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Leadership is developing followers around you that you can reproduce yourself into to make them into leaders.

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Today I want to talk about leadership principles from Jesus. You know, it's funny.

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There's actually a number of books out on leadership principles about Jesus.

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I remember there was a book years ago called Jesus CEO and it was written by a woman.

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I don't even know if she's a Christian or not, but it was excellent. It was excellent on the leadership principles of Jesus.

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And what's funny about this is I've been in ministry a long time,

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but I don't think I've ever heard anybody speak on something like leadership principles of Jesus.

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I've heard people say Jesus was a great leader, greatest leader of all time.

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In my opinion, Jesus led well.

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And there are some aspects of discipleship involved with the life in the ministry of Jesus.

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But I'm going to call this leadership principles of Jesus.

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The last one was leadership principles of Jethro.

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And I want to look at Matthew nine, because in Matthew nine, we see Jesus doing kingdom ministry.

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He starts to gather people.

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They're starting to follow him.

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And it's amazing that right at the very beginning.

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Now, Matthew four is the very beginning of his ministry.

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Matthew nine is sort of a summation of how he did ministry.

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But in both cases, he's starting to recruit and develop a team around him.

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And in the last episode, I talked about Jethro's advice to Moses was build a team.

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Build a team of able-bodied men of character.

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And Jesus is about to do the same thing.

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But what I love about this passage is that Jesus shows us how he did it.

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So this is very, very practical about how to do leadership from the perspective of how Jesus did kingdom ministry.

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So I'm going to start with Matthew nine thirty five.

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Matthew nine thirty five we read, then Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom.

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So here's first principle from Jesus.

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Do it. Do it.

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What do I mean? Do it.

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I mean, do it.

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Like, what is it?

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What is it you're leading in? Model it.

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Do it.

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In other words, it's one thing to just talk about it, but you do that which you're talking about.

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So Jesus is doing it.

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He's preaching and these guys are following him and hanging out with him.

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And so the first thing we see is Jesus doing it, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom.

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And then it says and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

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Number two, see it.

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First, do it.

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Number two, make sure everybody sees it.

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So again, we're not just talking about somebody from a pulpit or someone behind a podium talking about something.

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Jesus was actually doing it.

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He wasn't asking them to do something yet that he wasn't modeling first.

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So we do it.

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Then they see it.

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And listen to this.

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When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd.

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Now, Matthew's writing is remember who Matthew is.

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Matthew was a tax collector.

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Matthew was an accountant.

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Matthew went after his own people.

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The Jews and extorted money out of them for the Romans.

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This guy is pretty smart.

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He's also pretty savvy.

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Anybody who has a job like that must be able to take some hits from people who don't like you.

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Probably didn't have too many friends.

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So he says in his writing of the ministry of Jesus that Jesus was moved with compassion.

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So feel it.

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First, do it.

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Second, see it.

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Number three, feel it.

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I'm wondering if the reason that Matthew says it this way is because he was moved with compassion.

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He felt what Jesus felt in his life.

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And so one of the key leadership principles of all time is that we feel what Jesus felt.

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We see as Jesus sees.

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We do as Jesus did.

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And so Jesus is modeling all of this.

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He hasn't called the disciples to do anything at this point.

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This is from Matthew 4 to Matthew 10 in the book of Matthew.

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They're just watching.

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They're watching.

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They're seeing Jesus do it.

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They're seeing what he does.

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They feel what he feels.

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And then look what he says next.

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He says, they're weary like sheep without a shepherd.

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And then he said to his disciples, the harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

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Verse 38, therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

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So Jesus does it.

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He sees it.

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He feels it.

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And now fourthly, he prays it.

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And so he's telling them, look, it's not good enough just to do it, just to see it, or just

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to feel it.

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But now I want you to pray it.

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I want you to take these needs and all that's happening in our world that we're living in,

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and I want you to pray for more leaders. I want you to pray for more workers in the harvest.

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Well, Jesus doesn't stop there. Now, this is where this passage gets super interesting,

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because we see now a bridge into chapter 10 about where Jesus is really going with this thing. So,

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He's doing it. He's allowing them to see it. They maybe are even feeling it as He does. He's

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challenging them to pray it. And then fifthly, look what He does next. And when He had called

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His 12 disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all

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kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. Now, the names of the 12 apostles are these,

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and then it starts to give the list. So, number five, give it away. So, do it, see it, feel it,

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pray it, give it. Give it away. This is where the real test, the real struggle of the test

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of a leader is, is can we start giving away the ministry? And so, as we talked about in the first

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episode with Jethro, he challenged Moses, look, you're going to wear yourself out. Well, Jesus,

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same way. Jesus is going to wear himself out if he's the only one doing it. Jethro is saying to

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Moses, look, what you've been doing by yourself is not right. The right way now is to build a team

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of trusted followers and trusted leaders that can grow into this area. Same thing, same thing with

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Jesus. Jesus is looking around and He's noticing the key men around and Holy Spirit has spoken to

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Him. This is who they are. Now, are you willing to give it away? Are you willing to give it away?

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So, then if you look at the passage, it starts to name the 12 apostles. There's Simon,

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who's called Peter, Andrew, his brother, James, the son of Zebedee, John, his brother, Philip in

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Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew, the tax collector. He's the one writing this gospel account. James,

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the son of Alphaeus, Lebeus, whose surname was Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot,

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who betrayed Him. So, look at next, verse 5. These 12 Jesus sent out and commanded them saying,

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do not go into the way of the Gentiles, do not enter the city of the Samaritans, but go rather

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to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach saying, the kingdom of heaven is

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at hand. Now, look what He tells them to do. Heal the sick, cleanse the leopards, raise the dead,

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cast out demons, freely you have received, freely give. So, in other words, what Jesus is

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commanding His leaders to do is do what He's been doing. So, by the fact that He's modeled it,

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He's now handing it. He's now giving it away to them. And so, men and women, whatever your job is,

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if you're working in a company somewhere, if you are working in a church somewhere,

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if you're working as a mom or dad in a family, you're modeling something and it's going to get

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replicated. If you're an angry person, you're going to replicate anger. If you're a person

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who lies a lot, guess what? You're going to start having people around you who lie a lot.

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You're going to reap what you sow. And so, Jesus is reaping now what He's been sowing for,

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we don't know how long, maybe a year or two before He actually gave away His power and authority

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to the disciples to go out and do what He was doing. And so, leadership is doing it, it's modeling

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it, it's feeling it, it's praying about it, and then looking around. Starting to look around like,

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who's following me? Because someone once said that any leader who thinks he's leading and nobody's

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following is taking a hike. Leadership is developing followers around you that you can reproduce

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yourself into to make them into leaders. I think leadership's as simple as who comes early and who

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stays late. So, who in your ministry or in your life likes what you do, they're pumped about what

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you're doing, that's your next level of leaders. Not people who say that they are, but those people

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who actually show up. So, when we built a men's ministry here, it's called Wholehearted Men, it's

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under the rubric of worshipper warrior men here at the road. First, it was just a group of

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about five guys, and then it became 10 guys, and then 15 guys, and then it was 150 guys, and then it

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was 200, 250, 300, and I think we're around 425 right now on Tuesday mornings. But the cadre,

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so we call our leadership team, all came out of those early days because when nobody, and we didn't

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have a breakfast, we didn't have, we didn't have a donut, okay, we didn't have anything. We just came

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and prayed and then did a little teaching.

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And then, you know, went to work at like 530 in the morning.

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That group was key to the next level of leadership

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because they were showing up when nobody was noticing.

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So sometimes you have to look around and say,

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who's just doing this?

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They're not doing it for a position.

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They're not doing it to be noticed by anybody.

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They're doing it because they love that.

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They love seeing people get healed.

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They love prayer.

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They love sharing their faith.

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They love leading worship.

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Whatever it is, there's something in them

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and they do it.

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And if you see it as sacrificial,

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that's your next level of leadership.

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Not their education, not how skilled they are,

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but rather look at their heart.

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God doesn't look at the outward in a man.

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He looks at the inward in a man.

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And so when we're looking at men and women,

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we need to be asking the question, is their heart right?

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Because if their heart's right

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and they're passionate for the kingdom

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and to grow, sky's the limit.

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Nothing can hold back somebody like that.

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The only limitation is what they have in their own head

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and in their own heart about their limitations.

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But you, as a leader who's raising them up,

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don't put limitations.

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Don't put limitations on them.

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Just love them and then give them the assignment.

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Give them the guidance that they need.

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And they follow through and they're successful

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and then give them more.

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He who is faithful with a little will be given more.

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This is an exciting,

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it's an exciting adventure to lead people.

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It's an exciting adventure, especially to take young people

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like I have right now in this room

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behind these cameras here,

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who are passionate about the Lord,

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but they're also, they have a passion area.

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And in this case,

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it's those that have a passion for videography.

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They have a passion for making movies.

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They have a passion for developing a storyline

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through testimonies and things like that and empower you.

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I mean, I don't know anything about that,

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but I do know their heart so that's how we grow.

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So hopefully that's helpful for you.

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Episode one was the leadership principles of Jethro.

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This was leadership principles of Jesus.

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And so stay tuned for the next episode.

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God bless you.