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Though men had done many great and magnificent things in the earth even up to the mortal first appearing of Christ as seen in the greatness of the Roman Empire at that time, as we press toward the Lord’s immortal Second Coming none of their accomplishments include liberation from sin and death or peace with God! Truly, a clear inverse relationship exists between the increasing greatness of technological advance spearheaded still by men and humanity’s steady moral decay and lawlessness! Apart from what God alone has accomplished in Christ to redeem fallen mankind and cause His light to shine in this dark world, most are as lost as ever (John 1:1-34)!
As it concerns God, sending Christ into the world is all about His love, grace and mercy for otherwise helpless, fallen mankind (John 3:16-17; Romans 5:6-8; Hebrews 2:14-18; 1 John 1:5-2:2). Yet again, this divine action planned from eternity is the clearest possible statement that can be made about how valuable man as a creature is to God! Fully Man in accord with the original divine design, the Lord Jesus Christ purposely summoned men to Himself to equip for taking on God’s Kingdom cause to reach and restore other willing men directly and ultimately, mankind across the face of the whole earth (Mark 1:16-20, 2:13-14, 3:7-19, 16:14-18; John 20:19-23; Acts 1:4-8)!
To the praise of His glory, God allows His fallen creature to participate in His restoration cause and work; the most noble and eternally significant cause and work mankind has ever been engaged! What an absolutely staggering thing this is God has done in granting men taken down in Eden by the crafty work of Satan, to now enjoy a measure of vengeance by participating in the war of the ages with Christ (Genesis 3:1-15); liberating and restoring fellow, fallen brethren through the preaching of the Gospel and exercising His works of power!1 All that men are naturally as His appointed leaders and become through God’s new birth and supernatural empowerment is required and put on display!
It is worth repeating: all that the Kingdom cause is in the Gospel involves everything men by God’s design are built for! Thus, thoroughly obeying His Father’s instructions, Jesus knew exactly what He was doing in purposely selecting the twelve men to be with Him as disciples for on the job training and preparation to continue His ministry as apostles after His return to Heaven. Though one of this group of twelve was a devil by divine foreknowledge and purpose and was replaced by another, none were women; no, not even the Lord’s mother because God is consistent concerning His order of mankind and election of men to lead in and outside of His house (Acts 1:9-26).
Christ was requiring His apostles to go, stand flat footed and proclaim the Gospel to a hostile, unbelieving world as men of war from ancient days, but without physical weapons or protection. Men are designed by God to be naturally courageous and war usually with at least some kind of weapon. Even David went up against Goliath with a sling shot (1 Samuel 17:31-47). But the Lord’s apostles and other disciples waited only on the Holy Spirit to come upon them with power (2 Corinthians 10:1-6; Ephesians 6:10-20)! When He first came on Pentecost, all present glorified God in the known languages of the Roman Empire, but only Peter stepped up to preach the Gospel (Acts 2:1-36)!
While such magnificent results as occurred that day would not always attend the Lord’s show of power and use of men in the dangerous Gospel mission, He added 3,000 souls to the disciples (Acts 2:37-41)! And in fulfillment of the Lord’s prophetic warnings (Matthew 10:16-39), His 1st century apostles and mostly men that went out into the earth for the sake of His name since, beyond mortal strength endured incredible hardships, difficulties and deprivations, excruciatingly painful, violent persecutions and martyrdom in the Kingdom cause in the Gospel (2 Corinthians 6:3-10, 11:16-33). In the image of Christ as sons, disciples and servants of God2 they engaged in the spiritual warfare with zeal and courage for eternal greatness and immortal glory (2 Timothy 4:6-8)!
In step with their divine election as leaders, teachers, providers and protectors, a typical bigger body and tougher skin tasked for hard labor under the curse of sin (Genesis 3:17-19), men were well suited for the challenges of missionary travel, hardships and suffering. While it is true a relative few great women of God have been mightily used of God on the mission field, most of our sisters who did not go with their husbands as helpers came onto the scene after their brethren had already blazed the often bloody trail before them. His call and fruitful historical use of chiefly redeemed men to lead out in the perilous and risk filled Kingdom cause in the Gospel unmistakably declares a significant value of men intentionally designed by Him to God!
1 The Lord leads me to deal more fully with the automatic enlistment and responsibility of all Christian men as aspiring strong men of God to be actively engaged in this war in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics. It 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.
2 I detail these important eternal roles God has assigned in my book.
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