What Makes A Good Leader In The Kingdom NOT Of This World?!

A good worldly leader is not a good leader in the body of Messiah.

Our flesh wars against the Spirit. This is always the case.  This means in Yeshua's kingdom, our strength can easily be our weakness. Everyone else thinking I'm a great leader doesn't mean God does.  I need to learn to think like God.

Paul, when he was Saul, was a very strong worldly leader.  It was only in coming out of that strength that he became a good leader in the body of Messiah:

Philippians 3:3-12 NLT — For we who worship by the Spirit of God are the ones who are truly circumcised. We rely on what Christ Jesus has done for us. We put no confidence in human effort, though I could have confidence in my own effort if anyone could. Indeed, if others have reason for confidence in their own efforts, I have even more! I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a pure-blooded citizen of Israel and a member of the tribe of Benjamin—a real Hebrew if there ever was one! I was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the strictest obedience to the Jewish law. I was so zealous that I harshly persecuted the church. And as for righteousness, I obeyed the law without fault. I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith. I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead! I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.

Paul literally made a point of praying his way into weakness, like Yeshua did:

2 Corinthians 13:4 NLT — Although he was crucified in weakness, he now lives by the power of God. We, too, are weak, just as Christ was, but when we deal with you we will be alive with him and will have God’s power.

Paul didn't teach everything he knew. Yeshua didn't do everything He could.  He didn't turn the stones into bread. He didn't raise Lazarus or keep him from dying when everyone thought He should.  He didn't call on 12 legions of angels. He didn't tell his servants to fight for His kingdom... Because it isn't a flesh kingdom, it's a spirit kingdom.

Right now the earth has a Spiritual problem, called the lack of 'God's leadership.' Strong leaders in the flesh cannot help with that!  The spiritual problem manifests in physical symptoms.  But, the actual disease is about man trying to live without God.

The best leaders in Yeshua's kingdom are those who refuse to even try to do anything without God.  God uses the weak things to reveal His strength.

John 5:19 NLT — So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

This isn't a new covenant reality.  This has always been the case.  Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Daniel, and on and on ... What these individuals have in common is faith and a weakness that needed a miracle.  David wasn't the best, until God got a hold of his weakness and taught him meekness.   The same is true of every great person in the Bible.  Even Yeshua refused to use His strength.  If He would have, He would have disqualified Himself from being the Messiah.  

Hebrews 4:15 NLT — This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.

We must crucify the flesh and follow HIM. The whole world longs  to be stronger than the others around them.  Yeshua is entirely different. He had ALL the strength, laid it down, and said, "follow me back into being a child." 

False witnesses try to stir the body into organization and strength.  That is like Babylon.  True leaders become witnesses of GOD's strength through their own weakness.

1 Corinthians 1:25-29 NLT — This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength. Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.

Human strength is being judged right now.  If we want to endure the judgment well, we would be wise to let ourselves be attracted to meekness and not strength.  Those who love the strength of man will worship the antichrist, thinking they are serving God.

Those who love meekness will follow the lamb and inherit eternal life!

Matthew 5:5 NLT — God blesses those who are humble,

for they will inherit the whole earth.

Proverbs 25:6-7 NKJV — Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king,

And do not stand in the place of the great; For it is better that he say to you,

“Come up here,”

Than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince,

Whom your eyes have seen.

Luke 14:7-11 NKJV — So He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them: “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him; “and he who invited you and him come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man,’ and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place. “But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you. “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Right now the Lord is evaluating who will live with Him forever. Many who appear to be first now, will be last.  Many who appear inconsequential now are choosing to be first!  Choose what kind of kingdom you'd like to live in, and God will give it to you!

Living with the proud (which is usually a fig leaf covering insecurity), boastful, busy, striving, burned out, and perpetually-self-important is exhausting.  Living with the meek is fun, refreshing, life giving, and rewarding.

You get to pick.  Do you know which group Yeshua hangs out with forever?!