Men take the lead

In this time of our country we as men have drop the ball of leadership. The young men have few examples of real men. The church is not producing the amount of men needed to fight the battles that is upon us today. To walk as real men, we must change the way we see the world around us and walk as Godly men. We have the power to change our environments but we must first know who we are as men.

Isaiah 3:1-12 (NASB)
¹ For behold, the Lord GOD of hosts is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread And the whole supply of water;
² The mighty man and the warrior, The judge and the prophet, The diviner and the elder,
³ The captain of fifty and the honorable man, The counselor and the expert artisan, And the skillful enchanter.
⁴ And I will make mere lads their princes, And capricious children will rule over them,
⁵ And the people will be oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; The youth will storm against the elder And the inferior against the honorable.
⁶ When a man lays hold of his brother in his father's house, saying, "You have a cloak, you shall be our ruler, And these ruins will be under your charge,"
⁷ He will protest on that day, saying, "I will not be your healer, For in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; You should not appoint me ruler of the people."
⁸ For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, Because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, To rebel against His glorious presence.
⁹ The expression of their faces bears witness against them, And they display their sin like Sodom; They do not even conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
¹⁰ Say to the righteous that it will go well with them, For they will eat the fruit of their actions.
¹¹ Woe to the wicked! It will go badly with him, For what he deserves will be done to him.
¹² O My people! Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray And confuse the direction of your paths.

In the past weeks we have talked about what God has given us as men. We talked about the responsibilities that came with the gifts God placed in our hands. These highlights are discussed daily in some fashion are another. The world has become a dominate force in the lives of men today. When I say world I mean the environment that is not ruled by God’s hands. God gave the rule of this world to man but man lost it to Satan. Jesus regained it and restored it into the hands of man. It is still in the hands of man but we just don’t believe it. Jesus opened the doors to the Kingdom and gave us the keys to it. In those keys we have the power and the authority that God gave Adam in the garden. As men must stand with the keys and walk back into our rightful place.

We are the leaders that God made to rule this Earth. We give our lives to Jesus and then we tell Him (Jesus) to do the rest. He did His part, how it is time for us to do our part. We must first take steps in the right direction and we will see Jesus calling us forward. We can no longer wait for someone to point us in the right direction; we must be willing to go after it. Our roles as men are well defined in the Genesis. We must remember that God did not take back what He had given man. God didn’t say, no longer will you lead, God said, he will rule over you (woman)”. This is the first time God made this statement. You must remember that God said “he would rule over you” this is part of the conditions of the curse.

Why is it so hard for us to remember that Jesus walked this entirely out for you and me? Is it because if we do it means taking on responsibility? If we as men set our own rules, then these are the rules we follow. If we follow these rules then we are setting ourselves against God. As true men we accept the responsibilities that come with manhood. We know that the road will be hard but we take it on because we are walking as the sons of the Creator. Sons of the Creator create just like his daddy. If God is your daddy, then create something that God will say about you, have you consider my son _________? The world, the earth and God is waiting on you.