A Great Leader Is A Great Servant

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.119 Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.800 this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:48.880 I hope you enjoy this message. How many of you 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:53.520 know that God is placed in our spirit alonging to achieve? 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.240 You know, God told Abraham, he said, Abraham, I want 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.080 you to increase. I want you to multiply, and I 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:05.520 want you to take dominion over your land over what 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.880 I've given you. You see, God doesn't. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.399 Find anything wrong with us achieving. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:16.960 He doesn't mind if we rise to a noble position 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.600 or a good position from our hard work. But see, 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.440 God doesn't want us to think that that's what's going 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.320 to cause us to be great in life, that that's 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.560 what's going to bring us fulfillment and happiness. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:30.240 See. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.280 I truly believe God wants his people in strategic places, 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.160 but he wants them to do it with the right heart. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:43.080 You see, sometimes we get caught up in the wrong things. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:48.120 Jesus was walking with his disciples one day and a 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.480 mother came up to him of two of the disciples 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.880 that were with him, and she said, Jesus, I have 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.079 a favor to ask you. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.120 She said, Jesus, this is so important to me. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.520 I have two sons, and she said, I want to 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.920 know if you will allow one of my sons to 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.360 sit at the right hand your right hand, and the 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.040 other son to sit at your left hand when you 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.560 come into your kingdom. 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.720 Now, any good mother would try to work a deal 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:14.040 like that. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.960 Right, you can't blame her, huh. I mean, if you 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.120 could pull that off, go for it. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:21.800 Well. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.400 When the other disciples heard that, they got angry with 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.519 the two disciples because they. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:27.960 Were feeling like that You. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:31.000 Know, they were trying to thwart their authority, was trying 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.400 to put themselves over the other disciples. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.240 So they became angry, and they became frustrated. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.360 I can imagine them thinking, well, you haven't done anything 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:40.920 better than me. 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:43.320 I've done just as much as you have. 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:51.320 You see, Jesus understood these emotions. He understood stood the struggle, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.480 and he told her, he said, look, you know what, 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.880 if they can do what I can do, which they can't, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.480 he said, but it's not my position. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:01.960 You know, I'm just doing what. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.800 My father wants me to do. You know, he's the 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.200 one who makes the decisions. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.320 So as they were walking, you know, I know Jesus was. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.080 Probably thinking about this, and he was probably thinking, you know, 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.720 this is a good time to talk to them about 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:20.120 this positioning title and authority. And so he began to 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.560 explain to them that the Gentiles, which were not governed 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.520 by the Jewish laws, that those leaders would use their 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:33.520 authority to press the people down, would use their authority 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.880 in the wrong way, and he wanted them to know 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.760 that that wasn't the way they were to use their authority. 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.279 In fact, he said to them, not so for you. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.400 He said, let me tell you what makes a great life. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:53.280 Let me tell you how to make yourself happy and successful. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.800 He said, if you're going to be great in the 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.520 Kingdom of God, you have to be a servant of all. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:06.800 So he told his disciples the key to obtaining this 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:07.479 great life. 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:09.919 Now, I want to tell you he is was not 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.200 mad at her for wanting them to be in a 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:17.560 high position. He just wanted her and his disciples to 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:22.320 understand that it wasn't the authority, but it was the 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:27.200 misuse of authority. Well, you can have authority, but when 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.479 you use it to serve others, He was saying, that's 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.719 what's going to give you a great life. Now, you know, 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.800 it's hard some time to wrap our head around servant 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:44.400 hood and a great life, servanthood and success, because that's 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:48.920 not what our culture tries to teach us. In fact, 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.200 the two disciples could have looked at their mother and said, 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.560 that's how we get authority, that's how we get positioned. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.599 You know, have you ever seen people manipulate situations, do 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:02.000 things to try to get more authority, And it's aggravating, 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.320 isn't it. Well they were aggravated at them anyway, But 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.560 we learn from people. We learn how to do things 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.000 from society, and we think that's the way to obtain it. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:19.480 But see, you don't obtain in God's kingdom. You don't obtain. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.360 These things by stepping over other people, by using your 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:30.040 authority wrong. You See, achievement and success is not greatness 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.960 in the kingdom of God. Jesus' concept of greatness and 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.720 his ideas of greatness he was trying to explain to 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.039 his disciple is service. 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.760 See, a good leader is a good servant. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.280 And he was saying to them, until you can serve, 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:52.159 you'll never be a great leader. Until you can learn 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.040 to serve, you'll never be a great leader. 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.000 See, it is difficult sometimes. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.040 And what I love about Jesus is he was always 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.360 giving examples with his own life about what he was 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:12.760 trying to teach his disciples. He never rebuked and pointed 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.720 his finger and got mad at his disciple and says 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.960 you're out of here. But he was always letting his 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.160 life be an example. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:22.000 The disciples. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.920 At the Last Supper with Jesus, Jesus overheard some of 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:30.640 them disputing among themselves who was the greatest. They hadn't 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:36.240 quite got that lesson yet, So Jesus did something very profound. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:41.160 Now I know that theological impact of this is very great, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.920 and there's many things that you can see in this example. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.480 But today I want to show you what Jesus was 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:52.440 trying to show once again his disciples about greatness. So 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.640 as they were sitting at the table, Jesus arose from 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:00.920 the table and prepared himself to wash his disciples feet. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.240 See it was a way for him to show them 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:12.120 that their position and authority was not below serving you. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.200 See he rose up and got down. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.640 See he was the highest position, He was the highest 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:27.000 of authority. But yet he knew that service was the 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.160 greatest thing in the Kingdom of God. And that was 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.200 the message he wanted to leave with them before he 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.680 left this earth. He wanted them to know a great leader, 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.960 It is a great servant. Serving one another was not 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.600 below their position and authority, but it was part of 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.920 their position and authority. It's what made them great. See, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.960 God loves when you use your power to serve other people. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.199 Saw I'm eighteen thirty five. David said, this of God, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.840 you have stooped down to make me great. See that illustration. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:05.040 David was speaking out because God came down from heaven. 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.280 He stooped down and became a man so. 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.520 That he could make us great, so that he could 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:12.439 save us, and that. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:13.320 He could help us. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:18.000 He came from the highest place and stoop down to 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.960 the lowest place to basically wash our feet. Jesus is saying, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:28.480 a good leader, a great leader is a good servant. See, 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.720 we should never place our position where God has placed you, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.800 the authority has given you. We should never place that 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.080 position over the privilege. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:39.400 Of serving others. 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:44.920 God has said it's a privilege to serve mankind. I've 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.199 seen people who use their authority the wrong way. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:54.040 They don't serve people with it. But God he stooped 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:55.520 down to serve us. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.079 I think we should look at our busy and important 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:04.600 lives and develop this attitude of stooping down, of helping 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.320 those around us, of taking. 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:07.680 Up their hand. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.520 See, we're not only to serve our family, but we're 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:14.160 to have an eye to observe who else we can help. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.400 Who else can we wash their feet? Who can we encourage. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.520 It may not be convenient, you may have to stop 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.440 and get off of what you're doing to stoop down 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:27.000 to serve someone. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.559 But can I tell you that's what makes you great? 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.120 In the Kingdom of God. 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.040 It's not your success here on earth, but it's the 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.560 greatness that God wants to show you. See, I believe 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:43.040 that's why many people aren't happy. That's why many people 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.199 aren't fulfilled, because they're thinking about themselves. They're thinking about 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.520 their own dreams, their own desires, their own problems. They 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.559 don't have time to think about anyone else. But can 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.920 I tell you, when you start living on the outside 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.400 and not always on the inside what's going on and on. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.320 With you, your life will change. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.960 You'll dramatically see yourself going places that you never thought before. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:11.400 You'll see fulfillment, You'll see joy, You'll see a new 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.520 dimension in your life. See, we've got to develop this 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:22.080 attitude of service is greatness. I was talking to a 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.640 very wealthy man the other day. He was seventy five 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:30.320 years old, celebrating his birthday. Immensely wealthy, not just a little. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.520 This guy was very wealthy, and he began to tell me. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.480 He looked right at me and he said, Victoria, can 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.000 I tell you some of the greatest things in my life? 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:41.000 Well? 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.559 I really wanted to hear because this guy was really wealthy. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.120 So I'm just gonna tune my hair to what he 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.280 had to say. And he said, the greatest things in 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.040 my life as I look back, the things that have 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.920 brought me the most joy, happiness, and fulfillment. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.840 I leaned in. He said, was that I was able 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.040 to use my position, I was able to. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.640 Use my wealth. I was able to use the things 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:14.200 that I had acquired to help other people. I thought 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.200 maybe he was going to tell me about all his boats, 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.600 his cars, and his vacation homes. But as I sat 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.040 there and listened to him, I was so drawn in. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:27.160 By the satisfaction by this persuasive smile on his face. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.480 It drew me in to hear how he was able 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.760 to use his company to sew seeds into people's life. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.560 How he was able to not only sow seeds to 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.640 people's life, but through those seeds, their children were being blessed. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.280 I got so excited just listening to him. You see, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.960 that's what we want to see when we reflect back 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:47.720 on our life. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.480 We want to see a life of greatness, a life 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.120 well lived. See. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.040 God does not mind that you have success and position. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.240 He wants you in those strategic places because he wants 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.200 you to make a difference in this world. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.240 He has appointed you, and He's anointed you. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.080 What he wants you to know that it's through service, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.440 it's through giving, it's through stooping down when it's not 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:18.080 convenient and washing other people's feet. That that's what makes 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.520 you great. See anything done here on this earth. I 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.400 want to tell you God'll make sure you receive it back. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.560 Be a person of good works, stoop down, let your 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.880 life shine in greatness. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.480 Amen. 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