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The Bedrock of Our Culture
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| What did you say to the dads at your church Sunday? | |
| Let me just say very, very quickly, the attack on fatherhood, motherhood, family, womanhood, manhood, childhood, the attack on personhood is horrendous. | |
| It is demonic. | |
| It is ubiquitous. | |
| It is global, but particularly in our culture, because America represents the largest Christian nation the planet has ever seen. | |
| And the only nation that was predicated upon literally the word of God in its founding documents and among many of its founding fathers. | |
| So Satan hates what we stand for. | |
| And the bedrock of our culture is the family. | |
| And according to the word of God, the man, I want everyone to hear this because there's a lot of misunderstanding about this. | |
| Here's the illustration I use. | |
| The man is not better than the woman. | |
| The woman's not better than the man. | |
| They have different roles. | |
| They have different responsibilities before God. | |
| But the two of them together become one flesh. | |
| They become a team. | |
| And that's how God wants it. | |
| And the illustration I use is if my house is burning down, I love to see a police officer pull up in the parking lot, but I really would rather have a fire truck with lots of water. | |
| Right? | |
| If a burglar has just come into my home with a gun, I'm really happy if a fireman shows up, but I really want cops with shotguns there. | |
| So are the police better than the firemen? | |
| Are the firemen better than police? | |
| No, they just have different roles. | |
| And at different times, one becomes more important, but only because of their responsibility. | |
| Does that make sense? | |
| Yes. | |
| So the Bible is clear that God gives first the responsibility of headship of the home to the man. | |
| And if there's not a man in the home, then it comes to the woman, to the mother, if it's a single parent home. | |
| No problem with that. | |
| But the deal is Satan knows this too, see? | |
| Yes. | |
| And so his attack starts, I'm convinced, with the man. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| And the feminization of manhood in America, we know that. | |
| The radical feminist movement, the radical homosexual movement, the radical transgender movements from the military on down. | |
| It's infiltrated our culture. | |
| It is demonic. | |
| And it is Satan's plan. | |
| And so I say to men, you know, manhood is not about the stature of a person or anything. | |
| It's about do you have a heart after the things of God? | |
| Are you willing to stand in the word of God? | |
| I've got men in my, I've been in one church for 31 years. | |
| There have been men in my church that have come through, and some of them I have sent on to the Lord, you know, because I've been there so long. | |
| But I've had men in my church over the years that have been in wheelchairs, men that are paraplegics, and they are some of the finest, most godly men. | |
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Telling God's Word
00:01:40
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| People look up to them as men of God. | |
| Do you understand what I'm saying? | |
| I just want to make this clear, because if I say in our culture today, give me your definition of manhood, a lot of times people think of athletes and movie stars and gunslingers and all that. | |
| And that can be, but that's not what the Word of God says. | |
| The Word of God talks about a man after God's own heart. | |
| So I'm just telling men in our country, especially in America, but around the world, listen, first, first, make sure you're set apart unto the Lord. | |
| Make sure that you are a born-again believer in Jesus Christ, right? | |
| Make sure you're right with God through Jesus Christ. | |
| And then secondly, I tell men, listen, then let God sanctify you. | |
| Let him set you apart in this world. | |
| We're put here to be the salt and the light. | |
| Let's be that, okay? | |
| And so, and yes, and then I tell men, develop with the Holy Spirit's help, a courage to stand in the word, to declare, I come from a biblical worldview without shame, without shame. | |
| I'm not ashamed to say. | |
| Somebody asked me, well, what do you believe about the sanctity of life? | |
| My answer is, I come from a biblical worldview. | |
| I can tell you what God's word says, and that's where I stand. | |
| That's right. | |
| What do you believe about, you know, marriage, home, family? | |
| I can tell you what God's word says about it, and I come from a biblical worldview. | |
| I stand where God's word stands. | |
| What do you believe about homosexuality? | |
| I can tell you what God's word says, and I stand where God's word says. | |
| Now, do you still want to hear the answer? | |
| Well, what do you see? | |
| So, people ask me all the time, what do you think about this? | |
| Because the political correctness suffocates us, it sucks the air out of the room. | |