Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

Principles

1. The male was created to be the spiritual leader and teacher of his family. 2. The male has been designed with the capacity to fulfill his purpose of teaching. 3. When you teach your family God‘s Word and ways, you a ttract God‘s trust and friendship. 4. If a man doesn‘t have the knowledge and capacity to teach a woman the Word, he‘s not ready for marriage. 5. God instructs men to teach their families His command ments in these ways: (1) when you sit at home, (2) when you walk along the road, (3) when you lie down, (4) when you get up, and (5) by tying them as symbols on your hands, binding them on your foreheads, and writing them on the doorframes of your houses and gates. (See Deuteronomy 6:7 – 9.) 6. The male was created to be the cultivator of the spiri tual and personal lives of his family members. 7. To cultivate means to multiply, make fruitful, make bet ter. 8. The male is the cultivator of his work, talents, and skills. 9. The male is the cultivator of his children. 10. The male is the cultivator of his wife. 11. A man needs to be filled with the Word, just as Christ is filled with the Word. Then he can wash his wife with the Word, just as Christ washes His bride with His Word. 12. The male has been given the responsibility of shaping the lives of his family members for the better — teaching and cultivating them to be all that God created them to be. In this way, the male is a partner with God in fulfil ling His plan of creation.

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