Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood

me speaking to you this morning, on this thought, biblical manhood and

biblical woman Womanhood and going to be sharing with you. This this morning comes from a number of books, won a particular Rider Doug Wilson, Pastor Phil Jones but hopefully next week I'll have a list of all the resources that I have used and so maybe that you might be interested in purchasing those for yourself. But many of you know that the culture shift that we have witnessed in the last few years. Relating to sexuality and relating to marriage has happened much faster than what we could ever have imagined that someone would have told me that back in 2004. That by the time, 2014 rolled around that, we would legalize same-sex marriage and celebrate it as a nation. I would not have believed that, but that is exactly what happened. If you'd have told me 2000 for that by the year 2014 that the University of Tennessee and their diversity Department, I would cause quite a controversy when they posted items on their University website and cursing all students to use gender-neutral pronouns. When referring to others on, this was the first time that I had ever heard such such a thing and that happened back in 2014. Instead of using the words, she or he students were, were asked to use the word z z e to refer to both sexes. Until the transgender movement has pushed its way to the Forefront of our culture. With what seems to be and it really is blinding speed. And really the it is infiltrated. Even small communities, you know the most controversial sign that we have put up in front of this church. Here was the sign that read. There are only two Sexes. There are only two genders and you would have thought that I posted something so Blasphemous or something of that nature. We received so much ridicule from the lgbtq community because of that, there was one particular lady that really harassed Miss Georgia. Over the phone called several several times. And giving Miss Georgia, a hard time you could say. And I reached out to this particular young lady and I threw an email and got in touch with her and I encouraged her. I said, hey look. If you have something to say, say it to me because I was the one that put the sign up and I would encourage you to come meet with me and my wife and I will give you 15 to 20 minutes to say whatever you want to say. So long as you give me 15 to 20 minutes to share with you what the Bible has to say. And she was very receptive to that, she was like, Hey, I will do that. I'll get in touch with you next week and we'll set up a time but unfortunately she never got back with me. You say brother? Why don't you post something? Why don't you say something such as that? Knowing that it's controversial, which it should not be controversial. It just common sense. There are two genders I did that because it's truth. And the church, the Bible tells us in the New Testament is the pillar and ground of the truth. And if you're not going to hear the truth on TV in the media, all those things in schools and so if any truth is going to be declared it needs to come from the church,

and, So this this culture, this sexuality perversion has infiltrated even small town such as ours Time Magazine. I just a few years ago dub, the whole transgender issue as the new Civil Rights Movement, Really setting the stage for us to believe that the lgbtq community community is a persecuted. Minority. I may be much like the how they deemed it back in the sixties with the African-American folks. More states have enacted a law that enables students to use restrooms or play on athletic teams of the gender that they identify with regardless of their biological sex. We seen this, just this year of the swimmer by Penn State University, who broke all the records and was champion in women's swimming, even though he is a biological male. And what what are the media do? What do, what are the world tell us to do? They wanted us to embrace that and celebrate that

That's the world in which we live. But listen, what does the Bible have to say to such a hot-button issue? That is beginning? And not even beginning, it has permeated our culture. When the Bible Ginger is god-given. And it is not dependent on how a person feels about himself or herself. It is a matter of biology, it is not a matter of emotions, it is a not, it is not a matter of your feelings. But here's what we're going to see in the scriptures. That there is more to manhood. And there is more to Womanhood than biology and genetics, especially as we think about biblical manhood in biblical woman. However, neither manhood nor Womanhood is ever separated from biology and genetics. And the reason is, because at its root being mailed is, is determined by biology or more specifically genetics, it is never determined and I repeat never determined by what you feel. The same is true of being a female. You Raven scriptures and you find that in scripture when a child was born in the Bible. It was always identified as a male child, or a female child. And not one of them were biologists back then, can you believe that?

Ridiculous.

There's not even a hint in the Bible that the sex of a person could ever be changed. Someone might say, well they didn't have the medical technology that we do today, but listen even when through Medical Science and operation is performed to quote on quote change the sex, it has been found impossible. To truly change. A person's sex. 1979 John Hopkins, University Hospital became the first American Hospital to offer this quote on quote sex sex reassignment, surgery later after many follow-up interviews. They stopped doing those surgeries and they have not done another surgery since 1979. Dr. McHugh the former psychiatrist in Chief at John Hopkins said this exchange is biologically impossible. People who undergo sex reassignment, surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa, rather they become feminized men or masculinized women. That is very, very revealing And so again where it is the Bible stand on manhood and Womanhood. Well it's important to answer that question because where the Bible stands is where I stand and where the Bible stands is where we ought to stand as a church no matter how the world stands. Okay? So number one noticed this, the origin of manhood and Womanhood where does it all begin? Where is the origin of it? Well, it goes back to Genesis chapter 1 in through chapter 3. That will look at it in just a moment but there is nothing. There is nothing that God created. That was created that with the Hands-On care that man was created where there was so much intimacy with how God created, man, that really separates man from all other Creation in Psalm 32, Psalm 33 and verse 6. It says this by the word of the Lord, the heavens were made and all the host of them, by the breath of his mouth. He gathers, the Waters of the sea together as they keep the lace up, the deep and Storehouse has let all the Earth fear, the lord that all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him for he spoke free spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast, it happened. Just just think about that for a moment, think about our universe.

You cannot help as you think about our universe, how overwhelmed you are with its mass. It is a tremendous size Universe. There are billions of galaxies. There are billions of stars within those galaxies. Yet the Bible says that God spoke them into existence. John spell he commanded in these things happen. We can't help but we when we think on such things, we cannot help. But ask the same question, the song assassin, Psalm 8 and verse 3, the psalmist said, when I consider your Heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars. What you have ordained, what is man that you are mindful of him and the son of man that that you visit him. So when God created this universe, he spoke it into existence. When God created the animals gone, smoke them into it into existence. Yet the Bible tells us that our God who who spoke this universe into existence and who spoke animals into existence yet when he created, man, he created man with his own hands. Genesis 2:7. Since then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils, the breath of life and the Man became a living creature. The word formed. It is the same root word that is used as a Potter who is forming a vessel made out of clay. I saw the God who spoke the universe into existence took the Earth that he created. And from that, he formed man, like a Potter would form a vessel of clay and then God did something even more unique. Keep breathed into man, the Breath of Life, which really shows shows us the intimacy that God had with him forming man. That man was just not one creature among many creatures. He was you could say handmade. By God and he was given life from God's breath.

Let's look at some, at some of the details of the special creation of god. Notice. Male and female. were created equal in God's image, male and female were created equal in God's image Genesis 1 and verse 26 tells us then God said let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, you noticed the plural use of those words us our What is that? Speaking of the Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Let them have dominion over the fish. Of the sea over the birds of the air and over the cattle, over all the Earth and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created, man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him male and female he created them. Answer the Bible teaches us that both sexes, bore the Divine image of God. Now, what does that mean to be made in the image of God in made in the likeness of God? Well, the Hebrew word. Translated image has the meaning of a shadow or a carving. That is not the actual thing, but something very similar.

God said let us make man in our image, according to our likeness to Hebrew word, translate, a likeness means pattern or model. Or example, another words God himself was the model God himself was the pattern in the creation of man and woman. And if we go a little bit deeper and as to what it means, that God, created both male and female In His Image, we will understand that God does not refer to our bodies, right? Because John 4:24 tells us that God does not have a body. He is Spirit, God is Spirit. Rather like God man has a rational personality. Like God man, has a moral Consciousness about him. He has a moral awareness. He knows the difference between right and wrong. He has a conscience. We have intellect, we have the ability to think we have the ability to process. We have emotions, we have a will. We can rationally? Think we can feel, we can choose. We're not robots.

So again, the Hebrew word for image and the word and for the word, likeness do not mean that man was the essence of God. Unable to send. It does not mean that we are omnipotent or omniscient or omnipresent. No, rather we were created in his shadow in his likeness. Also, the image of God means that we Are Spiritual Beings with a spirit. And with that, we are allowed to worship God. We are allowed to know. We were able to have a relationship with God that the animals do not have. We Are Spiritual Beings that put that possess a soul and we are housed in a body and so the fact that both male and female bear God's image demonstrate that they are equal in dignity, they are equal and being and in worth And listen both are equally necessary. Both male and female. Female are important to God's design for the human race. Listen, do you know why the lgbtq community is focusing so hard on our children today?

It is the reason why they're trying so hard to influence our kids today. Well, for one reason, they know they're being used. They may not know that they're being used as a tool of Satan to further blind our children. To know one God. But a big reason why they influence the children is because they know that they cannot reproduce them on their own. They cannot procreate. So they cannot reproduce. So there are left to seduce. And to entice into a tract.

And as you see this world, it's working.

Younger and younger. They're influencing our kids. even those of you who have Christian, your Christian parents,

You're in church. The children are being influenced to being seduced.

We must be on guard.

And we're of the, of Satan's attack on the Family. Noticed, secondly, male and female were created with differences.

Created with differences. Now, equality of status. Does not mean it is not mean interchangeable, an interchangeability of function and other words, being equal does not mean that there are not distinct differences in males and females are different. Physically way, beyond the obvious differences. For instance, the individual cells of male and female are different, the brain functions differently. And it is even formed differently, we respond to stress differently. Not only are we different. Physically. We are different emotionally, we're different intellectually. We process information, it differently. And so equal. Equality does not mean the same. Let me give you the most basic physical differences seen in Genesis 2:21.

It says in the Lord, God calls the Deep Sleep to fall on Adam and he slept and took one of his ribs and close up, the Flash in its place. Then the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man. He made into a woman and he brought her to the man until the woman was made from the man. Not from the earth, not from the Dust. And let me just quickly say that Genesis chapters 1 through 3 is not some type of an allegory or some type of a myth about Origins. This is literally how a man and woman were created, ok? Adam really was created from the dust of the Earth. The elements that make up our body are the elements of the earth, Eve. Really and literally was taken from Adam. And as a matter of fact, genetic research has shown that one pair of human chromosomes labeled X and Y, determines the gender of a child. All males, have both X and Y, chromosomes, all females have only a pair of X chromosomes. And so, just from a purely biological standpoint, the Y, chromosome determines maleness. If the child inherits an X chromosome from the father, it will be female. If a chromosome is a y, it will be a male. And what's very interesting is this is that what they have found is that the father's seed is the determining factor in the gender of the child. And so genetically. Therefore, it is possible to create a female from a male. However, it is not possible to extract a male genetic code from a female, because a female has no Y chromosome. So you think about this, and how this fits together with, with just, with, with harmony, with the biblical account of Eve being taken from Adam? So, when we examine the origin of manhood and Womanhood, we see that both male and female were created equal in God's image. Yet, there were created with significant differences. Notice also male and female work Hurst by the Fall. They were cursed by the Fall. Genesis 3 tells us about this and by definition, I'm speaking of their Disobedience which resulted in consequences Genesis chapter 2 and verse 17 tells us that God gave the command, but of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, you shall not eat for in the day that you eat of it. You shall surely die. And so Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Life in immediately. After they did, they died, they died. It was not an immediate physical death, but it was immediate spiritual death. They were separated from the life of God. That was separate from having communion with God. Also, there was the entrance, then of a power called seeing that dwells within man, that gives Satan. Then an inroad to our life to tempt us into entice us and enslave those who have not been born of God. And so listen to me every sin, every perversion of God's plan from maleness and femaleness comes as a result of sin coming into this world as recorded Frost in Genesis chapter number 3, if you understand the first three chapters of the Book of Genesis, you'll understand the mess. And why were in the mess? We are in. And because of the fall of Man, notice the second main point, the functioning of manhood and Womanhood in a fallen world. How are we to function? As a man and a woman in this Fallen World. Well, because men and women, I live as Sin, cursed people in a sin cursed World, there are problems obviously with manhood and there are problems with Womanhood. You say, is there such thing as a toxic as toxic masculinity as toxic manhood. Absolutely. There are many things that are toxic today. an manhood can be if it is unbiblical toxic One of the stated goals of the National Organization of Women or known as now. Is to work toward to end work toward an end to all distinctions based on sex that is our goal. and it is Osman said that, laid the groundwork for the whole transgendered movement that is so effective in our culture today, Here's what is happening all around us. And it really has been happening for decades and decades now. But listen, we are raising a generation of girly men. And manly girls. We're doing that for a while. Our culture has Popular Christian Author. Stu Weber speaking to me and describe the problem like this. He said our culture is in deep trouble and at the heart of its trouble is its loss of a vision for manhood. If it is difficult for you and me an adult male to maintain or masculine balance in this gender-neutral culture, imagine what it must be like, for our sons who are growing up in an increasingly feminized world,

Femininity is being as bigras Lee attacked as is masculinity. And that's so true. Elizabeth Elliott said this.

She said I find myself speaking about being a lady, I found myself and sometimes quite uncomfortable position of having to belabor the obvious and hold of examples of femininity to women who are being woman. I would remind you that femininity is not a curse. It is not even a trip. Triviality. It is a gift, a Divine gift to be accepted with both hands and to. Thank God for. Because remember, it was his idea. Listen to sad thing is that so many in the church?

So many in the church have bought into this gender-neutral mindset.

So the key to restoring biblical manhood and Womanhood. Really lies. With us as parents. What are parents to do in this fall. In the worlds, we will raise our children raised our boys and girls with parents are to train their children. And what it means to be a Biblical man. And what it means to be a Biblical woman, let me give you some principles for parents really quick. Number one, Developing biblical. Masculinity, if you have sons you need to develop biblical masculinity and I'm just going to fly through this this morning. We'll look at this morn death next week but never one point him two biblical examples of manhood Point him, two biblical examples of manhood, we can learn a lot about biblical masculinity from many of the heroes in the Bible. We think about Joshua and how he exemplified masculinity when he took leadership and Josh, Joshua 24:15 says, and if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord choose for yourselves this day, whom you will serve whether the gods with your father serve, that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the amorites and whose land you did well. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. That's biblical masculinity. He's taking a stand. He's standing up for what he knows is, right?

Be like Joshua, teach your children to be, like Joshua, teach your sons to be like David.

Who just even as a teenager had already killed a lion and a bear. And then later killed Goliath. He's the only man. There is brave enough to do that. We think about the Apostle Paul, who never ran from trouble, getting never cowered down to win. His persecutors were after him. He always stood bravely for the gospel and then we think about the greatest example of masculinity and that is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. The Lord Jesus himself perfect in all his ways. Jesus is the highest example of true biblical masculinity. While he was fully God. He is also fully man. Growing up as a carpenter. Jesus was no effeminate man that is so often the picture too many artists renderings of him and again we'll look at that in more detail next week. The point, your son's, two biblical examples, number to teach him to submit to Authority. Teach him to submit to Authority. This is so important because at the root of all this sexual Revolution at the root of it is rebellion. They are rebelling against God, the Creator. You must teach your children that all authority resides in Christ alone. Jesus said, this that all authority has been given to me in heaven and on Earth to everyone who is our will be in Authority is and will be under Authority until the best way to prepare your son to be the head of the home. He is married is a train him to submit to the authorities in his life. While he is a boy. He must learn through discipline to be under, his parents authority to be under the authority of his teachers and school administrators Strader's. He must learn to be under the authority of the church and listen to me. If you as a parent, do not discipline your children. If they do not learn this thing of authority from you as parents then they're not going to have any Authority with any teachers they have or any school administration they have. And if they do get in trouble with the law, they're going to have a problem with authority of the law. And if they do not submit themselves to you as parents, they're not going to submit themselves to a holy God. Teach them your children, your son's to submit to Authority. And again, this is so important because the one under Authority will be effective when the time comes for you to be in a position of authority. I notice also teach your son to take responsibility. Teach him to take responsibility and reject passivity reject apathy. Is taking a longer and longer.

For boys to grow up. It's taking longer and longer for young men to take responsibility.

I would tell my older children when they were just a little bit younger than they would have a problem with something that I told him to do, they say all. This is this is too hard. I said, boys, listen to me if you were born a hundred sixty years ago, you'd be fighting in the Civil War and chewing tobacco. Okay, you got it easy now, you got it easy, teach them to take responsibility and reject. Passivity is taking longer and longer for young men to take responsibility, to put off responsibility the later in life. That is a partial explanation for the problem. We have with a 30 year olds who are addicted to videogames and still live in their mom's basement. Passivity apathy is unmanly. Leaders are aggressive. I take responsibility. And boys need to learn at a young age that that some fun is okay, but life is not about fun and games. So another words, teach your son to grow up, peace and responsibilities, and teach them the verse, a great verse for them to memorize is the one that the Apostle Paul said and 1st Corinthians where he said, when I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away, childish things. you know, when I do becomes a man, Bar Mitzvah age 13 for a male. Females be coming to adulthood at age 12.

Teach him to work. Teach them responsibility.

And where he is rewarded for being aggressive. And I don't mean aggressive in a mean way, but having passion about work and not being passive. I very quickly teach him manners especially manners that relate to his treatment of females, teach him to open doors for females, teach him a table manners. How to speak politely to call adult especially Their mom. Teach him how to shake hands. Like a man. Squeeze the hand. You take my hand, squeeze it. All right. And then, look, the person that you're shaking the hands within the eye. Don't don't look down. Look, the person in the eye, shake their hand, Notice also teach him how to do manly things. Teach him how to do manly things to fish to hunt. Work on a car change a tire, the list could go on and on its way, what about single mothers? Well, that's where the church needs to stand up the church. Men need to stand up and take on that responsibility for that mother.

Noticed quickly developing biblical femininity.

I won't be long at all on this on this point because this is not my specialty. Okay.

The number one holdup biblical examples before her just as the man as the young boy, hold up the vehicle examples before her. And probably the best example that you should hold the most prominently would be The Godly woman spoken about in Proverbs 31. And what we find in Proverbs 31 is a picture of true biblical femininity and it blows apart most people's view of what true femininity looks like. This woman is a teacher of her children, She is an accomplished business woman who runs a successful home based business. She Keeps The Home going, she keeps the home fires burning. You could say the old country song says, I get summary statement is from Doug Wilson where he said this passage speaking about proverbs 31 denies that A Woman's Place is in the home. It affirms that her priority is the home. In our country. Ever since that, the feminist movement took place in the 1950s and 60s. Are we a better country because of it. Teaching a generation now to Generations. Of girls. Hey, you just be independent. You do what you want to do. Well, that's what has happened. We all have allowed other people to raise her kids, We're paying the price for it.

What's a, what?

Y'all give me some horse lips this morning. I'm going to keep going here.

Listen, the woman is not oppressed who works in the home. the woman who, Gives her life. As a homemaker is not a slave and she should never feel unfulfilled as a woman. She is not an unhappy doormat that her husband walks on.

Again, during the 1960s, during the rise of the feminist movement, the cry was this. We feel oppressed. We feel as if we were slaves in our home. Do you say house? Why the devil is?

Because those who cried that they are slaves in the home.

Working for a corporation. Working for a business. They're still oppressed. There still slaves. And only thing they did in there in reality, it just changed slave masters. See how Sly The Devil is?

I'll listen to a Proverbs 31 Woman is confident but she's not arrogant. She is organized but she's not obsessive. She has n-word Beauty and she does not flaunt it.

Proverbs 31 verse 28, to Alice's, her children, arise up and call her blessed. Her husband also, and he Praises her, then, lastly, teach her modesty, teach her modesty. What is modest is not determined by the culture. We know that, right? As a matter of fact, I world really has no standards anymore. What? What modesty is? And it in speaking on Mars is very difficult subject because everyone has their view of what modest is. For some moms your your your girls are going to have a standard of modesty. That's different. May be more liberal or more conservative than your friends do. So it's very hard to to speak about modesty in that way, but they're, there needs to be some kind of a standard in your home. there has got to be some limits and May I would be more conservative on that limit, then more liberal, but you have to have a standard and modesty is a huge problem even within the church. On again, modesty is for your children. Is not a suggestion. It should be something that is demanded. Teacher, that inner beauty is the best kind of UT teacher. That inner beauty is the best kind of Beauty in her beauty is the only kind that lasts outward. Beauty is fleeting Teaching model for her, the biblical roles in marriage. And even if you're not marriage, teach them diligently to her. And then finally teach her what it means to be feminine. Masculinity, masculinity and femininity are not a part of the curse of sin, okay? They are God's perfect plan. It is seeing that has distorted what masculinity and femininity is. Those who had experienced the gospel in and have victory over sin and have the indwelling, and enabling of the Holy Spirit must model for the rest of humanity that God's plan is always best. SOI response to a culture that is reaping. What has been sown? It is not this mindset, will I told you. So, Because listen to me, we can not as a society continue as we are going and sustain itself. There is going to be a Payday someday. And when that payday comes as Christians as Believers were not too or not to say, I told you so. No, rather we should and much love, and grace present the gospel of Christ. And we must now, even now, we must engage the culture that there is a standard of masculinity, there is a standard for femininity and it is the word of God. Christian men, Christian women, listen, engage one, another engage your coworkers. If they ask you what you believe, answer them biblically know God's word or reaping the results of many, many believers who claim to be Christians, but do not know God's word and cannot give answer as to why they believe what they say. They believe. Let's pray together, Our Father. Lord, I pray that that you would take this message. Are difficult message Lourdes, Lourdes to speak on and to preach on that, Lord would have needed message. even within the realm of the church, because He's become East and increasingly. I seen that the church has been pressured to conform to give in. Until father, I pray that because of the teaching of the sudden subject Lord that you would he use it For Your Glory? Got it, you wouldn't steal in US. That there are absolutes. And there are things that do not and cannot change.

And father, most of all may, we learn that all absolute truth. How it has its foundation in your word? God help us to be people of your word. Lord help us to two BS Joshua. And to choose no matter what the world does that we are going to serve the Lord, we have decided and chosen to follow the lord Jesus Christ. And Lord, I pray for the lost that are here today. Those who have never been saved. Got even for a message like this. The gospel is preached. The gospel is presented. And it reveals our fallen, as he reveals our sinful Staton are depravity. In the need, we have for your son, Jesus. To cleanse us from all our sin and save us from the wages of sin. It's a lord. I pray that the day those who are lost with, call upon your son, Jesus to save them in Lord, you have promised that all those who call upon your son's name will be saved. Father, we lift up the vacation. Bible school that starts this afternoon while we pray God that you would bring in children that that need to hear the gospel.

and Lord, I pray that they would hear the gospel here presented, clearly and Lord that the seed of the Gospel would begin to grow and do season in their heart. Father, we love you. We had all these things in Christ name, amen.