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Lessons - Ancient Wisdom For Modern Success | Keion Henderson - Pastor & Bestselling Author · Success Story with Scott Clary

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  timeless wisdom for modern life learn why reinterpreting religious texts reveals profound insights
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  into ethics leadership and business and understand how aligning age old principles with contemporary
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  values transforms criticism into a roadmap for success
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  you know i think the one i think that's actually probably the biggest criticism of of religion
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  it's like there why not why not just focus on again belief systems on being good on being
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  altruistic on being better humans i think that's the important piece but and then and then also
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  the other criticism as to look at old scripture and get and so much misinterpretation across the
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  board with like old scripture and you i know you have a very uh you're you're known for not only
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  interpretation of scripture that could be seen outdated or or totally out of alignment with the
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  times and i'm curious as to how how you work through some of those mental problems when you're
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  trying to figure out okay this is scripture that at base value seems incredibly offensive based
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  on like modern norms so i'm curious how you sort of reconcile outdated scripture or out or
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  scripture seems outdated but also how do you apply some lessons from old testament new testament any
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  sort of religious text to the modern day present society yeah i think again we talked about the
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  word of god not being technology right so uh it can never be outdated the stories that you read
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  about are outdated right so the children of israel in the wilderness and the rick c parting and
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  and daniel in the lion stand you know all those things are ancient stories but i've never heard
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  anybody say in the entrepreneurial space the principles that they can grow rich out
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  dated see they principles don't become outdated it is amazing how when it comes to religion we
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  perceive that our book is outdated but people are still reading outweeding the devil they are still
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  reading uh they can grow rich these books are are old right they're not thousands of years old but
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  they're old principles don't become outdated because the calendar changes you gotta believe in
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  Jesus Christ if you're going to go to heaven according to our faith you've got to accept him you
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  gotta believe in god that's not outdated that's actually judicious and it will be a thousand years
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  from now if the earth remains um so but what i've learned to do is i've learned to get people out of
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  the story itself and see how the story itself is applicable to their own personal
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  they so if there is a character in the bible that has been laying on the bed for 38 years which
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  is a story about a man who couldn't walk for nearly 40 years he sees Jesus Jesus says pick up your
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  bed and walk them again the man begins to walk now here is the application the man hasn't walked
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  in 38 years Jesus says get up and walk and he does do it now to the modern person Jesus tells you
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  to get up and walk are you going to give him excuses or say well i haven't done it at 38 years
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  and you know maybe you should send me the therapy first so that i can see if i can do it and
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  and perhaps perhaps if you got crushes because i don't want to push this thing you know maybe
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  you've got a cane on some crushes so i can ease into it you're going to miss out on the miracle
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  because if god told you to do it then he's already worked out the other circumstances that will
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  keep you from being able to do it does he will never put you in a position where you don't
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  have the strength to obey him so i figured out a way in my finite mind to take an ancient story
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  make it applicable to today's times and hopefully when i'm preaching you see yourself in the
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  scripture and not the character that was in the original text i hope that makes sense i want you
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  to see seven you in it no is is it your daughter who's sick jay iris's daughter was sick take him
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  out forget his trail of your daughter put your four-year-old daughter in there put your ten-year-old
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  daughter in there and when you when you when you focus on his principles and what he did to get
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  god to heal his daughter then the question is will you go through the same thing to get him to
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  what are your thoughts on what are your thoughts on all these other spiritual outlets that people take
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  on i don't i like i don't even know them but i'm thinking of why it's not spiritual per se but
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  it's a version of spirituality like people believe in astrology or things like this
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  what is this what is this outlet that people are looking for yeah i think that people are just
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  looking for answers and when there is no intimacy with god when there's a boy you'll listen to
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  another boy's you know because god is an astrologist he created stars in fact it was a star
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  that showed the wise men where he was when he was born so he's an astrologist
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  i think that we get in trouble when we look outside of god for solutions that's that's really
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  what it boils down to when you look outside of god for another solution to a spiritual matter
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  there you're going down a road at least to adedia you know i do believe that everything we're
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  trying to figure out all the wisdom in the world has already really been figured out and we're
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  just trying to reinvent the wheel a lot of the time um you know you know script it might
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  be better than me can you give an example of wisdom that is thousands of years old that
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  honestly would probably replace you know thinking grow rich or any other like modern
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  tax that we're trying to study and learn how to build the business or build a life or develop
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  personally because i know that all the stuff is already there then we'll tell you so and i'm
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  an entrepreneur by the way you know i i own businesses um you know i'm an author uh which we're
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  going to talk about we're going to talk about that i want to talk about that i want to talk about some
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  lessons in the books i believe in this now tall who wrote half the new testament was a 10 maker
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  he was a business mayor so i believe in business i would tell you this
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  most every book on business that i've ever read was like the book of proverbs all of all the
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  biblical principles that Solomon who was the wisest and richest man to ever live wrote in the
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  proverbs the 31 proverbs that he wrote i find that most business principles are actually biblical
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  principles that don't get credit to the original source i i've seen it over and over and over
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  and over again when you read they can grow rich which is which is uh you know probably a hundred
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  year old book maybe everything that Napoleon and he wrote in that book you can find Solomon saying
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  in previous times in different ways so i don't think that there is much disassociation
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  between business and bible i just saying that we sometimes get afraid to get our business
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  crucibles from a bible because of the over inundation of religious thought that we have an
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  association with it but god god lights business he he likes business he creates business men
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  and i am not one who subscribes that all business men are evil i was talking to a wealthy
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  business man one day they were i say wealthy um where i say wealthy uh i'm not talking about
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  it's god i'm not talking about a million dollars in the bank account i'm talking about a person
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  who makes two million dollars a date very wealthy very well and he came to me and he said
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  i just on just afraid said why he said because the bible says that it is more difficult for rich
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  man to get to heaven then for a camel to go through the eye of a needle and i looked at him and
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  i thought to myself look at what religion did to him because he's thinking about a needle a pin
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  needle it's trying to get an entire camel through it and what that scripture was actually referring to
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  is a hole in the west wall in Jerusalem and every time they would cross through this hole in the
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  wall their camel would have to come to the hole in the wall and take all of the possessions that
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  the owner packed on the back of the camel so that the camel could go through this hole in the wall
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  and the whole of the wall was called the eye of the needle so for the bible says it is harder for
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  a rich man to go through the eye of a needle than the camel is harder for a rich man to enter into
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  the kingdom than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle it wasn't talking about something
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  that was impossible it was talking about something where you have to care more about getting
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  through to god than you are trying to bring your possessions with but see if we don't explain
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  these things then we will have a biblically illiterate generation that presupposes a misinterpreted text
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  which makes god look mean and and mix god look unaware we have to interpret him correctly
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  so that we all know that there is room in the kingdom of god for the poor and the rich for the
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  entrepreneur and the employment for the business man and the man that's trying to do business
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