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Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People

Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People. Many Old Testament warnings bear this fact out. (Jer 6:13-15). Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People.

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Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People

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  1. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • Many Old Testament warnings bear this fact out. (Jer 6:13-15)

  2. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • (Jeremiah 6:13-15 NKJV) “”Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is given to covetousness; And from the prophet even to the priest, Everyone deals falsely. {14} They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace.

  3. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • {15} Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down,” says the LORD.”

  4. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • Why would God punish the people because of what the leaders did? Because they put up with this kind of leadership! (Jer 5:31)

  5. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • (Jeremiah 5:31 NKJV) “The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule by their own power; And My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?”

  6. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • Real leaders must first be servants of God.

  7. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • Real leaders must first be servants of God. • There are similar warnings in the New Testament. (Acts 20:28-32)

  8. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • (Acts 20:28-32 NKJV) “”Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. {29} “For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

  9. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • {30} “Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. {31} “Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.

  10. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • {32} “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”

  11. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • Why are not there more Elders in churches?

  12. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • Why are not there more Elders in churches? • The answer lies in two parts. First we do not want Elders very strongly and second we do not know how to "grow" them!

  13. Leadership Will Determine the Future of God’s People • The church will never have elders until we are willing to be challenged by the word of God.

  14. What is Leadership? • It comes from men of conviction. (2 Tim 1:13; Titus 1:9)

  15. What is Leadership? • (2 Timothy 1:13 NKJV) “Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.”

  16. What is Leadership? • (Titus 1:9 NKJV) “holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.”

  17. What is Leadership? • They will be tested within the church. (2 Tim 4:3-4)

  18. What is Leadership? • (2 Timothy 4:3-4 NKJV) “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; {4} and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”

  19. What is Leadership? • Rather than despise and be suspicious of those of conviction, support them!

  20. What is Leadership? • Conviction gives you the ability to go against the crowd.

  21. What is Leadership? • Conviction gives you the ability to go against the crowd. • "Never follow the crowd if you want the crowd to follow you.”

  22. What is Leadership? • Conviction gives you the ability to go against the crowd. • "Never follow the crowd if you want the crowd to follow you.” • It comes from men of character. (Rom 5:3-4)

  23. What is Leadership? • (Romans 5:3-4 NKJV) “And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; {4} and perseverance, character; and character, hope.”

  24. What is Leadership? • "No one deserves the right to lead without first persevering through pain and heartache and failure.“

  25. What is Leadership? • Character is a condition of the heart. It denotes strength. (2 Pet 1:5-7)

  26. What is Leadership? • (2 Peter 1:5-7 NKJV) “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, {6} to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, {7} to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.”

  27. What is Leadership? • Arten - (1) generally of a good quality of any kind excellence, goodness, valor…. as a moral characteristic virtue, uprightness, goodness (2P 1.5).

  28. What is Leadership? • Arten - (1) generally of a good quality of any kind excellence, goodness, valor…. as a moral characteristic virtue, uprightness, goodness (2P 1.5). • Men of character act upon principle! Here is where God is able to control us.

  29. What is Leadership? • Without character you will have a leadership of fear. Under the banner "let's not have any trouble", they will always be controlled by the lowest denominator.

  30. What is Leadership? • It was back in the early '60s that Admiral Rickover wrote these few lines to those who are at the helm: Responsibility is a unique concept. It can only reside in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you.

  31. What is Leadership? • If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the one who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you never had anyone really responsible.

  32. What is Leadership? • It comes from men who will be alert. (Mk 13:33-37; Ezk 33:6-7)

  33. What is Leadership? • (Ezekiel 33:6-7 NKJV) “’But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

  34. What is Leadership? • {7} “So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me.”

  35. What is Leadership? • (Mark 13:33-37 NKJV) “”Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is. {34} “It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch.

  36. What is Leadership? • {35} “Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming; in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning; {36} “lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping. {37} “And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!””

  37. What is Leadership? • They must know what to be alert for! Some sound the alarm over righteousness rather than wickedness. (Isa 56:10-11)

  38. What is Leadership? • (Isaiah 56:10-11 NKJV) “His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant; They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark; Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. {11} Yes, they are greedy dogs Which never have enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot understand; They all look to their own way, Every one for his own gain, From his own territory.”

  39. What is Leadership? • What kind of reception will a warning receive? It depends upon the hearts of those being warned. (Jer 6:16-17)

  40. What is Leadership? • (Jeremiah 6:16-17 NKJV) “Thus says the LORD: “Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ {17} Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen.’”

  41. What is Leadership? • Regardless of the reception of the people, a leader will warn! Consider the example of Jeremiah. (Jer 42:2-8; 43:2-4)

  42. What is Leadership? • (Jeremiah 42:2-8 NKJV) “and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, for all this remnant (since we are left but a few of many, as you can see), {3} “that the LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do.”

  43. What is Leadership? • {4} Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard. Indeed, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words, and it shall be, that whatever the LORD answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.” {5} So they said to Jeremiah, “Let the LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not do according to everything which the LORD your God sends us by you.

  44. What is Leadership? • {6} “Whether it is pleasing or displeasing, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we send you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.” {7} And it happened after ten days that the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah. {8} Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,”

  45. What is Leadership? • (Jeremiah 43:2-4 NKJV) “that Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to dwell there.’ {3} “But Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death or carry us away captive to Babylon.”

  46. What is Leadership? • {4} So Johanan the son of Kareah, all the captains of the forces, and all the people would not obey the voice of the LORD, to remain in the land of Judah.”

  47. What is Leadership? • It comes from men who will love others. (1 Cor 16:13; Col 3:14-15)

  48. What is Leadership? • (1 Corinthians 16:13 NKJV) “Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.”

  49. What is Leadership? • (Colossians 3:14-15 NKJV)“But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. {15} And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.”

  50. What is Leadership? • The job of leadership is to build men.

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