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0:00 You are listening to Waters Church podcast. Waters Church is a multisite, multigeneration community of faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a message from our pastor.0:13 Today's title is how to part 1, how to be a man. And we're gonna start with men because God starts with a man. Alright? God's idea. This is how God laid it out.0:26 Now that's today, how to be a man. Next week. You know where I'm going with this? I'm gonna need0:38 special prayers all week long because next week's title is how to be a woman. And then I'm gonna need special prayers for protection after next week.0:51 Now, usually, what we do in church is we say men's ministry and women's ministry, and the men go and they learn their skills, but they don't have the women present. And then the women go and learn their skills, and they0:58 don't have the men present. But I'm gonna do it differently. I'm gonna tell the men what to do in front of the women this week, and I'm gonna tell the women what to do in front of the men next week. So I pride myself1:10 on being an equal opportunity offender. And this is not a message of hate. This is a message of hope and help. Because here's the deal, you are living in a1:22 world of confusion and chaos, and the devil is an agent of chaos. The devil is the Joker in every Batman movie. He is an agent of chaos. He loves to1:34 steal, kill, and destroy. He wants to destroy you, your identity, your family, your children. The devil loves drug addicted children. The devil loves divorced dads. The devil loves fatherless kids. The devil loves jail.1:45 The devil loves dysphoria. Dysphoria. Think about that phrase. That's just a demonic phrase. The devil loves confusion, and he1:57 loves lies. And he is having a field day with our culture. I mean, he's he's dancing a2:09 jig over the the United States of America. He is loving life right now. Loving it. Because not enough people are speaking truth in2:21 an age of lies. And all that you need to have happen for lies to win is for people who know the truth to stay silent.2:33 Now welcome to Waters Church where I refuse to stay silent. Now we're I'm only talking to North Attleboro. We send the message from the first service to the other location. So let me just have a little private2:45 chat with you guys, although it is online. There was an article that came out in the news this past week about a church that's closing down in this town, and they contrasted with us. And by the way, the author did not2:56 interview us. He did not get the facts straight. A lot of facts he didn't get straight. Got the general idea straight. But the the the question of the article is how can 1 church be closing and another church be growing?3:05 I'm gonna tell you why we're growing. I'm gonna tell you why we're growing right here. This is why we're growing. This is why we're growing. This is why we're growing. I'm gonna present this word to you. I'm not gonna3:17 apologize for this word. I'm not gonna question this word. I'm going to teach this word, and God's word is gonna get in you, and he's gonna make you more like God, and you're gonna grow, and our church is gonna grow. And3:28 it's not about me, it's about Jesus Christ who is the living word of God. Now I understand that in university systems around the world and in the3:39 public education system, this this book is a joke. It's not a joke. It's the truth. It's the whole truth of God. It's delivered for our good, and if we follow it, we get good. If we if we3:51 minimize it, we get evil. That's as simple as I can make it. So today, how to be a man according to God. Let's start with how the world sees4:03 men. I'm gonna give you 3 images, and it's on a spectrum. The world's idea of man on a spectrum. And this is a political spectrum. I'm gonna go from left to right.4:15 And I'm gonna present some men, and some of you immediately are gonna wanna get up and walk out. And I understand that, but4:27 please, I'm asking you, don't get offended this early in the message. I have got plenty of offensive material lined up for the4:38 entirety of this message. So I'm just asking you to stick it out. Stick it out. Because if you get offended that early, I I don't know how you live, to be honest with you. Okay? And remember that offense is taken,4:50 not given. Alright. So on the far left, the world's ideas man, we have a man named Dylan Mulvaney. He is a man who pretends to be a 14 year old valley girl. He has 100000005:02 followers on TikTok. By the way, every parent in the house, let's get started right now because there's gonna be a message about parenting coming up in this series. Get TikTok off your kids' phones now. Now.5:15 Now. Oh, I can't do that. Yes. You can. Yes. You can. You can take the phone away. You can change the Wi Fi5:27 password. You can cancel their plan. You are mom and dad. And I know that this world has emasculated you. I'm here to empower you and give you5:39 permission to be my oh, yeah. Amen. That's part 4. Let's get let's kick back to let's get back. So this is a joke. This is this is the devil incarnate because5:50 he does the amazing work of both of mocking men and women at the same time. Because the way he portrays women is also insulting, but he's got tens6:02 of millions of followers. On the far right is Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate is an abomination of a man. He brags about siring many women many children through many6:14 women, abusing them, using them, and throwing them away. That's how he describes real manhood. Now the the deception of Andrew Tate is and here's the the problem is that he present6:26 here's how Andrew Tate here's his shtick. He starts with the truth, and then he brings in the lie. So he says that men should be strong and in charge, and that's true. But then he talks about how in charge6:37 looks and is not what in charge is biblically. Beating women, forcing them into submission, treating them like objects is anathema to the heart of God.6:50 Now the far more subtle example of man is something that a lot of people love. A lot of Christians love this kind of man. Right in the center is Travis Kelce. Travis Kelce is a Super Bowl champion,7:03 world.7:06 And we're And so to7:14 And picture I took this picture off a video where he was getting his degree at the University of Cincinnati, and and right next to the university provost who just gave him his degree, he decides to open a can of beer on7:24 stage in front of tens of thousands of adoring fans, chug the beer, and then smash the beer onto the onto the stage, and then hold up his degree like he did something special. Like, that's a real man. That's not a real7:35 man. And listen to me. We've gotta stop celebrating boys who can shave. Enough of this. That's not what God wants for you.7:46 That's not real manhood. And if any of y'all follow any of these men, stop it now. And I have no problem telling you this because we are living in an age of irrationality where there is a7:57 vacuum of true biblical manhood. And because there's a vacuum of true biblical manhood, people follow the devil's idea. So we're gonna get back to basics. This is what the Bible says.8:10 This is what God has ordained about malehood. Now, men, you're facing 4 particular problems that I believe the Lord has given me to tell you. I wanna address them today. The 4 problems that men are facing, number 1 is a8:22 social problem. They call you toxic. Toxic masculinity. I hate that phrase. And women, you need to rip that phrase out of your lips. That's a demonic phrase.8:35 There's no qualifying to that phrase. Toxic masculine, as if all masculinity is toxic. Wrong. The fireman that walks into the burning building to rescue the child is not toxic. He's a hero.8:49 The policeman who pulls you over when you're acting stupid and enters into a very often chaotic and unexpected experience, he doesn't have no idea, he puts his life on the line, he could be shot dead,9:02 is a hero. Now some men are toxic in their actions. Some men practice toxic activity. Yes. So do some9:14 women. Some women practice toxic actions. We need to stop need to separate the action from the identity. Some men9:25 practice toxic actions. Some women practice toxic act toxic actions. And hear me, all children are toxic.9:39 We'll get to that in part 3 for part 4. So you've you've you've been labeled Kathleen Parker save the males. This is a book save the males by Kathleen Parker. She says this,9:51 historians aren't sure of the precise date, but sometime around 19 70, everyone in the United States drank acid laced Kool Aid, tie dyed their brains, and decided that fathers were no longer necessary. Not only have many10:02 western societies decided fathers aren't necessary they decided that most men are perverts predators or goofballs who should be monitored in public and private spheres. And quote that that's that's a true quote that's a10:12 true observe observation of our culture. Now there is a fatherless pandemic that has gripped our country, our society. When the west falls and it will fall,10:25 it will fall. It will fall to Islam. I am 100 percent convinced unless there is a global revival. I'm telling you.10:38 It will fall because fathers are missing. That's why it's gonna fall. Some of you men argue with your wives about coming to church, and10:50 you're part of the problem. You are the downfall of the Western civilization. You need to stop arguing, and you need to start leading.11:01 You should be arguing with her about going to the church and getting your kids into kids ministry, and not just sitting there on your hands and letting your butt be warm11:13 while I preach to you, but getting involved and serving and giving and tithing and leading your children into the presence of God.11:26 Some of you men refuse to sing. You refuse to raise your hands. You refuse to worship the Lord. What makes you think that you are not that's that God is not worth your worship? You will raise11:38 your hand for a football team. You will raise your hand for a baseball team. You will raise your hand for the Celtics. You need to raise your hand for the champion of the universe,11:49 Jesus Christ. You understand that the Muslims are coming. They are coming, and they12:01 are going to take over unless godly men, biblical men stand up and say, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. We12:13 Joshua men in this generation who will fight, who will stop kowtowing to the culture,12:25 and letting TikTok educate your children and the public school system destroy their minds and the university system corrupt their policies. You are responsible men. It's time to12:37 be a man and strong in the Lord. Number 2, we have an origin problem for men. We tell them they're apes. There is not a stitch of evidence that12:49 evolution is true. Not 1 stitch, but it is propagated in our school and educational system. They have not found and Charles13:00 Darwin challenged people in his last chapter of the book, and I've read it. The Origin of Species, he challenged the people after him. He said, if there's not enough evidence, this is probably not true.13:12 Nobody knows that. And we haven't found the evidence that evolution is true. There's fossils, but there's no mixed fossils. There's none. There's mac there's microevolution13:24 where species adjust and check their nose gets a little shorter, their paws get a little long, but there's no middle species fossil record. We got fossils of the frog, we got fossils of the13:36 chicken, but we ain't got no freaking fossil. You understand what I'm saying? By the way, they find fossils of fish13:48 at the top of Mount Everest. Just let that ruminate in your head and say, how'd that get there? The reason why they want you to believe you're from ages is so that you believe that your14:00 mind is you you don't matter. You are not you know, our culture speaks out of both sides of its mouth. It says on the 1 side, you need to find your ancestry, ancestry dot com, 23andMe. Who do I come from? And14:12 we send swabs of spit in the mail. No wonder why we had a global pandemic. We're sending our spit everywhere. And we're, oh, I need to know who am I from? Who am14:24 I from? Who am I from? Because that's who I am. That's who I am. And then if you follow the logic of this world, they speak on the other side of the mouth and say, really what you are is you are the highly advanced14:31 species from primordial goo over billions of years, and you really don't matter. Ain't it kinda like both sides of the mouth? Here's what the bible says. Here's how beautiful the bible14:43 is. You're made in the image of God. That means that you carry within yourself dignity, value, worth. And hear me, even if you're not a14:55 Christian, even if you're hating me right now, you're still made in the image of God. You still got value, and we love you, and we love to see God use you, and fill you, and bless you, and15:07 change you, and make you what he wants you to be. Men have a purpose problem. Number 3. And I got GTA in quotes here. We're gonna do some work. What does GTA mean?15:19 Grand Theft Auto. Men are not doing what they should be doing. Men are made to be warriors. That's why you're stronger than women. Men are stronger than women.15:40 You feel the air sucked out of the room when I say things that are true. That's that's the problem. This is the problem right here. You know why you're uncomfortable right now? Do you know why? Those of you who are, you15:51 know why? Because you've been indoctrinated. You have been indoctrinated. You understand? Before we get to Grand Theft Auto, when you take your phone out and you go to Twitter or you16:03 go to Facebook or and you just do this thing where you do the the pull down and let go, pull down and let go. You know I'm talking about. Right? Or on Instagram, pull down and let go or take pull down and let go. Okay.16:15 When you do the pull down and let go, here's what happens. I'm gonna tell you because you're not even thinking about it, but here's what's happening. An algorithm in San Francisco is triggered. That's controlled by16:26 probably about 700 people who are hateful of your God and your faith, and they are controlling what gets released into your eyes16:39 at the end of that pull down and let go. I'm trying to tell you, and it's entirely possible that much of what you believe for the people who are uncomfortable16:51 with what I'm saying right now, much of what you believe is because those lunatics in San Francisco have indoctrinated you. And it's time to wake up to it17:04 and realize what what's going on here. I'm not saying don't do it. I'm just saying just keep your guard up and realize. Get full of the word of truth so that you can identify the lies of this age. Alright?17:16 Grand Theft Auto. Parents, listen to me. Never ever buy this game for your child. Grand Theft Auto is where a kid17:28 gets to act like a a criminal. He gets to beat women and sleep with prostitutes. This is what happens in the in the game. This is what your kid doesn't tell you,17:40 and and he doesn't want me to tell you right now. All little boys in this room right now are squirm and squirm and, oh, no. The secret's out. Oh my gosh. Please don't listen to this pastor. Please pastor, stop. They get17:50 to beat women. They get to rape women. They get to steal cars. They get to destroy disobey police. And then our country says, why are the kids so out of control? Both18:02 sides of their mouth. Now grand theft auto is a symbol. It's a symbol of fake battles. Men are made to war. Men are made to fight. That's why you're stronger than women. You're made to fight. You've gotta fight ahead of18:14 you. You got a real fight. You gotta fight for your family. Gotta fight for your life. You gotta fight for your children. Men should be the closest ones to the door in the bedroom. Your side of the bed should be closest18:23 to the door, men. Because you're supposed to protect. And the the what the devil does is he comes and offers you pseudo war, which is pixels on a screen that don't matter.18:35 Video games, accomplishing things that are meaningless. Now video games there's a place for video games and brainless activity. I get it. I play some video games in my life. I don't play any more video games at all. But,18:46 man, I used to kill it in Madden football. I'm telling you. I was good. Anyway, there's a time for that. It's called boyhood. Boyhood is good. And boyhood should be celebrated. It should be18:57 curated. It should be outside. Every mom in in this house, you should be saying, go outside and play. Go outside and play. Don't have any friends. Go19:09 find some. I mean, stop helicoptering your boys. We're emasculating our boys unintentionally with overprotectiveness.19:21 If your kid has not broken an arm yet, something's wrong. There should be something broken by the age of 12. Something there should be a frantic run to a hospital because he went up some tree, he climbed some more,19:33 you know, rock. You know, he I don't know. But you gotta have some moment like that. Because if he can't handle a broken arm when he's 12, he won't handle his broken spirit when he's 24. Gotta19:45 learn to come back. Kids gotta learn to bounce back. You gotta learn you gotta let this happen so that they understand they can survive. All19:57 the pill popping, anxiety driven kids, the reason why you like that is because mom never let you fall. Dad never let you fall. You were coddled, you were carried,20:08 you were you were asked about your emotional state every single second of your life, and you need to get out of that, take some chances, have some bad breaks, get back up, dust yourself off, and say,20:20 know that God's got me. Teach this to your children. You know when the Bible says train up the child in the way that he should go, and when he's old, went up and depart from it? We always think that he should20:32 memorize, you know, scripture. That's true too. Yes. But train them to bounce back from falls and scrapes and cuts and broken bones. I'm telling you. You'll save20:43 prescription costs in the course of their life for decades. Not offended yet? You were doing good. Okay. Not only does the devil give you20:55 fake war, like in GTA and in Call of Duty and all those nonsense games, but it gives you fake intimacy through pixels. It's called pornography. That's fake intimacy where you get to pretend that you're Solomon and you21:07 got a harem of women who are all about pleasing you. This destroys your mind. It ruins your relationships. It corrupts your spirit, and ultimately destroys your soul. It's fake intimacy.21:19 It it requires no sacrifice on your part. This is why wives today, they don't understand their husbands, what's going on. He probably he's probably captive. He needs to come out of it. Well,21:31 it happens to a lot of men. And and and listen, pornography, you don't have to look for pornography, it's looking for you. You could drive up the highway today and see semi pornographic21:42 images. You can just be scrolling on whatever regular website, and there it is, the bikini clad woman selling glue. What does glue have to do with a21:54 bikini? I don't even wanna know if there's anything there. Because this is but this is our world because sex sells, and this and it's not really what sell sex sells is sex sells your soul. You're22:06 made for intimacy, but not fake intimacy. You're made for real intimacy. Now listen. If you if you struggle with that, please do not beat yourself up and think you're a nobody and worthless. You you gotta have partners22:18 and brothers who you can confess to, you can pray through, you can work through, and you can get forgiveness and grace and mercy. Confess your sins to 1 another that you may be healed. Amen. Alright. We're not gonna beat22:27 that down. We're not. Because it's just the reality of our world right now. You gotta come out of it. You gotta aim to get out of it fast. Pray. Guardianships on your phones and devices. I don't know what you gotta do,22:37 but you gotta fight that battle. Win that war in Jesus' name. Number 4, men face a spiritual problem. It's called fatherlessness. Listen to me very carefully. The Bible never ever22:49 ever says mother god. For some reason, there's a bunch of preachers23:01 that are dying to emasculate the pulpit. I don't understand this. So the pulpit is23:12 reserved for men. The pulpit is reserved for men. It's all over the Bible, and theologians in cool churches across23:24 America are doing theological, exegetical gymnastics to appease feminists by finding obscure passages that could possibly refer to23:36 women pastors. And I'm gonna just tell you the truth because nobody else will. Men don't want a woman pastor. They will tolerate it23:49 because it'll appease the wife, but a man wants a male spiritual leader. That's a fact. You don't even have to clap for that24:00 because it wasn't even starting that strong anyway, and you just just give that 1 up. There's plenty more opportunities coming. We need strong24:12 biblical men leading men and women in the bible. Every elder and every pastor of Waters Church is a man, and it will always be that way. I24:24 don't care if we're the last church on earth that holds to that standard. It's in the scriptures. I can show you the scriptures. There's plenty of them. And the reason why is because here's really the reason why,24:37 is why God is referred to as father because here's what a father should be. God is all powerful, which means he has the power to squash you instantly. He24:48 could squash you so fast, you won't even feel it. But he restrains his power to guide you. And he is the perfect image of a father. A father25:00 should exemplify strength enough to squash a child. That's where a child learns the fear of the Lord from their father. The reason25:12 why you got the lunatics at Columbia and Harvard and Yale acting like spoiled rotten brats is because dad was never dad. So now the police have to be dad.25:23 I'm not having the police father my children. I'm fathering my children. They'll get spanked from me. They'll get disciplined from me. They'll learn the fear of God from25:35 me. Fathers, you have to strike the fear of God in your child, but you though you could crush them, you care for them. You restrain your force,25:46 and in you, they see a picture of God who, though he could crush you, he chooses to love you and care for you, and use that power not to destroy you, but to25:58 build you. You getting this? That's fatherless. That's fatherhood. That's what children desperately need. Prisons are filled with fatherless men and26:10 women. Now I have good news for you men. The bible gives you repeated permission to be men. First Corinthians 16 13 says, be watchful, stand firm in the faith. Say the next 3 words26:22 everybody. Act like men. Whoo. I love it. Be strong. Synonymous in that text with manliness is strength, standing firm, and keeping26:33 watch. You do have a call of duty, men, to fight for your family. And you are called to be strong for your community,26:46 and you are made to have a firmness of faith that this world cannot rip out of you. So I'm gonna give you 5 points from Genesis chapter 2, God's ideal for manly26:57 manhood, manliness. Point number 2. Some of you are like, well, where's point number 1? We'll get there. This will all make sense at the end. A man is made for responsibility.27:10 Now listen to me moms and dads, because we gotta talk about this now because it's on the table. You should be giving your young men responsibility. As soon as he can, he should be emptying the dishwasher.27:22 He should be carrying his clothes from the laundry room to his own bedroom and putting them in the right drawers. He should be getting his own breakfast. He should be getting his own, you know, snacks. He27:34 should learn how to I mean, you can teach him how to use the microwave. He should have chores, pay them for them, maybe don't pay them for them. I don't know. It depends on the week.27:47 Responsibility is what men are made for. The Bible says in Genesis 2 15, this is how God fathers. This is how God fathers. The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden. Underline garden. Just circle the word27:56 garden. How many know garden means 1 thing? Work. And that's what it says here, to work it and to keep it. Some of you are under the false impression that work is a result of the fall. Sin into the world and so came28:08 work. That's not true. Work existed before the fall. Work is from God. Work is good. Having a job is a godly thing. And the word work could also mean28:20 serve, and the word keep means to guard or protect. Serve and protect. It's not just the policeman's job. It's every man's job to serve and protect. This is how God organized the life of a man.28:32 There's no woman yet. This man's in the garden. There's no woman, and he's given a job, and he's given protective orders. This is intentional. The text is teaching us intentionality here.28:43 Men need responsibility, and they are made for more and more responsibility the older they get. Do you understand that we know28:56 that Adam was a gardener, Noah was a carpenter, Moses was a shepherd, David was a shepherd, Jesus was a carpenter, Matthew was a tax collector, Peter was a fisherman. We know more about the jobs of God's29:08 men than we know about their hobbies or their likes or their feelings. Isn't that something? Yeah. We never saw and Moses29:20 felt. No. Moses shepherded. Okay? David fought. That's Peter fished.29:31 Work is good. Now I wanna 0 in on David because the Old Testament gives more pages to David's life than any other because29:43 David is a picture of Christ, and he's ultimately a picture of manliness. And in his youth, we always focus on him defeating Goliath, but there's a narrative before defeating Goliath that matters.29:55 And if you just back up in the text in first Samuel chapter 16, he's anointed by Samuel in the presence of his brothers. Now the Bible says that Samuel comes to find a replacement for Saul, king Saul, has gone corrupt.30:05 And he comes to Jesse's house, and he says, lay out your sons. I'm gonna pick 1. The Lord has called 1 of your sons to be king. So Samuel Jesse puts all 7 of his oldest sons in front of Samuel, and the Lord says, not not30:16 1 of these. None of them. And Samuel has to say, is there another son? And he goes, yeah. There's 1. He's the youngest, and he's out with the sheep. Responsibility. See, he30:28 was responsible for the sheep when the other sons were looking for notability. Hello? Men, notability is on the other side of years of30:39 responsibility. So he's out the sheep. He has to come back. He has to come in, get him from the field. We won't sit down until he comes in. Comes in, anoint him, God says. He pours the oil on David's head. He's30:50 anointed in the presence of his brothers. It's a picture of Christ, but it's a picture of manhood. And what happens after that? Does he don a crown and put on the royal robe?31:03 Goes back to shepherding. Goes back to his job. Then the bible says that Saul has an evil spirit and needs somebody to play some music so that the evil spirit will leave. So they find somebody that can play the the31:15 music. Guess who they find? David. Now David who has been keeping the sheep picks up a second job. Look what look with me. Verse 23 of first Samuel 16, it says, David took the lyre and played it with his hands, so Saul31:26 was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him. David has a second job. And we know that he kept his first job of shepherding because just a little bit later in the text, it tells us in first Samuel31:37 17, David was the youngest, the 3 eldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth. Somebody say back and forth. Back and forth. You know what that is? That's 2 jobs. 2 jobs. You had31:49 2 jobs to feed from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. So he had to go play the music for Saul in the evening, he had to go and shepherd the sheep in the morning. He had 2 jobs. There is nothing wrong with32:01 2 jobs. I am so sick of these selfie videos of these young people crying their eyes out because they gotta have 2 jobs. I had to32:13 work 2 jobs. Good. Good. When I was young, I had 2 jobs most of my young life. When I was a youth minister, I was32:25 also working about 35 hours a week at a bank and youth ministry. 2 jobs. And I didn't want either 1 of them. I didn't like either job.32:37 Thank God this thing wasn't around. I probably would've When I when when I finally became a full time youth ministry, it didn't last long because we started this church. And32:49 for 2 years, I was starting this church and doing youth ministry. And every time I tell other pastors that, they're like, woah. How did you do that? God gave me the responsibility. And God strengthened me in that season33:01 so that I could carry what I got in my hands in this season. You gotta understand this? Now look what happens. So the boys that are older than David and saw David get anointed, okay,33:13 David's anointed, and he's got 2 jobs. And the older boys are with Saul in the battle. This is where Goliath is gonna come down because of David. Again, we focus on David's beating Goliath, but look what happens before33:22 he beats Goliath. See, some of you men, you wanna defeat your Goliath, but you've never held down 2 jobs. You've never held on to responsibility. You've never been a man in the hard times of life, and Goliath is33:34 laughing at you. You gotta learn how to be strong in your jobs now so that when you do face Goliath, you could take him down. The bible says that Samuel gives David a third job. Look what it says33:46 in verse 17. David Jesse said to David, take these take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, these 10 loaves of bread, carry them quickly to the camp for your brothers. Also, take 10 cheeses to the commander33:58 of their thousand and see if your brother's well and bring some token from them. Now David's doing Uber Eats to the battlefront. He's joined the gig economy while34:10 holding down 2 other jobs. Are you putting this together yet? You see, the more that God wants to use you, the more he loads on you.34:23 There is no quick advancement in life. There's none. And whenever it happens by somebody winning the lottery, you see them ruin their life. Long,34:35 hard, arduous days and nights. I was fasting and praying for you before we fasted and prayed as a church. I was on my knees before God when we had 25 people in the pews.34:47 Never in my life could I see what this church was gonna do. Never in my life. But God was loading me up, giving me a lot of work, a lot of responsibility, overburdened my shoulders. I felt as if I was gonna be crushed.34:58 But that was so that I learned how to in the Lord my God and not in myself. He gives strength to the weak, he lifts up the dead, he raises the dead to life, and he'll build strength in your life as well.35:10 Write this down, men. Write this down, women. A heavy truck drives straight. That's why God wants to load you up, man, with lots of work, lots of responsibility.35:22 Do you know why I can't fool around? You know why I can't do stupid crap? You know why? Because of you. I gotta preach to you. I gotta smoke what I'm selling.35:36 You know what I mean? I got a wife, I got 3 kids, I got 2 dogs, I got a mortgage, I got we got 7 churches, my truck is loaded. I can't mess35:48 around. I gotta I gotta stay straight. Some of you guys, the problem is you got too much time on your hands. Too much time on36:00 your hands. You need to find another job. You need to find something that could lead to a job. You need to do volunteer in the commune I don't know, but you gotta do something else so that you are responsible and people36:11 rely on you, and you have a you have the weight on on you. It's not a burden. It's a weight that that you can carry stuff, that you are loaded up, that you gotta do stuff, and people are gonna be hurt if you don't do36:23 what you gotta do. So so here's what the devil does with you men. Are you ready? He gives you the fantasy with the lady at the office or the, I36:35 don't know, the cashier at the register or whatever. And you've here's what he does though. Here's what the devil does. Are you ready, man? He always stops the fantasy at the height of pleasure. Now36:47 I'm gonna give you a little tip. Ready? Fantasize all the way through. Go ahead and have your fantasy, but finish it. Don't stop in36:59 the bed. Fantasize about waking up the next morning and realizing what you just did. And then fantasize about going to work the next morning and37:11 feeling like a big fat hypocrite and liar. And fantasize about lying to your wife for the next few weeks or months or years every day of your life. Fantasize about that. Don't let the devil stop the fantasy37:22 now. And then fantasize about sitting in the living room for the last time and telling your kids that you're not coming home again. Fantasize about that. Don't you understand what the devil37:34 does? He gives you only a fraction, and he puts you in a lion's trap to destroy not just your children,37:46 but their children and their children and their children. Men, you gave your last name to those children. What's that last name gonna be remembered for37:58 in your great grandchildren's generation? Don't you understand? It's more than you. Number 3, a man is made for productivity. Productivity. You need to you need38:10 to earn. You need the paycheck, and you need the rewards, and you need to build things. This is why homeownership is such a a glorious thing for men. To38:22 plant your own garden, to do your own landscaping, to build your you know, the addition, or or to knock down the wall, and to, you know, do all that. I've I've done all that stuff. I've built out a basement. I've38:33 expanded a kitchen. I've I've I can do stuff with my hands. I got tools all over my garage. I love it. Productivity, building, creating. This is what you're made for. The Bible says in38:44 verse 10 of chapter 2 in Genesis, a river flowed from the Garden of Eden and split and became 4 rivers. Why? Because God wanted productivity. 4 rivers, 4 irrigation systems to make sure that the plants came up, that38:55 mankind would experience productivity. The curse of sin is a curse on our productivity. Did you know that? Genesis 3, here's why we hate our job. Here's why. BecauseShow more
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