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     How it affects your leadership mentality. You begin as a person an innocent baby and the moment you were born your culture, your family, your environment and your educational system begin to form your belief system and that could be beneficial or detrimental. Myles Munroe  writes:

 

If your culture and your environment do not teach you the truth then you will believe a lie even about yourself and your belief system becomes your personal philosophy out of which you influence other people.  That's why the foundation of your public leadership is determined by your private belief system and that is why you must challenge your ideas about yourself.

This is because you came out of history just like I did when we were formerly oppressed by colonial imperialism, which taught us some ideas that were not true about ourselves. You were trained to be maids, yard men, farmers, and workers on plantations and serving tea and cooking for people.  You are not trained to own a business and build a company and lead a country and buy your own oil field or invest in your own gold mine.

 

 It's always somebody else doing it because you've been trained that you cannot and should not try to own an oil company and so we accept the idea our philosophy says we cannot own that so we have been trained to be an employee, not an employer.

 

 The fact is that we've been so brainwashed by the wrong philosophy that we are afraid to own things. We are afraid of success even though the religion we were taught, reinforced our lack of self-belief.

Let me show you a picture of a little boy. This little boy came from a broken home his father abused him. His father was religious, but yet beat him, and hurt him and the little boy grew up with a twisted belief system about God. Do you know who this little boy really is? The little boy looks so innocent doesn't mean he is, but the boy really is. That boy’s name was Adolf Hitler.

 

Hitler’s philosophy was very serious because he believed in an idea that he picked up from the Romans. The Romans had the belief in conquering and dominating the world.

 

The Romans had Hitler believed that he was born and chosen by God to restore the Roman empire. He believed that he was created and born to bring back the glory of Rome and therefore he had to subdue all of Europe because Rome ruled the whole world from Africa all the way to England. Rome was the most powerful empire and kingdom in history.

 

Rome was the first kingdom to colonize the whole world no kingdom has ever arisen to be greater than Rome. Rome was the most successful colonisation process in history. Hitler believed that he was born to restore the glory of Rome.

Where did the Romans get their ideas from this is important to think about leadership. The Romans conquered the Greeks. The Greeks were the ones who invented the philosophy of leadership that controls our world today. Jesus was born under the Roman empire in a Roman colony controlled by Greek ideas.

 

The Greeks were the most influential philosophers in modern history. They were the ones who invented the ideas that control the world right now. As a matter of fact, the Roman empire adopted the Greek philosophy when they invaded Greece. The Romans were so powerful that they conquered Greece and destroyed the Greek empire but they did not destroy the Greek libraries.

The Romans were smart people they took the Greek libraries and adopted the Greek ideas and philosophy of leadership and so the Romans became Greeks in thinking but Romans in military power.   

 

Every colonization process carried the Greek idea. The Greeks believed that leadership was a product of natural endowment. You know about the Greek philosophers who changed the history of the world.  Let me give you a few of their names, Plato was a very powerful Greek thinker, likewise, Aristotle and Socrates, among others. These are the kinds of thinkers who gave their ideas that control the world today.

 

I always tell people that the world is ruled by dead men. These people left their ideas with us, ideas that outlive humans and their ideas more powerful than death. I’m going to quote one of their ideas. The Greeks invented the idea of democracy. The word democracy is not from the Bible. The Greeks developed the idea of what they call politics. Politics is the Greek word ‘Polis,’ which means the city-state. It's where we get our word politician from.

Jesus Christ was born under that policy the Romans adopted the idea that leadership was a product of natural endowment. The Greeks believe that some people were born naturally endowed with certain distinguishing factors that made them superior to others. 

 

The Greeks believe that leadership is a product of birth traits. They believe that certain people were born naturally endowed to be leaders because they had certain traits that made them superior to other humans. For example, they believed that if you were born with a sharp nose and blonde hair and blue eyes and thin lips you are automatically a leader.

 

They also believe that if you were born with fair skin that means if your skin was light fair and you had a sharp nose and blue eyes and your hair was yellow or blonde you were naturally a leader. And that means that you were chosen by the gods to be a leader.

 

If that's true, there's no hope for me because I got a big nose, my eyes are brown, my skin is dark and my hair isn’t glowing. Greek says if you were born without a sharp nose and light skin and blue eyes and blonde hair, then you were automatically a slave.

 

This assumption suggests there's no hope for you to be a leader because you have the wrong skin, nose, eyes, and the wrong hair. The Greeks also believed that leadership was a product of providence.

 

The Greeks refer to the word providence as the gods. They believed in many different gods and that if the gods chose you to be a leader, then you were automatically superior to everyone else. If the gods did not choose you to be a leader, then you were automatically a slave and a follower for the rest of your life.

 

The Greeks also believed that leadership is a product of a charismatic personality.  The word charismatic is a Greek word that means charisma. It means gifts of the gods. What this implies is what they refer to as the gifts of the gods. The gifts that the gods gave a person make them very confident, extroverted, light personality, talkative, and communicative and they had extroverted attitudes and are exuberant.

 

If you were quiet and timid and not extroverted then the Greeks say you are a slave and this is why when the Romans conquered the Greeks and adopted this idea, they told the slaves they must be seen but not heard. And I am only supposed to see you when I need you and you never speak leadership ideas.

They believed that leadership was reserved for an elite group of people who were destined to be leaders in the world and the rest of us were destined to be followers.

The Romans adopted these ideas and made them their culture. The Romans conquered all of Europe from Africa to Scotland they conquered the whole of Europe and they implemented their ideas so when they met people who were not like them - who didn't have blonde hair or light skin or sharp nose or blue eyes then they automatically considered them sub-humans.

 

The Romans used the word for themselves, they carry the mentality that they are superior and chosen by the gods. They call themselves the Aryan race. The Roman empire ruled the entire known world from Africa to Great Britain the most powerful kingdom on earth. They believed they were hand-picked by the gods with certain traits to dominate the world.

 

Do you know how Rome was defeated? No one could defeat Rome. It was the most powerful empire in history, it had the most powerful army in history no country could defeat. Rome militarily was so powerful that when Rome showed up everybody bowed and that's why you hear the statement, ‘When in Rome you do as the Romans do.”

 

Wherever they went they colonised the place. Jesus Christ was born right in the middle of the Roman empire. He was born in an empire that believed that he was automatically a slave and that's why they treated the Jewish people through whom he came as dogs. Jesus Christ was born in a colony just like me. He was born subjugated by a powerful colonial power called Rome, just like me, He was taught that He was born to be a second-class citizen. He was taught that he was born to be subjected. He was taught that as some soldier in the Roman empire asked you to take your cloak off and give it to them you had to give them your clothes that they were cold.

 

He was taught that when a woman walked in, you stand up and bow. He was taught in the Roman soldier gave you his shield to carry for a mile, you got to take it. He was taught if a Roman soldier got tired of carrying his spear, he could say here take it from me, and you have to take it. He was taught that He was not a leader but a slave.  He was born in a colony just like me. Jesus Christ was born under that culture but never allowed the culture to be born in him.

 

The Roman empire was not defeated by an army but rather by immorality. History teaches that the Roman empire was destroyed by the loins of their leaders. Their sexual life destroyed them. They died from the inside. They decayed from immorality. Their leaders practiced homosexuality and even slept with boys. they fell in love with their lust to the point where they became so immoral that they began to have men marrying men.

 

 They were destroyed by the lusts of the flesh. When a country begins to embrace immorality, its demise is on the way. When a country begins to sanction immoral acts that God condemned don't worry about their country they are dying. No matter how powerful your guns and military weapons are if your morality becomes cancer your weapons become useless.

 

Rome died in the bedroom and so the Roman empire fell apart, it broke up through strife. When the Roman empire fell apart, it broke into small kingdoms. It used to be one kingdom, but now it became many kingdoms. These are some of the powerful kingdoms from the Roman empire after its demise, they are today’s countries of France, Spain, and Portugal. Another kingdom that came from the Roman empire was Great Britain – controlled by England.

 

Interestingly, all of these kingdoms have the Roman philosophy and they decided to expand their kingdoms and so the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and British send their ships out.  They are Roman in their minds, Greek in their thinking and they come to take over territories so they began to invade islands and continents.

 

 They came to the Caribbean, Africa, and Central America and went out to South America, and then they came to the Pacific and brought with them their philosophy. What's their philosophy, What the Greeks taught, they are superior while you are inferior. Your nose is big, your skin is dark, your hair is not blonde and your eyes aren’t blue and your lips are thick. In their subconsciousness, the gods gave you to them to be their slaves.

 

So, why educate a slave, why give a slave nice clothes, why give a slave property, why to give a slave authority, why give a slave money, why give a slave a future philosophy so is the story of colonization. It's easy to sell a slave after all they're not chosen by the gods.

 

Every philosophy comes from an ideology. Ideology means ideas and every ideology needs theology to justify it. So, every time there's a philosophy and an ideology there must be a theology to give it credibility and this is why religion was used to even justify the ideology of superiority.

 

Do you know what they taught us when I was a child, they said to me you fell out of the sky, we had no idea where we came from, we were taken away from our homeland and we had no history and we'd ask the white teacher where did we come from and they would say you fell out of the sky.   You have no heritage you are one of the fallen angels' theology. They say look the Bible says that the beast of the field shall carry water for you and you are the beast that God talked about to carry water for me. 

 

I want to correct hundreds of years of history. I did research on what happens to people who have been oppressed for over a hundred years and I discovered that they all have the same problems I used a case study of the children of Israel in Egypt they were oppressed for 430 years and when they finally came out of Egypt, they couldn't get Egypt out of them and as soon as they got independence or should I say deliverance from Egypt. Moses was their leader and even Moses had psychological problems.

Remember Moses was born in Egypt but you remember that when they came out of Egypt, they didn't go into freedom they were just delivered don't confuse deliverance with freedom. It is not freedom they were delivered from Egypt, they were independent of Egypt, but they still weren't in the Promised Land. People need a new kind of mentality.

Here's my philosophy of leadership, it's the opposite of the Romans.

1-  I believe that trapped in every person is a hidden leader.

2-  I believe that every human being was created to lead and design to dominate.

3-  I believe leadership potential resides in every human being.

4-  I believe that you were born to lead but you must come through a process.

5-  I believe that true leadership is not doing things but manifesting yourself.

6- I believe in all my heart that the purpose of true leadership is not to maintain      

    followers but to produce other leaders.

My philosophy helps me believe in your equality, not your inferiority where did I get my philosophy from, I got it from the one who created all humanity, and here's the bottom line, Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 says, God said let us make man how in our own image and in our likeness, why, to let them have dominion over the fish and the birds and the animals and the trees and over all the earth and all that creeps upon the ground.

 

Why did God create you to have dominion, He didn't say let some of them have dominion, He said let all of them be dominators. So, the purpose of your creation is dominion and therefore dominion is the most important word to you. Verse 27 says, so God created man in His own image, male and female He created and blessed them, and said unto them have dominion which means male and female are equal before God and they are both dominators.

 

The word dominion is the Hebrew word r-a-d-a-h and it means to govern, to rule, to control, to master, to manage, and to lead in other words, God gave you birth to have dominion over the earth to lead.

 

Here's the bottom line, If God created you to have dominion, which means to govern, to rule, to control, to lead, to master then that means, He built into you the ability to do it. God built into the seed the ability to become a tree but the seed could die as a seed because it's in the wrong environment.

 

For 180 years some of our countries have been in the wrong environment, we've been fed Greek ideas and so we can't come forth. I use this to tell that you aren’t superior to anyone, but that you are a leader, a dominator, a ruler, a governor, a master, and a controller. Every human being is a leader trapped on the inside.  

 

You know that the Romans and the Greeks love to lord it over one another. True leaders don't own people they set people free to become great. If you want to be a great leader you must become the servant of everybody and that means true leaders serve their gift to everybody it doesn't mean becoming subservient, it means serving yourself to your generation to give your gift to humanity.