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Men's Quest for Significance and Christ's Controlling Love 0:05 Men, if you call every man your home for getting in, getting healthy, getting strong, and getting going, then we have a special ask for you. We need men like you to stand in the gap with us as we take back territory for0:17 God's kingdom with our new giving campaign. We're calling it the 12 for 12 giving campaign, and all it takes is 12 dollars a month for 12 months. Now your commitment and0:28 donation will help us reach our 20 city goal with our dangerous good conference in 20 21. And we can't do this without your support. Now if you haven't noticed, every man is on the move, and we've been able to build0:40 an army of strong men that are choosing Jesus over the world. You know why? That's because of people like you that help our ministry thrive, especially in these difficult times. So will you0:52 join us and commit to donating 12 dollars for 12 months? Every dollar equals change, not only in the men, but also change for the women, children, and communities connected to these men. Thank you in1:04 advance for your support and God bless.1:12 Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a Bible, I want you to hold 2 spots. 1 in second Corinthians chapter 5 and the other in Galatians 2. Second Corinthians 5, Galatians 2. For those of you who1:24 are joining us for the first time, we're in a series called the inner man. And what we're saying is really simple that every man watching today, every man that you see today as you go through1:36 your day, every man you know is hardwired by God to secure significance, worth, acceptance. Alright? Every man that I know wants to1:48 be seen. He wants to be known. He wants to be appreciated. God has wired us to sense and experience that as men. Now that quest for2:00 significance and worth and acceptance, that search that every man is on, that can be expressed in healthy ways or unhealthy ways to get the need2:12 met. That quest, that search is at the center of spiritual warfare because identity and2:23 the energy that goes with adopting an identity that we perceive gives us that significance and worth. Alright? That can be from god or that can be from2:35 the devil. You see, you can discover in this journey for significance on the inside. God's truest truths about you, about his plan. You2:47 can align with your creator. You can align with God, and it can bring life to you. Or if the other forces out there2:59 are winning this journey that you're on, you can be duped by the devil's dysfunctional and cultural lies. And when you get3:11 duped into chasing significance and worth, out in culture, you are tracking with the devil's dysfunctional plan and that always leads3:23 not to closeness with God, but actually distance from God. And it doesn't lead to life, it leads to death. It leads to spiritual death. It leads to relational death. It could3:35 lead sometimes, many times, to physical death because as Jesus called him, he's a liar and the father of lies and a murderer. So his lies about your significance3:47 and worth and his synthetic path to significance will lead to death. God's path involves your perception3:59 about yourself coming from knowing that you're already fully loved, fully accepted, and fully identified with him4:11 in Christ. The devil's path involves yourself perception, alright, coming from performing. So there's a there's a dichotomy4:22 there. I already know I'm loved by God, the most important thing. I'm accepted by God, and I'm fully identified with his love through Christ, alright? And that's permanent,4:34 alright? But then the devil's path, which comes from chasing love, chasing significance, chasing worth, and the summit never happens. You think you're gonna get4:46 there, then it moves, you think you're gonna get there, and it moves. And then what happens there is that I gotta keep performing. Alright? Now, god's path produces a deep4:57 maturity, alright? Because you're at peace, you have rest, you can learn. The devil's path out there in culture when it comes to significance and worth produces immaturity. Why?5:09 Because that path gets you focused on yourself. You're restless. You're focused on yourself. You're chasing worth and significance, which means that you're naturally self5:21 absorbed. And here is the inner consequence of these 2 different paths that I've just laid out. Alright? 1 path leads to permanent peace.5:33 Right? You know what the other path leads to? Permanent anxiety and restlessness. Why? Because significance and worth is elusive.5:45 So there's the context for this series. And so we're really diving in to how your inner man works. We're getting God's mind on how your inner man works, how your inner5:56 man is impacted, how your inner man is motivated, and that's what we're gonna do at the top here. If you have your notes, you're gonna wanna pull those out right now. And if you don't have them, just know that you can6:08 download them. There's a download button right there on the every man site, under this session. And then what we do is we get God's mind, sort of how does God think about, our6:20 inner person and what impacts us and what motivates us. Then we kinda come up with a core theme, and then we'll dive deeper, into sort of the inner journey with Christ. So we're gonna start6:32 today in second Corinthians chapter 5. I told you to hold a spot there, and we're gonna look just sort of in a general way of what is the game changer for you on the6:43 inside? What has the power to take over all your energy, take over, all of your purpose, lead to a mature,6:56 expression of masculinity starting from the inside. So let's look at second Corinthians chapter 5 verses 14 and 15, and we'll see what the Bible says. It says this, Christ's love7:09 controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.7:21 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ who7:33 died and was raised for them. Just as a general headline before we deeply unpack it, here's what you need to know about Christ's sacrifice. The Bible says that Christ's7:45 sacrifice masters our motivation from the inside out for all that we do. The Bible says Christ's love, listen, controls us. How? From the7:57 inside out. Now Jesus, expressed this in a couple of different places. Right on your notes in John chapter 10 verse 11, Jesus says this, I am the8:09 good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep. So you have shepherd and sheep. You have a close connection8:21 between shepherd and sheep. Christ's sacrifice bonds us to Christ the savior. Christ the shepherd, Christ's sacrifice.8:34 Christ's sacrifice bonds us to Christ the savior. So it's just this picture of internal relational closeness. Okay? Talks about8:46 Christ's sacrifice and its bonding power and takeover power on the inside of a man. In Galatians chapter 2 verse 20, the apostle8:58 Paul just talking about the effect of Christ's sacrifice upon him and how he now lives his life. He says this, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego9:11 is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I'm no longer driven to impress God.9:23 Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not mine, but it is lived by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself9:35 for me. I am not going to go back on that. You see how in the life of God's man, Christ's sacrifice is the engine. It is the9:46 engine of motivation. It is the engine of faith. Jesus put it into pictures and parables. The the apostles talked about it. Paul is talking about9:58 how Christ's sacrifice has just totally taken over his inner man so that he's not performing for men because of Christ's sacrifice.10:10 He's living out his faith in the son of God who loved him and gave himself for him. Paul's love and loyalty tracks with the man who expressed love for10:22 him and loyalty to him, through sacrifice. So let's just unpack 3 truths from what we just read from those 3 scriptures from second Corinthians 5 14 and10:34 15, which talks about Christ dying for us so that we won't live for ourselves anymore. Write this down. Sacrifice shocks us internally. You know, I remember,10:47 when I was dating my wife in college, we met together. She shared with me how she had been in Westwood, which is next to the campus of UCLA. In a clothing store. She saw10:58 this jacket, but it was way too expensive. And, and she couldn't buy it, and and so we left lunch and went to class. Well, I told her I was going to class, but I went down to that store, and I bought her that expensive11:10 jacket with money I didn't have, and it was on her bed when she came back from class. And I remember her discovering that and it shocked her. A, that I was listening,11:22 but, b, that I would sacrifice my own time and resources and energy. And you know what she said? She said, you would do that for me?11:34 That's what Christ sacrifice spawns inside of us. When we look at it and when we recognize it and we take the time to see what he did,11:46 it begs the question. You would do that for me. So sex sacrifice shocks us internally. Second, sacrifice convinces11:59 us emotionally. So if there was ever a doubt in Chrissy's mind about kinda where my commitment was headed, her thoughts about me. What I12:11 did on that day, while small and just kind of a a personal action, it began to raise her own12:24 sense. And she began to get more convinced emotionally about me that if he's willing to do that, he must be serious about me. And, man, isn't that what all our12:36 women wanna know? But it comes through sacrifice, where they actually see us saying no to ourselves and yes to them. But when you think about it on the12:47 spiritual level, right, when Jesus says, I'm the good shepherd, the good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep. Hey, man. I'm you do that for12:59 me. I'm the sheep. You're the shepherd. You sacrifice yourself. You got me. Okay? I'm convinced. And that's what Christ's sacrifice is intended, to do. Third,13:11 sacrifice wins strong commitment relationally. Right? It's like glue in a relationship. Where's my love and loyalty gonna go? Right? I'm sticking with Jesus. Alright?13:23 Why? Because he volunteered to be tortured and crucified so that my sins could be forgiven, so that I could have a13:35 purpose for living, and I could have a home in heaven. I'm sticking with him. And that's sort of the core part of how13:47 God's man thinks and operates in the inner man. We we had the game changed when we came in contact with this man who13:59 sacrificed himself, shocked us. It convinced us emotionally of God's commitment to us. And, man, it won our relational commitment. So here's your inner man fact. Write this down.14:11 Sacrifice secures my complete trust and confidence. Right? If I'm convinced and I'm committed, right, that means I'm confident. Right? What he did14:23 makes me trust him. Alright? Now, trust and confidence in Jesus for what? Well, trust and14:35 confidence when he points us in a certain direction, when he gives us a command. Trust and confidence to make the necessary changes personally. The necessary transitions14:47 in our commitments and in our decisions and in our maturity to meet the challenge. Trust and confidence to meet the challenges of becoming God's man. More importantly, becoming like Christ. And that's where14:59 we're really gonna go into our next deep dive. In part 1, what I wanted to do is just to get you oriented to how God is evaluating you on an inwardDefeating the Inner Boy: Battle of Ways 15:11 level in that dimension, not on your outward image level or in your performance or in your activities. He's he's evaluating your inner man, and your inner man is what we need to work on. In part 2, we talked15:23 about sort of preparing to do the work on the inner man, we gotta clean out our inner man. We all have spiritual blind spots, but we can get clean on the inside from those blind15:35 spots by exposing the lies we believe. Right? Expressing sorrow for the behaviors that those lies produce in our life, renewing our commitment to truth and and repenting through action. And so15:46 now, in part 3, we're kinda coming to that place like, alright. I'm ready. I'm in the ready position. Where do we go now? Well, now we gotta accept the inner challenge. And what inner challenge is that? It's15:58 your inner man, listen, defeating your inner boy. And I know you know what I'm talking about. There's that side of you that needs to grow up. I have 1. I hope you do.16:10 And I wanna grow into the man. And the way we do that is by becoming mature in God's love. So that's what we're going to do. We're gonna talk about your inner man defeating your inner16:22 boy, what the Bible says about that, and what the key to it is. And the first key is we have to understand that maturity in God's love is a battle of ways. Write that down. Maturity16:35 in God's love, because that's that's that's what changes us from the inside out and calls us to maturity. Maturity in God's love is a battle of ways. Alright? On your16:47 notes, it has a verse from first Corinthians 13 11. And this verse is gonna kick us off on this journey into maturity. It says this, when I was a16:59 child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind17:10 me. So the Bible says that a relationship with God, once begun turns into an exchange of ways. Alright?17:22 A way of being, a way of believing, and a way of behaving. It's this process of you growing mature on the inside. Now just to give you a little bit of context, I17:34 watched a YouTube video called toddler tantrum after missed putt. And so you can imagine a toddler on a regulation green with his dad.17:46 They're probably out there, you know, in the twilight time. And this kid is lining up a 1 foot putt. Here's the cup. And as you imagine, he's like standing here and he's got his oversized, you17:58 know, club and his little ball. He fully expects to sink this putt, a, because it's a give me putt, and, b, he's a toddler. It's all supposed to work out for him. So18:10 there's his expectation, but then here's what happens. The ball starts heading toward the cup, and it and it lips out. And then you just watch this process go on, this dis18:22 dismay. It's it's this brain, body. In neuroscience, they call it a stress response, and that's where your amygdala, sends a distress signal to18:34 your sympathetic nervous system and your hypothalamus, and that activates your adrenal glands, which pump epinephrine into your body. And this is all happening in a toddler in 1.518:45 seconds. And what follows is a sustained physical and emotional reaction that is better known to all of us as18:57 a temper tantrum. Now this kid's temper tantrum was so good. He got 4000000 views in 24 hours. I mean, he jumped up and down. He flopped on the ground. He moved19:09 his hand. He screamed. He he made his body, rigid. And it's it's really, you know, it's cute. You would expect that. They don't call him the terrible twos, for nothing.19:21 But, you know, we all kinda think, yeah, he's gonna grow up out of that. He's gonna he's gonna grow up out of that emotionally on the inside. He's gonna grow out of it. He's gonna become a man.19:33 Right? The world hopes so. Right? The world hopes that he doesn't bring that kind of inner maturity to his adult19:44 life. And what we're saying here when we talk about maturity and God's love being a battle of ways, how we talk, how we think, how we reason, and putting the ways of19:56 childhood behind us, we all know that, when you have, man sized outsides, in other words, you know, you're older physically, you have more responsibilities20:08 professionally or or or relationally, Your man size outsides with boy side insides is a recipe for disaster. In other words, you won't20:20 have the character to meet the demands of your man size realities, whether that's a relationship with a woman, whether that's job20:32 pressure and job responsibility, whether that's your commitment to your family and to your kids and so forth. You gotta be grown up on the inside to match20:44 your outside. So that's the first thing we have to recognize is that maturity in God's love is a battle of ways. Secondly, we gotta recognize that maturity in God's love requires livingGod's Acceptance, Intimacy, and Complete Masculinity 20:56 in God's acceptance. Now see, remember in the introduction to today's session, I talked about how you can secure real peace and worth and acceptance21:08 from God, which is permanent, and that permanent acceptance gives you rest. And you can live in God's acceptance and love and live out of God's acceptance and love, and you can maintain peace21:20 or not. Right? And look at what it says here in the bible, in Romans chapter 8 verses 30 and 31 about living in God's acceptance. It says this, having21:32 chosen them, right, God choosing us, he called them to come to him and having called them. Listen, he gave them right standing with himself. And21:44 having given them right standing, he gave them glory. Hello. What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever21:57 be against us? Boy, there is a picture of right standing with God, full acceptance by God, God giving us his glory.22:09 Alright? That ends the search for significance when God himself gives you his glory and you're in a right standing with the maker of heaven22:20 and earth. And Paul says, what can we say about such wonderful things? Alright? Being accepted by God22:32 is a wonderful, wonderful thing. In fact, let's say that together. Being accepted by God is a wonderful thing is a wonderful thing. Right? If God's for you,22:44 who can be against you? Man, that is the acceptance that we all want. You see, when God accepts you, you can stop living for man's acceptance22:56 and being significant before men, and you can start living in and out of ultimate permanent acceptance. Man's acceptance is not permanent. It's fleeting.23:08 Right? After a while, people stop clapping. Alright? After a while, people stop loving you. Why? Because they're self absorbed and they're searching for the scarce significance and23:20 acceptance out there too if they don't know god's acceptance. But, hey, man of god, if you have god's acceptance, that's the most wonderful thing in the whole wide world. You can23:32 stop chasing it. The Bible says in Romans 8, you got right standing, with God, and he's given you his glory. You can't get any better23:44 than that. Alright? You have a right standing with God and you have his glory. So the spiritual battle then is to see that, internalize that, recognize that, and23:55 stop getting ripped off by worldly stuff and worldly acceptance. And acceptance by other men, it's fleeting. It might come24:07 for a little bit, but it's always gonna go away. And choose the glory of God that he has given you through relationship with Christ. Alright. Third, if you're gonna defeat the inner24:19 boy, you gotta recognize that maturity in God's love wins us the strongest intimacy. Alright? It's a battle of ways, requires living in God's acceptance, and then it wins the strongest24:31 intimacy. And and Jesus talked about this directly right before he was gonna go to the cross because they were gonna have to know after he died, rose again, and was ascended,24:43 that that they they had the best motivation in the world and the strongest bond with him. Look at what Jesus says to the disciples, and he says to us this morning, just take these words as24:55 a living word directly from Jesus Christ to you right now. Here we go. Jesus says, greater love has no 125:07 than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. So what25:19 is Jesus saying to us right now in this space and in this moment? He's saying, you know, my my sacrifice for you is25:30 designed, and I'm hoping it wins intimacy with you. My sacrifice for you is designed to win intimacy25:42 with you, and that intimacy creates energy for our relationship. You notice that when he says, I can't love you any more than this25:55 than to give my life for you because you're my friend. And then he transitions it and he says, you're my friends If you26:07 do what I command. You know, you see, if you want intimacy in any relationship, right, if you really wanna communicate that you love someone26:19 and you wanna win emotional intimacy, sacrifice for them. Sacrifice is the primary language of intimacy.26:31 Jesus says it. We know it when we see it. Right? For anyone. When we see them sacrificing for us, man, we get close to that person. We we we we are we will26:43 win real trust, real, confidence, real closeness with that person. And that's what we gotta understand. We gotta recognize that maturity and26:55 God's love wins the strongest intimacy. Okay? Look at what it says in Hebrews chapter 2 verses, 10 and 11 about how27:07 sacrifice and sacrificial love communicates. Says this, in bringing many sons and daughters to glory. Alright? There's that significance thing again. Jesus brought us our significance.27:19 It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation, Jesus, perfect through what he suffered. Both27:31 the 1 who makes people holy, Jesus, and those who are made holy, us, are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed27:43 to call them brothers. Do you see the intimacy there? Do you see how the path to our significance27:56 and being given the glory of God came through a man, the pioneer of our salvation, who was made perfect28:08 through what he suffered. And it it bonds us, and then it says both the 1 who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. Now we are of the same family,28:19 spiritually through Christ, but we're also of the family, listen, of suffering. So, you know, maturity, wins the strongest intimacy.28:32 That's true in our relationship with God and what Jesus did and what God models for us, listen to me, is meant for us. Do you wanna get close to someone? Wanna get close28:44 to your wife? You wanna get close to kids? Stop talking. Start sacrificing. Say no to yourself. Say yes to them. And just know that that is the secret to winning intimacy. And28:56 you know what it shows? It shows that you're maturing. It shows when you can sacrifice. So maturity in God's love wins the strongest intimacy. Alright? Fourth, if we're29:08 gonna defeat the inner boy, we gotta recognize that maturity in god's love completes my masculinity. So in the Bible, there's this picture about how29:20 you know, just think about it. We're all on 1 team, and we're all advancing, you know, god's agenda. It's kinda like a football team moving its way down the field, and we gotta execute together. So keep that picture in29:32 your mind as I read Ephesians chapter 4 verses 11 through 16. Says this, he, God, handed out gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, and pastor teacher to train29:44 Christ's followers in skilled servant work, working within Christ's body, the church, until we're all moving rhythmically and easily with each29:56 other, efficient and graceful in response to god's son. Wow. Fully mature adults, fully developed within and without,30:08 fully alive like Christ. No prolonged infancies among us. Please, we'll not tolerate babes in the woods, small children who are an easy30:20 mark for impostors. God wants to grow us up to know the whole truth and tell it in love, like Christ in everything. We take our lead from Christ30:31 who is the source of everything we do. He keeps us in step with each other. His very breath and blood flow through us, nourishing us so that we will30:43 grow up healthy in God, robust in love. Right? Do you see the endgame? Healthy in God, robust, or30:55 powerful in love. Alright? Say that with me. Healthy in God, powerful in love. That's a mature person. Alright? That is a mature person. And there's a couple of things that31:07 this passage points out, right, that I want us to note. Alright? Number 1, this passage points out that maturity is about you because you're an individual, who31:19 needs to grow up on the inside, defeat the inner boy. Right? But your inner journey, it's bigger than you. Alright? The body of Christ needs you mature.31:31 Just like a blocking tight end on an offense has to be fully developed in his knowledge of the scheme,31:43 offensive scheme that they're running, has to have his assignment. You know, he can't be lazy. He's gotta be mature. He's gotta be on it. Why? Because the team depends on his31:55 football maturity. Right? Can I just tell you something? As you're listening to this, God is saying to every man that is watching this, that your spiritual inner emotional32:08 maturity is mission critical for the body of Christ to move God's agenda forward. That's why we're doing this series. So your inner journey, your inner32:20 maturity, the things that you have to change and and on the inside and the ways you need to grow up, that's about you, but it's way bigger than you because there's a team that you're on. It's called the church, the body32:31 of Christ, and that team needs your spiritual and kingdom maturity to go up so that we can execute god's agenda here on earth. Man, that is a huge,32:43 huge truth god wants to say to us this morning and that puts into context your inner journey and your inner maturity. It's way way bigger32:55 than you. The second thing is is that there's no such thing as 1 dimensional Christianity. You notice in the passage, it talks about you wanna be fully33:06 alive in Christ. You gotta be fully developed within and you have to be fully developed without. Here's the problem. Most Christian men are like33:18 iceberg. You only see the tip. So you you see their image. You might hear some words. You might see them at church. But their private inner maturity, you don't33:30 see. Right? And so if there's a disconnect between their outward image and their inner immaturity, you're not. He's not fully alive in Christ. You wanna be33:42 fully alive in Christ? You gotta be fully developed on the inside and leave the ways of childhood behind, grow up, and become like Christ on the inner man and have full33:53 development on the outside. Alright? I love this passage. So we gotta recognize that maturity and God's love. Man, that completes my masculinity inside34:05 and outside. Alright. Let's look at the fifth thing we have to recognize. Alright? Inner man, again, inner man defeating inner boy. We gotta recognize that maturity in god's love helps34:17 me embrace adversity. Remember my little toddler temper tantrum after miss Putt story? So things didn't work out the way the little Arnold34:29 Palmer wanted. And, you know, in life, Jesus promised that things aren't going to work out your way, the way you want it. In fact, he says that life is like, a bowling34:40 alley. We set up all the pins. It's all perfectly organized, and we expect for them to stay that way. And then life is the metaphor, metaphorical bowling ball, which34:52 just I mean, just just think about 20 20. Wow. There's a bowling ball with no 1 could have ever, predicted some of the things,35:05 that were happening. But here's how maturity in god's love works. Alright? God is not closer to us when everything's going great for us, and he's35:16 not further away from us when things aren't going great for us. He's there when things are super great. He's there when things are super bad. He was there at the super bad crucifixion of35:28 Jesus, and he was there at the super great resurrection of Jesus, and he's with Jesus now. The myth is that adversity is a signal somehow of god's lack35:40 of presence or blessing. That's a lot. Right? Because god was very present when things weren't going well from the outside perspective when Jesus was being tortured.35:53 But was God there? Was God working? Hundred percent. He was saving us. He was redeeming us. He was justifying us, the Bible says. All in that terrible in36:04 injustice. Right? And so when you are mature in God's love, right, it helps you embrace, adversity. And that's really the thrust behind 1 of36:16 all of our favorite passages of the scripture. Right? All of us love Romans 8 28. Let's read it together. Right? And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are36:28 called according to his purpose for them. Alright? So we know, because we're mature in God's love, because we are mature in our understanding36:40 of God's love, that whether it's adversity or prosperity, that doesn't impact God's love for us and God causing everything to work together. So we have a different level of36:52 a perspective toward circumstances. Alright? If our circumstances change, we might kinda get emotional and say, ah, it's a bummer. It sucks. Relentless circumstances suck relentlessly.37:04 However, for the believer, we're not in despair. Why? Because we know that if god can redeem the torture and death of his son, god can redeem whatever circumstances that we are in. Alright? Talks37:15 about, you know, Jesus loved to talk about how he is over what happens. And in this passage in John 10 on your notes, it is a37:27 declarative statement about how he has command over the injustice that's about to happen to him. It's a powerful statement. He says this, no37:39 1 can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily, for I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my37:51 father has commanded. So what's Jesus saying? He's saying, I have command over the incredible, confusing, disillusioning injustice that38:03 is about to happen. And this injustice will actually be turned around and it will serve my father's purposes. It's gonna look upside down,38:15 but something beautiful, something transcendent, and something eternally redemptive is going to come about. Why? Because the38:27 father loves the son and because the father loves us. And because Jesus knew that, he could approach what was about to happen,38:39 Inwardly grown up and with that perspective. Can you imagine if that's how we thought? Where we knew because of God's love, and because we've seen it in operation, and because we've seen it work38:50 in the most unworkable way through the gospel and through the death of Jesus, that we walk into any situation and we're actually living in and living out of emotionally, Romans 8 28, as a truth, not39:02 a platitude. Where we have the attitude of Christ, it said, nothing can touch me unless gets to me, unless God says it's gonna get to me. And if God allows it to get to me, then there must be39:14 some hidden, mysterious reason, which I may not understand at the moment, but it's sent from heaven. You know? God's sovereign. God loves me. God's39:26 able. So if it's happening, there's a reason behind it. Can you imagine living like that? That's what a mature god's man thinks like. Right? Now let's look lastly. How are we gonna defeat inner39:37 boy and win inner man? We gotta recognize that maturity in God's love gains me the deeper victories. And this isShow more In this video 0:00 Men's Quest for Significance and Christ's Controlling Love15:01 Defeating the Inner Boy: Battle of Ways20:50 God's Acceptance, Intimacy, and Complete Masculinity39:39 Embracing Adversity and Spirit's Deeper Victories5:34
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