1 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,360 This is ERC Sundays, the messages at Emmaus Rd. 2 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:14,240 Church in DeWitt, Iowa. ERC is a Church of people 3 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,320 striving to grow in Jesus and make him known to others through 4 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:21,520 our faith, words and actions. Find out more about our church 5 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,360 at emmausrdonline.org. Here's this week's message. 6 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:30,440 Great. OK. 7 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:34,120 Yeah. All right. 8 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,360 Spoilers. I'm not the hero. 9 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,920 We are starting a three-week series this week called Made in 10 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,040 His Image. This week we're looking at 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,080 biblical manhood. Next week is going to be 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:53,080 biblical womanhood and then the third week is going to be all of 13 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,400 us as children of God. Obviously some of us are quite 14 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,480 literal life stage children right now. 15 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:03,120 At one point we all were and we are all constantly children of a 16 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,360 loving heavenly Father in this life. 17 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,000 So those are the next three weeks. 18 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,360 And I just want to talk about a little bit about what this is. 19 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:14,200 You might you might hear that and be like, OK, biblical 20 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,000 manhood, half of you in this room are not men. 21 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,160 I get that. And God made you that way and 22 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:25,520 that's great. So how does this morning look 23 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,480 for me if I'm not a man? Well, I hope some of the things 24 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,120 that we glean from God's truth this morning for those of you 25 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:40,160 who are wives informs the relationship that God designed 26 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,880 for your husband to have with you and you with your husband. 27 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,640 For those of you that maybe aren't yet married or or even 28 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,000 you young girls right down here. And I don't want to like just 29 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:57,040 put you on the spot, but you can be listening for how you should 30 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:02,920 be looking at in your future, someone to marry, how men should 31 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,720 be interacting with you, how men who are after Jesus's heart. 32 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,720 Will pursue you. In a biblical worldview, in 33 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:18,320 God's truth, in God's design, Because see what gets twisted. 34 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,000 About what we're going to. Look at the next few weeks. 35 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:28,280 We let our emotions, our feelings, our experiences and. 36 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,360 Quite honestly, this. World. 37 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:36,280 Define and inform. The roles of men and the roles 38 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,480 of women. And I'm not. 39 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,240 Going to pretend like those things aren't real and that 40 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,400 those things don't affect how we think about these things. 41 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,040 But if you were to, if you were to go look to make some changes 42 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:58,160 to this building, if you were to go look at adding on or maybe 43 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,320 changing the roof or or. Changing up where? 44 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,640 The bathrooms were or where the kitchen was. 45 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,320 You're not going to go look at the plans for another church in 46 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,080 town and base your plans off of that. 47 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,560 You're going to look off. The blueprints of this building. 48 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,840 You're going to look off the foundational designs. 49 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,880 Of this building. To inform how. 50 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,400 Then you're going to live. How? 51 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,920 Then you're going to proceed and plan, right? 52 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,520 That's what we're doing this week. 53 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:35,080 We are looking at God's Word, the foundation for how He 54 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:40,640 designed manhood, not how sin and the world and society. 55 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:45,520 Have twisted it. But what his original intent was 56 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,720 and how ultimately it's fulfilled in Jesus, the only man 57 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:59,400 who lived like a man perfectly. So that's what to be on the 58 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:04,680 lookout for. If you're maybe not a man, you 59 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,600 can still glean from this men. I've been laboring over this 60 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,360 message all week to be honest with you, because there's some 61 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:19,440 heavy-handed stuff in here. There's some gut wrenching, soul 62 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:24,240 searching, guilt inducing stuff in God's word. 63 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,560 Because I can tell you from experience, I'm not the hero. 64 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,320 I don't have all of this perfectly licked and lived out. 65 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,000 That's not why I'm up here, because I'm the perfect example 66 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,360 of living this out. That's not it. 67 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,840 I am up here to share what God's Word said about it and how I'm 68 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:49,840 still working through it too. How I'm still trying each and 69 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:53,320 every day to be the husband and father and leader that God 70 00:04:53,320 --> 00:05:00,080 designed me to be. So, guys, we're going to start 71 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,840 in this verse in First Corinthians, and I want you to 72 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:09,840 hear this sincerely because there's not judgment coming from 73 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:13,400 up here. I'm right in these trenches with 74 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,480 you. First Corinthians chapter 16. 75 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,680 I do have the clicker, but it's not clicking. 76 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:23,960 So if you want to be my clicker, there it is. 77 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:30,200 OK, This is where we're going to start because it's actually 78 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,720 where I think we should end. And I want you to see what's 79 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,720 coming. Paul writes in his closing 80 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,120 remarks in his first letter to the Corinthian church. 81 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:41,960 Be watchful. Stand. 82 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,760 Firm in the faith. Act like men. 83 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,760 Be strong. Let all that you do be. 84 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:54,520 Done in love. Hold on to. 85 00:05:54,520 --> 00:06:00,320 That verse men especially because you might hear words 86 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,240 from up here this morning that sounds like judgment. 87 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:08,720 I hope they are laced in love. I'm not perfect at it. 88 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,000 I want to do it right by God, right along with you. 89 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:24,040 OK, so this morning though we started with Paul's remarks and 90 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,840 conclusions of how men should act. 91 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:33,320 We are going to go back to the beginning, to Genesis, and we're 92 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:39,240 going to look at 5 different ways that God intended men to 93 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:47,720 be, what His plan for men is. The first is that men are 94 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,200 created in God's image to reflect His character. 95 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,120 Genesis 1. All the way back to beginning. 96 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:00,400 Verses 26 through 28 then God said, let us make. 97 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,440 Man in our image. After our likeness, let them 98 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,720 have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of 99 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,200 the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the 100 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,920 earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 101 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,480 So God created man in his own image. 102 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:19,920 In the image of God, he created him. 103 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,200 Male and female. He created them and God bless 104 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,520 them, and God said to. Them be fruitful and multiply 105 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,280 and fill the earth. And subdue it. 106 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,360 Have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of 107 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,760 the heavens, and over every living thing that moves on the 108 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:44,240 earth. If we're firstly created in 109 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,680 God's image to reflect his character, this is going to be 110 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,920 something that's actually shared next week. 111 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:58,040 And I'm not telling Pastor Chris what he needs to preach on, but 112 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:04,080 it's in there that though he created them, male and female, 113 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:09,680 distinctly separate and having distinct roles, they're both 114 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:15,920 created reflecting God's image, made in God's image to reflect 115 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,840 his character. We do that in different ways, 116 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:25,480 but that's the purpose He has in creating each of us. 117 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,040 Men and women. Are designed to reflect. 118 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:35,320 God's glory, His wisdom, His creativity, His moral truth. 119 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,120 And that's lived. Out in having dominion over. 120 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:43,440 The fish. Of the sea, the birds of the 121 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,120 air, over every. Creeping thing. 122 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,800 He created us with responsibility over the earth 123 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,000 that He created. He also gave us a. 124 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,920 Mandate to be fruitful and multiply, to fill the earth and 125 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,440 subdue it. If we are all image bearers of 126 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,240 God and reflecting. Him wouldn't. 127 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,440 He want to fill his creation with him, right? 128 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:17,120 If you were God, that's the chief purpose of your creation. 129 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:19,760 To reflect him and his. Ways to? 130 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,040 Pass that down generation to generation. 131 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:30,920 To your offspring, all this responsibility points to care, 132 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:38,080 not domination, though that word subdue carries. 133 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,560 An innate. Responsibility and care you are. 134 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:45,280 Stewarding these. Things this responsibility that 135 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,640 God has. Given us over now, that's the 136 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:50,360 original intent. Has that. 137 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:52,680 Certainly been distorted. In. 138 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:55,640 Various ways throughout. The course of history, yeah. 139 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:02,120 Sinful man has moved to a culture of of. 140 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,200 Domination and submission. Or just complete. 141 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,440 Control without respect for God's authority. 142 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,320 In various ways. But that's not the way that God. 143 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:17,640 Designed it. Moving on a little. 144 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,360 Further. In Genesis 2. 145 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:24,720 We see this calling expanded. Men are called to work and 146 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,960 guard. Genesis 215 The Lord God took 147 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:32,600 the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and 148 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,400 keep it. These Hebrew words here that 149 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:39,200 that we translate into English as these phrases work it and 150 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,280 keep it work. It means to cultivate, develop 151 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:47,520 and make fruitful. You're not just there to to keep 152 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,400 it as it is. You are there to care and 153 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,400 nourish and multiply the goodness that God has created. 154 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,080 That phrase, keep it. It's the Hebrew word shamar. 155 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:04,040 It means to guard. Protect and watch. 156 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:10,840 Over God established men for purposeful labor, for 157 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,840 productivity, and for protection. 158 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,160 Later on, the first time we see this phrase in the. 159 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:24,800 In the creation account verse. 18 of Genesis 2, God said that 160 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,120 it was not good. For man to be alone. 161 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:32,560 Everything else to this point, God saw that it was good. 162 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,800 God looked at his creation and and called it good. 163 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,000 Named it good. Yep, nailed that. 164 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,640 The one thing that needed to be amended? 165 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:49,680 Was man being. Alone he created Eve. 166 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:54,600 Then. As a helper fit for Adam, not a 167 00:11:54,720 --> 00:12:04,520 not a servant, not a less than a helper to compliment Adam named 168 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:09,320 the animals received his wife in verse 24 of Genesis 2. 169 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:11,920 It says, therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and 170 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,720 hold fast. To his wife. 171 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,520 And they shall. Become one flesh. 172 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:23,720 All the way back at creation, God established what marriage 173 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:26,840 looks like. He established the priorities of 174 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,560 OK, yes. Parents. 175 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,520 Children. Honor your parents in their 176 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:38,280 household, but when you grow up and move out and move off. 177 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:43,000 And become. Husband and wife, those 178 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:49,640 priorities shift. There's that one flesh union in 179 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:53,480 marriage. Husbands and wives, you are now 180 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,280 after your relationship with God, your relationship with each 181 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:01,680 other is that next box that's established all the way back in 182 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:07,760 Genesis 2. So men called to work and guard 183 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:09,880 all of. Creation What God? 184 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:11,960 Tasked you with your wife, Your family. 185 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,040 Sounds like a lot. It is a lot. 186 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,560 The third. Way that God designed men. 187 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,800 Designed for sacrificial. Leadership and we see that. 188 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,600 Lived out. In marriage. 189 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,400 It was not good for a man to be alone. 190 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,920 And if Eve was created as a helper A. 191 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,960 Compliment for him. Not not an inferior lower 192 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:51,880 helper, but something. To enhance and. 193 00:13:51,880 --> 00:14:01,890 Partner their relationship Ephesians 5 sets the. 194 00:14:01,890 --> 00:14:07,200 Table for this further verse 20. Three, the husband is the head 195 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,640 of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. 196 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:14,000 His body. And is himself its savior. 197 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,400 Now as. The church submits to Christ, so 198 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,400 also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 199 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,960 Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave 200 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:29,160 himself up. For her, this passage and really 201 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,800 the entirety of Ephesians 523 through 33. 202 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,400 You can you can look at this husbands and wives, I encourage 203 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:36,920 you to go back and study this further. 204 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:41,120 We could spend weeks on just these 10 verses for this 205 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,760 morning. I want to point out what's here 206 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,120 and what's not here. What is here. 207 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:54,600 God established a hierarchy of authority and guys. 208 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:56,760 That's that's good. News and bad news. 209 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:01,040 Good news is you're in charge and you're supposed to be in 210 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,960 charge. The bad news is you're in charge 211 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,440 and you're responsible to be in charge. 212 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:12,560 And do it the way God designed it, not the way you would like 213 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:18,760 to. The husband is the head of the 214 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:23,280 wife. I know culture would tell us 215 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,000 that women can do everything that men can. 216 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,840 Do and I'm. Not here to get in a whole. 217 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,760 Discussion, diatribe about all about all of those things. 218 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,440 What I am going to say is God. Made men and women different. 219 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,720 With different strengths, with different giftings and with. 220 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:44,800 Different responsibilities he did establish. 221 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,040 Men as the head. How though as? 222 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:50,640 Christ is the head of the church. 223 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,400 That's the bad news, guys. That's what we have to live up 224 00:15:54,400 --> 00:16:01,800 to is how Christ led the church. Wives Now Now as the church 225 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,440 submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in. 226 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,280 Everything to their. Husbands again. 227 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:12,000 There's that buzzword submit in there, but let's dial it back a 228 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,440 little bit. As the church submits to Christ. 229 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:25,000 So church, all of you here this morning, do you feel oppressed 230 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,480 in your submission to Christ this morning? 231 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,160 I hope not. You shouldn't. 232 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:39,320 That word has been taken and twisted 4 wives to their 233 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:49,000 husbands as breaking free from any form of of of domineering or 234 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,360 of decision making. And has been. 235 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:56,000 Given to women to entitle them to break free. 236 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:02,680 In their own truth. Now I know there is a laundry 237 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,440 list of examples of men. Who have? 238 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:11,760 Exploited this passage who have led in a in a non God honoring. 239 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,880 Way. In enforcing submission. 240 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,640 For their wives, that's. Not what I'm talking about. 241 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,520 That's not what God designed. Husbands, wives, you are 242 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:26,359 designed. Husbands to. 243 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:28,160 Love your wife. As Christ. 244 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:28,960 Loved the church. What is? 245 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,000 What does that look like? Well. 246 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,160 That means you. Don't come first. 247 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:44,640 You come, you come last in all the things you place. 248 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,880 Her needs? Your children's needs before 249 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:54,440 your own. Sacrificial leadership that you 250 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:58,280 are laying yours your life down daily for. 251 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:05,560 Those that God entrusted you with when you're wrong. 252 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,360 When you sin against your family. 253 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:11,760 When you get angry at your children. 254 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:19,640 When you're just lazy and tired and don't want to do the things, 255 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:25,720 you own it. You are the first repenter. 256 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,520 You are the first to say I was wrong. 257 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:33,240 And I'm sorry, even when you're tired and you don't want to do 258 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,240 things and you didn't get your way today or this week or this 259 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:41,120 month, not even once. Now, you might say that doesn't 260 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:44,200 sound very fair. It doesn't. 261 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,080 There's one place in existence that is fair, and that is hell. 262 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:55,520 Fair is getting. What we deserve. 263 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:00,640 Everybody in hell is getting what their sins deserved. 264 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,360 Even those in heaven are getting an eternal. 265 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:09,240 Life that we did not deserve. And I know that those words. 266 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,400 Don't just. Automatically heal. 267 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,960 Whatever, whatever struggle or or whatever frustration you may 268 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:22,600 have in your life, men. But we're not allowed to make 269 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:28,840 excuses. We can have excuses, but there's 270 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,560 nowhere in any of these passages that we're going to look. 271 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,480 At that. Gives a mandate to men and and 272 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,120 has a cop out. And has. 273 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,080 A. Unless your dad didn't model it 274 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:42,520 this way for you. Unless. 275 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:47,680 Your wife is not fulfilling God's calling on her life for 276 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:49,520 how she should be in relationship with you. 277 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:56,040 Unless your kids just don't listen to you at all there, 278 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:57,960 there's no cop. Outs in this. 279 00:20:03,730 --> 00:20:04,890 And that's. The bad news? 280 00:20:04,890 --> 00:20:09,770 A little bit, guys. That we are in charge, but that 281 00:20:09,770 --> 00:20:15,490 Jesus is perfect, standard and model is ace of the test. 282 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,920 I can't do that. And I'm not saying obviously, 283 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,840 that any of you can. That's the scary part, that we 284 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:36,530 are going to fall short. Biblical headship is not 285 00:20:36,690 --> 00:20:41,370 domineering or selfish. It's sacrificial servant. 286 00:20:41,370 --> 00:20:47,890 Hearted and sanctifying men, we. Lead in God's design by loving, 287 00:20:47,890 --> 00:20:52,690 deeply providing, protecting. And pointing our families to 288 00:20:52,690 --> 00:20:55,640 Christ. And that's ultimately how we. 289 00:20:55,640 --> 00:21:00,720 Do it, guys. It's going back to that. 290 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,600 First point that you were created in His image to reflect 291 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:09,040 His glory. He is your strength. 292 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:15,440 He is your sustainer. In order to. 293 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:21,880 Come close to doing this? Well, you've got to be in 294 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,360 relationship with him. Constantly. 295 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:29,000 Consistently. It's not. 296 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,240 An easy thing for guys especially to do. 297 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,120 Any of you who are strong willed really to. 298 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:39,320 Do to admit a. Dependency to admit. 299 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,320 Your weakness. Or shortcoming. 300 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,440 We don't like doing that. That's vulnerability that we as 301 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:51,480 people just we don't like. But that's what God called us. 302 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,600 That's why God created us in His love. 303 00:21:54,800 --> 00:22:01,120 He created us to depend on Him. Any fighting or uncomfortability 304 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:05,320 we have with that is going against His. 305 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,880 Design his creation. He made us. 306 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:15,200 To depend on him. So, men, that's the only hope we 307 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:22,080 have in leading like Jesus does, because what's at stake? 308 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:27,200 Well. Men are called to fatherhood. 309 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:33,320 And spiritual instruction be. Fruitful and multiply, we just. 310 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:39,960 Read in Genesis. Paul goes on in Ephesians 311 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:44,840 chapter 6 to bring your children up in the discipline and 312 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:51,200 instruction of the Lord. Teach them diligently. 313 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,240 Other words all the way back in the old. 314 00:22:54,240 --> 00:23:01,520 Testament in Deuteronomy 6 Bring your children up in the 315 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,080 discipline and instruction of the Lord. 316 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,600 Fathers, in God's design model godliness. 317 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,640 Your words, your work ethic, your integrity and your prayers 318 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:17,200 shape the next. Generation and remember. 319 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:22,720 Even those in your household they ultimately belong to. 320 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,280 God. You are their steward. 321 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,160 You are their caretaker on earth. 322 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,600 Of course we. Should be guiding them home to 323 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:41,600 their heavenly Father. Finally, men. 324 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,720 Are. Created to glorify God. 325 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:50,480 In strength and love. This is where we started. 326 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:51,560 This is where we're going to end up. 327 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:57,400 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men. 328 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,600 Be strong. That all that you do be. 329 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:09,040 Done in love, we could have spent all morning on this one 330 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:16,360 verse. I'm going to encourage you all, 331 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:26,080 if you haven't yet, there's a whole book on these two verses 332 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,680 here. If you've been coming to 333 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,880 Thursday night Men's ministries, we worked through this in the 334 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:37,160 fall by Pastor Joby Martin. He takes these verses and writes 335 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,320 a diatribe on what it means to stand firm and act like men. 336 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,280 It's out at the ERC pic shelf there. 337 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,840 I'd encourage you to pick it up, but I will let you know. 338 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:52,400 Man, this is not a feel good book. 339 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,760 It's a good guide. It's it's a blueprint for what? 340 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,080 Biblical manhood. Looks like. 341 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:05,520 It's going to beat you up. It's going to make you feel 342 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,840 guilty about the shortcomings that you have in biblical 343 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:15,880 manhood. But it lays out what a man after 344 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:22,280 Jesus's heart looks like. So if you're ready to grow some 345 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,440 discipline, to grow some direction. 346 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,560 For how you're living like a man to glorify God. 347 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:37,000 This is a great place to start. I'd encourage you to go through 348 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,320 it with some other guys though too. 349 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,440 He even by chapter 3, I think that's one of the tasks at the 350 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,640 end, is, hey, you're going to need 3 or 4 buddies to go 351 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,640 through this with you because that's also part of God's 352 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:52,800 design. The Bible says that as iron 353 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,280 sharpens iron, so one friend sharpens. 354 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:02,120 Another we're not. Meant to go through this alone. 355 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:07,600 God created us for dependence on Him, but also dependence on 356 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,800 others, on brothers, women, you too. 357 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:19,080 You need sisters, you need some, you need some gravedigger dead 358 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,520 body people in your lives, then have no questions. 359 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,200 And I'm not not saying go make dead bodies. 360 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:38,700 I'm saying when you are in the worst of unthinkable situations, 361 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,560 do you have people that are there for you, no questions 362 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,360 asked? Do you have brothers and sisters 363 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:51,880 in Christ who as as as those men on the roof, lowered their 364 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,560 friend on the mat down through the roof to Jesus and by their 365 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,600 faith? They literally brought their. 366 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,000 Friend to Jesus. Literally moved. 367 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:07,240 Him to Jesus's presence because they knew He was what their 368 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,880 friend needed. Do you have those mat bearers, 369 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,200 men and women? Do you both have those mat 370 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,440 bearers in your life? Because I know I get it. 371 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,440 I can say the words up here that were built. 372 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,960 To depend on God. And I know sometimes that feels 373 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:30,080 like it's empty. Sometimes you're stuck there 374 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:34,480 wondering how and when God's going to answer what you feel 375 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:39,000 like you need. You might be in a situation. 376 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,080 Where you're asking God to get you out of a situation you're 377 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,320 asking God to. Change your circumstance. 378 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,440 He might have you in that because he's trying to change 379 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,160 you. He's trying to grow you. 380 00:27:54,280 --> 00:28:01,480 Build you up. In dependence on Him, because He 381 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,440 is how we live and move and breathe. 382 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:13,960 So this is. It 5 steps easy. 383 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:26,800 It's not, but it's important. We have a good and gracious 384 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,480 heavenly Father as our example. We have Jesus Christ, his 385 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,000 perfect Son. We have a Holy Spirit. 386 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:41,080 We have a helper who is our sustainer, who is who we should 387 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:50,000 depend on in all these things. It looks really good in a 5 388 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:55,440 point list. I promise it's even simpler than 389 00:28:55,440 --> 00:29:00,600 that. This is the blueprint right here 390 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,600 for all of life. I brought I brought up this book 391 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,360 because it's maybe a. Little more digestible. 392 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:11,400 And specific. But God's words are enough. 393 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:18,600 There's power in these that are enough to establish a foundation 394 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:28,840 of God's strength into you men in the Word, in prayer, we need 395 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:33,880 to depend on God together, and that's what it looks like, 396 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:40,360 setting our wants aside, putting Him first in all things so that 397 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,280 his strength. Flows. 398 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,320 Into all these other areas of our life. 399 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,080 It's by His word and by His Spirit He can do it. 400 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,360 We have to declare our dependence on Him. 401 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,840 Thanks for listening to the ERC Sundays to support work God is 402 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:09,800 doing an Amazed through church, visit amazedonline.org/giving.