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325. The Top 3 Leadership Killers · The Impossible Life

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  Speaker 1: If you listen to this podcast and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: this episode where we're talking about these things, you are
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  Speaker 1: no longer in the camp of oh I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: You know now. And what we're saying is we're not
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  Speaker 1: saying you can be perfect. What we're saying is that
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  Speaker 1: if you will fully submit to God, he can change
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  Speaker 1: your heart. And you're still going to have to make
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  Speaker 1: a choice. God gave you a choice. He's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: God's not gonna turn you into a little Christian robot.
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  Speaker 1: But when you'll possess these superpowers through saying God, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna quit doing it my way and I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 1: it your way, then you get the sword that can
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  Speaker 1: actually cut these things down. You're still gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: swing the sword, but God gives you the sword that
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to live the way that you used
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  Speaker 1: to live. That you get the opportunity to change and
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  Speaker 1: truly be transformed. That's impossible. Let me tell you what
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  Speaker 1: I believe, true weakness. It's not your technique. Don't think
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 3: your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across at
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  Speaker 3: amand such great vision. His eyesight score is five to twenty.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, friends, the Phoe Garrett uncle back a man
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  Speaker 3: born with sniper scopes for eyes.
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  Speaker 1: That would be excellent, but it would not be five
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  Speaker 1: to twenty. That's the opposite uh improved vision. So twenty
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  Speaker 1: feet The first twenty is I see twenty feet away
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  Speaker 1: like it is the second number, it's like twenty ten
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  Speaker 1: would mean you see twenty feet away like it's ten
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  Speaker 1: feet away. Thank you. You just said that I see
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  Speaker 1: five feet away like it's twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Feet I use, Well, if do you have a scope
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  Speaker 3: on your ar?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: What what's the what's the scopes?
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  Speaker 1: One to ten?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's what I did. Okay, I was used. That's
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  Speaker 3: why I said snipers. That's why I purposely did this,
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  Speaker 3: because I looked this up beforehand. The lady, the person
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  Speaker 3: is the highest eyesight.
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  Speaker 1: Probably gonna go with vortex six to thirty six.
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  Speaker 3: But it's okay, I dude. I knew I was gonna
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  Speaker 3: get criticized for my scope choice, and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't even care, because it's gonna happen no matter
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  Speaker 3: what I choose. But the highest, the highest score ever
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  Speaker 3: was a woman named Veronica Sider in nineteen seventy two.
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  Speaker 3: She was a West German student.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I love that you have this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, dude, I did a little research for this intro.
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  Speaker 3: It was twenty to two. Oh my god, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I was. I don't have I had to get lasi.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have laser vision anymore. Well, I had to
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  Speaker 1: repair my laser vision.
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  Speaker 3: You wang on this is not an intro. You were
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  Speaker 3: born with laser vision?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you mean you got I had? I had
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen when I went into the Navy.
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  Speaker 3: Right, okay, but like just to say her vision was
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  Speaker 3: calculated to be twenty times better than average human vision,
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  Speaker 3: she gets insane. She could reportedly identify people and distinguish
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  Speaker 3: tiny details from over a mile away.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. Can you imagine that she must have had
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  Speaker 1: like a an abnormal eye shape that gave her, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: super focus. It's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: But man, nineteen seventy two, that's a record that's still
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  Speaker 3: waiting to do to be used.
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  Speaker 1: All of her staff points.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she was worthless and everything else. Couldn't jump
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  Speaker 3: for inches off the don couldn't even run a mile
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  Speaker 3: in fifteen minutes, but man, she could. It's the mile,
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  Speaker 3: so anyways, don't need to run already been there.
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  Speaker 1: Today's the day.
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  Speaker 3: Gee, Today we are talking about leadership, which is one
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  Speaker 3: of our favorite things to talk about. We talk about
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  Speaker 3: it a lot. When it just means we are.
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  Speaker 1: Going to talk today about some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: we always talk about, and we are going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about leadership today, which I like, I think we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about leadership more often. When I look back
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  Speaker 1: at three hundred and twenty episodes, the amount of times
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about leadership, I would say is not enough.
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  Speaker 3: So no, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually and it's one of my favorite things to
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  Speaker 1: talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and it's massively important because every person out there
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  Speaker 3: that's in this the very least you lead yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're in a great place to talk about
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  Speaker 1: it now. And the only reason we didn't talk about
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  Speaker 1: it more in the beginning wasn't because I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it, but more so from the fact
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of people just jump in and start
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  Speaker 1: talking about leadership. But there's a base that you have
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  Speaker 1: to have because leadership is not the first skill that
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  Speaker 1: you learn in life. Correct. And so, just by the way,
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  Speaker 1: for some of you who you know love The Impossible
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  Speaker 1: Life Podcast, listen to the show the episodes you listened to,
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  Speaker 1: I would just tell you every single one of our
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  Speaker 1: episodes is worth listening to, and I would say, build
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  Speaker 1: the base for where we are. Well, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: you get a lot out of listening to twenty episodes.
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  Speaker 1: You get a lot out of listen into fifty episodes,
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  Speaker 1: but I would tell you it is worthwhile, and applause
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  Speaker 1: to those of you who do and you reach out
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  Speaker 1: to us. And I've talked to you, I know some
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  Speaker 1: of you guys that are halfway through, and I've talked
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  Speaker 1: to many of you who've already done it. You went
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  Speaker 1: all the way to the beginning and you listened all
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  Speaker 1: the way through.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was you know. I give you credit
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  Speaker 3: because I was talked to some men about the podcast
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  Speaker 3: yesterday and I was saying, from day zero you said,
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  Speaker 3: I want everything we do to be key motive, and
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  Speaker 3: I want whatever we say to stand up for all time.
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea what you meant praise the Lord
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  Speaker 3: that you did, but it has actually worked out that
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  Speaker 3: way because you don't go back to like, oh they've
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  Speaker 3: changed a lot on this, or like why did they
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  Speaker 3: do this random episode.
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  Speaker 1: There's not an episode where we could go back and say, ah,
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  Speaker 1: we can delete that. No one should listen to that anymore, right,
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  Speaker 1: you should listen to all the episodes because.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking about how to live an impossible life, aka
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  Speaker 3: a life that's like wholly sold out, full out following
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  Speaker 3: after God. And so it's you know, glad that it's
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  Speaker 3: culative and praise the Lord. We're just going to keep
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  Speaker 3: getting better hopefully. All right, So gee, when I think
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  Speaker 3: about leadership, man, because what we're going to do, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to give you God's superpower perspective on leadership to
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  Speaker 3: like give you the mindset you need.
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  Speaker 1: There is. I have this view of life, and truly,
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  Speaker 1: as a follower of God, you should feel this way too.
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  Speaker 1: I have this view of life that truly God's way
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  Speaker 1: of doing things is the best way of doing things.
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  Speaker 1: Christ didn't come to the earth with inferior tools, right Like,
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  Speaker 1: for I will give an example really quick. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to talk about the way that we
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  Speaker 1: but you and I were talking about some of this
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  Speaker 1: this morning, the way that we have built mighty men.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't make anything up this. When I view Christ's
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  Speaker 1: life and how he built something, I view it with
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  Speaker 1: the underlying thought process of he could have done it
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  Speaker 1: any way that he wanted to. He wasn't stuck in
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  Speaker 1: a box. He wasn't weak Jesus like, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I can't say these things. He came here with you know,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest level of wisdom and understanding and says this
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  Speaker 1: is the way that I'm going to build a ministry.
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  Speaker 1: And so for example, he didn't say I got to
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  Speaker 1: speak to as many people as possible on earth myself.
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  Speaker 1: Right then, you know what he would have done, He
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  Speaker 1: would have come at this time, right yea YouTube, Yeah
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  Speaker 1: he would, hey, exactly, he'd have a great YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Back then, he said, I've got to develop a few
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  Speaker 1: disciples and fully transform and help them get to where
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  Speaker 1: they fully understand and they're starting to lead other people.
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  Speaker 1: And at that point they don't need me anymore. They're
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  Speaker 1: ready to go on and this thing will multiply. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's a we think that's the way to lead a ministry, right,
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  Speaker 1: true discipleship with a small amount of people. Multiply those folks,
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  Speaker 1: let them transform, and if they can go out and
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  Speaker 1: teach the same thing that you've taught them, this is
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus did, then the ministry is going to grow.
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  Speaker 1: That is an example of you can spend your whole
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  Speaker 1: life trying to think, man, how do you grow a ministry.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus already showed you. He already showed you. And I
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  Speaker 1: think there are many other things in scripture and in
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  Speaker 1: christ life, in Christ's life or in scripture, or just
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  Speaker 1: things that you can piece together from an understanding of
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  Speaker 1: all of it, and some proverbs wisdom and some James wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: that you can put all these things together and say, man,
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  Speaker 1: this is how God would do it. That's the best
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  Speaker 1: way to do it. And so I say all that
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  Speaker 1: to say I have this view of life that if
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  Speaker 1: I know there is a best way to do everything,
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  Speaker 1: and if I don't know what it is, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to look at scripture. And I have this whole podcast
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  Speaker 1: is Nick and I working together, us growing and developing
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  Speaker 1: over years, trying to put into words and make it
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  Speaker 1: plain for people to understand God's way is the best way.
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  Speaker 1: And here's exactly what that looks like. I'll never be
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  Speaker 1: able to say it all in one podcast. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if for the rest of my life I'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to say, like, here's how you think like God
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  Speaker 1: in five minutes. I don't think I'll ever be able
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  Speaker 1: to do it. But I will spend the rest of
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  Speaker 1: my life trying to understand it, trying to live it,
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  Speaker 1: to discover it and share it with other people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think you're ever meant to be able
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  Speaker 3: to stay in five minutes I actually think that that's
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  Speaker 3: probably one of the places where our culture works against
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  Speaker 3: God's process most is that we want to watch an
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  Speaker 3: Instagram reel that's going to keep our attention for sixty
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  Speaker 3: seconds and tell us.
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  Speaker 1: How here's how to be a millionaire in sixty seconds.
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  Speaker 3: Right, and and like, what's the natural supernatural correlation. I've
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  Speaker 3: never seen anyone come out of the womb walking, talking,
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  Speaker 3: and ready to go to work. You come out completely useless,
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  Speaker 3: like from a standpoint of utility, and needing to be raised, fed,
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  Speaker 3: taught how to you know, they learn how to walk
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  Speaker 3: from watching you, they learn how to talk from hearing it.
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  Speaker 3: So that's how God develops us as well. It's it
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  Speaker 3: takes time. It takes a lot of repetition. You need
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  Speaker 3: to be raised by people who are more mature.
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  Speaker 1: We're just talking about that on the last episode. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there is there is a There is a set time
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  Speaker 1: like clock time, but God also a points an amount
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  Speaker 1: of time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah thinks I love that. Yeah, now, gee real quick,
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  Speaker 3: because I do want to get into the superpower combination
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  Speaker 3: of mindset here, and we've sort of gone a little
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  Speaker 3: off script with our with the way to do it.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm enjoying it. You talked about Christ having the
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  Speaker 3: best way, and I think it's so interesting because I
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  Speaker 3: always say this, Well, I say this really because I've
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  Speaker 3: heard it from you. You don't say it exactly like this.
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  Speaker 3: But the Seal Teams are like the greatest organ training
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  Speaker 3: organization that we know in the history of man.
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  Speaker 1: I've been a part of quite a few different organizations,
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  Speaker 1: and really my takeaway, and this builds on what I
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  Speaker 1: was just saying about discipleship. One of my takeaways in
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  Speaker 1: life of what I've learned on leadership and leading teams
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  Speaker 1: is that the best organizations are great training organizations. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that is why Mighty Men really feels like a training program. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ok.
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  Speaker 1: And when I look at the Seal Teams, one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I took away from there that the
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  Speaker 1: Seals have a bunch of credibility, a lot of great leaders,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people writing books. And I'm not hating
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  Speaker 1: on the books that people write like other people do,
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  Speaker 1: but there's so many great lessons and things from there.
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  Speaker 1: But something I haven't seen people talk about as much
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  Speaker 1: that I think is one of the greatest takeaways from
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  Speaker 1: the Seal Teams is how great they are at training, right,
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  Speaker 1: I showed up to Seal Team three and eight team,
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  Speaker 1: didn't you know, I don't want to say didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what I was doing. But I've never done this before.
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  Speaker 1: I've just been through like the basic training and now
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to team and eighteen months later, I've got
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  Speaker 1: to be in a place to have guys walk into
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  Speaker 1: the same set of shoes that I was eighteen months
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  Speaker 1: ago and help them move down the road. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: every three years to every five years, depending on commands
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  Speaker 1: and situations, leaders get plucked out. It's like, well you're
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  Speaker 1: going somewhere else, putting a new guy in there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And so the these it's because they have a great
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  Speaker 1: training program. They have a lot of consistency in how
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  Speaker 1: they train, they have consistency of standards, they have strong systems.
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  Speaker 1: So people move, get deleted, or people die, and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay, just put the next guy in. Right. That
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  Speaker 1: is that is a great business.
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  Speaker 3: It's incredible. Well, but you told you you've told a
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  Speaker 3: story on this podcast before. So but what you talked
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  Speaker 3: about with christ coming into like I'm going to train
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  Speaker 3: people who are going to be able to train other people.
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  Speaker 3: The story you told and that's why I think is
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  Speaker 3: so interesting about you said God's ways are the greatest,
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  Speaker 3: and the reason is because they're built on truth. And
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  Speaker 3: so you can have an organization like the Seal Teams
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  Speaker 3: that will will uncover truth without necessarily recognizing the author.
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  Speaker 1: It's this. Okay. Let me give you the parallel example
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  Speaker 1: to the Seal Teams. You could bring in You could
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  Speaker 1: bring in like the best shooter in the world. They're
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  Speaker 1: the best guy at shooting rockets in the world. Bring
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  Speaker 1: that guy in and say, Okay, we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a thousand of the sty students who don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to shoot a rocket launcher in front of that guy.
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  Speaker 1: We're all gonna let this is the best guy at
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  Speaker 1: shooting rocket launchers in the world. We're gonna get everybody
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  Speaker 1: in front of him to shoot rock like to watch him,
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  Speaker 1: and then you'll learn. And that's how a lot of
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  Speaker 1: ministry operates, okay, okay, or the way that the Seal
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  Speaker 1: Teams trainers are like, well, this is John. John's fired
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  Speaker 1: a few rockets in combat. John's gonna be running, you know,
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  Speaker 1: rocket training today. And then what John does is John's
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  Speaker 1: gonna teach Garrett. I'm gonna watch him do it. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk through it for me. Then he's gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: me through it. Then I'm gonna do it on my own.
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  Speaker 1: Then John's gonna watch Garretty. After I'm doing it on
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  Speaker 1: my own, take someone else run the same cycle. Right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk them. I'm gonna talk and explain it
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  Speaker 1: to them. They're gonna let them do it. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk them through it. Then they're gonna explain it to
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  Speaker 1: me as they're doing it. Then they're gonna do it
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  Speaker 1: on their own, right, And then they're gonna do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing with another guy. And as soon as the
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  Speaker 1: guy that I talk and do it with another guy,
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  Speaker 1: John's like, all right, Garrett, you're good to go.
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  Speaker 3: Right, which is basically discipleship. When the person that I
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  Speaker 3: have trained can train other people, that's whenever you know
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  Speaker 3: you've done it. And that's exactly what Jesus did, is
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  Speaker 3: that he is he trained these disciples that were went
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  Speaker 3: out and then made other disciples and absolutely changed the world.
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  Speaker 3: And that was the point that that we want to
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  Speaker 3: make when we're looking at this is when we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about leadership, the thought process that the greatest thing you
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  Speaker 3: could do is to do exactly what God says. That
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  Speaker 3: is the superpower because you have the unlock of truth,
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  Speaker 3: and truth is so man, I'll just say blurry. In
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  Speaker 3: current times, when we have so much information, that's hard
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  Speaker 3: to tell. What's the first thing that people say? Now
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  Speaker 3: is that AI?
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  Speaker 1: Right, Like we don't even believe what we see. I
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  Speaker 1: have to Yeah, I didn't have to do this before,
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  Speaker 1: but now like in my when I'm doing some of
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  Speaker 1: my pitch decks for Union, and I show certain pictures
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  Speaker 1: like go, hey, just someone to let you know, those
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  Speaker 1: are not AI photos. These are real photos.
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  Speaker 3: Like, think about it, man, you can't even like I'll
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  Speaker 3: believe when I see it. Maybe not because you know
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  Speaker 3: what you're seeing could be completely wrong. Now all right,
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  Speaker 3: so gee, this superpower combination? Man, that was literally the
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  Speaker 3: words that you use. This is the following God is
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  Speaker 3: a superpower combination has three things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and again what this is is Okay, I believe
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  Speaker 1: it is there. I've experienced it, I've seen it, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just hard for me to explain it to people.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm doing the best that I can. But there
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  Speaker 1: are some things that you should have and if you
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: want to hear more of it, come to Mighty Man.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Because this is like basically the undertone of every message
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: that I preach. I don't want to like, I'm never
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't try to be rude or insulting,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: but I also preach from this standpoint of such an
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: authority of like this is the best way. Why are
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: you not doing this? If you are trying to follow
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: God but you're not living by what it says. You
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: have asked to go into the battlefield with none of
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: the armor and equipment that God since you with right.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: The reason God puts you in such a crazy fight
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: is he says, I'm also going to give you tools,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to give you weapons that help you
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: overcome all of these things. Okay, so the superpower combination.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: When you have an eternal mindset, this is eternal mindset.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite episodes. One of our Buddy Big
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Norms favorite episodes, Long term time frame Orientation. Okay, when
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: you can see further down the road, when you can
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: look further, you're playing a different game. If you are
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: operating for tomorrow, if you're operating for a month from now,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: if you're operating from for six months from now, then
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you're going to play the game differently than someone who's like,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: I'll win in ten years, I'll win in twenty years.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: I'm going to win in the end. By the way,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: just side note, part of the reason we've been losing
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: to in the short term losing two countries like China
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: also losing to Islam because they're playing a multi generational
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: game right and America is stuck in a four year cycle.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: That's a rabbit trail. Won't go down that road. Something
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: we could talk about a different time. But when you
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: are playing the short term game, you're going to lose
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: to someone who's playing a longer time frame orientation than you.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I say that to say an eternal mindset where you're
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: not just looking to the end of this life, but
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: you're looking into eternity. It allows you to play differently.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: This is what wouldn't you think that? Just let me
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: give this, you know, simplify this. Give this simple example.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: If you are playing on the battlefield against someone who
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: is trying to win in this world, and you're trying
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: to win an eternity, and you're not afraid of death,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: and you know that God is with you, you may
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: not know necessarily how the battle is going to go.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: But you can say, like Paul did, if I live,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: it's great, and if I die that's also great. To
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: live is Christ and to die is for Christ. That's
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: eternal mindset. If you're playing that way and you're playing
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: against someone who's operating for this world, who do you
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: think is going to win? Okay? This is an example
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: of superpowers that come from following Christ. So when you
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: have this great eternal mindset, when you can see into
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: eternity and you're playing a longer game, you will live
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: a straighter life. And by that, I mean you will
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: live a more linear path of a life where everything
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: you're doing is working together. It's all working towards one
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: aim in the end, versus like, well, I tried to
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: do this for a season, and I try to do
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: this for a season. I come from short term thinking.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: It turns into a zigzag life. If you look, you know,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: into eternity with your life, you live a very straight
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: line of a life. And what this turns into is
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: a mindset of endurance where it's like, oh, I know
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: what's going to happen in the end. Right. If you're
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: playing the long term game, like short term pain, you're
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: like I'm going to endure through this, right, And you've
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: got to have the mindset. You've got to have the
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: heck of I the James chapter one, the considerate joy
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: that goes with it. But it's also First Desalonians chapter one,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: verse three, endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: You know what you have endurance because you see what
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: God's plan is right, And that's where you can say, like, literally,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: if I lose today, whatever, I know what's going to
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: happen in the end. That is long term time frame
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: orientation and so to where other the stuff that like
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: rattles other people. I lost my business or this didn't
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: work out, or you know, the hail came and destroyed
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: my crop. You're saying that's not a big deal. Yeah,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: that's so good.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: I feel like there's fifteen examples of how short term
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: thinking absolutely kills us. And what you said with America.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I think about marketing where companies get hooked on this
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: is like, man, we need to generate some cash, so
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: we're just gonna go on sale. Well, then later on
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: when five years later, when you're like wondering why you
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: can't you don't have a great, strong brand and you
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: can't sell full price products. It's because you've conditioned people.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: You know, there's certain brands out there that they live
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: like this. Fabletics is a brand that we like and
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: you know, you know, you get that VIP membership, you
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: can get those eighty dollars shorts for fifteen bucks. Well,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: I can never pay more for what they have because
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: I've always bought it for ten or fifteen bucks. And
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: so it's like people don't always think about they're got.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: To say, Fabletics is a company that you put some
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: celebrities on it, you build a big name and a brand,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and you sell it real fast. Right.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a volume game for sure, But
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: people don't always think that way. I mean, great example,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: we all got bailout checks. Man, oh that's awesome. Yes,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I've got more money. Oh shoot, here comes inflation. Right,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: And so this type of thought process is all the
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: time I'm giving company and government in our lives. It's man,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I just don't want to cook tonight. Let's just get
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: let's just get takeout. And then you know, fast forward
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: six months, you can't figure out you know, you're twenty
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: five pounds heavier because you've just pressed the easy buttons
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: so many times.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: That is all the time. That is that is the
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: pattern of sin in our lives. Yeah, is play now,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: pay later? Yeah?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Man, I was talking to somebody. You don't ever want
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: to borrow from tomorrow's happiness. I was talking to somebody
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: about why I no longer drink, and I just said,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: I can't ever have a drink without feeling bad the
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: next day. I'm just physically I feel bad. And I said,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I don't want to borrow from tomorrow's happiness because paying
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: it back is never worth it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: You're never going to win in life if you are
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: just thinking about, you know, what, how do I make today?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: How am I happy today? Right? What's going to be
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: good for me today? You've got to get your life
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: mission focused where you're looking into the end. Okay, And
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: so the second piece that comes with this, right, and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: we're just I'm just giving some of the superpowers. We'll
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: talk about this stuff more and we're going to turn
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: all this into a leadership conversation here in just a minute.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: But it's it's purpose. But if you listen to this podcast,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and you listen to enough of our episodes on purpose, it's
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: not like Hey, God finally sent me my assignment. Yeah,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: that's what I mean. It is this way of living
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: that we call purpose full living. And even when you
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: don't know what your purpose is. It's like Joseph was
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: living his purpose while he was in prison. Didn't know
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: his purpose was to save all of Israel for starvation
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and famine. However he was living purposely. It's this way
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: of living where it's like, I know God has a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: purpose and even if I don't see it, that must
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: be part of the plan. Maybe he wanted me to
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: live in this desert. Maybe he wanted me to learn
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: how to walk blind for a season, to trust him
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to develop me. So maybe it hurts right now because
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: this is a part of the training program. It's like
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: it's like when you watch some of these siop thriller
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: movies where guys are like the super secret agents and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: they're stuck in the training loop because they're like, oh, well,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: this must just be part of the program, right, Yeah,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: they don't. They don't know. It's like this is no, no, no,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: they're stop to stop the training no, and they're like, nope,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: that's just that's exactly what you would say.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Just like that that they found that still thought Vietnam
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: the vistic wars exactly.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: But it's understanding. It's it's funny to make that comparison,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: but it's understanding. This is how God works with our lives.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Everything is God developing you. Now there's certainly like we
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: make things harder all the time. You like, when we sin,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you invite calamity into your life. And I'm not trying
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: to sin less because I'm just trying to make God
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: happy because the only thing that makes God happy is
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: when His Christ's blood on my life is the only
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: thing that makes me presentable to Christ. I'm not trying
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: to sin less so that I can somehow please God.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to sin less so God, you know, quit's
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: having to wipe the board and start over with me.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying to I want to get down
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the road and God's plan and purpose for my life.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: And I know sin interrupts that, yeah, massively, but just
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: on purpose. It's living purposely and knowing like, hey, I
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: don't have to control all the outcomes. The one who
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: controls all the outcomes has a plan. What is he
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: looking for me to do to live purposely? Right? And
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: it's a part of this is when you stack a
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: purposeful living on top of eternal mindset, you're not afraid
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of failure. I was saying this to Grace the other night.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Grace is my oldest daughter. We were talking. We read
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: this great book called it is called Trying, and I
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: was like, I don't know, it's not all, but actually
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the book was good. A man who pushes back on
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: well known fables Garrett Uncle back. It was good. I
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: liked it. But I was talking to Grace about it
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: at bedtime of Hey, look, let me tell you the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: difference between winners and losers. And she asked me, she's like,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: am I winner? I said you are? I said, I said,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you're my daughter. And also you're going to live like
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: a winner. And here's how winners live. Winners are not
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: afraid to fail. And I said to her, I said,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: winners lose more than losers. And like, she's at this
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: age where I start dropping stuff on her that you're not.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: You won't figure this out yet, but you'll think about
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: it and you'll remember what I said. And I know
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: how to catch her in the right space, certainly before bedtimes.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: It could time to just drop those little thoughts there
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and I said, this is kind of a riddle. You
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: know how we talk about riddles, So this is kind
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: of a riddle of life. Winners lose more than losers.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Losers are people who are afraid to lose, and losers
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: are people who won't try or they give up. Winners
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: they lose and then they keep going and eventually they win.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And when you have a purposeful mindset, Joseph, you know
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: what he was in prison? He's like, all right, he
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: had that. You know, people attribute it to Jocko the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: good mentality, but you know what it is. That's James
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Chapter one that you consider a joy when you face
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: struggles of many kinds, because this is an opportunity for
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: my endurance to grow in mind. When my endurance is complete,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I'll be mature and lacking nothing. Joseph just knew he
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: was in the training program that is purposeful living. And
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: then the third.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Piece on real quick, I want to pause you because
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: you said something that I want to make sure people capture.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: We've said it before, but I'm going to just be
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: very clear. We love Proverbs three, five and six for purpose,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: which is trust in the Lord with all your heart,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: lean not on your own understanding in all your ways,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: acknowledge him and he will direct your paths. We love
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: that Scripture is the purpose formula. What Garrett said about
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: how you will you will live purposely aka when you
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: if you know it, Like when you were on mission,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: there was nothing that was like a small thing. Everything
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: mattered because you knew that that you were on mission.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: And what you just said is like a lot of
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: times because we don't we're waiting for God, and you said,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: it's not God going okay, here's your assignment and delivering
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: papers to you, which is what we want. We want
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: to know. And I think that's where people struggle with
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: purpose so hard as they're like, I hate what I'm
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: doing right now, and so I'm going to give a
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: half effort because like this is clearly what I'm not
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: meant to do, which is really like if God showed
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: up and said this is what you're meant to do,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: would you would it suddenly flip you and you would
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: be you know, you'd give one hundred percent. I don't
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: know that you would. But it's that need to know
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: that keeps people from living purposely, and they don't understand
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: that when you live purposely, it's amazing how the doors
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: open up and how the dots start to connect and
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: God brings you to your hand.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Now you've got to actually live like God has a
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: plan for your life. This is okay, it matter. I
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: have one of the best stories of this is David. Okay.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: So Samuel annoints David and he, you know, he's like, Okay,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: God's chosen you as king. He didn't say You're gonna
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: sit on the throne tomorrow, right, he just said God's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: annointed jus king. What does that mean? See you later? Yeah,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: go back out those keep what you're doing. And then
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: this is this is like, this is purposeful living. This
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: is Garrett what Garrett calls hard dog mindset. Okay, David
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: was a hard dog. David's you know why. You know
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: why David was also not because the text says the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: way that God was with me when I face the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: lions and bears, He'll be with me today. That's what
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the text says. But also when David's facing Goliath, he said,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I've been anointed as king. Right, one of us is
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: going to die today and it's not me. I've been
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: anointed as king. This is understanding. God is a plan
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: for my life. You know, Christians might start saying like, well,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: maybe God just meant like, maybe I'm not actually he
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: anointed me as king. He wants me to be king,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: but then he's gonna sacrifice me as king, and maybe
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not actually supposed to sit on the throne. And
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: you start gaming it all out and you're like, well,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe God doesn't actually care. Maybe God's not really
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: paying attention, and I have to defend from my own life,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: right And Okay, so I'm gonna go I gotta get saw. Okay,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: here's what's supposed to happen. We'll all go on in
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the battle fill together and we'll get Saul to sacrifice himself, right,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and he'll die fighting Goliath, and then he'll be weak
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and I'll kill him and then I'll be the king. Right.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna make it happen because God said it well,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: and he had the opportunity. I think that's what's so telling,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: is that he actually had the opportunity to kill him,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: and he like in case you can think, oh, Garrett,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: cool story. You see what Garrett said is verbatim from
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: the scripture. I'm failing on the reference, but I think
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: it's the second time he's allowed to kill him, or
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: when they're in when they're when he takes the spear
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: from by his head because they all fell into a
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: deep sleep. His I think it's I can't. I want
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: to say, it's like Abishi or somebody something with an
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: a wants to kill him, and he says no. He says,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: because whether he dies of old age, whether an enemy
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: takes him, or something else, God will.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Make the way. Yeah.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: And I mean, I remember when I read that, I
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: was like this dude, like he was and he would
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: not make it happen. That is purposeful living. Yeah, because
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: he's saying, like I even I could, but in this
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: being annoyed, God anointed me king while there was another king,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: and so if he wanted Saul to die the day
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: after I was anointed, he would have. Yeah, it's full trust.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: And that's why that's why I wanted to emphasize when
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: you said purposeful living. Look, wherever you're at, whether you
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: love it, whether you hate it, you have to trust
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: that if God is sovereign and you're responsible, your responsibility
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: in this situation is to do things as unto the Lord,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: which means all out, which means to bring his excellence
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: in his glory, and to give everything you got, not
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: because you think you're going to get the reward that, oh,
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: then I'm gonna get a promotion or whatever you think
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: would be good that would come from that, but because
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: God's put you on the earth to display his glory,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: and because and from a place of obedience to say, Lord,
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give everything I got because I trust you.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: It's amazing what will happen in your heart when you
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: do that.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: So the third superpower here when you talk about purpose forever,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: we love. We're talking about we love it impossible life.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Third piece here of this just superpower combination. This is
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: faith in God and many of the most powerful things
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: in scripture you can tie into stuff that Christ specifically said. Right.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: You can anchor a lot of these themes, and there's
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of when you look at the illustrations of
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: how scripture is tied together, they're tied to prophecies of Christ,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and then they are tied to things Christ actually said.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: And one of the things that Christ said that is
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: in this is principle of the universe. The universe bends
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: hinges around this. He who seeks to gain his life
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: will lose it, and he who seeks to give his
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: life will gain his life. When you chase, when you pursue,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: when you try to take control, and we're going to
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: come back to this in leadership here in a second,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: when you try to take control, you do the opposite
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of control, because God is the one who's in control,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and anytime that you're trying to control something like full
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: control is actually a form of rebellion against God because
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: he's the one who's in control. The exact same thing
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: we did in the garden, where God say I have
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: already defined what's right and what's wrong. When you eat
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: now you've said, well, now I know, and I'll decide.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Now it wasn't the tree of make you sin. It
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: was the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: now instead of God saying what's right or wrong, I'll
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: decide what's right and wrong. And that it is the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: foundation of sin, is rebellion against God. And we're trying
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to control things. We're saying God must not be in control,
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  Speaker 1: or his control is wrong and mine's better. So faith
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: in God. When you're chasing after making money, like one
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: of the things that I've seen. When people say they
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: have integrity, Okay, everybody would like to believe they have
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: integrity until it costs you something. When integrity costs you something,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: then that's really the test of your integrity. But if
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: you believe God is a plan for your life and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: you trust him and you have faith full obedience towards him,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: this is the superpower. Okay. You can look at a
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: situation and say, yep, I'm gonna tell the truth here
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna pull my wallet gets smaller. Okay, my
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: wallet's about to get smaller when I tell the truth here. However,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: when you know God is a plan for you and
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you trust him, you know he's also the one who's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: in control of mine and everything. You know what He
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: can do the same way, just like when my kids
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: they do the right thing and it costs him something,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: they get rewarded for it. Right now, God is not
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: as menial of a father as I am. But I
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: know God's watching me. I know God sees my heart,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and I know God's gonna bless me, and I know
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the opposite of what will happen is if I say,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you know God, I know you want I know you
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: want me to tell the truth. I also know you
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: want to bless me. I'm not gonna tell the truth
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: here because I need to keep my wallet the size
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: that it is. And then me and you will kind
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: of will square it off in the back end and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: we'll work out how to for me to be good
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: again and me to still be the son that you're
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: proud of. When you do that, God's like, fine, you go.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: You don't need me, You do it yourself. You want
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: to operate with God on your team where it's like God,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna this is like in football. I can't make
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the soccer analogy, but like in football, you go take
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the hit and it's like you're gonna get decimated, but
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: this is what makes the play, makes the play right.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: And then and then you know, it's not about being right,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: it's about getting it right. The team's gonna score and
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: we all win. And I'm on God's team and so
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go make
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the play and may have to sacrifice my body for
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: a moment to make the play.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Sacrifice the body.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Everybody knows that term you played football, you need the term.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make the play and then we're gonna win. Yeah.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And so this, this is having trust in God's outcomes
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  Speaker 1: better than your ability to control things. This isn't me
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: trying to trick you or hack you into biblical obedience.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: What I'm telling you is that this is a better
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: play than you saying I don't like that play because
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Get hit right, Yeah, it works better.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: These are the superpowers. Now, if you don't actually trust
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: in God, this is very hard for you. But I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: will tell you You've got to learn how to play on
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: God's team and then just like man, we just keep winning. Yeah.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: So I just wanted to so eternal mindset, purpose and
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: faith in God those are the superpower combination. And understand
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: that the way we're talking about these is so practical
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: an application because I think a lot of people would
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: agree with what we just said. But if you looked
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: at their life when it gets like you said, until
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: it cost them something, there's all sorts of stuff that's
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: screaming at you when you're in those situations that distorts
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: your vision.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Everybody's on God's team when God is, you know, sending
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the disease and the locusts on the Egyptian. Sure, but
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: then it's like, hey, now you go kill some giants,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: will yeah?
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Or you get out there, like, hey, these snakes are
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: biting us, and he doesn't take the snakes away. He
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: just says, hey, look at this, and you won't die
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: from the poison. Yeah, you know what I mean. It's like,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: but why can't you just get the snakes out of here?
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: He could, but he's chosen, you know what I mean. Like,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: it's I don't understand that.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Good.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Okay, guess what you're getting some trust developed and you
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: God's developed such a good reference. Well it's a great one.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: So do you? I mean you said it.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: The underlying question that we have to answer is do
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: we really believe is in control? Because what you said
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: about this sacrifice the body is such a good analogy
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: because part of that is like we are going to
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: encounter injustice and does God allow injustice? Because like I'm
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: looking at this and this does not seem like it's
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: working out for me.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: This is a bin brain bender. We won't spend a
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: ton of time here. This is something we'll revisit, but
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: you've got to understand how God's justice works, right, Okay?
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Man is so short term focused, and this is why
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: the superpowers is like, hey, this is helping you be
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: like God. All right, that's what the superpowers are. It's like, man,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I'm acting more like God than I am like man.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Man's way is I got to make sure that I'm
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: taken care of and then we'll figure out the rest
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: of the stuff. I've watched men live their lives this
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: way where they're like, well, I'm going to do marriage wrong,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do money wrong. I'm gonna you know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I'll do all these things wrong. And then like, well,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and then once I get the money, and once I
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: marry the girl, and then once you know my business
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: is successful, then I'll start doing everything the right way. Right,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: this is man's way of doing things, and you get
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the consequences of sin. Let me get what I think
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: is right first, and then we'll fix all the stuff later. Okay,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: this is God's way of doing things. God's way of
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: doing things is well, the wages of sin is death,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: and I will send my son Christ and he'll die.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: He'll actually die. We're we're not going to we're not
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: going to change the plan. We're not going to over
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: control for things. Then God takes those consequences and he
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: transforms them into righteousness. At the end, God, we are
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I want the results now, I want the reward now,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: and then we end up with brokenness and sin in
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the end that we can't fix. God says, this is
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: my law and this is my structure, and where this
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: law results in a wrong outcome, that's what I will fix.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: But I won't break my law. Okay. And so God,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: God goes through all the right process and then this
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: is you know, the majority of our lives. God's developing
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: you nine to nine percent of the time, and the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: greatness of the reward the way he uses you is
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: one percent of the time. This is the ultimate transformation story.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: You've got to understand that when you are submitting to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: God's justice, it's probably going to feel uncomfortable, uncomfortable for
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: a long period of time. But you've got to let
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: him do his work because he's telling a story, He's
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: doing a work in your life. But God is an
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: entirely just God. Now, if you freeze frame the day
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: after Christ died, you would think God is not a
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: just God. Give him time, let him do what he's doing.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: And this is what we do. We're the people who
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: pull Christ off the cross becers are like, well, you
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: can't kill him because then it's over. Yeah, we do
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: that all the time. So you've got to truly trust
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: in God and understand that he's just, and sometimes to
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: see the full picture, you just got to zoom out.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's taking him out his word, because there's
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: lots of places where you'll hear people say like, how
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: could a just God allow X Y Z, And they'll
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: insert that.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: And it's exactly what you just said.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: If you freeze fame right now, you're right man, Like,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: oh man, you draw the conclusion. But we are living
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: in an eternal timeframe, which means that most of what
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: is actually to be we don't even see it. So
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: and that takes humility, that takes trust, that takes submission,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: It takes understanding who you are, that we are like
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: the little Aunt and God is the creator of the universe.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Let's transition into leadership. Yeah, and I would just want
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: to say this before we get into we're going to
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: talk about three leadership killers and how having the superpowers
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: living a transformed life helps you not kill your leadership.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, but this is one of my favorite understandings of leadership.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: This is again, if you want to learn how to
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: be a great leader, read the Bible. Yeah, right, and yeah,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: there's there's You can get some wisdom from Proverbs and
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: you can learn how to you know, not break the
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: ten commandments in the Bible. That's not the part that
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Christ is the greatest leader who ever lived.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Whether you believe he's the son of God who lived
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: a perfect life and died for your sins and rose
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: again or not. Whether you believe that or not, he's
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: had more influence than any human who's ever walk the earth. Hey,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: there's great leadership lessons here. The best leadership lesson I
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: think that's in the Bible is that leadership is a choice. Hey, understand,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: God's perfect. God has all measure power and ability to
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: control us. Yet he didn't because that's a part of
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: that's the love piece. Right, I'm going to give you
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: a choice. I want you to want to follow me,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: kind of like Eisenhower's definition of leadership. Leadership is getting
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: people to do what you want when you want them
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: to do it, and they want to do it. And
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: you cannot make anybody want to do something. You have
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: to do this it's My wife made it really simple
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: for me. She said, I think you're a great leader
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: because you make the wrong things seem stupid right, And
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that's what God does for us. He says. Look, I'm
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: going to show you the promise. I'm going to show
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: you the greatness. I'm also going to help you understand.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: You'll figure it out some on your own, but I'm
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: also going to help you understand how doing it your
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: way the consequences of sin is death. Here's what you
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: should do, is you just follow me. Do this. Here's
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the caveat. You might have to trust me. You're gonna
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: have to trust me, however I will. I will make
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: that gap as small as I can for you that
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not asking you to trust me for forever, because
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: once you trust me a little bit, you'll see me
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: and you'll experience me exactly and that'll give you enough
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: trust for the next step. And that'll give you enough
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: trust for the next step. But leadership is a choice.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: It is the hero's journey in life that you would
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: take a step of faith, that you would just just move,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: just take one step from where you are. And this
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: is leadership. Leadership is constantly putting yourself in a position
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: of I have cared for you, I have love in
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: my heart for you. I'm gonna do all that I
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: can to protect you. And here's what I believe is right.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I'm going to make it as simple for you as
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: I can. There's a part that you're gonna have to play.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Will you trust me? Will you follow me? Will you
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: play your part? Leadership is a choice. You can't make
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: your wife be a certain way, you can't make your
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: business partners be a certain way. But you can do
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: everything you can to make the right choice seem easy
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: and the wrong choice seem stupid.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Very good man, so good, all right, gee, So let's
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: go to the three leadership killers. And man number one
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: is an absolute doozy.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: This will murder your leadership insecurity. When you need the
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: people around you to like you and to praise you
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: for what you're doing, you're needy. And I have talked
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: about as a man and as a leader, one of
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: the best things you can be is low needs. When
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: you need people to affirm you. We need when you
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: when you need people to help you feel good about you.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: If you don't feel it, It's like, if you don't
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: trust you, why should we trust you. If you don't
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: feel good about yourself, why should we feel good about you?
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: And it is also that dichotomy if he who seeks
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: to gain his life will lose it. When you need
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: something from people, they're very stingy to give it to you.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Banks don't lend money to people who need money. Banks
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: give money to people. It's like, man, I think guys
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: don't need any money.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Sure, here's you'll lend them somebody.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: There is a dichotomy here. And when you are in
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: cure as a leader, meaning you you don't have a
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: sense of identity and purpose that helps you feel great
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: in the midst of struggle, discouragement, people shouting you down
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: that you can't feel good in the midst of that,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: then people are going to struggle to follow you because
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: you can simplify leadership into strength and warmth. Right, do
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: you care about me? And are you capable? And if
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: how people feel about you hurts your strength, you might
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: not be the strong leader that I want to follow.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: But when you are someone who's it's a dichotomy right
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: to be someone who's like, I don't care what you
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: guys think about me, but I have so much care
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: for you. It's hard to be both of those things
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: at the same time because strength is like, I don't care,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do whatever I want right, and I can
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: do it whatever I want. That's what strength, raw strength
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: feels like. And then love is, well, you know, I
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: love you guys, and I want you guys to love
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: me too, And when you can be both at the
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: same time, like I care about you, but I don't
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: need you to love me. I love you. This is
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: God by the way I love you, I don't need
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: you to love me. I'd really like that you did right.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: If you follow me, it would be better for you.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: That's what leadership looks like. And so insecurity will crush
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: your leadership. The transformation switch here, right, This is us
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: leading like God is such an a It's a confident
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: ability that your ability to lead other people doesn't require
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: people to believe in you. Don't be a Santa Claus leader. Yeah,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: or it's like the only all the power I have
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: is from when you lead me. But think about Christ
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: the moment he's on the cross. Yeah, it might have
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: felt like nobody actually believed in it in the moment
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, it is the moment of his greatest power, right, yeah,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: and why because he knew what he could do. He
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: knew what he could do, and he's like, it's okay,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: I'm here for you. I didn't come here for you
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: to give something to me.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: The term you used when we were talking about transformation
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: was you said confident humility. Yeah, and I think that
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: that's for a lot of people that would be an oxymoron.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: It's like it is, it's a both right. But yeah,
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: but think about that. And this scripture is so perfect
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: for John thirteen three through four. It says Jesus knew
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: that the Father had put all things under his power,
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: and that he had come from God and he was
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: returning to God. What does that sound like? Sounds like
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: a man who knows who he is.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: So he got up from the meal, took off his
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: outer clothing, and wrapped the towel around his waist. This
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: is when he washes the disciples feet. And I think
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: it's amazing that they make the point that because he
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: knew who he was, why he was there, and where
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: he was going, he was able to do that. And
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: that's exactly what you're saying, Like, this is not insecurity.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: This is the opposite. This is confident humility. It's like,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: because I don't need you to like because this was
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: basically a servant. This is saying, you know what, I'm
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: gonna go ahead and be the janitor in the organization.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: It's like, wait, no, no, no, no, You're like you're
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: Elon Musk, You're the CEO. You're like, you're this genius.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: It's like, I already know who I am. I don't
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: need you guys to have me in a certain seat
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: or to have a title on me.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I can also I'll just bend this really really quick
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: for a second of insecurity to some of our athletes, Yes,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: say athletes, the man who has the power to take
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: the crown is not afraid to take it off, right.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: The man who has the power to take the crown
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: isn't afraid to take it off. Now. The man who
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: thinks he only came upon the crown through time and
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: chance and that will defend it with his life. Yeah,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: because if you took this from me, I could never
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: get it back. Very good, And this is what athletes
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: with their confidence can feel like. Sometimes what turns which
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: turns into like arrogance and insecurity. I will fight against
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: anything that makes me feel like I know how to
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: hit the ball or I'm a good athlete, because I'm
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: not actually sure that I am. Yeah.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: This reminds me of Arnold Schwarzenegger and pumping iron. And
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: he's laying there and they're going, Arnold, aren't you work
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Like they're talking, they're like, when you're at the top
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: of the mountain, everybody's trying to come and take the
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: food off your table, aren't you aren't you? Like does
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: that make it harder? And he goes, he goes, you
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: know what's great about being at the top of the
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: mountain When you want to eat, it's there, And what
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: he's saying is exactly what you said. He's like, I
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: already know how to get here. Yeah, And so like
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: when I want to eat, it's not a matter of
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: like what if somebody else comes, It's like, dude, I
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: know what I'm doing. Yeah, And that is that is
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: at a great analogy.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Gee, it's the confident humility. So number two here these
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: are leadership killers, okay, And this is where the faith
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: in God, the supernatural power that God has given you,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: if you'll follow him all the way, if you'll be transformed.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: This is what'll undo and show you the better side
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: of that weakness. Because this is understanding, like God has
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: put strength in you, and sin will turn that strength
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: into arrogance. But when you are living a transformed life,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: it turns that strength into righteousness. God's justice is perfect.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I want to roll on the perfect justice. I don't
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: want to roll on Garrett Justice. Okay. So number two
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: leadership killer lack of emotional control. Your emotional outbursts, whatever
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: they are, anger, frustration, or you know. Some people hide
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: their emotion in a different way, which is certainly annoying
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: when people have the feelings and they will throw the
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: side comments but not share their feelings, just share all
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: the fruit of their dark feelings, which, however you choose
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: to show your emotion. A lack of emotional control makes
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: you unpredictable, makes you untrustworthy. Okay. This is one of
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: the hallmarks of a great leader. When I go and
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: examine leaders and I talk to their people, I can
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: tell you the quality of a person's leadership before I've
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: ever met them by talking to their people. Because good
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: leaders have an environment where the people who follow them
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: know what they would do right, where people say, oh,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: this is what Garrett would say, this is already. I
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: don't need to ask Grett. I know what he's going
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: to say. I don't need to ask her, and I
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: know what he's going to do. That's predictable leadership. The
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: opposite where it's like I don't know if today's a
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: good day to ask him. That's the opposite of good leadership.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Let's wait for another time. I don't think we like
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: if you had, like if you are a great king,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: people could know Godfather reference, I could come to you
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: on the day of your daughter's wedding and I'm going
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: to get the same response as if we were playing
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: golf or whatever it was. Because you are not governed
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: by circumstance, that is a great leader. But when you
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: are governed by your emotions, any sense of injustice, right,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: this is you live in it your way versus God's way,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: because that's what all emotion is. Emotion is like, well
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: this was wrong, and I gotta I don't know how
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: to process it. I'm just to let all these emotions out.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: You are frustrated by not being on the same frequency
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: as God. God's like, hey, I've already got all this God.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: God doesn't have emotional outbursts. Okay, we do when we're
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: not understanding God's plan, when we don't trust his justice,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: and then it turns into well, today's a good day
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: or today's a bad day. Well, that's why one of
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: my core values is positive attitude, right, which rich reflects this.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: I'm going to see greatness in every opportunity. I'm going
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: to see greatness every single day. I'm not going to
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: be governed by circumstance. I will act the same whether
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: it's a quote unquote good day or a quote unquote
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: bad day. When you have no emotional control, people will
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: struggle to follow you because you're like, yeah, you know,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: sometimes he's great, but you are a pitcher that's hiding
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: a heroin habit. It's like, well, we don't know what's
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: going to happen tomorrow, right, yeah, you know it's in
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: my shame. We were talking about this, man. I remember
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: whenever I was not serving God and I was at
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: my worst for my wife. I knew that she was
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: doing this and it would annoy me. It's not to
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: your shame, it's to God's glory.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: Very good, well done, yeah, well done, you're right gee,
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: But like, man, I just remember my wife would come
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: and kind of be like hey, and like she would
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: basically be saying, like checking in to see which version
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: of her husband she was going to get that.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she was saying, is it a good time? Right?
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: And that is the worst thing, man case. Yeah, it
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: is the worst thing. And the transformed version is obviously
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: a self controlled, consistent person, and like, what's amazing? Gee,
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: Consistency is the number one ingredient for all long term success,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: is what Pastor Keith has said.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: That's one of his leadershipologies on thousand percent. Stand on
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: that one. Whether it's a happy relationship with your spouse
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: or a successful business or anything else. Consistency is the
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: core ingredient. And it's who God is, right, you know,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: he doesn't love us ninety nine percent of the time.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: He doesn't His salvation doesn't work ninety nine percent of
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: the time. He is who he is from the beginning
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: to the end. He'll always me the same thing, never changes.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: That is the immortal quality of God as his consistency. Yeah.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: And so I mean we're talking about this superpower. Listen
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: to this, so Galatians five nineteen through twenty one, because
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: we talked about a lack of emotional control. This is
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: the acts of the flesh. The acts of the flesh
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: are obvious. Okay, sexual morality, impurity, and debauchery. First things,
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: it comes up pretty obvious. Idolatry and witchcraft. Man, those
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: are also obvious. Now listen to where this let this
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: list turns. What takes a hard left in our own minds? Okay,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: sexual morality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, and witchcraft. And how dare
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: they do that?
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Hatred?
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: Ooh, well, that's a tough one because there's these people
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: that disagree with me, discord. Wait what you mean, jealousy,
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions. Oh, man, like
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: that nails so much. I mean, that's what we're talking about.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Fits of rage, envy, drunkeness, orgies, and the like. I
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: warn you, as I did before, that those who live
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. I
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: hope that puts a massive emphasis. We're not just saying, hey,
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: you should have emotional control because it'll make your marriage better.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: This is literally everyone. He'd be like, oh yeah, idolatry, witchcraft, Yeah,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: those seem hard morality right next to that, fits of rage,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: selfish ambition, dissension, Like where me just disagreements? Yea, right
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: there next to drunkenness and orgies. Yeah, exactly. I love it.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: I love that they're sandwiched in too.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: For real.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Starts with sexual morality, impurity, and debauchery, got it, Okay,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: those things are terrible, idolatry and witchcraft nasty, yeah, but
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: then in the middle hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish, ambition, dissension, factions,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: an envy, dang it, and then and drunkenness and orgies. Yeah.
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: Because I'm sitting there going like, okay, great, check check,
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: no idols, no witchcraft, no, uh you know, sexual immorality.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Yet it's it's a drunk air quotes here, bad sin, sandwich,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: put the bad sins on the end, exactly.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: Stuff that, right, But then you get to the million
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: You're like, oh, dang it, because but that's what we're saying,
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: and like, look that those who live like this will
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: not inherit the kingdom of God. Man, I hope, and
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: this goes back to eternal mindset. I hope you remember
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: that one day you have to stand before God and
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: give an account for your life. And the worst thing
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: you could hear is away from me. I never knew you.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: The thought of that breaks, that never knew you, that
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: never knew you, isn't you didn't know about me. It
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: isn't that you didn't know what was right. They never
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: knew you. It's the Greek word ganasco to be changed
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: by me. It's that you never let me transform you.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: And burden of knowledge here, yes, say burden of knowledge.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: If you listen to this podcast and you're listening to
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: this episode where we're talking about these things you are in,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: you are no longer in the camp of oh I
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: didn't know you know now? And what we're saying is
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: we're not saying you can be perfect. What we're saying
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: is that if you will fully submit to God, he
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: can change your heart. And you're still going to have
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: to make a choice. God gave you a choice. He's
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: not gonna God's not gonna turn you into a little
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Christian robot. But when you'll possess these superpowers through saying God,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna quit doing it my way and I'm gonna
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: do it your way, then you get the sword that
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: can actually cut these things down. You're still gonna have
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: to swing the sword, but God gives you the sword
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: that you don't have to live the way that you
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: used to live, that you get the opportunity to change
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: and truly be transformed, to know His will for your life,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: to operate as a creature who has died and rose again. Yes,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: let's hit the third leadership killer here, so insecurity, lack
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: of emotional control, those will destroy your leadership. And last
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: one here selfishness. Selfishness, and we can all be guilty
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: of selfishness. This is one of those things that you
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: just got to like see every time it's creeping in
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: and just cut it out right, Like as a man,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: I can just speak for all men here. This is
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: what you have to do with lust. You're never gonna
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: get to a place like I'm just you know, just doesn't.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: I no longer find it find the women attractive?
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, unless your testosterone level is like if if you
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: aren't struggling with lust in the slightest, maybe you should
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: have your tea levels check. Okay, But it's controversially yeah, yeah,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: that's that's sure. We can call that one my opinion.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: But it's one of those things like lust where it's
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: like feel that creeping in and got to cut that
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: out real quick, right, Like there's there's weeds growing in
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: my garden. Rip them out, don't let them grow, don't
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: let them take root. That's how you manage lust. It's
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: how you manage selfishness. Selfishness, we can all start to say, like,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: when's it going to be my turn? When am I
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: going to get to put some points on the board.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I'm tired of you know, I'm tired of sacrifice, sacrifice
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: my body. Can I Can I get the ball? Yes?
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: When am I going to get the ball? That is selfishness.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: The antidote is saying, I'm here to play my part.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: It's not about me. I get to play a part
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: and I get to be a part of something great.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: But as soon as you start making it about you,
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: you know what, the banks will absolutely just run out
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: of money really quick. It is that dichotomy. He seeks
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: to gain his life, we'll lose it. When you start
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: trying to take as much as you can get, you'll
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: get the least you've ever got for sure. Yeah. The
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: transformation is a hard service and a heart of sacrifice.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: It allows you to actually fulfill leadership in the right
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: role where it's like, what is leadership. Christ showed it
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: to us. Leadership is service. I'm not here to enroll
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: everyone in the Bill Garrett's Castle campaign. I'm here to
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: play a part, and we're gonna all go kill a
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: dragon together, right, And at the end of the day,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: that is my service. It's my service to the kingdom
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: to help kill this dragon, and it is my service
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: to everyone else in the campaign to help you play
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: your part. I'm here, like you know, Eisenhower wasn't out
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: there to shoot Hitler in the head himself, right, he says,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: I'm here to set a plan and to put things
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: in place so that this war can be won.
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And that really is how you fulfill the function
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: of leadership, because we've said on previous podcasts that leadership
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: is a functioner. A lot of times we make it
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: like a title of honor, like oh, that's the leader,
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: and they become like the superstar celebrity, and it's like No,
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: Christ's leadership is that you're you're the servant. I mean,
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: this is Matthew twenty twenty eight, just as the Son
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: of Man did not come to be served, but to
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: When he was on the Cross.
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: You think many people are going like, hey, I mean
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: they found a defensive that they said the king of
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: the Jews. The Jews actually argued against Pilot putting that
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: sign up. And you know, obviously they did that to
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: kind of mock the Jews, but no one would look
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: up and go, there's our leader. But that's exactly who
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: he was. And man, that hits me hard even as
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: I say that to think about that as leadership.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: So as we wrap up here, I just want to
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: bring the context back to you, give you the foundation
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: of You've got to decide I'm gonna live for Christ completely,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: otherwise you'll never possess the superpowers. This is the people
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: who want to be in shape, but all they do
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: is watch the Instagram videos. This is the people who
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: wanted to be Navy Seals. And I'm not taking a
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: shot at anyone here, but this is the people who
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: wanted to be Navy seals, but you never enrolled in
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: the program. You've got to decide, God, I'm going to
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: actually do this with you. I'm tired of just wearing
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: the T shirt. I'm tired of just hearing about it.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: I want to receive the superpowers. That come from truly
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: following you, when you'll submit to him, when you'll get
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: an eternal mindset to see all the way, not just
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: to the end of your life, but into eternity with
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: what you're doing, that you'll live purposefully, that you'll see
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: that even in the midst of your struggles, what feels
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: like disaster, this is God developing me. His plan is
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: better than mine. And when you'll truly trust him, when
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: you'll have faith, when you'll have the courage, it's like God,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: I've seen enough. I know you're not going to prove
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: it to me, and you're not going to do it
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: for me, but I've seen enough, and I'm going to
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: take a step. When you start living with God's superpowers,
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: it'll fix everything in your life. It'll fix your leadership,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: it'll help you love your family, it'll help you lead
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: your business, and it'll help you live a life that
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: advances the Kingdom of God.
• 55:39
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