Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

the word” (Eph. 5:26). A man is to love his wife “just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.…Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies” (vv. 25, 28). A real man protects and takes care of his wife and family, look ing out for their needs before his own. A few real men who truly understood this truth and endeavored to live it out could set a standard for entire nations.

Key #5

A Real Man Endeavors to Learn, Live, and Teach God’s

Word and Principles

In Genesis 2:15 – 17, God commanded the first man to keep His word, saying that if he disobeyed it, he would die. In this act, He established the principle that “man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4). A real man is a man of principles. He realizes that his spirit must be nourished by the Word of God or his spiri tual health will decline. God‘s Word is the precept by which he lives. Because he is a responsible leader, he is also committed to teaching the Scriptures to his family. A real man allows the Word to transform his life so that he can represent God‘s will on earth, thus spreading the Garden of God‘s presence to a world living in the darkness of sin and separation from God: Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life. (Phil. 2:14 – 16)

Key #6

A Real Man Demonstrates Faith and Inspires It in

Others

When you return to your original image as a man, you become a person who makes people believe that anything is possible. Can you think of Jesus as being anything less than that? He was the only One in history who said, “Nothing is

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