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In a recent radio interview discussing my book, one of the hosts and sister in Christ shared that from her experience, most women--Christian or not--want a strong man. While this may be true, contemporary feminist ideology--which at its core seeks for a separate and independent identity from men in what is called “equality”--sabotages this aspiration more so than any failures men may have that do so. Truly, there is nothing innately wrong with men that God through the Gospel of Jesus Christ and power of the Holy Spirit cannot fix. However, willful rebellion against God’s order by women that are guilty including those professing to be Christians exacerbates the problems men in sin weakness have and provokes the wrath of God against them as rebels.
As the Lord led, I wrote about the issue of re-defining men, women, their roles and responsibilities that coincides with what is also being done with sin in the second chapter of The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics. As is plainly shown in His Word, God did not create two heads in the order of the human family. Indeed, as I have taught over the years, we instinctively understand a two headed anything is not natural or normal. God created the man first and brought forth the woman second from out of him specifically to be his companion and helper (Genesis 2:7, 18-25). She was fully equal to him in person, but God gave the couple different roles and responsibilities that are also plainly seen in their bodies.
The man was to be the head over his wife and chief leader in the family. This was not about inequality, but divine will and order for humanity; order that is everywhere apparent within the family of God, Heaven and its ranks of angelic majesties, the cosmos and every kind of display of life on planet earth. Truly, God is One (communicating absolute unity and equality of Person) and yet, within the triunity of God, the Father is the Head, Christ the Word is the Son and the third Person is the Holy Spirit ready to do the will of the Father and Son (Genesis 1:1-3; Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 3:13-17; 28:19; John 1:1-5, 14-18, 14:28, 15:26). Read my July 27, 2014 blog, God Of Order under the category, Instruction to learn more about the divine display of and commitment to order.
So, men are to be the heads over their wives by the express will of God in consistency with the divine order in which the woman came from the man for him, but since then, both are dependent on the other in the Lord’s continuing program of marriage and procreation (1 Corinthians 11:3, 8-12). Understanding from the Holy Spirit the surpassing greatness and blessing of God’s order of marriage framed within the Christian faith, the great apostle Paul purposely taught it to first century Christians (Ephesians 5:22-24; Colossians 3:18; Titus 2:1-5). With consistency, he also taught how God’s order of marriage in male and female roles and responsibilities were to be carried out in all of the churches largely made up of Gentiles since the Jews already knew from the mosaic law and had been obedient since Abraham’s day (Genesis 3:16b; 1 Corinthians 14:33-40; 1 Timothy 2:11-15; 1 Peter 3:1-6).
Yes, in general historically, men have blown it big time as it concerns being the kind of ruler God designed after the image and likeness of God and perfectly modeled by our Lord Jesus Christ (Genesis 1:26; Ephesians 5:25-33; Colossians 3:19; 1 Peter 3:7). I own this truth in the book and apologize to my sisters for it. However, I also say the failure of men does not warrant a full on rebellion against God by women in these latter days since the failure of men is due entirely to the fall and sin as an indwelling reality going forward. Though because of his status before God as the head, Adam’s disobedience condemned the race (Romans 5:12), nevertheless, it was Eve who led the way as the first human sinner (Genesis 3:6; 1 Timothy 2:14).
Now, today, will the women who are guilty as Eve’s daughters also lead a rebellion against God’s order and expect that their sin will set everything right? Apparently they think so since the rebellion is in progress and has been growing for a generation. At this point, as the Lord leads, I especially speak from the heart to the women of my own race and people. I know so many of you have had to step in to fill the void left by missing men since slavery and not all from the demoralization of our experience that affected those without Christ the most. Some were irresponsible as men weak in sin then, as the many are today. By default and for your children, you had to become the head of the family as Deborah also had to save Israel when the men were weak before God (Judges 4:4-22).
We who are learning the way of the strong man of God in the image of Jesus Christ understand from the foregoing that we owe you a great debt of gratitude. But if in these latter days a significant number of us will successfully rise up from the dead of sin weakness into the restoration of strength through Christ to become strong men of God in His image, those of our sisters who are guilty must repent from the pride of feminism and relinquish your grip on headship to return to honoring God’s order in the home and churches as it is written in His Word! Two independent heads of the house sounds good to the rebel heart, but in practical application engenders conflict and blocks a man from becoming strong in his role and responsibility to lead as God has hard wired into his existence and is revived in the strong man of God message and cause.
Too, as is well known, what is being done right now in rebellion is not working to facilitate intact families. The high levels of single females who feel obliged to be sexually promiscuous and enable male irresponsibility by financially supporting them to attract their interest, domestic violence, divorce, shacking and single female headed households (many with children from different absent fathers) amply demonstrates the truth. If women of the world will not return to God’s program, then, surely those professing to be Christians should though some of my strongest opposition to restoring men over the years has come from this group because they do not want to abandon their selfish ambitions for position, power and recognition in the churches inspired by the flesh and feminism not God! Let all unrepentant rebel females be warned that since God shows no partiality, they equally face His wrath with guilty males (Romans 2:1-11).
So, how can willing professed Christian women who are guilty return to God’s program and help restore men as aspiring strong men of God in the image of Christ? The first step always where sin is involved is to confess and repent from it before God. Second, accept the fact God is the Author of the roles and responsibilities of men written in His Word not mortal flesh and submit to Him. Third, if relinquishing the authority of headship is a problem for you, in your fresh submission to God ask for the heart of John the Baptist who as the Lord Jesus greater in role and responsibility came on the scene said, ‘“He must increase, but I must decrease,’” (John 3:30, NKJV). John understood and accepted his role in God’s program (John 3:22-36). So should every aspiring great woman of God in the image of Christ today as divinely appointed helpers and spiritual descendants of those from ancient times recorded in the Bible and history that God may be glorified in you!
The world has come upon what it believes is a stroke of genius: re-define sin in such a way that it is no longer evil or wrong. So, now, a woman not submitting to the headship of her husband is right because they are equal, same sex marriage is good because love is all that really matters and legalized vices such as gambling and dope smoking are positive because they fill state coffers with revenue beneficial to all. Many professing Christians and their leaders in the churches are aiding and abetting the world’s re-defining of sin and not to be outdone, coming up with some of their own sterling examples of the wicked practice. God is not pleased and will soon have the last Word!
From a local Protestant pastor near you to the current Pope in Rome, what in God’s Word has for millennia been certain sin is not any longer. In many Western Protestant churches not only does today’s Christian woman not have to view herself as created to be her husband’s helper (Genesis 2:18-24), but she is now liberated to such an extent, it is right for her to lead him after God told Eve not so (Genesis 3:6, 16b). This break with the divine order is then taken to its next logical step and women contrary to God’s Word, are urged to take full authority over their husbands and other men as pastors, teachers, worship and ministry leaders (1 Corinthians 14:33-40; 1 Timothy 2:11-15).
It is globally known Rome’s Pope Francis recently questioned his right to judge the relationship between same sex persons. While none of us has the right to condemn the sexually immoral, God has already done so and left us the basis of His judgment in His written Word (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13; John 3:17-20; Romans 1:18-32; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10). The Pope and many other contemporary professing Christian pastors and leaders claim they are seeking to show the compassionate face of Christianity and move away from the world’s perception of Christians as being judgmental. Funny, our Lord accomplished this without ever once making light of or re-defining sin (John 4:5-18, 8:1-12)!
Of course, if you cannot get around the towering declaration of what sin is in the Bible, just set that aside too. Call the Bible antiquated and out of step with an enlightened age. While they were not as hostile about it as many in and outside of the churches today, Israel’s 1st century religious leaders in transgression replaced God’s Word with their own teaching to suit their purposes. Matthew 15:1-9 records how the Lord Jesus upbraided them for canceling out the clear command of God for children to honor their parents--including financially supporting them in old age--by inventing a doctrine by which that support was ostensibly given to God. However, it was the religious leaders that really profited.
In the same way, while there may some that are truly confused or misguided about how to show compassion to the sinner without condoning his sin, many Christian leaders are not really as interested in compassion when they re-define sin as they are members and the accompanying income they need for dying churches! Jesus called Israel’s religious leaders “hypocrites!” Without a doubt, He renders the same judgment on the Christian leaders that are guilty of setting aside His Word to re-define sin to suit their own purposes too. He goes on to quote Isaiah: ‘‘“These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men,”’’ (Matthew 15:7-9, NKJV).
Christianity the religion of men is built on human commandment and religiosity undergirded by the corruption of God’s Word which originated among the Gentiles in the second century, reached its peak at Rome and now after a noble but failed reformation attempt, is disseminated among her harlot daughters disbursed across the earth! However, God, the eternally living, immutable God has not changed nor will He ever change the definition of sin (Isaiah 40:8; Malachi 3:6; Matthew 5:17-20, 24:35; Hebrews 13:8)! Forever, sin is what God says it is! Indeed, so comprehensive is His concept of sin, the men He used to write the Old Testament alternately used three different words to communicate it.
In general, sin is to miss the mark of God’s standard of perfection. To transgress is to defiantly violate the commandments and laws of God as a rebel. Iniquity is to willfully pervert the straight ways of God such as the sexually immoral do. As king David celebrated though, God is willing to fully forgive sinners, transgressors and those who practice iniquity if they will but own their stuff to Him in confession with all repentance; looking now by faith to the Gospel of Jesus Christ who died on the cross to take on Himself the punishment we all deserved and raised for the eternal glory of those “who believe to the saving of the soul,” (Psalm 32:1-5; John 1:29, 3:16, 12:32-33; 1 Timothy 1:12-17, 2:5-6; Hebrews 5:8-9, 10:35-39, NKJV)! Therefore, for all that are re-defining sin to “call evil good” in these latter days (Isaiah 5:20, NKJV), you are in grave peril.
Know that if sin remains defined by God as it always has been from the first sinner and as plainly stated in His Word, then the consequences He has already announced remain the same too (Ezekiel 28:11-19; John 12:27-31; Revelation 20:7-15). And since it is foretold in these latter days that God will allow the wickedness of the wicked to harden in place--which has already begun or what is this unrelenting push in Western nations to legalize sin?--to the point they even resist repentance in the face of His very clear works of judgment and wrath (Revelation 8:1-9:21, 16:1-11), He calls you to repent and be saved now (John 12:44-50; 2 Corinthians 6:1-2)!
Likewise, all who profess to be Christians, but are re-defining sin among other wicked deeds: unless you repent with the heavy heart of Ezra the priest in the day he found out fellow spiritual and other male leaders of the returned exiles had transgressed God’s Law, you will be destroyed by Him in the judgment and coming destroying judgment foretold for Christianity the religion of men (Ezra 9:1-10:1; Psalm 1; Revelation 14:8, 17:1-19:4). Let every aspiring strong man and great woman of God in the image of Christ remain faithful to His Word and what it says about sin as it is written! The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”
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