WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:07.960 This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Audio Broadcast Ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. 2 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:12.839 Today we continue with our series called Doing Business with God. In this 3 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:17.320 series, Rick helps you understand why you work, what you should be working 4 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:22.280 for, and how God can use you in your workplace. Right now, 5 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:28.039 here's Pastor Rickwood part two of a message called standing Out at Work. This 6 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:33.640 last week I sent a letter showed a letter to my staff that was written 7 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:40.600 ten years ago and as a letter telling me from the publisher of Zondervan by 8 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.960 the head publisher there, the head editor guy editing my book that Purpose Driven 9 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.240 Life was a terrible book and that it would never sell. And I sent 10 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:55.320 him the original manuscript and I got this letter. I preserved the letter, 11 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:59.799 and he systematically goes to the book and says, these are all the things 12 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.599 why it won't sell. It's got forty chapters. Nobody reads forty chapters. 13 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.959 It doesn't have enough stories in it. And I said, I'm not putting 14 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.040 stories in it because I want it to be an international book and I don't 15 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.439 want it to just be for Americas. It's got too many scriptures in it. 16 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:18.560 I said, I trust the scripture more than my words, and he 17 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:21.640 had a whole list of things, it's choppy here and on and on and 18 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:25.599 on. And I wrote them back and I had to say, you know 19 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:29.239 what, I value your opinion. And I showed the staff the letter that 20 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:34.359 I sent back to them. I value your opinion, but I believe this 21 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.239 is the way I'm supposed to do it, and I believe I've been directed 22 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:40.400 by God to do it. And if you don't want to do it this 23 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:44.239 way, that's okay. I'll take the book back. I'll publish it myself. 24 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.040 You don't have to publish it. We don't have a contract yet. 25 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:52.319 And I basically held the line, thank you, Oh no, no, 26 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:59.640 no, we want to publish it. Are they glad today? But sometimes 27 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:04.480 you just have to go with a little bit of audacity because God has told 28 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:10.240 you Joseph had a dream. So let me ask you this question. Where 29 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:14.400 do you need to be audacious? I'm not talking about arrogant, I mean 30 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:16.199 audacious. Where do you need to believe God? Where do you need to 31 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:19.759 trust God? Where do you need to step out in faith? Where do 32 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:22.560 you need to think big? Where do you need to take initiative? Where 33 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:27.919 do you need to show risks? Take risks. This is the first characteristic 34 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.439 of Joseph. And you see it if I had time to take you through 35 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:37.960 his entire lifetime where he makes one audacious decision after another in faith, and 36 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:42.120 as a result, he got the promotion of a lifetime. Okay, that's 37 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:46.639 number one. Number two, the second key to getting promoted is not audacity. 38 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:55.120 It's likability. Like ability. People have to like you. If you're 39 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:01.800 going to get promoted, people trust you if they like you. If they 40 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:05.439 don't trust you, they're If they don't like you, they're not going to 41 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:08.240 trust you. And by the way, I tell us to preachers and the 42 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:12.080 teachers, if you want people to listen to you, first, they got 43 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:13.960 to like you. They're not going to listen unless they like you. If 44 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:15.000 they like you, they'll listen. If they don't like you, it doesn't 45 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:19.360 matter how good it is, they're not going to listen. So likability is 46 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:23.240 the second quality for being promoted. Now, the Bible doesn't use the word 47 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:29.719 likability. It uses the word favor. It also uses the word honor, 48 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.199 and it says if you do these things, you'll have the favor of God 49 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:36.759 and men. If you do these things, you'll be favored by men. 50 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:39.199 If you do these things, you'll be honored by men, you'll be respected 51 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:45.800 by men, You'll be likable on each of these six traits. I could 52 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:49.080 have given you fifty or sixty verses out of the Book of Proverbs, but 53 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:53.719 the sermon would be two hours long, so I just kept it to Joseph. 54 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:57.759 But this concept of likability is all through scripture. Now, a lot 55 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:00.719 of people think that likability is just a matter of personality. You're just You're 56 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:04.039 either a likable person or you're not. You're either born with it or you're 57 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:11.280 not. Nothing could be further from the truth. Likability is not personality. 58 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:16.560 It's character. It's choice, it's behavior. It's how you choose to relate 59 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:20.319 to other people. Do you want to be liked by other people? Here's 60 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:24.959 the big secret. Okay, I'm gonna tell you the big secret. How 61 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:30.720 do I be liked by other people? Here's the secret. Like them? 62 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:34.000 That's it. If you like people, guess what, they're gonna like you. 63 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:38.959 If you don't like people, they're not gonna like you. We like 64 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:44.040 people who like us. It's not rocket science, folks. To be likable, 65 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:47.879 you just have to like people. You have to genuinely enjoy them. 66 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:55.360 That's not personality, that's character. It's a choice. It's choosing to be 67 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:59.759 interested in others, choosing to not think about yourself, choosing to be interested 68 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.639 in that their lives, things like that. Here's the definition of likability. 69 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:13.560 You might write this down possessing the attractive attitudes, possessing the attractive attitudes, 70 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:20.360 and those are choices, and the relational skills that cause others to want to 71 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:25.480 work with me. That's likability. You have the certain attitudes and you have 72 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.560 the certain skills that cause people go, I want to work with that woman, 73 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.279 I want to work with that guy. They're fun to work with. 74 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:38.120 There I enjoy being around them. They're likable. And if you are likable, 75 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:44.480 then you have the attractional or attractive attitudes and the relational skills that cause 76 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:46.199 people to go, I want to team up with that person. I want 77 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:53.399 to hitch my wagon to that star, and those are important things. Here's 78 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:57.120 a good example. Joseph in Genesis thirty nine, verses two to four. 79 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:06.079 Joseph lived at the home of Potiphar, his Egyptian owner. Soon Potiphar realized 80 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:13.120 that the lord was helping Joseph to be successful in whatever he did. Potiphar 81 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:18.079 took a liking circle that took a liking to Joseph. He was likable. 82 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:24.480 He took a liking to Joseph, and he made him his personal assistant. 83 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:29.879 Now he takes a guy who starts off as a slave. He's probably doing 84 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:33.360 all he's probably cleaning toilets and taking out garbage and stuff like that. And 85 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:41.959 Potiphar notices this guy's good. He's really good. He's audacious, but he's 86 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.720 good, and he's good, and he takes a liking to him. And 87 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:48.079 so what's he do? He gets promoted? What's he get promoted to his 88 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:54.720 personal assistant? This is not a bodyguard. This is the guy who's running 89 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:59.959 his household. He's his manager, he's his vice president, he's the guy 90 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:08.279 in charge of everything. He's the coo of Potiphar ink he took a liking 91 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:12.839 to Joseph and made him his personal assistant. Now, he says, when 92 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:17.959 we talked about likability means you got to have attractive attitudes. What are attractive 93 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:23.600 attitudes? Are the attitudes that attract people to you? How about this one? 94 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:29.160 Is humility attractive? Oh? Yeah? Do you like being around egotists 95 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.680 or humble people? Humble people. Right, Yeah, so when a person 96 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:38.000 is humble, then you like to be around them. How about cheerfulness? 97 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:43.720 Would you rather be around somebody who's cheerful or a hag? No? No, 98 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:46.000 no, you know you don't want to be around somebody who's nagging you 99 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:50.279 all the time and you know, just negative, grumpy, grouchy. You 100 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:53.800 know, do you wake up grouchy in the morning. No? I usually 101 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.600 let him sleep. You know. The pott of mine is, we want 102 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.680 to be around cheerful people. We want to be around optimistic people. We 103 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:03.240 want to be around helpful people. We want to be around humble people. 104 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:07.079 We want to read around empathetic people. When you tell you say, you 105 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.839 know, I'm not really feeling good today. Oh that's too bad. That 106 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.240 didn't make any friends. So he says, oh, I'm really sorry, 107 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:18.040 you know what's going on, and they're empathetic. Is empathetic an attractive attitude? 108 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:24.720 Yes? And when you find somebody at work who's empathetic to your stress, 109 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:31.279 When you're empathetic with your boss's stress, guess what you're likable. Bosses 110 00:08:31.440 --> 00:08:37.240 like people who are empathetic to their stress, who understand, who look at 111 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.960 it not from their viewpoint, but from somebody else's viewpoint, when you help 112 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:46.960 somebody else succeed, then you're going to be likable. And when you're likable, 113 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:50.399 you're going to go far. Those of you who are younger, Two 114 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:54.440 things I would give you as advice just starting out in a career, in 115 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:58.879 your job, in your vocation. One is, whatever job you get into, 116 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:05.480 find as many mentors as you can. A young person in a business 117 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:11.480 who has four mentors is almost unfirable because those four mentors are going to stand 118 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:15.720 up for you no matter even if you really make a mess. So you 119 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:20.480 get some defensive backs in there who are older than you, who will stand 120 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:22.440 up for you, who will run and block and tackle for you. And 121 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.559 if you get three or four mentors in a business, you're going to go 122 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:31.000 far because not only are they going to protect you from being fired, but 123 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:35.799 they are going to likely help you get promoted because they see themselves in you. 124 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.399 Another thing is, if you find somebody in a business who looks like 125 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:46.360 they're going far, hits your wagon to them. Hit your wagon to a 126 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.559 superstar, and you'll go along the ride with them. So you got to 127 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:56.159 have likability. Joseph was like number three. The third key to getting promoted 128 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:09.240 is capacity, not audacity, but capacity. Now, capacity is the amount 129 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:13.879 of abilities that you've got. And if you're already using all of your abilities, 130 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:20.399 you're not going to get promoted. If you're a four cylinder person, 131 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.039 that's all you've got the capacity for, and you've got a four cylinder job, 132 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:26.840 you're not going to get promoted. But if you keep developing, and 133 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:31.480 you keep growing, and you keep learning and learning and learning and sharpening your 134 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:37.200 skills, then you become an eight cylinder or twelve cylinder person and you're still 135 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:41.000 in a four cylinder job, you're going to get promoted because you have more 136 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:46.679 capacity. You've got to show that you've got capacity capacity to do more. 137 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.600 Let me give you definition of this third quality. Capacity is my potential for 138 00:10:52.720 --> 00:11:00.679 growth, my potential for growth. What is your potential for growth? Are 139 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:03.799 you just going to be the same ten years from today as you are right 140 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:05.600 now. You're going to read any books between now in the next ten years, 141 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:07.879 You're going to take any seminars, You're going to grow, You're going 142 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:13.320 to develop any skills, You're going to learn any relationship skills. It is 143 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:18.279 the potential for growth. It is the desire to keep learning. That's what 144 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:24.559 capacity is, the desire to keep learning. Why so I can increase in 145 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:33.200 competence and so I can handle greater responsibility. I have a friend who walked 146 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:37.120 into a church one time. He was following a pastor wo had been there 147 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:41.039 for many, many years, like twenty thirty years. And this guy went 148 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.399 his young guy, and he walked in and here was the staff, and 149 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:48.919 he drew a line on the board and he wrote a thousand, because the 150 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:52.840 church was running about a thousand and attendants. And then he drew another line 151 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:54.279 that said two thousand. He wrote out here, and he said, now, 152 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.919 I know you all have the capacity to take a church to a thousand 153 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:03.320 and attendance and to love and to care for and to help and manage a 154 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.120 church that size, because you're already doing it. We've got a church of 155 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:09.600 one thousands. What I don't know is do you have the capacity to take 156 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:16.320 the church to two thousand? And are you willing to learn and grow and 157 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:22.200 develop your capacity so you can. We have staff who've been in our church 158 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.639 now for almost thirty years, who've been with me almost thirty years. Why 159 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:31.639 the number one characteristic of staff that has stayed all these is the ability to 160 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:35.360 keep growing and learning, to do new things, not doing the same thing 161 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.480 I've always done, but to do new things and new things and newer things 162 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:43.600 and grow. And all leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning is 163 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:50.399 stop leading. Growing businesses require growing people. The moment you stop growing, 164 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:56.080 then the business can't grow. So you've got to have capacity, my potential 165 00:12:56.120 --> 00:13:01.519 for growth, the desire to keep learning, so I increase incompetence and handle 166 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.480 greater and greater responsibilities. Now, this is what happened with Joseph, And 167 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:09.559 if I had time, it show you how he keeps growing in capacity. 168 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:11.919 First he does this, then he's able to do this. Then he's able 169 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:15.720 to do this. Then he's able to do this. Then he's able to 170 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:20.080 do this, and he keeps stretching himself and he keeps learning and growing. 171 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.080 He's not the same guy he was ten years before. He's somebody totally different 172 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:31.720 because he's got capacity and he's growing and growing. Look at Genesis thirty nine. 173 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:39.360 Joseph naturally became quite a favorite with Potiphar. Soon, Potiphar put Joseph 174 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:45.399 in charge of his entire household and entrusted him with all of his business dealings, 175 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:50.240 and from the day that Joseph was put in charge, from that day 176 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.919 the Lord began to bless Potiphar for Joseph's sake. Let me stop right. 177 00:13:54.960 --> 00:14:03.039 There is God blessing the business you were for for your sake? Is that 178 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:07.639 blessing? Is that church? That business? That organization is? Is that 179 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:16.759 church or blessing organization or business prospering? Because you're there is God blessing that 180 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:20.399 business for your sake? Are you that kind of person? Do you have 181 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.720 that kind of capacity? Joseph was put in George, and the Lord began 182 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:31.320 to bless Potiphar for Joseph's sake. All his household affairs began to run smoothly, 183 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:37.879 and his crops and livestocks flourished. Why because Joseph had capacity. Now, 184 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.159 I'm going to tell you, when Joseph was a slave and taken to 185 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:45.799 Egypt, he wasn't able to handle all that stuff. He had to grow 186 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:48.679 in that he had to learn how to manage livestock, He had to learn 187 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.960 how to manage a household. He had to learn. If you keep learning, 188 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:58.080 you'll keep growing and God will keep blessing. But if you stop learning, 189 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.519 you think, well, that's all I need to know. You don't 190 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:03.399 learn any new skills, you don't take it on yourself to keep growing, 191 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:07.480 It's not going to happen. You're limited capacity. Okay, Number four. 192 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:13.440 The fourth key to getting promoted, we find in the next few verses of 193 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:26.519 Joseph's life is reliability, reliability, audacity, likability, capacity, reliability. 194 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:33.039 Now, of all people, Christians should be the most reliable people in the 195 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:35.559 workplace. Hoybe, I agree with that. We ought to be the most 196 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.559 dependable. We ought to be the most trustworthy. We ought to be the 197 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:48.240 most consistent, the most stable, the most not flaky, steady, consistent 198 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:52.039 people. Christians should be known for. That person's reliable. If they say 199 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:56.039 it, you can count on it. They if they say they'll do it, 200 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.320 it'll get done. It may it may take them, you know, 201 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:03.519 extra hour hours or whatever, but it will get done because that person is 202 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:11.360 reliable. The Bible says reliable communication permits progress. Here's the definition of reliability, 203 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:21.080 earning the trust, earning the trust of others. How by always keeping 204 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:30.960 my promises and fulfilling my responsibilities even if it requires sacrifice. That's reliability. 205 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:37.120 Keeping my promises, fulfilling my responsibilities, even if it requires sacrifice. In 206 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:41.559 other words, this project was given to me, and the boss tells me 207 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:42.960 it can be done in ten hours, And at ten hours, I'm only 208 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:47.159 halfway through it, and I'm going to have to put in the extra time 209 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:52.919 at personal sacrifice to me? Am I reliable? Am I going to get 210 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:55.919 it done? Sorry, it's his job. He should have given it to 211 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:59.600 me sooner. He should have given it to me earlier. He should have 212 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:03.159 given it to me a month ago. Yeah, okay, maybe that's right. 213 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.240 Maybe you're exactly right. But reliability means I get it done, even 214 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:12.920 if it means personal sacrifice for me, and that earns the trust of other 215 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:19.839 people. Genesis thirty nine six tells us this. So Potiphar gave Joseph complete 216 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.480 administrative responsibility over everything he owned. This is okay to the slave a few 217 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:33.240 minutes ago. With Joseph there, Potiphar didn't have a worry in the world 218 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:38.440 except to decide what he wanted to eat. How'd you like to have a 219 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:41.680 job like that? I'm CEO. What do you have to decide? Where 220 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:45.759 we having lunch? What ells? Yet? Nothing? Why? Because Joseph's 221 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:51.440 handling it? Wait a minute, you're getting all the profit. He's making 222 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:53.319 all decisions. Yeah, what's what decision you have to make? I don't 223 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:56.079 have to make one decision? What is it? What do I want to 224 00:17:56.079 --> 00:18:00.960 eat? Really? That's it, that's all you. Yeah, I trust 225 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:06.599 this guy so implicitly. I trust this guy to reliability, I trust his 226 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:12.839 dependability. I trust his trustworthiness so much. The only decisions I've left to 227 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:18.480 me is what I want to eat today. Every other single decision is being 228 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:22.319 made by Joseph, the slave I bought, who came from another country. 229 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:30.160 I trust this guy that much. That is a huge promotion. Every single 230 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.680 decision Potiphar had to make. And he's a very wealthy man. And this 231 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.279 phrase here, he didn't have a worry, no worries. That's about the 232 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:41.559 greatest compliment a boss could pay you. You don't have to worry about it. 233 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:48.160 Why because she's handled You're worried about that coming in now? Why because 234 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.440 he's got it taken care of the greatest compliment a boss can pay you is 235 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:57.400 I'm not worried. That is the greatest compliment a boss can be because it 236 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:02.519 says I would trust them when my life. They are reliable, they are 237 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:06.839 dependable, they are trustworthy, They are steady and stable. They are not 238 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:11.880 flaky. They are reliable. I can count on them. And that's why 239 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:17.079 Joseph kept getting promoted because he his bosses later on, each of the in 240 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:19.599 each of his lives, could say, I trust this guy with my life. 241 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:23.880 When he was working for the warden in the prison, it says Joseph 242 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:30.640 had favor with the prison warden, and the warden put the entire prison under 243 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:37.480 Joseph's care. So you had a prisoner running the prison. Yeah, and 244 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.599 what did the warden have to worry about? What am I gonna eat today? 245 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:48.440 This man knew how to be reliable. He kept his word even if 246 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:52.640 it meant personal hurt, personal loss, personal sacrifice, and he got it 247 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:57.400 done. He fulfilled his responsibilities. That is what gets promoted. Capacity, 248 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:07.799 responsibility, reliability. Number five. The fifth character equality we see in Joseph's 249 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:14.000 life is and it's fifth key to getting promoted is loyalty. Loyalty, and 250 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:19.960 Joseph demonstrates this one in black and white starkness, when the chips are down. 251 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:29.160 Loyalty is a quality that is in short supply in our society day. 252 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:33.680 Nobody is loyal to anything anymore. There's no such thing as brand loyalty. 253 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:38.559 It's what's cheapest. And people aren't loyal to companies or to bosses or to 254 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:44.720 leaders. They're loyal to themselves. It's an old fashioned quality, but it's 255 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:48.160 a quality that it's so rare that when you find it in somebody, that 256 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:52.039 person gets promoted. Now, when it comes to loyalty, one of the 257 00:20:52.119 --> 00:21:00.799 keys to loyalty is you don't talk about your boss behind her back. You 258 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:07.720 don't talk about your boss behind his back. That's called loyalty. Disloyalty. 259 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:14.680 There's another word for disloyalty, gossip. The Bible says God hates gossip. 260 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.240 Do you don't want to do a study, study the word gossip through the 261 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:21.079 Book of Proverbs, and write down all the negative things God thinks about gossips, 262 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:30.359 gossips. God can't stand gossips. God detests God despises gossips, and 263 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.640 he goes on and on and on about it, and he says it destroys 264 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.480 families, it destroys lives, It destroys nations, and on and on and 265 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.799 on. Now, let me just tell you something you already know. If 266 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:47.319 you work in an office, there are no secrets in an office. Quickest 267 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:52.359 way to get something spread to say, this is confidential. Put that on 268 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:56.640 an email. Guess what it'll be on Twitter in five seconds or Facebook, 269 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:03.440 this is confidential. There are no, oh, zero secrets in a workplace. 270 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:07.680 Why because knowledge is power and people like to think they have power by 271 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:12.559 sharing knowledge with other people that they're not supposed to share it with. So 272 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:15.920 I'm telling you this since there are no secrets at an office or at a 273 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:22.079 workplace. If you're talking about your boss, he knows it. He already 274 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.720 knows it. Because there are no secrets in an office, it gets out 275 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:33.400 and people who gossip to you. You take this onto the bank will gossip 276 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:38.759 about you. Anybody who gossips to you will also gossip about you. And 277 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:42.799 the Bible says if you listen to gossip, you were as bad as the 278 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:48.240 gossiper. Do you know that? In California? In fact, in most 279 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:52.240 of the United States, it is a crime to accept stolen goods. In 280 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:56.319 fact, the penalty for accepting buying stolen goods that you know are stolen, 281 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:02.519 ripped, off, pirated is the same penalty as the person who stole it. 282 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:08.240 Gossip deals in stolen goods. It's stolen information, it's stolen reputation, 283 00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:12.359 and when you accept it, you are as guilty as the gossiper. God 284 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:17.359 says. So you don't want to get involved in that one. You want 285 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:22.480 to be loyal. Loyal people don't gossip. Now here's a definition of loyalty 286 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:27.680 I wrote down for you. Loyalty and particular work is being faithful to my 287 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:38.519 boss and to God when difficulty tests my commitment, being faithful to my boss 288 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:47.720 and to God when difficulty tests my commitment. Now circle the word difficulty, 289 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.759 because it's easy to be loyal when everything's going great, when we're not having 290 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:56.680 to lay anybody off, and when there's tons of money and we're making a 291 00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:03.359 great profit and things are going well. Everybody's happy. Everybody's loyal when things 292 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:08.279 are going great. But when the ship goes into the storm, that's where 293 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:15.039 real loyalty comes out. Friends walk in when everybody else walks out. Those 294 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:21.519 are real friends. And when you're down, truly loyal people don't kick you. 295 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:26.400 Loyal people are there not just in bad and good times and easy times. 296 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.240 They're there in bad times. And I will tell you this, because 297 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:36.119 God's more ensured in your character in your career, your loyalty will be tested. 298 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:47.079 That was Pastor Rick Warren with his current series Doing Business with God. 299 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:51.440 Right now, here's Pastor Rick with a closing thought. You know, as 300 00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:53.519 we close today, I just want to say thank you for joining me in 301 00:24:53.559 --> 00:25:00.519 today's broadcast. I want to encourage you in another way through my free Daily 302 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:06.720 Hope devotionals. Are you getting those? These Daily Hope Devotionals are a summarization 303 00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:10.279 of many of the things that I teach on the broadcast. All you gotta 304 00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:12.920 do is just go to my website. You can sign up for the daily 305 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:18.759 devotionals. They're free. 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