Introduction: Who do you think is the greatest leader? No doubt, Jesus Christ was the greatest leader that ever lived. Though He was God in the flesh, He was obedient to His Father’s will. And though He was God, He was led by the Spirit. In fact, both Matthew and Paul wrote concerning His life. (Heb 5:8; Matt 4:1,2)

“8Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.”

“Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.”

But how did Jesus demonstrate leadership (influence)?

1. He Prayed!

“And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. 23And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.” (Matt 14:22,23)

Without prayer, there will be no good fruit.

2. He read the Scriptures!
(Luke 4:18-20)

“18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.”

Reading the Bible will make one wise.

3. He mentored His disciples!

“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart…” (Matt 17:28)

Deliberate discipleship works.

4. He taught them what was to Come in the future!

“3And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you…” (Matt 24:3,4f)

There’s Hope for the future!

5. He promised to come back again!

“1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:1-3)

Are you ready?