Never compromises absolutes. 

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00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:54,400
When we have the truth of the 
word of God, we have to stand on

553
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,700
the truth of the word of God and
not compromise its absolutes. 

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Sometimes people do and that's 
how digression starts and that's

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how things progress. 
And when I think about how all 

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00:34:08,699 --> 00:34:13,300
of us have a job to do, remember
this, okay, remember the 

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00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:15,500
conditions, remember the 
absolutes? 

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00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,699
The absolutes for them was if 
you don't stay on the ship you 

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00:34:19,699 --> 00:34:22,699
cannot be saved. 
Isn't there a picture there of 

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00:34:22,699 --> 00:34:25,600
something else? 
Can't you see the picture before

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00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,600
I even say it? 
Paul said you got to stay on the

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00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,100
ship to be saved and the word of
God is telling us. 

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You got to stay in the church to
be saved. 

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00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,199
You got to stay in the Ark of 
Safety. 

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00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:39,400
You got to stay there. 
You got to be grounded there. 

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You can't quit, you can't bail 
out. 

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00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,699
You can't get the dinghy and 
Chuck out the back door. 

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00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:49,100
You can't do it. 
Now, what about some absolutes 

569
00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:51,800
for us? 
That's not the topic for 

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00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,400
concern. 
I'ma say this in closing, just 

571
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,000
some absolutes. 
I'm going to be 3. 

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These are things that we cannot 
compromise, okay? 

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And there's a difference to, by 
the way, about Traditions that 

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we do in our life. 
And sometimes people look at 

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traditions and they think what 
we do in the church, it's just 

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00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:16,000
tradition as traditional know 
what we follow is and there's a 

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difference, we follow. 
A Apostolic tradition. 

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In other words that which is 
given by the apostles. 

579
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That's from the word of God, 
can't change any of that. 

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00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,300
Gotta stick to that. 
Those things are absolute. 

581
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,900
Like what worship? 
Can't change that. 

582
00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:36,800
We have to do the absolute the 
items of worship that we 

583
00:35:36,900 --> 00:35:41,700
participate in can't be changed.
Those are absolutes one loaf and

584
00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:44,300
one cup in the Lord's table, 
they are absolutes. 

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00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:46,700
We cannot change that. 
Can't do that. 

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00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:50,400
We can't bring instrumental 
music into the Lord's house and 

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00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:51,800
have that in our worship 
service. 

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00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:54,800
That's an absolute. 
We sing with the melody in our 

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00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,600
hearts to the Lord, all of those
aspects of worship. 

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00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:02,300
Can't change it. 
Can't change the things that are

591
00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:07,900
given to us in the word of God. 
Also, something else to We Can't

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00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:11,500
Change. 
How we spend the Lord's money? 

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00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,500
Can't change that. 
The treasury is for God's 

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00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:20,800
people. 
It's for widows orphans. 

595
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,000
And needy Saints is for the 
preaching of the Gospel. 

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00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,400
It's not to set up orphanages, 
all of those wonderful things 

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00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,000
that people do. 
Please get me here, all of the 

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00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,500
wonderful things that people may
do to people or four people in 

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00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:36,300
the world. 
That's a wonderful thing. 

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It's just not a work of the 
church. 

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00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:46,000
It's the work of Chris Osborn. 
Terry Osburn Wade, Branch Frank 

602
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,800
brancato. 
It's the work of us personally 

603
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,600
to take care of all those other 
things. 

604
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,600
But absolutes, we can't change 
that absolutes. 

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00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,700
The word. 
Teacher specific things that we 

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00:36:56,700 --> 00:37:03,200
must do with our funds. 
So these are things that we 

607
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,200
can't change folks. 
And may I say this to a good 

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00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,300
leader on effective leader, is 
somebody that understands that 

609
00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:13,300
there's a need is positive about
the need gets the most out of 

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00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:17,600
everybody and is trustworthy and
those are the kind of people 

611
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,600
that we want to follow. 
I think sadly today. 

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00:37:20,900 --> 00:37:24,100
So many times people progress 
and drift in areas because they 

613
00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:26,200
don't know any better because 
they didn't have effective 

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00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,600
leadership. 
Now I'm going to say in closing 

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this final thing. 
And I'm going to praise the 

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00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:36,200
congregation here. 
I've been around here for well. 

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00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,800
I've been married for 30 years 
plans, Road has been my 

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00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,100
Congress. 
My home congregation for, I 

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don't know. 20, maybe perhaps 
and one thing that is always 

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00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,800
constant over the years about 
this congregation was this 

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00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:58,100
congregation was always always 
represented with good strong 

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00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:01,500
leaders. 
Now folks, we don't have Elders 

623
00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:03,700
here because we don't have a 
plurality of men that are 

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00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:07,700
qualified yet. 
But in the absence of Elders, 

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00:38:07,700 --> 00:38:09,800
we've had to have leaders rise 
up, men. 

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00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,700
Rise up, be leaders. 
Be the kind of leaders that they

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00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:14,800
need to be. 
And the congregation has 

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00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,900
benefited greatly over the years
because of that. 

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Let's keep that going. 
Let's be strong, effective 

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leaders. 
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