Real

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Real
Men
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Introduction

• Many males in this country do not know what it
  means to be a real man.
• More than one-third of all newborns in America
  will grow up without a father in the house.
• Even if they have a father at home, many are not
  a good role model to their son.
• A young boy likely has his mother as his main
  influence and his teacher is likely a woman.
• If they watch TV, they see comedies that show
  that men are incompetent, foolish, and incapable
  of making a rational decision.
• God created mankind in His own image the
  intellectual process of seeking truth or
  knowledge by inferring from either fact or logic
  (AHD)

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Introduction

• Bud Light put out a popular series of commercials
  called Real Men of Genius.
• The worlds idea of a real man today is a beer
  drinking, pot smoking, skirt chasing, bed
  hopping, gambling man with tattoos, and earrings.
  
• Gods ways and thoughts are much higher than
  mans ways and thoughts of what a real man is.
  (Isaiah 558-9)
• Let us study what God reveals about what it means
  to be real men!

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Real Men are Resolute

• God gave us a perfect example in His own Son.
  Many compromise, but Jesus never did!
• Jesus Christ was fully resolved and determined to
  do the Fathers will no matter what the cost!
  (John 434 638 Luke 951 2242)
• When King David was about to die, he told young
  Solomon to be strong and prove himself to be a
  man by being fully committed to obeying Gods
  will and not seeking his own glory. (1 Kings
  21-4)
• David demonstrated this resolve when he fought
  and killed Goliath. (1 Sam. 17)

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Real Men are Resolute

• But just because you are resolved to do Gods
  will doesnt mean that you wont fail.
• David committed heinous sins of adultery and
  murder, yet is called a man after Gods own heart
  because of his penitent and resolute heart.
  (Psalms 5110ff)
• Solomon had a resolute heart in the beginning,
  but when he was old he married foreign women
  which turned away his heart from God. (1 Kings
  35-13 111)
• God gave him time to repent. He wrote, Fear God
  and keep His commands. (Eccl. 1213)

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Real Men are Resolute

• But others compromise under pressure.
• Aaron had been appointed by God to be his
  brothers spokesman after Moses had told God that
  he was slow of speech.
• But when Moses had gone up to Mt. Sinai to
  receive the Law of Moses, the people became
  restless and wanted a god to worship and Aaron
  made them a golden calf. (Ex. 321-4)
• Moses was a resolute man who had the courage of
  his convictions to expose his brothers error.
  (Ex. 3224ff)

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Real Men are Enthusiastic

• Jesus was ready, willing, able, and enthusiastic
  about doing Gods will!
• It was through the joy that was set before Him of
  saving our souls that Jesus endured the cross.
  (Hebrews 122-3)
• But sadly, many are lazy and neglectful about
  their service to God. They may say, How tiresome
  it is. (Malachi 113)
• But the Bereans had a great eagerness not only to
  examine the Scriptures daily that the apostle
  Paul preached but also acted on it. (Acts
  1711-12)

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Real Men are Enthusiastic

• David was so confident that the Lord would give
  him victory over Goliath because he had taunted
  the armies of the living God that he ran toward
  the battle line to meet the Philistine! (1 Samuel
  1748)
• May God help us to have that same enthusiasm for
  teaching the truth of Gods word when the false
  doctrines of men are taught.
  (1 Peter 315 2 Cor. 103-5)

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Real Men are Abased

• Even though Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of
  God, He abased Himself by making himself of no
  reputation and became obedient to the point of
  death on the cross. (Phil. 25ff)
• But we are taught by the world that a real man
  must look out for 1 because no one else will.
• We are told that if we abase ourselves before
  others, we wont survive in this world.
• But Jesus taught by example and by words that the
  only way for a real man to be exalted is by
  humbling himself before God.
  (Matt. 53-4 1 Peter 56-7)

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Real Men are Abased

• The Pharisees were always exalting themselves
  above others because they desired the praises of
  men and Jesus exposed their hypocrisy for the
  whole world to witness. (Matt. 234-12 Luke
  189-14 Jn. 1242-43)
• How did the Pharisee Saul ever get converted?
• He learned how to be a real man by abasing
  himself from Christ who strengthened him.
  (Philippians 412-13)
• Real men are willing to confess their sins rather
  than cover it up, blame others, or make excuses.
  (Js 516 Pr. 2813)

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Real Men are Loyal

• Jesus Christ was so faithful to His commitment
  that He was willing to endure unimaginable pain,
  humiliation, and torture as He endured through
  scourging and the crucifixion!
• Real men are loyal to the Lord because He has
  been loyal to us. He has promised to be with us
  always! (Matt. 2820 Heb. 135)
• Real men are faithful to their vows, especially
  to their wife, and will never divorce them for an
  unscriptural reason. (Matt. 532 196)
• We can learn this lesson while we are young.
  (1 Sam. 39-10 Eccl. 121)

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Real Men are Loyal

• God told Joshua to be strong and courageous many
  times and He promised to be with him as he
  carefully obeyed the word of God and went into
  the promised land to defeat the enemy. (Joshua
  16,7,9)
• Joshua was loyal to the word of God his whole
  life along with his family and the elders that
  survived him. (Joshua 2415, 31)
• May God help us to be steadfast, immovable,
  always abounding in the work of the Lord knowing
  that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (1
  Corinthians 1558)

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Conclusion

• The world has perverted Gods ideal of what a
  real man is supposed to be.
• Thankfully, God demonstrated through His Son
  Jesus Christ what a real man should be.
• Jesus was resolved to be obedient to the point of
  death on the cross so that we could be saved even
  though we were hopeless, helpless, and godless.
• Through Christ we can learn to be resolute
  instead of compromising, enthusiastic instead of
  lethargic, abased instead of arrogant, and loyal
  instead of treacherous.

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Conclusion

• The brethren at Corinth were not only tolerating
  a guilty fornicator in their midst, they were
  proud of it. (1 Corinthians 51ff)
• The apostle Paul told them, Be on the alert,
  stand firm in the faith, act like men, be
  strong. (1 Cor. 1613)
• Many of them acted like men and had the godly
  sorrow that led them to repentance of their sins.
  (2 Cor. 710)
• Will you have the same resolute heart that will
  enthusiastically receive Gods word, abase
  yourself and be loyal to the Lord?