SWYC 2019 Reloaded: The Power of Truth

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GYC Southwest

Breakout Seminars

Anil Kanda

David’s Wilderness Leadership Lessons

Toxic Masculinity and the Proverbs 31 Man

How to BioHack your Health

Father in heaven, right now we just thank you so much again for Sabbath afternoon.

And Lord we pray the lessons we learn, as simple as they might be, might be applicable to our lives.

Take this message and God multiply it and feed us.

That we may grow closer to you and grow into your image more and more in Jesus name amen.

All right thank you very much thank you very much you know I like sharing this quotation that's a quotation that I you might have heard it before but I shared in different places it's found in not in the Bible it's found in 1 of America's fastest growing restaurants, Pieology.

Anybody here like Pieology or Blaze Pizza or anything like that.

I love those make it, you know, do-it-yourself pizza.

I don't know why it took forever to get those joints going.

But I love Pieology because when you go into Pieology, you'll see different quotes on the wall.

1 of my favorite inspirational quotes, when I go into the Pieology and it's the 1 here in, it's the 1 in Redlands, actually I haven't seen other places, but the 1 in Redlands and It just says this in the midst of all the other quotes and when you get it you get it it says these words The author whoever they are says this I am more afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.

I am more afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.

Today we're going to be talking about some leadership lessons.

I'm not any kind of leadership guru by any means whatsoever.

I'm not any kind of John Maxwell, but I want to share with you some things that I feel God has shown me through experiences, through the scriptures, and just overall the journey that I've had the last few years.

When you study out history, you can take a good look at some of the greatest military commanders, from Leonidas, who led the 300th Sparns along with Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae, preventing the Persians from coming in for a short period of time.

You think of people like Hannibal, who took a group of elephants and turned them into tanks to conquer his foes.

You think about individuals like Napoleon and George Washington and General MacArthur and Alexander the Great and when you think of leadership many of these names come to mind.

But It wasn't until just like I was going through Patriarchs and Prophets and I came across this amazing quotation about 1 of our favorite Bible heroes, David.

Notice what Ellen White says right here about David.

In his own realm, David's power had become very great.

Now notice this, he commanded as few rulers in any age have been able to command.

Notice this, the affections and allegiance of his people.

This is Ellen White talking here under inspiration, under the Holy Spirit's, you know, guidance and navigation.

And she says, look, David was able to command and gather together the allegiance and affections of his people probably more than most rulers had ever been able to do.

Notice this, He had honored God and God was now honoring him.

And so today we're going to be taking a good look at a few different lessons, simple lessons, but they're deep lessons about David's leadership style.

When you take a good look in the scriptures and you study out what it says in 1st Samuel and parts of 2nd Samuel and 1st Chronicles leading into 2nd Chronicles, you learn about the various phases of David's life.

From the time that life was very quiet for David when he was a shepherd, to the time where he was just thrown onto the world scene, and he began to play a part in the direction of Israel, to the part where he was a fugitive in the wilderness, and until he became king, and on finally his deathbed.

We had to take a Bible archaeology class and 1 day I had eaten some food that just got me sick.

I always take with me charcoal, garlic, and I think it's zinc or something else just to keep my immune system high.

But for some reason, I got sick 1 day, and I ended up missing 1 of the days of touring.

The next day, I felt unusually better, and I jumped back onto the tour with the rest of the Masters of Theological Students and study program.

And we went to go see, this is very interesting, the Dead Sea.

Anybody ever been to the Dead Sea before?

Now, you know what happens when you get into the Dead Sea?

Because of the mineral content, your body naturally floats.

But you know what you're not supposed to do when you get into the Dead Sea?

And I was just in the water, I was swimming with my friends, and I was like, this is great.

And the tour guide had told us many times, he said, look, do not go underwater, do not go underwater, do not go underwater.

And for some reason, you know when you start swimming and you just get caught up in everything that's going on?

Sure enough, that's what happened to me and I came out and I was like, ah, I couldn't see anything.

All my friends are looking at me, they're like, what's wrong?

And I was just blinded and I was like, trying not to make a big scene.

I was rubbing my eyes, it was getting worse.

And then after a few minutes, it finally dissipated.

And the minerals in the Dead Sea are very rejuvenating.

You know, you can buy products here, skin products that probably cost $20, $30, $40, $50.

And so when we were in the Dead Sea, we got out of the water and then we were just having these mud baths during the time we're in the Dead Sea and it was just a wonderful experience.

But when we got out of the Dead Sea, we all jumped back into the bus and we began going down the road.

And I never forgot, I looked to the right and I saw this beautiful mountainous region there.

It looked a little dry, there was a few shrubs there.

And the tour guide, he gets on to the bus, Mike, and he says, this is the wilderness of Judah.

This is where David, during his wilderness wanderings, fled, where he hid with his 600 men, where he was a fugitive, and where he learned many different lessons about the goodness and the grace of God.

Like it says in Psalms 18, to the Lord belongs escapes from death.

It was in this wilderness that trained him and prepped him for the later phase of life when he would become a king.

And so we're going to take a good look at some of the lessons from David's wilderness wanderings that help us to understand what leadership looks like today.

There's not too much inspirational leadership anymore.

I really feel that a lot of leaders, for whatever the reason, have some kind of dark secret in the past which eventually comes out, and it really compromises their influences.

And maybe you think that's just a testament to what the Bible says in the very middle of the Scriptures.

Do you know what the very middle verse of the Bible is?

It's better to put your trust in the Lord than put your trust in princes, right?

I mean, human leaders are going to fail us, right?

But nonetheless, it can be very deflating and defeating when you're even looking within the church and wonder what does inspirational leadership look like?

What's the kind of leadership that really draws people, that gets people excited about spiritual things?

When you look at the life of David you will find several lessons that really made him inspirational.

Lessons that really just can help us understand how we can be a better influence and use social power for good.

So the first thing we're gonna be taking a good look at is a few characteristics.

The first characteristic is this, winsome.

Now I'm going to expand that a little bit more.

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