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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.
From the 1st century until now, not only have sinful men as shepherds pursued their selfish ambitions and led God’s sheep quite unlike Christ, the Chief Shepherd, but they have also from many ego needs and character flaws sought for authority in and among the churches. What is the apostle Paul’s conflict with would be apostles about in the 1st century church at Corinth he had established, if it is not their challenge to and pursuit of the authority he exercised within it (2 Corinthians 10:1-13:10)? Today, for the same cause many pastors and others in the churches of Christianity the religion proudly exalt themselves over one another with educational accomplishments and titles.
The Lord’s gracious provision of spiritual gifts to carry out His will have been largely set aside for academic credentials among these churches. Select gifts such as pastor and teacher have been turned into titles of authority and status that are more important to the religious in the sinful flesh than God’s supernatural power at work empowering ministries of function in the Body of Christ. This, of course, is contrary to biblical instruction and dangerously infringes on God’s glory which the religious educated elite could care less about since they seek their own among themselves (Isaiah 42:8; Mark 10:35-45; Romans 12:3-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-26; 2 Corinthians 10:12-18).
Among those acknowledging spiritual gifts, men that crave for authority give themselves the title “apostle,” but do nothing like the missionary work of the original apostles sent for that purpose (for whom there are no duplicates) and those that came after such as Timothy in the New Testament. In accord with God’s will in providing spiritual gifts, there is a ranking of authority beginning with the original apostles sent out to us as the feet of Christ’s Body through whom we all have received the proclamation and instruction embodied in the Scriptures to which we are to submit. These are followed by prophets, teachers, all other leadership, sign and service gifts to be exercised in the power and love of God, not self-exaltation in the flesh (1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13; Ephesians 4:7-11).
These same men also clamor to be called “bishop” coveting authority over what has come to be defined as a group of pastors and churches in mimicking not the Bible, but the order of great Babylon that is marked out for destruction! It is in this larger context of pursuing authority that many also seek man invented credentials. Some even get “pay for paper” degrees to be able to boast of their academic credentials and in pride gain the authority and status they desire. But as the Lord leads me to write in this re-titled 2012 blog repost, credentials are no affirmative declaration of righteousness or wisdom in His sight; His judgment is coming equally upon those with and without humanly bestowed religious credentials among the churches who have been unfaithful to His Word. Therefore, the guilty are called to repent!
Originally Posted March 18, 2012
Western Protestant churches especially have allowed themselves in large numbers to come full circle from the Reformation that birthed them over 500 years ago and thus, to be overcome by a credentialed, professional class of elite, religious authority figures. Such a class in Judeo-Christian history goes back to the Scribes and Pharisees that fully resisted the Lord Jesus and was already developing among the Gentile dominated churches by the end of the 1st century.
The formally educated teachers, bishops and eventually priests that evolved over the next 1,400 years before the Reformation sparked by the former Catholic priest, Martin Luther, came to wield and abuse biblically unsanctioned authority over the lives of their religious congregants. Today, churches in pride even seek out highly educated pastors and defer to scholars to the point that many are afraid to trust the teaching work of the Holy Spirit in them as they study God’s Word (John 14:26, 16:12-15; 1 Corinthians 2:1-16). Whole denominations and sects in the thousands have come to exist in Protestantism because some credentialed pastor or scholar forced their heretically corrupt view or patchwork system of thinking on biblically illiterate people.
Please do not misunderstand. I am not anti-education being a seminary graduate myself. With the right motives and guidance of the Holy Spirit, gifted, called and educationally equipped men serve the biblical cause of Christ and His Body (Ephesians 4:7-16). However, I am against the arrogance, unbiblical authority, unchecked dominance and even idol worship given to many of those among the churches that have impeccable credentials from institutions prideful men in the flesh consider noteworthy. I also believe my concern is biblical and of the Lord given His dealings with the well credentialed religious leaders that dogged His ministry and instigated His crucifixion.
The Lord never condemned the credentials of His antagonists, but clearly called them to display the righteous knowledge and wisdom those credentials suggested they had (Matthew 15:1-9). It is because their deeds were corrupt (religious education is no restrainer of sin), he condemned them (Matthew 15:10-14; Mark 12:38-40). In my book, The Strong Man Of God, I challenge men to be Spirit-led students of the Word that they may wisely lead their families in and teach the righteous way of God as well as protect them from the spiritual tyranny that exists in the world and too many churches led by highly credentialed, but corrupt leaders. They are also unmistakably recognized even by the credentialed, religious elite as men who have been with Jesus (Acts 4:5-13).
The historic value of men as intentionally designed by God to the world is such that on the authority of His Word I have declared it along with guilty professed Christians and churches following suit as foolish for marginalizing them! Truly, nowhere is this foolishness more plainly seen than in the sinful re-defining of men in their roles and responsibilities as husbands and fathers in the divinely ordained, foundational family unit. In marginalizing and re-defining men as I write in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics, the world is sowing the seeds of its own destruction as in the mix of negative consequences, families--the basic building blocks of societies--are being devastated.1
The value of men to families in their God designed temporary (due to death) roles and responsibilities as husbands and fathers in this present age are absolutely critical to their creation, effective functioning and wellbeing. The first man had God bring him the first woman and his wife (Genesis 2:18-23). After this, in God’s perfect will a man has typically taken the initiative to leave out from his parent’s household to find a wife, unite to her in marriage and create a new household (Genesis 2:24). Men alone have been equipped by God in their bodies with the seed necessary to initiate new human life and follow the first man in doing so with his wife (Genesis 4:1-2, 25-5:5).
By God’s express design, order and purposes of mankind men are His elect heads of their families. This is shown by Adam being created first, the command God gave Eve after she sinned in usurping her husband’s headship and His rebuke of Adam for following his wife’s lead while judging him (Genesis 2:7, 3:1-6, 16-17; 1 Timothy 2:12-14). The authority and responsibilities of headship in the family have been exercised with only occasional historic challenge until these latter days of all out rebellion against it (Esther 1; Psalm 2:1-3)! Even many Christians seek to dilute the headship God has given men not believing abusers will give an account to Christ, their Head (1 Corinthians 11:3).
In God’s design of the human family reflecting His own, the effective functioning of it requires the leadership and management of a chief authority. In the God Family where all three Persons that have eternally made it up are equally God, nevertheless, the Chief Authority is the Father (Luke 3:21-22; John 3:35, 10:30-33, 14:7-28). So, in the human family while each person of the unit is equal in person, the husband and father has been assigned chief ruling authority as the head by God! And though the family rule of men corrupted by sin has been less than perfect, nowhere in Scripture does God diminish or revoke their chief authority assignment.
Indeed, the divine expectation of the family rule and stewardship of men is maintained by speaking of them first in the fifth of the Ten Commandments and addressing them as the first audience throughout the pages of Scripture (Exodus 20:12; Acts 1:15-16; 1 Corinthians 10:1)! The chief ruling experience of men in their families has also been transferrable and beneficial to human social units beyond it to include the Lord’s Church on earth (Exodus 18:13-27; Acts 15:1-22). Besides ruling authority, God expects men to give visionary leadership to their families ideally listening to Him for the best outcomes (Genesis 11:27-12:9; Matthew 1:18-25).
God has assigned men three other equally important roles and responsibilities He holds them accountable for. Men have the lead role and responsibility for teaching their families by precept and example (Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Ephesians 6:4). So influential is a man as the lead teacher, his family is instructed even by his failure to teach because they watch him! Men are most known historically for and relied on as material providers for their families as another important role and responsibility (1 Timothy 5:8). Finally, men are also assigned by God to protect their families from spiritual and physical harm though they are most known for their physical protection (Proverbs 6:20-35; Matthew 2:1-18). The value of men to families in God’s design, order and purposes for mankind is truly great!
However, rejecting God’s design, order and purposes of mankind by marginalizing and re-defining men to fit a rebellious, feminist worldview is not fixing anything, but confusing everything! For example, many sinful men now passively, routinely and irresponsibly allow their wives to be the chief authority, visionary leader, teacher, provider and protector in the family if there is marriage at all. Divorce is common because unless the man does submit to his wife, there is no chief authority, harmony or coherent family vision as each selfishly does as they please. Fatherlessness is rampant as irresponsible men create children, but have no widely accepted moral imperative to father them except by the payment of child support. Anarchy is already underway; social collapse follows!
(Happy Father’s Day to all of the fathers reading this.)
1 The Lord leads me to deal frankly with the world’s confused, 21st century frontal attack on His design of men and the irreparable (in some cases) damage being done to families until the restoration of all things at His coming in chapter two of the book aptly titled, What Is A Man? The book is on sale in the Strong Man Store digitally as an E-Book in two formats and special for Father’s Day, the print Soft Cover Edition with free shipping though June 20th.
It was the fiftieth anniversary of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of San Jose, California I had gone to enjoy in October 2015 as a member from 1980-85. Under the leadership of Dr. Willie T. Gaines as pastor, the church had experienced phenomenal growth and was widely recognized throughout the Southern Baptist Convention. It had encouraged and supported the seminary education of as well as sent out many into the Lord’s work. I was among them and remain grateful. My tears flowed as I reflected back on those days seated among hundreds in the sanctuary for the closeout service after a rousing choir performance and introduction of the speaker.
While I had already come to grips with how much the church had changed since I was a member complete now with a staff of women associate ministers outnumbering the men, I was still surprised by the male speaker’s opening remarks condemning sexists in the church (this was not his topic). The alleged sexists, of course, would be mostly men and preachers like me who hold to God’s program for mankind to include His order of authority in the home and His house as it is written in His Word! Truly, as the church son never invited back to preach or teach for fear biblical truth in love would be declared as it will be in this blog, I marveled at how unabashed the speaker and the church among the many falling away from God’s Word were standing in what is obvious rebellion.
Happy Mother’s Day to all of the faithful Christian women married to male husbands who still appreciate what an awesome blessing God has bestowed upon you through your natural body to conceive and bring forth new human life! On this Mother’s Day 2016, as the Lord leads I want to commend you for submitting to God’s will for you as a female in this present, mortal age. This divine will is clearly seen in your natural body with the roles, corresponding order of authority and responsibilities He has assigned consistently taught throughout the whole Bible and upheld by me in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics. Rightly, with all else the celebration of Mother’s Day is, it is unavoidably also a celebration of God and His handiwork in the natural body of women!
Indeed, proponents of evolution should just give it up because in order to make your theory work with the intricacies involved in the reproduction of all earth’s creatures down to the cellular, you must ascribe to the supposedly non-sentient creation, the attributes of deity which is idolatry. Why foolishly do this when the living God has already revealed Himself to you through billions of proofs in the cosmos and your own natural body (Psalm 14:1; Romans 1:18-25) as well as declared in His Word He is the Creator of all along with man, His chosen ruler over all (Isaiah 40:18-26, 45:12; Hebrews 2:5-8)? As Creator, it is written and confirmed by the Son of God that God made mortal man male and female (Genesis 1:27; Matthew 19:4).
In creating the female gender or sex if you will, God makes human motherhood possible as the first woman’s husband commemorates in the name he gives her (Genesis 3:20). So, now, is God sexist because He is the originator of the physical sexes? Being a mother is the central and noble work of help a woman gives to her husband in God’s purpose of human procreation right down to this hour and the reason He created a female in the first place (Genesis 1:28, 2:18-20; 1 Timothy 2:15). Is God sexist for assigning roles with the corresponding order of authority and responsibilities to His creatures in accord with their sex? Secular atheist feminists boldly say yes on all accounts!
Ah, but the professing Christian accusers of God rightly fearful of His Person, dare not accuse Him directly of being sexist. Instead, they turn their demonically spun accusation on His faithful messengers claiming that in upholding His Word on male and female roles as it is written, we have somehow missed Him or more wickedly, missed their fabricated assertion the immutable God has changed His program from ancient times in favor of this more so-called progressive day. Please; the absurdity of both of these suppositions is beneath the presentation of anyone claiming to intimately know God and fully exposes the demonic origins as foretold of such doctrines in these latter days (1 Timothy 4:1-2).
Either God has established the roles of males and females in their natural bodies with the corresponding order of authority and responsibilities in the home for all mortal time, or He has not. His Word plainly establishes that He has! Therefore, all men or women that are disgruntled about the way they are made have a complaint and are ultimately striving against their Creator in arrogance and rebellion (Isaiah 29:15-16, 45:9-10; Romans 9:20)! For God has established the foundation of male, female, marriage, procreation, family and yes, His order of authority in the home and His house in accord with His sovereign will to bless and give mankind stability quite apart from the growing chaos of rebellion unfolding today.
As it concerns His house--the Church too is the creation of God (Matthew 16:16-18; Ephesians 2:8-22), while the eternally just God calls and gifts women to serve with spiritual gifts, we are taught that those gifts do not dismantle His order of authority from the beginning. Thus, in consistency with God’s order of authority from creation, the apostle Paul instructs the men as leaders and women in the churches in conformity with it (Genesis 3:16; 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, 14:26-40; 1 Timothy 2:11-14). Every soul professing to know and love Christ honors that instruction with obedience (John 14:15, 21, 23; 1 John 2:3-6). Otherwise, your disobedience is understood by Him as nothing but what it is: rebellion which God is already judging in the churches (1 Peter 4:17-18)!
For the record, are there sexist men operating outside of divine instruction to their destruction without repentance? Yes! Sinful males have historically oppressed, mistreated and dealt unfairly with their female counterparts in wages, for example. However, all this truth shows is the equally true reality that the problem is with men as sinners; there is nothing wrong with God’s program and order of authority! God’s remedy in Christ and the Gospel is salvation with heart change. But like Eve in the garden, Satan has deceived even many professing Christian females today into resisting God’s will because they assert, it is unfair to keep them from having something; namely, the same level of authority and responsibility as males in this present, mortal age (Genesis 3:1-6). Truly, this selfish, maniacally defiant and eternally destructive ambition is very familiar (Isaiah 14:12-15).
Neither God nor His faithful preachers are sexists! All women with compliant men making this satanically inspired and worldly aligned accusation have placed themselves in great peril without immediate repentance since you contend with your Creator as a rebel. The world in philosophy guilty professing Christians have forsaken the righteous way in Christ to follow will not be able to deliver you from the Lord’s judgment in progress among the churches or the coming Day of His wrath to put down the rebellion of all rebels, for there is no place for rebels against the divine will in His Kingdom (Psalm 2:4-12; Isaiah 30:1-14; Ezekiel 20:33-38; Matthew 7:21-23; Hebrews 2:1-4, 12:25-29; Revelation 6:12-17)! The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”
My heart has gone and goes out to the young black males especially that believe our people have suffered long enough and that white authority--most outwardly represented by the police--must be stood up to; respect for their black person insisted upon. Tragically, too many in history and our times have not lived to report that this posture turned out positive for him. While saying this is not to commend those that have abused their authority or devalue human dignity, nevertheless, our sons must accept all authority originates from and is granted by God with the expectation it is to be respected. He holds any of us sinful mortals wielding authority accountable (Romans 13:1-7)!
While I humbly confess to still not having mastered the ways of the Lord in this myself, my born again soul assents to them as righteous and what pleases Him. Thus, as it concerns submission to sinful mortal authority for example, as did Christ my Lord and every aspiring strong man of God in His image through history,1 it is done without regarding oneself as inferior or robbed of dignity, but honoring God who ordained authority no matter how inferior in station, ugly in attitude or behavior or unworthy in merit the authority figure(s) or is not Christ the Son of God? Even so, one can speak up calmly to evil in strength under control as Christ also exemplified (Matthew 26:47-56; John 18:1-11).2
Knowing the foregoing, I am all the more appreciative of the black aspiring strong men of God in the image of Christ from slavery that have endured great evil against themselves in conscious humble submission. This space is limited, but as the Lord has led, I am pleased to be able to post this edited 2010 Commentary to at least acknowledge, honor and hold up such men from my community as examples for all of us that must stand for Christ in the current and worsening evil days we live in. As well, I joyfully continue to fulfill the mission of this Ministry’s From Slavery To Victory Education Project in its 25th year!
Originally Published June 2010
On the nineteenth of this month black Americans will celebrate the 145th anniversary of the day Texas slaves heard about Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation some two years earlier on January 1, 1863. For the last sixteen years in another work of our parent Ministry called The From Slavery To Victory Education Project, we have tried to inform especially black Americans of our incredible spiritual legacy created in the caldron of our suffering. The story of aspiring black American strong men of God is not the least portion of that legacy and should be an inspiration to all men, but especially our own sons.
Before just only scratching the surface of the story of aspiring black American strong men of God in the image of Jesus Christ, we must first properly link it to the larger story of all of them God has forged in this New Testament era. Indeed, Jewish men who fifty days earlier had been found huddled together in fear for their lives, stood to face the same crowds that had chanted against their Master, “Crucify Him,” (John 19:5-7, NKJV). In holy fire and languages previously unknown, on the “Day of Pentecost” they with the women present declared “the wonderful works of God” before them (Acts 2:1-13, NKJV). Then, one of the men, Peter, who had even denied three times that he knew his Lord, boldly preached His resurrection from the dead (Acts 2:14-36)!
Empowered with strength from on High, the apostles of Jesus Christ mightily proclaimed the Gospel about Him throughout the Roman Empire. They did so with a relentless passion to please God and do His will regardless of the cost. History and tradition tell us most of these men paid for their zeal with their lives! In fact, the first place to look for evidence of aspiring strong men of God throughout this New Testament era is the trail of blood left by the martyrs. While not every aspiring strong man of God since the 1st century has been a martyr, all would have suffered in some measure as part of His overarching purpose to conform them to the image of Christ (Romans 8:29; Hebrews 5:8-9, 12:1-11; 1 Peter 2:18-25).
God in His sovereignty chose to shape willing men taken from the tribes of West Africa into the image of His Son through the refining fire of slavery and bitter trials. In the New World far from their land of origin, He humbled proud black men through forced labor (Psalm 107:10-16). Those that called to Him for deliverance had their souls saved and gratefully waited in hope for Him to unshackle their bodies as it occurred first at the end of the Civil War, then finally, among Texas slaves. But their trials continued. They were severely tried through Jim Crow segregation, racially motivated discrimination and other oppressive acts of terror and murder through the mid-20th century.
At that time, in the spirit of European church reformers from centuries past, black churchmen and supporting godly women led by men like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rose up to peacefully protest our nation's comfortable mistreatment of its black citizens. They suffered arrest, violent opposition and even martyrdom as they marched to highlight and seek relief from America's legally sanctioned oppression of blacks. The walls of oppression began to tumble one by one as the nation's conscience could no longer bear to see the morally indefensible mistreatment of its citizens due exclusively to the color of their skin and the hate filled, ugly side of violently enforcing it.
The names of the Christian black men from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement that willfully chose to suffer in order to please God and do His will while waiting on His intervention are many and not widely known. The few that are well known such as Booker T. Washington, also made peaceful assaults on the status quo by working to improve the lot of their people through education and enterprise. A great number wore "Reverend" in front of their names such as Aaron Johnson of North Carolina and John Perkins of Mississippi. Today, in sports, Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith stand out as longsuffering victors in Christ. All of these Christian black men are inspiring role models for any man that will aspire to be a strong man of God in the image of Jesus Christ!
1 To learn more about what is involved in becoming a strong man of God in the image of Jesus Christ, get a print copy or digital download of my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics, at major internet booksellers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, ChristianBooks.com and Apple (digital only). You can also get the book in either format in the Strong Man Store.
2 The four Gospels of the New Testament clearly show that while being direct, penetrating, truthful and prophetic, the Lord Jesus never insulted, cursed angrily at or
threatened those that arrested, falsely accused, tried and carried out His crucifixion. Also, His words became fewer and expressed concern for others as He made His
way to the cross in total submission to His Father’s will (Matthew 26:36-46; Luke 23:26-43; John 19:25-27). Foretelling His disciples would face similar circumstances,
He gave instructions right down to words to speak that emulated how He handled His experience (Mark 13:11-13).
As I concluded in an October 2020 post, it is only fitting that females embracing worldly feminism taught by demons in these “latter times” as foretold should be part of the multi-faceted rebellion against God and His Anointed, the Lord Jesus Christ (Psalm 2:1-3; Acts 4:23-28; 1 Timothy 4:1, NKJV).1 Indeed, the rebellion against God in all of its forms is a manifest sign of the world now, being fully in its latter times just before His return as He has led me to assert in many posts from Bible prophecy.2 Worldly feminists in their rebellion against God and His Anointed are focused on undoing His purposeful and perfect design of the order, roles and responsibilities of mankind.
In rebelling against God’s assignment of male authority through the husband-father in His design of family order particularly, feminists seek to overthrow it and re-structure the family after their own design. In their design rooted in their rebel vision of equality, there are impossibly two family heads, no head and an equal sharing of authority or the acceptance of females just as capable to lead--a reality in many homes by deliberate male default to avoid drama or acquiescence in spiritual ignorance and/or weakness. Not only has this rebel vision of family authority impacted marriages, but it has left the children confused especially about their very important relationship with their fathers.
While in His design as the Lord has led me to write in other places, fathers teach the whole family His Word generally and their sons specifically about biblical manhood,3 they also have important teaching as well as leading, providing and protecting responsibilities to their not of age and single daughters at home. Full disclosure here for me in that much of what I am about to write I have learned after my daughters in a blended family became adults. I wish I had exercised the knowledge I did have more wisely in their youth with that which I have gained since. And of course, back then, I completely underestimated the extent to which feminism would consistently undercut my efforts.4
Worldly feminism has purposely set daughters against their fathers as in no other time in the history of mankind! In the short span of the mid-1960s until now, many females urged through feminism to resist male authority have also been rebelling against their father’s God assigned family headship over them up to the time of marriage (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:3-6). Godly fathers exercised authority over and taught daughters to value themselves and their bodies by staying virgins until given to husbands with their permission (Genesis 24:10-51; 1 Corinthians 7:34-38). They also provided for and protected them from lust driven, sex seeking males like me as an unsaved teenager.
The value of a female virgin was such that male family members would kill a man that soiled their sister who as today, were often traumatized (Genesis 34; 2 Samuel 13:1-33). God’s laws to Israel also reflected the female virgin’s value (Exodus 22:16-17). In my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics, writing about the absence of women as lifelong celibates in the Bible the Lord leads me to present the sad case of Jephthah’s daughter who as a virgin, mourned not that she would die because of her father’s wrongheaded vow, but having kept herself pure, the fact she would not ever know marriage and family (Judges 11:29-40).5 Fathers and daughters valued their purity.6
However, the Women’s Liberation (from God’s order and morality) Movement born of worldly feminism and followed closely by the Sexual Revolution enabled through birth control and abortions changed everything! I am a living witness to and participant in these historical events which seemed like a boon to us males everywhere at the time, but as in so much of what feels good for the moment, the consequential aftermath has not been pleasant at all.7 Fathers that understood something of God’s ancient will for them were thrown aback. Suddenly, professed Christian females who had understood their value as virgins and intended to remain so until marriage were greatly challenged.
Still, in the midst of a world where our daughters are urged to scorn and rebel against us from every quarter, aspiring strong man of God fathers must stand firm in the fact God’s will, way and Word concerning His order, our roles and responsibilities are right! Start as young as you can teaching all your children to understand the realm of your home is different from the world outside because you have chosen to follow Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Let them know you would like to have them choose to follow Him also, but until then, your home is built on the values and life outlook you have from a biblical worldview that is non-negotiable (Joshua 24:14-15). Be consistent while also being relationally available and providing alternative activities when needed that are “fun.”
Make sure you affirm the value of your daughters as persons of worth and dignity. This does not mean pandering after them as even some Christian father-daughter gurus seem to suggest, but imitate God the perfect Father (Genesis 16; Numbers 12).8 Knowing His will for females to marry and bear children, encourage them to pursue an education and a line of work by which they can sustain themselves on their own until then. Otherwise, if they choose to stay home under your authority to further their education and/or work while waiting for God to bring His man to them, give them adult space, but with the understanding you and all house rules must be honored; a circumspect lifestyle maintained. In all this you work with God to build daughters into excellent wives (Proverbs 31:28-29).
1 See the October 11, 2020 post, The Great Woman Of God’s Character, under the category, The Cause.
2 Read the April 8, 2018 post, The Second Adam Rules And Judges, under the category, Bible Prophecy, along with the three-part post beginning April 18, 2021, Daughters Of This Age, under the category, God’s Creatures as examples.
3 See the June 13, 2021 post, The Heart Of A Son, under the category, Instruction and on July 11, 2021, A Father And Mother On Purpose, under the category, God’s Crea- tures.
4 No matter what my daughters that lived with me watched in the media or where they went--school, church, friend’s homes etc., what their father taught them at home from a biblical worldview such as I knew was challenged by the rebel views of feminism among others of this world! I know I am not alone in my experience and this is the reason, no doubt, the Lord in part has me writing this post to encourage and help a struggling Christian father; his daughter if she will give heed. For as aspiring strong men of God in the image of Christ we are not to just throw up our hands in exasperation caving into the way the world works in rebellion. But this too, is part of fighting “the good fight of faith,” (1 Timothy 6:11-16, NKJV)!
5 The book is available at your favorite internet book seller and in the Strong Man Store. The prospect of lifelong celibacy and sexual purity are are also discussed in The Great Woman Of God Women’s Group Study available through the same outlets.
6 I will say it again here. Sons are also to be taught to value their virginity until marriage. Sinful men have historically allowed a wicked double standard I acknowledge and condemn in Christ.
7 Casual and no fault sex has led to unprecedented promiscuity, millions of out of wed-lock births and abortions (used as birth control after the fact when either unprotected intercourse or other forms of pregnancy prevention measures failed), unmarried couples living together in large numbers, inconsequential adultery, increased date and stranger rapes, an out of control porn industry with related addiction, sex trafficking, sexual abuse and perversion, widespread and incurable sexually transmitted diseases as well as a long trail of broken and ruined lives.
8 God never compromises righteousness while also being gracious and merciful. Having then, given the warning about pandering after daughters leading inevitably to a father compromising God’s standards of righteousness for the sake of being loving and accepting, I defer to the counsel of more qualified men such as Dr. James Dobson, Dr. Kevin Leman and Dr. Willie Richardson among other faithful Christians as experts to help. Under no circumstances do I encourage following the advice of anyone about raising daughters that is accommodating to the rebel values of feminism as though it will perpetually stand as the defining global norm. Truly, even “Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” near at hand, the Lord is sending the prophet Elijah to restore fathers and children in Israel as well as the willing beyond (Mala- chi 4, NKJV)!
It is one thing for unsaved women to balk at and reject God’s design of females and rank in His established order of mankind during this present age; it is quite another thing when the females that profess to be saved Christians knowingly reject God’s design for themselves in rebellion against their Lord also. An all out rebellion against God’s design of females, their roles, responsibilities and rank in His order of mankind is a recent phenomenon of history that is worsening in its negative outcomes and now, at its peak in these latter days, nearing its end as I have written in other posts.1
Among the blasphemous planks rebel female and male feminists have in their platform of all out rebellion against God, His Word and Christ is that females are wrongly and unfairly assigned an inferior second class status in His order of mankind (Psalm 2:1-3). So seductively persuasive is this deceit and false accusation of Satan on par with his masterstroke with Eve in the garden (Genesis 3:1-5), many professed Christian females, males and pastors across social ideologies have bought into it over the past century and intensely so since the mid-1960s.2 On the surface apart from a faith enabled, intimate knowledge of God in a biblical worldview, it would seem the rebels have something.
However, those who by faith continuously fellowship with God and know His Word realize His perfect character and purposes for man would never allow Him to treat the creature of His love with such contempt (Genesis 1:26; Deuteronomy 31:30-32:4; Psalm 8:3-8). For man the creature made in God’s image is both male and female from the beginning as Christ affirms (Genesis 1:27, 5:1-2; Matthew 19:1-6; Mark 10:1-9). Though the female was created second after, out of and for the male, God did this to indisputably establish His order of mankind, accountability and purpose of procreation (Genesis 1:28, 2:7, 15-25, 3:6-24, 5:3-5; 1 Corinthians 11:2-12, 14:34-40; 1 Timothy 2:11-15).
Now, let me pause here to ensure that though in love He cares for your salvation, I am not writing these things yet again as the Lord leads to convince the unsaved hardened in rebellion. I write to the daughters of this age who profess faith in Him and are faithful because He cares that you be encouraged in the truth; that those who vacillate in or have already capitulated to rebel feminism might come to their spiritual senses and repent (2 Timothy 2:24-26)! Females are not second class to God because you do not have the same roles, responsibilities and rank in His order as males! Those professed Christian women thinking this way diminish their own value as God designed you.3
You are also proving yourselves influenced by or fully captive to the thinking of the world culture under Satan’s dominion no matter how much you attempt to falsely justify the thinking by re-interpreting the Bible to read feminism into it or onto the godly females presented therein. Since feminism as rebellion against God and His order of mankind originates from the instigation of demons that do not die, there are a few feminists in Bible history beginning with Eve in her ignorance and followed by Jezebel, Athaliah and Vashti as examples who all suffered the consequences (Genesis 3:12-13, 16a; 1 Kings 16:29-33, 18:1-4, 19:1-3, 21:1-26; 2 Kings 9:30-37, 11:1-16; Esther 1).
In contrast to the many more godly women in the Bible (including Deborah who did not lead out Israel’s army to battle or usurp God’s chosen male commander, but accompanied him at his insistence as a comforting “mother”--Judges 4:4-10, 5:7, NKJV), the foregoing named feminist rebels starting with Eve all acted in independent self-will to lead out in their actions and defiance of God’s order and/or Word (Genesis 3:17a).4 Jezebel and Athaliah typify the aggressive feminism of our day in their ambitious grab for and use of authority. Knowing the divine order of mankind and all of the cultural expectations of her as queen, wife of her husband the king, Vashti knowingly disrespected him before the whole kingdom in her defiance of his marital and royal headship (James 4:17).
Godly and humble Esther on the other hand, who had not ambitiously sought to be queen and replaced Vashti, showed her husband, the king, great respect and earned his trusting favor (Esther 2:1-18).5 Not by usurping the king, wicked scheming or the manipulative wielding of authority behind the scenes did the Jewish queen Esther prevail to save her people from genocide, but through faith in God, fasting, prayer and courage to do as the Lord providentially led her (Esther 4:1-16, 5:1-8, 7-8)! Please note that while in God’s order of mankind the man, Mordecai, who served as Esther’s father outranked her, after giving her wise and challenging counsel he submitted to her conferred authority as queen in this unique context to do as she “commanded him,” (Esther 4:17, NKJV).
1 See for example the April 8, 2018 post, The Second Adam Rules And Judges, under the categories, Bible Prophecy and Call To Repent as well as the post that followed
on April 15th, Woman As God Designed Her, under the category, God’s Creatures.
2 Read the two-part post beginning May 27, 2018, Feminism’s Entry Into The Churches, under the categories, Call To Repent and God’s Creatures.
3 This does not mean many sinful men in ignorance throughout history have not thought of and treated females as second class. Thinking of and treating females as in-
ferior is one of the many tragic consequential works of sin in mankind that only God can righteously and finally correct beginning with salvation! Carefully read the series
of four posts that begin April 22, 2018 where the Lord leads me to write about the value of women from a biblical worldview all under the category, God’s Creatures.
4 Genesis 3:17a does not mean there is never a time a man should give heed to the counsel of his wife. However, if that counsel is to disobey or defy God or the laws of
man, then, a husband must do what is right in the sight of God! All the more reason for a Christian man to marry an authentic Christian woman (and you, sister, be one)
so, he might receive godly counsel from his wife as did David from Abigail before he married her (1 Samuel 25:14-39).
5 Esther is one of twelve women that exemplify a character trait of the great woman of God in the image of Christ I write about in two chapters of my book, The Strong
Man Of God: Back To Basics and The Great Woman Of God Women’s Group Study drawn from it released in October 2020. The book and group study are available
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