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So pervasive now is the generation long open rebellion against God and His Word, the concept of authority is breaking down in our nation with the predictable rise in lawlessness. As the Lord leads me to point out in this edited 2012 Commentary, authority cannot just be eliminated since it originates with the Father and flows out from Him in delegation. In 1 Corinthians 11:3, the apostle Paul declares the divine order for all generations of this mortal age.1 Over nearly forty-one years as a Christian I have heard much teaching and seen enough evidence to conclude that even among professing Christians and their churches God’s order is being cast aside in sync with the world’s rebellion leading to great dysfunction, chaos and ruin especially among families.
Originally Published January 2012
Amid the many spiritually adulterous acts of a growing number of male pastors and teachers in the churches today is rejecting the authority God gave men as the ruling heads of their families. This is not being done because some heretofore-unknown passage of Scripture has come to light or Christ Himself has spoken to any from glory. No, in fact, Scripture is willfully corrupted to bring the teaching of churches into line with the rebel thinking and attitudes of this satanically controlled world system (Psalm 2:1-3). And what is the payoff for this corruption? Success of some kind as it has always been (Luke 4:5-8). For these men it is big and/or full churches, money, power and mortal glory.
Many of these compromising pastors and teachers are convinced that the world's redefined view of men, women and the family is superior to what God instructs in His Word. They also apologize for the fact that men were ever portrayed in the Bible as authority figures in any capacity, but especially over women since this is offensive to them. Hypocritical of all and confusing is to declare that men are to lead their families, but not be considered a boss (an authority figure). This teaching works fine for the feminists that fill churches today, but it wickedly assails the Persons and Word of God while doing nothing to help men really understand their responsibilities as rulers. For if being a boss is evil, what of the Father in Heaven, Jesus as Lord and all the bosses in the world?2
In my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics,3 God is exalted from the Bible as the supreme authority in all of existence (Deuteronomy 4:39, 10:14, 17; Psalm 93:1-2; Isaiah 48:12-13; Daniel 4:1-3, 17). God rules and all other authority is given from God (Romans 13:1)! Within the triunity of God, the Father is Head over His forever family and above all though in concert with divine plans revealed in these last days, He has made the Son, Jesus Christ, Lord (1 Corinthians 8:5-6, 15:20-28; Ephesians 3:14-15, 4:4-6)! Shortly after His bodily resurrection, Christ declared to His awestruck disciples, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth," (Matthew 28:18, NKJV).
We all that love the Lord are waiting for His return to earth in order to rule over it as King! This He will do as the second Adam--the unique God-Man. In so doing, He begins to fulfill the destiny originally given to the first Adam who fell. Adam was to rule over the entire earth in the image and likeness of God and with His delegated authority (Genesis 1:26). In wiring the man physically to rule, God even gave him a deep, commanding voice like His own (Psalm 29:3-4). Under God and with God, a perfect Adam would learn to rule in the excellencies of the nature, character and demeanor of his Creator. However, his willful rebellion corrupted his nature and as history shows, man's ability to rule like God.
Now, Christ has come and shown us the proper way to walk in the delegated authority God has given first to men in this age and eventually all redeemed humanity as we reign with Him in immortal glory for ages to come!4 Indeed, the destiny of born again Christians is to rule with Christ over all the works of God's hands, but not yet (Hebrews 2:5-9). Thus, if men having rule and authority is evil, what is this destiny of doing so with Christ that God has specially prepared for us, His sons (Romans 8:14-25; Revelation 1:3-8, 5:9-10, 20:6)?5 Has God done evil or made a mistake? You are out of your minds that think so condemning yourselves and the women you supposedly care about!
In this present age of mortality, God ordained not only that man should rule the earth, but also orderly multiply and fill it through procreation. Women and marriage are of God's purposeful creation to bring this about (Genesis 1:27-28, 2:18-24). The Father gave order to the marital relationship and men the responsibility to rule over their wives and families in the likeness of His own Headship. This is initially shown by God's deliberate act to create the man first (Genesis 2:7; 1 Timothy 2:12-13). After her evil usurpation and the fall, God directly and clearly instructs the woman she is to be ruled over by her husband in His delegated authority (Genesis 3:16b; Ephesians 5:22-24; 1 Peter 3:1-6).
Let the truth be told. Feminist women hate that men have authority over them from God for the same reason all of us sinners hate authority at all: we are rebels! Yes, sinful men have abused their authority and acted wickedly toward women (and each other) from the fall. However, man's sin does not invalidate God's order and design of men, women, their roles and responsibilities before Him (Romans 13:2). Instead of trashing God and His Word in pandering after women, our compromising pastors and teachers should be seeking men, then teaching both genders respectively how to be strong men and great women of God in the image of Christ! The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
1 See the July 27, 2014 post, God Of Order under the category, Instruction.
2 Amazingly, these same pastors and teachers that would diminish a man’s standing as the boss of his house, will even in some way harm those they consider are
threatening or usurping their tyrannical rule in their churches where ostensibly Jesus is the Boss and they only stewards under Him! Typically though, the Lord
of His Church has no right now or through His written Word say in such churches and is actually only welcome in Name only.
3 The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics is available through all major internet booksellers, by order from your favorite brick and mortar bookstore and in the
Strong Man Store.
4 Explore the staggering implications of death’s end and immortality in the aftermath of Christ’s resurrection in a four message Strong Man Of God Audio Series,
Christ’s Resurrection, Death’s End available exclusively in the Strong Man Store.
5 For those that insist femininity will be retained intact after the resurrection and metamorphosis to immortal glory consider this. Scripture does not use any feminine
language to describe the future reign and service of the saints. They are described as “kings and priests,” (Revelation 1:6, 5:10, 20:6, NKJV). Females are not
separated out to be called queens and priestesses. There can be only one plausible reason for this: the Holy Spirit led the New Testament writers to speak of fu-
ture reality as it will be in that Day. Thus, the resurrection and metamorphosis to immortal glory is going to be radical for mortal female Christians since Scripture
declares the sons of God in the image of Christ will be kings and priests to Him! Read my two part post, The Body Beautiful beginning May 18, 2014 and other
posts in June and July 2016 addressing immortality under the category, God’s Creatures.
It is said of Jesus Christ, He was “born to die.” Consider that as a man’s life ambition for a moment. No, we cannot even fathom such a thing since most of us spend our lives doing everything possible to stave off the inevitable. However, the Son of God and Man came into the world with the express ambition to secure salvation for fallen mankind by the only means possible: the shedding of His own sinless blood culminating in death (Mark 10:45, 14:32-42; Luke 24:44-47; Hebrews 9:11-22). As this edited 2011 Commentary shows, ambition is of God and can drive men in noble and ignoble activities. Marginalizing men demoralizes them and chokes off their natural ambition.
Originally Published December 2011
Tied directly to visionary leadership is the necessary drive to fulfill what has been envisioned. This drive is called ambition. Without this drive no man would have ever set out to achieve or accomplish anything. The so-called advance of civilization never would have occurred nor buildings that touch the clouds, sports records, great musical compositions, technological breakthroughs or sea voyages to the earth's edge. Ambition is the natural companion to visionary leadership and like it, is another of the transmittable attributes of God imparted to man made in the divine image and likeness. Therefore, of itself, ambition is not evil. Men on the sidelines stifle human achievement.
As it originates in God, ambition is a marvelous quality of the divine nature. Indeed, not only does God envision the thing to be done, but He also exerts the drive and power to make it happen! In the case of the universe, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands,” (Psalm 19:1, NIV). The perfect ambition of God acted to bring forth the physical creation with a joyful ultimate purpose: the creation also of His image bearer, man. Even when it appeared that this act of love was a bust because of man's sin in the garden, God announced His plan to help him (Genesis 3:15). From the Seed of the woman would come hope and deliverance.
Package it any other way you want to, Christmas for Christians celebrates the unbridled ambition of God Almighty to save the creature of His love. For this plan of His was not hatched in a “fly by the seat of the pants” moment of inspiration when His creature fell. But He foreknew man's failure and planned from eternity to send His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to be our Savior and Champion (Matthew 1:18-21; 1 Peter 1:20-21)! Seven centuries before His birth the prophet Isaiah ended an inspired utterance announcing it saying, "The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this," (Isaiah 9:6-7, NKJV). What is the Lord's zeal but His passionate ambition for His causes?
What is the joy of the mother of Jesus, a virgin that miraculously carried Him in her womb if not at the ambition of God fulfilled in her centuries after the promise (Luke 1:46-55)? What is the joy of the angels if not at seeing the unshakable will and ambition of God to save lowly mankind take another step closer to realization (Luke 2:8-14)? Moreover, what is this ambition in the Son of God to serve His Father as a youth (Luke 2:41-52); this Son of Man too who upon reaching the prime of adulthood, began His fulltime service to God? His genealogy through His mother goes back to the first man and historically demonstrates the longsuffering ambition of God to save (Luke 3:23-38)!
"Like father, like son," the saying goes. Thus, Jesus Christ spent the next three and one half years of His life consumed with the ambition to please His Father and do His will which preeminently involved the salvation of lost mankind (Luke 19:9-10; John 6:38-40). In His ambitious warfare and work He victoriously contended with "that serpent of old" for the liberation of His people from prisons of darkness, torments and afflictions of every kind including death. In the process, He fulfilled His personal ambition born of love for His Father to seek His glory (John 8:48-50, 12:27-28, 15:8, 17:4). Finally, in His death on the cross He completed His ambition and mission to save (John 19:30)!
The excellent divine virtue of ambition is nearly impossible to see in its purity in fallen men. Influenced by sin and often deceived by Satan, fallen men dream dreams and pursue them with the most selfish of motives. Truly, what evil men in their selfish ambitions will not do even persecuting the righteous (John 11:45-53; James 5:1-6). The chief end of ambition in sinful men is personal pride of achievement and glory from other men. This is true too for no small number of those professing to be Christians and working in ministry. The aspiring strong man of God in the image of Christ takes to heart the apostle Paul's instruction to do nothing out of selfish ambition, but all for the glory of God (2 Corinthians 10:17-18; Philippians 2:3-11). Such men give us our fleeting look at noble ambition.1
Nevertheless, men sidelined because their historical visionary leadership and ambition are no longer valued is leaving its mark. Many decry the loss of American ingenuity that once dreamed never before imagined inventions, built companies to produce them and created jobs. The News is filled with stories of suffering families and disillusioned, out of work men. Many churches have few men and a number of them suffer the inability to fulfill their divine design because of oppression by threatened leaders that pander to the women. Like a bizarre nightmare, the very group that claims to know God cooperates with the world in deconstructing men as He designed (1 Timothy 4:1-2). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
1 Learn more about the aspiring strong man of God by getting a copy of my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics. It is available through all major internet
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