For Men Only | Dr. Myles Munroe

[Music] thank you for joining us for another power-packed message from dr. Myles Munroe provided by Monroe global incorporated and Monroe global.com we transform followers into leaders and leaders into agents of change we hope that this message is a blessing to you as you advance your life and discover your purpose now let's go into the message so if you think that you a man You males and I want you to listen very closely today all you females take more notes than the men because you see you're going to delivered one of them if you're not already

doing it and sometime they make you believe that you don't know what you know but if you find out from the Word of God the way a man's supposed to act and live then he can't jive you right praise the Lord all right I want you to turn your Bibles to Genesis chapter 2 in Chapter 1 we find the Lord creating the heavens and the earth and he created man and verse 26 and 27 he created both male and female and he gave them dominion over all the fish of the sea all the fowls of

the air and over everything that moves upon the face of the earth this is one of the things that that people don't understand God gave man dominion over the earth not the woman he didn't give mind dominion over Eve he didn't give my under million over a Female he gave man dominion over the earth and in verse 26 he gave the same Dominion to the woman yet we find men dominating women instead of dominating dominating the planet there are more men who can dominate their wives but those same men are dominated by alcohol they got

it reversed men who can run around and beat their wives are usually the same men who are dominated by cocaine in other words some Bush dominates them then they used the Bush influence to Dominate their wives something's wrong God created men and women to dominate the earth not to dominate one another anytime a man starts to dominate another human being he is out of God's will that goes for preachers as well any minister who says to you you cannot go and visit anybody else's Church watch him he's beginning to dominate and God says man was

created to dominate the earth not one another we finally Chapter two God does something interesting in Chapter 1 And just gives you the whole story but in chapter 2 it gives you how the phases took place and many parts of the scriptures written this way in chapter 2 it begins to teach on how the creation took place and it goes through the processes and in verse 15 it says then the Lord took man and put him in the garden uncommanded him to work it to guard it and to subdue it so man was by himself

for a while dominating the garden during this time Is when man was commanded to name the animals he was also commanded to dress which means to cultivate to beautify the gardens and we find this this Ministry of man being carried out by Adam by himself but we find something else ladonna verse 16 and the LORD commanded the man these words you are free to eat of any tree from the garden but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and eat you eat of it you will surely die now I want

you to notice God Said to man by himself don't eat of the tree he said to man by himself if you eat of it you will die so don't eat of that tree he was not there at the time so man received the first command from God by himself his responsibility then was to keep that word verse 18 we find the Lord said unto to himself God's talking himself it is not good for man to be alone I will make for him or help me now your King James Version says help meet help me it

is not a Hebrew word and It's not a holy word it's a word that was written somewhere in the British Commonwealth English dictionary in the 16th century used by King James when he ordered them to translate the Scriptures they used the words that they knew and the words they knew for for the Hebrew word help meat is the best they could to do but the word help meat means help that is fit for him meat means fit something that is compatible and so the Lord says it is not good for man to be Alone now

first thing man I want you to remember Adam did not go looking for a wife Adam was so busy doing what God told him to do he didn't even know he needed a woman God had to tell him hey buddy it's not good for you to be alone now please underline the word alone he didn't say Adam was lonely there's a difference between alone unknown leanness you can be lonely in a crowd but you can be alone on as happy as a lark it's a matter of fact I love being Alone but loneliness is a

disease but aloneness should be a desire the Bible says many times that we should get quiet with the Lord be by ourselves some folks love to come to a big meeting because they feel like they're part of something but they can't live by themselves there are some people who can't stand the mirror because they are so hateful against their own person do you notice that people who are suffering from loneliness they can never Go in the house and just sit down and the quiet soon as they get on the run for a television click got

out something going on to preoccupy themselves and the television doors offer 2 a.m. in the morning they run to the tape player quick and when that goes and gets bored then they run off under hit something else and they keep doing things in order to keep occupied why because they hate themselves they can't stand being alone but you know Jesus made it a point many Times to just get by himself there's nothing wrong with being alone some of you single men and women you walk around and you hit 25 you began to think old late

stories and you began to think I ain't never gonna get married man I better get the first thing that comes along and you grab somebody with nothing you know what's your problem you're not a whole person Auden was so together he was so together that he did not even Know he was alone he was so busy obeying God's Word he was so busy dominating and ruling and so doing he got so lost in what he was doing that he didn't know he needed somebody but most of us we do the reverse we don't have time

for God because we do busy trying to find a mate and some folks run from church to church to find a me do you think I don't know some people walk around the church checking them out you know it's checking them out they didn't come to worship God They come to check out the ladies and the brothers they come to check them out and they come and they walk around you're just looking and see hardly looking they yeah that's a nice one over there it's really cool they supposed to be getting themselves together so that

they can be prepared for who God is preparing for them Adam was so prepared for Eve that when he saw her all he said was world man he said while backwards Wow but you Say he didn't know looking and Jesus said the same thing in Matthew 6 when he says don't worry about what you're going to eat what you're going to wear who you're going to marry seek ye first the kingdom of God get lost in his righteousness and then your wife are you having to be added to you they just sort of come alongside

get like Adam get lost in the Garden of God's righteousness become so preoccupied and consumed by him that you don't walk around with a Passion that's looking for somewhere to happen people walk around being turned off and on by other people no Adam was a whole man I say to see you first men don't go looking for a wife get lost in God get lost in God because when the Lord brings you a woman you better have the command of God together Adam was so busy doing the command of God that he didn't have time

to check out a mate when the maid came along it was the right timing and everything and He out God made this beautiful lady verse 23 Adam said this is bone of my bone flesh in my flesh she got married to it in chapter 3 we find the woman running off and this woman she had a real difficult problem you know gia she used to sort of wonder off from her husband now you really look at me carefully her husband knew the Word of God and we're not sure we're out on words when the snake

came but apparently he wasn't around because he didn't say Anything to the snake it was just her and the snake talking and this snake was talking to her the devil got in this animal and started to talk to her this was not the first time this animal came to her you know that after all if you saw a snake with the first time you split I mean a woman would die if she saw a snake I won't talk about a talking one so obviously this was not the first time she saw the snake before and

she just said to the Devil oh there you are again now what do you want this time he said now did God really say see accidents before but he comes back now again according to the to the statement that they're making you could tell he's trying to come back again did God really say that you would die the woman says God had said if we eat we will die a husband apparently taught her the word that's was Adams job to teach His wife the Word of God and he did no way it says that God

told both of them not eat of the fruit the only of record regard to Adam but she knew it which means Adam taught his family the word he instructed his wife what God told him that's the first responsibility of a man if you don't have the knowledge and the ability and the capability to teach woman the word then you are not ready for marriage and if you're married and you can't then you better slow down And get it get in a church where you can learn the word so you can follow up what God has

commanded you to do as a man and that is to teach the Word of God to your wife and you can't teach what you don't know it's amazing some people go to churches where they don't open their Bibles how can you teach if you don't know what's in the word how can you teach if you don't want to stand with the Word of God says oh but I love this after Eve messed up everything she ate The fruit and did all the stuff then she came looking for her husband it's funny when people send their

like company no one likes to sin alone you ever noticed when they want to go bougie and they go gets a bunch of guys to boogie with no one likes to go bougie in by themselves no one liked to go snotted cooked by themselves they always want to share the rock have you noticed that people love to share their sins you know why because deep inside of all of us there is that That the guilt complex that needs to be shared with other people so we could feel justified in what we're doing there's a famous

guy who hangs around our country lives in every home his name is les and everybody knows him they always say let's go do this let's go do that they never say let me less that means everybody and everybody go let's go let's go over bill yeah so man I just got a dirty movie let's go see it everybody loves to share this sin nobody Is as friendly as an alcoholic with a bottle related ring with me I mean they want to share everything they got it they share with you man they want to share no

one likes to get drunk by themselves they always didn't people get drunk with them why when people want to steal they go find someone to steal with them let's go steal and so they walk around trying to gather company and II felt so lost all of a sudden she felt broken and she felt guilty I said she Said let me find my husband she looked at him and she went hi there baby I don't baby how you doing he probably was down by the pond playing checkers with nuts and he's I can imagine you know

he looked around he went something strange about you honey easy baby what you been doing you read the book of Timothy it says and the woman's sin not the man that means there was a period in there where Eve broke Off relationship with Adam because of that spiritual death and I don't knew something was wrong she offered him the fruit it's funny how women could get men to do some strange things when they rub their heads she probably rubbed out his head and say honey your hair looks so nice I was thinking about you and

I bought you some fruit that oh dummy ate it when he ate it the Bible says he died all of a sudden you realized he was Nate and they Both ran and hid themselves the first thing that comes in after persons sin is fair they don't want to be in God's presence and if you notice when people sin they actually have difficulty coming before God but when the Lord came along it's a strange in verse 9 the Lord didn't ask for Eve but the Lord said Adam where are you God did not say Eve because

Eve was not responsible Adam was an Adam even though he didn't pick the fruit he was in charge the man Was the head of the home not because he was stronger a bigger but he was the head because of his knowledge he knew the command of God before her he was responsible that teacher under keep it and he failed because if he had kept his home in order she wouldn't have been wandering around by herself from that day to this day the devil's plan is still the same get the man out of the home and

I'll destroy the children and that's why you find the churches filled With women because the devil's first plan worked when he came to Eve at that moment he was in there and to that to this day he's still doing that he's after the man I pray that God would put men back in the homes husbands would come back home full of the Holy Ghost and they would come back with the word of God and start leading their homes the way they're supposed to I pray that God would race of men who would not compromise their

Faith is that condition on brother turn it on please I believe that one of the greatest problems that the devil has been the church is when the church starts building men again why did God like Abraham some people says Abraham was a friend of God he's the first man that God said was his friend I want you to turn to Genesis chapter 18 in Genesis chapter 18 the Lord was about to do something he was about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah something got on his nerves About Sodom and Gomorrah they were sin in man there

was homosexuality and lesbianism in [ __ ] Sodom and Gomorrah lot Abraham's nephew went there to live and I don't know how he lived in that city it was filthy I mean they had all kind of orgies going on all night they are parties all night sex parties one night the Lord says that he was going to go and visit that city and destroy it because the sin had come to His nostrils and there was a time when he sent two angels in there to visit lot later learn the same passage and when the the

homosexuals saw the angels it was a new new kid in town and almost like new kids and when they saw these new fine-looking brothers walking down the street and these nice clothes they were angels Bible says then the man of the city rose up and it says and they were inflamed in themselves with passion that means they Looked at him in living room you mean man lusting after man yes all the way back before they invented this new stuff they came up with with gay that's not gay that's done man it's gotta be a homosexual

there was no new problem and it was that reason that God said he got to destroy the city because men were laying with men and women layered women and God detested that abomination and they looked at these angels and they started to follow them down the street And they started to hey wait there baby men call it man and they went and ran in Lots house not locked the door the Bible says those men beat that door down and they break it down and they told lot we don't want your daughters the Bible says God

says look have my children but don't bother with these two holy men I'll give you my daughters they said we don't want no woman man that's provision we want men the Bible says the beginning just said a lot back on the side they want us They could get us and the angel stood in the front of the door when the door fell down an angel says hello they don't know they were that big they looked at by this beginning didn't just says what are you doing the Bible says a light went out from the Angels

and struck them all blind they fell back on their backs on the ground and they scrambled toward each other and the scripture says they went home hold each other's arms finding their way back home glory by the God said I'm going to destroy this city but look what God did in verse 16 when the men got up to leave that's the Angels they look down towards Sodom and Abraham walked along with them to see them out on their way then the Lord said shall I hide anything from Abraham that I'm about to do in other

words I've got to tell him mind my plan so I can get an agreement on Erick scripture says whatever is agreed on Earth heaven can do and so he says can I will I hide anything from Abraham that I'm about to do Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation and all nations of the earth will be blessed through him for I have chosen him so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way in the commandments of the Lord to do what is right and just and then

the Lord shall bring on Abraham the promise that he made to him why did God like Abraham God gave one reason why he liked Abraham there he says I know Abraham underline that place I know Abraham what does he know about Abraham he says I know him he will direct his children and his household and his servants and maid servants in the word of the Lord God says I like Abraham I can trust him under way I know I can trust him is because his home is in order God didn't say he spoke in tongues

God Didn't say that he works miracles God and say Abraham was a big preacher or teacher or evangelist he didn't say Abraham was a famous person he says I like Abraham because he have teaches children the Word of God he would teach his household his family his wife the Word of God even the people who come to Moore the lawn it's made servants unmeant servants those who come to wash his clothes he will make sure they come in devotions in his house Abraham to Have anybody come in to work for him but didn't want to

with him hello sometime you get people come in the house to keep your children and you don't know what's going on while you two work one day here little kid curse a dirty word and you wonder where he got it from maybe your maid ain't saved get rid of your maid if she ain't saved because if she spent 8 hours a day with your child she better have the Holy Ghost because she is going to influence Your child Abraham's maidservants got the word from Abraham his men servants those who come to paint the house those

who come to fix the car those who come to fix the chariot in those days those who come there to to plant the the farm make sure they born again because you don't want nobody cursing over your crop hey glory when they plant in your corn let him be singing blessed assurance Jesus is mine and bless them things as they go into The ground Abraham was a man who took his responsibilities as the head of the home and the Lord says I know Abraham I wonder if God knows you man can God say that I

know you that you will teach your family the Word of God now how can Abraham teach his family the Word of God if he doesn't know it how can you teach the Word of God to your family if all you watch is Dallas and Falcon Crest I can't teach your family the Word of God If all you read is Superman and Fantastic Four how can you teach your family the Word of God if you spend all your time down at the pub playing checkers dominoes how can you teach your family the Word of God if

all you do is read the newspaper on Time magazine and Newsweek then you can't teach something you don't know oh you know every player on the Lakers but can your children hear the word of God from you hello man sit up Man you know every baseball card name you understand all the plays in hockey but how can you teach the Word of God to your family if you don't know it Abraham knew the worried and he taught it and God says if you look at this verse this something that blessed me in verse 17 God

says I will not hide anything from Abraham now wouldn't you like to be the kind of person who God says that - I'm going to tell you my secrets what kind of man does God tell secrets to a lot of Famous evangelist not some preachers of a church he tells us secrets to husband's on men who are able to teach their family the Word of God God says I like those kind of men I keep company with them I let them know my secrets you know there are preachers who can preach you out of your

seat but can't sit with their wives at the table to eat there are ministers who could preach you to sleep but can't sleep at their own rights God's not interested in that he's Always going to check house the home house the home some people could get up and they could make you shouting they could teach some great theological discourse and they could impress you with their theology but you know what God says in Timothy chapter 3 he says look if a man wants to be a leader in the church first get his house in order

God doesn't measure your ability to lead by your academic qualifications he measures it by your domestic Qualification if you can't take care of your children then God says all right now you can leave my church if you can manage your home then you can manage the house of God Abraham was a man who God could trust you young men God is saying to you until you are able to teach a woman the word you're not ready for marriage passing puberty doesn't make you ready for marriage hello getting a little bit of whiskers On your chin

doesn't mean you're ready for marriage getting a job doesn't make you ready for marriage I'm talking about God's qualification you know getting a college degree doesn't mean you're ready for marriage first God is concerned you are ready for marriage when you are able to teach the family the Word of God and if you don't know the Word of God to the place where you can teach it then you are not ready for marriage no not yet I say to you not yet and God Says I would not hide anything from a man who knows how

to teach his family the Word of God look at Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 9 this is one of the missing ingredients in the church people have been preaching to women too long ain't no problem with the women is theirs dummy no players Deuteronomy chapter 4 we find the Lord giving instructions through Moses to the homes and here's what he says to the homes talking to the heads of the homes in Chapter 4 Deuteronomy verse 8 he says only be careful to watch yourselves closely so that you will do and will not forget the things your

eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live don't let them out of your sight teach them to your children underline that please teach them to your children and to their children after them your grandchildren he says you get it first you obey it First you keep it first then teach it now a lot of fathers doing the opposite some of them know it then keeping it but they want to teach it I've seen fathers tell their sons to the face I'm smoking but you don't smoke something wrong do

you know where the child sees when he sees an adult smoking you know what they see they really see an adult world and they say to be an adult you of the smoke I'm the dolt The adult reinforces that the adult says you're not old enough yet to do what I'm doing so when the child wants to be an adult then all the child does simply is smoke adults smoke or they walk around says well you know you only serve liquor to those who are adults and the parents reinforce it that's right now I could

drink son but not you and your son looks at you and and laughs inside said this is a double standard if I ever saw one he could kill himself but he can't give Me the right to kill myself he's not when you're 18 then you can kill yourself how sad and some parents actually tell the child cigarettes are bad for you son people get cancer from him except me [Music] son I don't want you to drink I don't want you to become an alcoholic you know it's a double standard going around and people people don't

understand that you cannot teach something if you're not Doing it God says here in verse nine he says you be careful first of all and watch yourselves see you then underline it don't just tell your children do this or don't do that he says you show them you watch yourself you keep the Word of God you don't turn from it then you can teach them to your children on to your grandchildren when your daughter your son says their little boy down to you what do they go back home with most kids learn some things from

their Grandparents that are pathetic you'll find your little kids coming back home cursing dirty words talking foul stories and you wondering whether getting them from getting them from Grammy you know all these little old ladies ain't as sweet as you think Zana old ground promised man they'd take us anywhere and their kid picks it up and takes it home Bible says no you teach your grandchildren to your children's children should get the word From you when your children send their kids to your home those kids should come back knowing more about God so you want

to be a man verse 10 it says remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb when he said to you assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children God is so concerned about teaching the children now if you notice God didn't say send him to the church he does they sent him to school he does I send into some Vacation Bible Club he says you parents teach your children

do you know why people love godparents because they don't want to be godly themselves godparents are substitute for real parents because the real parents don't want to take the responsibility for teaching the children the word so they simply give it to somebody else who is a nice Christian In the church and they always choose somebody who's really spiritual if you notice that because they're lazy they don't want to teach the children the word I grew up in a country where for many years I would watch these cool tego boys you know the takeaways they dress

up once a year and they walk real cool when they come in church it's okay go he walks down and when he say he doesn't say hello coins just hi there brother man and he walks on down he sits down And when he sits down service starts you could tell us his first time in church for the year he's just next to a nice young lady and probably her mother and then some friends and they start to sing out of the hymn book and he can't find the page then he started inscription he can't find

the books he's looking in the concordance for Genesis and everything and you can tell this guy is lost then they says now We love baby dedication the cool man gets up and he stands before this preacher next to this girl first time he's been in church for the year and he dedicates this little baby with this girl and this people enough he dedicates the baby you know the preacher says all these things they don't mean nothing much to him you know bring up the child in the way of the Lord and the admonition of the

Lord excedrin and all this stuff and then all this is all Written he stands there real uncomfortable you know I was moving doesn't want to be there you know cool he wants to go so this is over he sits back down for a while checking his watch every five minutes checking his watch and looking back to see where the door is and everything I was suddenly boughs out gone doesn't come back to church anymore until she has another baby the godparents are usually chosen from the choir Because he wants somebody who will do what he's

supposed to do Riley goes out and plays checkers on the blocks his wife takes a little boy to church and turns and turns him over to these other people who was supposed to become his parents to teach him God's Word that's irresponsible that is totally responsibility that's why I have difficulty with godparents now because if anyone's supposed to be a godly parent it is the parent that Practice didn't come from the Bible he came from some tradition in the church but nowhere in Scripture do you find the command for us to turn our children over

to some agency but we are responsible god says teach your children the word look at chapter 6 it's mad if I look at verse 40 of the same chapter 4 verse 40 says keep God's Word and Commandments which I give you today so that it may go well with you and your children after you that you may live long in the land The Lord God gives you God says if you keep my word I'll make it well with your children look at chapter 6 verse 1 these are the commandments and decrees that the Lord our

God gives you teach them to your children so that your children after you may fear the Lord said verse 2 you keep the could decrease then teach them to your children you must teach them the father's God says you teach the children the Word of God and your children will keep them after you and Fear the Lord your God as long as you live oh lord help us look at verse 16 these Commandments verse rather these commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts impress them on your children talk about them

when you sit at home that's at the table when you're eating your food talk about them when you lie down before you go to bed he says and talk about them when you get up in the morning that's devotions tie them as symbols on your Hands and bind them on your foreheads write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates I mean the Lord really want you to get the word underlying it brothers underline it in the scriptures don't ever forget it God says here first of all impress them on your

children and he tells you how to do it when you get around the meal table what do you talk about who got raped in the newspaper or who got shot or do you talk about what's happening in days of Our lives or do you discuss some movie or something what do you discuss do you talk about the goodness of the Lord do you teach your children the word around the table then you sit down when you sit in your house I'd leave your time what do you do do you listen to disco music do you

sit down and talk about how bad the preacher was and tear him down what do your children hear when you sit down to eat he says and when you lie down have the word when you go to bed you Know whatever you talk about what are your children here through the house this is what God is saying here what did I hear through the house then God says tie it around your hand put him on your forehead he's not saying you must walk around with paper stuck all over you the point he's trying to make

is whatever your hands fine to do make sure it's in the word whatever is in your thoughts make sure it's the Word of God this says you don't pose I like That the don't pose in those days with two major posts that held up the frame of the house that means all of your house should be held up by the Word of God anyone that comes through those doors came into your home that means you are supposed to check who comes into your house and make sure they pass through the Word of God you know

you as a man at a home you should let any old junk fella come in Your house then God is serious men need to take their position again when folks want to come in here they smoke and you don't like it don't come in my house do you want to come sit in your car your nice blessed car we're smoking your car tell them go smoke somewhere else just God's property and he lives in this car with me and we'll smoke each other you know people come and yell to see your daughter's real cool and

high as a kite and they won't Walk through your posts so the word you look at them and you say do you know God as your Savior no but then you can't come into my house come through the word but some manner so weak then my daughter likes him yeah I read you have trouble she gonna come to you I love it Abraham said about his son he told his servant now you go check out see if any gals are there for my son he said but don't choose anybody from another race of people and

don't Choose anybody who does not believe like we believe we're not serious instructions make sure there's someone of our kindred that means somebody who is just like us who believe like us as fathers and as men young men who aspire to be good fathers God is saying to you you get the word in you and you plaster your whole life in the word and if anybody want access to your life they had to come through the Word of God and any women want to want To marry you you tell them straight you got to come

through the posts if you don't know the Word of God I don't care how cute you look and how much stuff you can give me forget it if you don't know God forget it some people are so crude but sometimes it's necessary I would just love for God to raise up some men in this country who won't compromise who would say I won't marry a woman who's not a woman of God I'll tell you what sometimes we don't Have any standards we got to have some standards some values again our values come from what we

believe and if we believe the Word of God that's our value system and our values will create our morals how we live our behavior is affected by our values people are believing today that you know it's okay to be a homosexual they destroyed the values of the Word of God so they believe that okay to be a homosexual then their values show that therefore Their behaviour shows it therefore their morals showing looking at the news this morning and they had a gay March in that matter yesterday hundreds of gays they look done and they were

homosexuals marching for their rights in the streets they want their right to do wrong [Music] they got churches that are gay churches where you can go and worship but gay Jesus they say you know the provision that is in our world if you don't have The Word of God you will fall it's hard to believe that people believe that it's difficult to believe that people believe that but they do the scripture says in the last days men would believe a lie and they doing it right on target he says put it on your doorframes his

last lion blesses me verse 9 he says and also put the Word of God on your gaze before they get close to your house you check him check him out at the road you know somebody want to come into your house to Sell books check them out what kind of books you want to sell dad McGee can tell me do you believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God well he was a nice profit when you please leave my property Bible says in first John if any man does not confess that Jesus is the

Christ that means the Messiah the chosen Anointed One of God and that he came in the flesh that means born of a virgin a miracle they don't believe that it says Do not bid them Godspeed that means don't allow them to stay in your house I don't even bless them when they leave no you if they want to listen to you preach the word fine but you ain't got time to listen to their foolishness the Bible says that we ought to be careful to be letting our gates you check them out at the gate you

see the cool brother hanging around your gate looking for your daughter Walker dedicate go run and walk out to The gate and say hi brother you born again so what do you mean come back let me tell you sit down on the grass you won't go into my house until I'm sure you born again you know if 80% of the fathers would do that their daughters would marry born-again men because their fathers would lead them to Jesus behalf at a time and the bread is going to check out the daughter the father out checking on

somebody else hello put it on the gate don't let them come Into your yard find out if they know the word from the gate grow red so brothers you interested in the lady you better get the word Spencer she's in here because her father may probably be in here too you'll be sitting on the grass oh lord help us look at chapter 11 those of you in the overflow room I hope you're getting this when you go home you tell everybody that God's Word is the standard for a man to live by look at verse

16 of chapter 11 God was so Concerned about impressing this on men in verse 18 of chapter 11 he says fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads teach them to your children talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road Oh glory to God you know it hurts me when I see men are ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ some dudes think is supposed to be cool and to be cool you can't talk

about Jesus that's What they believe so any man who talks about Jesus in the road must be a [ __ ] that's what the world thinks God says no a real man that I respect is a man who won't just have quiet devotions at home but when he finishes he walks out into the street and he talks about God in the road along the road when you go to work you don't just hide your Christianity under some job you talk to you about Jesus right there in the road right there on the job right there

on the Street tell him about Jesus don't be ashamed to tell him about the one who died for you he said you talk about my word even as you walk along the way next night says when you lie down and when you get up you talk about it you know the last thing that you think about is usually the first thing you think about when you wake up and the last thing you think about the most is the thing you dream about it's Amazing that people think about the worst things some of you read the

worst kind of books before you go to bed then you wonder why you have horror things going on in your spirit you're not amazing Barbara says the last thing for you to do is to think about the Word of God before you go to sleep and when you wake up in the morning you think about it and you start ministering and talking about it here's a command to the men you know a lot of women are just quietly Hoping that their husbands would get this vision because they don't want to push it I know it's

gonna help us I want you to read Ephesians chapter 5 this is for men only next week we got to talk to women only you're not gonna get away the men glory to God we look at Ephesians chapter 5 and here is something that a lot of us have missed everybody say this with me Jesus Christ is the Living Word now look at verse 22 of Ephesians 5 wives submit Yourselves to your husband's as to the Lord for the husband is head of the wife as Christ as head of the church every one say submit

the Bible says wives submit yourselves to your husband's the words submit if you look in the dictionary it simply means to willfully give your will to another to willfully give you a will to another that means submission has nothing to do with force or pressure it's an act of the will to submit is a decision by the person who Is submitting not a decision of the person who wants you to submit in other words you cannot submit unless you want to and no one can make you submit if you don't want to submission is a

choice of the person not a command of the one who wants them to submit any man who has to force a woman to submit does not deserve submission any time you meet a man who needs to make a woman submit then that man does not deserve it he is no longer worthy of submission he Becomes a slave driver you know it makes a slave a slave force and fear and that's what's running most of their homes in our country force and fear that's not submission that's slavery Bible says perfect love casts out fear that means

if a woman have to be afraid of her husband how to do things and I think to get him done then he doesn't know what love is submission is a willful decision actually it says here right submit yourselves under your Husband as under the Lord that means as long as this man is acting like the Lord you submit when he starts acting like the Lord you stop submitting and I've never seen Jesus slap one of us yet I've never seen Jesus raise his voice at one of us yet I've never seen Jesus take us and

throw what fat on us I've never seen Jesus curse us yet no matter what we do to Jesus he forgives us he says now every time a man acts like the Lord you submit you knows half of the men this Country do not deserve submission the Bible says I'll never leave you not have a say cue that Jesus talking to his bride the church and yet men come home after sleeping over for three days and one of their wives are cooked for them they forsake their wives the children and they still want submission that's a

sin man and you don't deserve it and you cannot force people to submit submission is a choice it has nothing to do with what you say it has to do with how you Live let me give you an example of this submission how many of you in here are born-again let me see your hands you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior alright did Jesus come to you and hold you up against the wall by your collar and said if you don't believe even me I'll send you straight to glory with a

punish he didn't do that it's a matter of fact he was waiting a long time for you and he just let you do all Your foolishness he didn't get involved and he didn't forced you or Nothing Jesus didn't even break down your door so polite he just convicts very quietly convicts he doesn't get pressured anything he didn't put the pressure on he just shows you his love then one day you decided huh this love is too much and you accept this love and after you accept this love do you notice you decided to follow Jesus

now one thing I love about Jesus You follow him he doesn't tie rope around him that can drag you huh because a song you know God drags as their children alone no we don't sing that he needs we follow that means if we are following somebody they are not controlling us you ever been on a guided tour or the fort the guy takes you all of these little tunnels and everything near down there and they show you all this place and all you do is follow this guy you could turn around a time you Want

to go back but you follow him because you submit to his authority he knows the way through the dark tunnel so you submit to his authority because he knows the way of course you can turn around any time and probably walk into some walls and mess up your toe and everything but you could do it and that's what God is trying to tell us Jesus doesn't force us to submit to him all he says the disciple says come follow me that's all he ever says come Follow me and that's where the husband supposed to say

to her wife honey follow me that's submission follow me and she may say I don't want go where you headed buddy me you may be headed toward killing yourself with drugs and alcohol you may be killing yourself with carousing and fooling around and sleeping out all night your wife don't want to follow you in that so you can't tell her to follow you Submit to you but if you like Jesus do you know what keeps us following Jesus he knows where he's going he knows how to get there and is the only way there and

we like where he's going do you know what makes us follow Jesus is love we love Jesus so much we'll do anything he says why do we love him not because he threatens us with a big hammer if you sin I'll kill you he doesn't say that he says if you sin I am faithful and just to forgive you man would you like to Follow someone like that every time you slip down to pick you up brush you off they don't talk about your past at all we submit to him because we love him and

yet the scripture says wives submit to your husbands when they act like the Lord he husband come home real drunk comes up to the wife so I want another drink yeah go buy me another drink now she's a precious Christian lady and she says I don't think you should be drinking up woman I'm the head at his home the Bible says and they unquoted - the Bible says and you the Christian you know it the Bible says you're supposed to submit now go and buy me a drink and of course being an ignorant Christian who

don't come to a nice church like this it all she have the girl afraid and she takes this money and goes and buy him a drink comes back with this bottle gives it to her husband to finish kill him off no she's supposed to look him in the Face and says honey the Bible says yes I should submit to you when you act like the Lord and the Lord has never asked me to go and buy him something to destroy him and because I love you so much honey I won't go I want you to

live and then you run after you finish saying that oh go ahead you take off [Music] the Bible talks about what to do with an unbelieving husband a wife says if you Hold up the standards of the Word of God first Corinthians chapter seven and the unbelieving husband agrees to stay with you if he agrees to stay with you it says let him stay but if he cannot live with your convictions the Bible says let him go doesn't the Bible read it first Corinthians chapter seven in other words if he can't stand how are you

talking to him understand that you got the bars letting go you don't compromise your Faith for some husband so women will sit there let their husbands beat him half to death and they'd come out with all kind of blue eyes narrating starting on the corner but a mile is pretty for me I said what happened to you honey oh he almost killed me last night your foot keep you why he almost kills you he came home drunk he just aroused the children break up the house and what was killed me I said honey why did

you stand there well you know the Bible says We should submit submit to who to a beaten to a good snap up know how often have I counseled people like that they come in and they just battered people and they say what am I supposed to do I'd say remove yourself from the premises but the Bible say submit yes not the beaten to the Lord and until you see the Lord in the house leave because you are not to be foolish enough that you sit There and let your bodily presence become threatened with your life

well the Bible did say we have to suffer with Jesus honey you suffering from a to zalem don't be stupid this guy comes along high on coke and he beats you and you're talking about your sufferings with Jesus hmm if I were some of you big women I don't have someone suffering too there is no room in the Bible which says that you should just sit down and suffer the Bible says that if a man suffers for the sake of the gospel then Peter says that's suffering he says but if a man suffer for the

sake of his own folly that means foolishness body beat your hair blue and then turn around they ll be teased Jesus you're so foolish so men I guess what I'm trying to say is this no woman has a right to submit to you until you start acting like Jesus so don't quote any scripture to no woman Until you start acting like Jesus and you see when he said acting like Jesus you don't have the action I want to submit but when you start loving them like Jesus loves when you start forgiving them like Jesus forgives

them or when you start mess I mean a blessing them like Jesus blesses them and when you start caring and listening like Jesus does they will shine your shoes they will cook your sauce they will do anything for you because they want a man Like Jesus in the house [Music] [Applause] [Applause] ladies ladies God is saying to the men don't you dare demand respect earn it God is saying that a man don't you dare order submission Ernie Jesus never once commanded anybody to follow him never he asked them because he knew where he was going

And Jesus said if you love me you'll keep my Commandments the keeping of His commandments is based on loving him that's the way we should submit to each other I pray tonight admitted today that every one of you men that sit in this room but check yourself you young brothers away married yet and you want a fine woman become a fine mind first concentrate like Adam on just finding out what God's Word says get righteousness first you Know when I was chopping at all rubbish University one of the greatest problems I had was counseling with

people who were calling house the greatest problem I mean every week six or seven I'm coming to my office he break up with me and they won't be able to study eat sleep I mean nothing and I'd say to them what's wrong with you he's the sunshine of my life you mean you were in darkness before he came something's wrong folks you'll walk Around it's the only things you know I'm not sad when I just shake my head in disgust people's it I'm going to college and I got four years to find a wife or

a husband so they go to college freshman year pass no way sophomore year pass whoa Lord got two more years to go gotta find a way for a husband junior year pass rule C comes in and then they become seniors in college all of a sudden they get nervous oh my god I'm by the time the last semester come for the senior they go crazy and they start jumping at anything that moves just anything that moves gotta get married gotta get married then they marry the wrong person because of pressure your God wants you to

do you men and women prepare yourself for who God is preparing for you that's what you do you don't spend your time looking for who you want invest your time and being who you are and then you Will have something to give the person who you meet when you met him some people don't have anything to give because they do busy looking for what they want so when they find what they need they ain't gonna give it's like an empty couplet looking for a full one nobody finds the full run the foreman got to do

all the given hello and that's what's going on in a lot of relationships people are just eaten of the other person because the person they Didn't have anything to give to the other person they didn't develop their own life their own spiritual walk with the Lord my word to you today is this prepare yourself in the Word of God let's bow our hearts together and pray join us in the overflow room pray the law of Jesus would really teach you as a woman to look for God's standards and and as a man he would build

in you God's standards and stop submitting yourself to the standards of men father in the Name of Jesus I thank you right now for your worry that is so simple this nation will change when men return to their first love Christ Jesus we thank you for women who will not bow themselves nor their standards to the ways of the world I pray now that you will work our work in us that will be different and new based on your word I pray for my brothers here today that you would make out of them men like

Abraham you will tell men your secrets again you will Talk to her husband's thinks that other people will never hear you will share with them your life Lord an order they hear from you then the wife will have someone to follow for the man here God's leading then they can lead their home toward God I praise you now that in this fellowship there are an abounding Ministry of men I thank you that here among us there are hundreds of men filled with the holy spirit by fate lord I thank you for Thousands of men who

will raise the standard in this country and say never again but the devil lower me away from the home but I will stay in my position as the priest thank you Father have blessed you for your wonderful spirits that does the teaching we pray for our friends Lord listening to us by tape by video I thank you that you are speaking to their hearts now I pray for those women who are under pressure from unbelieving husbands I pray that they Would have received your word today to help them and to help their own husbands and

he would come closer to the Lord Jesus Christ give us wisdom Lord in dealing with these things maybe may we be filled with your knowledge and understanding thank you Jesus thank you once again for listening to this message as we hope that it has been a blessing to you our goal is to show you new paths and opportunities so that you can discover Your purpose it is your love support and partnership that makes Monroe global possible please visit us online at www.noventri.com