EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP (2)

EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP

Hebrews 13:17–19 CSB

Obey your leaders and submit to them, since they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you. Pray for us, for we are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything. And I urge you all the more to pray that I may be restored to you very soon.

Main Idea: Exceptional leadership encourages obedience to truth.

Key Question: Are you living in obedience?

1. Submit to God’s ordained leadership. (v. 17)

A. Yielding to God’s leadership produces fruit in your life. (v. 17)

Hebrews 13:17 CSB

Obey your leaders and submit to them, since they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Hebrews 13:7 CSB

Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith.

John 15:5 CSB

I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.

B. Yielding to God’s leadership produces fruit in your leaders. (v. 17)

Hebrews 13:17 CSB

Obey your leaders and submit to them, since they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.

James 3:1 CSB

Not many should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we will receive a stricter judgment.

Acts 20:31 CSB

Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I never stopped warning each one of you with tears.

2 Corinthians 2:15 CSB

For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

2. Submit God’s leadership to God. (v. 18-19)

Hebrews 13:18–19 CSB

Pray for us, for we are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything. And I urge you all the more to pray that I may be restored to you very soon.

1 Thessalonians 5:25 CSB

Brothers and sisters, pray for us also.

Romans 15:30 CSB

Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God on my behalf.

Ephesians 6:19–20 CSB

Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel. For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough to speak about it as I should.