Why Character Is Necessary | Dr. Myles Munroe

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s of the alphabet because a is always a B is B at 2 am in the morning C is still C, whether in Africa , Asia or in the Bronx? it doesn't change that's why we call them characters why we call numbers characters because one is always one and two is always two whether you use it at night or day it doesn't change this character why we call statues characters because like Victoria it doesn't matter what pass around them they never change why we call principles characters because principles are laws they never change you know one of the secrets of my success as a coach of government leaders and business leaders one of my secrets of being an effective communicator one of my secrets of being a good teacher is simple it's not my education the secret of my success is that I only teach principles that's all you can never disagree with the principle you can ignore it you can hate it but you can never disagree with it for example gravity is a principle, you can fast, pray and speak in tongues, but if you jump off a building you are going to die, why are you violating a principle, characters that way, that is why a person with character does not live off what is popular. they live by their principles and that is why it is very difficult for politicians to have character because politics is based on popularity which means you will literally sacrifice your principles to protect your popularity which cancels out your character which means You can't be trusted.

There are preachers who are politicians who would sell their principles for a pot of oatmeal without a character counter so it's just what doesn't change write it down my question is how often do you change who you are are you the same person all the time are you consistent are you predictable The leaders They must have character. Why do you write this? People won't follow you if they don't trust you. So character attracts loyalty. I want to give some more definitions of freedom of character. Understand how serious it is. First, character is a commitment to a whole. of values ​​without commitment what are values ​​values ​​are things that you value that is not complicated at all for example if you value your marriage vow you will never commit adultery so when a person commits adultery he does not value his marriage or his marriage vows so you can' No You respect them and they lose the trust of their spouse and their children and even their in-laws and maybe even the church they are a part of.

You see that your values ​​will protect you. Second, character is dedication to a set of standards without wavering from what they are. your standards that you have set for your life my standards produce my character I will never violate my standards you have to say that every day I do not tell lies that is a standard that I do not steal that includes stealing time from your work telling people that you are sick when you are not you are sick this is a lack of character you are a thief who are you smiling at? Look, don't you understand that character is so subtle that there is no excuse in life to break your standards, you know, I have heard business people say and I talk to them, even you know, in some of my business dealings and negotiations for investments commercial.

I separate people. A lot of people come to me and want to do business with me and want me to invest in their companies. I do a lot of these things and they and I hear people say that sometimes honesty is my best policy now, every time you tell me I do what Joseph did, honesty should never be your best policy, never because best policy It means I have the second best, the third best, the fourth best. fifth best I can't trust you you have no character a person of character would say that honesty is my only policy third character is self-imposed discipline for the sake of moral convictions character is self-imposed discipline meaning that a person of character no They don't need the police, they police themselves.

It's a question of character. They lock themselves in the prison of their own convictions and throw away the key. Do you have character? Are you for sale? Look, your future depends on your character, not your charisma, and most leaders, whether they are politicians, preachers or parents, try to live off their charisma, try to live up to their talent, try to live up to their gifts. your gifts will never protect you in fact your gift will destroy you because it is the only thing that can protect you your gift and your talent is your character this session is the most important session you have ever sat through in your life because this is where you learn what protects your entire future and it is your character and you have never been taught this in your entire life.

You know, your Seminary has never had a class on this and that's why the preachers are dropping like flies. Know. I think it. Character is really what I call a constant effort to integrate your words, your deeds, and your actions as one. They all say integrate. the word integrate big means to become one this is very important to write that integrate means what to become one so character is when your words your deeds and your actions are one you are not schizophrenic a person without character will say one thing do another and promise something else so you never know who you're talking to when you talk to them without character now here's a surprise number five character is sacrifice for principles is a character means that you are willing to sacrifice friendship to protect your principles you are willing to lose your best friend to maintain your principles.

Do you have character? Who are you with now and who should you not be with? Think about it, what are you secretly doing right now that you shouldn't be doing? you are willing? sacrifice that to protect your principles someone offered to pay your mortgage if you slept with them once would you sacrifice that to protect your principles? re the same word integrity means that you are one with yourself integrity means that you are one with yourself do you know when I did a little research a few years ago on the Hebrew word for holiness, I wrote down the word holy, I discovered that the root of the word Holy is one the Hebrew concept of Holiness is integrity one which means you are one the number one confession in the Bible about God is the Lord our God is one now some you don't understand why that is important if you were to talk to a Jewish rabbi right now in this city and ask them when you meet them ask them when you see them ask them what is the most important confession in the Bible they will tell you the Lord our God is one what does it mean does it mean that it is holy what is holy you are one this is very interesting Holiness means that you are integrated You are just one person You are not a different person on Monday than you are on Tuesday You are not a different person at night at 2 am than you are in the pulpit on Sunday morning You are one You do not have multiple personalities when the Bible says Be holy, he tells you, be one, stop being a hypocrite, character is the basis of trust is integrity, write it down, tweet that to someone right now, what did he do to them?

I say the basis of trust is integrity when you are someone who will eventually trust you, that means your word is always good, you say what you said, you do what you said and then you act what you said, that is holiness, so that wearing a long dress or a white collar with a purple shirt turned back with a big chain in the pocket is not holiness wearing a long robe with a turban on the head does not impress me I want to know if there is a person under that robe alone a foreigner you can call I know you can bring me your car and show me all your titles.

Reverend honorable Bishop Eternal sacred man of God. I do not care what you say. I still don't trust you. I don't do it because I don't know. Which one of you am I talking to? That's why the Bible says: get to know them, let them work among yourselves. Don't bring anyone to your church to preach. They are on television. Don't be attracted by charisma. Find a character. They already know a few years. My wife and I ran a marriage conference at our church ago and I met this guy when I was doing a show for the 700 Club with Pat Robertson in Virginia Beach and I was doing a series of shows with him and the people there and I met this guy. did a show about marriage, you know, and how to strengthen marriages.

He's an older guy and he really impressed me that he had a book and everything and sounded good. I didn't know him. I met him for the first time and we were having this. marriage conference at our church in the Bahamas and I said, you know, this guy sounds good, so I approached him and invited him to come to the Bahamas. He was so excited to come to the Bahamas, so he came to the Bahamas and did the seminar. with me and it was a wonderful session and everything he bought for his wife and then two months later I saw an article where he was divorcing the woman he was with, his wife.

I was confused so I called him living in Colorado at the time and said I just want to make sure this article I'm reading isn't true are you divorcing your wife who was with you when you did a seminar for my people who believed you and He started trying to explain himself? I said you will never return to our church and you will never return to our Island. I hung up the phone and called the bookstore. I said take every one of his books from his bookshelf because what he's teaching doesn't work for him. you shouldn't teach us write this lead with your life foreign is the weight of your words what did I say tweet that right now someone see that's the problem with us we think we're impressed by our language you know this deep things we say and the good we can talk and preach and how can we Hallelujah listen brother, you have no life, you know, it's like he's like a guy who sells diamonds but doesn't carry any, never trust a salesman who doesn't Don't wear what he sells, clap your hands.

I am faithful to my wife so you can believe my words. I am a good father to my children so you can believe my words. Let me put it this way. There is no such thing as a personal life. Write it. There is no such thing as a private life, write it down, so never tell people that what I do in private is none of your business, it's my business because it determines whether I trust what you say publicly. It is called character as a matter. In fact, I have come to the conclusion that a person of character doesn't need to talk, he doesn't need to talk, he just shows up when I met Nelson Mandela.

It was the most overwhelming moment of my life. Private dinner. 16 people. he had just been released from prison his first trip was to the Bahamas he wanted to meet my prime minister Lyndon Penley who was the first to campaign for his freedom out of prison so he wanted to come and thank my prime minister personally so his first trip I went out from prison went to my country and the Prime Minister called me and invited 16 people to dinner and I was one of them. I don't know, it's a great honor to meet an icon. I think some of you saw our photography. together a couple of times when I, my God, when I saw him I saw a character with two legs, he didn't have to speak, do you know why he went to prison for 18 years plus seven and his conviction never changed?

Hey, boy, he said never. change that's why you respect him when he returns to New York you'll have the same wife don't answer don't answer the question is just a rhetorical question I want you to think about it this is a serious question how stable are you that's why young people are so confused , you know, the Bible says about raising children. The Bible says parents should not exasperate their children. Now some of you don't know that big word. I'll explain it to you. The word exasperate means to frustrate. Due to instability you tell your son not to smoke and you are smoking you are creating a monster in your house you tell your daughter who is 16 not to get pregnant and you had her out of wedlock look don't feel bad I have Today you see that the problem My daughter could have told you, but he did it.

Everyone says: go with your life. You see that your words mean nothing. Character protects your words. Write it. What did I say? You know I was reading the Bible and I saw this passage. here in Genesis 1 26 and it blew my mind You're about to get some Revelation sit up straight take a deep breath okay Genesis chapter 1 my favorite verse in the Bible I talk about it every day because this verse is a summary of why he was created it says and God said let's make man in our image remember now the word man is plural so he's talking about the entire species let's make a species called man of our own spirit and in our own image and he Be obviously like us, we referring to the plurality of the Oneness of God, now what is the next statement: let them have dominion.

I want you to notice something here. This is very important. Write this image before Domain. What did I say one more time? Do you remember the definition? we gave character do you remember the word image? Well, this is important. You see, the word image is the word for character. So every human being was designed to lead. For that God gave you Dominion and Leadership was never given over people. It was really given to us. in an area of ​​gifts, everyone in this room was born to lead, but not to lead people, you were born to lead in an area of ​​gifts and your gifts attract people, attraction makes you a leader, did you understand what I just said?

You have been taught that leadership is only for a certaingroup of people, that is a lie from the bottom of hell. He told us all to have dominion. We are all rulers, but not over people. You were created to have leadership in an area of ​​gifts and your gift. It is what makes you valuable to the world, the Bible says your gift makes you a place where in the world and will bring you before great kings, not your education, your gift, that is why most people with PhDs are a failure because you can have a PhD and not know your gift, most educated people work, educated people work for people who dropped out of school, did you know that like Stephen Jobs?

Bill Gates, these people who finished school but found their gift, that's probably why you're still broke because all you are is an employee, you've never been deployed, your gift is when you deploy, you're powerful but you don't know it because you Culture trains you to get a job, not to find your gift, which is why most of you have received a bad education and your life is miserable. They are 50 years old and still don't know why they were born because their culture taught them to get an education to get. a job and then when they are done with you they fire you they retire you and throw you to the curb your gift is what you want find all my books that I have written all I make sure that each book has in is how to find your gift if you bought a book for me Today you are going to transform yourself you read it because if you find your gift you become very dangerous you become unemployable your gift is the fruit of your leadership write that what I mean For this reason, have you noticed that a fruit tree when it bears fruit never brings the fruit?

Let me say it again here these people seem a little wise over here I said that a fruit tree bears its fruit it never brings the The fruit for you is exactly like that, it just bears the fruit. What happens, you are attracted to the tree. Your gift is your fruit that God gave you inside to serve the world. That's why Jesus said that if you want to be great, become a servant. For everyone, what do you mean you offer them your gift and they find you? That's why true leaders never look for followers. Write it.

What did I say? Yes, followers are attracted to true leaders, but they are not attractive to you. You have to be careful that they are attracted. to your gift, so just because people come to you doesn't mean they like you, you have to protect yourself from them, they come for what your fruit is, so tell your neighbor I don't trust you, you just want my fruit, everyone applauds with me. just clap your hands, praise God, you are my food, so God made you to be a leader with a gift. That means you were born to master an area of ​​gifts, but now watch God at work.

Okay, write this down. It's very important. Character is the very essence of God, that is why the Lord our God is one, so God himself is character, that is why you can trust him, he never changes, he is the same yesterday, today and forever. I wonder if it's you, man, are you this person all the time sitting in this room? What are you doing at 2 a.m.? m. in front of your computer if you don't know? Character God is character number two God boasts that he never changes. I am right? I alter the Bible. He says he never changed.

He never changed. There is no shadow. to turn to me I am the same yesterday today and forever the Lord is one I never change he is speaking to you about character therefore that is why we can trust him he is stable God said that heaven and earth would have to pass before for him to break my word now that is his character, he would sacrifice the universe to keep his word, so watch God get to work now, so God will do it and the first gift that God gave to man was not power, the The first gift that God gave to man was not Dominion, many of you already know that you get excited about Dominion Dominion you know that I have Dominion Hallelujah I have Dominion don't shut up man that's not what God gave you first reading the Bible the Bible says that the first thing What God gave you is what He gave you image which means that character is More important than power, there are people who would come to me and say Dr.

Monroe. I want you to pray for me to receive God's anointing. Are they. Does it have character? Contain it. Power will kill him without character. And God knew it and God. It says that the first thing I must give to this creature is character, the image of God, so God's priority is character. God's commitment is that character is

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before Dominion. God is more concerned about your character than he is about dominating the Earth. Charities God's prerequisite for dominion and government is character. God's foundation for leadership because he looks before he gives you power let me give you the most important thing here is the image with the characteristics of his image you are stable just like I can trust you with power now let me say this and to those who bought the book in The character is going to change your life and he will tell you so. 40 years of research.

Write this down. This is what they discover and it's in the book. I make a whole chapter about it. I discovered this. Three things will test your character. Just three things. There are three things that your character will manifest, they will tell you if you have character or not. Three things, the first is power, when you give a person power, the character appears second, money, when you give a human a lot of money, his real self appears and the number three. access to sex, if you give a human being access to sex, her character shows all her lack, just three things, so if you want to know what a woman really is, give her power money and access to sex, you all know what He is really a man. like giving power money and access to sex and that is why every human being on this Earth who has ever failed was for power money or sexual period character.

I wonder if you're going to make it to the end, man, look, that's the question, don No, don't answer the question, please, this is serious because you don't know, the Bible says the race is not for the swift. Look, you might be instantly famous, man, but in the kingdom of God the race is not to the swift. To the top first the race is for those who endure to the end. Will you still be there when I return in 10 years and will you still be the same person? That is the question. Queen Victoria's character is still there 289 years later, she survived.

She storms with every hurricane. I wonder if you can still stand and all the temptations have passed. The only way to test character is through temptation. Write it. The word temptation is not a negative word. Someday I will come back and teach about it, but in the book. Make a whole chapter on Temptation because tempering yourself to the Temple immediately tempering yourself to temptation or the Temple means testing weakness, that's all, it means you'll never have a moment in your life when you're free from Temptation, you'll never get over it. get used to it Jing will be constantly in your life to monitor your character thanks your character is as strong as the temptation you fell into do you know what made Eve pick the fruit?

It wasn't difficult Satan says look do you want to be? like God that was the temptation what is the power of God of course he lied to her because she was already like God but satan and all those tempted with what you already are then your greatest danger is the ignorance of yourself you cannot tempt me to be what you I know I'm already somewhere if I didn't know who she was then Satan tempted her out of weakness you want to be like God well read the verse let's make man in our image and like us she was already like God but ignorance will make you not believe character number six God gave you the character before the power say it God gave the character before the power say it again one more time God created you and they gave you the mandate to dominate the Earth with the character of God it is not a difficult thing you are a king just the same you father but your territory is the Earth therefore the image is the first thing that God gave you and God gave you that because he knew that without character power will destroy you you know, people say that power corrupts and power corrupts absolutely I used to believe that that is not true. power does not corrupt power simply reveals corruption you are already defective you finally had the chance to prove it power is pure character so the fall of man distorted the image of God what is character image then man became a defective character and The result of that is that his self-esteem no longer knew how much he was worth, so since that man has been hiring Read My Lips Read My Lips image consultants, why would you hire an image consultant because you don't have one?

You don't have an image you lost it if you know who you are and decide to be who you are you don't need anyone to create another person an image consultant is someone you pay to create a person that doesn't exist politicians hire image Consultants why don't they have an image then they pay people to tell lies movie stars artists hire image Consultants why don't they have an image so they sell you an image that doesn't exist and you buy it and then when the real person appears like that young man in Florida the other day how do you Calls Bieber or something?

Justin Bieber you all are surprised. I'm not. He knew that wasn't him on stage. Many pastors are like that child tomorrow morning. The city will be full of artists in the pulpit, they haven't been caught yet, that's all you know, most people say sorry simply because they were caught, character, oh, I have 129 slides, this is slide number four, foreign, you went to Bible School and they gave you a diploma but they never gave you character so you could preach but you have no principles you are not going to achieve it your future is predictable you never worked on character a guy from a hotel called me the other day Hotel general manager, he says I need to order 80 of your character books, so I told him why he says I just read it.

He changed my life as a general manager and I will give this book to every member of the staff at this hotel and I will pay them to read it, he says this is the only thing missing in our lives character, he asked me to come and give a seminar at the hotel now so you know that we are going to sign a contract and I will do it. some work with him said this is what is missing at all levels managers supervisors downline workers secretaries people are not stable they can't be trusted because they never learn character let me finish this since I'm out of time trait fallen man is unpredictability, you can't predict a sinner, you don't know what they're going to do next, I'm right, some of you married one of them, you don't know what you're going to do next, the Humans are struggling with infidelity, um, they don't. stable, so I'll give it to you, my friend, while we take a break before the last segment, which for me is one of the most important, or I went to archives, did you go?

I'm controlling it, girl, no, me, you write too. slow, take a picture, it's my friend over there, come on, quick, quick, quick, you're holding me oh, they on the way move the camera, man, you guys get in trouble today, these people want to get the grades, no they stay there. in front of that screen, okay, there are good things today. I came here because I want you to. You will achieve? That means that you have to make a decision in this room before you leave and that you are going to get rid of things that can destroy your character and that might include some friends that includes some habits you are in danger everything you have built everything you have built with all your life could be destroyed in five seconds ask Jimmy Swaggett do you think you're safe uh better protect your character, you're as safe as your character.

I want to give you these last two slides before we close out what the source of the values ​​is. Values ​​remember that they produce character. Okay, so you need to understand your values ​​well. The most powerful component of leadership is. philosophy why philosophy is your belief system your belief system is the result of the things you value everything you value you believe in your belief system produces your values ​​and your values ​​produce your morality so morality is really a product of your values ​​if I value my marriage I promise that then morally I will be faithful to my wife, it is related and then when my morals are in place, the morals inform the ethics, so it is unethical for me to sleep with another woman, because my morals It dictates that I cannot violate my values, so I protect my character. and if my ethics are in place, my ethics produce my character and my character becomes my lifestyle, remember I told you, you don't get out of your position, you get out of your life.

I want to remember one thing, I mean, you may never see me. again remember this there is no private life that goes through your head quickly you must live out loud thanks to a person of character he doesn't care if you discover his private life if you are afraid that I might find out about your private life you have no character you are a character what is your problem here these people are slow here we have to pray for them you are trying to take a photo now remember if you take a photo of my slides you have to credit me when you use it otherwise you are stealing and if you have character, you don't steal, so every time I usually say, Dr.

Miles Monroe says Hallelujah, here's Desmond Tutu, what a man, when Nelson Mandela got out of prison, they had to deal with some problems. oppression and Desmond Tutu was very active in the sense that he had to manage the process ofSorry, you know, I'm moving too fast right now, maybe I'll come back next year and do some of these things, you see, I just wanted to give you. this last slide write this Vision Without values ​​is Destiny without discipline no matter how great your vision is, it can be destroyed if you don't have values, so your destiny depends on your personal discipline.

Character will always protect your vision. Samson had an amazing vision. God trusted this man, he was supposed to save the people of Israel, but his private life destroyed his public vision every time you decide to do something and you hope no one notices that you are in danger, so never do anything today from now on do not do. I don't want anyone to find out and you will have character and that's what they never taught you in seminary, they never told you that in high school and now you have a double life and I used to.

I wonder why men especially like them superheroes, but I found out eventually that men like superheroes like Batman and Superman because they have two personalities. Each Superman has a clean watch trapped inside. Every Batman has a Bruce Wayne somewhere. Every Samson should have a Joseph inside. I wonder who you are now character Vision protects values ​​sorry vision is protected by values ​​vision is interpreted by values ​​and vision and values ​​are the union of purpose and principles your purpose for your life is your task your principles protect that task so don't do it I violate your principles I am a virgin I have to protect my virginity and I will not sell it to anyone I married my wife at 25 I was a virgin so my wife was nice to ask me why God tells us no Let's have sex before marriage until I found out, my wife and I don't have memories we don't like, yeah, so God says, look, do the right thing so you can enjoy your memories, write that down, look at your face, some of you guys are looking down right now oh oh Dr.

Monroe please guide you to move on quickly yes that is why you must live well so that your memories are happy. God was trying to save you from your memories when he said that living well, character gives you good memories.