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Generally speaking, from creation men have been physically stronger than women. Though in these latter days, there are a small number of women that grotesquely buff up through weight training and are stronger than the average man, God designed men to be naturally bigger and stronger than women as part of His will for their roles and responsibilities of headship to include providing for and protecting them. The value of brute strength with fighting skill is seen in men such as Samson, a judge and David, a king of ancient Israel both enabled by God. David also had his mighty men of war, strong and capable like so many of history (Judges 13-16; 2 Samuel 22:29-51, 23:8-39).
However, the physical strength and abilities of men that even many churches seem to only value for “honey do” projects and security around their facilities are not the extent of which we were designed. Man was also designed in the divine image and likeness to display the exclusive, exceedingly superior spiritual strength of God! Man does not naturally possess God’s strength, but God can and has supplied it to select men in history by the Holy Spirit! David was one and before him as I write in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics, Joshua, who God after Moses commands: ‘“Be strong and of good courage for...I will be with you,’” (Deuteronomy 31:7, 23, NKJV).1
The attempt by Roman Procurator, Pilate, to appease the angry Jewish mob in first century Jerusalem, Israel led to his now famous exclamation to end matters, “Behold, the Man,” referring to Jesus of Nazareth! Jesus stood by him and before the crowd of Roman soldiers and Jews with their religious leaders bloody from being beaten up, scourged and mocked as “King of the Jews” with a crown of thorns forced down on His head and in a purple robe. But because of what had brought about this extraordinary moment, the crowd was not having any of Pilate’s concessionary punishment. The leaders especially wanted nothing short of Jesus’ death (John 19:1-6, NKJV)!
The death of Jesus is what the Jewish religious establishment and their leaders had been longing for and plotting a long time (John 5:15-18, 7:1, 25-32, 45-49, 10:30-33, 11:45-53). Scripture tells us these men that supposedly knew and honored God resented, envied and hated Jesus because He spoke the truth exposing their hypocritical religiosity with authority outside of their own (Matthew 15:1-20, 21:23-27, 23:1-33, 27:15-18; John 15:22-25).2 For this reason the Lord Jesus portrays all such religious men not as relationally part of Him or acting on His behalf, but the world system governed by Satan (John 14:30, 15:18-21, 16:1-4). The religious are of the world!
Jesus, on the other hand, had most excellently displayed the perfect blend of a man’s physical and God’s spiritual strength in pressing Heaven’s Kingdom cause in His ministry. He had stood toe to toe with Satan in the wilderness temptation, summoned select men to Himself from under his dominion for training to do as He and liberated His people from his works prevailing in every instance (Matthew 4; Luke 10:1-20)! Jesus also withstood the desires for Him of His family and disciples (Matthew 12:46-50, 16:13-23). As well, He physically took on the Temple merchandisers and overcame the efforts of religious leaders to undermine and discredit Him (Mark 11:15-19).
After displaying the awesome supernatural power of God to easily have overcome His mortal arresters without laying a hand on them (John 18:1-11), the Lord Jesus then began to show those that tried Him the amazing inner strength of Person He possessed (Luke 22:63-23:22; John 19:7-15). As I also write in my book, in all that the Jewish religious leaders, Herod, Pilate and their troops did to Jesus that morning, He did not break under the pressure or threaten to retaliate--He took it! He remained strong in spirit as they crucified and taunted Him on the cross. After six hours of suffering and not crying out in protest, He died on His own terms (John 19:16-30). Truly, in Jesus we have the ultimate display and fullness of strength in man designed by God--the Strong Man of God forever!
The final proof of this is His eternal resurrection from the heretofore, impossible grip of death three days later!3 And because Jesus lives, now, we who have repented and believed the Gospel about Him--that He died for our sins, was buried and rose again to redeem us to God--have through forgiveness been granted to have the strength of God on display in us too (Isaiah 53; Luke 24:44-49; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Colossians 1:9-14)! Indeed, of first order men are taught and commanded like Joshua to “Be strong in the Lord” for daily living (2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Ephesians 6:10; Philippians 4:13, NKJV).4 But due to satanic strongholds of deceit, many churches reject the Bible’s strong man of God teaching. The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
(I will be taking Resurrection Sunday my spiritual birthday off to celebrate. Lord willing, my next post will be on April 8th. May the strength of Christ be yours this Palm Sunday and forever!)
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2 Also deceived by and captive to the spirit of religion, professed Christian men in their churches throughout history to this hour have for the same reasons and in like man-
ner sought to harm God’s faithful. Truly, nearing my forty-first year as a Christian I have had to contend with such men far too often; men who while outwardly acting
pious saying and doing religious stuff, inwardly are driven by the sinful flesh and spiritually dead having no genuine relationship with God or they willfully quench the Spirit
disconnecting from Him to carry out their evil deeds. Either way, God knows their hearts and without repentance, will judge them accordingly for their wickedness (Psalm
58:9-11; Romans 2:4-11; 2 Timothy 4:14).
3 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.
4 Read the February 22, 2015 post, Strong Through God’s Strength! under the category, The Cause.
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