Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

The Male as Teacher and Cultivator

Created and Designed to Cultivate

Before Eve was created, God placed Adam in the Gar den and told him to cultivate it. (See Genesis 2:15 NASB .) To cultivate means to make something better than when you first received it. If a male receives something to work with, he should never end up with just what he was given. When he‘s finished working with it, it should be multiplied, more effective, more fruitful. God told the man to be a developer, and any male who wants to be a real man will appreciate his responsibility to make everything around him better. Some men concentrate on only their own fruit, their own accomplishments. They are just bettering themselves. That‘s called selfishness. They don‘t have fruitful wives or children because they‘ve neglected to care for them. A real man looks out for the needs of others and helps them to grow.

1. Cultivator of His Work, Talents, and Skills

First, a male has been designed to do his work in such a way that he is able to make it into more than it was original

ly. In the parable of the talents, the man traveling out of the country en trusted the first servant with five tal ents, the second with two, and the third with one. It is implied that the man said to them, ―Now, when I come back, I don‘t want to see just the mo n

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ey I gave you. I want to see an increase in my invest ment.‖ When the man returned, and the servant with the one talent had done nothing to increase his mas ter‘s money, he was called “wicked” and “lazy” (Matt. 25:26). If a man is still working at what he was working at ten years ago and hasn‘t improved it at all, there‘s something wrong. Every part of society should be developing if we have real men in our presence. But too often we have destroyers in stead of developers. They are tearing down our homes, spraying graffiti on our buildings, stealing, and shooting. Male-men need to come back to their purpose and stop us ing their strength for the wrong reasons.

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