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Fixing The Money Thing with Gary Keesee will educate and equip you to walk out your God-given purpose and provide insights and solutions on the topics of faith and finances.
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0:00 I'm Gary Kasid. For 9 years, I had debt I couldn't pay, which brought on panic attacks, antidepressants until the kingdom of God drastically changed my life. Now I wanna help0:11 you fix the money thing.0:14 This is Gary Kasey, fixing the money thing. What is loyalty? Qualities like allegiance, faithfulness, obedience, and0:26 trustworthiness to name a few. Now from Faith Life Church, Gary Kasey and his Loyalty, your pathway to promotion series. Today's message, can God trust0:37 you to be loyal?0:39 Loyalty is not a big topic, is it? No, in our culture, that's not like a hot item, is it? We don't really want to get into loyalty too much, it's just not too popular. But loyalty has a0:51 huge impact on your life, huge. And so we're gonna talk about that and trust it's gonna benefit your life. The definition of loyalty, let's start there, right out of the dictionary says this,1:03 it's the state or quality of being loyal, faithful to commitments or obligations, faithful adherence to a government or a leader or cause.1:15 So let me ask you, who are you loyal to? That's a good question. Can they depend on you to fulfill your obligations and commitments?1:28 Or maybe you need people on your team that are loyal to you, vice versa, right? I mean being loyal is so critical to life. And loyal is not a feeling.1:40 I can tell my wife I'm loyal to her, I love her, but if I don't take the trash out Ladies, you missed the perfect opportunity. Man, it's1:52 just Alright, 2 parts of loyalty you need to understand. According to the definition here, faithful to commitments or obligations, let me ask you a question, is it possible to be faithful to your commitments and still2:03 not be loyal? Absolutely. Because if you're committed to your obligations, yet you are grumbling about your boss, are you loyal?2:15 According to our definition, you're loyal to fulfill your obligations and commitments, and you're committed with loyalty to whoever you answer to, and they go together. They go together.2:27 So, wanna talk about loyalty because a lot of great things happen in loyalty, and a lot of bad things happen when we have disloyalty. So we're gonna jump into that. Going back, of course we've pastored 26 years, business2:38 leaders for 38 years, and we've always had staff, people, clients, a lot of things happening, but you know, I'll give you a couple examples. And back in the early days, you know I2:50 was young and my staff was young. We really didn't know, we all kind of jumped into this thing without a lot of training, but I did have some problems. I began to recognize I had some issues happening in my staff back3:02 in the beginning, and you know, things weren't getting done, and so I gave them a homework assignment, I said I want you to read this book, we're gonna get together and discuss it on this date. I want you to finish it.3:13 So we got together at that date for our meeting and I went around and asked them did they read the book and not 1 person read it. Now there's a symptom deeper than knowing how to read there. Would you agree?3:25 Alright. And so, this same season we had 1 of our children's Sunday events, you know our children's church flopped. Was just, it wasn't good. And Pastor Gerinda asked our3:37 full time staff children's leader, you know, how much did you prepare for this? I mean, it just I give them credit for being honest. They said, I did 0 preparation for3:49 it. You know, just an example, another time in this season, we had a lady, now we had 1 door coming into the church back then, it was a warehouse we had church in. And this particular Sunday, we had a lady back4:01 there and she was the greeter and as she greeted people, she had made it a homemade flyer for a Sunday morning event that she was hosting and putting on the following Sunday. So4:13 everyone coming into church was getting a flyer from this greeter to skip church and attend this event the next Sunday without me knowing it.4:24 Bless her heart, yes. Now if you would have asked any of my staff or any of these people if they were loyal and they loved us, they would say yes. But obviously, they needed some help4:36 in training. Actually, without knowing it, they were being disloyal. And let me say this, you cannot build anything with disloyal people. If you try,4:49 you'll try to pick up false responsibility, you'll be micromanaging everything, which almost took me out of the ministry. You have to have loyal people, but listen, people need to be taught this. And5:00 again, this is a young staff. We had, you know, we had to mentor. How many realize mentoring is important? Yes. Absolutely, and so we need to mentor and train. First Corinthians chapter 4 verse 2 says this, now it is5:12 required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. Must prove faithful. Loyalty is not convenient. Loyalty will cost you5:24 something, but it is required. It is required. Luke chapter 6 10, whoever can be trusted with very little can be trusted with much5:36 and whoever is dishonest with very little will be dishonest with much. First Timothy chapter 3 verse 10, Leaders must first be tested, and then if there's nothing against them, let them serve as deacons,5:48 or as leaders as we're talking about. Such wisdom in these 2 scriptures that you need to embrace in your life. So why is loyalty so critical? Why is6:00 it so critical? Because we're going to war. There's gonna be pressure that comes, and in the midst of pressure, that's not the time to find out that the 2 by 4 that you've built the house with cannot handle the6:11 weight. Right? You want to know before you get into the battle that there's been some testing, there's been some refining, there's some loyalty, that when you get into that battle, you don't have6:23 to look around and you've been abandoned, but now your team is there, they've been tested, you can put confidence in that team, and this is vital to your life. Leaders listen to me, business leaders listen to me. There's6:35 no shortcuts. You know it6:36 if you've tried it. You try6:37 to shortcut the process, you're gonna pay the price. People need to be mentored and tested and this is vital. Leaders listen to me. When you put someone under6:49 your authority as you hire people or you come on staff in the ministry, you need to remember this. That that person's voice will be magnified by your position. The leader's7:01 position. In other words, if I bring someone on staff, people are gonna hear them speak as if they're hearing me speak. They're going to assume that whatever they're saying, I have7:13 already okayed. Is that right? And so you have to be careful. Remember, you're going to gain influence if you're coming under someone's authority. And leaders, you're giving7:25 influence. You're giving them your influence. You're giving them a bigger platform, a bigger voice. And you need to make sure that you both sound the same before you give them the platform.7:37 Amen, come on now. Because you're gonna find problems if you don't do that. So leaders listen to me, you need to test people. You don't bring them in close because if they have a7:49 different voice people are gonna think that their voice is your voice. And you may not end up where you think you're trying to get to, right leaders? So you have to be in agreement, right? In agreement.8:00 Alright, so let's move on. Now, as a pastor or as a leader, I'm sure that you see people that have potential as leaders. And that's what you look for, right? That's what8:12 I look for. But I also understand that it may not be seasoned yet. Their maturity may not be ready yet. I have to understand there's the process of mentoring and leading and guiding them that must take place.8:24 There's a lot of people that have spiritual giftings as well as natural giftings, but it does not qualify them for leadership, yet. Okay, not yet. But how many know it's so easy to8:36 bypass that testing process when need someone desperately in that position? And that's what you cannot, you cannot, cannot violate this process. Matthew chapter 128:47 verse 30 says this, whoever's not with me is against me and whoever does not gather with me scatters. That's what Jesus said. Pretty powerful words. Whoever's not with me is against me and whoever does not8:59 gather with me scatters. See times will get tough. Any venture, any business, any church, anything, there will be pressure. Again, we wanna make sure that we're all on the same9:11 team. Listen, anyone can become disloyal, anyone. Satan's number 1 plot is division. The process is disloyalty9:23 and offense. And you see it everywhere in life. Understand this, open rebellion never starts openly, ever. It always starts in the fringes, underground.9:36 Never see it, you know, it's like a rotten tree. I remember we had this beautiful, beautiful, beautiful big oak tree. Had a storm come through and the whole thing fell down. I was totally shocked when I went outside to9:47 look at it. It was hollow. See, you've gotta find out what's inside people. They may look great on the outside, their giftings may look great, and God gave them those giftings for a purpose, but leaders, you9:59 have a job to bring that out in a proper season and a proper mentorship for their sake and yours, right?
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