["I Am Your God and You Are My God"]
It is in you that Jesus died when Mary died for me.
We are one.
That Jesus saved is in the good and the out.
Oh, seal, seal, I come to thee.
We love and cast me out.
I am your God and I am your God.
It is in you that Jesus died when Mary died for me.
I am your God and I am your God.
Salvation while I see thee.
Salvation for me as well.
I am your God and I am your God.
It is in you that Jesus died when Mary died for me.
I am your God and I am your God.
It is in you that Jesus died when Mary died for me.
And is life be gave,
Is life be gave,
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Number six, part of the chapter I want to look at is in verse nine, where it says,
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived.
Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves
with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners
shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you, but ye are washed, ye are sanctified, and ye are justified in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
And I want to focus in there on that one word, effeminate.
He's saying that the effeminate shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
And of course, being effeminate is when a man exhibits feminine qualities.
That's what it means to be effeminate.
And today, men are being made effeminate.
This is something that is happening en masse in our society through culture, through the
education system.
Men are being effeminized.
And I want to preach a sermon against that tonight entitled Old World Masculinity.
Old World Masculinity.
It's important because, you know, again, we're living in a time when the borders between
genders are just being blurred, where people are being taught to be more like the opposite
gender, right?
We have men that are becoming more like women and women that are becoming more like men.
It's a total, just bizarro world that we're living in, okay?
And this is something that's been going on for a long time.
Obviously today, there's some very extreme examples of this, but this isn't something
that's really new, okay?
If you would, turn with me over to 1 Corinthians chapter 11, verse 14.
We'll just look at it together.
There in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, you're in 1 Corinthians 6.
Just go over to chapter 11.
If you want to look down at your Bible there, it says in verse 14,
Doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame to
him?
And again, I've said so many times from this pulpit that the Bible addresses everything
in life.
And this is a great verse to prove that, because it's addressing even the length of your hair.
And some people might scot standards for everything in our lives, including our hair.
You say, why does God care about hairdos?
Is God into fashion and style?
Or is it that God wants a woman to look like a woman?
And he's saying there that nature itself teaches us this.
This is something that is just bred into us.
We know that women have long hair.
That's an effeminate quality.
That's a feminine quality for a woman to have long hair, as it says there.
But if a woman, verse 15, have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given
her for a covering.
It's a shameful thing for a man to have long hair.
It's a shameful thing for a man to have shaggy, long hair that looks like a woman's.
And of course, people want to start splitting hairs at how long is too long, what's the
proper length.
And I'm glad the Bible doesn't give us an exact length, because then obviously people
would try to get just as close to that standard as they could.
You know, when people can have different rules in their house, how long is too long, you
know, a great standard is if it's touching the ear, you know, that's what I've heard
on a man, that's too long.
You know, if your hair is hanging down on your ear, over your ear, how about this, when
a guy starts having to brush his hair out of the way.
I feel queer just doing it.
And you look queer when you do it.
You gotta brush your hair back.
How about, you know, and I'm not against a guy styling his hair or anything like that,
but you know, if you gotta take time before you walk out the door to brush it all back
and make sure it's all back and put a ponytail in it, you know, you gotta have something
to hold it up.
It's too long.
That's a feminine, that's men being effeminized, okay?
That's a feminine quality.
You know, I remember a few years ago that whole thing with top knots became a big deal.
You started seeing all these guys walk around with the man bun.
That's a, you know, that's an oxymoron.
There is no such thing as a man bun.
There's just a bun because it belongs to women.
Man, I thought I silenced her for good.
You don't understand.
That's why I'm the one preaching.
You know, there's a lot of these guys walking around with these top knots on their head
looking, you know, like trying to look like a samurai.
You guys know what the samurais wore back in the day?
They had a big top knot like that.
Too many top knots, not enough samurai.
That's how I heard it put.
You know, we need some more manly men.
Say, oh, that's the culture back then.
They should have done it.
Yeah, you should have taken that katana blade, whatever, and chopped that top knot right
off.
This is one example.
Go to Deuteronomy chapter 22.
We all know it, verse 5.
Deuteronomy chapter 22.
You say, why are you preaching on old world masculinity?
Because you know, real masculinity today is being attacked.
It's being called things like toxic masculinity.
Men are being told not to be men anymore.
That somehow they're wrong if they, you know, display biblical masculinity, if they're actually
the way God made them, that somehow there's something wrong with them.
And so they're blurring the lines.
You know, the example of long hair is just one example.
Look at another example in verse 5.
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's
garment for all that do so, now notice those words, are abomination to the Lord.
Does it say all that do so have committed an abomination?
You know, it says they are an abomination.
God's disgusted when people cross dress.
And obviously, you know, the fish in the barrel today, I could just get up and just talk about
all the trannies.
But the fact is, is that cross dressing's been going on in this country for a long time.
And you know, it hasn't just been the guys doing it.
Women have been cross dressing in this country for a long time every time they pull on a
pair of slacks.
Because that is a man's garment.
Pants are a man's garment.
I don't believe that.
Okay, then you come tell me what a man's garment is.
If it's not a pair of slacks, what is it?
It's kind of like 1 Corinthians 11.
Nature itself teaches us this.
That's why the international sign for the woman's bathroom is a woman in a dress.
That's why in a lot of countries that haven't been tainted by Western culture, women just
naturally wear, you know, something feminine like a dress.
But this is what's going on, the blurring of the genders, the long hair, the clothing.
Here's another one, the physicality.
You know, today you have a lot of these young guys that are accentuating, you know, being
a bird legged, you know, twig boy.
They want to be as skinny as possible and they want to get the little tight jeans to
show off how skinny their legs are.
And look, I get it.
You know, we all have to grow and mature and put on weight and men have to become strong
and boys have to turn into men.
But they shouldn't go around, you know, emphasizing that.
Look how skinny I am.
Look how feminine I look.
You know, it's out there.
It's in the culture.
It's in other cultures.
Every now and then I'll see things from other cultures and I'm just like, what in the world?
I think it's like these South Korean pop stars.
Anyone see any of this?
I don't know.
I might have the wrong country.
K-pop?
Do they sell that?
Is that in the grocery store somewhere?
Like, what flavor is that?
You know, K-pop.
But it's, I guess it's Korean pop would be the term, right?
Okay.
That must be what I'm looking at because I've seen these guys where it's just like, and
what is it?
It's the long, shaggy hair, these fine little feminine features, these tiny little, and
they just accentuate it, put it on the makeup, wearing the feminine clothes.
You'll see it even in our culture.
These rock stars that get up, these guys that are all skinny, showing off their hip bones
and their ribs and they got these floral patterns on and they're shaggier.
They look like women.
And that's the world that we're living in.
And this is contrary to man's nature.
You know, men have to be taught that.
They have to be pushed into that.
They have to be lured into it, whatever it takes.
But men are being made effeminate by the blurring of the borders of our genders.
They're being made effeminate today contrary to man's necessary nature.
You know, it's a detriment when men become feminine.
It's a detriment.
A man must be masculine.
He must be a man.
He needs to be true to his nature.
And the nature of a man is masculine.
It's aggressive.
It's wild even, I would say.
Go to Genesis chapter two.
This is an interesting thing.
I always just wonder at this.
What God is trying to show us about the nature of men in Genesis chapter two.
And we're going to be in Genesis a little bit later.
We're going to look at a real specific example.
But in verse seven it says, the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
Now notice the chronology here.
God creates man, right?
He breathes into his nostrils and he becomes a living soul.
And the Lord planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had
formed, showing us that the man was formed prior to the garden being made.
The man was made out in the wild.
The man was made out in the untamed wild of the earth, the creation, the raw creation.
Then God makes a garden and puts the man in it and says, calm down.
You're going to keep the garden.
You're going to use that strength for something productive and glorify me.
And I always wonder how much time took place.
Was it instantaneous?
Was it one thing immediately followed another?
Or was there some time there where he makes man and then he puts him in the garden and
the story plays out?
But Adam, for a time, I believe, whatever length of time, dwelled outside the garden.
It's really kind of an irrelevant point, the time frame.
The sequence, I believe, is significant, man, then the garden, then man's put in the garden.
Because I think it shows us something, that there's something to the nature of man.
Man was not made out in the wild.
She was made in that domesticated preened garden, that garden that was kept and protected.
That's where woman was ultimately formed.
I believe that God made man this way because man has to be this way in order to survive.
God foreknows all things.
God knew that man was going to become violent, that man was going to ultimately become wicked
and start to do wicked things to one another, was going to be aggressive, that they were
going to become sinful.
And as a result, he knew that he had to put something in man just for man, the species,
if you want to call it that, to survive.
I believe men have something that is inherently in them that help, it's like a survival instinct.
That's why men are aggressive.
That's why it's a shame.
That's why it's dangerous when you start to feminize men.
Make them soft, make them weak.
There was that great quote you quoted me this morning.
Hard men make good times.
Strong hard men make good times.
They make prosperous times.
Then prosperous times make what?
Weak men.
They get soft.
And then what happens?
Then the times get bad, don't they?
Because while good men sleep, the wicked form their chains.
That's another quote I'm misquoting.
So man has to be aggressive.
Man has to have this nature.
It's a shame when it starts to get taken out of man.
It's a shame when you have a culture and a society that is trying to feminize men.
God foreknew that man would fall and become violent.
And of course, it doesn't take long for that to happen, does it, in the story?
By the time we get to Genesis 6, you see that the earth is corrupt before God and filled
with violence.
Because that came from man, because men are just that way.
And God has to temper man and deal with man's aggressive nature, his sinful nature, by governing
men.
That's why you have the death penalty.
You have the flood comes, and then he puts the limit on man's age.
And then you have, of course, the death penalty is decreed in Genesis 9.
Whoso shedeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
God has to start to temper and control man.
You say, well, God made man that way.
God made man.
Yes, God made man aggressive, but it was man that made man sinful.
By one man sin entered in the world.
And God had to give man that aggressive, masculine nature, because he knew that man would fall.
And just to survive among wicked men, you have to be aggressive.
Some of the women are probably sitting there scratching their head and looking at me sideways
because they don't understand what it's like to be a man, and I get that.
But every man in this room knows exactly what I'm talking about.
There's just something in us that's just aggressive, that has to be tempered.
That's why it's so easy to go out there and just get into it with somebody, if you wanted
to.
Some guys go out there looking for that kind of thing.
That's just in us.
Men are very capable of extreme violence, aren't they?
I've been reading a book, All Quiet on the Western Front, it's a classic about the World
War I, and it's written from the perspective of the German, from the German, a German soldier,
firsthand account.
And it's not just make believe, it actually is an account of what, it's like a memoir,
what he went through.
And I can't read you everything from this pulpit that goes on in that book, because
it would probably give some of the kids nightmares.
It's one of the most horrific, just inhumane wars that have ever been fought in the history
of this earth, I believe.
But I did want to read an excerpt from this book, just so we can be reminded of what men
are capable of.
Okay?
And it's kind of what got me thinking about it, but he's talking about, in this excerpt,
we're picking up a story where he's been in a bombardment, because that was all trench
war warfare back then, where they would literally just dig these trenches, they'd set up barbed
wire, and then they'd just start bombing and shelling each other, then they'd bring out
the flame throwers, and they'd bring out the tanks, and they'd have, you know, they'd charge
one another, and they'd bayonet one another, and they'd shoot one another, and they'd just
dismember one another, and they'd be like that for weeks on end.
And different people would come and go from the front, but a lot of times, once you were
there, you were there for a while.
And he talks about living in these conditions where they have these rats that are coming
in, and they have to hide their food in a certain place, because, you know, it talks
about how one guy put it under his head to try and sleep, and the rats are crawling over
his face to try to get to the bread, and eventually what they end up all doing is taking the parts
that they had gotten to in the bread, and they've all put it in the center of the room,
in the bunker that they're hunkered down in, and they turn off their lights, and they wait
with their shovels until they think enough rats are there, and then they turn them on
and start, you know, impaling rats to try to get rid of this rat problem, and the rats
are all bloated and fat because they're out there eating corpses and other things.
I mean, it's these horrific conditions that they're living in.
But this is what men endure, and they're there to fight, and they're there to go out and
kill one another.
And eventually, they have the charge.
The attack comes after they've been bombarded, people are being blown up, and he talks and
begins to describe what it's like in that moment.
He says, we have become wild beasts.
We do not fight.
We defend ourselves against annihilation.
It is not against men that we fling our bombs.
What we do, we know of men in this moment when death is hunting us down.
Now, for the first time in three days, we can see his, referring to death.
He's saying it's death that's coming for us.
We're looking at these other men, and we're not seeing men.
We're seeing death.
Now we see his face.
Now, for the first time in three days, we can oppose him.
We feel mad anger.
No longer do we lie helpless, waiting on the scaffold we can destroy and kill to save ourselves,
to save ourselves and be revenged.
We crouch behind every corner, behind every barrier of barbed wire, and hurl heaps of
explosives at the feet of the advancing enemy before we run.
The blast of the hand grenades impinges powerfully on our arms and legs.
Crouching like cats, we run on, overwhelmed by this wave that bears us along, that fills
us with ferocity, turns us into thugs, into murderers, into God only knows what devils.
This wave that multiplies our strength with fear and madness and greed of life, seeking
and fighting for nothing but our deliverance.
If your own father came over with them, you would not hesitate to fling a bomb at him.
He's saying that's just what comes over us.
See, where does that come from?
That's just man's nature being turned loose.
That's man's nature just being the flames of that aggressiveness, just being fanned
and just being directed at one another.
That's what's in man.
That's what man's capable of.
It takes strength, doesn't it?
Takes strength to be able to do that kind of thing.
I'm not saying it's good.
He certainly isn't glorifying.
You should read the book.
He's not glorifying what they did at all.
It takes strength to be able to do that.
Why do they use men to do that?
Because men are capable of doing that.
Men are capable of enduring those kind of situations.
Men are capable of inflicting that kind of harm on one another.
Man's strength, and this is important to understand because again, masculinity is under
attack but that aggressiveness is something that God has given us for a reason.
If we're not careful, not only do they try to take it away from us, they might even try
to direct it for their own personal political gain.
Strength can become cruelty if man isn't careful.
Think about the crucifixion.
What a horrific way to kill somebody.
You know who caught that up?
It wasn't God.
Yeah, God foreknew that's what was going to happen but he didn't decree a cross.
He just knew that's what's in man.
He knew eventually that that's what was going to happen.
He foresaw all things but who thought up crucifixion?
The way you die on the cross, you asphyxiate.
You literally suffocate because every breath you want to draw, you have to lift yourself
up on those nails to draw a breath.
It's a horrible, excruciating way to die and man's the one that thought it up.
Look, when men get together, they can really start to scheme, can't they?
They can really start to come up with some things.
And obviously we can look at passages like I just read and we can look through history
and we can see example of when man's strength becomes cruel.
But a man's strength in itself is not something to be avoided.
It's not something to be feared.
It's certainly not something to be cast off and avoided.
It's something to be embraced and used because a man's strength, yes it can become cruel,
but a man's strength is useful if it's guided in the right way.
The Bible says the glory of young men is their strength.
And the beauty of old men is their gray head because it was their strength that kept them
alive that long.
The glory of young men is their strength.
It's a glory to be strong.
It's a glory for a man to have strength.
Today, unfortunately, it's just misunderstood and misconstrued what it means to be a man.
And that's why you have so many people in the manosphere, this thing out there with
all these influencers and others, who are able, you know, they're filling this void
because there's so many young men today that are looking for an example of what it means
to be a man.
And they're so sick and tired of being told that, you know, that the nature of what they
feel it is to be a man is wrong.
They don't have any guides, they don't have anyone to help them.
And then you have these idiots stepping in to help them.
The glory of young men is their strength.
Go to 1 John chapter 2, 1 John chapter number 2.
Man's strength is useful if it's guided, if it's tempered, if it's used correctly.
Look at 1 John chapter 2 verse 14.
I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning.
I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth
in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
And I love, how do we get to the place where we're overcoming the wicked one?
Well, first of all, you have the young man.
You have his strength.
But what else is a big part of this equation is the word of God.
Look, you combine youth, the vitality of youth, you combine the strength of youth, you combine
that with the word of God, you can get some things done.
Something can happen.
Something can be overcome.
The wicked one fears the strength of youth.
It fears the strength of men when it's combined with the word of God.
And isn't it ironic today that that's what the devil's after?
He's after the strength of young men, be more like a woman, and he's after the word of
God.
He's trying to separate these two things as far as he can.
He doesn't want young men to be men.
He doesn't want them to be strong.
He doesn't want them to be aggressive.
He doesn't want them to use that strength that's just inborn and given them.
He doesn't want them to acknowledge it.
He wants them to be more feminine.
He wants them to be more toned down and effeminized.
And he wants them as far away from the word of God as he can get them because he knows
if you get those two things together, he's going to be overcome.
And young men who have the word of God in their hearts, dwelling in their hearts, who
have given themselves to the word of God in prayer, who have given themselves to reading,
to exhortation, to doctrine, those that know their Bible, they can be used mightily by
God.
And I'm not saying women can't.
I'm not saying the young ladies can't be used mightily by God, that God fears them getting
with the word of God as well, but I'm preaching to the men this evening because of the fact
that they are under attack just as much as the women are.
Strength for spirituality equals overcoming.
If you would, go to Genesis, chapter 25, in closing, we'll just look at an example of
strength in the Old Testament because, again, the title of the sermon is Old World Masculinity.
Old World Masculinity.
The Bible says in Psalm 18,
It is God that girdeth me with strength and maketh my way perfect.
He maketh my feet like hind's feet and sendeth me upon high places.
He teacheth my hands to war so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
There's nothing wrong with men being strong.
That's the way we're supposed to be.
Not be watered down and effeminized and weak.
You know, Jacob, I believe, is a great example of strength, being tempered and used in the
right way.
And it's interesting because Jacob, you know, is another one who often you'll see criticized
by some people.
Some people just make this outlandish claim that somehow he was some kind of a feminine
mama's boy.
If you read there in Genesis, chapter 25, look at verse 24, it says,
And were days to be delivered and were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
And the first came out red all over like in hairy garment, and they called his name Esau.
And after that came his brother out and took his hand ahold on Esau's heel, and his name
was called Jacob.
And Isaac was threescore years old when she bared them.
And the boys grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field, and Jacob was
a plain man, dwelling in tents.
So some people read that and say, see, Esau was this man's man, and Jacob was this pansy
or something.
But the Bible doesn't really say anything about, it's not saying anything about their
strength, is it?
It's not really saying anything about their physicality, it's just saying, he did this
and he was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
You could say, oh, he was a plain man, like there was nothing special about him.
That's probably, maybe, perhaps what it means.
But it could also potentially mean that he was a man of the plain.
Maybe he was more of a herdsman.
He wasn't out there being a cunning hunter, a man of the field out there in the woods
and the mountains and things like that, seeking venison, because verse 28, and Isaac loved
Esau because he did eat of his venison, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
So they'll say, see there, he's a mama's boy, Rebekah loved Jacob.
And the man in the family, the dad, he loved Esau, right, because he was a man-man.
Well it says he loved him because of his venison.
We all know the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, right?
Is one of the great examples of it.
But it's kind of a great picture of what is admired about man's strength and who
admires it.
Men admire man's strength like Esau was appreciated of his father.
He likes that man's man, that quality of him, that he's this cunning hunter, right?
Men are impressed with the feats of other men.
That's why men often one-up one another.
That's why they're so competitive in nature, because they appreciate other men who can
do exploits, right?
And there's nothing wrong with that, Esau is loved of his father, a fellow man, because
of what?
Because of his ability.
That's what men appreciate in other men, is their ability.
But here's the thing, they can go too far with that, can't they?
To where a man wants to just impress other men through his exploits.
And this gets way out of hand.
But here's the thing, strength is not found in exploits.
Strength is inherent.
You know, you'll be more of a man if you go skydiving, that's what real men do.
These adrenaline junkie types, right, they're the real men.
The guys that go bungee jumping, the guys that ride these motorbikes at high speeds
weaving through traffic, they're the real men.
There's some men that would say that.
Some men would look at that and say, oh man, it's the guy that's hiking up all these mountains
and shooting all these animals, that's the real man.
It's the guy that chews glass at the party or whatever, that's the real man.
Because men appreciate men's exploits, so sometimes men, they just get so wrapped up
in impressing other men that they end up just doing all these crazy stunts, thinking
that's what strength is.
But that's just a display of strength, man's strength is inherent, it's built into us.
The Bible says that the Lord delighteth not in the strength of the horse, he taketh not
pleasure in the legs of a man.
God's not impressed with your deadlift.
Not saying don't deadlift.
God's not impressed with your squat.
God's not impressed with how much you can bench.
That doesn't impress God.
That impresses men though, doesn't it?
I appreciate seeing a good deadlift.
I'm impressed by the squat.
What are your numbers?
What are you putting up these days?
You can appreciate that.
I was doing it on that flight.
I saw one guy way up in front of the plane and just big old lats sticking out, traps,
just big guy.
I wonder what he benches.
That's what's going through my mind, right?
That's the Esau part of it where we're just kind of like, man, I love that.
Man, he's a wild, he's a hunter, he's a man's man.
He's bringing back venison.
But Rebecca loves Jacob because he's a plane man.
Not because he's weak, but because that is strength that has been tempered and directed
correctly.
It's not wild.
You see them all the time.
They just end up doing the stupidest things to try to prove what a man they are.
A lot of times, they're the most insecure people there are.
Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine.
Men of strength to mingle strong drink.
Guys try to drink each other on the table to prove something.
Who's going to have a failed liver quicker?
Who's going to wind up wrapped around a tree pole faster?
Who's going to have a DUI?
Who's going to have woe and wounds without cause quicker?
Who's going to have more of that?
That's all they're really getting at.
They start doing all the risk taking.
And look, some guys would look at the risk taking and say, wow, what a man's man.
But others would look at that and say, risk taking just makes you look immature, out of
control, unstable, and dangerous.
I'm sure there's an exception to every rule, but I'm sure there's no mother that's glad
that their son is out there whipping around on these bikes.
And look, here's the thing.
I don't care how well you can control that bike.
It's everybody else you have to worry about.
It's everybody else that's in a 2,000 pound steel missile that you have to worry about.
But these two men, one's appreciated for how wild he is, what he can do, how his strength
comes out in that way.
It doesn't necessarily mean that Jacob is somehow a weak man.
In fact, we'll see in the story here in a minute that he's a very physically strong
man, very capable.
And he knows something about husbandry.
He knows something about livestock, which kind of makes me think the term plain man
is referring more to his occupation, not his, you know, he didn't wear bright colors or
something.
He's a plain man.
He wore drab garments or something.
I don't know what people make out of plain.
But Jacob is loved of his mother, which is a woman, obviously, right?
We see that Esau is loved of his father.
Why?
Because of his ability to go out and be wild man up there in the mountains and bringing
back the venison.
Esau loved, or Jacob, excuse me, Isaac, I've been saying it wrong this whole time.
Isaac loves Esau for his ability.
But why does Rebekah love Jacob?
Because of his stability.
And that's what women love about men.
They love stability.
Oh, they appreciate the ability, but you can't have stability without ability.
If you're going to be a stable man who's able to provide, you obviously have to have some
abilities.
You have to be capable.
You have to be disciplined.
You have to do something consistently.
But Jacob, I believe, loves, Jacob is loved of his mother not because he's this soft,
effeminate, he's in there doing needlepoint with her or something, talking about his feelings,
but because he's not some wild man.
Because he's somebody who has some stability.
That's what women want in men.
Nobody can tell what a woman wants.
I've heard that.
I remember my dad saying, if you can figure out what women want and write that book, you'll
be a millionaire.
And I get it.
Women are these mysterious creatures that we have to figure out and things like that.
I get that.
But you know what?
Women will tell you what they want.
They want stability.
They want security.
They want safety.
Why?
Because they weren't made for the wild.
They were made in the garden.
That's what they're used to.
They want a nice, stable, secure thing.
That's what a man's strength can provide.
Unless, of course, he's busy just running around out there trying to impress other men.
Well, I'm stronger than you.
I'm wilder than you.
I'm more daring than you.
And meanwhile, mom's wringing her hands.
I thought about getting a motorbike when we first moved out here.
I knew another guy in the church that had one of these, I'm trying not to call it what
everybody calls it.
One of these rockets, right?
One of these rockets, they call them.
I was trying hard.
I was thinking about, maybe I would get one.
And I mentioned my wife and just the expression on her face.
I was like, nah.
Because I thought about me taking off to work every day and her just worrying all day long
about whether or not I was going to make it back.
Or whether or not it was just going to be some grease spot on the freeway.
But I guess I'm just not man enough.
Or is it that I'm smart enough and I'm stable enough and mature enough to know that
I need to use that strength to be stable and not try to impress people.
What good is it going to do if I learn all these stunts and these tricks on this bike
and impress a bunch of dudes and then I die riding around on some bike like that?
You know how long those guys are going to care?
For about as long as the tricks last.
I mean, they're going to forget about it.
It's not going to matter.
It's not going to have any impact on eternity at all.
It's not going to help anybody at all.
All it's going to do is impress somebody.
That's just one example.
Guys do stupid things all the time to try and impress one another and then they end
up hurt.
Cliff diving.
I mean, I've got a cousin.
Strong guy.
I remember.
Much older than me when I was just a boy, I remember looking at him and he was on the
wrestling team.
He was on the football team in high school.
Just strong.
And then one day, my mom and dad were talking and said, yeah, he's paraplegic now because
he went cliff diving.
He just jumped off some cliff with a bunch of his buddies and hit a rock.
Men try to, you know, that's sad.
It's unfortunate.
That strength is just, you know, it might have impressed people for a few seconds but
think of what it could have provided.
Think of the stability it could have given to a family.
Think of the children that could have been raised.
Think of the contribution to society that could have been made through that man's strength.
That's just one example.
So, yeah, Jacob is loved of his mother but it's not because he's soft.
It's because he's stable.
You know, strength is best displayed in providing for others.
I'll just read to you for the sake of time a few of these proverbs.
It says in Proverbs 14 verse 26, in the fear of the Lord is strong confidence and his
children shall have a place of refuge.
You know, there's strong confidence in the fear of the Lord.
You know, if we fear God and walk in his commandments and do that which is right, that's strong
confidence that God is going to be our insight and our children shall have a place of refuge.
A refuge in what?
In strength.
That's that strong confidence provides safety.
It provides refuge for others.
If we're strong, if we have a strong confidence, we provide safety for others.
That's how strength is best displayed when it provides for other people.
When it's used to profit others.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower.
The righteous runneth into it and is safe.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower.
What kind of tower is it?
It's strong.
What does that strength do?
It provides a place of safety.
The righteous runneth into it and is safe.
You know, people that need safety, that need protecting, they go to that which is strong.
That's why it's so important that we understand masculinity and not let the world try to take
it from us or tell us that it's wrong or toxic or whatever they're going to call it next.
That's why we've got to appreciate strong, bold preaching that takes a stand in the name
of the Lord.
You know, strong, bold preaching is a place of safety.
It's a place of refuge.
Well, I don't appreciate you getting up and yelling and going on against the homos and
screaming about the queers and the fags and everything.
I just don't like that.
Oh, no, you'd rather I just let them walk in the front door and sit down next to your
kids?
You'd prefer that?
Because I'll tell you what, that wouldn't be safe, would it, to have a predator around
your kid.
I just don't like how some of these new IFB preachers have to just always go on and on
about these homos.
Well, sorry, that's the battle we're called to today.
I don't know if you've noticed, but that's the fight that's going on right now.
That's the enemy that's coming at us.
I don't know if you've noticed that or not.
Someone has to stand up and call it out and stand against it publicly and make us think
about it and let other people know that we're not just going to roll over for it and have
some strength in the Lord and preach strong and preach boldly so that there can be a place
of confidence, there can be a place of refuge for the righteous, where you can come in here
and know if one of these freaks try to walk through the door, they're going to get shown
right back out.
They're not going to be tolerated for a second, and I'm not going to be gentle about it either.
So they can go back and tell all their queer friends, that's what happens when you come
down here and try to infiltrate us.
Oh, they'll never do that.
They just did.
They just infiltrated one of the churches that we associate with and sat in there for
weeks and recorded everyone's private conversations.
One of these freaks.
It exposed us publicly by all the stuff we put out publicly.
That's why you need to have bold, strong preaching.
That's why you need to have a man of God get up and have some strength behind the pulpit.
Why?
So he can press everybody?
So he can provide for safety.
So he can provide some spiritual solace for us in this world.
So we have a place where we know we're not going to have to worry about these freaks.
That's just a quick example of that.
We need men to be strong because strength is needed to provide for other people.
The Bible says, and I know I've quoted this, we then that are strong have to bear the infirmities
of the weak and not to please ourselves.
We that are strong should not please ourselves, but we should bear the infirmities of the
weak.
That is how strength is supposed to be used.
Not trying to go out there and just impress a bunch of people and get a bunch of glory
for ourselves.
It doesn't profit anybody.
Strong men, real strength, men like I believe Jacob, they rise to the occasion.
Go back to Genesis 29, I'll wrap it up, I'll hurry.
Strong men, they rise to the occasion.
Strong men see what's going on, they see what's going on in our world, and they see what the
Bible says.
They call it out.
That's strength, friend.
That's doing something about it.
They rise to the occasion not for themselves white, but in a concern for others.
You know the story of Jacob, how he tricks Esau out of his birthright, and then his mother
tells him to flee back to Laban, and he goes back there in chapter 29 verse 5, and he runs
into Laban's herdmen, and he says unto them, know ye Laban the son of Nahor?
And they said, we know him.
And he said unto them, is he well?
It's just, you know, how's he doing?
You know, and I don't think Jacob's putting out a front, I think he's probably, he's a
genuine person.
He's probably asking, is he doing right?
You know, he has a concern for his well-being.
And they said, he is well, and behold Rachel, his daughter cometh with the sheep.
Strong men rise to the occasion in concern for others.
You know, if we're the ones that have strength, and you know, this could apply to women too,
you know, if we're ones that are strong, if we're the ones that are mature, if we're
the ones that have some knowledge and understanding, and we see others struggling, and we see others,
you know, trying to make their way through and not understanding, if we can help in some
way, we ought to do that out of concern, okay?
You know, Jacob is a strong man, and he's concerned about other people.
Is he well?
How's he doing?
They rise to the occasion in concern for others, they rise to the occasion in getting something
done.
Strong men use their strength, they don't just let it stay idle, they put it to work.
Verse 7, and he said, lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should
be gathered together, water ye the sheep and go and feed them.
So it sounds to me like Jacob knew something about livestock.
In fact, that's what he ends up doing for Laban, if you remember the story.
He works for Laban for 20 years, keeping his sheep and other livestock.
He says, water ye the sheep and go and feed them.
They said, we cannot until all the flocks be gathered together, until they roll the
stone away from the well's mouth, then we will water the sheep.
It goes on there in verse 10, and Jacob went out, excuse me, I'm getting ahead of myself.
Well I didn't write it down in here.
Where are we at?
Well I'll just, you know the story.
He's saying, hey, water the sheep, they say we can't.
And then Rebecca, she comes, Rachel rather, she comes, and she's got the sheep, and
what does he do?
He rolls the stone away, versus 9 to 10.
It's just not in my notes.
I can't take the time to read it.
He goes and rolls the stone away and waters the sheep.
But what's the story showing us?
They said, they said, we cannot until all the flocks be gathered together, until they
roll the stone away from the well's mouth.
The stone is something that took several people to roll away.
And then it says that Jacob rolls it away.
So Jacob is a man that had physical strength, and he waters the flock.
Look, anyone who's ever done any kind of work with livestock knows that it's very
hard work, physically demanding.
I remember, I did this for a few winters, you know, for a few years, and I would get
laid off in the winter for my other job.
I'd go work on a dairy farm, and you find out what hard work is.
I thought I knew.
He says, I didn't.
And you're up at, you're out there at the crack of dawn, before that, you're out
there early in the morning, bringing the cows in, milking them, and then you think, oh,
the job's over.
Uh-uh.
Then it's repairing fence, and bringing in hay, and planting this, and fixing that.
And then it's like 12 hours of just work, and then you get to milk them again.
And then you're going in at eight, nine o'clock, if you're lucky, and you finally
get another eight hours of sleep, and then it's right back up and at it again.
And I remember, one of the jobs that was given to me was to go and water the younger, I don't
know what you call it, the younger calves.
They were bigger, but they were separated in another pen.
And Don would fill up the two five-gallon pails of water, and I'd have to pick them
both up and do the farmer's walk.
That's like an exercise now.
And that's like 35 pounds in each arm, which doesn't sound like a lot, until you
walk outside in the dead of a northern Michigan winter, the wind's blowing in your face,
and you got to go down an icy slope and not fall, and spill the water everywhere and pour
it out.
And look, I'm not trying to say, oh, look how big and mighty and strong I am, I'm
just saying, look, I'm using it as an example because that's what he did.
He's watering sheep.
Jacob's not some weakling.
And it's so stupid when people read, you know, the fact that he, you know, his mother
loved him, and he was a plain man, dwelling in tents, like, oh, he must have been some
weak man.
And it's like, read the rest of the story.
The guy knows about livestock, he's working with livestock, he's a strong man.
But what's he doing with his strength?
Let me show you guys how to roll stoneway.
Get your phones out.
You're going to want to, this is going to go viral.
Watch what I can do.
I'm going to do a backflip off the stone.
Right?
You know, he rolls it away so he can water somebody else's sheep.
So he can water Rachel's sheep.
A woman.
Someone who was a little weaker.
I mean, impressive that she's keeping sheep.
But he's watering, he's helping her.
He's bearing her infirmities.
Because what's impressive about Jacob's strength is not his ability, it's his stability.
It's the fact that he uses it to provide and help others out of a concern for them.
This is why we can't let the world beat masculinity out of men and try to take it
from our sons.
They must have it.
Strong men are needed.
Strong men rise to the occasion in concern for others in getting something done.
You know, I don't have time to go into it, but if you remember on his journey there,
there's another proof that Jacob wasn't some nancy.
You know, he literally stops to sleep for the night and you know what he makes his bed
out of?
Rocks.
The Bible says his stones were pillows.
And then he sees Jacob's ladder and the angel's ascending and descending.
And then what's he doing?
He stacks the stones up.
Right?
The guy's sleeping on rocks, rolling rocks away and watering sheep.
This is a man's man.
Strong.
He has strength.
And not only that, he's a great example of strength in men because strong men endure.
They put up with things.
They endure hardship.
They go through difficult things.
You know what the rest of the story in Genesis 31, or Genesis 30 right in there, you know,
30-31 where Jacob has decided to flee from Laban to take his wives and children and hit
the livestock that he's gotten to himself, the wealth that he's accumulated, and go back
to where he was from.
Go back to his mother and father.
And then you know that Laban catches up with them.
They overtake him and then they sit down and they have a conversation.
And Jacob kind of, you know, very sternly reminds Laban the facts of the matter.
And he says, this 20 years have I been with thee, thy ewes and thy she-goats have not
cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee.
I bear the loss of it.
Of my hands, thou wouldst require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
You know, you could see if an animal was stolen by night, you wouldn't maybe hold a guy accountable
for that because it's night.
You know, they weren't running around with headlamps, you know, and 5,000 lumen whatever.
All you had was what was in the sky.
But he's saying, you know, whether it was stolen by day or by night, whether I could
see or not, you know, you required it of me.
And I bared the loss of it.
And I said, OK.
And I went along with it.
It doesn't exactly sound fair, does it?
Kind of shows you the character of Laban, right?
But it also shows you the character of Jacob, the fact that he was able to endure that hardship.
He was able to put up with that.
Thus I was, in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and sleep departed
from mine eyes.
And he's just describing the physical, just arduous task of keeping Laban sheep.
And he's a strong man because he was able to endure all of this.
He was able to endure.
He'd go, I quit.
Oh, I can't do it.
And go on unemployment and sit in his mother's basement and play video games, which is where
a lot of men are today.
I can't, you know, I didn't look any facts up, and, you know, this is secondhand, but
someone told me there's like seven million men that are in the prime of their working
years that are electing not to work for no other reason than they know they can just
sit at home and collect money, or someone else will take care of them.
They just don't want to do it.
It's because men are being effeminized, because men don't know what it means to be a man.
It means to, you know, bear up under a load and endure some hard things.
That's life.
You know, sometimes you just got to pull your bootstraps up and get on with it.
That's what Jacob's showing us.
That's real manhood.
He says, thus have I been with thee 20 years in thine house.
It wasn't like, oh yeah, that was nine months of some, you know, me having to work two shifts
or whatever.
This is 20 years.
He's a strong guy.
I served thee 14 years for thy two daughters and six years for thy cattle, and thou hast
changed my wages ten times.
He's saying, look, I've put up with a lot with you, Laban, and why was he able to do
that?
Because strong men endure.
Strong men will put up with hardships for the sake of other people.
That's the value of masculinity.
We don't want to lose sight of it.
We don't want the world to tell us, oh, masculinity is toxic.
Oh, men should be more like women.
You should be soft, and you should find your feminine side.
I don't have a feminine side.
It's not there, and it's not in any real, it's not in any man, period.
And I don't care how feminine he is, that's an act.
That's what just drives me nuts about these fags, and they lisp.
This recent trip I took is just full of illustration, because the world has just gone completely
bonkers.
I'm flying out, and I've got to listen to this fag over the PA.
I don't even want to talk like it.
I don't even want to do the impression.
You know how they sound.
And it's like, you know, because they have to do their whole spiel, I just got, immediately
got the headphones out, noise cancelling, turned it up, and I'm just like, I can't even
stand to listen to this, because it's fake, because he's effeminate.
Look, they're trying to effeminize all of us, every man.
They might not try to turn us into some flaming fag, but they're definitely trying to get
us to be soft, and weak, and not take a stand, and just roll over and go along with it.
And meanwhile, the people that need those men to be the men that they're supposed to
be are suffering.
The sermons aren't getting preached.
The stand isn't being taken.
The wives aren't being taken care of.
The children are suffering.
The souls are going unsaved.
The work isn't getting done.
You know, I mean, literally, the work isn't getting done, like, literally.
They can't fill the position.
You can't go somewhere and get something done, like, you can't go get something serviced
because they just, they don't have men to do the jobs anymore, they're just gone.
You know, they're at home, you know, fighting a war on a PC, depressing a button, I'm such
a man, because I got such a high kill count.
You know, when I became a man, I put away childish things, is what the Bible says.
That's the definition of being a man, is you stop doing childish things.
The games, the things that, you know, aren't necessarily sinful, but really aren't going
to profit anybody either, are they?
Because that's what men do, they profit other people.
You know, they provide, they use that strength that's been given them by God.
They guide it.
They don't let it go wild.
They're not trying to impress anybody, they want to help those that are weak.
So don't let the world take that from us.
Don't let it take it from our sons, don't let it take it from us, men.
Use it.
Use what God has given us, use that old world masculinity.
Let's go ahead and close service in a word of prayer.
Dear Lord, again, thank you for, thank you for men, Lord, thank you that you've given
us strength, thank you that you've given us great examples of strong men throughout
Scripture that we can look to, and even in this backwards world that we're living in,
we can still see clear, shining examples of masculinity, that God-given attribute, Lord,
help us to never fear it or shy away from it, Lord, help us to embrace it and use it
to your honor and glory, we ask in Christ's name, amen.
Alright, go ahead and sing one more song before we go.
Go ahead and sing one more song before we go.
Thank you.
Go ahead and sing.