Biblical Manhood

Christian Manhood.

1 Cor 13:11 “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

When God breathed in us His Holy Spirit He gave us spiritual manhood.

When the Holy Spirit descended to all those who believed spiritual manhood has been birth.

We have different roles as men “provider, protector, spiritual initiator, covering, leadership etc. etc.

But the overwhelming masculine attribute is one who is led and filled with The Spirit.

After the day of Pentecost the apostles put away childish things: they spake, they understood, they thought, as those who had been taught to govern themselves in The Spirit; you can, tell they had “an unction from the Holy One, and they knew all things.”

1 John 2:20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things

When the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles at Pentecost we see a dramatic shift in how The Apostles governed themselves.

WE see the firmness, boldness, zeal, wisdom.

Before pentecost , the Apostle's had long cherished prejudices, very moody individuals .

Asking Jesus who is the greatest

Or there mother to asking where the sons of thunder able to sit at there right hand

Matt 20:20-23

Then after the other 10 disciples were jealous and displeased that they question was raised.

Very Childish.

Before The Holy Spirit came they where helpless and ignorant as children.

They also tried to build tabernacle's for Moses, Elijah and Jesus.

The mindset of the youth.

As a youth it is natural to look with hope at the prospect before you. They cannot help forming schemes what they will do when they come into active life, or what they would wish to be, had the choice.

They indulged themselves in fancying about the future, which they know at the time cannot come true.

At other times they confine themselves to what is possible ; and then their hearts burn, while they dream of quiet happiness, domestic comfort, independence.

James and John had similar ambitions, they wanted to sit at the side of the most honourable places in the Kingdom.

Other youthful mindsets -such as love of display, greediness of the world’s praise, and the love of the comforts and luxuries of life. We could have heavier names for these terms but some of these can be out grown as we grow in grace.

Many other things can be mentioned and as the youth mature they will disappear as maturity happens.

But there are youthful characteristic that if survive the time and spills over to manhood could be disturbing.

And so in religious matters there are many habits and views, which we bear with in the unformed Christian, but which we account disgraceful and contemptible should they survive that time when a man’s character may be supposed to be settled. Love of display is one of these; whether we are vain of our abilities, or our acquirements, or our wealth, or our personal appearance; whether we discover our weakness in talking much, or in love of managing, or again in love of dress. Vanity, indeed, and conceit are always disagreeable, for the reason that they interfere with the comfort of other persons, and vex them; but I am here observing, that they are in themselves odious, when discerned in those who enjoy the full privileges of the Church, and are by profession men in Christ Jesus, odious from their inconsistency with Christian faith and earnestness.

And so with respect to the love of worldly comforts and luxuries (which, unhappily, often grows upon us rather than disappears, as we get old), whether or not it be natural in youth, at least, it is (if I may so say) shocking in those who profess to be “perfect,” if we would estimate things aright; and this from its great incongruity with the spirit of the Gospel.

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How could Abraham, when called of God, have even set out from his native place, unless he had left off to think much of this world, and cared not for its ridicule?

He observed the luxiours of this life.

We are appropriating in the kingdom of God

Walk in the Kingdom of God.