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Keys To Building Character by Dr. Myles Munroe

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thank you for joining us for another power packed Message from Dr Miles Monroe provided by Monroe Global
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Incorporated and Monro global.com we transform followers into leaders and
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leaders into agents of change we hope that this message is a blessing to you
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as you advance your life and discover your purpose now let’s go into the
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message one of the best ways to keep yourself humble is for God to keep giving you trouble
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uh heavy testing keeps you humble you can never for
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example get Pride to come out of Nelson Mandela no matter what he receives you
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know accolades mean nothing to him because he’s been through
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test he has character he’s stable uh
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the power of character let’s talk a little bit about character what it is and I defined this for you before please
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write this definition down and I think everyone of you need to focus on this definition the word character the Hebrew word for character from the Bible we’ll
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show you in a minute where it actually appears in scripture in the book of uh Romans as well but uh this word
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character it means fixed it also means predictable uh the word character also
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means image or statue and I think that’s the beauty of of character and the word character
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means something that is fixed it doesn’t move something that is predictable that
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means it doesn’t change You can predict
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it the word for the word character in the Hebrew language is the same word a
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statue a statue and last night we went downtown
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after the service and I saw all these statues down there by the Parliament building
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and I’ve been coming here for years and those statues are still there and what’s amazing is they’re doing the same thing
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I left them doing last year and no matter how the weather changes if it’s cold hot
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rainy they’re still the same that’s the word in the Hebrew language for character a
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statue why is those why are those statues so strong I mean the winter in this city is
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cold and S Vincent church is still smiling with a
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cigar pigeons come upon his head and release themselves and he still
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Smiles one day it may get up to 80° and he still
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smiles and then it gets down to zero minus Z and he still Smiles in other
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words he has character the question is how did he get that way and that’s what we want to talk about these few minutes
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how do you develop a character that doesn’t change that is so strong that when the storms pass you’re still
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smiling and when they come back they still meet you doing the same thing you’ve been doing you’re the same way
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you’re the same married to the same woman as character
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sometime I go to visit pastors and their wives changed so what happened to your last
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wife I remember this one really got me and this
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is not to attack anyone or belittle anyone but this one got me I went to speak to Rama col’s Church in South
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Africa one time and I spoke there that year the next year I went back his wife
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was in there so I’m waiting to meet his wife okay I’m sitting in the office May
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wife and uh it’s just a year later and he says uh we’re not together
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anymore this man had the largest church in the country changed wife in one
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year so I decided I can’t go back to this church anymore so he invited me a number of times and he doesn’t
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understand I can’t come I don’t travel for money you can’t pay me to compromise
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with you no
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character when you get to know me which I think some of you may have over the
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last few years my first question is how you doing and my second question is always how’s your wife am I right why I
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interested in your church first third question how your kids
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mhm because your character is revealed in
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your
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stability you fixed predictable character is defined by me
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as the manifestation of self- Integrity in other words you are integrated in yourself so well that you are one all
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the time one with yourself it’s based on self-discipline you
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committed yourself to live on a certain level of standards that you won’t compromise on that’s character and the
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character also is regulated by a set of values and morals that you’ve decided that you will submit yourself to the
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character is is is a complicated thing but but you got to learn how it
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develops and uh if we’re going to talk about standing the storm you know nothing complicated but standing through the storm and being faithful I mean you
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know it’s not complicated all you need is
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character every time you pass a statue from now on I want you to not ignore it just look at it again for a few seconds
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and drive on why you looking at
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character weather changes moods change environment change but the statue
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doesn’t change
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all right this what I wanted to to share with you if you didn’t get to share and Pastor wanted me to finish this for his
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sake I believe cuz he want to make sure he gets it before I leave what’s the source of character how do you get character all right here’s a surprise
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I’m going to read a verse from your Bible it’s important for you if you get a Bible to sometime to read this very important verse cuz in this verse the
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Bible tells us how to develop character and it’s surprising Romans 5:3
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says not only so and don’t forget that this is the context so Paul is talking
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in this context about Glory Glory means true nature the true nature of a thing okay Paul is saying
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how do we handle the glory in our lives the true nature of our full
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weight and in verse 1 and two he talks about
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rejoicing we reice joice he said in the knowledge of the promise of the glory of
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the Resurrection that’s verse one and two I’m about to read verse three okay but I want to give you context so Paul
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is talking about how we Rejoice because of the preaching and the message
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of the coming of the Lord and the resurrection of Christ and we’ll live in glory one day and all this stuff he said
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we we rejoice in that message everybody clear on that and that’s true when you
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start preaching on the you know the second coming of the Lord and the rest dead shall raise and the Trump of God
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shall how does the church respond preach yes sir woo and they
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dance he said now that’s good he says but not only do we
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rejoice when we hear about the message of the promised
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Glory he says but we also rejoice in our sufferings now this word suffering is
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important cuz I want you to make sure you don’t misunderstand it he’s not talking about
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sickness the word here suffering is the word palus palus in Greek and here’s what it
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means it means testings it means challenges it means
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points of stress or points of
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conflict it means points of pressure in other words he says we rejoice when we
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Face challenges we also rejoice when we come to a point of stress where the pressure
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is on the storms are raging and nothing’s working and no one’s with you and everyone’s abandoned you ain’t got
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no money no nothing he says that’s he said Rejoice at that moment now write
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the word Rejoice down because this is a word that we don’t talk about too much the word Rejoice is a grammatical
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prefix the word joice is a word re is a
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prefix write the word joy down it is a word we don’t use it anymore but it’s a word joice means to
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LEAP to LEAP like
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this that’s joice to re means to what do it again so to Rejoice means you keep
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leaping that’s Rejoice he says when you run into trouble you feel I’m in trouble see now doesn’t
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make sense to you does it that’s exactly what he
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means the average person does not leap around
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gladly when they lose everything or when people people
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disappoint them or when they fail or when pressure
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comes or when they face a big challenge they don’t jump
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around and laugh and celebrate and yet the Bible says we also do that when we
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Face challenges and pressure now how can a person do that
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he tells us why read the next statement
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for we know in other words you only leap around if you know
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something if you know that this difficulty this challenge this disappointment this pressure that you
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under the storm the the tsunami as we heard about all the the struggles he says if you figure out that this
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struggle this problem this this humongous
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challenge is going to benefit you then you rejoice that it
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arrived let’s see what it does he says for we know that that challenge that
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test that struggle that pressure will produce what
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perseverance and perseverance will produce what character there is he said
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look the only way to develop character is
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trouble see your concept of storms is it’s something
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dangerous I’ve come to tell you that ain’t so your concept of a storm should be this is opportunity for me to develop
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character [Applause]
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one of the one of the uh and this is very funny
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you know I get it sometime one of the one of the
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major emphasis in scripture to represent the character of
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God is have no fear do you agree do you agree
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in other words there’s one thing that Jesus hated and it was fear he kept on telling his disciples Be
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not Afraid Be not Afraid stop being afraid and he normally told him that when everything was wrong and bad me
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here the storms getting ready the ship up he says Be not Afraid they thought they saw a ghost He
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says Be not Afraid the waves were coming into the
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boat and the mask was break and he says Be not Afraid be of good cheer be of
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what every time they were in stress he would say Be not
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Afraid here’s what I’m my point you come sit in my seat brother aru it’s anointed
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right here praise God
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fear is not supposed to be a part of
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your
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character people come to me sometime they says the Lord spoke to me and I got a word from the Lord for you and I
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listen said Lord told me that in the next few years you’re going to go through a lot of
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trouble I feel like laughing you know it’s going to be tough tough times are coming for you and your ministry
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say the Lord yay yay yay okay and I say thank you very much
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next I mean what’s the problem here what are you telling me this
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for If any man would live Godly in Christ Jesus it comes with the territory
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I was talking to a pastor this morning one of your pastors here in the city was chatting and he said you
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know I went through a tough time in my Ministry I’m listening to him he said you know uh they broke in they break
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into our new building and stole everything I said really I said
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next what’s the next move on I said what are you talking I said
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man that’s normal I said oh you finally got yours stolen see everyone got to get it stolen
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everyone got to get something stolen why that comes to the
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territory and I told them my story I said when we started they came in and stole everything
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too now we got one of the largest buildings in our country we work millions of
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dollars that was a test for character
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not to steal your equipment it was to test your stickability to your
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vision if a thief could steal your
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vision he wasn’t after the stuff he was after the vision if he stole your vision by
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stealing a speaker you ain’t had no vision in the first place my point is car
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is formed in the furnace of
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Affliction never be afraid again of anything that goes bad Paul says for we
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know that that test that pressure that point of conflict that trial it shall
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produce what perseverance and perseverance produce what character you
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don’t learn character from the Holy Ghost
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you learn it from the struggle you’re going
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through pressure now here’s what I like about this last part it says and character
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produces what hope this is important you see the reason why we are losing hope in
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so many leaders is because they break Under
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Pressure what we need is hope we need somebody to stand up in the middle of the storm and say you all stay with me
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we coming through this see why cuz I’m fixed I ain’t going
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nowhere everything around me will fall except me because I know what’s around
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me is moving away and off me things that are holding me back the wind is blowing
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the Dust Away From Me not blowing me down let me give you an example the word
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character is the the same word as statue in the Bible like the images around here
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statue okay there’s a woman in my country right now I tell you what she is
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she’s sitting down in a chair downtown in my country right in the front of the house of parliament
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she’s there right now in the Bahamas thousands of miles away I know she’s there secondly she is wearing a
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wonderful dress a long dress she has a book in her hand and then she has a a uh
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a mace or scepter she’s wearing a
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crown and she’s smiling her name is
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Victoria Queen Victoria of England she’s sitting in my country right now in a
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chair downtown in the front of the Parliament building and I know what she’s doing she’s smiling and she has a
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book in her hand and a scepter I’ll tell you about another statue is the statue you right now in
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the front of the Parliament building here in London and a guy with a long trench coat
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with a cigar and a hat and a cane and
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he’s smiling name is s Vincent churcher
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now how can I predict them like
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that I can also say that if you curse at them they’ll still smile at you
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I can predict that remember character means what it means
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predictable I know what they would say to you if you call them
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stupid they’ll still smile at you it’s
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character if you gossip about them and tell bad stories about them they still smile at you look at this
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smile they wouldn’t curse back they wouldn’t attack you they’re
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fixed okay here’s a big secret how did they get that way let me how they got that
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way they got that way because somebody
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took in the case of Victoria for example they took a piece of
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stone a big piece of stone and they took a hammer and a chisel
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and they beat that stone and beat it and beat it I mean they beat it with all
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their mights they beat it and they as if they were possessed they beat it and every time
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they hit it Sparks flew and rock flew everywhere and as if they were trying to
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kill something and the longer they put pressure on that stone pressure and beat
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it the stone begins to fall away from it and then this image begins to
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appear and they keep beating it and beating it and pressure and struggles
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and Challenge and beat and things flew away from it and this image begins to
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appear and after years months of beating this beautiful woman sitting in
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a chair was left and then they took the woman
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after she had been pressured and beaten
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Afflicted and they put her in the center of the city for everyone to come and
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take photographs with her they come by the millions in my country on the ships
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and on the plains 4 million tourists a year come to my Little Island 7 mil wide to stand by this woman who was beaten
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cuz they want to take a picture with her they want to be seen with her they think she is
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beautiful but they don’t know the
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price that’s the Hebrew word for character
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statue does it move stable
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110 degrees in the Summer She Just Smiles torrent rains in in April coming
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down like like wood rain she just sits in the rain doesn’t
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move birds come and drop all over her she smiles two years ago a man who was not
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too mentally sound threw red paint all over her and she didn’t
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move sat there they cleaned her off and she never
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moved it’s character Paul
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says trials and tests and pressure we know that they produce
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character I’m really not impressed by what you’re doing I’m more impressed by what you went through
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I don’t really trust what you’re doing cuz anybody could do that with a
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little bit of money I don’t know what you went through to get to this
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point because that’s my protection in trusting
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you character
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God doesn’t trust anybody until he tests them read your
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Bible and that’s how car is developed through tests trials tests
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don’t come to destroy you they come to take away all the draws James says he says when tests and Trials Come welcome
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them as friends for they have come to purify you James chapter 1 Welcome them as
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friends first Peter says when you have tribulations embrace them for they have
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come to make your faith like pureo to take away all the garbage that’s hiding the beauty of who you really should
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be God don’t purify You by blessing
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you we keep asking for blessing God said not what you need right now you need some
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character so he makes your assistant pastor turn against you he’s testing you it ain’t your P
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Pastor the problem he watching what you going to do now see how you going to react to this are you going to be just like the statue it’s okay man it’s mine
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we going to be okay Ministry going to be fine it’s all right this is God’s
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work his character
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test you know why God doesn’t begin your church with a th people cuz you ain’t got no character
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yet so he makes you work with 20 people for two years why he ain’t testing the people he
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testing you is your call only related to crowds
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or to a conviction car
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it’s leadership is it’s amazing don’t trust anyone without a
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history say it again never trust a man without a history when you meet somebody if they
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say trust me don’t trust him cuz trust is not demanded it is
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earned and so a person earn their trust by the scars on their back not the medals on their chest anyone could buy a
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medal today put it on a chest cheap porn shops you could buy medals but boy I tell you real leaders wear their medals
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on their back not their chest because they go through
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struggles here’s something you want to think about car is the source of trust say that with
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me see when people have watched you been tested over a long time then they could they trust
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you they you have to earn it my wife bought me a Rolex some years
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ago for my birthday present and a Rolex is amazing watch when I opened the box there was a little booklet in it the
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book was big as a Bible almost I said wait a minute all I want to do is tell the time they said no this is not a Time
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piece you can buy a Time piece anywhere this is not a Time piece this is
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history and I began to read that book then they went back to 1618 1872 I’m
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like what is this they went back to his they said look this watch is not just a recent
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idea so you don’t pay 20 for this watch cuz you’re not buying time when
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you buy a Rolex you are buying trust guess what it’s guaranteed for
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life never got to buy another watch forever can you imagine that other words they are so sure that this watch has
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gone through the testing of time matter of fact one of the photographs in the book is an elephant standing on the
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watch another photograph is the is the is the watch at the North Pole in the ice in other words they took it through
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all these tests and they keep adjusting it to make sure that the time worked no matter what
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conditions it was under are you with me yes sir so the watch has character now you
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don’t pay for Rolex to tell
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TI you buy character that’s how you make it through
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tough times the tough times are good for you say it the tough times are good for
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me say it again see once you get that settled you’ll be happy in life forever
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I never have a bad day because all my days are good no matter what’s happening in the
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day that verse we read just now is important verse he says we Rejoice we leap around in difficulty because we
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know something what do we know that this pressure is going to produce character I’m going to be fixed when this is over
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it’s going to take away all the rock that is hiding My True Image it comes to strip me
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of What’s blocking my
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Purity sometime the people in your life people come to you work with you for a while and suddenly they became become
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like enemies you try to figure out what happened here well God sent them into your life to chip you
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away you called them an irritation you’re right they are the Sandpaper they’ve come to purify some
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things out of your life see I like what the Bible says but people it says there’s a time to
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embrace it’s a time to let people go and when it’s time to let people go you keep embracing them they become an
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irritation don’t ever hold on to what God already let go
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of it’s a time to gather and the time you to scatter
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so i’ I’m I’m learning more and more to hold people very Loosely in my life very
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Loosely loose in case it’s time for them to go because you become too
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attached cause a problem for you character is a source of trust number two trust is the currency and the
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economic environment for leadership the economy of leadership is really ran on currency of trust you cannot lead people
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who don’t trust you and the only way to trust you is for you to develop character which comes through what test
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here’s my definition of trust and it’s a pretty practical and simple one trust is the product of
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successful testing over a long period of time trust is a product of test over
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time when you’ve been tested over a long period of time then people can trust you so that Rolex watch have been tested over a long period of time so we trust
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it so we spend you know £4,000 for one why we’re not buying
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time you know that’s why when when I go to speak to a corporate company and they give me you know £5,000 for an hour and
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a half they’re not buying a person they’re not even buying a
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lecture they’re buying trust over
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time colen Powell spoke the other day and his speaking engagement was for 60
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SEC 60 Minutes 60 Minutes $215,000 for 60 minutes I can’t wait to
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get there what are you paying for study is history
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why is Jesus so valuable to us study his history look what he went through for
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you I wonder why you give him your life he’s so valuable you pay for him with your
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life trust every time the Lord told man to
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trust him God always gave the man a long list of credits Miss let me say it again cuz that’s a very important thing every
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time God commanded the people to trust him he gave them a list of
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credits he says trust in me why for it was I who bought you through the Red Sea it is I who destroyed Pharaoh it is I
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who bought the plagues in other words he gave you proof I went through something so trust
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me when you stand before your people as a pastor or maybe in a department that
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you work in to work what do you tell them as credit said bring me your offerings why
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should I bring you my offering give me a list well list I’ve been around for 20 years same
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wife same vision my kids are still here in
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order bring your offerings to me okay I could trust
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you we lost two buildings but I’m still standing we had Church in a in a park under the
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tree for three years I’m still standing man I give you a th000 pounds every time you talk why you got a credit list I can
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trust you you got character you didn’t change through all the
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storms that’s leadership it’s
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leadership I remember when pastor aru called me one day he said pastor miles man I got you know I been watching him
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he said pastor miles boy I got a chance said what he said we got to move out of the building and we don’t have no building to go
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into he thought I was going to panic I say I said you’ll be okay I said man look around believe
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God I said I told him I said look I said this ain’t your ministry it’s God’s Ministry remember that I said I said
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this God’s work put the pressure on God go to sleep tell the people you meeting next
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week find somewhere and meet that’s was car to
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test God could give you a building every day ain’t the building that he’s after it’s the character he’s after so he
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takes the building away and he watches to see what’s left you know what Jesus told Peter he
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said Peter Satan’s going to sift you like wheat but I’m praying only for one
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thing what was that that your faith your belief in what I told you stand and
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strong when everything is gone do you still believe in the
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vision it’s character he was building character Christ backed off and let the devil strip
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him God said to Satan go ahead attack
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job then up the character see and when Moos when job came through
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that thing God says I like this guy God gave him seven times more than what he had because he could trust him with it
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leadership is is tested in in the furnace of Affliction to produce a fixed
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statue you’re the same you’re the same you’re the same no matter how famous you
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think I get I’m the same I’m the same guy you meet all the time I’m worth more than I did last year
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financially I’m the same guy I see some guys go on television all a sudden they don’t speak to
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nobody what’s their problem all of a sudden they got 10
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bodyguards three people carrying their bags and I’m like what’s your
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problem then when they change their titles that’s worse you know it’s like what’s your
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problem these people have no character I’m not calling anybody’s
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names okay I just see the stuff and I’m amazed at I’m like what happened to you I knew
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you I used to know you how you get like
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this they are not predictable you don’t know what they’re going to be next
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year anyone understand what I’m talking about see leaders ship is
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fixed I was telling them at the table I says you know some of the guys are Senor country guys look I got an OB from the
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green I don’t put that behind my name I could it opens doors for me in Buckingham
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Palace but what an OB I got things to do for the kingdom of
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God
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how does it change you when you are in the
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sunshine and the lights are on are you still the same person see that’s the key
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are you fixed people wonder why favor keeps
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coming to me I don’t look for it it just comes to me opportunities big doors open why one guy told me one time he says you
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know why we want you cuz we were watching you for 10
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years people watching to see if you are
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stable I got a call from a publisher last week one the biggest Publishers in in the world he said uh we’d like to
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publish one of your books this one of them big ones okay this where they pay you half a million dollar just a
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sign I said why you want me he said been watching you your books are consistent your
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message is consistent your life they says is consistent your marriage is they
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watch everything why they don’t want to publish an author who next year will make them
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ashamed trust my encouragement to you is stay in
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the battle endure and enjoy the storm why because we know say it because
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we know that this trial will produce perseverance which will produce what
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character which will bring hope to people whenever you lose hope just look
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at me call me everything you go in through next year I’ve been through 10 years ago you
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call me say I say it’s okay you’ll be okay man I been through that yes sir mhm
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yes sir they abandoned me lost all the money lost this yes sir the devil wiped me clean but look at me now baby you
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going to come through this stability brings hope to
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people don’t ever be impressed by Fame be impressed by
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faithfulness trust is not a gift to Res
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result let me last last point I want to make and we discuss this a little bit is
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integrity boy this the word integrity is interesting word it means to be
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one you know the word integrate that’s what it means it means
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to be one Integrity is from the word integrate to be
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one to be one integrity means to be one with yourself
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when I was studying the word Holiness some years ago I was amazed that the word Holiness is misunderstood I didn’t
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realize I was that stupid myself because I thought Holiness meant you know long robes and no earrings and
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no lipstick and you know ugly face you know looking Pious or something
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and I realized the word Holiness was not that at all the word Holiness is defined and the
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Hebrew in context it means pure but the word
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pure is deeper than that is that’s from the word pure
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motive what that means is to be holy means that you never have an alterior motive whatever you say is exactly what
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you mean that’s that’s Holiness whatever you do is exactly what
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you intended to do as Holiness so Holiness means that you are
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integrated here here’s a way to say it Holiness is what you say what you
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do and what you are are the
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same and that’s tough think about it it means to be one with yourself what
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you say what you do and what you are are the same
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so to be holy means whatever you do is exactly what you said because that is
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what you are so a holy man or holy woman can
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never do something other than what they are nor can they do something that they
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didn’t say nor can they say something they didn’t mean nor can they mean something they didn’t do nor can they do
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what they didn’t say nor can they say what they didn’t what and they cannot want what they didn’t
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be confused yet see holy means that the person is one with
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themselves they are integrated that’s why the number one word to describe God is the word holy God is completely
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integrated whatever he says he will do if he said it he will do it if he promis
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it he’ll bring it to pass and by the way God doesn’t do things apart from himself
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let me explain God doesn’t give love he see it’s it’s to be holy you can’t just
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do something you you do what you
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are God doesn’t do good things God is good see he when you’re holy you can’t
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pretend we need leaders like that man they are the same person in the
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Pulpit as they are in the bedroom Unholy people
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people they say one thing and they do something else they promise you I work
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in the nursery and then they last for two weeks and they quit and don’t even tell
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you they quit they just don’t show up these are Unholy
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people all through the
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church so a man is Unholy if he tells a woman I will be with you to the rest of my life I vow to to H and have you to
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cherish you and right and then after 3 years he leaves you that’s an Unholy man
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and he’s a
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preacher strange Jesus Christ didn’t do
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salvation his name is savior see he’s holy the Bible calls him God’s holy
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child that’s an important statement he’s integrated Mary told Jesus uh yes uh my
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brother will be raised when the resurrection occurs he said what do you mean when Resurrection occurs the
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resurrection Is Not An Occurrence he says I am see he’s talking with
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Holiness are you a leader an integrated
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leader what I say and what I do and what I am i
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w what an amazing thing we need those kind of people all around us what you say people who ain’t got no second you
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know motive somewhere floating around you know they give you $5 you want to wonder what they
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want you holy people they give you peace when they
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come because you ain’t got a second guess
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them I think people really have trouble with me because I’m just too holy they don’t look look at me the
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Bible says be holy as your father and he talking to you say it I’m holy I’m holy that means
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you keep your word see that means you keep your word you do what you say you say is what you mean and you you fulfill
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your promises that’s Holiness you said I’m going to pay tithes be holy pay tithes to your
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church you pay tithes sometimes you’re not holy
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you need a whole sermon on Holiness for five years in your church just teach people Holiness and the church will
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change your offerings will go up people begin to live clean there’ll be no more Liars in the
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church so I don’t trust no one in a
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robe because Holiness has nothing to do with clothing
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are they honest so they have integrity
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integration means to be whole ain’t that beautiful President Clinton I told you
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about him day before yesterday you know Clinton was an amazing guy the most powerful leader in the world was
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schizophrenic he had no what Integrity he was not integrated it was one thing
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in the presiden seat another thing in the bathroom or the back room with the white
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house and then he came out and says you know don’t confuse my public life with my private what are you talking about don’t what are you trying to tell
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us I am crazy I am schizophrenic I am one thing
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you know in presidency I’m another thing back here so you know it depends which one you want to
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trust so you can’t be trusted in nothing the Bible says if a man is wavering in one area he’s wavering in all areas so
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you can’t trust the guy who say don’t trust What I Do
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SUMMARY

Dr. Miles Monroe emphasizes the importance of character, likening it to a statue that remains fixed and predictable despite changing circumstances. He defines character as the manifestation of self-integrity, self-discipline, and adherence to values and morals. Monroe highlights Romans 5:3, suggesting that rejoicing in sufferings, or challenges, is crucial for developing character, as it builds resilience and stability.

Challenges and pressure are opportunities for character development, as they produce perseverance and hope. Character, like a statue, is formed through enduring trials and tribulations, resulting in stability and predictability. Ultimately, this character development leads to a stronger, more resilient individual who can inspire and lead others through difficult times.

Character, developed through trials and tests, is the foundation of trust. Trust is the currency of leadership, earned through successful testing over time. Leaders must demonstrate character through their history and actions to earn the trust of their followers.

Leadership is tested in the furnace of affliction to produce character. Stability and consistency in a leader’s words, actions, and character bring hope to others. Holiness, or integrity, means being one with oneself, with words, actions, and character aligning.

Holiness is about keeping one’s word, fulfilling promises, and living a clean life, not about clothing. A lack of integrity, as seen in President Clinton’s example, shows a lack of holiness and trustworthiness.