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• Has Racial Justice Arrived In America?

              Two days after celebrating the one hundred and fifty-fifth year since the end of slavery here in America on Juneteenth and now, for Father’s Day, I write as the Lord leads to speak to the globally seen first degree murder of black American male, George Floyd, by a white male Minneapolis police officer as three other officers watched back on May 25, 2020.  All of the men have since been fired and brought up on charges in the case which is righteous.  In the meantime, violent rioting, looting and protest marches broke out in cities across America.  While the rioting and looting have calmed down, protest marches demanding the end to national systemic racism and police reform persist.¹

   

              I have said little publically as is typical when these all too frequent events occur since I am not my own, but the Lord’s watchman/prophet speaking what He puts in my mouth and at the time He wants it spoken (Ezekiel 33:1-9).²  What I have written in social media posts as the Lord led has been directed to black and other angry protesters calling for peaceful protest and thoughtful consideration of the fact the problems of racism and police misconduct are larger and more difficult to overcome systemically than a few changes in laws, policies, procedures and in the extreme, defunding the police which no society built on the rule of law as ordained by God can afford to do (Romans 13:1-7).

   

              To be sure, as with the Law of God, so, the laws of man are made not for those that are righteous, but those that are “lawless,” (1 Timothy 1:8-11, NKJV)!  To keep order, the police are hired among other reasons as agents of society to enforce its laws amid those that for whatever reasons break them.  Depending on the law, an encounter with police can occur for those that are otherwise law abiding.³  For credibility, the police are expected by God if not the governments that hire them or the people they serve to be law abiding--the same as us preachers who supposedly discipline ourselves so, after preaching to others, we are not “disqualified,” (1 Corinthians 9:24-27, NKJV).

   

              Without a doubt though, in only the news clips I have viewed the white police officer that kept his knee on the neck of George Floyd cold-heartedly murdered him.⁴  It was shocking, sickening and infuriating to watch as it surely has been for blacks since our forefathers as slaves began to make their inhumane voyages from West Africa to this land.  For as in those days among heartless slavers and on May 25^th, the evil eyes of that white police officer displayed utter contempt and disregard for George Floyd as a human being; the same contempt and disregard for human life that is in the thoroughly evil heart of Satan who hates all (Genesis 2:16-17, 3:1-11, 17-19; John 8:44, 13:21-30).

   

              It is therefore, understandable that most black Americans are outraged.  What has been new and amazing to see is the unprecedented numbers of white, other Americans of color and those around the world that have risen up in protest too.  Watching a man being murdered as he pleads that he cannot breathe while the police officer responsible and those with him ignore this, should be more than any normal human being can take without some kind of moral offense and need to act!  For this reason, I appreciate the largely peaceful uprising that has occurred in the stand many are making against systemic racism and for police reform in our society.

   

              I am also glad my children and grand-children old enough get to see this brief moment when all but a relative few willful white Americans that refuse, finally understand our righteous cry to end the bigoted, contempt driven mistreatment of black Americans and especially our men who have been strategically targeted since slavery.⁵  Nevertheless, I urge that all move away from the street protests for your health since God’s Coronavirus judgment remains and because you have the attention of the nation and world--changes man can make are taking place!  Keep vigilant through every legal means to hold government authorities accountable.  Lastly, check yourself too, as I have urged in social media posts--racism is an issue and evil of the human heart (Mark 7:20-23)!

   

              As such, not only our police officers that are guilty, but you also need what only God has the power to do and that is transform hearts.  He has made His power available to all through repentance and faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day; sending His power through the Holy Spirit into the hearts of those that believe to make loving our neighbor possible--or if you are white, do you only intend to march for, but refuse to love your black neighbors (Matthew 18:1-5; John 3:1-8; Titus 3:1-7)?  This is a clarion call for authentic Christian white Americans to redeem the failure of your forefathers to be true ambassadors of reconciliation and represent biblical Christianity as God intended to all (2 Corinthians 5:17-6:2).

   

              Still, I must caution particularly my fellow Christian black Americans that will please God and do His will biblically not to walk again into the snare of believing we have arrived at what we have waited for so long: a widespread permanent change of heart among and acceptance by our white neighbors.⁶  Indeed, we have seen this movie before and already the call to defeat is being sounded by those who lead the Civil Rights Movement today; who make our righteous quest for racial, morally equivalent to gender and sexual justice.⁷  The dream of racial harmony well articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963, yet awaits the Second Coming of Jesus Christ because as He foretold, even natural human love that could get us close is diminishing as lawlessness increases (Matthew 24:12). 

   

  1 Before I could begin to reflect good before the Lord about this post, another black male, Rayshard Brooks, was shot in the back in Atlanta, GA by another white officer

     while fleeing arrest on Friday, June 12th.  That officer was fired immediately and has since been charged with murder. 

  2 See the July 29, 2018 two-part repost addressing the Trayvon Martin tragedy, The Racial Double Standard, under the category, Call To Repent.

  3 I  have  had  a  few traffic violations over the course of my more than fifty years of driving, for example, and a couple of incidents that brought me into direct encounter

     with  the  police.  Most officers were professional and courteous.  But as a black male, I have also had the humiliating experience of being disrespected by a few arro-

     gant white police officers that were overbearing in wielding their authority.

  4 Those that have watched the entire video time out the episode at eight minutes and forty-six seconds.

  5 Read  especially part two of my 2015 Father’s Day post, Mama’s Boys, under the category, Black History that began on June 21^st.  While it is an ancient tactic of war-

     fare  to  target  men  for  death when subduing peoples because of their natural will and ability to protect their families if given the opportunity, the prolonged and cruel

     acts  of  guilty  white males from slavery to thoroughly oppress, humiliate, dominate and demoralize black males with religious sanction surely ranks high among all of

     the  evil  acts  of  mankind.  I urge all men to read my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics to understand how to handle our business in the image of Jesus

     Christ  as  God  wills.  Get a print copy or digital download of the book at major internet booksellers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, ChristianBooks.com and Apple

     (digital only).  You can also purchase a print copy in the Strong Man Store.

  6 Does  anybody  remember the 1978 Allan Bakke Affirmative Action Reverse Discrimination case and the Supreme Court decision?  Also, see the November 29, 2015

     post,  When  The  Glory Comes, under the category, Glory To God!  The counsel the Lord gave me in this post stands and will be fulfilled sooner than anyone reading

     this can imagine!  However, ‘“the just shall live by faith,’” (Hebrews 10:35-39, NKJV).  We do not wait for sinful man, but the living God!

  7 A  man  I  have  deep  admiration  and respect for as one of the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, Congressman John Lewis, expressed the politically and socially

     liberal  heart  of  today’s  leaders  and  participants in an interview on June 7^th while visiting the DC street painted “Black Lives Matter” with its Mayor and reported by

     BET.com.  Search  the  Bible from Genesis to Revelation to see if God ever sanctions racial injustice (Deuteronomy 1:17, 10:17-19), calls mortal man other than male

     or  female  (Matthew 19:1-4) or sexual perversion righteous in His sight (Romans 1:18-32).  You automatically kick the God of the Bible to the curb and assure certain

     eventual defeat when you advocate for and make coalitions with those in active rebellion against Him (Psalms 2, 33:12-22; Isaiah 31:1-3; 1 John 5:4-5). 

  
  

   

• God Of Order

           Surely, especially the young souls of this 21st century will ask me, “What is the big deal about women leading men in the churches? They are doing so everywhere else in the world. Aren’t you just being sexist, legalistic and judgmental?” If the matter of divine order was not to be taken seriously, then I am thoroughly convinced God would not have me wasting my time bothering with it as it concerns restoring men or for any other reason. However, divine order is the critical issue of this present age. Since fallen angels and mankind have rebelled against it, the Holy God has pronounced judgment on both! God is a God of order throughout all of existence (Jeremiah 23:24).
  
           As the Lord led me to write about in The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics, the divine Family of Father, Son and Holy Spirit have order within their triunity and equality as God. God the Father reigns as absolute supreme, sovereign with the Son and Holy Spirit in joyful submission. The Holy Spirit carries out the will of the Father and the Son. From eternity, the triune God has reigned over the environs and creatures of the spiritual realm (Exodus 3:13-14; Psalm 90:2). Led by a single rebel, some of the holy angels created in the order of their domain and ranks rebelled against God to be condemned to everlasting fire (Ezekiel 28:11-19; Matthew 25:41; Revelation 12:3-4, 20:10).
  
           It is written: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” (Genesis 1:1, NKJV). With that statement as the opening of the divine commissioned written communication to mankind through Moses, God makes the unequivocal declaration that God is the Creator of the entire physical creation or what is called today, the cosmos which according to the Encarta Dictionary is “the universe considered as an ordered and integrated whole.” Indeed, the order that exists in the universe from the smallest particles to the largest galaxies in the billions filled with solar systems and planets such as our earth in orderly procession is mind boggling (Psalm 147:4-5; Isaiah 40:25-26)!
  
           Clearly, the God of order created the cosmos with order! Even the most cynical fools among scientists today that say “there is no God,” must acknowledge the staggering order of the cosmos (Psalm 14:1-3, 19:1-6, NKJV). Our Creator even created His cosmos, the earth and its contents in an orderly fashion leading to the apex and ultimate purpose for the divine work: the creation of man to rule over all that God had created (Genesis 1:2-26; Psalm 8; Hebrews 2:5-8a). God gave mortal man purpose and order (Genesis 1:27-28, 2:7). Man dwelt in a body of order and could appreciate not only the technical wonder of the creation that surrounded him, but its beauty (Genesis 2:8-14).
  
           In the order God gave man, God retained the right of sovereign Headship as Creator giving him tasks and a commandment (Genesis 2:15-17). After creating his female companion from him for him in accord with the divine order of marriage, she led them to rebel against God (Genesis 2:18-3:6). Nevertheless, their sin did not cause God to change the divine order of marriage. As I wrote in an April 2011 Commentary for another platform, “Man as male and female in marriage is God's orderly program for them to fulfill His purposes in this age. Man the male as the head of his family--even after falling in sin--is so by divine will, design and order (Genesis 3:16b).”
  
           We now exist in and observe a cosmos as well as earth with all of its many systems of order after their ruin at the rebellion and fall of man (Genesis 3:17-19). As God did not change the divine order of marriage after man sinned and the pre-announced judgment was carried out, neither did God alter the ultimate divine purpose for mankind to rule over the cosmos. In accord with the foreordained divine plan, the Son of God came down to make atonement for our sins in His death on the cross, burial and resurrection so that God might righteously forgive and fully restore men that believe (Hebrews 2:8b-18). After redeemed men, God will also restore the cosmos (Romans 8:18-22).
  
           Truly, the Lord Jesus and His apostles joyfully heralded God’s good news! The apostle Paul in particular sent to the Gentiles taught the will, instructions and commandments of God’s order faithfully (1 Timothy 2:11-15). But now, knowing the plain warning of the apostle Paul that applies to all men (Romans 1:18-2:16), many professing Christians are participating in the world’s rebellion against God’s order of marriage and that of His house with women leading and taking authority over men. Therefore, as only a foretaste and warning of the wrath to come, the whole world that banks on the dependable order of time installed by God at creation will experience among other of His judgments very near, its abrupt disruption as humanity has known it on earth (Revelation 8:12-13).
  
           Again, as I wrote in that 2011 Commentary, “If the fixed order of day and night that God has established were to be disrupted, chaos on earth would ensue. So it is now with human rebellion against His fixed order of the family” and I add for this blog, His house. But no one seems to care about this except the faithful--every aspiring strong man and great woman of God! Since the world and many professing Christians in rebellion believe that casting aside the divine order is no big deal, God is about to show them as a consequence how wrong they are. Let the faithful saints be comforted in their foreknowledge and understanding of why the Lord’s judgment suddenly falls. The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”
  

• Made To Order Jesus?

            It is impossible to study the whole Bible and come away with only one aspect of the nature, character and demeanor of God or His Anointed and Son, Jesus of Nazareth!  Yet, this is exactly what many guilty professed Christian media personalities, pastors and teachers who know better have purposely done in falsehood as the Lord led me to write in a recent post footnote.¹  Indeed, as with much of the false teaching arising from within professing Christianity in these latter days, not only the false teachers, but those that are guilty from among the people taught seize upon some passage from the Bible in isolation to construct their own one sided depictions of the Lord Jesus.

   

            The most popular made to order Jesus is the portrait of Him as “only lowly, meek and mild” who is not a Judge I wrote about in another post.²  Purposely misrepresenting the Lord Jesus for whatever motive even if well intended is sin (2 Peter 2:1-19; Jude 3-19)!  Consequently, from the Lord I warn all another time that any standard raised up for behavior which may be creatively suggested is or contemporarily desired of Him that is less than or strays from how He is portrayed in the Bible is sinfully misrepresenting Him and a misleading of those being taught (John 13:12-17; 1 Corinthians 4:14-17, 11:1; 2 Corinthians 11:1-4; Ephesians 4:17-24; 1 Peter 2:18-25).³ 

   

            Not as a contrast to the God of the Old Testament Law supposedly stern and testy, but as the fullest possible revelation of God’s nature in Human form as His “only begotten” did “grace and truth” come “through Jesus Christ,” (John 1:1-5, 14-18, NKJV)!  When you encounter the God of the Old Testament Law, you are encountering Jesus Christ, the eternal Son as well since as He taught, He and the Father are One in nature, character and demeanor (John 10:30-39, 14:7-11).⁴  Or who do you think was with Israel in the Exodus (Exodus 24:9-18; 1 Corinthians 10:1-11)?  In Christ we see the perfect fulfillment of the old adage, “like Father, like Son,” (John 5:16-23, 8:48-59, 17:1-5)!

   

            The Lord presented Himself to Israel and the world as that approachable gentle and lowly Lamb of God in the first century A.D. displaying His eternally humble nature, character and demeanor in complete submission to His Father’s will and purposes (John 1:29-51).  However, flashes of His nature, character and demeanor as the strong and commanding “Lion of the tribe of Judah” were also displayed as He stood against the desecration of God’s “house,” the powers of darkness and corrupt religious authorities (Matthew 21:12-17; Mark 1:21-28, 2:23-28; Revelation 5:5, NKJV)!  These two portraits of Christ are not contradictory, but in Him perfectly balanced and blended!⁵

   

            Thus, as the Lamb, Christ humbled Himself before God to serve our need for an Intercessor and eternal “Advocate” to deliver us from sin and its consequences reaching into eternity (Isaiah 59:1-16; John 3:13-18; Romans 8:31-34; 1 Timothy 2:1-7; Hebrews 7:20-28; 1 John 1:5-2:2, NKJV).  It is He who comes to the humble, broken in their sins and desperate for connection to God in His love, humility, gentleness and mercy to present Himself as “the way” to, “the truth” about and “the life” of God that fully meets their need for salvation (Matthew 5:1-6; John 14:6, NKJV)!  Even so, it is Christ too, that is “the keeper” of God’s vineyard in His parable who intercedes for an extension of time and labor to a spiritually fruitless soul before certain death if no fruit is forthcoming (Luke 13:1-9, NKJV).

   

            From this last statement, we see that Christ is not sappy as the Lamb our Advocate.  While by His Father’s appointment in grace He advocates for forbearance, He only goes so long until, in total agreement with His Father sin must be judged!  This is the Lion in Him through which raised from the dead that successful Intercessor, He now, also reigns as King, Lord and Judge in Heaven and earth (Isaiah 53:12; Matthew 28:18; Philippians 2:9-11; 2 Timothy 4:1).  Those with the Holy Spirit see Him judging now, in our lives and churches out of His blended Lion and Lamb Persona as it is written (Revelation 1:9-3:22)!  Soon, He will be seen by the entire world when He comes to judge in His and His Father’s wrath and deliver Israel (Psalm 98; Isaiah 59:17-21; Revelation 6:12-17, 19:11-16).

   

            Study of the whole Bible plainly exposes the falsehood in portraying the Lord Jesus solely out of His nature, character and demeanor as the Lamb or possessing these opposite His Father!  He cannot be made to order.  His Person is anchored in the Bible--take or leave Him as He is!  In our first short-term self-paced video course, Fruitful Bible Study from the Strong Man Virtual Institute, I appeal above all to aspiring strong men and great women of God in the image of Christ to engage daily in the spiritual discipline of Bible study for its many benefits.⁶  Not the least of these benefits is becoming so familiar with the truth one cannot easily be deceived by the many falsehoods and doctrines of demons that proliferate within professing Christian during these latter days of foretold deception.

   

  1 See footnote five in the May 1, 2022 post, Made To Order Salvation?, under the category, The Faith.

  2 Read the August 1, 2021 post, Jesus Christ King And Judge!, under the category, Instruction.

  3 I pray my brothers in the Christian men’s movement especially will receive the warning.  Our Lord Jesus is God’s perfect standard of what Man is He conforms us to
     (Romans  8:29)!  This  is  a  staggering truth and one that should cause fear in the hearts of any pastor or other teacher of men who supposes he is helping them by
     teaching  (or  purposely  modeling for that matter) a lower standard than the Christ of Scripture!  You may get thousands of men following you, but is that the biblical
     goal of our Kingdom labor (Matthew 16:13-18, 28:19-20; 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12)?  See the June 29, 2014 post, Fully Restoring Men and Christ: The Perfect Model
     Of Manhood!, posted on July 6, 2014 both under the category, Instruction.

  4 Thus,  the  display of grace and truth through the Lord Jesus is not about Him and the Father playing the game of “bad cop, good cop” as some seem to teach.  The
     Father  is  also  full  of grace and truth (Hebrews 1:1-4)!  However, John under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit writes to inform us that in contradistinction to the Law
     which condemns sinful men who cannot keep it, the grace and truth of the triune God who loves and seeks to save mankind shone forth brilliantly in Christ the Word
     become flesh (John 1:14)!

  5 I am awed and remain grateful to the Lord for allowing me to write about Him the perfectly blended Lion and Lamb as the Strong Man of God in my book, The Strong
     Man  Of  God:  Back  To  Basics.  It  is available with the companion Strong Man Of God Men’s Group Study and Great Woman Of God Women’s Group Study in the
     Strong Man Store, at your favorite internet bookseller or brick and mortar bookstore.

  6 Learn  more  about  the  course  in  its  first  session  on  our  Strong  Man  Virtual  Institute  YouTube Channel.   A  Study Guide is available as a free download in the
     Strong Man Store to help you follow along during the six short sessions of the course.

• Made To Order Salvation?

            As the Director of Strong Man Ministries and lead instructor in our Strong Man Institute in-person and virtual course offerings, I am excited to announce the roll out yesterday of our Fruitful Bible Study Self-Paced Video Course on our Strong Man Virtual Institute YouTube Channel!¹  With the Lord’s leading, this video course addresses the great need in His Body for knowledge of the Word through the spiritual discipline of Bible study in these latter days.  For He and His apostles warned us great deception would exist in the times before His return as it does and lacking knowledge of the Word, many are being deceived and fall away as also foretold (Mark 13:3-6, 22-23; 1 Timothy 4:1-5).

   

            Though there are many false and deceitful doctrines of demons within professing Christianity at this hour, one of the most insidious is in fact “a different gospel;” the likes of which the apostle Paul puts the purveyor under a curse of destruction and that strikes at the very heart of the Christian faith “once for all delivered to the saints,” (Galatians 1:6-10; Jude 3-4, NKJV).  It asserts that God does not judge what people do in sin anymore since Christ completely atoned for human sins past, present and future on the cross.  Those who know the truth from their regular, Holy Spirit led and helped study of the Bible recognize the foregoing assertion is preposterous and thoroughly false!

   

            Truly, as Scripture teaches the Lord’s death on the cross most certainly did make a full and eternal atonement for human sin before God (Isaiah 53:10-12; John 1:29, 19:30; Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:17, 9:11-15).  However, it is only the one who repents of his sins, places faith in the Gospel and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit that will be saved which Scripture also teaches (Acts 2:36-39; Romans 1:16-17, 3:21-26; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4).  As it is written and cited in Romans 1:17, ‘“The just shall live by faith,’” (NKJV).  There is no work or deed a sinner can do to earn salvation wrought through Christ’s sacrifice God has made available to all mankind by grace (Romans 3:27-4:25; Ephesians 2:1-10).²

   

            I will declare it again.  Although He died for all mankind, only those individuals who genuinely repent of their sins, believe the Gospel and receive new birth by the indwelling Holy Spirit, obtain salvation!  Those who refuse to repent and believe the Gospel remain in their sins, will die in and face Christ’s “judgment seat” to answer for them (John 8:21-24; 2 Corinthians 5:9-11, NKJV).³  For of first importance salvation is “remission (by God’s forgiveness) of sins” upon repentance and faith in Christ (Luke 24:46-47, NKJV).  Anyone who preaches anything contrary to this core, historic and biblical truth for salvation, puts themselves justly under the apostle Paul’s curse since it is a different gospel!

   

            Now, even though no work or deed we do of ourselves prior to salvation can earn it, works and deeds afterward matter as evidence of its authenticity, fruitfulness and enduring faith in Christ which is not a one and done thing (James 2:14-26).  We enter salvation through faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and continue living by faith in Him moment by moment going forward.  Purposely practicing biblically defined sin without repentance is not proof of faith, but of possible insincere or false profession, rank disobedience which is rebellion or apostasy which can never please God who despite another false doctrine, ‘“will judge His people,’” (Hebrews 10:26-39, 11:6, NKJV)!⁴ 

   

            Thus, even though Christ’s work to pay for human sin was finished on the cross, our responsibility before God for personal sin does not end there!  For this reason, the Lord Jesus explains one must “believe in Him” whom God in love sent into the world to die for our sins in order to “not perish” and instead, “have everlasting life.”  Otherwise, apart from appropriating His saving work to themselves by faith, the unsaved are “condemned already” with no other hope; their deeds certifying God’s righteousness to condemn them (John 3:16-21, NKJV).⁵  Also, what professed Christians do reveals whether they know Christ and bear good fruit (Matthew 7:15-23,13:1-9, 18-23).⁶

   

            Indeed, the whole Word of God teaches what one does whether in sin or not during this mortal life matters to God!  Consequently, every human being that has ever lived will face judgment by Jesus Christ to be rewarded accordingly--those with the fruitful deeds of faith in Him having nothing to fear (Job 34:10-15; Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12; Jeremiah 17:9-10; Romans 1:28-2:11, 14:10-12, 23b; Revelation 22:12).  Ours is not a made to order salvation of human construction.  It has sprung from the heart and mind of the living God from eternity (1 Peter 1:13-21)!  Christians must get and stay in God’s Word to recognize and avoid the many false doctrines today; careful not to even pass along sound good posts on social media from maybe well meaning sources, but that are not biblical.

   

  1 The very first Short-Term Study from the Strong Man Virtual Institute can be viewed on its dedicated YouTube Channel.  A course overview with description is provided in
     Session  One  of the six session study.  While it is not required, a Study Guide is available as a free download in the Strong Man Store to help interested learners as they
     engage with the video course at their own pace.

  2 Read the March 21, 2021 post, Good Works Cannot Save You, under the category, The Cause.

  3 See the April 24, 2022 post, Messiah Comes Second For Salvation, under the category, The Faith.

  4 What  has  death been to mankind but judgment from God who lovingly, graciously warned Adam of it as the consequence in the day of  his disobedience (Genesis 2:15-
     17,  3:6-11,  17-19)?   And  as  it  concerns Christians, the falsehood God does not  judge what we do becomes crystal clear from faithfully reading and studying the New 
     Testament  where  God  is  seen  intentionally instilling fear of offending His holiness through willful sin after He put to death Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, on the same
     day  for  lying  to  Him--something  many  professed Christians in our times foolishly consider no big deal (Acts 5:1-11).  For further reflection on God as the Judge of His
     people in the New Testament, read the two-part post that begins August 23, 2020, The Churches Under Judgment, under the category, Instruction.

  5 There  are  those in Christian media and not a few pastors that refute the Bible they claim to uphold teaching God does not condemn.  Some even boast that you will not
     hear  them  talk  about  such a thing, though the whole narrative of salvation in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation is about God saving willing mankind from our sins in
     light  of  His certain coming wrath and condemnation to Hell!  Being unwilling to declare “the whole counsel of God” especially for the sake of gaining money from people
     who  want  to hear nothing but positive statements about Him for them, followers or to fill auditorium seats is fraud (Acts 20:26-31; 2 Corinthians 2:17, 4:1-2, NKJV)!  It is
     also false teaching to deny or purposely omit the fact unrepentant sinners stand condemned before a holy God--woe to the false teachers who bring the Lord’s judgment
     upon  themselves  (2 Peter 2:1-3)!  Who really cares for your soul: the one that tells you only the parts of God’s Word you like and want to hear or the one who gives you
     God’s whole Word (1 Thessalonians 2:1-12)?

  6 Though  he  may  struggle,  the  saved  one is done with sin and is helped by the Holy Spirit to live a holy and righteous life in the image of Christ through his purposeful,
     persevering  faith  (Romans 6-8).   As the Lord leads, I present this truth in some detail to the aspiring strong man and great woman of God in my book, The Strong Man
     Of  God:  Back To  Basics  and  its  companion Strong Man Of God Men’s Group Study as well as Great Woman Of God Women’s Group Study.  These are all available
     in the Strong Man Store, at your favorite internet bookseller or brick and mortar bookstore.

• Weak Men Made Strong

              Happy Father’s Day to all of our readers that are fathers!  I originally wrote this edited Commentary before the similarly titled, “Weak Women Made Great” (posted this past Mother’s Day) in 2010 to challenge men about registering for and attending our first community offering of “The Strong Man Of God Course” (now “The Strong Man Of God Men’s Group Study”¹).  The cause to restore men through the Gospel of Jesus Christ and instruction in biblical manhood remains as urgent as ever on this Father’s Day.  Purposeful instruction is essential because how else will men come to learn what a man is and does by God’s design without it?

   

              Therefore, this post joins the many I have already made as the Lord has led stressing again the need and urgency of our Ministry cause to restore men.  It is also another thunderous and clear call to pastors and churches to repent from whatever hindrances to fulfill your God ordained responsibility to reach and teach men as His chosen leaders beginning in the family (Matthew 4:19, 28:19-20)!

   

  Originally Published April 2010

   

              After conducting The Strong Man Of God Course over the last two years in some of Oregon's prisons, I have come to greatly admire many of the men that have taken it.  Those that I admire come to the course with the brokenness and humility of knowing they are weak in their sins.  They require no prolonged instruction to convince them that they are sinners and need everything God has to offer to help them become the men He originally designed them to be.  The lack of an overwhelming sign up for the course from among so-called "free" men in the community is by contrast, a telling indicator that the many who have heard about it, still do not see their need.

   

              Speaking in terms of weak or strong would not even be an issue if it were not for the fact that we are all sinners as direct descendants of Adam, the first man.  This is the verdict of God our Creator and Judge in His Word (Romans 3:10-20, 23, 5:12-14) and the undeniable truth of our daily lives.  God originally designed and created us to live before Him as men that are strong; creatures passionately devoted to pleasing Him and doing His will!  But when sin came we were made weak in our ability to function as He designed.  So, now, all men without God and many that profess to know Him are weak.

   

              Yet, with a significant amount of help from the first fallen creature, the formerly "anointed cherub," Satan (Ezekiel 28:11-19; Revelation 12:9), men in sinful pride either outright deny their inner weakness or engage in mental games to evade owning up to it.  In denying the truth about our weakness we become excessively hostile toward God and/or seek to excel at something that makes us great enough we think to escape condemnation.  With mental games, we claim victimization or attempt to rationalize, justify, cover up by deceit, avoid or dismiss the truth about our sin driven weakness in the flesh.  However, neither denial nor games provide any lasting deliverance from the truth.

   

              Since there is no way around, over or under it, why not just confess the truth?  I am weak.  I am not only weak as a man before God, but as a husband, father, son of my parents and citizen of the community.  Still not ready to admit it?  Then be reminded you are weak if you cannot deliver yourself from your sin nature and the evil deeds that result even after adopting a religion.  You are weak if you are a slave to your sinful lusts and practice sexual immorality in and outside of marriage.  You are weak if you are driven by your impulses of every kind including anger and violence.  You are weak if you are addicted to anything and after going into recovery, still struggle to remain free.

   

              In The Strong Man Of God Course we introduce weak men to the Strong Man of God, Jesus Christ, who came to this earth as a second Adam for the express purpose of restoring willing men to God's original design (Matthew 18:11).  We urge men to embrace not religion, but Christ in order to transition from weakness to strength as a lifelong journey.  His is the strength of the Almighty God who created the heavens and the earth and gives strength to the weak that seek Him (Psalm 28:6-9)!  For this very reason the apostle Paul rejoiced in his weaknesses as a man for then in the Lord, he was made strong (2 Corinthians 12:7-10).

   

              Otherwise, know this: it is the men that humble themselves before God like many of those I have met in our prisons who find His grace, forgiveness and help, not the proud (Luke 18:9-14; 1 Peter 5:5-7).  The end of weakness in pride is destruction here and now and forever (Proverbs 16:18)!  Our Ministry cause to restore men is not some passing fad emphasis, but an intense, ongoing work of evangelism and biblical instruction with prophetic importance and urgency given the times and the Lord’s mandate (Malachi 4:5-6).  Only restored men who properly understand their divine design, roles and responsibilities will be able to lead their families to faithfully navigate through these latter days to the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ!²

   

  1 The Strong Man Of God Men’s Group Study is available in the Strong Man Store.

  2 Men that are not Christians or that are, but there is no instruction in the church attended can be helped and taught by obtaining my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back

     To Basics available at all major internet books sellers, by order at your favorite brick and mortar bookstore or in the Strong Man Store.

• He Made Man Male And Female, Pt. 1

            The world ruled by Satan is pushing his great deception hard in these latter days; namely, that all of the social changes upending God’s order of mankind with gender roles and responsibilities in the family are going to permanently endure.  Not so, according to God Almighty who long ago announced the end of all kingdoms in the eternal triumph of His own through His Son (Isaiah 2:1-4, 9:6-7; Daniel 2:31-45, 7:13-14; Micah 4:1-3; Revelation 11:15)!  Now, the world in rebellion against God and His coming Kingdom can believe the lie as it wishes, but those that profess to be Christians are not supposed to standing firm in the never changing truth that is Jesus Christ (Hebrews 13:8)!

   

            The Lord has led me to confront the lie with the truth especially from His prophetic Word in the footnotes of recent posts.  They make clear He will push back against the rebel social engineers of worldly feminism among others destroying the family as He designed it even before He returns to visibly install His Kingdom on earth.¹  The reality that the ostensible positive advance of worldly feminism now, at its triumphant peak is about to be turned back forever should be deeply sobering to professed Christian males and females that have banked their souls on the hope that somehow God was in it for the good even to the extent of corrupting and setting aside His Word to make it so.

   

            However, Satan has successfully deceived these worldly minded Christians in convincing them that good can come out of his evil (Genesis 3:1-11)!  Indeed, none of the relative few legitimate grievances of feminism such as pay inequity that should be fixed have justified the evil of attacking to dismantle God’s order of mankind.²  But like the Trojan gift horse the ancient Greeks used to hide in before coming out to war against and defeat Troy, so, worldly feminism has packaged itself as advocates for the positive advance of females while destroying them, their families and communities; duping many professed Christians and related entities into supporting their cause in the process.³

   

            Their cause is ultimately Satan’s cause which means his successful temptation to lure many professed Christians and their entities into supporting worldly feminism under the pretext of advancing females is a two for one win for him since they are also aiding and abetting him in his war against God!  This is spiritually unthinkable, unconscionable and a betrayal of the Lord who’s Word guilty professed Christians so easily compromise, corrupt and twist to justify their transgression and iniquity.  For the implication in their departure from God’s Word is that He and it have been wrong and unfair in the treatment of females from the beginning!  What, God unrighteous (Romans 9:14)?⁴

   

            Even if you say, “we reject the more extreme assertions of secular feminism such as a woman’s right to murder her unborn child, but stand for the positive and progressive advancement of females into all heretofore exclusively male instances of authority and work,” it is an affront to God and His Word since the unspoken implication is again that He has been wrong!  This is as arrogantly high handed as the creature can get before its Creator and expected from the unbelieving unsaved, but not those that profusely profess to know and love Him (Romans 9:20)!  This is the mind of those professed Christians who have corrupted themselves still following after the world and its ways.

   

            By God’s express will we Christians have been called out of the world; renouncing our former allegiances, worldviews and ungodly conduct for the sake of Christ, His eternal Kingdom and biblical worldview (1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Ephesians 4:17-24).  But many “who exchanged the truth of God for the lie” of worldly feminism and its perpetual endurance have been so effortlessly deceived and drawn away by Satan because they have not turned their backs on the world (Romans 1:25, NKJV).  They still love and revere particularly its opportunities for financial gain!⁵  As a result, when God and the Word are falsely portrayed as unfair toward females to them--as if this were really possible for the perfectly “Just One”--it is believed (John 1:1-5, 14-18; Acts 7:51-53; 1 Timothy 6:6-10, NKJV). 

   

            Professed Christian females are seduced by their ambitions and lust for power feminism insists is righteous since males have these.  Professed Christian males are seduced by fear of appearing oppressive, sexist and misogynistic in the face of feminism’s false contention that true equality demands the removal of all forms of male leadership inherit in God’s order of mankind beginning in the family.⁶  Like Esau who desperately sold his birthright for some food, many males in and outside of Christianity have sold their election to lead by God to females to escape their wrath not considering His wrath is exceedingly greater and eternally devastating (Genesis 25:29-34; Revelation 21:8)!  All fear being labeled “extreme” like they and the world see the Amish who generally reject modernity.

   

    1 See  for  examples,  the  fourth footnote in the September 13, 2020 post, Marginalizing Men Proves Costly During Pandemic where the Antichrist is presented as a damp-
       ening  foil  to  feminism  and more recently, the eighth footnote in Fathers Help Build Excellent Wives posted on October 10, 2021 showing how God will send the prophet
       Elijah to restore fathers and their children in Israel even before the Antichrist appears.  Both posts were made under the category, The Cause.

    2 Read the April 8, 2018 post, The Second Adam Rules And Judges, under the category, Bible Prophecy.

    3 See the May 6, 2018 post, The Value Of Women To Families, under the category, God’s Creatures.

    4 Take a look especially at part one of the three-part post beginning April 18, 2021, Daughters Of This Age, under the category, God’s Creatures.

    5 Guilty  pastors,  elders,  and  other  church  leaders  motivated to keep churches going and solvent have heavily fallen for the lie since females predominantly fill them as
       have  Christian  leaders  of  ministries and businesses (to include Christian media concerns) motivated by financial profit because females also dominate the markets for
       the purchase of Christian merchandise. This tendency to rationalize away and/or jettison God’s commandments, spiritual principles, morals and ethics in the Bible for the
       sake  of financial gain is an evil thread running throughout Christian history clearly seen for example, in the enslavement of my forefathers. It is soon to be done by many
       when the decision to “worship” and take “the mark or the name of the beast” has to be made in the face of God’s warning (Revelation 13:11-18, 14:9-13, NKJV).

    6 Read the November 8, 2020 post, Why so easily Deceived?, under the category, Instruction.