WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.900 I'm going to actually start today a two-part series, this week and next week, on the Dominion 00:00:05.900 --> 00:00:08.339 Mandate, okay, from Genesis chapter 1. 00:00:09.259 --> 00:00:14.140 And the Dominion Mandate in Genesis chapter 1, which I'll read here in a second, was given 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:15.759 to both men and to women. 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:22.219 And so I'm going to speak this week to men and next week to women on the Dominion Mandate, 00:00:22.460 --> 00:00:22.699 okay? 00:00:22.699 --> 00:00:30.199 Okay, if you're a woman, don't check out today because there's great value in understanding 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:33.519 both genders' roles. 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:37.939 There's great value in understanding them for multiple reasons. 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.019 If you're married, there's obvious reasons to understand both roles. 00:00:42.120 --> 00:00:46.239 If you're a parent, there's obvious reasons to understand both roles. 00:00:46.239 --> 00:00:51.100 If you're single and want to pursue someone of the opposite gender, then you need to know 00:00:51.100 --> 00:00:55.899 what that gender is supposed to be doing and what would be attractive according to God's 00:00:55.899 --> 00:00:58.160 views on things. 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:03.020 There's many reasons to value these things, apart from the fact that it's Scripture. 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:08.799 So just because it doesn't apply to us in the moment doesn't mean it's not important because 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:16.340 all Scripture is God-breathed and is useful, even if we're talking about men and you're 00:01:16.340 --> 00:01:16.620 a woman. 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:19.960 Or next week, if we're talking about women and you're a man. 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:23.679 So let's make sure that we see value for both. 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:32.559 So starting in Genesis chapter 1, verses 26 to 28, this is where we see so much of what 00:01:32.559 --> 00:01:40.159 these first three chapters of Genesis are so huge for our lives because they speak of the 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:46.399 way God wants things to be, the way God created things to be, and how they are to be, how we 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:51.660 were created to be, not just where things are at. 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:56.120 And when you know how you're created to be, you can function in your role, okay? 00:01:56.540 --> 00:01:58.040 God created us for certain purposes. 00:01:58.280 --> 00:01:59.660 God created us in a certain way. 00:02:00.020 --> 00:02:02.400 And these first three chapters of Genesis are really helpful for that. 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:05.719 So in Genesis chapter 1, God's creating the world. 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.560 verse 26 says, 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:09.740 Then God said, 00:02:09.740 --> 00:02:18.759 Let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:23.379 the sea and over the birds of the heavens, over the livestock, and over all the earth, 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:26.879 and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:30.680 So God created man in his own image. 00:02:31.099 --> 00:02:33.799 In the image of God, he created him. 00:02:34.219 --> 00:02:37.359 Male and female, he created them. 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:39.419 And God blessed them. 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:41.019 God said to them, 00:02:41.519 --> 00:02:43.579 Be fruitful and multiply. 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.359 Fill the earth and subdue it. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:52.180 Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the heavens, and over every living 00:02:52.180 --> 00:02:54.019 thing that moves on the earth. 00:02:54.579 --> 00:02:54.719 Okay? 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:55.819 Have dominion. 00:02:55.919 --> 00:03:01.439 Other versions would say rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens. 00:03:01.620 --> 00:03:06.120 So God has called both men and women to rule. 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:13.079 God made men and women in his image, and then told them to multiply, to fill the earth. 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:18.340 So basically, when he tells them to multiply and fill the earth, he's filling the earth with 00:03:18.340 --> 00:03:18.960 his image. 00:03:19.780 --> 00:03:19.960 Okay? 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:24.520 Which he's also, what he's also doing is filling the earth with his rule. 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:28.699 When he created the earth, he didn't create the whole earth completely ordered. 00:03:29.819 --> 00:03:30.020 Okay? 00:03:30.139 --> 00:03:32.599 He created one garden in order. 00:03:33.060 --> 00:03:40.039 And then he told man that he created, man and woman, were made in his image to go fill 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:44.560 the whole earth, multiply and fill the earth with his image and rule over it. 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:45.039 Okay? 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:50.639 So this was God's plan to bring his rule into all of creation, to bring his order. 00:03:51.539 --> 00:03:51.699 Okay? 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:54.280 To bring the creation into order. 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:56.539 He didn't create a fully ordered creation. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:58.219 He did create the garden. 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:04.180 But he created us to work it, to keep it, to take dominion over it. 00:04:04.180 --> 00:04:04.480 All right? 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:11.640 So when you think of dominion, there's a, it's important to think about that word because 00:04:11.640 --> 00:04:13.379 we have a call to do that. 00:04:13.460 --> 00:04:16.620 Both men and women are called to take dominion over the earth. 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:17.379 Okay? 00:04:17.579 --> 00:04:19.180 We are to rule over it. 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:22.600 We have the similar words that go with that. 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:26.460 Forms of that word would be dominate or a person who is dominant. 00:04:27.200 --> 00:04:27.360 Okay? 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:29.740 Also a word, the word domain. 00:04:30.340 --> 00:04:30.500 Okay? 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:32.660 Someone who's dominant is someone who rules. 00:04:33.300 --> 00:04:37.840 Someone who is dominating is someone who's ruling over what it is that they're supposed 00:04:37.840 --> 00:04:38.439 to be ruling. 00:04:39.320 --> 00:04:41.760 The domain is the area with which they rule. 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:42.660 Okay? 00:04:43.379 --> 00:04:45.660 The domain is the area with which they rule. 00:04:46.020 --> 00:04:51.540 We as human beings have multiple domains that God has given us to rule over. 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:58.920 Michael Foster and Don Bontenant in his book, It's Good to Be a Man, says, 00:04:59.020 --> 00:05:03.360 The reason that God creates man on the earth, according to Genesis, is for productive, 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:05.920 representative rulership. 00:05:06.460 --> 00:05:08.360 Productive, representative rulership. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:13.200 This is what it means to exercise dominion, to fruitfully order the world in God's stead. 00:05:14.300 --> 00:05:15.740 It's more than stewardship. 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:16.620 Okay? 00:05:16.640 --> 00:05:18.379 It's not just stewarding what God's given. 00:05:18.379 --> 00:05:19.659 He goes on to say, 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:24.300 The term stewardship mutes the far more forceful terms that God actually uses. 00:05:24.740 --> 00:05:28.459 Rule the earth or have dominion means to reign with kingly power. 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:29.339 Okay? 00:05:29.719 --> 00:05:37.740 King Jesus, the king of all the earth, creates humans that bear his image and then are to 00:05:37.740 --> 00:05:43.560 extend his rule by filling the earth with his image and ruling over his earth. 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:48.600 Bringing the kingdom of God, the kingdom, the rule of the king, the dominion of the king 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:49.939 into every area of the earth. 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:51.180 This is what we're called to. 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:53.220 This is what we're all called to. 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:53.980 Okay? 00:05:54.660 --> 00:05:58.220 So, what are the domains that we are to bring this into? 00:05:58.420 --> 00:05:59.959 All the earth, that's pretty vague. 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:00.759 Right? 00:06:01.060 --> 00:06:02.139 What are different domains? 00:06:02.779 --> 00:06:04.199 One would be your personal life. 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:05.220 Okay? 00:06:05.620 --> 00:06:07.579 Are you taking dominion over your personal life? 00:06:07.579 --> 00:06:11.379 Or is your personal life taking dominion over you? 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.699 Are you taking dominion in your marriage? 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:19.199 Are you taking dominion with your children? 00:06:20.219 --> 00:06:22.519 Taking dominion in church? 00:06:23.740 --> 00:06:27.399 Not just the building, but with all that church encompasses. 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:29.979 Taking dominion in your work. 00:06:30.939 --> 00:06:32.560 Taking dominion everywhere else. 00:06:32.939 --> 00:06:33.079 Okay? 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:34.259 These are different domains. 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:35.360 All right? 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:37.900 Doug Isle says, 00:06:37.980 --> 00:06:39.199 A man makes things better. 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:42.680 He brings things into greater order, usefulness, and beauty. 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:43.520 Okay? 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:45.360 This is what God's called us to do. 00:06:45.400 --> 00:06:49.980 To bring things into greater order, usefulness, and beauty. 00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:53.240 And if you think of the domains of your life, this is what we should be doing. 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:55.180 So, how can I bring this into greater order? 00:06:55.660 --> 00:06:57.480 How can I bring this into greater usefulness? 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:59.400 How can I bring this into greater beauty? 00:07:00.699 --> 00:07:04.580 Randy Stinson and Dan Dumas in their book, A Guide to Biblical Manhood, says, 00:07:04.579 --> 00:07:12.819 A life that is consistently characterized by disorder is evidence of a general pattern of passivity in the domains. 00:07:12.819 --> 00:07:14.699 Let me say that again. 00:07:14.699 --> 00:07:22.399 A life that is consistently characterized by disorder is evidence of a general pattern of passivity in the domains. 00:07:24.139 --> 00:07:28.899 A man cultivates the gardens of his life or tends the fields of his life. 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.379 The garden or fields of your life are what you are responsible for. 00:07:32.379 --> 00:07:40.019 A man exercises dominion over the areas of his life that he is responsible for that God has given authority over. 00:07:40.740 --> 00:07:40.920 Okay? 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:46.180 So, I want us to ask the question, men, how are we doing with these different domains of our life? 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:53.159 How are we doing with taking dominion over these areas where we're ruling well in these areas? 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:57.900 I'm sure all of us could look at some of these things and say, well, maybe that's an area where I'm ruling well. 00:07:58.060 --> 00:08:01.580 And then that other area, that's an area where I could do a better job. 00:08:02.220 --> 00:08:05.340 There's some passivity in some of these domains, so to speak. 00:08:08.180 --> 00:08:13.300 Passivity is basically the opposite of what we're supposed to do. 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.180 And that's why I never gave the name of the message today. 00:08:16.520 --> 00:08:18.379 Making war against male passivity. 00:08:18.820 --> 00:08:18.940 Okay? 00:08:19.980 --> 00:08:21.840 Making war against male passivity. 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:23.099 What is passivity? 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:26.919 The definition of passivity is lacking in energy or will. 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:30.560 Tending not to take an active or dominant part. 00:08:31.379 --> 00:08:34.720 In other words, tending not to take action or dominion. 00:08:35.299 --> 00:08:35.399 Okay? 00:08:36.100 --> 00:08:37.659 Lacking in energy or will. 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:40.259 Tending to not take an active or dominant part. 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:48.879 Do you have any areas of your life where you're not, as men, where you're not taking, where you're lacking in energy or will? 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:55.519 Or you know this is an area where I'm supposed to be doing specific things for God, but I'm lacking energy in that area. 00:08:55.939 --> 00:08:57.919 I'm lacking willpower in that area. 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:04.159 The Bible says in Job 38, verse 3, dress for action like a man. 00:09:04.959 --> 00:09:06.639 Dress for action like a man. 00:09:07.599 --> 00:09:12.360 Luke 12, 35 says, talks about staying dressed for action and being like men. 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:16.539 1 Corinthians 16, 13 says, act like men. 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:18.019 Men take action. 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:19.180 Okay? 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:20.600 Men take action. 00:09:21.340 --> 00:09:32.060 In one sense, passivity in both men and women, if it involves total inaction in areas where there's supposed to be action, that's wrong in a man or a woman. 00:09:32.059 --> 00:09:35.919 But men are supposed to be marked by action. 00:09:36.419 --> 00:09:37.779 Men should be initiators. 00:09:37.959 --> 00:09:42.059 Men should be one who are looking at what needs to be done and leading in action. 00:09:42.419 --> 00:09:42.579 Okay? 00:09:42.899 --> 00:09:45.759 That's part of the essence of what masculinity is. 00:09:46.179 --> 00:09:50.879 That's why God said to Job in Job 38, 3, dress for action like a man. 00:09:51.439 --> 00:09:52.119 Like a man. 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.179 He tells us there what it's like to be a man. 00:09:55.319 --> 00:09:56.559 What is a man like? 00:09:56.659 --> 00:09:59.699 A man is like someone who is ready to take action. 00:09:59.700 --> 00:10:05.360 Man, he's got his loins girded, so to speak, could be another way to say that. 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:08.160 I think maybe even the King James might say it that way. 00:10:08.300 --> 00:10:09.800 Gird your loins and take action. 00:10:10.100 --> 00:10:10.220 Okay? 00:10:11.300 --> 00:10:13.000 Dress for action like a man. 00:10:13.920 --> 00:10:18.820 So how do we take, wear some areas of passivity in these particular domains. 00:10:19.540 --> 00:10:20.620 We have to point them out. 00:10:20.660 --> 00:10:22.820 If we don't point them out, then we won't be able to tackle them. 00:10:22.860 --> 00:10:24.360 We won't be able to make war against them. 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:33.120 Do you realize that if you're passive in these areas, it keeps us from fulfilling the dominion mandate that God's given us as men. 00:10:33.620 --> 00:10:33.779 Right? 00:10:34.139 --> 00:10:39.480 If we're passive in these areas, if we allow passivity, if we say, oh, that's okay, I'll just leave that there. 00:10:39.740 --> 00:10:42.440 I know I shouldn't be passive there, but I'm just going to allow it there. 00:10:42.779 --> 00:10:46.139 That's going to have a drastic effect on what God's called us to do. 00:10:46.779 --> 00:10:47.019 Okay? 00:10:47.100 --> 00:10:48.899 So what are some of these areas of passivity? 00:10:48.899 --> 00:10:54.899 If we're looking at our personal life, is there a lack of order or disorder? 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:58.059 Is our life in divine order, divine order of priority? 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.059 God gives divine orders of priority. 00:11:00.299 --> 00:11:02.799 He says, these things are more important than other things. 00:11:03.259 --> 00:11:07.120 If someone were to look at our personal life and they say, is your personal life in order? 00:11:07.179 --> 00:11:07.840 What would they say? 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:10.059 Is it ordered? 00:11:10.179 --> 00:11:15.779 Are you taking the God-given ability that he's given you to order your life, to take dominion over your life? 00:11:15.860 --> 00:11:17.399 Or is it marked by disorder? 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:21.500 Are we taking responsibility or are we avoiding responsibility? 00:11:22.419 --> 00:11:23.740 James 1.17 says, 00:11:23.860 --> 00:11:27.720 Whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:33.159 Are there things we as men we know we're supposed to do, but we just keep avoiding the responsibility? 00:11:33.419 --> 00:11:35.779 I know I'm supposed to do it, but I keep putting it off. 00:11:36.980 --> 00:11:43.620 Maybe a few wives could give a little elbow about a few things that they've been hoping that the husband would do, 00:11:44.179 --> 00:11:45.960 hasn't been doing for a long time, right? 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:47.720 Are we avoiding responsibility? 00:11:48.680 --> 00:11:49.680 Do we have vision? 00:11:50.259 --> 00:11:51.780 Or do we have little to no vision? 00:11:51.779 --> 00:11:57.600 Passivity in our personal lives often looks like not having vision for our personal life. 00:11:57.600 --> 00:11:59.899 Roberts 29.18 says, 00:12:00.779 --> 00:12:03.639 Where there's no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint. 00:12:03.940 --> 00:12:08.220 If you feel unrestrained in your personal life, it may be because you're passive in the area of vision. 00:12:09.460 --> 00:12:12.360 Meaning, I don't have a vision for what my personal life is even going to look like. 00:12:12.820 --> 00:12:14.120 I don't have a vision for my time. 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:16.159 I don't have a vision for my scheduling. 00:12:16.460 --> 00:12:19.139 I don't have a vision for how I make choices. 00:12:19.940 --> 00:12:24.299 I don't have a vision for making sure things that should be in my life are there. 00:12:24.460 --> 00:12:30.000 If you're passive in that area, then you're not taking dominion like the way God had called you to do. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.120 Sometimes this looks like last minute planning, right? 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:36.940 Are you constantly marked by last minute planning? 00:12:37.580 --> 00:12:39.940 Or are you taking initiative to say, 00:12:40.659 --> 00:12:44.139 Well, I mean, of course there's sometimes when last minute planning is okay. 00:12:44.659 --> 00:12:47.779 But as men, if we want to have a vision for our life and we want to do things well, 00:12:48.139 --> 00:12:50.659 we can't always be procrastinating to the last minutes. 00:12:50.659 --> 00:12:57.459 Number one, that's not giving other people in our life an opportunity to be able to be a part of stuff that we're a part of. 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:00.179 But also, it's just bad leadership. 00:13:01.079 --> 00:13:01.959 It's laziness. 00:13:02.699 --> 00:13:06.699 It doesn't allow things to be the best they could because we're scrambling at the last minute. 00:13:07.199 --> 00:13:14.480 Waiting until the last minute to plan things is an act of passivity that keeps us from dominating the way God calls us to dominate. 00:13:15.299 --> 00:13:17.620 Keeps us from dominating an area of times. 00:13:18.819 --> 00:13:20.360 What about busyness? 00:13:20.659 --> 00:13:23.500 I mean, say, how could busyness be passive? 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:25.339 Tim Ferriss says, 00:13:25.419 --> 00:13:28.600 Lack of time is actually a lack of priorities. 00:13:29.899 --> 00:13:32.919 Being busy is a form of laziness, he says. 00:13:33.740 --> 00:13:36.399 Lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:42.319 Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing and is far more unpleasant. 00:13:44.319 --> 00:13:47.659 He calls being busy a form of laziness. 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:48.039 He says, 00:13:48.139 --> 00:13:50.000 Lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:53.519 But wait a minute, Josh, I thought you said that men are supposed to take action. 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:59.759 Don't be deceived into thinking that taking any action is a masculine thing. 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:00.379 Indiscriminate action. 00:14:00.379 --> 00:14:01.379 Indiscriminate action. 00:14:01.379 --> 00:14:01.740 Indiscriminate action. 00:14:01.740 --> 00:14:03.819 Action that is not purposeful. 00:14:03.939 --> 00:14:07.659 Action that's just filling time is not manly. 00:14:08.139 --> 00:14:09.519 And it is not godly. 00:14:10.460 --> 00:14:13.700 God wants us to take specific action in specific ways. 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:17.519 But oftentimes we can feel like, oh, I'm doing a good job because my life is busy. 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:25.759 If your life is busy with the wrong things, that's evidence of passivity in that domain. 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:32.579 We need to be intentional with our time and say, what is my time? 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:34.500 What should my time be spent on? 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:39.919 Just being busy is action, but it's not the kind of action that God wants us to have. 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:42.259 What about a lack of self-control? 00:14:44.199 --> 00:14:45.899 Proverbs 25, 28 says, 00:14:46.019 --> 00:14:51.339 A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. 00:14:53.500 --> 00:14:55.299 Proverbs 16, 32 says, 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:58.639 He who rules his spirit is better than he who takes a city. 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:05.720 Part of taking dominion in our personal life is having self-control. 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:07.879 Saying, I will not be ruled by anything. 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:11.699 I used to be a person who was ruled by sin. 00:15:11.740 --> 00:15:13.960 I used to be a person who was ruled by my desires. 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:16.039 I'm no longer ruled by my desires anymore. 00:15:16.500 --> 00:15:17.360 I'm in Christ. 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:19.360 I reign in life now. 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:20.980 Sin used to reign over me. 00:15:21.059 --> 00:15:22.039 Now I reign over it. 00:15:22.319 --> 00:15:24.159 Now I'm marked by self-control. 00:15:24.460 --> 00:15:26.480 Self-control is a fruit of the spirit. 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:31.379 A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. 00:15:31.980 --> 00:15:33.580 Many people are very vulnerable. 00:15:35.180 --> 00:15:41.899 Many men are very vulnerable because they're not active in this area of self-control. 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.120 Sometimes passivity looks like being afraid to make mistakes. 00:15:46.539 --> 00:15:47.639 Afraid to fail. 00:15:47.800 --> 00:15:48.960 Always playing it safe. 00:15:49.580 --> 00:15:50.360 Risk averse. 00:15:50.899 --> 00:15:55.060 Not trying new things because we want to be comfortable and just take the status quo. 00:15:55.059 --> 00:15:59.399 God calls men to take chances. 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:00.279 Take risks. 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:01.159 Okay? 00:16:01.539 --> 00:16:04.779 In order to take dominion, we have to take risks. 00:16:06.659 --> 00:16:13.619 Sometimes what happens is a man hides behind an overemphasis on what we're good at while neglecting the rest of what it means to be a man. 00:16:14.659 --> 00:16:15.839 You ever do this, men? 00:16:16.219 --> 00:16:18.959 You have this semblance of saying, well, I'm not passive. 00:16:19.239 --> 00:16:20.519 I'm really good in this area. 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:26.100 So I just keep majoring on the thing I'm good at and trying to hide the thing I'm not good at. 00:16:26.939 --> 00:16:28.319 That's an act of passivity. 00:16:29.299 --> 00:16:37.299 A man who's serious about what God is serious about, a man who's serious about what the Word of God says will say, I'm not just going to hide behind my strengths. 00:16:37.620 --> 00:16:38.980 I will tackle my weaknesses. 00:16:38.980 --> 00:16:40.820 I will make war with my passivity. 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:43.200 Is that your attitude? 00:16:44.019 --> 00:16:46.259 Or are you hiding behind the things you're good at? 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:51.899 Do you avoid doing the things you're not good at and just gravitate towards the things you're good at? 00:16:51.920 --> 00:16:52.480 Of course you do. 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:53.519 That's what most men do. 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:56.519 That's the natural thing we want to do. 00:16:56.820 --> 00:16:59.080 But it keeps us from doing what God wants us to do. 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:01.420 God has work that he wants to do in our lives. 00:17:01.539 --> 00:17:04.799 And some of us are avoiding it and hiding behind the things we're good at. 00:17:05.360 --> 00:17:06.339 And that's not okay. 00:17:06.980 --> 00:17:08.480 It's great to be good at things. 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.440 I'm glad we have men in this room who are really good at things. 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:17.339 But if we're using that to hide the things we're not good at, that's not okay. 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:23.099 That's a passivity that keeps us fulfilling the dominion mandate that God has given us to rule. 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:30.559 Sometimes this passivity looks like being around strong men and always deferring. 00:17:32.099 --> 00:17:32.259 Okay? 00:17:33.740 --> 00:17:36.039 Now, humility is a good quality. 00:17:36.180 --> 00:17:38.120 We should defer to men at certain times. 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.079 We should care about other people and what they think. 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:43.279 And there's times when we should submit and defer. 00:17:43.660 --> 00:17:55.220 But if we're marked by always doing that, that means that we're not believing that God has made us a specific way and a particular part of the body to bear upon the other people around us. 00:17:55.220 --> 00:17:59.900 It can be an act of passivity. 00:17:59.900 --> 00:18:02.660 Because what it's doing is preventing body loss. 00:18:02.660 --> 00:18:04.440 It's handicapping the body. 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:05.080 If I'm not trying to be. 00:18:05.080 --> 00:18:16.799 If I am around strong men and I defer to them 100% of the time or majority of the time because I'm afraid to be who I'm called to be and I'm afraid that I'm not as strong as they are. 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:25.160 And if I challenge them that my weakness and my insecurity might be exposed, we all lose in that case. 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:31.140 And sometimes people who are stronger are too loud. 00:18:31.380 --> 00:18:32.720 Sometimes they're too forceful. 00:18:33.420 --> 00:18:45.140 But that's never an excuse for a man who's not as strong or is not as forceful not to be who God's called them to be and to bring God's rule into a particular situation through the way they're gifted. 00:18:45.140 --> 00:18:47.259 We need every member of the body. 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:51.600 We need to not be passive in areas of deficient skill. 00:18:52.100 --> 00:18:53.940 There are certain skills that we need to grow in. 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:55.780 What's your plan? 00:18:56.120 --> 00:18:58.380 Men, what's your plan to grow in a skill you're deficient in? 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:01.360 If I had asked you to say, okay, what are some skills you're deficient in? 00:19:01.420 --> 00:19:04.240 Skills you know that as a godly man you're supposed to have. 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:05.780 That's one thing. 00:19:05.840 --> 00:19:07.920 But the next thing is, what's your plan? 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:11.600 How are you going to tackle that deficient skill? 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:15.240 Do you believe that God has given you power to rule over that weakness? 00:19:15.419 --> 00:19:17.359 Do you believe that God has given you power to rule? 00:19:17.679 --> 00:19:21.539 That he's made you in his image and he wants to fill the earth with his rule in his image. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:27.099 And so that these things that you're deficient in, these skills that you know God wants you to have that you're deficient in, 00:19:27.339 --> 00:19:30.899 that God has given you everything you need for life and godliness to tackle those things. 00:19:32.059 --> 00:19:32.659 So what are you doing? 00:19:33.139 --> 00:19:34.079 Are you tackling it? 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:35.299 Do you have a vision for it? 00:19:35.339 --> 00:19:35.839 Do you have a plan? 00:19:39.500 --> 00:19:40.859 Or do we just have desires? 00:19:40.859 --> 00:19:41.979 Do we just have wishes? 00:19:43.059 --> 00:19:44.740 Wishes aren't getting things done. 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:47.199 Wishes aren't going to obey Jesus. 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:52.000 Good desire is good desire, but good desire without a plan is just a wish. 00:19:55.679 --> 00:19:59.299 Sometimes our passivity in our personal life looks like not growing up. 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:01.719 Where we just perpetually stay childish. 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:06.119 We're not acting like a man, meaning we're not acting like a grown-up man. 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:11.799 Is that Peter Pan syndrome where we're, you know, just, I just want to continue to prolong my childhood. 00:20:12.459 --> 00:20:18.779 Are there particular areas of growing up that God is asking you to grow up in that you're not willing to let go? 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:23.819 Particular childish areas that God wants you to let go of so that you can take dominion. 00:20:23.819 --> 00:20:25.799 Areas of responsibility. 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:28.960 Areas of discipline in your time, in your schedule. 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:31.879 Areas of the way you relate to your family. 00:20:33.299 --> 00:20:34.779 The way you relate to other men. 00:20:34.779 --> 00:20:39.139 God wants us not to be passive. 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:40.440 He wants us to grow up. 00:20:41.779 --> 00:20:43.660 He wants us not to put things off. 00:20:44.259 --> 00:20:48.639 One of the greatest ways to be lazy and passive is procrastination. 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:52.879 Which basically says, why do today what I can put off till tomorrow? 00:20:53.660 --> 00:20:53.859 Right? 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:56.559 Or I like to call it manhood avoidance. 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:59.799 We can't procrastinate on these things. 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:01.200 We can't hesitate. 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:05.819 David, what did he do when he went out to face Goliath? 00:21:06.419 --> 00:21:07.220 Did he hesitate? 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:09.000 No, it says he ran to the battle. 00:21:09.819 --> 00:21:10.659 I love that. 00:21:10.819 --> 00:21:12.119 1 Samuel 17, 48. 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:15.220 When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, 00:21:15.619 --> 00:21:18.919 David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine. 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:24.579 What is your MO when it comes to things you need to tackle? 00:21:24.899 --> 00:21:26.179 Battles you need to face. 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:27.539 Are you hesitant? 00:21:28.220 --> 00:21:29.559 Are you a hesitant man? 00:21:30.259 --> 00:21:33.859 A hesitant man is not a man who's fulfilling God's mandate to rule. 00:21:34.679 --> 00:21:36.359 You don't rule with hesitancy. 00:21:37.259 --> 00:21:38.779 You run quickly to the battle. 00:21:38.899 --> 00:21:41.919 What battle are you hesitant in today? 00:21:42.579 --> 00:21:44.740 What battle have you been hesitant of recently? 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:46.359 You're afraid to tackle it. 00:21:46.779 --> 00:21:47.899 You're avoiding it. 00:21:47.980 --> 00:21:48.919 You're not running to it. 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:49.980 You're running away from it. 00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:53.279 David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine. 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:56.200 God wants you to run quickly to your battle lines. 00:21:56.819 --> 00:21:59.159 There's battle lines that we need to get specific about, man. 00:21:59.220 --> 00:22:02.359 We need to say, hey, this is a battle line I have to run specifically to. 00:22:02.639 --> 00:22:04.659 I need to run to this battle line. 00:22:05.159 --> 00:22:07.559 I need to stop running away and I need to stop being hesitant. 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:13.779 Hesitancy is a weakness in men that keeps us from what God has called us to. 00:22:13.779 --> 00:22:19.019 And it's usually evidence of the fact that we don't believe that God is who he says he is. 00:22:19.259 --> 00:22:20.720 David was the opposite of that. 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:22.980 He said, who is this uncircumcised Philistine? 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:26.399 I'm going to feed his flesh to the birds of the air. 00:22:27.099 --> 00:22:28.240 He had confidence. 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:31.960 The Lord will deliver me just as he's delivered me from the lion and the bear. 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:36.039 Do you have that kind of confidence in the Lord that the battles he has in front of you, 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:38.039 that he's given you power to overcome them? 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:40.359 Because he created you. 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:42.920 You're his crown prince of creation. 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:44.440 Humans. 00:22:45.399 --> 00:22:48.259 God has created us to rule, men and women. 00:22:48.379 --> 00:22:51.379 But God's called us as men to come into these situations and say, 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:52.159 so what? 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:52.920 You got a battle here? 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:53.659 What are you going to do? 00:22:53.879 --> 00:22:54.899 Are you going to be hesitant about it? 00:22:54.899 --> 00:22:55.819 Are you going to run after it? 00:22:57.019 --> 00:22:58.240 Are you going to run after it? 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:01.359 What about marriage? 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:05.220 What about marriage? 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:08.579 Are there areas where we're being passive in marriage? 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:09.960 Okay. 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:13.420 Areas where we could bring more order in our marriage. 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:16.640 Areas where maybe we're avoiding responsibility. 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:18.120 We need to take responsibility. 00:23:18.700 --> 00:23:21.160 But we don't have vision for a marriage and we need to take vision. 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:23.859 Not leading our wife. 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:25.299 Not taking initiative. 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:27.779 Genesis 3 verse 6 says, 00:23:27.779 --> 00:23:32.160 It's one of the most damning verses in the Bible. 00:23:32.339 --> 00:23:34.639 Adam, he's there with Eve. 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:38.480 And this snake is tempting her. 00:23:39.139 --> 00:23:40.319 And it says he was with her. 00:23:41.700 --> 00:23:44.359 Are we just with our wives and not leading our wives? 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:46.980 Genesis 3 verse 17, 00:23:47.500 --> 00:23:50.339 the curse is pronounced upon all mankind. 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:53.460 And he says it's because you listened to your wife. 00:23:54.519 --> 00:23:56.339 In other words, you followed her lead. 00:23:56.339 --> 00:23:57.559 You didn't lead her. 00:23:57.779 --> 00:24:01.299 Are we leading with sacrifice? 00:24:01.460 --> 00:24:02.899 Ephesians 5 verse 25 says, 00:24:02.980 --> 00:24:07.420 Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:14.440 One of the ways we war against passivity is we war against our own self-preservation. 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:23.160 One of the hardest ways for a woman to feel loved is if she doesn't believe that her husband loves her more than himself. 00:24:23.160 --> 00:24:28.880 Most often women feel unloved because they think, oh, he loves me more than himself. 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:30.860 I mean, he loves himself more than me. 00:24:31.460 --> 00:24:31.620 Okay? 00:24:31.700 --> 00:24:33.279 He's not willing to sacrifice for me. 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:34.840 I'm not convinced. 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:35.759 I don't trust. 00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:38.100 A lot of wives will say this when they don't feel loved. 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:42.180 I don't trust that he cares about me more than himself. 00:24:42.180 --> 00:24:43.620 I think he cares more about himself. 00:24:45.180 --> 00:24:46.580 Sacrifice blows that out of the water. 00:24:46.579 --> 00:24:48.639 We have to be willing to sacrifice. 00:24:48.859 --> 00:24:51.740 We have to look for ways to sacrifice for our wives. 00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:56.099 We can also be passive when it comes to authority. 00:24:56.879 --> 00:24:58.759 So how would you be passive when it comes to authority? 00:25:00.139 --> 00:25:04.139 A lot of times this looks like not leading when you're not recognized, regarded, or respected. 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:05.439 This is passive. 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:06.899 What if your wife doesn't recognize you? 00:25:07.099 --> 00:25:08.279 What if she doesn't regard you? 00:25:08.339 --> 00:25:09.619 What if she doesn't respect you? 00:25:09.619 --> 00:25:13.539 Do we stop leading then or do we only lead when that's there? 00:25:13.619 --> 00:25:15.899 If we stop leading in that, that's passive. 00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:21.119 Keeps us from exercising the authority that God has given us. 00:25:22.539 --> 00:25:27.299 The other thing is the abuse of that authority by persuasion, by exclusively asserting authority, 00:25:27.479 --> 00:25:28.859 which is passive and lazy. 00:25:29.439 --> 00:25:34.319 Just throwing out a title and not being a man who wins a woman's heart. 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:39.539 It's so much easier to just say, hey, you need to submit to me without being a man. 00:25:39.619 --> 00:25:40.919 Who is worthy of submission. 00:25:41.500 --> 00:25:45.000 Without being a man who is one who lays down his life. 00:25:46.739 --> 00:25:50.699 To just persuade by exclusively asserting authority can be passive and lazy. 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:56.979 This also has implications for those who are single when it comes to marriage. 00:25:57.699 --> 00:26:00.379 A single person with no intentions of finding a wife, 00:26:00.819 --> 00:26:03.699 that's a passivity that goes against the dominion mandate. 00:26:03.859 --> 00:26:05.419 God wanted people to get married. 00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:06.719 You're counseling single people? 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:08.439 You are a single person? 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:10.000 You're wondering, should I get married? 00:26:10.360 --> 00:26:13.620 Unless God has given you some call, like Paul had, 00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:18.700 where it's some kind of dangerous specific calling where it would make no sense for a wife and kids, 00:26:19.360 --> 00:26:20.559 then you don't have to think about it. 00:26:20.580 --> 00:26:21.680 You don't have to pray about it. 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:24.920 Genesis 2.18 says it's not good for the man to be alone. 00:26:26.220 --> 00:26:28.500 Genesis 1 said that he created men and women. 00:26:28.980 --> 00:26:30.200 He made them in his image. 00:26:30.500 --> 00:26:33.340 He told them to be fruitful and multiply and to fill the earth and to do it. 00:26:33.339 --> 00:26:35.379 You can't do that unless you get married. 00:26:35.699 --> 00:26:39.259 You can't fill the earth with your kids unless you get married. 00:26:39.339 --> 00:26:40.579 That's what God wanted to happen. 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:45.439 Young men and young women nowadays, they're not even thinking about getting married. 00:26:45.959 --> 00:26:48.599 If you encounter one of those, you should rebuke them. 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:52.139 You should say, hey, you should want to get married. 00:26:52.220 --> 00:26:55.359 If you don't want to get married, something's off here. 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:58.639 And I'd say, well, what about the people who want to get married and they don't? 00:26:58.740 --> 00:27:00.299 Yeah, that happens sometimes. 00:27:00.539 --> 00:27:01.679 That's out of your control. 00:27:02.379 --> 00:27:06.039 But not even desiring it, not pursuing it, not having it on your radar, 00:27:06.379 --> 00:27:08.919 that's not thinking the way God wants things. 00:27:10.139 --> 00:27:12.799 Now, that's not the only way you can fill the earth. 00:27:12.819 --> 00:27:16.099 We can fill the earth with disciples if you don't get married. 00:27:17.179 --> 00:27:21.339 But that should be a desire in every single person, to want to get married. 00:27:21.339 --> 00:27:25.619 Unless God's given them some call that would say, this doesn't make sense, 00:27:26.159 --> 00:27:27.699 much like what Paul had. 00:27:28.779 --> 00:27:30.179 What about with children? 00:27:31.299 --> 00:27:33.559 Bring order to the area of children. 00:27:34.679 --> 00:27:41.539 This is an area where things have got quite off over the years. 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:44.720 We live in a world of gentle parenting now, 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:46.659 where it's like bringing order to children, 00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:51.319 taking the God-given authority to raise up children in a way that loves them. 00:27:51.939 --> 00:27:55.299 We've now twisted things so much that we have doctors, 00:27:55.819 --> 00:27:57.799 licensed professionals, doctors saying, 00:27:58.159 --> 00:28:00.539 oh, it's not good to spank your children. 00:28:01.500 --> 00:28:03.639 Literally the opposite of what the Bible says. 00:28:03.740 --> 00:28:06.579 The Bible says if you spare the rod, you hate your children. 00:28:07.419 --> 00:28:10.379 Professional doctors now say if you spare the rod, you love your children. 00:28:10.939 --> 00:28:13.599 It's complete flipping around of what Scripture says. 00:28:14.199 --> 00:28:17.599 Will we be ruled by what Scripture says or be ruled by what our culture says? 00:28:17.939 --> 00:28:19.799 We have the courage to buck the trend. 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:24.019 Listen, your culture is not showing you how to bring order into your family. 00:28:24.759 --> 00:28:26.399 It's not showing you how to do that. 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:32.419 And one of the things that's off is most Christians would say, oh, yeah, I agree. 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:35.899 I have a responsibility to teach my kids right and wrong. 00:28:36.940 --> 00:28:37.579 I have a responsibility. 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:39.259 If they do something morally wrong, 00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:41.919 I have a responsibility to discipline them and teach them what's right. 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:46.420 But that's not the only thing you're called to do, man, as you're leading your families, 00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:48.160 as you're fathering your kids. 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:56.500 Sometimes what happens is we end up only disciplining for acts of right and wrong and not for order. 00:28:57.560 --> 00:28:59.720 You're also called to bring order into your family. 00:28:59.800 --> 00:29:01.320 You're called to teach your kids order. 00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:07.319 Some things aren't morally wrong in and of themselves all the time. 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:11.039 But if they in certain it depends where it's being done. 00:29:12.579 --> 00:29:13.700 Depends where it's being done. 00:29:13.779 --> 00:29:14.919 What do I mean by this? 00:29:16.019 --> 00:29:19.399 It's you might say, well, I want my I want my boys to be wild. 00:29:19.539 --> 00:29:23.859 I want them to be wild men who do great and crazy things and are risk takers. 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:24.619 That's good. 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:27.659 But if they're wild men in the wrong places, that's not good. 00:29:27.660 --> 00:29:30.980 Does that make sense? 00:29:32.019 --> 00:29:36.140 And so sometimes I think parents, especially ones who grew up in a little bit more chaos, 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:40.500 which is a lot of families nowadays, we almost thrive more on chaos. 00:29:40.940 --> 00:29:42.880 And we think, oh, I enjoy the chaos. 00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:45.779 You're not loving your kids, though, if you enjoy the chaos. 00:29:46.220 --> 00:29:47.460 We need to teach our kids order. 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:50.200 We need to teach our kids to learn how to sit. 00:29:50.840 --> 00:29:54.620 We need to teach our kids to respect other people and respect other people's things. 00:29:55.080 --> 00:29:57.560 If the kids are outside and they're jumping around on the trees, 00:29:57.660 --> 00:30:01.580 and they're hanging from the trees and they're running around the grass and they're digging holes, 00:30:01.820 --> 00:30:03.100 that's perfectly fine. 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:05.700 If they're doing that inside the house, that's not OK. 00:30:07.620 --> 00:30:10.800 You know, they're jumping around on the couches with their muddy feet 00:30:10.800 --> 00:30:14.860 and they're hanging on the drapes on the window. 00:30:15.700 --> 00:30:18.080 OK, and they're breaking things in the house. 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:20.320 We would say that's not OK. 00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:20.600 Why? 00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:21.600 Because it's morally wrong? 00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:23.600 Because the Bible says you shall not jump on the couch? 00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:25.259 Doesn't say that anywhere. 00:30:25.259 --> 00:30:28.299 Why does a man have a responsibility to do that? 00:30:28.339 --> 00:30:30.180 Because he's supposed to bring order to his family. 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:35.500 Proverbs 29, 15 says, 00:30:35.579 --> 00:30:40.079 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother. 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:44.559 We've now made it OK to leave kids to themselves. 00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:49.240 And sometimes what happens is, in the name of freedom, in the name of wanting to raise free kids, 00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:53.500 exciting kids, kids who will be daring kids, we live kids to themselves. 00:30:53.700 --> 00:30:55.679 And what it ends up being is a disgrace to their mother. 00:30:57.019 --> 00:30:58.019 This is the scriptures. 00:30:58.519 --> 00:31:00.419 You don't just teach your kids right and wrong. 00:31:00.639 --> 00:31:01.500 You teach them order. 00:31:01.899 --> 00:31:02.899 You teach them authority. 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:04.319 You teach them how to behave. 00:31:04.419 --> 00:31:05.599 You teach them how to be respectful. 00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:09.319 You teach them how to not be rude. 00:31:09.319 --> 00:31:11.879 1 Corinthians 13 says, 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:12.759 Love is not rude. 00:31:12.879 --> 00:31:16.619 If your kid is rude, you're not teaching them the right things. 00:31:16.899 --> 00:31:18.259 You've got to teach them not to be rude. 00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:23.439 You've got to teach them how to learn how to do things in the right place at the right time. 00:31:24.700 --> 00:31:26.399 1 Timothy 3, verse 4, 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:29.039 when talking about the qualifications of an elder, 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:32.519 says he must manage his own household competently 00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:35.179 and have his children under control with all dignity. 00:31:35.180 --> 00:31:43.259 It's not good when we have families who discipline their kids for right and wrong, 00:31:43.560 --> 00:31:44.799 but their kids are out of control. 00:31:46.080 --> 00:31:48.140 And here's one of the reasons why it's not loving. 00:31:48.740 --> 00:31:51.120 Other people end up not liking your kids. 00:31:52.060 --> 00:31:56.060 Other people end up wanting to reject your kids because they're out of control. 00:31:56.360 --> 00:31:57.600 You're not loving them in that case. 00:31:58.220 --> 00:32:00.279 You're not taking the rule that God's given you, 00:32:00.380 --> 00:32:03.120 the mandate that God's given you to bring order and rule. 00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:05.419 It should start in your home. 00:32:05.739 --> 00:32:07.699 That dominion mandate starts in your home. 00:32:08.199 --> 00:32:09.979 And we need to bring order to our children. 00:32:10.919 --> 00:32:12.139 We need to make them know, 00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:14.199 Hey, you need to learn how to sit. 00:32:15.099 --> 00:32:16.679 Hey, you need to know proper order. 00:32:16.979 --> 00:32:18.439 When you're outside running around, that's great. 00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:18.979 Do that. 00:32:19.739 --> 00:32:22.239 But when people are talking, you're not going to be rude or disruptive. 00:32:24.500 --> 00:32:26.939 When I tell you to sit and do something, you do it. 00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:28.419 You might say, well, that's right and wrong. 00:32:28.459 --> 00:32:28.879 It is. 00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:30.239 It has to be both. 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:36.519 But there's an acceptable lack of order in families nowadays that needs to be confronted. 00:32:36.700 --> 00:32:37.799 And men, guess who's responsible? 00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:39.839 Fathers, you are. 00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:41.720 You're responsible, fathers. 00:32:42.019 --> 00:32:42.859 You need to bring order. 00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:43.880 And guess what? 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:45.019 That's going to take work. 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:48.440 So if you're lazy, you need to make war against your laziness and your passivity. 00:32:48.740 --> 00:32:50.940 Because your passivity will always want you. 00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:52.620 It'll breed disorder. 00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:56.019 Passivity breeds disorder in fathers and in families. 00:32:56.920 --> 00:32:58.339 We have to war against that. 00:32:58.339 --> 00:33:02.039 What about in the church? 00:33:04.220 --> 00:33:05.639 Where do we lead in the church? 00:33:07.899 --> 00:33:09.480 Well, we bring order to the church. 00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:12.179 We take responsibility in the church. 00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:13.480 We have vision for the church. 00:33:14.099 --> 00:33:15.079 But we fill the... 00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:17.659 In the family, we fill the earth with children. 00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:20.980 How do we also... 00:33:20.980 --> 00:33:22.519 Is that the only way we fill the earth? 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:26.240 That's obviously the main way he was talking about there in Genesis chapter 1. 00:33:26.379 --> 00:33:28.259 There's another way to fill the earth with his image. 00:33:28.339 --> 00:33:28.819 What's that? 00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:30.839 It's his image in a different way. 00:33:31.299 --> 00:33:32.779 We're all created in his image. 00:33:33.299 --> 00:33:37.799 But that image falls short of the glory of God when it's marred with sin and people are unbelievers. 00:33:38.339 --> 00:33:40.420 What about when people become disciples of Jesus? 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:42.720 And Jesus Christ lives inside of them? 00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:48.420 What better way to fill the earth with his glory than to fill the earth with disciples? 00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:49.380 Right? 00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.000 All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 00:33:52.360 --> 00:33:58.720 What is to his glory when men and women come into the kingdom of God and submit to King Jesus and are made disciples? 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.220 They become disciples of Jesus. 00:34:02.339 --> 00:34:03.600 The earth is filled with his glory. 00:34:03.600 --> 00:34:07.039 Do you have a vision in church to make disciples? 00:34:07.500 --> 00:34:08.860 Do you know how to make a disciple? 00:34:08.860 --> 00:34:13.660 It's one thing to say, okay, I got to be a family man. 00:34:13.740 --> 00:34:15.640 I want to, you know, have kids. 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:16.980 Well, what if you never get married? 00:34:18.780 --> 00:34:21.539 Well, what if you've done that and now your kids are older? 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:23.740 Again, it's not just that. 00:34:23.780 --> 00:34:25.800 We should also be filling the earth with disciples. 00:34:26.380 --> 00:34:27.420 We should be making disciples. 00:34:27.539 --> 00:34:29.960 We should know how to equip people to be disciple makers. 00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:41.079 Jesus said when he left, Matthew 28, go make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I've commanded. 00:34:41.500 --> 00:34:42.619 Do you know how to make disciples? 00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:45.940 As a church plant, we're called to make disciples. 00:34:46.539 --> 00:34:48.280 As Christians, we're called to make disciples. 00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:51.400 Men, you're called to lead in this in the church. 00:34:52.179 --> 00:34:53.539 Men are called to lead in the church. 00:34:55.099 --> 00:34:56.159 In disciple making. 00:34:56.159 --> 00:35:01.239 Are you someone who feels confident that I know how to make a disciple and I know how to equip other people? 00:35:01.659 --> 00:35:08.799 And if you don't, are you passive in your lack of knowledge of how to make disciples and how to equip someone else to make a disciple? 00:35:09.299 --> 00:35:12.539 If there's one thing we should never be passive in, it's disciple making. 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:16.719 If there's one thing we should never be passive in, it's knowing how to make a disciple. 00:35:16.819 --> 00:35:21.759 If there's one thing we should never be passive in, it's knowing how to equip other men and other women. 00:35:22.819 --> 00:35:23.779 To make disciples. 00:35:24.420 --> 00:35:25.519 Do you know how to make disciples? 00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:28.399 We know a lot of things, 00:35:28.399 --> 00:35:30.719 but do I know how to do the one thing 00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:33.619 that God left us with right before he ascended into heaven? 00:35:33.699 --> 00:35:35.719 He said, go, make disciples. 00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:42.899 Can we take away from the dominion mandate, 00:35:43.299 --> 00:35:44.059 the great commission? 00:35:45.059 --> 00:35:46.259 Are they not connected? 00:35:46.699 --> 00:35:48.599 That God wants us to go into all the earth 00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:49.759 and make disciples. 00:35:50.619 --> 00:35:52.039 Do we know how to make disciples? 00:35:52.619 --> 00:35:53.719 We think of church. 00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:54.920 Are we just thinking of, 00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:56.099 oh, I have this new church plant. 00:35:56.159 --> 00:35:58.399 I just, you know, what's in it for me? 00:35:58.659 --> 00:36:00.319 I don't like this particular part of it 00:36:00.319 --> 00:36:01.859 because it doesn't serve me as well. 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:03.859 Are we thinking, how can I make disciples? 00:36:05.359 --> 00:36:06.659 When I think about this church, 00:36:06.759 --> 00:36:07.899 do I wake up in the morning and say, 00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:10.420 God, give us souls, help us to make disciples? 00:36:11.259 --> 00:36:13.159 Who are the particular people I'm going to? 00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:15.899 Who are the particular people I'm praying for? 00:36:17.059 --> 00:36:19.279 How am I rallying together with my missional community 00:36:19.279 --> 00:36:21.319 to say, all right, these are the people we're after? 00:36:23.659 --> 00:36:25.440 When we do things like gatherings 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:28.119 and different ways that we're being missional, 00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:31.460 what's our vision for follow-up? 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:33.579 What's our vision to reach out to people 00:36:33.579 --> 00:36:35.559 and say, God, I want to make disciples. 00:36:35.679 --> 00:36:36.400 I want to be obedient. 00:36:36.940 --> 00:36:38.260 Are you competent in this, men? 00:36:39.179 --> 00:36:40.460 Are you competent in this? 00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:43.740 Are you able to take your dominion mandate in this way 00:36:43.740 --> 00:36:45.320 and fill the earth with disciple makers? 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:55.160 It's easy to just criticize, right? 00:36:55.240 --> 00:36:56.440 To be the cowardly critic, 00:36:56.559 --> 00:36:58.519 a know-it-all who's quick to criticize 00:36:58.519 --> 00:36:59.920 but afraid to take action. 00:37:00.680 --> 00:37:02.760 May it never be said of us in this church 00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:04.340 or any men in this church 00:37:04.340 --> 00:37:06.280 that we're afraid to take action, 00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:07.840 that we are just ones who criticize 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:08.900 but don't take action. 00:37:09.700 --> 00:37:11.740 But may we always be people who are taking action. 00:37:11.739 --> 00:37:15.039 May we always be the men in the arena 00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:18.079 who aren't those cold and timid souls 00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:19.739 that neither know victory or defeat, 00:37:20.139 --> 00:37:21.179 like Roosevelt said. 00:37:21.839 --> 00:37:22.799 But we're men in the arena. 00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:24.559 We might be making mistakes. 00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:26.059 We might not be doing it right all the time. 00:37:27.019 --> 00:37:28.059 But for Christ's sake, 00:37:28.099 --> 00:37:29.439 we will always be in the arena, 00:37:30.479 --> 00:37:31.399 giving it our best, 00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:32.599 blood, sweat, and tears, 00:37:32.959 --> 00:37:33.879 laying down our life. 00:37:34.439 --> 00:37:35.719 That's the kind of men we need. 00:37:36.679 --> 00:37:37.819 What about in your work? 00:37:37.820 --> 00:37:41.019 Are we bringing order into our work? 00:37:41.240 --> 00:37:42.580 Are we taking responsibility? 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:44.600 Do we have vision for our work 00:37:44.600 --> 00:37:46.360 and how we can grow in our work and be skilled? 00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:48.300 Or are we just calling it in 00:37:48.300 --> 00:37:49.580 and just doing the bare minimum? 00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:53.019 We say, no, I have vision for being a godly worker 00:37:53.019 --> 00:37:55.400 to bring godly order, 00:37:55.539 --> 00:37:58.360 to bring God's rule into every area that I'm in, 00:37:58.400 --> 00:37:59.140 including my work. 00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:02.260 Say, all right, I'm here to bring more order, 00:38:02.539 --> 00:38:04.820 more usefulness, more beauty into this workplace. 00:38:05.120 --> 00:38:06.000 How can I do that? 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:08.199 How can I make my boss more money? 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:10.099 And they say, that's what I'm doing? 00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:11.239 Of course that's what you're doing. 00:38:11.880 --> 00:38:14.119 You think your boss is in business for charity? 00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:16.260 You think your boss is in business 00:38:16.260 --> 00:38:18.239 just for something to do? 00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:19.440 I mean, he might be, 00:38:19.539 --> 00:38:22.420 but most companies exist to make money. 00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:24.739 Most of you work so you can make money. 00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:27.280 Your job is to make them more money. 00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:29.239 Your job is to be productive. 00:38:29.900 --> 00:38:30.980 Are you doing that? 00:38:31.420 --> 00:38:32.659 So that you can use that money 00:38:32.659 --> 00:38:33.920 and be productive in your family. 00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:36.480 So you can do 1 Timothy 5 verse 8. 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:38.980 1 Timothy 5 verse 8 says, 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:40.720 If anyone does not provide for his relatives, 00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:43.619 and especially for members of his household, 00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:45.200 he has denied the faith, 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:46.480 and it's worse than an unbeliever. 00:38:47.619 --> 00:38:51.019 I was meeting with a guy a few months ago 00:38:51.019 --> 00:38:52.760 professing to be a believer. 00:38:53.659 --> 00:38:55.900 Him and his wife are separated. 00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:57.059 He's got two kids, 00:38:57.260 --> 00:38:59.340 and he is not providing for his family. 00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:01.300 And he's professing to be a Christian. 00:39:01.300 --> 00:39:04.120 I said, listen, I don't believe you're a Christian. 00:39:04.720 --> 00:39:06.460 Kind of looked at me kind of dumbfounded. 00:39:07.140 --> 00:39:09.240 I'm like, are you familiar with 1 Timothy 5 verse 8? 00:39:10.420 --> 00:39:12.320 It says that if you don't provide for your family, 00:39:12.420 --> 00:39:12.960 that you're worse, 00:39:13.240 --> 00:39:14.360 that you've denied the faith 00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:15.320 and are worse than unbeliever. 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:17.519 I believe that you've denied the faith. 00:39:17.600 --> 00:39:19.180 You're not providing for your family. 00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:22.280 He's talking about wanting to get back together. 00:39:22.420 --> 00:39:24.320 He's talking about being a Christian. 00:39:24.539 --> 00:39:26.880 I'm like, listen, I don't care about your talk. 00:39:27.720 --> 00:39:29.420 You're not providing for your family. 00:39:29.420 --> 00:39:30.500 You've denied the faith. 00:39:31.200 --> 00:39:32.320 What are you going to do with that? 00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:34.220 And he just stared at me and didn't say a word. 00:39:35.579 --> 00:39:37.019 That's a passive man right there. 00:39:38.200 --> 00:39:39.760 It's honestly one of the most passive men 00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:40.720 I've ever met, actually. 00:39:40.900 --> 00:39:43.480 But I just wanted to grab him and just say, 00:39:43.680 --> 00:39:44.740 what are you doing? 00:39:45.659 --> 00:39:47.280 You have a wife and two kids. 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.059 Okay, we have to take these things seriously. 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:53.460 That's why we have to take work seriously. 00:39:53.579 --> 00:39:55.099 We can't be lazy when it comes to work. 00:39:55.099 --> 00:39:58.719 We can't just put all that on our wife. 00:39:58.819 --> 00:40:01.779 We can't just think about it last minute. 00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:02.819 No, we have to be proactive. 00:40:03.759 --> 00:40:05.519 We have to say, okay, how am I going to do this? 00:40:06.799 --> 00:40:08.420 And lastly, everywhere else. 00:40:09.819 --> 00:40:10.819 Not retreating. 00:40:10.980 --> 00:40:12.980 Not just living in a little Christian subculture, 00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:14.779 but filling the earth and subduing it. 00:40:15.799 --> 00:40:17.460 I was talking with some of the guys earlier, 00:40:17.539 --> 00:40:18.339 maybe you don't know this, 00:40:18.400 --> 00:40:20.099 but when Roe v. Wade was overturned, 00:40:20.099 --> 00:40:23.920 that meant that all abortion rights went to the states. 00:40:24.619 --> 00:40:26.400 And there's multiple states all over the country 00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:27.679 that are voting on these things. 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:29.960 This year, if you live in Missouri, 00:40:30.900 --> 00:40:34.279 we'll be voting, those who vote, 00:40:34.940 --> 00:40:36.179 there's a vote in place 00:40:36.179 --> 00:40:38.339 to add a constitutional amendment 00:40:38.339 --> 00:40:42.079 to enshrine in our state's constitution in Missouri 00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:44.739 the right to abort your baby 00:40:44.739 --> 00:40:48.279 up until the end of nine months. 00:40:48.280 --> 00:40:53.660 Again, we've been given a mandate to rule. 00:40:54.160 --> 00:40:55.300 We can say, oh, I'm just going to do 00:40:55.300 --> 00:40:57.180 my little Christian subculture over here, 00:40:57.500 --> 00:40:59.120 and I don't really care about that kind of stuff. 00:40:59.180 --> 00:41:00.960 I'm just going to do my thing over here. 00:41:01.200 --> 00:41:02.920 And you think that they're just going to leave you alone? 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:05.900 Has that worked in the past? 00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:07.740 You think they're just leaving us alone? 00:41:07.780 --> 00:41:09.100 You think the devil's going to leave you alone? 00:41:09.200 --> 00:41:11.260 You think evil people are going to leave you alone? 00:41:11.640 --> 00:41:12.440 I don't think so. 00:41:13.720 --> 00:41:15.900 God put us on the earth to be salt and light. 00:41:15.900 --> 00:41:17.700 God put us on the earth to make things better. 00:41:18.279 --> 00:41:21.739 And when men, the only thing was that quote that says, 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:26.019 the only thing necessary for evil to prevail 00:41:26.019 --> 00:41:27.399 is for good men to do nothing. 00:41:29.579 --> 00:41:32.480 We need to have our wits about us and say, 00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:34.000 hey, not on my watch. 00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:35.699 Not on my watch. 00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:37.279 I'll fight for the unborn. 00:41:37.539 --> 00:41:39.879 I'm going to take seriously my responsibility 00:41:39.879 --> 00:41:42.980 to vote no against something like that. 00:41:42.980 --> 00:41:46.579 You can have all kinds of different views on politics, 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:49.699 but I don't know how you have any different view on it when it comes to abortion like that. 00:41:50.539 --> 00:41:51.760 We have a responsibility. 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:53.480 It's been placed there. 00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:54.880 We can't make the laws. 00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:57.219 We can't choose who becomes the candidates. 00:41:57.760 --> 00:41:59.960 We don't get to pick that, but we do get to influence that. 00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:02.280 Do we take that seriously? 00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:07.460 In conclusion, God's wanting us as men to be active, 00:42:07.780 --> 00:42:10.480 to be go-getters, to not be passive, 00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:12.120 to be quick to act, 00:42:12.340 --> 00:42:15.080 always ready for action with no hesitation. 00:42:15.240 --> 00:42:16.640 In other words, being alert and aware. 00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:18.820 Running to, not from, 00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:22.220 specifically running towards what the flesh wants to avoid. 00:42:23.120 --> 00:42:25.540 Trying new things, taking courage and risk, 00:42:25.620 --> 00:42:26.760 being free to lose, 00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:29.000 getting out of our comfort zone, 00:42:29.660 --> 00:42:32.280 always growing, maturing, and improving, 00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:34.000 not afraid to fail. 00:42:34.940 --> 00:42:37.540 Winston Churchill has been ascribed as saying, 00:42:37.640 --> 00:42:41.380 success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. 00:42:43.340 --> 00:42:45.140 We just say, I'm not going to give up. 00:42:45.260 --> 00:42:46.000 I'm going to keep going. 00:42:46.720 --> 00:42:49.380 Men, we need to make war against our passivity. 00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:51.380 If there's any areas of passivity in you, 00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:54.440 it's one thing when you're in a larger church, 00:42:54.540 --> 00:42:55.600 you don't feel it as much. 00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:56.699 In a smaller church, 00:42:56.960 --> 00:42:59.000 every act of our passivity as men, 00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:00.460 we all feel more. 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:03.119 The other men feel it. 00:43:03.199 --> 00:43:03.960 The women feel it. 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:04.839 The kids feel it. 00:43:05.299 --> 00:43:07.000 We feel it because there's no hiding it. 00:43:08.179 --> 00:43:09.299 There's no hiding it. 00:43:10.819 --> 00:43:12.460 If we're not doing a good job leading, 00:43:12.980 --> 00:43:13.900 we're all going to feel it. 00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:16.139 If we're not doing a good job in our family, 00:43:16.460 --> 00:43:17.639 we're all going to feel it. 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:21.199 If we're laxing in our personal lives, 00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:22.599 we're all going to feel it. 00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:24.480 You can't hide from it. 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:25.860 And wherever you go, 00:43:25.940 --> 00:43:26.559 there you are. 00:43:28.240 --> 00:43:29.280 And wherever we go, 00:43:29.579 --> 00:43:30.840 it's this small band of people. 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:31.519 There we are. 00:43:32.219 --> 00:43:33.320 There's not a whole lot of other people. 00:43:33.420 --> 00:43:35.579 So we can't afford passivity in these areas. 00:43:36.179 --> 00:43:36.579 As men, 00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:37.199 we have to be, 00:43:37.699 --> 00:43:39.719 we have to take this dominion mandate seriously 00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:40.240 and say, 00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:42.199 I'm going to war against male passivity 00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:44.639 and take dominion over the specific gardens of my life. 00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:46.599 I'm going to target specific ones. 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:48.039 And the other men in your life 00:43:48.039 --> 00:43:49.519 should know what they are 00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:51.099 so they can hold you accountable to it. 00:43:51.099 --> 00:43:52.759 Where's the areas where you're targeting? 00:43:52.980 --> 00:43:54.480 Where's the areas where you're making war? 00:43:56.880 --> 00:43:59.119 We need to fill the earth with children and disciples 00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:00.920 and subdue it for the kingdom of God. 00:44:02.059 --> 00:44:03.739 Fill it with children and disciples 00:44:03.739 --> 00:44:05.279 and subdue it for the kingdom of God. 00:44:05.500 --> 00:44:06.639 That's what we're called to do. 00:44:07.860 --> 00:44:10.579 Doing a good job with these little ones 00:44:10.579 --> 00:44:12.440 and creating more of those. 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:13.679 Okay? 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:15.139 We're filling the earth with those. 00:44:15.179 --> 00:44:15.900 That's a good thing. 00:44:15.900 --> 00:44:18.720 But it's not just filling the earth with kids. 00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:20.079 It's filling the earth with disciples. 00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:22.119 If your kids aren't disciples of Jesus, 00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:24.180 there's no merit in just making more of them. 00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:26.340 Does that make sense? 00:44:26.820 --> 00:44:29.039 We have to be responsible with what God's given us. 00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:31.119 And we need to teach our kids 00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:32.240 and raise up our kids 00:44:32.240 --> 00:44:34.119 that we're a disciple-making family. 00:44:34.579 --> 00:44:35.960 We live to make disciples 00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:37.340 not just in our family, 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:38.480 but outside of our family. 00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:39.599 Amen? 00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:39.740 Amen.