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Now, enjoy this message. So tonight I'm going to minister
on leadership last year's, you remember?
I said that the Lord started talking to me and says you need
to speak on leadership to the body because the reality is,
There's the wealth of the wicked to be laid up for the righteous
and it's easy for the righteous to take over.
Because as more lawlessness increases even lost, people are
going to be looking for someone who keeps themselves together.
Now, how do I know this? Joseph came to the captain of
Potiphar's. Harem?
Okay. And he was not a Godly Man at
all, but he bought Joseph as a slave To start administrating
things at his house. And the Bible says that he saw
that, the Lord was with him. So much.
So he was so impressed and know that he was above every other
slave he had he put him over all this house.
He didn't check in on anything. There was only one thing he told
Joseph, he said don't touch my wife now for years, you know, I
didn't think nothing about that. I just figured sure you wouldn't
touch his wife but this is the Pharaohs.
If you re one translation, this is Pharaoh's captain of his
bodyguard of the vast body of his guard, which was of his hair
on, which means he was a eunuch. And this is why I saying don't
touch my wife. Are you hearing me?
That's why his wife was like, Joseph, I have needs.
Okay. So that was a huge Temptation.
Actually, with that being said, when he gets thrown in prison,
what does the Jailer see the warden?
He says God's with this guy. Now this guy the jail or the
warden is not born again. He's not follower of God, he's
not in the Covenant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
And he puts him over all the prison, obviously, when he comes
up to Pharaoh, because of the dream, Farah says, we don't have
anybody wiser and you you'll go ahead and do it and Pharaoh
never changed the law of his land which was Hebrews were low.
Some Egyptians wouldn't eat with a Hebrew and that Lon never
changed which means the entirety of his tenure in.
Egypt, as basically prime minister.
The nation still discriminated against him.
And Pharaoh did not change that law, why?
Cause Pharaoh did not follow the god of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and Joseph did not rebel against that King, because it
doesn't matter whether you'll eat with me or not.
I have a covenant with God because I don't need you to have
to eat with me. I just need to eat with the
Lord. Are you hearing me?
But the Bible says that pharaohs soul.
That God was with him. And so if we would apply the
principles that are laid out throughout the Bible of how a
godly man or woman responds in the Earth, by the power of the
Holy Ghost. And what again, we are in a
dispensation that God is in us with us and we are in his
likeness, okay? If we will respond as as our
history books communicate, then even the ungodly will promote
you. It happened.
So, you know, you're only, you know, there you could be so
quick to a promotion right now. I mean there's so many things
that could be in your direction if you just apply the principles
and the Lord says, told me, he said now you need to train the
church because not everybody's in the church.
Which means when you're in business, if you're an employee,
you can be a manager. And remember it's not based upon
your experience. Based upon your what capacity,
right? It's based upon your capacity.
In fact, we could talk about Devin Hicks is Devon Hicks, even
in here tonight? I don't see Devin, huh?
He's in the bathroom. His wife told on him right
there. She's the only one who can do
that, but thank you for that information.
Serena would you stand up Devin and Serena came to us from
Kentucky. Okay, now, what was Devon doing
in Kentucky? Anyway, what was his job?
A heavy machine operator at a land filled, so, that means he
drove a bulldozer and push trash around.
He was a trash man. Okay, I mean let you see what
I'm saying. How we have titles today, a
heavy machine operator, At a waste management plant.
He was a trash guy on a bulldozer pushing garbage.
All right. Okay.
And thank God for those positions.
That doesn't mean that's a lo-- some position, because if we
didn't have them, we look like India.
And if you've never been to India the whole Nations, the
trash field, well, not the whole nation but all of New Delhi,
they say down, south is beautiful.
Hadn't been down there. Myself and went to the beach and
mu by one time, and I went out there to look at the water
because I wanted to get in, but there was so much trash.
Like, well, I saw it and that right.
Pastor? Marcus, we went to Mumbai, he
probably went to the bathroom to, okay?
Just check it. Okay, good, I'm glad you're
here. So, Dividend Serino is hearing
the word that Devin's brother Pastor Brandon and Pastor April
were here and since they started coming to the church and they
were listening and eventually they're like we should move
because of the church then have a job.
Then have another heavy machine operator at a Waste Management
Field. Position available?
No, he came and became a factory worker, basically a production
guy at Carlisle. He graduated from high school,
correct? Okay.
Just checking. All right.
Graduated from high school and work.
Probably third shift first. Is that what he did first?
Yeah, third shift. so, he's just a employee but because he came
because the Lord said go because of the church, Today Beyond his
experience, and he still does not have a college.
Degree, which the position he holds requires it.
He is the plant manager of all of Carlisle.
Why is that? Because when you do the
principles of the word, it will make room for you.
So what I'm going to minister on tonight is not just for in the
church because leadership is everywhere.
You know, the ability to oversee situations business, whatever
people is available for every one of us.
So it doesn't really matter. What batters is that we do the
principles wherever we're at and it gives us opportunity.
I could tell you another one that just got promoted into
management. And by All rights, should not be
in that management position, but is moving in out at Grumman.
In our church. Hallelujah.
Are you hearing me? So again, when we start applying
these, I mean honestly people should come here and it doesn't
matter how you come here. Because if you apply then
ultimately God's like, I need your influence over people's
lives. I need how you respond to
situations to have the influence.
Are you hearing me? I mean, I've been into Longhorn
multiple times where Leo works over, you know, the cooks there
during the week, and the manager speak of him highly all the
time, all that his influence, even though he doesn't hold the
managing position. He has that kind of influence.
He now, he has tenure, don't get me wrong, he's 27 years but
2627, right, 25, 25 years but yet they could just say you're
the cook. But they don't.
Because something on the inside is taking place.
Amen. Now, let me say it this way,
just because your believer doesn't mean you are operating
in it. Okay, so don't think you're the
best person in the room just because you're a Believer now.
You are the best person in the room in the context of your
spiritual life and walk with God, you have that capacity.
But you have to bring application.
Amen. So today I want to minister
something that I've done in leadership before I think I've
done it here in the church at one point, I cannot tell you
what year it was. I can tell you when I did it to
our ministry coordinating team and that was in 2012 11 years
ago. I said 11 years ago.
Okay. But there's always new nuggets
and so we're going to communicate this.
I want to talk about a healthy environment.
We're going to create a healthy environment at your workplace.
So all through all types of people in a workplace are listed
in this passage of scripture, wherever you are find yourself,
and then operate accordingly. Amen.
Turn over to Exodus chapter 18. Exodus chapter 18 starting in
verse 13. It says, and it came about on
the next day that Moses set to judge the people and the people
stood about Moses from the morning until Evening.
Now when Moses says father-in-law saw all that he
was doing from the, for the people, he said, what is this
thing you are doing for the people?
Why do you alone? Sit as judge and all the people
stand around you from morning until evening, Moses said to his
father-in-law because the people come to me to inquire of God,
when they have a dispute, it comes to me.
I judge between a man and his neighbor and make known the
statutes of God and his law, Moses father-in-law said to him
the things. That you are doing is not good.
Now, it's not what he's doing. That's not good.
I mean the information that they're going to God, they're
trying to find out what God's answer concerning the issue.
That's not what he's saying. He's saying how you're doing, it
is not good. All right, he said, you will
surely what you're going to wear out both yourself.
And these people who are with you, for the task is too heavy
for you. You cannot do it.
Alone, say alone. Now, listen to me, I will give
you counsel and God be with you. You be the people's
representative before God, and you bring the disputes to God,
then teach them the statues and the law and make known to them
the way in which they are to walk.
And the work, they are to do. Furthermore, you shall select
out of the people. Able men who fear God, men of
Truth, those who hate dishonest gain and you.
Place these over, as Leaders of thousands of hundreds of 50s,
and of tens, let them judge the people at all times and let them
be and let it be that every major dispute, they bring to
you. But every minor dispute, they
themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you.
And they will bear the burden with you if you do this thing
and God, so commands you, then you will be able to endure.
And all these people also will go on the their place in peace.
So Moses listen to us, father-in-law and did all that.
He had said, Moses chose able men out of all of Israel and
made them heads over over, the people leaders of thousands of
hundreds of 50s. And of tens, they judge the
people at all times, the difficult disputes, they would
bring to Moses. But every minor dispute, they
themselves would judge then Moses made his father-in-law A
Farewell and he went His way into his own land.
Amen. When I originally through this
out as a leadership teaching, I called it, the 70 principle,
because Moses, obviously a portion of Moses has anointing
went on to 70 other leaders, okay?
And they were there to help him administrate things that were
going on within the nation Scholars.
Say, okay, that, you know, Moses had anywhere from a million to 3
million Israelites. Okay, A lot of times, you know,
because they're called a congregation in a lot of the
translations. So it could be a church of three
million people and the pastor or overseer Called Moses is taking
care of it, all by himself. That's a lot of people, right?
Okay, so with that being said, his father, in law, gives him
some advice that obviously is of the Lord and Moses is going to
apply that. So, with that being said, here's
a few points that we can pull out, and I'll kind of jump back
and forth in scripture to T. All right?
If I teach tonight, y'all find, if I don't pop veins all the
time, right? Okay.
I mean, when's my vein popping Tom comes, we'll pop it, when it
doesn't, then we don't Right? Okay, the first thing that we
learn again, Moses. Let's put it this way.
Moses is the owner of a Company CEO.
Okay. I mean he is the final say of
the organization, right? When I say that on earth, now
obviously God is, but on Earth, okay?
The 70 that are able men that the are picked are like managers
district managers, are you hearing me?
They don't own the company, you know, they're not, you know, the
principal of the school, they may be an Administration they
may be, or could be principles in or not the school board or
you hear what I'm saying. So these are the layers.
These are the ones that are in management type positions.
There are still people under them.
Obviously, the one that owns it or is over whatever the
organization is, whether it's a non-profit, whether it's a
business, whether it's, you know, the Owner of a football
team. Okay, see how I'm trying to get
us all together. If you are a governor in a over
a state, okay? Then you have people underneath
you that are in managerial positions.
All right. Maybe you're here today and
you're a manager. You're over people, you're over
things, then that you're in that layer, okay?
And we're going to be talking about each one, then you have
the ones that are still just in the group because the
leadership. It was over what thousands
hundreds 50s and tens. Well the thousands hundreds 50s
and Tents are the employees. These are people who have
responsibilities with the environment because again, we're
trying to create a healthy environment, no matter where
we're at. And if you are just an employee,
there's a way you can respond to help create peace.
Right. Okay.
So but there's also embedded how you come out of employee to
management positions. All right, so Moses then is the
what over it? So the first thing we learn is
this, is that The Keeper of the vision.
That's the one who has the vision of the whatever
organization were over, is not to do it alone.
So if you own a business and you're trying to do it alone,
You're going to be wore out but here's the warning.
Not only will you get wore out. You'll wear the ones out that
are under you. Now, let me tell you what it
sounds like to an owner when they are trying to do it all
themselves. This is what it sounds like.
I can't get nobody to do nothing, right?
Nobody listen to me. No, you're doing it all by
yourself, because they're getting worn out too.
Because the minute you do it by yourself and start getting worn
out, you will wear them out. You don't get worn out and
they're fun. Right?
So this helps you if you're somewhere and it seems like your
manager is just and you're like, I'm so worn out, guess what?
It could be that they're worn out because they're trying to do
too much and maybe you need to say, what can I do to help you?
Because we're trying to develop a healthy environment you know
what? They don't deserve to be helped.
They're so mean they're so okay. What's that mean?
The Bible tells us it's the kindness of God that leads
people to repentance. So go ahead and be kind anyway.
I mean you're not endorsing their sin, you're not endorsing,
what they're doing, you're just trying to be kind and help the
organization at the end of the day.
What can I do to help you? Even if that means, you do it,
and give them the credit because you can do something, let them
have the credit so that when the owner shows up said, this is the
greatest thing ever in your life.
That was my idea. But they're taking credit for
you, don't have to say I should be getting this.
They should give me that bonus. They should you work for the
Lord? How in the world can you get
robbed from The Lord knows what's yours.
I mean this ain't this isn't competition when you're working
unto the Lord, it doesn't matter who gets credit cause ultimately
God will give you credit. It will manifest period.
I can't tell you a timeframe but I'm just telling you to happen.
At the end of the day, it will happen because God always
rewards the righteous So if you're over something, you have
to find yourself instilling that Vision into others to help and
let them thrive in that capacity.
Let them thrive. In fact, you should Champion
when they're thriving, because ultimately, it makes all of us
better. All of us better if we do not
and we try to do it alone. I meant I talked with many
pastors myself and, you know, they have congregations vary in
size of less than 100, do you know, maybe three or four
hundred and their staff is still, you know, kind of small
and they're doing a lot and are, man, I'm doing everything.
I'm doing everything. Well, my question is, why are
you doing it alone? Why are you wearing yourself
out? And the people In fact, I'm
learning is because this reminds me this passage reminds me when
I hear a minister say well you know what, we just don't want to
go from project project so we don't want to wear the people
out. No, the only reason the people
are being worn out is because you're trying to do it yourself
in the projects. And when you're worn out,
they'll be worn out. Are you hear me?
Okay? So, carrying the load along,
will wear out the leader and all who follow, if God is giving you
any idea as an overseer, it already includes people. .
It already includes people. Now, the only challenge is
getting people to surround you that have the same passion for
what the vision is as you do. And when it is, then you're
never intimidated. You know, I was talking with our
staff Erich, Brady. He read a book recently, and I
was saying, now, when you finish this book, I said, you'll be an
identified leadership really easy because it's about King,
David King Saul, and King Absalom.
And I said, man, when you understand How that functions
every time you get around someone you'll say um, and
that's King Saul. It's identify ball.
That's an absolute. Very identifiable.
Oh, there's King David. You can see it because of how
they function around people instead of Saul rejoicing.
When it was said Saul kills his thousands and David his ten
thousand and say, praise God, he killed his 10,000 because that
means 11,000 of our enemies have been destroyed and thank God for
Israel. God bless Israel.
But what did he do? That boy is going to try to take
my kingdom. He's outperforming working.
Are you hearing me? Hallelujah. so, The Keeper of
the vision is to teach, To make known the way to walk and assign
the job descriptions. Again, the Bible says, my people
perish due to lack of knowledge. Anytime, if you're overseeing an
area, if you are, not clearly communicating what's expected
written. Written.
Then when your employees go crazy.
It's your fault. Because you gave them no
restraint. You didn't give them a boundary,
are you hearing me, you're not communicating exactly where the
their Lane is and where they can thrive?
If you don't do that. And then they'll get over in
areas that they aren't supposed to be in.
They can really mess some things up, but it's your responsive
Jethro told he said, I listened instead of you doing it all, you
teach the people What God Says, do the trainee.
Then when you've done the training, the ones that you have
appointed as Leaders, they'll take what you've learned and re
communicate that my wife and I went out to eat the other day
and the waiter was like, now tonight, you know, tonight on
the Menu. I have what he didn't have.
This ain't his restaurant. But he talks like he has
ownership and you want to talk like you have ownership.
The reason why anchor of a church can be better is not
because I can articulate the vision you can.
It's not because I can tell people when I got here you can.
It's not because I can tell people you know what God's done
is because you can is because you know the history of this
place, you know, the vision of this place you know the passion
of this place and you talk about it as if you were the one. yet,
even though, you know, you're not the Keeper of the vision but
you helped keep it. Are you hearing me really
important? So we are to instruct
communicate now obviously that is not just in the overall
leadership role that is also in the manager role because when he
communicated the job description, these guys and said
I listen these minor disputes you're going to do well he had
to Define What a minor dispute was because if he didn't Define
What a minor dispute was, how would they know what a major one
is? How are you gonna know?
I know with our pastoral staff. I know, with our, you know,
Ministry staff. I know with our ministry
coordinators, who by All rights are paid.
We let them know, know, people are going to speak to you, but
when these conversations come, you are to point them in this
direction or alter care. How many are on the altar care
team. Okay, you know that on the altar
care There are three things you're dealing with down here.
Being born again, being baptized in the Holy Ghost are
rededication, you are not counseling them about their
marriages that are falling apart.
Because someone who's rededicate their life may be coming because
my marriage is falling apart. My kids are driving me crazy and
I don't know what to do. So what can they do?
They'll come down there broken, they want God to change their
situation. Their like, I need to rededicate
my life to God. I need God's, you know, power
and, you know, that's why they're here for.
But then they begin to divulge other and we said we'd give them
instruction. That's not your lane.
You say, now you need to set up a meeting with our pastoral
layer and they will not get their number and your counseling
them on the side. Are you hearing me?
And again it's freedom because it allows you to know your lane
know what the anointing is therefore in the Altar and what?
It's not. Hallelujah.
You know, the reason why the world is like it is is because
everyone has the Lucifer mindset.
Now you know what the Lucifer mine said is right?
I'm going to be to God, I'm taking it over, I want my thrown
up there and no matter where you're at where the employee
manager doesn't matter because even if your CEO I'm gonna take
over the other businesses. The all the while you're never
satisfied with your seat. Because the only seat that the
devil satisfied. Is gods.
Amen, political people that are in the realm of politics.
This it they're not satisfied to be over a country.
Why is the leaders in China and Iran and Russia meeting with
other nations because someone's trying to develop a different
Global dominance. Those Nations hate it.
When it is said that, the u.s. president is the power.
That office holds the greatest power hate that.
This is why they trying to dismantle the dollar.
I mean it's just but it is a Lucifer mentality.
I want my throne above and it comes in the workplace.
This is why it's easy for you. When you know this as Believers
is that I don't have to try to get to the top.
In fact I should even have an ambition to get to the top.
My only Ambassador in is discern and ambition is to serve God in
any capacity. Let him do the promotion.
Then you won't be upset when you're over.
Look for one. Because God never overlooks you.
All right, just say Amen. Anyway so what becomes extremely
easy? Now why do I say this?
Because you have what the world doesn't have patience.
It's a fruit of the spirit that when it passes You by and it was
all your ideas and you should be having that Ray's right now you
can eat patients and say my God will vindicate me, my God will
do whatever you need because at the end of the day you want to
demonstrate Eight Kingdom leadership and not at like, I
got to be the guy Jesus Christ. I've said this, I'm going to
repeat it. There is a chain of command in
the godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the
Holy Spirit. Jesus said, would only do what
Jesus tells him. Jesus said, I only do what the
father says for all eternity. Jesus has always been in the
second seat so to Beak. He's at the right hand of the
father, he has never wanted to take the throne, so the idea of
I want to be over, does not come from Jesus.
It comes from the Devil. Now, there's nothing wrong with
aspiring. There's nothing wrong with
aspiring, there's nothing wrong with you.
Knowing that there's a capacity in you greater than what you
have. And there's a responsibility to
that, but at the end of the day, I'm not going after I just know
it's within me. Should the Lord deploy it?
Should the Lord to the Lord deploy it?
Are you hearing me again? Obadiah?
Minor Prophet, not a major profit.
Minor Prophet one book. One chapter.
Most people in the Christian world today couldn't handle.
That God would only write one chapter about your life.
And the reason why is it's not because It's because you still
have old mentality from your old, your other father.
You want to be better than everyone else.
Well, how can you be better? Seriously, how can you be better
when God loves us all? And he wants you to be what he's
created you to be? I mean, there's no issue with.
I mean I play music myself. I'm a musician.
Although I don't give myself to that and if I did, I would be
better. But that skill, which is
untapped is nothing compared to what's going on.
And I'm not gel, I'm like, praise God man.
And then you get around some people, you know, someone could
get up and go well and they know the note and start a whole thing
and they just make this stuff up as they go in your life.
Wow. They're just like oozing with a
ability. But why would you be jealous
when God created them? That way.
It serves its function and you do your part.
They do their part in God's. Well, pleased with us all amen.
Remember God told the five Talent, man.
And the two Talent, man. Well done. he didn't say, well,
you're not as good as the five, but I'm glad you got to Didn't
say that. Now he gave it based upon their
ability. So the two new I really can't
handle five and thank God he didn't give me five.
Because God knew the capacity of what he can handle.
See, we want to try to handle capacities.
We can't have. And then we fall apart.
We blame God, and other people. And then we act like the rest of
the world Grumble and complain. No just stay in what definitely
causes the anointing to flow. And if you do that, you'll be
well pleased, amen? So you got to stay within the
Judgment boundaries, if you're an employee stay within the
boundaries, don't try to be a manager.
But if they ask you, then give them an answer, you know, how
many times we you people, you know, y'all know this, you know,
the manager comes in. We got this project and they're
asking all here, what do you think?
Well God may give you the idea that needs to be done and it's
not the manager getting, it's, you Now they may take note and
through these god-given ideas because you hear the Holy Ghost
eventually gets you promoted could be absolutely but you're
not looking for it. You're just like I'm here to
help the company where I'm at At the end of the day, I mean, sure
everyone likes to have more money.
I get that, but you just may spend more that mean you're more
responsible because you have more.
Are you hearing me? I mean, some promotions have
killed people. Because it's pulled them out of
church. It would have been better for
them, not to have the promotion in The Prestige.
All right. Amen.
All right, the next thing we see then there are situations then
based upon this that you are not to handle again.
When Moses says, okay here are my guys, these are the things I
want you to handle than that. Immediately means there are
things. You should not handle.
And instead of taking offense at that.
Have it as Liberty. Well, praise the Lord.
I'll have to deal with that amen.
Yeah in the words of myself and Pastor Hagen, that's your
problem. Not my problem.
Amen. I've been actually saying that a
lot lately situation. I'm like, that's their problem.
Not my problem. I mean I'm not getting in their
Lane if they don't want to deal with it, then they don't want to
deal with it. If the Lord can't make them, I
sure can't make them because I've already empowered them
through the word to be different and not handle it the way they
are. Amen, can pray for everybody?
Do a lot of praying. Do a lot of praying that they'll
just do the word because I know this if you just do the word
you'll win, it'll be successful. It's amazing.
All right. So in recap, The Keeper of the
vision, shouldn't do it alone. They should not carry the load
by themselves because if they do, it will wear them out and
all who keep. Now, here's the thing, the
minute you begin to release. Responsibility.
Then you've got to allow them. The ability to succeed or fail.
Failure of something you've delegated should not make you
mad. It should become a teaching
tool. Now, that doesn't mean things,
can't anger. You righteously, I'm not saying
that. I'm not saying if you own
something, you told somebody something they're doing it wrong
and they keep doing it wrong, keep doing it wrong.
You're like yeah, I'm really mad about this.
You can have a righteous anger say if we do this again, you're
going to have to be gone. I could I have no problem with
that but but you're always looking at it really from a
opportunity perspective, not you're an idiot perspective.
I just can't believe this my gosh, I can't.
I mean The world does that the world belittles puts us down,
beats us down. Makes us feel like we're
nothing. And if you're actually over
something and you're doing that to someone, you're no different
than the world. Now I can be upset with somebody
and be upset with a decision they made or how they handle
something. But at the end of the day, we're
going to talk about how we're going to correct it and then it
the meetings unless they walk out on me.
The meeting will end your awesome, and you got this.
You want to know how my mean? He's usually are you're awesome.
Here's the problem. We can fix it.
You're awesome in a nutshell. Right, very rarely is I can't
believe and we started him with the problem always highlight
something that but that's me, I'm highlighting, you know what?
You know what you've done so far has been really amazing. but, So
all you didn't mean it really would, then Jesus didn't mean
Revelation when he went to the churches.
He says, now you guys have done this, it's been pretty amazing,
but I have this one thing against you Now, do you think he
didn't me the good stuff? He said up front, he said it's
of the problem I have. This is how you can correct it.
If you correct it great. If you don't, you're fired
basically a movie candle, right? The Lord will fire.
You Are you hear me? The Lord's, not obligated to
keep you on the payroll? I must say that again, the Lord
is not obligated to keep you on the payroll.
I mean he said he's told some of his you Wicked, what he thought
of one with the one talent that was on his payroll, you lazy?
Wicked servant. You're fired.
Just say, Amen. Anyway, all right.
So, when we do our job descriptions were given
boundaries of what to do and what not to do, all right?
The judgments then that people are assigned the areas that
people can function in, whether if you're an employee, they're
giving you a boundary to function in and then they're
training, you through, whatever, you know, Corporation or
organization, you work for how you are to handle those
situations. They are to train, you teach
you. Now, again, sometimes people are
Doing good training. I get it.
That's where you have to rely on the Holy Ghost.
That's where you do some self-taught stuff.
But again, you're being self-taught not to take over the
company. But to do the position that
they've given you the best period, I like a testimony.
Pastor Hagen gives just gave it recently that back in the day
when he was in Texas, he worked on a particular line.
I think it was at the railroad and they would bring boxcars in,
they had to unload them and send them.
And one particular manager was like, Hey, can you do this in
the guy was like, No And he said, hey, can you do this?
And it was like, no, can you do this and said, Hagen can you do
it? He said, yes, sir.
I can do it and he said, all right, you be here tomorrow and
you can do that. And the employer, you his fellow
employee says, you've never done that before.
You don't know nothing. He says well you know number one
I've been around it. I've watched it a little bit so
I'm familiar. He said but you know there was a
library and I can go read. Now they have Google back then
so we had to go Library. I mean, we have so many YouTube
videos right now. Now, I'm not telling you that if
you're, you know, Hospital, receptionist, you know, check
and patients in and the doctor says we got open, heart surgeon
Mark, can you do this? Yeah, I'm not saying do that.
I want you, YouTube tonight will be fine.
I don't think they're going to let you in any way.
And we're probably not at risk at that, although, if I was on a
desert island, and I needed you to do something, and the Lord
said, And we had access to YouTube video, we'll watch it
together, because we'll do what's necessary to survive.
Just don't eat me when I go under.
All right. Amen.
So who is God looking for though?
In when it comes to oversight? Exodus clearly lines out who it
is that God's looking for. In verse 21, it says this, they
need to be able men, and when I say men, it can be women, okay?
In this context in today, so you got to be able Right now, Abel
doesn't mean experienced. It does mean capacity.
You got to be able, right? You need to be at a hat.
Be at a know that you're going to have to handle those
pressures and have that responsibility, all right.
The second thing is you need to fear God.
You know in all of us can fear God, I do not want to do
anything that would displease my father.
I want to do it with Integrity. I want to do it up, right.
That's how I want to function. Now, listen you could be doing
something unaware. But when things get brought to
your attention, then you got to be like, okay I need to make an
adjustment and even the Lord will give you Mercy in a season
to transition. if you have all intentions to get it right, but
if you're always trying to stay under the radar, then you're not
actually being honest. Because he talks about dishonest
gain, that means doing something, not honest to gain
something. So Integrity has to be a part of
and no matter where we're at, whether we own a company,
whether we manage something or where employee somewhere, we can
be honest people, Honesty means I'm not going to do it.
Dishonorable, the manager asked me to do this to cheat on the
numbers. I'm not doing it, even if it
means. They fire me.
There's another job because this paycheck doesn't own me.
My father does. And if you will stand for that,
instead of say, but how am I going to take care of my kids?
If I don't do this, I'll lose my job and that's the devil giving
you a spirit of fear. But you don't fear God.
Because if you're willing to compromise your integrity, which
then becomes blackmail, later on Yeah.
You've got to be honest enough saying I'm not going to do it
with a I'm a it's going to cost you you know.
It's going to promote me now I you may never see it, but I'm
not here to impress you because I don't have to show off to you
but my Lord knows. Amen.
At the end of the day was Joseph Brothers, not honest in
business, And dad said, good go, see how they're doing son
because you've already brought me reports that they've not been
honest. And what did the brothers do for
his honesty? So, neem as a slave pocketed,
the money. And thought they were done with
it. Are you hearing me but a decade
later our little more, they're hungry, and Joseph is eating in
a palace. They don't know it, but he is
and then they show up to get food from their brother.
Now, how do I know the brother ain't like I'll show them who I
am, because the minute he got promoted to prime minister and
is amassing. All this wealth through the
seven years of plenty. He never went to pharaoh and
says, you know, my dad is in Canaan and he doesn't know where
I'm at. And I got some brothers there,
man. I can, I can I if I found favor
with, can I go and just tell him I'm alive.
Why didn't you visit them? I'll tell you why, because the
dream said, they'd come to him and bow down, he knew if I go
back where they're at, they will never bow to me.
That I don't have authority there.
This is where the authority is. So, you know, I'll just wait
till they show up and they said, and they and they did They sure
did. You know what the problem is,
that we don't have what the father has.
It's called long-suffering Because we want our promotion
now. We want to reach the Pinnacle
before everyone else. We want to be the best young.
But what if the Lord wants you to hit your Peak at 86?
And that Peak is a global company that is on every major
continent that now has the resource to supply widows and
orphans so much money that you're building them and all
these nations. But because you wanted it at 25
or at 33, you compromise and though you have that beautiful
house on two or three private islands, You never became what
God wanted you to be. And when you stand before the
Lord, all of it burns up. Just say, Amen.
Anyway, see because the world is always jockeying for the power.
We have the power. I said we have the power where
the children of the king and Children of the King still lead
by serving. We don't lead by Leading, we
lead by serving. We're always trying to help
somebody else find their potential.
Amen. Oh, praise the Lord.
So the qualifications for the position, then were men of men
who fear God men of Truth. And haters of dishonest gain,
aren't you? Glad you're a person of Truth
can't be a person of Lies. Can be personal I if you if you
sell a product, don't exaggerate it.
Be honest. Don't exaggerate it.
Don't lie about it. To line your pocket.
Good. All right.
Well, I won't get a bonus, I want, you know, they're
pressuring me to sell this and I don't care.
Be honest. If you're a car salesman,
sometimes it's better for you to say, you don't need this car.
I mean, we can get it at, get you in it today, but it is going
to Max your budget and honestly it's just not worth it.
Yeah, but then I can't feed my family.
Again, who are you working for? Because God can send the next
person that's going to buy a fleet of trucks.
That pays cash. Because you were honest with the
one that really just doesn't need that new shiny car that's
really not their problem. They have other issues, and they
think this new car is going to solve it.
And if they're like, no, I'll go to someone else in your other
guy sells it. At least you were honest.
He liked Lord, you know, I didn't try to put them into
something that would hurt them. All right.
So we want to be men of fear or people of fear, who fear God,
people who are of the truth and they we hate dishonest gain.
You understand, oversight, numbers May Vary, do not get
upset if somebody has is bigger than you.
I mean, that's insecurity talking.
Insecurity. I always know an insecure
pastor. because they asked me, how many people are in my
church, Always no. What does that matter?
I never ask how many are in there because I'm not
intimidated with any size. Now there are some that are
larger that have some systems that I totally could learn from
because the reality is, they're managing things at a scale
larger than I am. And there's some experience now
that they have that my capacity may not have taken me to yet.
But just because someone has a great system in more people
doesn't mean he's actually producing Godly God-fearing
people. They come to us is not because
we have experience as well as we're capable because we have an
anointing. Because I know that there's a
day coming, that they're coming and they're not going to say,
are you looking to bother going to say the Lord told us to get I
don't we're going to give it to you because the wealth of the
wicked is laid up for the righteous.
Why would you meet with somebody?
You can't. Because the wealth of the wicked
is laid up for the righteous. He could be, they got in our
presence and that was enough for them to say, you know what, and
they could come back and say, you know, I remember our meeting
and I'm in my moms like can what can we do?
How can we partner with, how can I just give it to you?
I mean I think you'll do something with it.
That can happen, you know? I don't know what the Holy Ghost
is talking to them about right now.
This is the world, we live in where there's, there's
lawlessness and nobody wants to work and laziness and everybody
wants to see themselves on their own phone.
We have a leadership vacuum. People want to be influencers,
but don't even know what influence actually means.
They want to coach everybody and can't coach themselves.
We are seeing an epidemic of the blind leading the blind, but in
there, somebody's going to say, I want to see.
And it's going to be like, they're on a side of a road and
they're going to hear you came into town or you walked into the
business. And they going to do like blind,
man, Bartimaeus to start crying out for your name.
Come, talk to me. Help me.
How did you take your company and do that?
How did you rise up to management?
How did you, you know, do this, do that.
Whatever the case may be, come to me.
Help me. I'm crying out, for Mercy.
Show me how you did it. You point them to Jesus, we can
take over people. I said we can take over So
oversight varies and numbers at the end of the day, it doesn't
matter how many people is on your Workforce, doesn't matter
how many people you oversee as a manager.
It doesn't matter how many Pete, how low you are in the company.
You may only have to manage yourself.
So, start there, be the best employee show up on time and
shocked, everybody. I mean, be early be willing to
stay late and not complain about well, you know, it's almost
quitting Tom and you're over there.
Ready to clock out 15 minutes before when they ask for
voluntary, you know, over time. Be Willie.
Now, I understand. We have families, I get that.
But at the end of the day open, have an open conversation with
Your spouse and say, listen I feel led that at times, I mean,
I could just do it. And take a couple hours.
I mean, cause nobody wants to do nothing and it'll be worth a
little sacrifice in the long run for us.
At the end of the day, well, that was just want to take
advantage of you. No one can take it.
People can take advantage of you but God will not let you be
taken advantage of which means you may feel like you're being
taken advantage of. But God is watching it all and
he'll reward you openly it happened.
Man. Now when we all come together
and do this, listen we share a burden.
When we're all running behind the vision, we all share it.
He says you shouldn't bear. This burden alone, which means
it becomes a shared burden. You should fill a portion of the
responsibility of the place you work with.
You should have some response. Not a not.
Well, I don't care about this thing.
I just gave my check. I'm going home.
Those are easy people to weed out people in management and
owners. Can it easily identify your
atmosphere? When you are actually taking a
share of the burden? A share of the burden.
Okay, so we share the burden, are they share the burden?
So when you share the burden, guess what?
You're going to feel the burden, you'll feel it.
But don't take on the burden. Or think you're the only one,
who understands the burden. Because that's when Absalom is
created. I mean, I'm the only one.
I think about this morning, anybody else.
I should be running this place if they would only put a remote
me. Okay, you're going to feel the
burden. But not in his full weight.
I tell this to any Pastor, that's not overseeing a vision,
senior pastor lead pass or whatever the little crazy phrase
they want to use today is the guy in charge, okay?
So to speak. All right, but anyone under that
when they believe God wants them to Pastor one day.
I tell them, I can train you everything but there's one thing
in all the training I do you will not be able to experience.
Audience this until you become the pastor period.
And that is the weight of the final say, because until it's
yours, you'll never know what it's like to have that weight.
when I was with, um, when I was with Pastor David imai, we had a
situation where one of our youth leaders, a lady had had a
sex-change top, only okay, didn't know about the bottom.
And had a nephew was in our youth ministry.
Extremely sweet person born again, this is pre salvation but
we've had surgery. They're single By.
All right, a eunuch for the Lord.
Can I say it that way? Well.
The ex relationship found out they were in church working with
youth. We did not know the the church
wasn't set up to ask this question.
Have you had a sex change? Then ask that question.
Right? So they came to my house great
person. I mean, what was not perversion
with the kids. Great person.
Heart changed, new spirit, no issues ever.
Said you know my my ex-boyfriend is wanting to cause me trouble.
Okay okay well there's something I got to tell you I said okay
just tell me what's the problem you know what work did he say so
then she tells me is he? And then the first thing she
says is I know you want to know what my name was.
I said no I don't want to know what your name was.
I said you're a new creature in Christ and we're just going to
focus their I said but now that you told me, I have to tell
Pastor David. And what that does in youth
ministry I cannot tell you that, right?
We pray with her, she left and that day.
I was like, praise God. I am not having to make this
decision day. Went all Pastor David.
Now, at the end of the day, Pastor Dave, and I by All
rights, collaborated on what to do.
And it came that we had to take her out of the youth ministry
because if anyone found out people just they'll crucify you
man. I get it, I get it.
So, we're gonna have to safeguard the ministry at the
end of the day. But we would put them with
adults and we moved her to College and Career close by All
rights. They were an adult.
You know, it heard them really did because they love the youth
ministry, but a life decision. Hindered the capacity in our
culture for them to stay in that area.
All right, they later on. Got sick time later.
I went visit him at the hospital and they told me their male name
because I told him back and I said now when I see you You
going to be different? Because I'll see you as God
originally intended. You understand that?
When I'll know you in heaven, but I'll see you as God always
intended you. And they said my name was Donny.
I'll see Donnie one day. you know, the Devil is a deceiver he
destroys, that's what he does, destroy people's lives, but once
you've made the choice and then you come to know Christ,
Sometimes it's hard to reverse certain things.
Now I told her straight up, I said, you understand, you're
going to stay single the rest of your life.
There's no way that you can be in a relationship.
Because of that choice. And be honorable, at this point,
you know what, they had no problem with that no issue.
Right? Because at the end of the day,
they just want to love Jesus. My point is, I didn't have the
final weight on that. I felt the burden.
But when I became pastor of anchor Faith, Church st.
Augustine, I know what Pastor David felt.
This is why. I know why David wouldn't kill
Saul. Because he's like, I know what
the anointing is and I know what he has capacity to have, if he'd
only repent. And who am I to touch God's
anointed? Wow!
Okay. Are you hearing me?
So, if you're not over at all, you're going to feel the burden
of it, you feel the burden of anchor, Faith, Church, and our
faith projects and things but don't think you are the only one
and that you're the only one who understands you understand to a
degree. But with us all doing it
together. Laura wait, is she in here?
Lower waist and up lower weight and I we left the other.
I mean, it's been months. Now, could have been year.
I don't know. We left too driving.
I had my vehicle. She was out stopped in the
middle of the road. I like what in the world is she
doing something to Mel the road here on the campus?
So put I said, Laura way was problem.
Well someone had picked up one of the concrete you know parking
spots and put it out you know I guess to sabotage someone when
they come through. Sir like that.
Who's that? I said, well, you know, I'll go
back. Find somebody to get in little
ways like no, we can do it. Okay.
All right, we'll get been with Unis girl, right.
So she got down there and lo and behold she shared the burden of
that concrete parking and we moved it out of the way.
She still brags that we did that.
Yeah. Hey man, you sit down.
But I knew I can't do that by moving this by myself.
Now, if I was Pastor Mike, I to move to by myself out of through
it, but I'm not, I know my capacity and I don't feel bad
about that if he'd have been there, he said, pastor might
move that I'll see you later. You go by yourself, right?
You're not going to help? No, it's a toothpick to you.
Why am I wasting my time? All right, at the end of the
day, we shared a burden together.
I do believe I carried more She felt the burden.
But don't you think you understood the side?
I had. All right.
Amen. You're not the only one who
understands the burden. All right?
When we all do our part, when you do your part at work,
whatever it may be. You actually Aid.
The endurance of the leader. He said, well, I don't want them
to endure, you want them to be there as long as God wants them
there. Was that the end of the day?
It's not you to remove them. But when it comes to church, you
want your pastor to be able to have endurance.
Right? Well, we pain buddy.
You do not pay me. I know it comes through the top
but at the end of the day, there are resources that came to me
long before this thing ever grew and they'll be resources long
after But I'm just saying we do this together.
There's a mandate a vision of something that's bigger than
ourselves and when you actually are active in the parking lot,
guest relations, as you know, children's youth worship,
whatever those area are in Outreach, family counts, all the
things that we do you Aid, My longevity and yours because
we're doing it together. And when that takes place, It
says, peace would come those individuals, you know, after
they judge them said they would leave the place in peace.
If we want to have peace in this church and you want to create
peace or be a peacemaker on the job site.
Then you want to be the one. That is doing it within the
boundary set, with a heart full doing it, as unto the Lord
fearing, God being a person of Truth, not after dishonest gain,
and I'm telling you, bring priests into that environment
and whatever promotion comes comes, whatever it is, but you
will bring peace to your co-workers that some of you've
already experienced this, your co-workers come to you, why?
Because you have the atmosphere of Peace.
That's why they want you to pray.
Pay with them when they're in chaos.
This is why they come to you about their problems because you
have an atmosphere of peace, right?
And this church will always function in peace when we're all
coming together doing exactly what were called to do.
I'm not asking you to do something, you're not supposed
to do, your responsibility is to do it with all your heart and
don't disqualify yourself in your position.
And if you'll do that, then we will take the land everything
that is supposed to be ours, because it will eliminate all
grumbling and complaining disputes or inevitable, even in
the church. Their disputes are inevitable in
the church. God should have the final say.
If it's in scripture, just do it.
Just do it. I've been accused of personal
agendas but I can guarantee you. I have none.
And if anyone who's actually been in my office and we've
talked about stuff, you would be lying and you know, you'd be a
liar if you know that I always said well what's the Bible say
how are we going to do that according to scripture?
It's nothing personal. It's at the end of the day, we
got to be righteous people. It's only the ones who don't
want to do the Bible. It says you're off.
Period. but if you do the word, There's only one truth will find
it for whatever situation to dispute we have and we'll all
get in alignment with it period when we do how we not have
peace. Amen.
Have you learned anything? All right, let's pray.
Father, we love you. We honor you.
We thank you that you're teaching us to be leaders in a
world. That's Fallen.
They need great leadership. And we have lead followers in
the room, people who know how to tap into the Holy Ghost.
Not be led by their emotions, led by their situation that led
by every report that comes into their place of business.
They're able to call those things that be not as though
they were, they are the calm in the storm, they are the voice of
sanity. Among.
Insanity. They are order in the midst of
Chaos. And they were prepared for such
a time as this. Hallelujah.
If you're here today, and Jesus is not Lord of your life, I will
not take much time because the majority of you as I look
around, probably are in the kingdom of God, but I do not
want to not give an opportunity tonight.
If you have never made Jesus, Lord of your life, you're always
going to be in calamity. And it's time to get into peace
and that only comes to a profession of faith that Jesus
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