"IMPORTANT LESSONS OF LEADERSHIP" with Rabbi Brian Baruch Bileci

TEHILLIM / Psalm 78:1 O my people, listen to my INSTRUCTIONS. Open your ears to what I am saying, 2 for I will speak to you in a parable. I will teach you HIDDEN LESSONS from our past-3 stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us. 4 We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord, about His power and His mighty wonders. 5 For He issued His laws to Jacob; He gave His INSTRUCTIONS to Israel....52 But He LED His own people like a flock of sheep, GUIDING them safely through the WILDERNESS. NLT
B’MIDBAR / Numbers 16:1 Now Korah [Korach ] the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men. 2 And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men. 3 They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?” 4 When Moses heard it, he fell on his face, 5 and he said to Korah and all his company, “In the morning the Lord will show who is His, and who is holy, and will bring him near to Him. The one whom he chooses He will bring near to Him. TLV
HOW TO LEARN TO BE A LEADER THAT CAN BE GUIDED:
1. HONOR LEADERSHIP AND GUARD YOUR ANOINTING
B’MIDBAR / Numbers 16:6 Do this, Korah and your whole following! Take for yourselves censers. 7 Put fire and incense into them in the presence of Adonai. Tomorrow the man that Adonai chooses will be the holy one! You sons of Levi are the ones who have gone too far!” TLV
SH’MOT / Exodus 30:30 “Put the OIL on [ANOINT] Aaron and his sons to give them for service to me [consecrate; sanctify them], that they may serve me as priests. 31 Tell the Israelites [ sons / children of Israel], ‘This is to be my HOLY OLIVE OIL from now on [throughout your generations]. It is to be put on people and things to make them ready for service to God [for ANOINTING]. EXB
TIMETHEOS ALEF / 1 Timothy 5:22 Think carefully before you [quickly or hastily] appoint someone to LEADERSHIP [ LAY YOUR HANDS on anyone - 4:14]; and don’t share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure. EXB
TIMETHEOS ALEF / 1 Timothy 4:14 Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was given to you through prophecy with the LAYING ON OF HANDS of the elders. TLV
TEHILLIM / Psalm 105:15 “Touch not My ANOINTED ONES, and do My PROPHETS no harm”...23 Then Israel came into Egypt, Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. 24 He made His people very fruitful, and made them more numerous than their foes. 25 He turned their hearts to hate His people, to deal shrewdly with HIS SERVANTS. 26 He sent MOSES HIS SERVANT, and AARON, whom He had chosen. 27 They performed His signs among them-miracles in the land of Ham. TLV
THESALONIKIM ALEF / 1 Thessalonians 5:12 Dear brothers and sisters, HONOR those who are your LEADERS in the Lord’s work. They work hard among you and give you spiritual guidance. 13 Show them great respect and wholehearted love because of their work. And live peacefully with each other…19 Do not stifle the Holy Spirit. 20 Do not scoff at prophecies, 21 but test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good. 22 Stay away from every kind of evil. NLT
2. GUARD YOUR LIPS AND CHOOSE YOUR WORDS WISELY
Numbers 16:8-14
LASHON HARA:
1. Miryam spoke evil against Moshe
2. The 10 spies spoke evil of the Promised Land with a negative report
3. Korach, Datan, and Aviram spoke evil about Moshe and Aaron
4. 250 Reubenites were swallowed up with them through their influence and evil tongue of gossip
Proverbs 18:6-8,21
1 Peter 3:9-11
Proverbs 8:2
3. WALK IN THE SPIRIT AND LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LEAD
Numbers 16:25-33
Psalm 106:13-18
Galatians 5:16-17,25