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Masculine journey after hours time be more transparent on the topic. So sit back and masculine start masculine journey after hours are glad to have you with us today and we are continuing our series on the masculine journey, not the name of the radio show. It's named after the masculine journey which is the different stages radio needed from boyhood to death that men are supposed to go through this right so you went also but about the stage XIII. Today we been through boyhood right, Kelly Ranger lawyer lover an hour into this stage looking for a day for David Keene for a lot of years. The student King. This stage runs from like your 30s to your 60s where you actually begin to have influence in that time where you are. Habit have an influence on whatever spirit that is job all family ministry whatever it may be, may be sent out their Nikon not taking anything we talked about that earlier near show you definitely were all keying students to certain degree, and that's because you have a domain a sphere of influence that you you bring up strength and the power to and or you can bring if you're not a good game. You can bring no core attributes that I could be you know you but you could be a harsh king, you could be a controlling keying which raised my hand flat when it times so this give you an idea on the which what we see in kings, at times, but just to the no discussion of what the King Brett brings her that the stage but what what you see in the stages keying man King is the point of the masculine journey relies on learning from other stages can be trusted with power and rules for his people always get hung up on the way this is written just as it's written in a way is not easy having so now on how it how it's wounded your never given territory of your own territory that was given is violated territory given is too big is made a king too soon. As a domineering mother or father through the trail yeah and you could take some of those in exchange some things out like at night so you made a a an area manager, but the district manager above you is domineering and it's kind of the same kind of things on his mother and father, but it can be played out in the business world. That way, and so were going to go through in the after hours. This is working to share some of our stories pick up more clips and my clip out there right hand first and after in any way. This is from the movie first night and it has a lot of good actors and Richard Gere and it the is my first essay just my feeling in general have Richard Gere with Sean Connery and that makes up for whole life in a Jeremy Irons I think is the bad guy and so that makes up and I said it a good cast, what you have here the first night is into King Arthur story right. You have King Arthur and the roundtable you have Prince valiant.

Who is at once been a night that's kind of fallen away and wants to have a conversation with the Knights of the round table King Arthur offering them a deal and that he won't attack Camelot if they give him the areas outside Camelot and so that's where we pick up the story and were gonna listen to how Sean Connery is King Arthur really does an amazing job would be anything here and it together as friends. You offer me you will know me know what I mean.

No hot you know the law we live by. Where is it written beyond Camelot. The flesh of people.

People too weak to protect themselves, let them die other people live by other little was off or is the goal of Camelot to rule the entire world lost that enslavement laws are set free eyelet what we hold to be right and good and true is right and good and true for all mankind under God will find like a talking piece interval, especially to be found on the unshakable if that much, I offer of that that's probably the best minute 15 second clip that we've ever had and it's a strong one yeah I know I picked you guys get picked up at it. It's such an amazing clip in so many ways and what you don't know is going on there a Guenever, the wife of King Arthur, her family and people are from outside Camelot and so those are the ones that that Prince valiant was going to go attack and kill Antilles fighting for the heart of his bride's beauty easy fighting for the people he's doing the right things for the right reasons and on. That's kinda king that I want to be in all situations and II think you for me there times that I've been able to do that and times.

I definitely not done well with it and I was talking off their little bit ago that that the same dad is the same physical person being me.

At the same dad that raised my oldest Rachel is not the same dad that raise my youngest Eli and I both were flawed but that the one it raised. Eli was a lot less flawed than the one that raised Rachel and I think probably where I did. The biggest disservice to my kids is a never knew what dad they were going to get what King was coming home was that the guy that's can be in a good mood, jovial playing around having fun or guided Snapchat in the first time that something doesn't go the way I think it should be known, so their inconsistency is a caning is a horrible thing at your much better to be inconsistent or consistent bagging Lisa know what to expect in nine there is no hope at that point and they can look for other kings that did it to be a good king consistently is obviously the goal in and where you become a good king. It's not yes it's true effort, but it's leaning into God and it's getting the healing it's getting the wounds and stuff that you have attended to in and healed through those and all the stuff we talked about it to boot camp.

That's over so on about these big campuses. That's where it helps you become better kings and in your life out there also. One more quick thing and maybe more later, but in my career when I look back in my career I've had, I've had both good kings and bad kings that I worked for you before I really can't get my own area bigger than the soccer is rejected on the last show.

Honestly, I learned more from the bad kings and I did from the good kings because a good kings just do it so effortlessly. You don't recognize it.

It just kind of flows and it happens the bad kings you see that it's missing and it does forge something in you that says I don't want to be a king that I may not know how to do it but I know that's not the way to do it right right so you look back at the Kings. It's kind of ending your life and all that. Like I kind of feel like it's okay, but what did you really learn from them right and help you be a better caning from both sides of that equation, you say you talk about the good and the bad kings. There are so few good kings that they do seem to stand out more and I struggle to say what where did I learn more. But as I have so many bad examples that you can come and go through insight in your life you know things at work where it maybe should have been because get a lot of it comes out of pride and arrogance selfishness. It's about me in doing that kindness, especially in the business world less in the family world that I've I've seen that's been fortunate not to have to really go through that on a really bad scale in the family, but as far as in the business world. You know they just need to see bagging after backing up bad king and just all about me and promoting me and where do I need to go instead of worrying about what let me build up those underneath me so that whether I'm here I'm gone. Everything runs well since I would say that although you see it more clearly when it's in the business world, the impact is more drastic in the private when the privates bad.

Yeah, real bad yeah I mean it. It's a left lifetime yeah you kind of thing you you see all these kids where they're good at sports and their loves, stripped away because the dads living through them right that type of thing and interest on and on and on an abusive father verbally, physically, and all this kind of things that the spotter chancellors were talking about healing gases is because of poor kings in the family right are unhealed men weren't able to do it. At that point it's like my dad was just more, just didn't have any emotional size you didn't really purposely intentionally teach me things just I learn through, osmosis. Just listening to him talk to others about stuff for him and my mom talk about topics like I picked up on all this is what's right and wrong, but I wasn't really a Rodney sat down and talked to so that's where you go through the boyhood stage. Most began to boyhood that boy when you get in the cowboy Ranger just that lack of leadership I'm going to intentionally turn you from a boy into a man that just as ramifications this day in my life just continues to echo the good news is God's not that that God coming to my life is been censored. You godsend and I like it just didn't it's completely change my perspective on life and what I look for in life and what I try to get out of life and what I want to do for others. That is myself.

You think as I talked with a lot of men and II see this in my dad's life. After learning more about his dad. I think my dad did everything he could to be a lot better dad than his dad and he did some things really well, but there's a world of difference between being better than the generation before me and being a good king right inside and also don't want anyone out there to feel any shame in this. This is not a shameful thing your work in progress. I and so God can come in and work on those areas and and bring you to a place of being a better and a better and a better king until you are a good king, which is what God has done for me is shown that don't dwell on the past like Rafiki would say Alice go forward and just I just don't feel I can Dragon such a huge anchor anymore.

Of all my past mistakes in we have a microphone in front of you have a club while we will meet new sale before you do it. This is running is a great clip. I really like this clip but is intentionally using it last because all the other ones we used today were stories and King NPR three. I know he lived.

At some point right or whatever, but you're not in our lifetime, and in all these things, and in this is more of a man you would see today right and how he can be a good king yeah and it was really hard for me to figure out how I wanted to approach this week's topic of being a king with a clip because it really being aching encompasses every other stage to some extent and you can either do it while I do it poorly and I struggled with which I wanted to reflect the good, the bad, and I said okay and wanted to find something with the good king Minna Mike will what the heck is a good king you have all these options and site really just fights for the heart of his family, his level and his kingdom.

Those that are entrusted to him and that this clip of John Q came to me is like yes that that I remember the movie and it was like oh you've got a man who was literally fighting for his son's heart because his son was playing baseball collapses on the baseball field. A Russian hospital annexing Milligan announcement that really sounds unindicted and get a new heart, and then he doesn't have insurance that will cover that he doesn't he can get Medicare he can't get anybody to help him or pay for my do anything and he's on his own in his wife's like do something because there are no losers there someone in there just there torn apart and he has to go fight for them maybe doesn't do it in the most appropriate way by basely taking hostages at a hospital and locking everybody in their but what you find out at the end is that he never had even a bullet in the gun. The only time he had one bullet that was for him to kill himself if he had to give his heart to his son in this kind of trailer cavitation to that story a little bit and pending your heart of a father who just wants Veronique into his family. That why you added the additional atonement Rosebud was a slanted in a Bruce Willis was alive the whole time.

It is really the plot not getting on the police department is right. Jesus is all of those a lot of disaster situations that correct which really is a whole story line is that the information gets out as to what he's doing why he's doing it and then you got everybody standing outside the is for the hostage taker is a want his son to live make everybody kind of sees the injustice going on that this innocent child could die because the system is set up the way it is and assist. It's interesting story to try to put yourself in those kinds issues and say what would I do and it's it, I might go out. Who wouldn't who would maybe go often and in this story how he was never really threatening anybody just pretending to but so it was it's really are no cyber threat you don't know it's on the gun so it's just a tough situation that we are called to be, and sometimes as a king. We have to make very tough choices yeah and that's a great trailer because my hearts beating really fast. At the end of the 90 know that that was one that was well done and kinda speaks to something inside that and what would I do in that situation what I have the courage to be a good king outside the conventional what would be right to do in that situation you know he was still being the only way he knew how to be getting an invite for the heart of the sun any indie guys getting king stories you want to share any from King so he'll have some kayaking.

I was just thinking about your family heritage and I think that that clip Rodney had made me think that in but you know I knew my my dad's dad and he was a farmer and which may become a hard man at times here dad and some of his brothers till but it was a survival see Benin. In essence, he was a good man and my father is a good man and I think they ruled whale so to speak and are not perfect and and neck at the but I thought about that. I thought about the heritage that in one of the things that that I got out of the weekend entrenchment the worry, started before that you quoted earlier I think was the Scripture, the apple of your will, in the in the Christian standard Bible. It is translated out as protect me as the pupil of your and what is happened is, is that God is showing me that that you know the pupil is what let's light in your and so to two go back into the wounding and in and that kind of thing is to let more light God's light into the story, so to speak. So God explain to me while my father did this or this is how I this is how I saw this and God's is down, as is well. Let me show you the rest of the story. Kathy, the God because Paul Harvey, I guess so. But those are the kind of things and annually though they are to think I will need a writ of book of the John Maxwell and he says if you think your leader loopback CVI follow and if not, you're just taking a walk for some of us just need you to take a walk, grammatically leading and probably mine was yeah I know that it always lead well in the family was not good king there one that is really sticks out to me because it really contributed a Kia line that appear was that MM maybe I made was made a king to early and became a manager in my mid-30s front for site manager but I really like that and that was kind of.

I felt like I had some influence and some say I felt like a lot of times out. I came up through the ranks to identify what people thought out, but also thought I was probably the smartest guy in the room. A lot of times, and shortly after I got that position. We outsource the loss that position stay with the company went to another one came back thought I was going to be put back in a management role and I'll used to tell people I care about the money and stuff. I this is what some influence. I want to be able to stumble people, but a lot of it probably got into pride and I wanted to be the smartest guy in the room and for whatever reason, I was qualified people like me who, for whatever reason that this never happened and I got tired of waiting and I think God led me to this position, I am.

I just kinda started just individual individual contributor and I realized it was a lot about that time started hearing Morgan talk about taking the lowest seat at the table and just, stepping back. And God has blessed my life so much since Dan and I realized that you know it. The leadership isn't about being the smartest guy in the room. It's not. It's not about you know even influence to just people to do your William, you know, it's about understanding people, but I've had opportunities to go for more roles within my company the management different stuff and I just didn't really put myself out there.

Not that I will eventually make that I think Morgan says that God wants to give power to man, but he wants to be able to be. He wants to know that he can trust him with that power and I think in time, maybe. But that is not my dying need is to be a manager or a king in an area.

I do not have to lead people to lead people exactly will most often, your most effective leaders in an organization are not the people in charge right it's it's other people in the organization that are truly the leaders that set the tone. I don't know if Confucius said this, but he should have too soon old, too late smart. And I think that applies in my life and I thought I was being really great father compared to the fathers as I knew when I was growing up and I have one son kind of agrees that oneness is you stop and so here again I find a lot of comfort in that saying to soon know too late smart is probably for 230. I quickly saw that it is not initiate event activities that it fit on their perfect day along with some numbers. It does mean nothing anybody so questioned. Where can we look to see the attributes of a good king what's what's the Sunday school answer Jesus. Jesus right did everything that he's called King of Kings and Lord of lords Lord of lords, rights of he's the King of Kings means he's the best of being the king. Amen. Right. So what some attributes from Jesus that ended insist on one thing I wanted to add to that that was is the fact that there is a Bible really call us kings and absolutely that is in Revelation 16 money-saving get this appear in our own place though basically says the half made us kings and priests in the God and his father.

So King of Kings would be king. The best writer as his children. Yeah, it's also talked about in Revelation 12 worry when the devil is cast down right think it's referred to is there and that would be a so when you think about the King of Kings and what some attributes of Jesus that would be good for us to emulate lists many attributes, but I just I go back to Danny's clip of you got Simba looking in the water and the father speaking into insight.

Think of you know the baptism is one place in the Transfiguration. This is my son in whom I will please follow him. Listen to him.

That is just you can in Danny's clip there is ours couldn't take get off that because it's like you have a son who knows exactly who he is, is the perfect story right you, these attributes like this is the son who knows exactly who he is in the father's eyes and the father's telling them exactly who he is that perfect relationship between those two and with the Holy Spirit know we get it revealed to us that this is with the sun is what the son is done for you, but just that that pure sacrifice is Roberts probably even start coming yet the holiness and other things. But since that he came here in flash to die for us, sacrificially and gave everything for us that you know we who were his enemies. He loved us before we were ever his and for me, compassion, and I shared the story before but when he reaches out and he touches the leper before he heals in his. He understands the leper has not been touched in years and years and years and that would make other people and cleaning Jesus doesn't care because he wants to attend his heart before he tends to his body and just at that level of compassion. I want to be able to emulate that in and show that others in his. He was not influenced by popular opinion, and we talk about it somewhat, but the reality of it is always think about the stories is were going to Jerusalem and Thomases will go and die with you. This is a bad idea and you popular opinion didn't drive Jesus anywhere. He did what he heard from the five probably just meekness clip which is really strength under control. I mean he in all situations, even though he moved in strength. He also did it in love you and I were throwing her a politically distal honesty speaking truth in love how important that is to be very honest but in a loving way to mask injury.org to register for the upcoming boot camp coming up November 17-20. Again, that's masculine journey.org.

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