Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

All right, go with me in your Bibles to Luke chapter 2 and we'll see how the Lord leads us tonight as we try to go into a little bit more of this revelation.

How many of you in the room were not here last night?

Raise your hand if you were not here.

Wow.

Wow. Okay. All right. This just got a little bit more challenging so you by not being here last night are making

all the people last night hear this again so so they owe you a debt of gratitude actually because

they get a review right because religion told us there will be a test at the end, remember? Y'all remember that?

So when Dutch Sheets was here three weeks ago, on February the 12th, he began to share on the necessity

of cleaning out the corners, right? And he actually said this. The Lord said said I've been sweeping the corners he was

relating that first of all to me in my personal life how five years ago when I came

here although it would have not been noticed by most people he knew because of the

intimacy in our relationship that there was still something way back in the corner hidden

of the fear of man and uh i think it probably was a little bit more obvious than that but he was

trying to make me feel good and say it was hidden but there was no question that was the reality when i

say the fear of man it was still the need to make sure that

people were okay with what the lord was doing and sometimes we as leaders justify the fear of man

by our feeling that we are responsible to lead well.

I am responsible to lead well, but I'm not responsible for the response of those that must also follow well.

You can never measure the greatness of a leader by the number of people that have been willing to walk his way

or Yeshua's leadership would have been an absolute failure because when he gets to the pinnacle of his ministry

calvary four people show up and two of them are kin to him. So when he preached his

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