A FEW GOOD MEN
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A FEW GOOD MEN
A FEW GOOD MEN
Prerequisite to being a Good Father:
Being a man, functioning as a man, taking responsibility as a man, thinking like a man, acting like a man, working like a man, all of these are prerequisites to being a good father!
You will not be a good father until you are a good man.
It’s a dying art today…there are not many in our nation anymore!
THE MAN’S THESAURUS
THE MAN’S THESAURUS
(Men don’t always say what they mean)
Ladies, please allow me to translate for your future benefit:
When a man says “IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO EXPLAIN”
He means: I have no idea how it works.”
When a man says “TAKE A BREAK, HONEY. YOU ARE WORKING TO HARD.”
He means: “I can’t hear the tv over the vacuum cleaner.”
When a man says “THAT’S INTERESTING DEAR.”
He means: “Are you still taking.”
When a man says: “IT’S A GUY THING.”
He means: “There is no rational thought pattern connected to this, and you have no chance at all of making it logical.”
When a man says: “CAN I HELP YOU WITH DINNER.”
He means: “Why isn’t ready yet.”
When a man says: “UH HUH, SURE HONEY, OR YES DEAR.”
He means: Absolutely nothing - It’s a conditioned response.
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When a man says: “YOU KNOW HOW BAD MY MEMORY IS.”
He means: “I can remember the theme song the theme song to MASH, the phone number of his first girl friend, and the make and model of car I ever owed - but yes, I forgot your birthday.”
When a man says: “OH, DON’T FUSS, I JUST CUT MYSELF. IT’S NO BIG DEAL.”
He means: “I have probably severed a limb, but I will bleed to death before I admit I’m hurt, so get over here and help me.”
When a man says: “I CAN’T FIND IT.”
He means: “It’s didn’t fall into my outreached hand, so I’m completely in the clueless.”
When a man says: “i HEARD YOU.”
He means: “I haven’t the foggiest clue what you just said and I am hoping desperately that I can fake it well enough so that you’ll not spend the next three days yelling at me.”
When a man says: “YOU KNOW I COULD NEVER LOVE ANYONE ELSE.’
He means: I am used to the way you yell at me and realize it could be worse.”
When a man says: YOU LOOK TERRIFIC!”
He means: “Oh please don’t try on one more outfit, we’re late and I’m straving.”
When a man says: I’M NOT LOST. I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE GOING.”
He means: “No one will ever see us alive again.”
When a man says: “I DON’T THINK I CAN GO TODAY.”
He means: Shopping is not a sport, and no, “I am never going to think of it that way.”
When a man says: “I DON’T REMEMBER SAYING THAT.”
He means: “Anything I may have said six months ago is inadmissible in a argument. In fact, all past comments become null and void after seven day’s.”
When a man says: “HONEY, WHAT COLOR IS THIS?”
He means: All men see in only sixteen colors, like Windows default screen on a computer. Peach for example is a fruit, not a color, Pumpkin is a fruit. I have no idea what “taup” is.”
We thank God today for the good men He’s sent us here.
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Good men are:
Ezekiel
Good men are:
I. Men Who Have Lear
I. Men Who Have Learned To Lean On The Lord.
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; And lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; And lean not unto thine own understanding.
For Salvation:
Proverbs 3:5
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Ephesian 2:8-9
We men are bad about trying to be “in control”
To make things happen.
Often ladies find it easier to “rest in the Lord and lean on Him for salvation.”
It’s a part of a women’s nature to place themselves in someone else’s hands.
It’s not that way for men. Is that fair?
Jesus solves this dilemma:
3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
3. Children have that attitude of trust.
Even male children.
But something happens to us once we begin to feel even the slightest amount of thickness in our “peach fuzz!”
4. I thank God for a few good men we have here today at Friendship Baptist.
They have learned to lean on the Lord.
For Strength,
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings as eagles; They shall run, and not be weary; And they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40
10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: He taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
Psalms 147:
ii. For Supply,
19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Philippians
5. We all want to be the breadwinner, mighty hunter,But ultimately we need to see even our own selves as being in God’s hands.
But ultimately we need to see even our own selves as being in God’s hands.
iii. For Soundness,
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6. This is the only two prayers any man can pray which the answer is always yes!
Salvation is the other.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
b. I thank God for a few good men who have learned to lean.
II. Men Who Have Learned To Lead.
II. Men Who Have Learned To Lead.
Their Flesh,
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Galatians
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians
Men, we have to lead our flesh, or our flesh will lead us.
b. Their Families,
Ephesians
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Hardship isn’t being the boss,
It’s loving leadership[.
God is no respecter of people,
Women are equal in His sight.
The bible says, “She is the weaker vessel”.
This is not an insult
Rather, she is more fragile
and in need of strong, yet loving, loving, leadership.
Women are like fine silk.
Men are more like corduroy.
Silk and Corduroy:
Which is more fragile?
The answer to both questions is
“Silk!”
In God’s wisdom he has given each family a head for anything.
But this is not a privilege.
As much as it is a responsibility
The hardest thing you will ever do will be a good husband and a good father to your children.
Eli could run the temple, but could not run his family
I Samuel
13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
ii. David could run a kingdom, but could not run his children
1 Kings
5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
c. The fallen to Jesus.
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: There have they dealt treacherously against me.
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Shall many?
Not if we don’t lead the fallen!
It’s why God left us here.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Corinthians
b. I thank God for our few good men who have learned to lead.
III. Men Who Have Learned Love.
III. Men Who Have Learned Love.
The Father, The Lord.
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1 Corinthians
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.
1 Corinthians
b. Their Families.
We covered this under leadership, how?
When we said the only leadership is loving leadership!
c. God admonishes every husband to “love your wife.”
This may seem like a strange admonition to many.
Some will say,
“If I didn’t love her I wouldn’t have married her.”
Wait a minute,
Love, as used here means far more than affection.
It means more than emotional feelings or satisfaction.
It means that you or I are going to seek the welfare and happiness of the person we are going to love.
The happiness of the person we are going to love.
And lead them lovingly.
This means that my efforts will be to make the object of my love;
Happy
Secure
And Comfortable.
This admonition goes far beyond just telling the husband to love his wife as long as she is beautiful, loving, etc.
A man was talking to his wife after she had done something that he did not approve of. He said to her, “How can you be so beautiful and stupid at the same time?”
She replied, “God made me beautiful so you would love me, and He made me stupid so I Would love you.”
d. The Fellowship The Church.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, Thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: Therefore will I give men for thee, And people for thy life.
9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Thessalonians 4
Isaiah 43:4
50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Love, join the family of God
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Get connected
41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Acts 2:
a. I thank God for the few good men God has given to us.
Don’t you?
We need a few more,
So how about you?
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Ezekiel 22:30
As I closed this service today,
I want to as you father’s out their,
Will you stand the gap.
Will you follow Jesus,
Will you lead your families.