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Where have you surrendered dominion in your life?? Join us LIVE as we address the cultural crises affecting men and discover how to reclaim your God-given dominion!
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0:00 Well, howdy. Pastor Layton here, and it's time for RealMed.0:04 So, I hope you have your nachos. I hope you got some non alcoholic beverages. I mean, whatever your conscious allows is fine with me. But there are people all over the globe0:15 joining us today for Real Men. It's gonna be awesome. We're growing like crazy. There's people all the way in other countries watching alongside you guys tonight, as well as churches that are gathering0:27 in their buildings watching real men with you guys. It's awesome to have so many men across this country, across this world, joining together to grow in their faith and to be0:38 encouraged with other brothers in Christ. That's what we're called to do. That's what men in this day and age need to do to be good fathers, husbands, and leaders in their community. So thank you for0:50 joining Real Men today with us. This series is gonna be absolutely epic. We are all about healthy masculinity and equipping men. Pastor Mark is passionate about reaching men with the1:01 gospel because when the gospel gets involved, everything gets better. We're pro Jesus, pro building men up, we're pro helping men become better husbands, fathers that bless women and children. If you want to get1:12 connected and have all the updates about real men, the best way to do that is text men to 99383. Men to 99383. That's not woman, that's not child, that's not baby, that's not1:24 trans, it's men to 99383. We'll send you tons of free resources and all kinds of stuff that'll build you up to be a better man. And if you're like my wife and you're a woman watching alongside us, you should comment1:34 below because there's a surprising amount of women that watch this because they want better husbands and fathers in their life, and single women trying to learn what a good man is. So if you want to join us in1:46 person, and you're a senior pastor, we would love for you to fly out, come to Real Men. We'll host a dinner with pastor Mark. You can ask all of your questions, learn how Real Men is, learn the secret1:58 sauce, and you can replicate it back in whatever state you're from. We've had people from North Carolina, South Carolina, from Texas, from Washington, from California, from Oklahoma. We have guys join us all the time. We2:09 gather together at Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, around tables where we hear an awesome teaching from Pastor Mark, what you're about to hear, and then we build each other up in small groups, ask2:21 him some questions that are sermon based, and we grow together. So it's awesome, guys. And right now, it's sermon time. So get those nachos ready and get ready to dive into some real protein.2:59 Welcome back, man. So good to see you. Welcome back. Who's excited to be back at Real Men? Hey. If you're new, we're so glad to3:09 have you. These are the best guys and the best place to be. I don't know what they're doing at the casino or Hooters, but this is the place to be. Amen? Amen. Alright. Hey. And we are so excited to kick3:21 off a brand new season of Real Men, and we're so honored to have you. You men matter. You mean the world to me. You mean the world to me. And, ultimately, let me tell you this.3:33 You matter. Your wife matters. Your kids matter. Your job matters. Your legacy matters. Amen? Amen. And we're here to build men up to bless women and children in a world that beats men down. And let me3:45 tell you this. The answer is men. God looked at the world. God knew that the world was broken. God knew that we were in a desperate situation. God could have done anything3:57 or came as anything, and he came as a man. God came as a man, and to fix the world, God is sending forth men. That's why you're here. Amen? So here's4:09 what I've got, a brand new sermon series for you, and we're gonna talk about dominion for dudes. And this is what I wanna talk about. I wanna talk about the authority that God has as our father and how he delegates that4:20 to us as his sons. And let me start by talking about the satanic 6 cultural crises that we're enduring right now. How many of you are young guys? Young guys? Listen to me. This world is custom built to break4:32 you. The world we live in is not an accident. It is an architected evil to break men. And this is the result. Here are the satanic 6. These are the big4:43 cultural crisis that we're dealing with in our day. Number 1, men are encouraged to be boys or girls, but not men. When my daughters were little, they would dress up like princesses. Now we're telling fathers to4:55 do the same thing. It's a broken corrupt culture. And for you young men, they're trying to keep you in adolescence and childhood and boyhood as long as they possibly can. So that you're over5:07 mothered, under fathered, dependent on the government, broken, and ultimately no longer a productive member of society. Number 2, men are not launching. How many of you guys are the young guys? You're in your5:18 20s? Your whole generation is a failure launch situation. Here's what the research tells us. How many of you are dads? And you've got a son. Right? How many of you? You're looking at the world and5:30 you're saying, Okay, is my son going to be able to launch? We are going to need to help him. Because here's what's going on statistically. This is from CNBC, and it comes from the Pew Research report. Young adults in5:42 the US are taking longer to reach key life milestones that impact finances compared to 4 decades ago. In 20 21, adults who were 21 were less likely to have a full time job, be financially5:53 independent, living on their own or married or have children than their predecessors from the 19 eighties. Here's what I'm telling you. The generation today is the least impressive and the worst launching6:05 generation of men in the history of the United States of America. Waiting longer to marry, waiting longer to leave home, waiting longer to have a job, with no intention or plan of ever launching. And what the result6:17 is, what we have now is we have a record number of over mothered, under fathered men. And it takes a man to raise a man. They tell us that masculinity is adopted and adapted from a father6:29 figure in your life. And what we've got, we've got a generation of young men. And I'm not saying this to beat you young men down, but to build you up. I speak to you with a heart of a of a father. I've got my sons are6:41 here tonight. And you may need to know that if you just go with the cultural stream, you will be a very unimpressive man for the rest of your life. And ultimately, what we're seeing is we're seeing young6:52 guys are not launching. They're not getting married, having children, becoming husbands and fathers, and launching careers and businesses. What are they doing? They're staying at home. They're living with their mother7:02 until their thirties. They're playing video games. They're vaping. They're ordering food delivered to the house because they're too lazy to even go out and get it for themselves. And ultimately, they're addicted to7:13 pornography or alcohol or legalized drug use, they're just sitting around and vaping all day. We've taken men who are at the strength in their life and in that season when they should have the greatest vision for7:25 their future, and we have broken them and we have sidelined them. Number 3, men are are not working. It's called not in labor force. A record 7000000 men,7:37 ages 25 to 54, are not working or looking for work. Okay? What that is, is that's a whole generation of guys who are in their 20s, let's say, and they're not working and they're not looking for work. If you're an older7:48 man, how many of you you don't even have a category for this. You know, you like don't have if you're a single guy, you should have at least 2 jobs. Okay? For 2 reasons. You have the energy.8:00 And if you don't have a wife, you have nowhere to put it. So you may as well go get 2 jobs. Just something to pray about. But nonetheless, the way this works is we've got a whole generation of men that we have created to8:10 be dependent and not to have them mature so that others can depend on them. And in addition, men are not marrying. 40 percent of millennials and Gen Z8:22 ages 18 to 42 don't believe in marriage. They think it's an antiquated, outdated institution. And here's what you need to know. The whole world is built by men who have women and8:34 children to feed. The reason that a man gets out of bed and goes and works a job, pursues a career, takes a chance, launches a company, He's got a woman that he loves and children with his8:45 last name, and he feels this God given level of responsibility to provide for them. As soon as you take away a wife and children, you take away the motivation for a man to carry8:57 the full responsibility that God intends for him to carry as a man. Furthermore, men are marrying far later than ever. The average guy today is well into his thirties by the time that he does have his first9:09 marriage. And what we see as well, 25 percent of 40 year old men in America have never married. 25 percent of remember that show, The 40 Year Old Virgin? These guys aren't9:21 all virgins. I'm just telling you how this is working. So men are not marrying, but what are they doing? They're living and sleeping with multiple women with no intention of ever marrying. And so what you've got as well,9:32 you've got an entire generation that are cohabitating. And now what you're starting to see is 2 things happen. Women who go to college, which men don't, and women who are in the workforce, which men9:43 aren't, are having a hard time finding a man to marry. So they're doing 1 of 2 things. The younger women are marrying the older men, the dirty old guys who can afford it. Or number 2, they're becoming9:55 lesbians. The whole trend toward transgenderism and lesbianism is in large part a number of women who would like to get married, but they can't find a man, so10:07 they decide to be a lesbian. And then number 5, men are not fathering. 1 in 4 young adults today are saying that they are not going to have children.10:19 And what you're seeing is for the first time in our nation's history, the majority of children born to women 30 and under, those children grow up with no father in the home. The majority of children at some point in10:30 their lifetime have no father or father figure in their home. And now the next generation of men, 25 percent of young men are saying, I have no intention of ever having a child.10:42 And then lastly, well, and I will say this as well. Many men don't want to have children because they don't want the responsibility. And number 2, many men who have children don't carry that10:54 responsibility. I'll give you some statistics. 1 in 4 children today in our country have no father in the home. That's 18000000 children have no father in the11:06 home. The majority of the homes are single mothers, not single fathers. And you just need to know this. If a kid grows up in America, they are 300 percent11:17 more likely to not have a father than the other nations on the earth. Technically, statistically, this would be 1 of the worst countries in the world to actually be born if you wanted to11:29 have a father. And so let me just tell you this. You men are a statistical anomaly and miracle. Like, some of you guys didn't know this, but going to work11:41 today made you special. Some of you how many of you guys are married? You're the weirdos and the outliers. How many of you are the father of a11:53 child? Okay. You are a statistical minority. How many of you have more than 1 child? You're a total freak. Okay. And thank you. Because when everyone is wrong, you're the12:05 oddball if you're the 1 getting it right. And that's the world that we live in. And what happens today as well, if you don't have a father in the home, the odds of a child having mental and behavioral health issues is up12:16 200 percent. If you don't have a father in the home, the odds of growing up in poverty go up 400 percent. If you don't have a father in the home, you're 500 percent more likely as a child12:28 to have a medical or emotional disorder. And what do we do with the little boys who manifest these issues? We medicate them. We say, you know what? There's something wrong with12:40 you. You're angry and acting up. You don't have a father, so instead, we'll give you a pill. And then we'll put you in school, and then we'll cause you to question your gender. And then maybe we'll mutilate your12:52 genitalia. And then we'll make sure that you never grow up to be a strong man. And what we don't know what to do with the strength of boys, we don't know how to direct it, so we castrate it. And this is a13:04 cultural crisis. Number 6, men are not leading. Statistically, more women than men are in church. More women than men are in college, and more women than men men are in the13:16 workforce. And so men are not leading. Men are not launching. Men are not marrying. Men are not working. Men are not fathering. It is a complete and total cultural13:27 crisis. Okay? So this is the problem. And I would tell you, if we fix the men, the men will fix everything else. That's my thesis. That's the whole heart of real men. And13:39 you could look at it and say, well, how do we fix all these problems? If we have better men, those men won't cause these problems, and they will fix the problems caused by the bad men. That's what the good men will do.13:49 So we are here not to just complain, but to be the solution. You men matter. Your family matters. Your marriage matters. Your kids matter. Your legacy matters. For those of us who are14:01 now grandfathers, your grandkids, Mary, your they matter. And your and your ministry matters. And you guys matter to us. And so here's what we ultimately need. We don't need bigger government.14:13 We need better men. And what always happens is the worst men increases the size of government. If the men do their job, you don't need nearly as much14:25 government. We live in a day when we don't need bigger government. We need better men. Amen? Number 2, we don't need to start at the bottom up. We need to start14:37 at the top down. Blessing and favor flows down from the top. We could look at all the cultural problems. Oh, whole generation has mental health issues and suicidal ideation. And there's record debt14:48 personally on credit cards, and there's record debt nationally for federal deficit. And we're a culture in crisis, and we're divided. And there's sexual confusion and lots of addiction and tons of trauma. And15:00 what do we do? We need to get the men. We need to get the men to protect women and children. We need to get men who will then marry and love women and raise children, and we need to flip the entire15:12 cultural narrative. Otherwise, everything that we know as Western civilization is absolutely in peril and headed toward an irreversible crisis. That's where we find ourselves. And so what we're doing15:24 here, and the reason that we're broadcasting it, is we believe that the solution is ultimately found by beginning with the men. You men being here is a tremendous honor.15:36 You men are absolutely valued in this house. And in this world, you may not be appreciated for who you are and what you do, but we appreciate you. We love you. We value15:48 you. We need you. We believe in you. And the guys around the table are there for you. Amen? And so then the question is, is there a God who has a plan? And if we16:00 followed his plan, would our lives and our culture and our families get better? The answer is yes. And the reason why everything is broken, we have neglected the plan that16:11 God created for us as men to lead. So this brings me to the theme of the series that we're going to be in together. I'm calling it Dominion. And Dominion is a person with16:23 authority over a realm. Let me explain each of these. It's a person. In the Bible, you'll hear about dominion in terms of a master, a judge, king, lord, warrior,16:34 prophet, priest, king, apostle, head, leader, governor, a mother or father, And biblical images like a throne, that's where a king sits over their dominion. Scepter, that's the ruling16:47 accoutrement of a king, ruling over a domain, and underfoot. And so in the ancient world, if you were to come before the king, you'd have his feet up and you'd be under his feet. That shows that he has dominion.16:59 So it's a person with authority. And many words in the Bible denote this. Rule, authority, sovereignty, power, might, strength, and also action words like tread,17:10 trample, rule, and reign. And then there's the realm. So it's a person with authority over a realm. You'll see in the Bible, some people have dominion over a nation or over a kingdom or over a17:22 household or over a business or a piece of property or a church or reason a region. They'll have dominion over a physical body or their spiritual soul. So here's what I want you men to know. What we're going to17:34 talk about tonight is the dominion that God our father has. How much rule and power and authority does our father have? All. We're going to talk about that. And then17:46 as his sons, what we're going to talk about in ensuing weeks is how he then delegates some of his dominion to you. That in your home, you have dominion. With your body,17:58 you have dominion. With your finances, you have dominion. With your children, regardless of what the state would say, you have dominion. And we live in a world where they don't want18:10 men to exercise their dominion. And I'll tell you, it's spiritual warfare. It's demonic. And what Satan has been trying to do since Adam was to get men to not exercise their authority in their18:22 dominion so he could replace them as the authority over that dominion. And so in the ensuing weeks, we're gonna talk about all of the dominion that you have and all the authority that the father delegates to18:34 you to rule and reign in your sphere of dominion. Let me talk about God's authority, and let me talk about his dominion. And the reason I wanna start here is this. Some of you have far too18:46 small a view of God. And all you see God as the 1 who rules your heart. He does rule your heart, but he rules everyone and everything, including your heart. And some of you, your view18:58 of your capacity and ability and authority is too small because your picture of your heavenly father is too small. And God is not bigger than you think. Your father is bigger than you19:10 can think. So I want to talk about our father's fourfold dominion. What authority does he have? Well, first, has dominion from creation. Colossians 1 16 and 17. For by him, Jesus19:21 Christ, all things were created. Heaven, earth, visible, invisible, thrones, dominions, rulers, authority. All things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him, all things19:33 hold together. So because God is the creator, guess where his dominion extends? Everywhere. Over all of creation. Only God is19:44 uncreated. Only God is the uncaused cause. Everyone and everything that God created, he has dominion over because he brought them into existence.19:56 What that means is, as a son of God, wherever you go, you are in a place that your father has dominion, and he has authority. And what that means is, as his son wherever you go, he20:08 delegates some of that authority to you so that you can represent him in that realm. Number 2, God has dominion over the seen and the unseen realms, the physical and the spiritual. Psalm 1 0 3 2020:20 and 22. Bless the Lord, oh you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word. Bless the Lord, all the hosts, his ministers who do as well. Bless the Lord, all his works in20:32 all places of his dominion. Bless the Lord, oh my soul. What is happening here is the Bible is written to people who are in the seen realm of the physical world, and it's talking about the divine beings, the angels in20:43 the unseen realm. God not only rules over the world that we see, he rules over the 1 that we don't. And you need to know this. Satan and demons are not equal to God. God rules over them. The Puritans used to say that20:55 the devil is the Lord's devil. And as men, we need to get a bigger view of our father and his dominion and authority. Because he created everyone and everything, he has authority over them and dominion21:07 over them. And it's not only the physical realm that our father rules over, it's also the spiritual. Number 3, the dominion of our father extends from generation to generation.21:19 Psalm 1 45 13, your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures through how many generations? Oh. This is really good news. As a man, if21:31 you raise your children, starting with your sons, to live under dominion of our God, God will be faithful to them as he has been faithful to you. And God is the same God of every21:43 generation. His dominion never comes to an end. This is why we want to not do what stupid people do. Stupid people say this. I don't want to tell my children what to believe. I don't want to impose my religion21:55 on them. I just want them to find their own way. This is the equivalent of just driving into the middle of America, kicking the child out of the car, and wishing the best that they find their way. A child22:07 will never find their way. That's why God gives them a father to lead the way. And so our God, we want him not to just have dominion over our life, but over all the generations of our family. This is where we22:18 worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That's a father and a son and a grandson. This is why I want you to be thinking not in terms of just your life, but also your legacy.22:31 And how are you helping generations that will come after you, your children, your grandchildren, your spiritual children, and grandchildren to understand the dominion of God and live over his22:43 sovereign rule and authority for the totality of their life. I mean, my sons are here. Praise God. Because they're living under the dominion of our God. And they're raising their sons, my22:54 grandsons, to live under the dominion of our God. And what happens is, if you don't live under the dominion of our God, statistically, your children will not. You23:06 may need to know this. Some of you are new to church. You're giving it a taste. You're giving it a test. We're glad to have you. Statistically, if a wife loves the Lord and attends church, the children don't, especially23:18 the sons. If the father loves the Lord and attends church statistically, so does the wife, so do the kids, especially the sons. You know why? He is the leader. And the23:30 question is not, is the man the leader? The question is, where is he leading? If he's leading under the dominion of God, then his wife and his kids and his grandkids are statistically far more23:42 likely to come under the rule in the reign of God's dominion. And then number 4, God has dominion into eternity. And this is where God's dominion never ends. And the good news23:54 is, if you will, as men, begin living under God's dominion right now and remain living under God's dominion, God will bless you, and you'll live under his rule forever and ever and ever.24:06 And what I like to say is this. And if you're new, I tell this to the men all the time. God doesn't bless men. God blesses men who live under his authority. See, just I'm a father. I love my sons24:18 with all my heart. But if my sons are going to disobey, I am not going to help them do that. If my sons come to me and say, hey, dad. Okay. We know what you said. You said do this. Don't do24:29 that. Dad, we want to do this. Will you help us? The answer is, I would love to. I'm your dad. If you want to do the right thing, I want to be first in line to help you get that done. But if you come to me and you say,24:41 dad, I want to do something evil or wrong. I can't lay my hands on that. I can't invest in that. I can't participate in that. God's a father, and if you will live under his dominion, you will see his blessing24:53 unlocked in your life. Because God doesn't bless men. He blesses men who live under his dominion in obedience to his authority. Everybody needs some good news. Our world is filled with nothing but bad25:05 news. The good news is the Bible tells us not just what happened, but what always happens. And we don't just need to look at the Bible. We can look through it and make perfect and total sense of this25:17 weird woke world in which we live. I've been preaching God's word for about 30 years and I wanna let you know that real faith is independent, free, and a voice that is prophetic25:28 in a world that is pathetic. And I wanna thank you for your partnership. We are 100 percent supported by ministry partners like you. You can't cancel us. We don't have advertisers. We25:40 don't have publishers. You can go pound sand because people like you pay the bills. Go to real faith dot com slash donate. Give your best gift and help me keep up the good fight. And so25:52 here's the the the final and last 1. First Peter 4 11. In everything, God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion for how long? Forever and ever. Amen.26:05 The good news is this, men. Jesus' dominion over everyone and everything exists, whether they recognize it or not. And let me just tell you this. When all is said and done, everyone will be26:16 living under the dominion of Jesus Christ. So it says in Philippians that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess, both on the earth and under the earth, that Jesus Christ is26:28 Lord. That's dominion to the glory of God the father. When all is said and done, everybody is going to bend their knee to Jesus, whether they're in heaven or hell. Furthermore, just verbal process for26:40 you. There's a line in Revelation that says that unbelievers will be tormented in the presence of the lamb and his holy angels. Guess who has dominion over hell? Jesus Christ.26:52 There's this crazy myth that God rules heaven and Satan rules hell. When all is said and done, God rules all and Satan rules nowhere. Jesus, God's27:03 dominion, has no limitation or end. So you just need to know this. We need to know this as men. You were going to be living under the rule and reign of Jesus Christ, the God of the Bible27:14 forever and ever in heaven or hell. The question is not, will be we be under his dominion? The question is, will we be under his dominion for blessing or cursing? For pleasure? For punishment?27:27 And so as men, it's not that we have even this third option of living independent. And let me just say this. This is the great satanic lit myth that Satan tells most men. You're you're27:39 your own authority, and you can live independently. No. We were made by God. We're dependent on God. We're given account to God. We're ruled by God. And 1 day, we will be forever ruled by God.27:51 We're not independent men. We're dependent men. And the sooner that we come under the dominion of God's authority in our life, the more we become the men that the father intends for us to be, and the more he is likely to28:03 pour down his blessing on our life. As we're seeking to live in reverence to him, he is most likely to pour out grace upon us. How many of you guys would just testify? You were screwing up your whole28:14 life. You made a pivot, you repented, you tried to come under God's authority, and next thing you know, God started pouring out grace on you, and life got better and easier because your father was helping you. That's why28:26 we're here. Now, let me explain the problem on the earth. Our heavenly father delegated his dominion to who? Our earthly father, Adam.28:39 Genesis 1 26. Then God said, let us make man in our image and our likeness, and let them have dominion. We're gonna talk about this in the ensuing weeks. Over the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the livestock28:50 over all the earth, and everything that creeps on the earth. God can't lose his dominion, but he can delegate it. And what God did when he made Adam, God's a father.29:02 Adam's like a created son. And then what the father does, he delegates his dominion, his authority to Adam. What does Adam do without authority? What does he do?29:14 Okay. This is not a librarians for Christ meeting. You guys can speak. Okay. What does Adam do with the authority and the dominion that God gave him? What does he do? He gives it to someone else. Who does29:26 he give it to? He gives it to Eve who ultimately hands it to Satan. The point is this. Hear me in this. If you forget everything I say. If you don't exercise your dominion, you're handing29:38 it to your enemy. Satan will come. He will rule your marriage. He will rule your business. He will rule your thought life. He will take your kids. He will destroy your grandchildren. He will ruin29:50 your legacy. He will cause you misery. And if you don't exercise your dominion, Satan will show up every single time to rule and reign in the place of the absent man.30:02 This is exactly what's happening. We call it America. In every sphere of society, as I told you, men are absent or passive. They30:13 either remove themselves from responsible leadership, or they cowardly, timidly say and do nothing, while the least healthy people or the most30:25 evil people fill the leadership vacuum. I want you men in this series. I'm just begging that you get active if you're passive. You may look and say, man, my marriage isn't doing good.30:37 Okay. That's your marriage. You the head. You got dominion. What are you gonna do about this marriage? You look at your kids, like my kids are not doing good. Okay. That's your family. You have dominion. What are you30:48 gonna do? Financially, we're upside down. Okay. That's your finances. You have dominion. What are you gonna do? My health isn't good. Okay. It's your body. You have dominion.31:00 What are you gonna do? And my company is struggling. Okay. If you're a leader, you have dominion. What are you gonna do? And what I want you men to know is by giving responsibility back, we're giving31:12 dignity back. And what we don't want this to be is just a time around tables where men complain about all the areas that they're not leading. We don't want men to make excuses. We want men to make31:24 plans, to exercise their God given dominion in their sphere of authority. It's your body. It's your life. It's your house. It's31:36 your marriage. It's your kids. It's your finances. It's your church. It's your gospel. It's your ministry. The father has given you authority to rule31:48 and reign with dominion in the spheres of influence and authority that he's given you. And what we tend to do as men, we tend to complain about all the big issues without tending to those areas that we actually have31:59 dominion. I can't control what's going on in the White House. I wish I could, but I can't. But I can control what goes on at my house. I can't decide what's32:11 gonna happen to every child in America, but I can decide what kind of father and household my children will have. I can't ensure that generations are gonna love Jesus, but I can ensure that32:23 generations with my last name can love Jesus. And I want you men to stop thinking about all the things you can't do, and I want to start encouraging you to think about the things you can do. And I32:35 want you not just get frustrated with the areas that you don't have dominion, but I want you to exercise authority in the areas you do have dominion. Is it just me here? Is this making32:46 any sense to any grown man? So let me ask you this. Is there any area in your life that you're not living32:58 under the dominion and the rule of God in that area of your life? Is sexually, you're like, that's not under God's dominion. You need to repent and bring your sex life under God's dominion. Like,33:10 well, as far as my alcohol consumption or my gambling or my spending or the way I treat my wife or what I'm doing at work, yeah, it's not really under God's dominion. The key is this. You need to33:22 repent. You need to come back under God's sovereign authority. Jesus Christ died. You can be forgiven. The father loves you. He doesn't hate you. The father wants to help you. He's not going to harm you. And and you33:34 may be ashamed of what you've done, but he loves you so much. He's willing to take you where you are and then move you where you need to be. And so let me just share this last scripture with you.33:46 This is where our hope is at. Jesus reclaimed Adam's lost dominion. If all we had was Adam, we all would be men born into a world where our father gave away33:58 all of our dominion. And for those who don't know the Lord Jesus, here's who their God is. Second Corinthians 4 4 says that Satan is the god of this world. Let me just explain this to you very, simply.34:11 Who has dominion over this world? 2 things. Satan has dominion over this world. K. Just look at this world. Does it now look like34:23 he has dominion? Does it look like Satan has decided to get into education and entertainment and economics and sexuality and marriage and gender and politics34:35 seem like he's decided to exercise his dominion in every single sphere of society. True or false? True. Like, okay. If Satan ruled the world, this is exactly what it would look34:46 like. But guess who rules over Satan? Jesus Christ. So though Satan is the god of this world, our god has34:58 dominion over the god of this world. This is where we get our authority from. When Jesus rose from the dead, and he says, all35:09 authority has been given to me. That's a big statement. And then what he says is, go. What he's saying is, I'm35:20 deputizing you to go into this world with my authority and through the gospel of Jesus Christ, to extend the dominion of God throughout the world.35:33 Here's what we learn about Jesus. Everything that Adam lost and gave to Satan, Jesus regained and reclaimed his dominion. Romans 5 tells us this. Romans 5 12 through35:45 21. The whole section is, you're under the dominion of 1 or 2 people. Okay? And a lot of men, we think, no, I'm an independent man. No, you're not. You're either under the dominion of Adam,35:57 your father, who handed all dominion to Satan, your enemy, or you're under the dominion of Jesus Christ who died for your sin, disarmed and defeated your enemy, and36:09 then brings you under his dominion and shares with you his dominion. Every man is under the dominion of Adam or Jesus. It says it this way. It is because of 1 man's36:20 trespass, that's Adam, death reigned through that 1 man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the 1 man, Jesus Christ. Make36:32 this as simple as I can. Every man is ruled and under the dominion of 1 of 2 men. Adam or Jesus? Sin,36:44 salvation. Death, life. Ruled by the demonic and own Holy Spirits, filled with God the Holy Spirit. Number 2.36:56 The first thing that you and I need to learn as men is to live under that dominion. This is the key to being a man. The key to37:08 being a man is first living under the dominion, the sovereign rule, the ultimate authority of our God. K? Before you can do anything, before you can be37:19 anyone, before you can affect any healthy significant change, first thing is, you need to be a man under authority. First thing. Paul says37:31 it this way. I'm not my own. I was bought with a price. You men needs to start thinking in terms of not what I want, but what does the father want?37:43 Number 2, as soon as we do that, once we are under dominion, and we're good sons living under the father's dominion, guess what we're ready for? Guess37:55 what we're ready for? Dominion. Once we're under his dominion, now we're ready to exercise our dominion. Okay, father. I'm gonna do what you say.38:07 Now, I can lead a family. Now, I could father a child. Now, I can grow a company. Now, I can do a ministry. Because I've been under authority,38:19 now I am ready to be in authority. The worst thing that happens for a man, he's in authority, but he's not under authority. We've all met these guys.38:31 These are the guys And there's 2 ways to fail as a man when it comes to dominion and authority. Number 1, you can abuse your dominion and authority.38:44 This isn't in my notes. I just feel like I was supposed to say it. Some of you struggle with dominion, leadership, headship, and authority because your dad abused his authority and his dominion.38:56 I could see it. I don't know why. I just see it. Some of you, your dad, he was bigger than you. And so he would bully and intimidate you. He would hit you. He would shelve you. He was exercising his39:08 dominion, but he was doing it in an abusive way. For some of you, your dad was a big personality. He was very loud and very aggressive and maybe even scary and dangerous. And he had39:19 dominion, but he didn't have love in the father heart of God. And he was exercising dominion, but guess what he wasn't doing? Living under God's dominion. What we're notShow more
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