How Will You Be Remembered?

In this episode, Sean urges all us to think about how we will be remembered? What defines your legacy? He asks some great questions, gives Biblical and current examples, and gives us a legacy checklist. Don’t miss this one!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Good morning everybody. Today is Sunday, September the twenty first.
Welcome to another brand new, life changing edition of the
ninety four X Kingdom Driven CEO. This is your host,
Sean Copeland, and of course I'm so happy that you

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are here with us today. I've got a wonderful topic
for you that I think will resonate with everybody. But
first let's do a little bit of a week in review.
Obviously there's a lot going on within our country. I
had a wonderful week. I spent the first part of
the week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Victor, Idaho. My

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friend Lee hosted a bank EO roundtable up there and
it was so beautiful and so much fun. It was
great to see my friends there. And then I came
back and went to Oklahoma State University Friday evening to
watch a football game that did not have a great

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outcome for us, but I did really really enjoy the
time with my girls, Kennedy and Emery, and I got
to spend the evening together for Dad's Day and that
was off the charts fun and kind of kind of
brings me to my topic today. And then yesterday I
thought I was going to be headed to Dubai. A

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long story on that one, but the trip ended up
getting postponed, and so we had a nice day here
at home with Angela and I kind of catching up
on some things. It was awesome. So looking forward to
today and I'm excited to start it out with you
here with today's a topic, which is how will they

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remember you? And let me tell you what kind of
what got me thinking about this A couple of things.
Number one, as I mentioned to you last week, and
we had a huge listenership last week. We're now over
fifty three thousand listeners and we have this is our
two hundred and third episode, believe it or not, of

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the Kingdom Driven CEO, so exciting. And last week I
was talking a little bit about the Charlie Kirk dynamic
and how my son is the one that told me
about Charlie being assassinated. And one of the things that
I immediately thought of when he told me was would

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you rather live a life for thirty one years and
have an amazing impact or would you rather live a
full life and have no impact. Jesus obviously lived short lives,
so did Martin Luther King, so did John F. Kennedy.
So did many of our people that have had the

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greatest impacts on our world lived shortened lives because they
oftentimes died for what they believed in. So the question
is how will you be remembered? Everybody wants to leave
a legacy, but just to be honest, most of us
would just settle for leaving the TV remote where someone

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else can actually find it, or not having our legacy
be the leftovers in the back of the fridge that
could probably walk out on their own. Some people leave
in inheritance, others leave instructions, some leave memories, others frankly
leave messes. I am experiencing this with a business partner
who passed away unexpectedly, and it is absolutely a mess.

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But the truth is, whether we realize it or not,
all of us are. We are leaving a legacy. It's
not will we leave a legacy? It is happening right
now in real time, And the question is what kind
of legacy will you leave? How will they remember you?
I really want you to think about this today, and

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I'm going to give you some scripture foundation for how
you should be remembered. So on one twelve, verse six says,
surely the righteous will never be shaken. They will be
remembered forever. Proverbs thirteen twenty two says a good man
leaves an inheritance to his children's children. John fifteen sixteen

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says Jesus said, I chose you that you should go
and bear fruit, fruit that will last. Legacy, as you
may see here, isn't about money, it isn't about monuments.
It's about faith. It's about love, and it's about in
in fluence that outlives you and me. Let's look at

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some examples in the Bible. So Abraham God had promised
him descendants like the stars. His legacy wasn't wealth, it
was faith. And I want to read to you from
Romans four twenty twenty one. This is Paul, but he's
talking about Abraham against all hope. Abraham in hope believed

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and so became the father of many nations, just as
it had been said to him, so shall your offspring
be without weakening in his faith. He faced the fact
that his body was as good as dead since he
was about one hundred years old, and that Sarah's womb
was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief
regarding the promise of God, but with strengthened in his

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faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that
God had power to do what he had promised. This
is why it was credited to him as righteousness. Abraham
had such remarkable faith and believed in the Lord and
obeyed in the Lord so much that it was credited

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to him as righteousness. Really, no, there is really no
higher legacy than that of Abraham. Now let's take a
look at David. His legacy wasn't just being king, it
was being a man after God's own heart. Again, let's
take a look at Acts chapter thirteen. Then the people

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asked for a king, and he gave them Saul, son
of Kish of the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.
After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified
concerning him, I have found David son of Jesse, a
man after my own heart. He will do everything I
want him to do. Now, I want you to think

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about these two guys for a moment. Abraham and David.
They have been gone for thousands of years, okay, thousands. Today,
it is very difficult to find someone whose legacy lasts
beyond a generation or two. Think about your great great
grandfather or grandmother. Do you know anything about them at all?

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It's it's very hard to go past about two generations
and leave any type of meaningful legacy. But theirs has
lasted all these thousands of years. Why because they were
so obedient to God. Even when God would call them
to do very difficult things, they did it. Now, let's

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take a look at Timothy's grandmother Lois and mother Eunice.
Their faith became Timothy Timothy's faith, and as you know,
he had an enormous impact along with Paul on Christianity.
Sometimes the greatest legacy isn't public, it's personal and it
is generational. So here's what it says in two Timothy

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one to five. I'm reminded of your sincere faith, which
first lived in your grandmother Lois and then your mother Eunice,
and I am persuaded now lives in you also. So
your legacy may be the faith, or the skills or
the confidence that you place in someone else. Part of

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what got me thinking about this is both of my girls,
as part of Dad's day, wrote notes to me, little
letters to me, and they were in an envelope you
grabbed it off the wall. It looked like most of
the girls did this for their dads. It was very
very special. And yesterday I read those and it occurred

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to me that that is so much more meaningful than
anything else that I would do personally. What is the
impact I am leaving on my children? So you may
be sitting there today and saying, well, you know it's
too late my children are old, or we don't have
a good relationship. It's never too late. I would encourage you.

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I feel like the Lord is calling me to tell
you it is time to reconcile. A big part of
your legacy is your children. Now, one final piece of
legacy here we want to talk about is Methuselah. He
lived nine hundred and sixty nine years and what is
his legacy? Every old Testament trivia game in the history

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of mankind he is in it. So that's his that's
his legacy. So let's think about some real life examples
here for just a moment. And again, our goal here
is for you to think about how will you be remembered?
What do you want to leave behind? Because you may
be the next Charlie Kirk. You don't know, you may

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be the next game changer for our country. You may
be the next person to unfortunately lose their life early.
We don't know how much time we have left here
on this earth. So let's think about Martin Luther King Junior.
This is a man who dreamed beyond his own lifetime.

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His I have a dream speech became a legacy that
is still shaping the world today. He was so and
I know. None of these gentlemen that I'm gonna mention here,
and I can do the same with ladies. None of
them are perfect. None of them are perfect. Abraham made
bad decisions with hey guy, David, we know made bad decisions.

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Martin Luther King, I know has come out that he's
done things that weren't perfect. Same with the next couple.
But that's not the point. The point is he was
so bold and felt so passionately about civil rights and
the fact that all people were created equally and should
be treated equally. John F. Kennedy had a legacy of vision.

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He said, ask not what your country can do for you,
but what you can do for your country. He placed
the vision for us to go to the Moon to
take leadership back in space. John F. Kennedy had a
short life, but he had a very, very long impact.
Charlie Kirk had a young, bold voice for truth and

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for faith. Again, you may not agree with everything that
Charlie Kirk said, the same with me in my life.
Everybody's not going to agree with everything that I do.
But he is a great reminder that legacy is not
about age. It's about obedience, and it is about courage.
You don't have to be famous, by the way, to

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leave a legacy. You don't have to be rich. You
just have to live in such a way that when
people mention your name, you have left an impact. The
room didn't just go quiet and awkward because there's nothing
anybody remembers about you. One of the best ways to
leave a legacy is how people feel about you. If

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you've ever been to a funeral, what you will notice
is that the person's accomplishments will take approximately five percent
of the time. Ninety five percent of the time will
be about how they made other people feel. So let's
go through now as we close, let's go through kind
of a legacy checklist if we could. Okay, and I

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just want you to think about each of these in
your own life and think about where you stand in
these areas. Number one Faith, Do my kids and friends
know what I believe? And in whom I believe and why?
If you're listening to this podcast, there's a very good
chance that you have that faith is important to you.

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It's the Kingdom driven CEO. You're most likely Christian, or
maybe you're not, but maybe you have another faith that
is very very important to you. Do other people know that?
Is it something that you are living out as you know?
This is something I am very very passionate about. So faith,
Do my kids and friends know what I believe and why?

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To love? Am I known for how I treated people?
Or just how I treated my golf score card? Or
did I do what it took to get to the top,
or you know, did I care about people at all?
Or just money and possessions and status and that type
of thing. Number three Service? Am I just serving myself?

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Or am I serving others? This one is pretty cut
and dry and it will definitely separate us out here.
Number four Courage? Am I standing up for truth even
if it cost me? This is a tough one for
a lot of us. And I don't mean jumping on
Facebook and saying mean things to other people. I'm talking

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about taking a real stand, putting money, time and energy
behind something that is important to you, making a difference.
And I can tell you something that is becoming very
obvious to me, and that is that those people who
are passionate about fewer things and put the resources behind

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fewer things are much more impactful than those of us.
And I am guilty of this, of being involved in many,
many things and kind of spreading our resources and time
around and then finally just humor in our personality? Do
I bring joy into people's lives? Because, let's be honest,
nobody ever said what I love most about Grandma or

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Grandpa was how serious they always were. How do we
make other people feel? Hebrews twelve Mine says, since we
are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let
us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
So someday, when they talk about you, they may not
remember your job title, or your GPA or your golf handicap,

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but they'll definitely remember how you made them feel, how
you pointed them to Jesus, and what you stood for. Okay,
I want you to think about this. How did you
how do you make people feel, how do you point
them to Jesus? And what do you live for? Don't
just leave a will leave a way, a way for

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others to follow. Christ live today like someone's legacy tomorrow
depends on it, because the truth is it really really does.
So thank you so much for listening to this episode
of How Will They Remember You? I hope that it
impacted you the way it did to me. It really
made me do a lot of thinking this week. And

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you know, let's use this, no matter how you feel
about Charlie Kirk, Let's use this senseless murder to make
us reevaluate our lives, our spiritual lives, our impact in
this world, our relationships, and let's, as he always say,
let's let it be a turning point in our lives

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and in that of our country. Today. Thank you so much,
and let me close this out in prayer. Dear Heavenly Father,
we are all leaving a legacy right now. Part of
why I love this podcast is because it's my little
way to leave a legacy that my kids and grandkids
and great grandkids can listen to forever. So Father, I

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pray that we would reach a turning point, that we
would turn back to you that we would obey you
and even in such a way that we could be
like David and Abraham and remembered for generations and generations
because we were completely sold out for you. That's what
I ask I asked that for my life. Father. We

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love you, We thank you for all the blessings, and
ask for you to please bless our country in Jesus' name.
A man and I want to thank you all so
much for joining this two hundred and third edition of
the ninety four X Kingdom Driven CEO