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Now, let's go into the message. Keys to becoming a leader. Keys to becoming a leader.
This is for housewives, students, mechanics, clerks. This session is for nursery workers, for politicians. It's for kings. This session is for secretaries.
It's for masons and carpenters. How to become a leader. Leadership is very, very complicated because it is subtle. Most of the people who we call leaders are really not leaders. The problem is, if you don't know what something looks like, you can't tell it when you see it.
I just said something important. In other words, if you don't know what a leader is supposed to be and look like, you can never ascertain when you saw one. So, your definition and your concept of leadership is part of the problem of why we cannot find true leaders. And so this is why I use the term true leadership.
If you read all of my books on leadership, you will find this term in the book. I never used the word leadership. I used the word true leadership because 90% of the leaders you call leaders are not true leaders.
These are normally people who are professional manipulators. They wield power. They threaten people.
They have the element of force. They can force things that go their way. They have an oppressive spirit where they withhold from you in order to manipulate you things that you want. They have the capacity to tantalize your sheepish emotions with their words.
And you call them leaders. True leadership is usually completely opposite to each of those elements. And we're going to talk about that today.
I want to begin with a few comments about leadership as to what true leadership is. First, make a note of this. True leadership is not about control. It's about service.
Secondly, true leadership is not about power. It's about empowerment. Most followers would say about their leader, that's a powerful person.
Well, you just exposed the fact that they are not a true leader. A true leader will have followers who say the opposite. That person empowered me. That's a true leader.
That person made me great. That's a true leader. But we normally say the opposite. Oh, he's a powerful preacher.
Well, did he make you one? That's the question. Number three, leadership is not about manipulation, it's about inspiration. Inspiring people is the highest form of true leadership. True leaders don't manipulate, they inspire people.
Number four, leadership is really not about people. It's about purpose. I will explain all of these in this session.
In other words, true leadership is not about trying to find people to follow you. True leadership is discovering a purpose that you commit to pursue. So leadership has more to do with you pursuing something than you pursuing people to follow you. True leaders therefore do not seek followers.
And number five, true leadership is about becoming more than doing. You know, most people that we call leaders, we describe them as doing great things. But a true leader... is more about a person becoming something they discovered about themselves.
They are becoming it. And in the process of becoming themselves, they inspire other people. That inspiration is what influences the people, and they submit to the leader's vision.
So these are introductory thoughts about leadership. I want to talk a little bit about the kind of leadership that's destroying our world. And I'm going to repeat this every time I speak because these thoughts are so important. Number one, politics without principles. This kind of leadership is destroying our countries.
Politics without principles. I wish I could just come here and spend a whole day on this one statement. Because this one statement summarizes most of the failure in our political arena than any other component. Politics without what? Principles.
I'm going to step on a limb here, but I think it might be helpful to you. You are about to enter a period of elections, and out of 360 million people, you've come down to two people to choose to lead you. When I study these two characters, I am sorry for your country. Out of 360 million people you couldn't find better qualities of leadership. One of my major concerns about the present leadership is this statement number one.
That's your problem. Politics without principles. This is what you have to deal with right now.
I don't know if you are a kingdom citizen, I am not sure how you have to vote. I am praying for you. It's tough. Because the defects that exist in both are so serious. That you, you are hard-pressed to decide between the two.
And that's because your culture, especially your political culture, does not lend itself to produce true leaders. Your culture produces deal-makers. So you will compromise your principles to please some people.
That's what you produce. Leaders who compromise their personal principles to please groups of people. Therefore you are no longer a leader.
You are automatically being led. This is your problem. The second leadership that will destroy us is pleasure without conscience. Third, wealth without work. This kind of system will destroy a community.
When people would prefer to gain wealth without effort. This is why I have my concerns about things like lottery, gambling. Because what you've developed is a culture of people who want something for nothing.
You're destroying your country. Fourth. Component of a destroyer country is knowledge without character. You know, a lot of smart people are using their knowledge to destroy. It seems as if the more intelligent we become, the more dangerous we become.
People, for example, know the system so well that they can actually end up paying no taxes. Because they have knowledge you don't have. Therefore they violate character. Number five, business without morality. This is what has destroyed our global economy lately.
What have destroyed us is a few businessmen in New York saw an opportunity to make some loans to people who couldn't pay it back and they knew they couldn't pay it back so they were immoral in business the rest is history the world is still trying to recover Number six, science without humanity. It's good to have scientific advancement, but when you do not regulate that with conscience and humanity, the science can destroy. You know they developed a pill that can destroy a baby in the womb if you don't want the baby. The pill can actually dissolve the baby.
It's made in France. That's science without humanity. And then the last one is worship without sacrifice.
That will destroy us. Worship without sacrifice. Mahatma Gandhi made these statements, and I love what he says here. He says, if we pursue God without willing to sacrifice personal pleasure, we are destructive.
I think we've seen this in our experience, especially in what you call religion. Great spiritual leaders who claim to worship God at the highest level, but they cannot keep their zipper up. They cannot sacrifice self-discipline. That's destroying us. We need...
To listen to this list every day, listen to it, let it talk to you, and then measure your leaders against it after you measure yourself against it. Leadership. Let's talk a little bit about politics.
Here's a guy you all know well. Politics without principles. The kind of leaders we need.
Well, we begin by talking about politicians a little bit, because some of you are politicians. We don't need more politicians in leadership. We got enough of them.
What we need is leadership in politicians. That statement sounds very simple, but it's not. I deal with politicians very often.
Most of my work now is with political leaders all over the world. When I leave here tomorrow, I'm on my way to South Africa. I'm going to the Congo. I'm going to... Zambia I'm going to Zimbabwe and all of my meetings these countries is with the politicians I'm going to be facilitating leadership training with leaders of countries and I I am amazed when I sit with these people in the room just like this sometimes it's 500 of them they shut the government down and I talk with them and I begin to teach on leadership some of them actually begin to Weep in the session.
Powerful men. Women. They weep because when I'm halfway through my seminar, they realize they are not leaders.
They are power hungry people. Or they have defects like low self-esteem, suffering from poor self-concepts and trying to compensate for it through power. Don't ever believe that a politician is a leader. Don't ever believe that. Because the system that we have produces politicians.
It doesn't produce leaders. And so you can have a politician who knows nothing about leadership and he's leading you. What we need is more leadership in the politician, which is something that needs to be taught and trained in that person.
As a result of this Leadership Empowerment Conference, I am hoping that you will be qualified to go into politics in your local community. Because your motivation will be correct. Here's another one to remember.
Politicians are concerned about the next election. That's all they're interested in. That's why they cannot be leaders. But leaders are different.
Leaders are concerned about the next generation. I want you to compare those two thoughts the next time you have a politician come to your house wanting to vie for your vote. Just ask him, what is your vision for my children? I will sit and listen for 20 minutes for you to tell me what it is. He will leave your house.
Because he has no interest in your children's children. His concern is to stay in power, to keep the position, to win the next election. This is why they cannot lead.
Because leading requires following your own convictions. Not the popular interest. Right away you cannot lead if you want to be re-elected. That leads me to point number five. True leaders focus on purpose, passion, principles, the interest of the people, and vision.
When you are going to have a conversation with a politician, you should actually try this as a test. You, by the way, as a citizen of a community, you have a right to be seen by the mayor. I hope you know that. voted for a mayor the mayor works for you therefore you have a right to see him you can make an appointment to see any public officer you voted for did you know that that's your legal right if you don't want to see you you can take him to court That's democracy. So I want you to make an appointment to go and see your mayor or go and see your governor and just sit and say, I want 30 minutes with you, sir.
And ask him about that list right there. Sir, what is your purpose for being in leadership in this city? What is your purpose? The first question will make him very nervous. Second question, what is your passion for our community?
He'll be wondering what you're talking about. What are you talking about? I just want to build roads and bridges and provide jobs.
No, no, no, no. What is your passion? And then the third one is the most dangerous one.
What are your principles of leadership? Things you won't violate. What are your standards that you have observed in your life that you will never break?
These are the issues of true leadership. And this is why we need to question the leaders we have. And so I have a little thought here.
I call it politics versus leadership. Let's talk about it for a second. Number one, politicians focus on programs, not vision.
Number two, politicians'priority is securing the next election, not securing the next generation. Their focus is different. Number three, politicians are preoccupied with promises, not purpose. So they make you promises, right?
We'll provide jobs for you. That's a promise. We'll provide free education for your children. That's a promise.
We will cut taxes. That's a promise. We will give free high school diplomas.
And we will give free college tuition. Promises. They never talk about purpose. And purpose is the foundation of leadership.
Number four, politicians think of the next election all the time. Anytime you talk to them, they're thinking about, how can I secure my seat? They will do anything you want them to do. This is why the fringe groups in your society are having such an effect. You've got 10% of the population of your country making 80% of the laws because they've probably got 90% of the resources.
In other words, politics is for sale. It's not for leadership. What we need is statesmen.
Stateswomen. We don't need more politicians. A statesman is an interesting human. A statesman thinks of the next generation.
You know, I had an opportunity to speak to Ambassador Andrew Young yesterday and we were chatting on the phone you know and he and I have become good friends as a matter of fact I think he's planning to be here tonight to be with me and it'd be good for you to hear him talk a little bit but when you when you talk to a guy like this he's a statesman He thinks about the history all the time. He thinks about how the history affects the children that are unborn and whether they will appreciate what happened. That's a statesman.
He thinks about heritage and destiny. Wow, that's a rare leader. By the way, this list can be applied to pastors, because most pastors are politicians. I call them spiritual politicians. The list is the same.
They are concerned about staying a pastor more than they are about making you the future pastor. They protect the pulpit from you. They actually lie on God by saying things like, don't touch God's anointed. I wonder what they mean by that. It's a ploy to threaten you.
Don't touch me, even if I'm wrong. Always remember that King Saul was fired before he left the company. That's a deep statement.
So we need help, don't we? In leadership right now. Everything I've said, I see you nodding your heads. Because you know someone right in your environment that lines up with those lists, right? Yeah, that tells you that you are a smart person.
You already know that. something was wrong I just told you what they are now let me tell you why we got these kinds of leadership these kind of leaders I'm gonna go back to history this is a picture of Caesar put him in the background for a reason the Roman Empire is the source of our modern-day leadership but the source of the Roman Empire's leadership was the Greeks the Greeks were the ones who invented the word demokrata demokrata is the word we translate as democracy That's a Greek idea. It was invented by great thinkers like Socrates and Plato and Aristotle. These were the great thinkers of the Greeks who formulated philosophies of leadership. They created philosophy of democracy.
The Greeks therefore are known as the thinkers of history. They capsulized, summarized their thoughts and put them on paper. As a matter of fact the Greek Empire was known for its library they were the ones who who wrote philosophy of life and they were the ones who really built the idea of modern-day democratic philosophy it's Greek not biblical from Greeks when the Romans invaded Greece the Romans shacked the whole place but the Roman Emperor told the soldiers do not touch the library the Romans kept the library and the Roman leaders took the Greek library and they salvaged all the ideas of the Greeks and they chose the parts that were appropriate for them and the Romans used the Greek ideas of leadership to rule the Empire so you could say the Roman is a Greek in the head but a fighter in the hand he had great thinking but Roman military might Now, why is this important? Because the modern day countries of Europe which colonized the Western world, which you are a product of, were all the Roman Empire.
Europe, the word Urupo, is a word that the Romans invented to describe the areas that they controlled. From Africa or the... way to England the Roman and Romans control the whole world and Caesar the king sees as a title sons of the gods the king ruled the whole world and when the Roman Empire was destroyed was not destroyed by an army because they were too powerful to be destroyed by an army they were destroyed by their loins right here the roman empire they say was defeated by immorality they became so corrupt morally that they decayed from the inside no army destroyed rome For example, out of 14 Caesars, 12 of them were homosexuals.
And their favorite interest was boys. So when you study the morality of the greatest power in history, and by the way, to this day, no... Empire has ever risen greater than Rome. Rome was the most powerful nation in history, period, including the Bible. Because they're the only ones that rule the whole world.
No one has done it since. And they were never destroyed by military might. They were destroyed by immorality. They became so morally corrupt that you didn't even have to kill them.
They self-destruct. Most great nations die the same way. You can't beat them militarily. They begin to decay from the inside.
Their laws and their interests begin to be morally questionable. Could it be that the greatest nation on earth, the United States at the moment, is following the same path? You don't need to beat them with a nuclear weapon, just let them decay from the inside.
Immorality. So the Roman Empire fell apart. When it fell apart, it broke up into small kingdoms. The centurions and those who were passed to the Senate, they began to scramble for what was left. And they developed what they call the multi-kingdoms of Urupo, Europe.
So the kingdoms of Europe are actually the result... of the breaking up of Rome so they develop little kingdoms like Franco Spanien these are Roman kingdoms Belgium which is Belgium Portugal Anglo Saxon British These are Roman kingdoms that break up. My point is, they are all Greek thinkers with Roman attitude.
Now... if you notice all of them developed the same interest in colonization read my books on the kingdom back there to get information on this very important to learn this to understand jesus because jesus christ was born in the middle of the colonization process he was actually a member of a colony of the roman empire and you cannot understand the bible until you understand colonization so please make sure get those books all of them on the kingdom otherwise you will never know what you're supposed to to be doing right now as a kingdom citizen it has nothing to do with religion so the roman empire falls apart they develop these kingdoms france spain belgium portugal britain and what happens is they began to expand they expanded through colonization And so they became interested in the West. Columbus left. Columbus was an Italian.
He was from Rome. He was an Italian. He also was a Jew.
Columbus wanted to do expedition. But the Roman government refused to finance him, so he went to Spain. And the king and queen of Spain decided, we like your idea because we want to expand our kingdom, so they financed his trip.
And he had three ships, and they built them for him. and financed him and everything and he came west and he landed in the Bahamas in a little island called, he named it San Salvador. It still exists in my country. It's a beautiful country, little island, beautiful beaches there.
That's where he planted the first cross because he He came in the name of the Catholic Church, but in the name of the Spanish kingdom. And that's why most of the islands in the Caribbean have Spanish names, because he couldn't name them in the name of the Italian government, but they didn't finance the trip. So wherever he went, he had to claim it in the name of Spain.
And this is why most of the countries in the Western world are Spanish-speaking countries. Mexico, Guatemala, Guadalupe, you know, you got Colombia, you got Chile, you got Venezuela. I mean, most of them are Spanish.
because they financed the first trip. He claimed the areas first, subdued all the natives, and then the French came and they did their part, and then the British came and did their part, and the Bahamas used to be actually a Spanish colony. The British fought the Spanish and won, that's why I speak English.
I was supposed to be speaking Spanish. It depends on which kingdom took over. Right next to us, five minutes away, is Cuba.
So they colonized the whole area, all of the western, and the United States was actually first claimed by the Spanish. And then the Spanish was attacked by the British. You know the story.
And they defeated the Spanish. And they claimed this continent, this part of the continent, the United States. I'm trying to get to a point listen carefully as I'm talking about leadership here so they colonize these areas and remember now a kingdom expands because the glory of a kingdom is territory Again, to understand the Bible, you have to understand that principle.
Because God is a king. That's why he created the universe. To expand territory. Okay, so here he is.
We got these leaders. They wanted these kings. these are kings they want to expand the territory and they take over these areas and they came to the Caribbean came to Central America South America North America and of course they're looking for wealth in the land looking for gold looking for diamonds you know they were looking for oil at that time because oil was not important to them wealth and was land agriculture kawaii they were an agricultural society so those who had good land became powerful kings So when they came to these areas, the Caribbean and South America, Central America, and this area called Americas, they realized they had a lot of land, and they tried to domesticate the local natives to work for them. force of arm of course and the natives couldn't handle it some of them ran some of them fought became very difficult and the Portugal the Portuguese were the first ones to go to Africa and they discovered more land and then they found some strong people they said it's all in history and they realize these people stronger than the ones that were in the territory that they discovered they could live longer last longer they was they were more sturdy they could handle the Sun you know the Indians the Aztecs and all this folks they couldn't handle the weight of pressure and so they ship these people over to work in the farms you call them plantations And they literally made them chattel, animals, just like an ox. You were here to work, and so the slave trade became a reality.
It was all economics. No slave was ever bought from African continent because of love. It was all economics.
And it hasn't changed much. Okay, so we have now this problem of this trade route taking place. And you may ask, why did all of these kingdoms do it? All of them did it.
The French did it. The Spanish did it. The Portuguese did it.
The British did it. They traded in people. And they chose Africans because they were more durable.
They actually used to breed people because they were stronger. They would choose the strongest male and the strongest female and put them together and have sex to produce a stronger slave. That was the element of the day. And this is why we lost families, because they didn't care. If your husband was strong and you was weak, they'd take your husband away from you.
They'd find a woman who was strong, your husband was weak, take her, put them together. So the destruction of the family component, even psychologically, was a reality because of economics. You know to sell a strong slave made sense. You get more money for a stronger slave, whether it's a male or female. So this was the concept.
Now the question I want to ask you is how could humans do this to humans? the question I want to deal with but these were leaders doing this well I got the answer for you because here's what the Greeks believed that the Romans adopted that became the foundation of leadership for the kingdoms of Europe that created our countries today. The philosophy of the Greeks. Number one, they believe that leadership is a product of natural endowment. Those of you who studied philosophy would have read some of Plato's writings and Socrates'perceptions of men.
You'd have read Aristotle's concept of the value of human. find that these principles are in their philosophies. They believe that a person was earmarked to be a leader if they had certain natural endowments.
That means if you didn't have these natural endowments then you were born to be a slave. This is Greek thinking. Let me put it another way, number two. They believe that leadership is the product of birth traits.
You can study this on the internet, it's all there. The Greeks believed that if you had certain traits, you were automatically born to be the ruling class. And if you didn't have those traits, you were born to be the serving class. If you do some research, you'll discover that some of the traits are shocking.
For example, the Greeks believed that if you had fair pigmentation, you were created to be a leader. pigmentation when I rules me out they also believe that if you had thin lips this is written in their doctrine and you were designed to be a leader so that rules me out then they said if you had pointed noses the gods chose you to be a leader well you know I'm out twice then they said if you're here with blonde and your eyes were blue you are definitely designed to be the leader have mercy on me okay this is not funny though think about it this is what they believed So you can understand why when they went to Africa, the conclusion was the gods have blessed us today. We've got enough labor created by the gods to run our empires. And so the people became fuel for their machinery of their industries of agriculture. Now...
I want you to understand this was the philosophy of their leadership. This is very important. In other words, treating you like a non-human was not a matter of conscience.
It was natural. You don't have the traits. So you were born to serve me.
You were created by the Creator to be second class, to be my slave. You can't argue this. God chose you to be my servant. So the concept... was, let me go to the third one, this is very important, this is also written in the Greeks, philosophy, is that leadership is the product of what?
Providence, they said. Providence means the gods chose those who would be leaders and the gods chose those who would be followers. So this is not a matter of who you think you are, it's a matter of what the gods chose you to be.
Do you understand how deep this is? Yes. This is in the psyche of the post-European era, which is still not over. Let me explain how this works out practically. If you went to college, what's your name?
Okay, John went to college and got a Ph.D. in physics. I'm talking about nuclear physics. This guy has a brain, he's sharp. Ph.D. in nuclear physics. The problem is, it doesn't matter.
You are simply seen as a very smart slave. Because your pigmentation, your nose, your lips, your eyes, your ear is the problem. It doesn't matter.
So they actually would tell their neighbor, I have a smart slave. In other words, educating you, you think changes you. It doesn't. It ain't the brain that makes you different.
So the system, the culture, doesn't translate your PhD into being a superior human. It says you are simply a superior thinking slave. So it doesn't matter how much education you get, it doesn't matter how much accolades you put behind your name, it doesn't matter how much you achieve, in the Greek mind, in the Roman mind, which is the leadership that came over, you are still a slave by providence.
Do you know that they actually created a theology for this? Because every ideology needs a theology to make it legal. Can I say it again?
Write it down. Every ideology needs a theology to make it legal. So you will find even like an...
apartheid apartheid had a theology created by the Dutch Reformed Church which was based on Greek philosophy as well because remember South Africa was taken over by Romans you know Europeans Hitler if you already remember Hitler Adolf Hitler was interesting guy out of Hitler said that he had a visitation from God you ever read his Mein Kampf He believed that God chose him to restore the Roman Empire. That's why he had a plan to take over Europe again. He says that he was chosen by God to establish what he called the Third Reich, the Third Reign of the Romans.
And this is why, again, his concept of leadership. His philosophy made it easy for him to destroy people, you know. Remember, you need blonde eyes, blonde hair, blue eyes, sharp nose, okay. So, when he looked at the Jews, for example, the Jews got dark hair, dark brown eyes or black eyes, olive skin.
He said, They were designed, they are rats to our society, he says. They are sucking our blood. We must kill them.
Why? These are not real humans. The gods have made them to be our slaves. So it was easy to kill 10 million slaves. between Africa and Carolina in the water.
No, sorry, 60 million died on the ships. I was in Ghana early in this year, and I went to one of the forts where they sold slaves. It's amazing experience, you should go there.
there and on the wall was a statement written it says slaves left here and went to the Caribbean so I probably found where my great-great-grandfather came from one of the holes that they went through I was in touch with my history for a few minutes I wept here's my point where did you get your philosophy from determines how you lead people The way you think about people determines how you lead them or destroy them. So the Greeks believed that the gods chose leaders and the gods chose followers. Let me give you a last one.
They believed that leadership is a product of a word they invented called charisma. The Greeks says leadership is a product of a word they invented called charisma. product of charismatic personality they and they actually defined it you know Plato defined it he says charismatic personality is the gifts of the gods and he defined some of the gifts like extrovert personality talkativeness Communicative ability, auditory, Greeks.
In other words, if you are open and flamboyant and you are extrovert and you like to talk and you like to communicate and you speak well, they says God's chose that one so if you are quiet and subdued you are automatically a slave and then this is why you develop this idea they actually told the slave something very important they told the slave look you ought to be seen but not heard now that statement may sound simple to you but that was a philosophy you you are not say I was supposed to talk only leaders talk you cut wood you pick cotton you serve the food and you as if you don't exist you're supposed to be like almost invisible so they say you must be seen but not heard now here's the problem though that thing has gone so deep into the spirit of the slave that the slave day still brings his children up by saying be seen but not heard it's demonic but you still do it to your children so when I call you up right now to make a speech in five minutes you afraid to come why you've been successfully subdued you call it I'm shot you ain't shy you've been trained to keep quiet and to be a leader you must talk you must share your ideas communicate your vision and that's why you're not a leader could you so proud to be shy it's demonic being quiet is not a gift so its leadership You must do your work but say nothing. You must be in and out without no one seeing you. This is Greek philosophy. So, the master who mastered you told his four-year-old boy to stand up and recite something. You are 40 years old, he says, you must keep quiet.
He's four years old, he's telling him to talk. You're 40, he's telling you to be quiet. Something's wrong with this equation. So the kid grows up by six years old, he is fluent in speech, and you're 40 years old, you're afraid to talk. Because the conditioning of the mind is different.
See, sometimes you don't even know why you're the way you are. It comes from Greek philosophy that you live under still. This is probably why it's difficult for many people from the oppressive side of life to emerge as great leaders in industrial states.
Because they are dragging a heavy history. And they're trying to get rid of it. And you want to be a leader with that weight.
The problem is when you set one of those slaves free, he know he can't lead the master. So he turns on his own people. And he has to imitate the master. So he tells you, keep quiet. Don't tell me what to do.
You shut up. I'm in charge. What I say is always right.
It's my way or the highway. This spirit is a mentality of a slave with a little bit of power. So you end up abusing your own people because you are mentally sick from historical damage.
And then you want a title. Listen, this is why you need a leadership seminar like this. First of all, to identify your problem.
I'm not impressed by you telling me you are a bishop. It means nothing to me. Let me quote something from the Bible that's very important, very important. It's found in the book of Ecclesiastes, I think it's chapter 11. Solomon says, woe to the land when a slave becomes king. Let me quote it again.
This is in the Bible. Woe to the land when a slave becomes king. The word woe is the worst word in Hebrew.
Jesus used it a few times. It's a curse word. It means damned you.
It's a horrible word. Okay. Let me quote it one more time.
Damned is the people in the land when the person in charge thinks like a slave. Woe to the land when a slave becomes what? King.
Let me tell you something. Putting a crown on a person's head doesn't change their mind. I really want you to think about yourself for a minute.
The people you've been following. Are you just a bunch of sheep? Are these people free who are following you? Or are they parasites feeding on your fear?
propping up their own insecurity by your submission. Ladies and gentlemen, I have come with anger in my heart because I was there. It's a sad place to be. Lost and don't know it. Blind and thought you could see.
We are victims of a leadership philosophy that is still controlling us today. So you go to work on Monday and you see the master in the department and your whole body becomes afraid. You are still sick.
Then you see one of your fellow brethren and there's no fear. How come you have different responses to these two different images? Because you are still sick in your mind and you have a title.
Please buy this CD. This is one you got to give your kids because you see if you don't get this straight in your head, you are simply a well-dressed, highly educated, powerful, crowned slave. You say you believe the Bible, but you actually follow the Greeks.
And this is why when a person becomes a pastor, for example, in a church, all of a sudden they think that they're better than the people. Sometimes I listen to your pastors, you know, people on TV, I just, I say, that person is sick. The way they talk to the congregation tells me that this person is dangerous. It's a well-dressed slave with a crown.
Where did you get your leadership philosophy from? You got it from the Greeks. Because whoever colonized you, convinced you. Jesus never said that anyone can set you free. You thought, for example, that people, you know, like Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. set you free.
That's a lie. No human can set you free. Do you know what Jesus said? He said, you shall know. See, it ain't a person.
I could come to this seminar and teach you for three days on how to influence people. Ten principles of leadership. Five principles of organizational development. Ten principles of management.
And you'll still walk over here as a well-educated slave. That ain't your problem. Your problem is you are still blinded and overpressed by something you never even knew you had. That's why you got to go back in history and find out where it came from.
Then you go back and root it up. The Greeks do not define Miles Monroe anymore. I am a dignified human, not because of my pigmentation, my nose, my eyes, my hair or my lips.
I am a dignified, quality, first class, powerful human because I was made in the image of the living God. And I wouldn't give you the right or the privilege to put value on me. You have no idea how much I'm worth. Mind your own business. And no one did that to me.
I discovered the truth. You shall know the truth. That's what I'm dealing with today.
That's why you feel so deep inside right now. Some of y'all are weeping because you see I'm sick of people preaching at you these sermons You don't need no sermon you need a revelation of who you are No one makes you a leader. You were born one. But you were smothered under a philosophy of followers and slave.
It's not just black people you know it's white people, Asian people. I've been to countries where I see so many white people oppressed. When I first went to Poland I wept. Same spirit of oppression. My wife and I went to Hong Kong.
I wept. The Chinese. See, anyone that robs you of your value is demonic. Amen. Oh, amen.
Amen. That's why my books are in 60 languages now, in 112 countries, including Mandarin. And they're inviting me to come to these countries.
They don't care about how I look. They say, what you're saying is so true, we need it here in China. Because people don't set you free. The truth that you know. Set you free.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me give you the original philosophy of leadership. Just the one that the Greeks didn't know about. It was written long before the Greeks became an empire.
It's documented in the first book of Moses. First of all, The original philosophy of leadership believes that trapped in every follower is a hidden leader. That means, number two, every human was created to lead and designed for dominion. That's a belief. system number three leadership potential resides in every individual whether they discover it and use it is another issue but it does reside there inside of you is an awesome leader you know this is why for example whenever you give a person who is oppressed an opportunity they always excel you know why they were a constipated leader You look at the Olympics for example, you know, you're like, wow man, these little countries that have nothing, like the Bahamas, we beat America, remember?
We whoop you all in the 4x4. Why? We ain't got no programs in the Bahamas. We ain't got no government scholarships. We ain't got no place to practice.
We just constipated for 200 years. Tell us, give me a chance to run. I'll run you out of your place. See, some of y'all don't understand what's going on in the world.
If you ever give. An oppressed person, a chance to release their potential, they're going to whoop you. Not because they're better, you know, they're constipated. It's like a pressure cooker. You've been holding down that potential for so long.
So all of a sudden you've got these basketball players, football players, and you're like, how come the scene is changing? It's because of constipation. Number four, philosophy. You were born to lead but you must become a leader.
Number five, true leadership is self-manifestation. It's not a matter of going to a school and learning some principles. It's manifesting your true self.
That's leadership. That's a philosophy. And number six, very important, the purpose for true leadership is not to maintain followers. but to produce leaders that's a philosophy of leadership true leadership does not maintain followers in other words a true leader works themselves out of a job true leaders are always moving they never fall in love with a position They are constantly producing people to take their place. That's true leadership.
True leaders are not married to their titles. You know, when a person likes titles, it's a sign that they are actually a slave. Let me explain why.
Because they get their value from the title. Most of the people who love positions are not leaders because they get their worth from the position. That's why they will kill you to keep it.
Because if they lose it, they lose themselves. Because they have made themselves one with their title and their position. That's why they become offended when you don't call them by their title.
Bishop Jones. You can't say Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones.
They don't even look like Mr. Jones. I'm not Mr. Jones. These are sick people. The more titles you need, the less you are a leader. You know, sometimes I smile.
I see these people, you know, dressed in all kind of regalia. I mean regalia. And they got ten titles behind their name, you know.
Right, Reverend, Honorable, Bishop, Eternal, Popotentate. You know, and I'm like, this guy is totally sick. I would never have lunch with this person.
It's too much weight to carry at lunch. The more successful you are as a leader, the less title you will get. you need can you write that down please what did I say the more successful you are as a leader the less titles you need always remember that as a matter of fact your goal in life is to reduce yourself to your first name because even your last name is not yours Monroe is not my name. It's a Scottish name. It's from Scotland.
That means the master that owned my great-grandfather was a white Scottish man. So they named the slaves after the master's name. They said that's Monroe's slave.
That's how I got Monroe. I'm not Monroe, I'm Miles. The only name I own is Miles. So my goal in life is to reduce myself to Miles.
When you read the Bible, it's intriguing, isn't it? You want to see great people? Read the Bible. For example, we don't say, Reverend Dr. Bishop Moses.
What do we say? Moses. Moses. Come on.
How come we don't say the right reverend, anointed, powerful Joshua? No, we just say what? Joshua. We say Daniel.
We don't say Bishop Hezekiah. You say Hezekiah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jose, Joel, Amos, Obadiah. You know what Jonah said? You know what Micah told us? Haggai prophesied.
Malachi said, how about Matthew? Not Bishop Matthew. Mark. Oh my God. If you call your pastor Luke, he'll kill you.
We are sick. John. Paul, Peter, James, Jude, oh my God, Jesus. You could tell how effective you are by how many titles you get rid of. teaching Martin JFK not even the name JFK how come you need so many titles because you ain't doing nothing clap hands right there we need folks who could be leaders So leadership is not a pursuit of power, position, title, or authority.
Leadership is a result of self-discovery. I want you to spend some time in the mirror. And I want you to stay away from people for a few days and take a private retreat by yourself and meet with yourself.
I'm serious. Everyone who discovered themselves in history were by themselves. Moses on the backside of the mountain.
Ezekiel in the desert. Jesus in Judean desert. Paul in Arabia all by himself. See, you got too many people around you who don't know who they are.
And they make you the same way. Spending this day away from your office and your family is one of the most important things you made. This conference could change your life forever because you are in a different environment. The noise of life can drown out who you are. I found mine at three o'clock in the morning as a little kid on a dirt ground in the Bahamas when the whole house was sleeping and I had an argument with God and I said God you are prejudiced.
I was mad. I was 13 because on one side of the wall was the white people on the other side was the black people. It's a wall in our island that separated us and I said God Are you the same God that they serve? Because if you are, I don't want you to be my God anymore. And my daddy served you all his life.
He's a pastor and I don't want to be with him nor you. I was mad. No one knew what I was going through at age 13. The house was sleeping.
The racks were running through the yard. And I was in the dirt. I was mad. You know your problem is you don't get mad enough.
God answered me that night. He did. Matter of fact, God saved himself that night because I was about to get rid of God. God loves and owns his heart. Your religion makes you a fake.
You stand there, I love you Lord. You don't even know yourself. I became angry.
And he introduced me to myself that night. And everything changed. That's why I'm the way I am now. You can never influence me negatively.
It's too late for me. Your opinion means nothing to me. Because I know who I am. And you need that.
You need to get there. To become the great man you were born to be. You are exactly what they made you.
See this woman? I like this woman. Mother Teresa is four feet five inches high. She spoke at the United Nations, had all the countries listening to her. And guess who she was?
A high school teacher. See, I told you to be a leader, you don't need to go to college to get a PhD in management. How come you never spoke to the UN? And she was just a high school teacher. She stopped the world.
Here's why. Write this down. Because number one, leaders don't seek followers. Followers are attracted to true leaders, but they are not attracted to the person.
Even though there may be some influence there, they are really attracted to the gift of that person. And that is what makes that person a leader. Most of you came to the Miles Monroe Leadership Empowerment Conference because of a gift you tasted somewhere.
Whether you read a book, heard a CD, saw a TV program, or saw a video, or you're on YouTube or something, you said, I want to go feed on that gift one more time. This is very important too because sometimes when people come to your gift you think they came to you and this is when your pride becomes a problem and that's when God pulls the rug out from under you you know people start thinking well you know I got 10,000 members hallelujah no you don't your gift has 10,000 members not you God will kill you in the morning We confuse people's attraction to our gift to attraction to ourselves. And so we think, you know, we, I, me, I, we, me, I. And God says, no, it's it.
And that's why leaders fall. Because they think the people came to them. I told you in the last session when you go to a tree you don't go for the bark nor the leaves you don't go for the trunk you go for what just go for the fruit and if you don't see no fruit what do you do you leave when a leader falls because he or she thinks that they are the thing We wonder why there's a scattering.
It's because the leader confused the trunk with the fruit. I'm just a servant. I'm serving you my gift, that's all.
It's not about me, it's my gift. Write this down. Attraction is inspiration produced by the individual's passion to serve their gift. You want to become a leader?
Find your passion. Pursue it with perseverance and serve the world with it. And people will be attracted to you from everywhere. Leadership is an attraction.
You don't force people. And the way you maintain them is you keep serving. If you want to be great, you just serve.
Keep serving your gift. Keep serving it. Keep serving it.
You become a slave to your gift. Not to the people. You keep serving it.
Your existence is serving it. Keep serving it. And they'll find you. Last year I got over 800 invitations to travel around the world. Halfway through this year, I hit 800 already.
So I have over a thousand people wanting me to come in. Over 60 countries. And most of them I don't even know.
And they want to pay my way. Pay me. They're looking for the gift.
It ain't me. See, when you understand it, it keeps you very humble. That's why I ain't got no bodyguards.
My wife is my bodyguard. That's all I got. No bodyguards.
This ain't nothing about me. I don't need no entourage. I don't need nobody cleaning my shoe. I can clean my own shoe.
I don't need nobody fixing my hair, man. This ain't about me. It's about my gift.
And I can go just like God can kill me just like that. You better stay in touch with yourself. Find your gift and serve it.
you become great they are attracted to your gift and this is what makes you a powerful leader i want to give you a couple thoughts of attitude before we break your attitude arises from fundamental beliefs and convictions and that's what i'm dealing with you know i'm dealing with what they told you when you were five years old you know i mean I mean the house you was brought up in my son, they didn't know who you were. And they took you to school and the teacher didn't know who you were. Then you went to university and they gave you a career that ain't your passion. And now you are stuck with a life and still don't know what to do with yourself. You got to discover your beliefs about yourself.
what are my convictions what is my opinion of my own life if you don't have an opinion of yourself someone will give you one you must have a discovery about yourself your abilities do you know who your true abilities are I want you to buy every book on the table of potential I'm telling you just just read them and some of you bought haven't read them read them because they are the ones that got me where I'm at when I understood that my abilities had nothing to do with the exams in school my life has changed Your school don't know who you are. Don't believe no grades they gave you. You can't measure a human capacity in one hour in a test.
Some of y'all are still living under some grades you got 20 years ago. I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Stop thinking that way.
They don't know how smart you are! I got three bachelor's degrees, a master's degree in administration and leadership. I got five doctorate degrees bestowed upon me. I don't trust none of them.
Why? When you become impressed by someone's assessment of your ability, you become trapped. You can't measure how smart I am.
Write this down. Your ability to lead depends on the attitude produced by your self-image, by your self-worth, and by your self-esteem. Your ability to lead is determined and it depends on your attitude. that is produced from your self-image, your self-worth, your self-esteem.
Let me give an example. I know I am important to the world. That is a statement of self-esteem. I know the world needs me. They need what I'm carrying.
They need this. That's a statement of self-worth. I am valuable to you.
I wasn't born like that. They told me I was worthless, remember? The Greeks told me that I didn't have blonde hair.
So I had to get information from somewhere else. I got it from the manufacturer. His manual, the Bible. It taught me.
I have his image. What an image to have, a self-image. The image of Jehovah. Wow!
And according to him, nothing is impossible. Dixon, what they told you about you was a lie. Don't believe them. Let God be true.
Every man, don't trust no one's opinion. Your parents didn't know you. They didn't even know Jesus.
You know one time Jesus, you know his parents left him in the temple. His mother and father came back to get him. You know, you all remember that story?
Ever read what he said to them? He began the statement by saying, did you not know? In other words, even your parents may not even know who you were.
He told Mary, did you not know? That I must be with my father, but you didn't even know? I've been with you for 12 years already, you still don't know? He was 12 years old.
Your mother that carried you, don't know how awesome you are. She was just a channel. So if you never had parents, it doesn't matter.
It's not about your parents, it's about you. You never had a father? So what? You are here?
Welcome! Let's get busy! Let's go change the world together! Let's make an impact before you die!
This is about you. Your self-esteem. Self-worth. Get it? True leaders are more concerned with expressing themselves than with proving themselves.
See, a person who's insecure got something to prove. A person who knows who they are have nothing to prove. So leaders don't go around trying to prove things to people. They are too busy being themselves.
Leaders are individuals who have declared independence from other people's expectation of them. I won't allow you to determine who I can become. In other words, leaders don't clone other people in their image.
They desire to help others become themselves. Sometimes we get pride saying that person is just like me. That's not what you want in life. You want people to be themselves. Why?
Because you are boring. One of you is enough. God loves you to just be yourself. Some of you, I autographed your books last night, and I wrote that in it. You wonder why I wrote it there.
This is why I wrote it there. Be yourself. That's when leadership begins. Leaders are difficult to control. You can't control a true leader.
They just don't behave. You know, they just don't line up. They just, they don't fall in line.
Why? Because they're too busy standing out. They ain't got time to fit in. Is anybody a leader here today? In other words, leaders are just difficult people.
You know, they're always messing with tradition, destroying the boundaries, asking questions you can't answer. They make you mad sometimes. Why?
Because they are themselves. And they help other people to deploy themselves as well. I love people who have strong self-concept around me.
Strong estimation of themselves. I love people who know who they are and why. Because I've got to figure them out.
You too, some of the people have a problem to be with. I ain't sure what you thinking. But when you know who you are, I ain't got to worry about you. I know you know who you are.
You telling me who you are? That's why it's tough to be with certain people you know. You don't know what they are. A true leader can never be jealous of a person. Amen.
Because they're not in competition. That's right. That's right.
That's right. That's why you like to be with them. Yes, absolutely.
You don't have to walk on eggshells, you know, not hurting their feelings and all that foolishness, you know. These are real people, man, authentic people. I love real people, man. I just love...they make life easy. I got to be sitting around you, be careful what I say.
You too much problem to live with, man. Don't clone people. When your attitude in your spirit is married to your ability in the flesh, you become a leader.
Your mentality and your ability must be married. So when you marry... Your ability with your mentality, a leader is born. And this is why we can never fully carry out our leadership mandate if we don't have the mentality of leadership.
And we have to integrate that attitude with our attributes, our aptitude, and our altitude will produce the leadership we require. In other words, leadership is not about ability. It's about mentality first. This is why leaders are...
they can walk into a room, change the room. Why? Their attitude and their mentality is completely different.
Sometimes I'd walk into a meeting and they're discussing issues and I say what's the issue? They discuss it, they tell me what it is and I go, oh that's simple. And I'd say let's just do this, why don't we try this? They go, we never thought of that.
Because we are so blocked in our thinking. Leaders look at elephants as lunch. They simplify life. I tell my wife all the time, keep it simple.
Life is simple, man. Don't get complicated. Leaders keep it simple. I ain't got no money, let's go create some money. That's our leader's thing.
They don't go, I ain't got no money, I'm broke. They say, let's go create some money. Because wealth is not something God gives. It's created.
I am the God that gives you the ability to create wealth. I don't give wealth, God says. I create it. You're not poor and you're not jobless.
You just ain't thinking. Every problem is a business. So to a leader, what you think is more important than what you do.
I guess that's the whole measure of these two sessions. Thinking, grappling with that Greek mentality, destroying the Roman corruption in your mind, being free from what... People said about you, this is the heart of it.
I want to close this session with the spirit of leadership. Now these, you can get this in the books back there, but I want to go through them very quickly, and I want you to read them with me because I think it will probably sink into your spirit if you articulate it verbally. These are what I have researched, Decoded as the obstacles of people becoming leaders. If you get these I will see you at the top. Number one I call it the spirit of leadership.
Number one let's read together go. The spirit of a strong self-concept which is a true sense of your source now i could teach that for two weeks you get to know your source to develop your self image Number two, read. The spirit of a healthy self-concept.
What is it? A perception of your true nature. That means a photograph of your life that you carry in your head.
Number three, the spirit of self-confidence. What is that? A belief in your inherent ability. This is very important.
A leader has a spirit of total conviction. that they could solve any problem. I can't tell you how important that is. So leaders never panic. A true leader never panics.
They sit and they think, this could be solved. That's where their confidence comes from. They have a confidence that they have an inherent ability to solve any problem.
Inherent ability. The favorite words of Jesus, peace have no fear. In the middle of a storm, peace, be not afraid.
What are you talking about? We're getting ready to drown. Be not afraid.
Why? There's a solution to every problem and I am the solution. I'm gonna stop the storm. He believed in his inherent ability. Number four, read.
The spirit of self-significance. What is it? A sense of valuable contribution to the world.
This one is very critical. When you're going to become what you were born to be, you've got to discover your significance. You are not a biological accident.
You are not an experiment that God sent to earth to try figure out. You were literally born because there's something God needed done that made you necessary. You are necessary. Say it. I am necessary.
Say it loud. I am necessary. Say it louder.
I am necessary. I want you to tell the world that every day you wake up. They need you. There's something you came here with that your generation needs.
So you were not sent here just to make a living. You were sent here to make a difference. Your significance. Number five, read. The spirit of passion.
What is that? A deep conviction and determination of your heart. In other words, you found something that you are willing to die for. That's passion. Passion.
All leaders are dead before they died. you gotta figure that one out number six three the spirit of excellence what is that a striving to always improve self and work that's what leaders do they never satisfy that's why you know I buy four or five books every month My iPad is full of books. I'm always reading.
Why? Self-improvement. Constantly. Some of you would walk past the book table and want to be a leader and go straight to Kentucky Fried Chicken.
And I'm sitting there going, what are you doing? You got a choice between cholesterol and concepts. Good. Self-improvement all the time.
Coming the next time you hear about this event, I want you to bring all your people with you. If you are a pastor, you have all of your people here. Why?
All of them. If you love them, you want to improve them. You want to produce leaders.
Number six, read. the spirit of excellence number seven the spirit of compassion what is that a sensitivity to the value of others this is important if you are a leader you must be aware that everybody is equal to you so you treat people with respect i'm talking about the maintenance guy in the bathroom when you meet him there you bow and say your excellency See, this compassion is missing. There's some pastors who have no compassion. I'm listening to pastors, I go to their church to preach, and I hear them talk to people, and I'm like, oh man, I want to leave this church right now.
This is a demon. The way you treat your people. Who do you think you are?
When you die, they will never visit your tomb. when you make people valuable they make you valuable number eight read the spirit of creativity what is that a belief in the untested and the untried if you are a leader you got that spirit you believe that if it hasn't been done before it can be done The untested. Creativity.
A leader always tries new things. Failure means nothing to a leader. It simply means find another way. Creativity.
Number nine, read. The spirit of self-empowerment. That means a desire to see others succeed. Number ten, the spirit of self-improvement.
What does that mean? A personal commitment to your own growth. number 11 the spirit of self-discipline what does that mean a commitment to a self-imposed standard of life on yourself this is what important a leader doesn't need external discipline they impose on themselves discipline I do not commit adultery.
So they impose it on themselves. I am faithful to my spouse. So they are imposing on themselves. Paul calls it beating your flesh under. That's leadership.
I do not tell lies. I impose it on myself. I don't gossip about people. I impose it on myself. I don't undermine my workers.
I impose it on myself. I trust the people I give authority to. I impose.
In other words, they are always disciplining themselves. I will do good in the dark. I will do right when no one is watching.
Self-imposition. So leaders are. You can trust a leader when no one's around because they discipline themselves.
When a leader falls into immorality, it's because they have no self-discipline. When you lose self-discipline, you have no right to discipline anybody else. You lose the right to lead. Leadership is not a right you demand.
It's a privilege that the followers give you. The only thing a leader has to work with is trust. When you violate that, you're cancelled.
You're an empty title walking in a robe. Discipline yourself to protect trust. Thank you once again for listening to this message as we hope that it has been a blessing to you. Our goal is to show you new paths and opportunities so that you can discover your purpose.
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