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0:00What a thrill to be with you, men. Uh
0:02this is the launch event for my book,
0:04The War on Men, which came out just this
0:06week. And uh I didn't know any of this
0:08was going to transpire. Just so you
0:10know, I'm not one of those speakers who
0:12says, "I'm going to need
0:1415 20-ft tall uh letters behind me with
0:17a Roman Gothic pillar wrap on either
0:20side in order for me to be able to do my
0:22messages." I have no such stipulations
0:24when I go speaking somewhere, but um
0:26this is just epic. And I'm so thankful
0:29to Pastor Mike. I love your pastor. Love
0:31Pastor Mike. Love Pastor Kellen, Pastor
0:33Lucas, Mark, the team. You have an
0:35excellent team of godly men. Absolutely.
0:38Amen.
0:39[applause]
0:43And where you have a strong pastoral
0:45team like that of strong men, by the
0:48grace of God, you are set up for
0:50flourishing as a church. And where you
0:53don't have those kind of men in the
0:54pulpit and in leadership,
0:56buckle up, cuz it's going to get stormy.
0:59God is so kind to give us men who love
1:02the Lord and are dogged and tenacious
1:05about the glory of God. And so I'm
1:07thankful that these men are at this
1:09church. None of us is a perfect man. We
1:11all have our sin to battle and kill
1:13every single day. We're all on level
1:15ground together. But uh what a blessing
1:18to be at a church like this.
1:21We're going to talk tonight first about
1:23the struggles of men. So, I want to be
1:27honest with you about where we are as a
1:29culture. And I want to frame this in a
1:31way that will not just say we have a few
1:34challenges today as men. I want us to
1:36understand in particular with the rising
1:38generation of boys and young men that
1:41the stakes are very high with where we
1:43are today.
1:45Masculinity
1:47is
1:49toxic.
1:51Just three words long, that brutal
1:53little sentence captures the spirit of
1:56our age. Traditional manhood and strong
1:59manhood are seen as problematic, even
2:01deeply problematic, today. According to
2:04the American Psychological Association
2:07in a widespread report in 2019,
2:10assertiveness, aggressiveness,
2:13risk-taking, compartmentalizing to focus
2:16on tasks, enduring hardship without
2:18emoting, being stoic, enjoying conflict
2:22or war, manhood in general, all that is
2:25seen now as bad. All that is seen as
2:30toxic. That is the phrase that you have
2:33heard attached in some form to what I
2:36just mapped out in terms of strong or
2:38assertive manhood. Who has heard some
2:41variation of the phrase "toxic
2:43masculinity"? Raise your hand tonight.
2:46This is the phrase, I believe, that more
2:49than any other is affecting in
2:51particular our boys and our young men.
2:55And I think it is accomplishing nothing
2:57less than a crisis in our age.
3:02In the most succinct form, when you fall
3:05prey to toxic masculinity, you now are
3:08participating in forces of oppression
3:11and patriarchy and evil in our society.
3:15When you are a strong man, when you want
3:18to take risks, when you are aggressive,
3:21when you are assertive, when there is a
3:23situation that requires somebody to act,
3:26even to act courageously, and you step
3:29forward into that situation, that
3:31instinct on your part that is wired into
3:34you as a man by God, that is now seen as
3:38toxic. When you step up to explain
3:41something, to try to help people, when
3:43you teach people, or when you lead in
3:45public in the forms that we were just
3:46talking about, even with pastoral
3:48leadership, there's now a term for that
3:50as well. It's called mansplaining. And
3:53so that's now seen as something worth
3:56ridicule that is not worthy of being
3:59practiced in our culture.
4:01The only way forward for men like you
4:06is to be cured
4:08of your toxicity.
4:10And in order to do so, you need to
4:12embrace the therapeutic matrix. You need
4:16to enter this dystopian place you will
4:18never truly leave. Welcome to America in
4:232023,
4:24where we live under an empire of lies,
4:28including the lie that manhood is toxic.
4:33In this matrix,
4:36you will not find any gospel.
4:38You will not find any redemption.
4:41You will not find forgiveness.
4:43You will not find Jesus Christ.
4:47You will only, as a man, own your
4:49privilege and renounce your power. But
4:52not just this, you will renounce any
4:54notion of manhood at all. The new
4:58paganism that is around us does not
5:00tolerate any hard and fast notion of the
5:03sexes. It's like that documentary that
5:06went out just a year or so ago, What is
5:09a Woman? The same documentary could go
5:11out, What is a Man? And just as few
5:14answers would be given to it. Everyone
5:17must now live in unreality
5:20by official edict. In this unreality,
5:25there is no creator. There's only the
5:27divinized human person. We're godlike
5:30now. We're godlike beings. Think about
5:33identity and how it's talked about in
5:35our culture. You choose your own
5:38identity. Our children are now trained
5:41that they should look inside themselves,
5:44find what desires and passions are
5:46strong, and there find their identity.
5:49You essentially as a human person choose
5:52who you want to be. If you have the body
5:54of a man, you may well not be a man. You
5:58may be a woman trapped in a man's body,
6:02or vice versa, and thus you need to
6:04undertake gender transition surgery and
6:08other methods to own your true identity.
6:14In these and other ways, we see that
6:16Christianity is not going to be affirmed
6:19in this age. The Christian worldview and
6:21biblical manhood does not get the gold
6:23star today. It gets you put in the
6:25cultural penalty box. Affirmation is
6:28given to those who affirm the pagan
6:31LGBTQIA2+
6:34worldview. That is the dominant
6:36worldview of our time in terms of those
6:38who make and form and police our
6:41culture, and many of you men know this.
6:45You're experiencing this. You're feeling
6:47this right now. You're in corporations.
6:50You're in workplaces. You're in jobs
6:53where the HR department or whoever it is
6:57that is handing down edicts from on high
7:00has already made very clear that your
7:02worldview is not the dominant worldview
7:05in this place. No, you're supposed to be
7:07affirming that worldview. You're
7:10supposed to be syncing up with the LGBTQ
7:13and so on worldview. That's the one that
7:16requires you potentially to march in
7:20pride or at least honor pride. That's
7:22the one where you are supposed to share
7:24your pronouns on the Zoom call for your
7:27company. This is the one that has your
7:29kids in a classroom where there's a
7:32pride flag or a BLM flag on the wall.
7:35This is
7:37the context and the culture we are in
7:40today. All of this is intersectional
7:43justice. You see Christianity had its
7:46day in the west, but now that day is
7:48over. And now we are in the age
7:52when the sexual revolution is ascendant
7:55and Christian sexuality has been
7:58demoted.
8:00It is time for men
8:03to lose.
8:05It is time for boys
8:08to lose.
8:09This losing will not be theoretical now
8:12and in days to come.
8:14You
8:15as a man
8:17will lose. You, if you persist in your
8:20toxic masculinity,
8:22you will pay the price.
8:25Everything you have loved and treasured
8:27will be taken from you. You will unlearn
8:30traditional manhood. You will break with
8:33religious doctrine taught in a church
8:36like this, a strong, Bible-believing
8:38church like this, that dares to tell men
8:42to act like men or man up. You will
8:44embrace your feminine side. You will
8:46stop seeking to be strong. You will
8:49embrace being soft. You will step back
8:52so strong women can lean in. You will
8:55learn to love androgyny, blur your
8:57gender, queer your sex, and live not
9:00according to God's design, but according
9:02to pagan lies. As you unlearn your
9:04toxicity, your entire way of thinking
9:07and living will change. You will shift
9:09from a traditional outlook with an
9:11emphasis on chivalry and self-denial and
9:14courage into a thoroughly postmodern
9:17one. You will not protect women.
9:20You will not try to stop physically
9:22robust adult men from entering restrooms
9:24where unprotected little girls are
9:26changing their clothes.
9:28You will not stand against body-ravaging
9:30surgeries that facilitate the
9:32aforementioned gender transition. In
9:35fact, you won't even know about that if
9:37it's happening to your child.
9:39That decision will be made between your
9:40child, if they're in a certain
9:42educational setting, and that child's
9:44teacher. And And you'll get the notice.
9:47You'll get the bill for the surgery on
9:48Monday.
9:49You will not raise your son or daughter
9:51in any sex-specific way. You will not
9:54speak or think as if there is anything
9:56traditionally identified as manly or
10:00womanly at all. You will defame all such
10:03thinking and repent of all such
10:05practices.
10:07You will be rewired,
10:09reprogrammed,
10:11and rendered something decidedly less
10:15than a man.
10:16Welcome to the war on truth.
10:19Welcome to the war on scripture.
10:22Welcome to the war on the sexes.
10:24And yes,
10:26welcome to the war on men.
10:29This is 2023.
10:32This is where we are.
10:34How are men doing today in such a
10:36climate? Are men thriving?
10:39Are men flourishing?
10:41Is this a good thing? Should we be
10:43cheering
10:44against men today because men for
10:47centuries and millennia in the West led
10:49things and now men have been demoted,
10:52and so this is a great glorious cultural
10:54victory? Is that what we're supposed to
10:56respond to all of this by? Men,
11:00in a single word,
11:02are
11:04struggling.
11:05Men, in a second
11:08major word, are in
11:11crisis.
11:12We are in a manhood crisis
11:17now.
11:18It's already upon us. People think men
11:21are having some challenges today. People
11:24talk about struggles and some bad
11:26economic indicators with men. No. No.
11:29No. No. No. No. That's way too weak. Men
11:31are in crisis, and not men on graphs and
11:35charts, real flesh and blood men
11:39and brothers.
11:42We should care about men.
11:44We should care tremendously about men.
11:48If men do badly,
11:50it is not as if you can vacuum seal off
11:53women and children, can you?
11:55If men do badly,
11:57women and children will do badly as
11:59well. This is not a zero-sum competition
12:04between men and women. And now it's
12:06men's time to lose and bring out the
12:09pom-poms and cheer. No, if men are doing
12:13badly,
12:14women and children are going to be
12:16directly affected. How are men doing?
12:19Six key areas today that show that men
12:24are struggling.
12:26First, men are struggling economically.
12:30In terms of work, if men in broad form
12:35are not working, men are not doing well.
12:39In Genesis 2:15, the Lord God, Yahweh,
12:43says to Adam
12:44that he is to work and protect or keep
12:49the garden.
12:50This is part of the original wiring of
12:52the man, that he's made to work. Men on
12:55average have 50 to 60% more upper body
12:59strength than women. Men on average have
13:012,000 to 3,000% more testosterone than
13:04women, boys than girls. This is why when
13:07you get home from work at the end of a
13:08long day, your girls come and give you
13:12nice, soft, delicate hugs, and your son,
13:17like a little bull, lifts up his foot at
13:19the end of the hallway, paces himself,
13:22rocks a little bit forward and backward,
13:24and then slams down the hallway and
13:26gives you the strongest tackle he can
13:28give you for no good reason at all. It's
13:30why at recess, why the little girls want
13:33to go out and talk to each other and
13:34figure out social dynamics in the third
13:36grade classroom, and the boys want to go
13:39to a basketball court or a football
13:41field or a baseball field and hit each
13:43other under the rules of a game that
13:45allows them to do so with no
13:47repercussions. It's because of the
13:50innate wiring of a boy. It's not that
13:52every boy likes sports, but it is that
13:54men are made to work. Men are made for
13:57action. If men then are not working, men
14:01are not doing well. The number of men
14:05working in prime working years today, in
14:082023,
14:10is at the same rate it was in the Great
14:13Depression 90 years ago. In 1960,
14:1993% of men aged 25 to 34 were in the
14:23labor force. 93 out of 100 men were
14:26working, aged 25 to 34.
14:28In 2021, 60 years later, that figure had
14:31fallen has fallen to 68%.
14:36So, for every 100 men out there who are
14:39aged 25 to 34,
14:4125 fewer men out of 100 are now working.
14:46They've disappeared.
14:47They're gone.
14:49They've left the workforce. Men are
14:52struggling
14:54economically. This may have impacted
14:57some of you
14:58in different ways. This isn't me blaming
15:01men for this. This is me simply trying
15:03to understand where men are today. And
15:07that in itself, brothers,
15:10is an act of compassion.
15:12To understand where someone is is itself
15:16compassionate. And there is very little
15:19compassion toward men. But I pray we can
15:22show it in our three sessions together
15:25this weekend. Second, men are struggling
15:28educationally.
15:31Men are struggling educationally in
15:33tremendous fashion. The enrollment
15:36decline in college and university has
15:39reached epic epic proportions among men.
15:43For every one woman who drops out of
15:45college today,
15:47seven men drop out.
15:50One woman drops out of UC Irvine, seven
15:53young men drop out of UC Irvine.
15:57That is not a mere trend.
16:00That is a landslide.
16:02And it's telling us something vital if
16:04we're paying attention, if we care
16:07about men. It's telling us that men
16:10again
16:12are disappearing into thin air, and
16:14nobody seems to care about them or know
16:17where they're going. Third, men are
16:19struggling spiritually.
16:22Many men are battling addiction to lust
16:24today, enslavement
16:26to the flesh.
16:28About 70% of men aged 18 to 24 view
16:32pornography on a monthly basis. Seven
16:35out of 10 young men. If those of you who
16:38work with young men remember what is
16:41happening now, you know that when you're
16:43talking to young men about pornography
16:45today,
16:47it used to be that you would assume that
16:49only a few of them were battling it.
16:51Now, you almost have to assume all of
16:54them
16:55are battling it and giving in to it. Not
16:58that necessarily everyone is, but the
17:01stats tell us a terrifying reality.
17:05With seven out of 10 college-age men
17:08basically ensnared to pornography.
17:12Pornography use, contra what people tell
17:14us, told us for years, is not neutral.
17:18Do you remember the argument that really
17:20had a lot of pull about 20 years ago?
17:24That went something like this.
17:26It doesn't matter what somebody else
17:28does in their bedroom or the privacy of
17:31their home. Sure, maybe things matter in
17:33the public square, but when I go into my
17:36house, that's no one else's business and
17:39no one has anything to say about that.
17:41Do you remember that kind of argument
17:42made with regard to homose-
17:44homosexuality and gay marriage and these
17:46sorts of topics? Christians were said to
17:48basically steer clear, stay out of this
17:50kind of material. Uh just leave me
17:52alone, you do your thing, I'll do mine.
17:54It has no effect.
17:56Brothers,
17:57nothing could be a bigger lie
18:01than that separation.
18:03Who you are in the privacy of your home
18:07is who you are in public.
18:09You may be able to pretend that there's
18:11a difference between the two. You may be
18:13able to fool people,
18:15but you're not fooling yourself,
18:17and you're not fooling God.
18:20If you use pornography, for example,
18:22privately
18:24at home
18:25on a regular basis, it increases the
18:29marital infidelity rate. Of course,
18:31pornography is marital infidelity, but
18:33in terms of physical infidelity, by more
18:36than 300%.
18:40Your private habits
18:42make a massive difference
18:45on your broader actions. You can't live
18:48one way in the dark
18:51and live the same way in the light.
18:54Who you are in private is who you are in
18:58public. And if you are giving in to
19:00sexual sin left and right in the privacy
19:03of your own home, that is going to have
19:05a massive effect on your broader life.
19:09At the same time that many men are
19:10losing the battle with temptation.
19:12They're not going to church. Uh Uh stats
19:15tell us that for every six women who go
19:17to church, four men go to church. So,
19:20men are just frankly not doing what you
19:22have done tonight on a Friday night.
19:24Thank you for being here. Men are not
19:27usually coming to church in a lot of
19:29contexts. They're dropping out. But get
19:32this, when a woman starts going to
19:34church, her kids will come with her
19:37about 17% of the time. They'll end up as
19:40regular attenders in the church.
19:43When a man starts going to church,
19:46about 93% of the time the kids will end
19:49up regular attenders in the church.
19:51What does that tell us?
19:54It tells us that more than we even know,
19:57our kids are looking to us.
20:00Our kids are looking to fathers
20:02to shape themselves, to figure out the
20:05world, to decide what truly matters.
20:08Men,
20:09wherever you are in terms of your
20:11spiritual state, wherever you are with
20:14the battle with lust, I want you to hear
20:16this. We're going to repeat this tonight
20:19and tomorrow. You can change.
20:22You can grow.
20:23God will help you. God will work in you
20:26by His gospel and His grace.
20:29God can heal you. God can heal your
20:31marriage. God can heal broken
20:34relationships with your children.
20:36God can restore the years the locust has
20:39eaten. God can strengthen you
20:41vocationally.
20:43I have seriously dire news to bring to
20:46you in this first session, but I'm not
20:48going to stay there for long because I'm
20:50a man of the Bible. God has saved me
20:52like He has saved many of you, and I
20:54thus have tremendous optimism in God,
20:57and I know through God's own work with a
21:01sinner like me that He can take a sinner
21:04like you, and He can change you, He can
21:06grow you, he can restore you, he can
21:09help you, he can rebuild you. So,
21:12wherever you are tonight, hear that.
21:15Hear that when we're dealing with God,
21:18we're dealing with the divine being of
21:20infinite possibilities who makes all
21:23things new through his mercy and his
21:25grace. So, if those stats it yes, amen.
21:28If those stats on pornography
21:32if they apply to you
21:34right now
21:36I'm not here
21:38to shout you out of the room and send
21:40you to the exits.
21:42I'm not.
21:45I don't want you to leave.
21:47I want you to stay. I want you to get to
21:49know guys here. I want you to have fun
21:50at bowling after this. I want you to
21:52show up tomorrow morning and I want you
21:54to hear that you're a sinner just like
21:56me.
21:57And that there is hope for you.
22:00And that you can break this tonight, but
22:02it's not going to come from messing
22:05around with your sin any further.
22:07Brothers
22:08here is the word on pornography. Here's
22:11a minor piece of guidance. Stop looking
22:16at pornography. Stop tonight.
22:20Go cold turkey.
22:23Pray to God.
22:26Pray to God for strength to overcome
22:30this enslavement of the flesh. If you're
22:34battling this, you are not alone.
22:37All of us men in this image-saturated
22:41culture where women do really dress very
22:44immodestly in a lot of settings, we are
22:47struggling. We are fighting every day
22:50for our lives and as Christian men for
22:52our purity. You are not alone. The grace
22:56of God though is stronger than your sin.
22:59The grace of God is stronger than sin.
23:01Does anyone believe that tonight? Amen.
23:04[applause]
23:05Amen.
23:07So, you are not overmatched by whatever
23:10struggle you come into this room this
23:13room bringing. You are not overmatched
23:16in Christ. In yourself, you are weak and
23:20ultimately, you are powerless. But, in
23:23the cross of Jesus Christ and the
23:26resurrection of Jesus Christ, sin is
23:29overcome. And when you repent of your
23:31sin and you trust in the name of Jesus
23:34Christ, sin's power truly is broken. And
23:38if you are a Christian and you have
23:40slipped into patterns of sin, you can go
23:43back to the cross and you can go back to
23:46the fountain of God's mercy and grace
23:48and you can start anew.
23:51You can always start anew in the
23:53Christian faith.
23:55There is never a point where you have
23:57missed the start anew plan.
24:01The train always comes back to the
24:03station and God is always in the
24:05business of receiving repentant sinners.
24:09The light on God the heavenly father's
24:12porch
24:13is always on
24:15and prodigals
24:16can come home at any hour of the day
24:21or night, no matter how dark it may feel
24:26for you.
24:28Men are struggling physically for
24:30struggling physically.
24:33The grip strength by one measure of
24:35physical strength of men of college men
24:38has declined in just 20 years from 117
24:43pounds of force when you grip your word,
24:45you grip it and don't let it go, right?
24:47Well, that used to grip it with 117
24:50pounds of force on average if you were a
24:51college age man. Today, you grip it with
24:5398 pounds of force. So, men are
24:58physically
24:59getting weaker. And we're getting weaker
25:02when there is no war, we're getting
25:05weaker when there has never been more
25:07food on the shelves, we're getting
25:09weaker when lots of us have free time,
25:12so-called, where we can work out or
25:14exercise, and yet something
25:18is happening
25:19to men.
25:21And it's something bigger than just it's
25:23hard to find hours with your job in the
25:26day or something like this.
25:29There's a mindset that is affecting men
25:32that I call plastic manhood.
25:36With a plastic manhood lifestyle, talk
25:39more about it tomorrow, but I'll quickly
25:40intro it here. You lead a life where
25:44your whole life is basically simulated,
25:48artificial, on screens.
25:51And there's not really any involvement
25:54in the real flesh and blood world that
25:56God has made. And what happens is you
25:59can just almost become a digitized being
26:04in this day and age. I'm not against
26:06computers, I'm not against tablets, I'm
26:08not against smartphones, I'm not against
26:10jobs in tech of all kinds. I'm not here
26:12to say any of that. I am here to say
26:14though, in this digital age, you have to
26:17be very careful that you as a man are
26:20not lured by our culture into a passive
26:24appetite-driven
26:26plastic life where you risk nothing,
26:30where you don't steward your body, where
26:32you do consume that pornography over and
26:35over on a tablet or a device, where you
26:38do just gorge yourself on food. You have
26:41to stop for a minute and say to yourself
26:43at some point, "Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
26:45Wait. Wait."
26:48What spell am I under?
26:51What sinister force wants me consuming
26:54unhealthy things all the time? Whether
26:57it's spiritual or physical or otherwise.
26:59What what power is operating in my life
27:03that I'm not aware of? I'm not seeing
27:05it, but there is an impulse right now
27:09and I am getting weaker and weaker. And
27:12I have no strength and I have no control
27:16over my desires. I am enslaved to my
27:18appetites.
27:20I'm addicted to this, this, this, and
27:22this and I can't seem to make any
27:25progress. I feel listless. I feel
27:28hopeless. I don't know what to do. What
27:31is going on with me?
27:33Brothers,
27:34there are spiritual forces
27:37and powers in the cosmos
27:40that want you to lead
27:42a plastic manly existence that is no
27:46existence at all. And part of it is you
27:49literally losing your body.
27:53I don't mean, as you can already tell by
27:55virtue of me being in the bright lights
27:57up here at the great height of 5 ft 7,
28:00that you need to become the next
28:03Schwarzenegger, okay? I'm not calling
28:06you to go out and bench press 350 by
28:10next Wednesday. That's not the takeaway
28:12from the men's conference
28:14with yours very truly.
28:16What I am trying to say though
28:19is it is not a good thing for you and me
28:23to have lost dominion of our body.
28:26The body and the soul are connected. God
28:30gave you your body. Your body is a gift
28:33of God. It's under God's total
28:36providential control, but you are
28:38responsible for stewarding your body.
28:41You are responsible in a 1 Corinthians
28:449:27 sense for not letting your body
28:48enslave you. You rule your body. There's
28:51a term here in fact that is very
28:53important that we've lost.
28:55We talk about self-control. Self-control
28:57is a good term. You know what better
28:59term is?
29:00Self-rule.
29:02Self-rule. I don't mean in a secular
29:05sense.
29:07I mean what Paul talks about in that
29:09passage, 1 Corinthians 9:27.
29:11Where you, under the influence of the
29:13Holy Spirit, say, "God gave me this to
29:17work with and I need to work with this
29:20and I need to subdue my body and I need
29:23to make it my slave so that I can do the
29:26spiritual work God has for me to do. I
29:29need to be able to defend my loved ones.
29:32I need to be able to work a job. I need
29:34to be able to live the years God wants
29:36me to live on this earth and have the
29:38influence God wants me to have. I I
29:40don't want to take that away. I want to
29:43steward this body and I've got to push
29:45back against the culture. Why does the
29:47culture
29:48want us to be fat, out of shape,
29:52listless, in pain, struggling,
29:56addicted? Why does our culture want
29:58this?
30:00Why does it encourage us to do this?
30:04Why are we consuming things
30:06that are very, very unhealthy and bad
30:09for us
30:11almost thoughtlessly?
30:13It's almost like
30:15we have a spiritual foe
30:17who wants to destroy us
30:19and who will destroy us, yes, in one
30:21action that we undertake, one terrible
30:24lustful moment with a woman or something
30:26like this, but what if we're being
30:28destroyed
30:30one hour at a time,
30:32one day at a time,
30:34one month at a time,
30:36one year at a time?
30:38Brothers, is the Christian faith
30:40a faith where you surrender to Satan
30:43and let him destroy you.
30:45Is that the Christian faith?
30:47Is that what this teaches?
30:49It's the opposite. It's that you arm up
30:53in Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ alone
30:56and you go to war against the devil
30:58every day. You fight Ephesians 6:12. I
31:01fight against principalities and powers
31:04in the heavenly realms who want our
31:07destruction. That's the Christian life.
31:10Men are struggling physically, but
31:11here's the good news.
31:13We can take dominion. We can punch back.
31:17Fifth, men are struggling in fatherless
31:20homes.
31:21Some of you are from a
31:24fatherless home.
31:26Some of you did not have a
31:28strong relationship with your father.
31:31And that has marked you
31:33all your days.
31:35And we have real compassion for men in
31:37that situation.
31:39There's a term in psychology for that.
31:42It's the father wound. It's when you
31:45don't have a close relationship with
31:47your father or if you did have a dad in
31:49your home, he didn't draw near to you. I
31:52can't tell you how often
31:54I engage men or speak to men
31:57and older men in particular will tell me
32:00my dad never said he loved me.
32:05I never once heard that.
32:08And a fair number of men will say
32:10my dad never hugged me. You know, my dad
32:13never drew me in.
32:15My dad never really
32:17connected with me.
32:19And it breaks my heart every time
32:22I hear it because there's almost nothing
32:24simpler and easier to do than tell our
32:27kids
32:29we love them
32:30and bring them close. Our boys, yes, our
32:33boys.
32:35And yet it's so
32:37rare to find men
32:40who express
32:42love for their children in this forsaken
32:45evil world, brothers.
32:48There's all kinds of fatherless homes
32:50out there in different forms
32:53and they're having a tremendous effect.
32:55Today, one out of every three American
32:58children comes from a broken home.
33:02One
33:03out of three.
33:06And 80% of single-parent homes,
33:09according to the Atlantic,
33:12are
33:13fatherless homes.
33:17God is the one who made the family.
33:22Not gender theorists.
33:25Not professors. Not celebrities. Not
33:28entertainers.
33:29When God made the family,
33:32he formed it around
33:34a man.
33:36He called the man, the first man, Adam,
33:38to leave father and mother and take one
33:42wife
33:43and hold fast to her.
33:46He didn't call the woman to hold fast to
33:49the man.
33:50He called the man to hold fast to the
33:52woman.
33:53You see, the man is supposed to be the
33:56pillar of the home, not in the sense
33:57that the woman is unimportant,
33:59absolutely not, but in the sense that
34:02that man is planted like an oak
34:05by rivers of living water.
34:08And a godly man is a man who looks at
34:11his wife in the eye or looks his kids in
34:13the eye or finds a way to say this.
34:15He's He looks at them and he says, "I'm
34:17never leaving you.
34:21I'm not walking out on you."
34:24Do you know the security that gives a
34:27child when a dad says that to them or or
34:30even just communicates that through
34:33warmth
34:34and tenderness. There is no substitute
34:39for a father who is present and loving
34:43and connected and available
34:47and forgiving.
34:50Alongside a mother, alongside a wife,
34:52that is the way the Lord has set up the
34:54family. And the family is the first
34:56institution, it precedes government, it
34:59precedes the church, it precedes any
35:02other institution. The family is where
35:04God has concentrated so much. The family
35:06is where disciples are to be made. The
35:09family is where fathers and mothers get
35:11roughly 18 to 20 years in the American
35:14form with their children to disciple
35:17them one day at a time. And a huge part
35:21of that presence on the part of a father
35:24is bringing his kids close,
35:27being tender to them,
35:29being kind to them,
35:31being engaged with them, paying
35:34attention to them,
35:38loving them,
35:40telling those kids
35:42I love you.
35:43When children have that,
35:46in an earthly sense at least,
35:48children have security.
35:51Take that away from kids
35:53and they have no security.
35:55And they no longer have a living
35:57embodiment of the heavenly Father that
36:00God intends them
36:02to have. Men,
36:04your commitment to your wife
36:07matters far more than you know.
36:09And your commitment to your wife is
36:12under far greater attack than you know
36:16today.
36:17Satan is destroying marriages left and
36:20right. It's not just like a 20-something
36:23or 30-something's problem. Satan is
36:25destroying marriages of men who are in
36:27their 40s, in their 50s, in their 60s,
36:32in their 70s.
36:33Satan with no-fault divorce has again
36:37made an a whole institution dependent on
36:40feelings. Satan keeps doing this and
36:43people keep buying it where we think
36:47that things that God has made are not
36:50dependent on God's design, God's truth,
36:53things that God has made are dependent
36:55on our feelings, our desires, our whims.
37:00Brothers, if our marriages are based on
37:03our feelings, I have news for you.
37:06They're not going to last, are they?
37:08You remember the high of your wedding
37:10day or the first week or the first 2
37:13weeks or whatever, maybe the first year,
37:16maybe the first 5 years, but at some
37:19point every marriage starts to hit real
37:22challenges and it is no longer surviving
37:25on emotion alone. You cross the point
37:30where you think, "This is challenging.
37:33I am not perfectly fitted for this.
37:37She does not understand me the way I
37:40wish she did."
37:41You get into some communication
37:43challenges.
37:45You get into some bitterness.
37:48You have some ripples in things.
37:50[snorts]
37:51You try to communicate, you try to
37:52actually heal thing It doesn't go great.
37:55The longer you're in marriage, the more
37:57this happens. And when you have a
38:00conception of marriage that tells men or
38:02women, "When your feelings drop out, you
38:06should just leave. It's not fulfilling
38:08for you anymore." What happens is that
38:11marriages will crumble. But marriage is
38:14to be based on something stronger than
38:17feelings. Marriage is based on God's
38:20design. Marriage is based on God's
38:24wisdom. Marriage is very challenging in
38:28a sinful world. It's not supposed to be
38:32easy. It's supposed to be costly. It
38:35costs you everything, [clears throat]
38:37doesn't it? It's very challenging, but
38:40it's worth it. It's a glorious
38:42institution. It images the love Jesus
38:44Christ has for his church and the love
38:47the church has for Jesus Christ.
38:49Marriage is worth all the sacrifice. It
38:51is worth all the investment. It is worth
38:54pulling the chairs together at the
38:56kitchen table when things are not going
38:58well and saying, "Honey, I've got to
38:59lead in this.
39:01I know we're a little bit out of rhythm
39:02here. We may be a lot out of rhythm, but
39:04I want to heal this. I want to work on
39:07this. I want to rebuild with you. I love
39:10you. I'm never leaving you. Let's, by
39:13God's grace,
39:14rebuild."
39:16That's what the grace of God does for
39:17us.
39:19That's what God wants from us. And if
39:21your marriage has failed,
39:23God will still work in you. You are not
39:26cast off. You are not a lesser man.
39:30If there is real pain and wreckage and
39:32chaos in your background, God will
39:35actually not just forgive you for that.
39:39God will also, when you repent and trust
39:41Christ, God will also use your pain to
39:46help others.
39:48God is a redeeming God. Even the
39:51toughest things we go through,
39:54God uses them. God puts us to work so
39:57that even if things haven't gone great
39:59in certain forms of our life,
40:01God will help us.
40:03God will take us and make us a vessel of
40:06grace to others.
40:09How do you think Job
40:11counseled people
40:13after Job went through
40:17ferocious trials.
40:19Do you think Job
40:21was more compassionate or less
40:23compassionate after what he went
40:25through? After he watched all of his
40:28children die. After he lost all of his
40:31possessions.
40:33After his entire life crumbled to
40:36nothing.
40:38Does that feel like where you are?
40:40For any of you?
40:42Does it feel like your life has just
40:44crumbled to nothing? And there's nothing
40:47left. There's a lot of men out there who
40:50feel exactly like that. And what I am
40:53here to say is that God will use that
40:57from the word of God
40:59for you to be light to other people. God
41:04will change your whole story. I read a
41:07story of a guy who got drunk, drove
41:10drunk, and killed a young woman.
41:14This is about 30 years ago.
41:16When he got to prison,
41:18he heard the gospel.
41:20He heard about Christ dying on the cross
41:22for our sins and rising from the grave.
41:25And it cut him to the heart. And he got
41:27saved on the spot. He
41:30He had no games to play
41:33about his his goodness, about his
41:35self-righteousness. He had none.
41:38He was a surrendered man. He was a
41:39defeated man. He had killed a woman,
41:43young woman, in the flush of life, the
41:45prime of life, from a happy, prospering
41:48family. He had nothing.
41:51The gospel
41:52found him
41:54at his lowest
41:56place.
41:57And he was able
42:00to reconnect with her family.
42:03And he was able to begin talking with
42:06her family. And eventually,
42:09her family
42:11completely
42:12forgave him.
42:14And what did he do?
42:16He didn't stop
42:18talking to people in prison.
42:21He started sharing the gospel with
42:24fellow prisoners, and he's had a
42:26ministry for years and years to men who
42:31enter prison just like him with nothing.
42:36With no hope.
42:37You see, God
42:39redeems
42:41even the darkest places of our lives.
42:46This is our God.
42:48We are men We are men. We are people of
42:50the cross, are we not?
42:52We are a people who know that God can
42:54take the worst evil man can devise, a
42:57Roman cross for the son of God, and God
43:00can use that for the greatest possible
43:02good to save all his people, to wash all
43:05of us clean, to atone for every sin, so
43:08that there is no sin left for us to
43:10atone for. It is all done. It is
43:12completely finished. The work of
43:14salvation then is not what you and I
43:17enter into and complete. The work of
43:19salvation is only that which we receive.
43:22That's it.
43:23That's it. The work is done. If you are
43:26here and you are low, all you must do is
43:29receive. If you're not a Christian, if
43:31you are a Christian, all you must do is
43:34receive again and again and again. The
43:38grace of God never runs dry. The
43:40fountain of mercy never dries up. It's
43:43always on. It's always there for you and
43:48for me.
43:49Sixth factor
43:51that shows us that men are struggling
43:53today is that men are targeted. Men are
43:55targeted.
43:56I've already mentioned this phrase toxic
43:59masculinity. I don't have to spell it
44:01out at further length.
44:03We can identify very quickly four major
44:07targets
44:09of men
44:12that have had a major effect on men
44:14today. And in noting these four targets
44:17in just a few minutes to come, I'm not
44:20saying that every man is not responsible
44:22for his own soul. He is. We're sinners.
44:25That's our fundamental problem before
44:26God. We're sinners.
44:29The blame goes back
44:31to us. But we do have to recognize in
44:34trying to understand what men are
44:36are up against, that there is indeed a
44:38war against men. And here is where you
44:41see four of the biggest guns against
44:44you, me, and men in general. First,
44:47there's a assault on the family.
44:50There's a devilish assault
44:52on the family.
44:54This has been happening in American
44:56culture and philosophy for at least 150
44:59years.
45:00You can think back to in the UK, the
45:02Communist Manifesto of 1871 where Marx
45:05and Engels began their call for reform
45:10with this sentence.
45:12Abolition of the family.
45:14Abolition of the family. If you've heard
45:17of Marxism, people think about it in
45:19economic terms. It's not merely
45:21economic. Marx wanted to destroy the
45:24creation order. Marx wanted to destroy
45:28the natural family, the God-made family.
45:31And this work is continued into the 20th
45:34century and the 21st century. In recent
45:37years, for example,
45:39the organization called Black Lives
45:41Matter said this about the family.
45:45We disrupt the Western-prescribed
45:47nuclear family structure requirement by
45:50supporting each other as extended
45:51families and villages that collectively
45:53care for one another, especially our
45:55children, to the degree that mothers,
45:57parents, and children are comfortable.
46:00What was missing in that last part?
46:03Men, fathers, yes? They're gone. They're
46:06erased from the platform. They don't
46:08matter. That's because in in a Marxist
46:12grid, men have had authority and power.
46:15And if you have authority and power of
46:16any kind over someone else in a Marxist
46:19grid, you're an oppressor of the other
46:21group. And so men who have been called
46:24to leadership in the home, the church,
46:26and society by God himself, men are
46:28oppressors of women. And that's what
46:31you're hearing talking in that kind of
46:34outlook. And so men are simply being
46:37erased today. Men are read as oppressive
46:41when they are strong in our society. And
46:44it's having tremendous effects. Target
46:47number two,
46:49the dominance of feminism.
46:51The dominance of feminism.
46:55One professor
46:56identified with the feminist movement
46:59said this,
47:00"If life is to survive on this planet,
47:02there must be a decontamination of the
47:04earth. I think this will be accompanied
47:06by an evolutionary process that will
47:08result in a drastic reduction of the
47:10population of males."
47:13Okay, so good.
47:16If life is to survive on this planet,
47:19men need to be thinned out. Well,
47:21there's a gentle, mild-mannered social
47:24program. That was Mary Daly.
47:28This is the thinking of a substantial
47:31portion,
47:33sadly, tragically, of ideological
47:35feminists over the last 50 to 60 years.
47:38There is the belief that men need to not
47:42just step back from leadership, but the
47:45population of men needs to be reduced.
47:49You and I can can hear that and can take
47:51that as an adult man and go,
47:53"That is ridiculous. By the way, how
47:55does life continue on this planet
47:57without men? But, that's getting a
47:59little technical
48:01in biological terms.
48:04But, think about how boys and young men
48:05are targeted by that.
48:07They're seen as contamination of the
48:09earth, brothers.
48:12Boys and young men are not contamination
48:14of the earth.
48:15We are living under madness.
48:19We are living under lies.
48:21Our boys really are being targeted, I'm
48:24here to tell you. Not by everyone out
48:26there, but by different influences who
48:28say things like this in public. This is
48:30a professor, Mary Daly.
48:33Linda Gordon, another long-time feminist
48:35voice, said this, "The nuclear family
48:38must be destroyed."
48:40Nuclear family must be destroyed. The
48:42breakup of families, she wrote, is an
48:44objectively revolutionary
48:46process.
48:48There are many influences in our society
48:51for no good reason at all who hate men
48:55and hate the family. I don't mean
48:56everyone on the left. I don't mean
48:58everyone who would
48:59claim the title feminist, but this is a
49:01real ideology that has had real
49:04effects.
49:06This is part of why our boys are seen as
49:09toxic.
49:11Target number three, attack on the
49:13fatherhood of God. The attack on the
49:15fatherhood of God.
49:19Feminist theologians have gone so far
49:20now
49:21as to rewrite the Lord's Prayer. The
49:24Lord's Prayer begins like this, as you
49:26will know.
49:27Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your
49:29name.
49:30Your kingdom come.
49:32Your will be done. And on it goes. The
49:34feminist theologians have revised the
49:36Lord's Prayer itself.
49:38Here is how they have revised it. I'm
49:39quoting.
49:41Our mother who is within us. We
49:43celebrate your many names. Your wisdom
49:45come, your will be done, unfolding from
49:47the depths within us.
49:49Well, I I know what depths are within
49:51you.
49:52There might be some barbecue depths
49:53within you right now
49:55that you are keeping contained. Thank
49:57you for that very important work
49:59at this men's event.
50:03This has actually been portrayed in a
50:05recent Apple commercial, in fact. I
50:07don't know if some of you saw this, the
50:09Apple commercial with Mother Nature
50:11and carbon elimination from all of the
50:16world. Mother Nature was this divine
50:18being. I'm I'm not making this up. This
50:20was a big commercial. Tim Cook himself,
50:23the head of Apple, was in this
50:24commercial. And Mother Nature is an
50:26angry, climate justice-driven
50:29god, which tells us fascinatingly that
50:31the technocrats today believe in a
50:33divine being.
50:34I thought new new atheism had won.
50:37I thought we were done with divine
50:40beings. No, we're good with actually a
50:42feminine goddess.
50:44The goddess divine. That's what our
50:46culture is good with. You know what our
50:48culture is not good with?
50:50God the Father.
50:52God the Father is now written out of
50:55the Lord's Prayer. There has been a
50:57massive attack in theological circles on
51:01God the Father. And I know who is behind
51:04it, and I'm guessing you might as well.
51:07Target number four, the growth of woke
51:10cancel culture.
51:12The growth of woke cancel culture.
51:16Our society, for the reasons I sketched
51:18just a minute ago, is now
51:20oppression-obsessed.
51:23And this has seeped into the church.
51:25It's seeped into society.
51:27It has rewritten and revised American
51:30history. It has caused the younger
51:32generations, at least in large form, to
51:35hate their country. It is destroying our
51:37country. It is destroying schools. It is
51:40destroying professions. It is destroying
51:43churches. Wokeness has had a terrible
51:46and tremendous impact. And now we all
51:50see ourselves, according to this
51:52ideology at least, as victims. We are
51:55oppressed by others who are oppressing
51:57us. And this means that men are read as
52:01oppressors of women because men do not
52:04have equal authority and equal strength
52:07in different context. Listen, equity,
52:09where everybody would be the same as in
52:12a Marxist vision or a socialist vision
52:14or a leftist vision, is a lie.
52:17It's a delusion. You can't make
52:19everybody the same.
52:21God doesn't make everybody the same.
52:25I would like
52:27to be playing at Staples Center right
52:31now.
52:33Or, if I was especially virtuous, the
52:35Boston Garden.
52:40Okay, now we're getting real.
52:43You were You were all polite before that
52:45one, weren't you?
52:47I grew up in Maine.
52:49Boston Celtics fan, 1980s.
52:53Outside of the blood of
52:55Outside of the blood of Christ, we don't
52:56like each other, do we?
53:02[laughter]
53:02I don't know what was just said, but I
53:03think it was against me. But anyway,
53:06I feel oppressed.
53:11Actually, the Lakers and Celtics are now
53:13tied for the most banner. Do you know
53:14all this? These are things I actually
53:16think about. It's kind of like the Roman
53:17Empire. I think about
53:20I think about this like three times a
53:22week. Just like, we're tied with the
53:23Lakers.
53:24This is This is serious.
53:28Well, I'm going to think about Maximus
53:29in Gladiator and be happier about that.
53:33Not for long, they said. Oh, we'll see
53:35about that.
53:36We'll see about that. We got a good team
53:38this year, baby. No, no, no, no. I like
53:41you guys. I like you guys. Okay. I would
53:43like to be in the NBA, but to cut to the
53:47quick, it didn't happen for me.
53:49I was not given certain abilities and
53:52certain, shall we say, genetic
53:54advantages. That's the way God made me,
53:56though, right? God has not made us the
53:59same. You could give two kids even from
54:02a very wealthy home. Let's say, kids of
54:04a billionaire. You could give them each
54:06a hundred million dollars. One of them
54:08would invest that and go on to become a
54:09CEO like his father. The other would
54:12start a poetry foundation and try to
54:15spread peace in the world and and be an
54:18agent of change. One is not better than
54:20the than the other necessarily. They
54:22they choose different paths with the
54:24money given them. Inequity does not owe
54:26only to oppression, but try telling this
54:29to our culture. Suffice it to say that
54:32men don't fit well in woke cancel
54:34culture. Men know they don't fit. It
54:37doesn't It doesn't work. Men need free
54:39speech. Men need to be able to debate
54:41things. Boys need to be able to learn to
54:43communicate. This is a terrible culture
54:45for our kids to be growing up in. Men do
54:48not fit in this. Men are not made to
54:51want uh to to sit quietly and and not
54:55share opinions and not hash things out.
54:58Men need to be able to do some of this,
55:00but our society has made such
55:02enterprises poisoned. What is the
55:04solution? I have just a few minutes
55:07left. What is the solution to all of
55:09this?
55:10I just gave you a lot of
55:15pretty discouraging material.
55:18Yeah?
55:19You feeling that? You glad you came to
55:21the men's conference? Great. At least
55:22you got the Lakers-Celtics thing. You
55:24hang on to that, baby.
55:26The solution, brothers, is very clearly
55:29laid out in scripture. And there is a
55:30solution to this problem and this moment
55:34right now.
55:35The solution to what ails us is
55:39strength.
55:44The solution is not to say
55:48that boys and young men are toxic
55:51and write them off.
55:53The solution is to train boys and young
55:56men to be men who are strong in God, not
56:01strong in themselves. Every man is weak
56:04in himself, but to be strong in the
56:06grace and mercy of God,
56:10which has a thousand good effects. You
56:12find this in the scripture. In 1 Kings
56:152,
56:16I referenced this earlier.
56:181 Kings 2:1,
56:21if you ever hear that the Bible doesn't
56:22call men to be strong,
56:24we got a Bible quiz to take.
56:271 Kings 2:1, when David's time to to die
56:30drew near, he commanded Solomon his son
56:32saying, "I'm about to go the way of all
56:34the earth. Be strong
56:37and show yourself
56:39a man
56:40and keep the charge of the Lord your
56:43God." And on it goes.
56:46What is David saying?
56:48David is saying to his boy, "You need to
56:51not be weak in a sinful way.
56:54You need to be strong in God. And by the
56:57way, you need to prove and show that
57:01you're a man." Boys need to be called
57:04up.
57:05Boys don't need standards taken away
57:08from them and defined down, so there is
57:11nothing for them to aspire to. Boys are
57:14born wanting to be strong. Boys want
57:17somebody to call them to become
57:19something greater than they are. Boys
57:22don't want a device-addicted
57:24life naturally. Boys want a father who
57:28invests in them and leads them by the
57:31hand into maturity and adulthood. And
57:34that is what David is communicating to
57:36his son, Solomon, be strong and show
57:40yourself a man. The way that you prove
57:43that you are a man
57:45is strength, but not strength like the
57:48world defines it, God-word strength,
57:50strength that is grounded in the word of
57:52God, strength that is grounded in
57:54obedience to God, powered by the grace
57:57of God. This is what David is calling
57:59Solomon to. You think, secondly, of the
58:02witness of Joshua 1.
58:04The witness of Joshua 1, where Yahweh
58:06says this to young Joshua, maybe a
58:10college-aged guy, not old, not seasoned.
58:14Yahweh comes directly to Joshua and says
58:18three times,
58:20Joshua 1:6, be strong and courageous,
58:23for you shall cause this people to
58:25inherit the land that I swore to their
58:27fathers to give them.
58:30Verse 7, only be strong and very
58:33courageous, being careful to do
58:35according to all the law that Moses, my
58:37servant, commanded you. Where How is
58:39strength defined? It's defined first in
58:42spiritual terms, first as God has made
58:45it, God has given it, do the law. By the
58:49grace of God, follow God. Verse 9, have
58:53I not commanded you, be strong and
58:57courageous?
58:59It still echoes in our time.
59:03Men are still being called by God to
59:07strength, strength that is found not in
59:11you, strength that is found in God.
59:15God will give you this strength. God
59:19That's what God is telling Joshua. He's
59:22saying to Joshua, you don't have to do
59:24this on your own. I'm going to be with
59:27you wherever you go." He says that in
59:29this passage. He's going to give him the
59:32strength. So, Joshua needs to look to
59:34God. What do men in desperate times do?
59:38They look to God.
59:41They call on God
59:43for strength.
59:45We see this thirdly in 1 Corinthians 16
59:48in the New Testament.
59:501 Corinthians 16:13, "Be watchful," Paul
59:53writes.
59:54Stand firm in the faith.
59:58Act like men.
1:00:00Be strong.
1:00:02Let all that you do
1:00:04be done
1:00:05in love.
1:00:07Andresestha in the Greek is translated
1:00:11act like men.
1:00:13Which is basically Paul saying
1:00:16what the Lord said in the Old Testament,
1:00:19be strong and courageous. It's just a
1:00:20New Testament way of saying that. Be
1:00:23strong and courageous, brothers.
1:00:25You and I don't have this in ourselves,
1:00:27but God's grace and mercy will make us
1:00:31strong and courageous.
1:00:33You and I are not called to make peace
1:00:36with the devil and his evil rule. You
1:00:38and I are called to resist the devil.
1:00:41You and I are called to put on the whole
1:00:43armor of God as the whole church is.
1:00:45Ephesians 6:10-20.
1:00:48Every Christian does these things, but
1:00:50men must lead in these things. We must
1:00:54once again, as in the days of the kings
1:00:57and the warriors, be strong and
1:00:59courageous in God. There is no other
1:01:02way. There is no other plan. There is no
1:01:05other program. The call of a godly man
1:01:08is to lead, protect, and provide. Lead,
1:01:12protect, and provide. And God will help
1:01:16us to do this.
1:01:18God loves calling men to tasks that are
1:01:22way too big for men. And then God loves
1:01:26to give men all the grace they need to
1:01:30do it. And God will do that for you.
1:01:33When God saved Saul and made him Paul,
1:01:38Saul had no strength in himself to then
1:01:42become the apostle to the Gentiles.
1:01:46He wasn't ready for that. It wasn't in
1:01:48him, but God equipped him for that.
1:01:52Whatever God has for you men, God will
1:01:55give you the strength for it. He will
1:01:58not leave you lacking. He is a generous
1:02:01and kind God.
1:02:04This is what scripture tells us. Second
1:02:06Corinthians 9:8 as we wrap up here in
1:02:10this first session.
1:02:12Second Corinthians 9:8, God is able to
1:02:14make all grace abound to you, so that
1:02:17having all sufficiency in all things at
1:02:19all times, you may abound in every good
1:02:22work.
1:02:24Second Timothy 2:13, if we are
1:02:27faithless, he remains faithful, for he
1:02:31cannot deny himself.
1:02:33First John 1:9,
1:02:35if we confess our sins,
1:02:37he is faithful and just to forgive us
1:02:40our sins and to cleanse us
1:02:43from all
1:02:44unrighteousness.
1:02:46Brothers,
1:02:49you are not toxic.
1:02:52Young men,
1:02:54you are not toxic.
1:02:57Boys, our boys who may not even be here,
1:03:01they are not toxic.
1:03:04What every man needs
1:03:06is what God freely extends to us.
1:03:09It is the grace of God. The culture may
1:03:14say that men are gone, extinct,
1:03:17outmoded, and unneeded.
1:03:19It is a lie.
1:03:21Brothers, we need you more than ever.
1:03:25Hear the ancient call.
1:03:29Be strong
1:03:30and show yourself
1:03:32a man. By the grace of God,
1:03:36you can do it.
1:03:37Let's pray.
1:03:39Father, please help us to live out
1:03:42the vision of your word. These are
1:03:44indeed evil days, but we know that you
1:03:46are a great God. You are a forgiving
1:03:48God. You are a loving God. You are the
1:03:51God
1:03:52who loves to welcome prodigal sinners
1:03:54home. You are the God, Jeremiah 31:3, of
1:03:58eternal love. You are the God who will
1:04:01not cast off his children. My prayer for
1:04:04these men of Compass and any guests who
1:04:07have come is that you will make them
1:04:09strong, strong in Christ, not strong in
1:04:13themselves. And I pray, Father, that you
1:04:15will unleash them in this community, in
1:04:18this state, in this region, in our
1:04:20country. I pray, Father God, that you
1:04:23will do a mighty work when the days are
1:04:25evil. Evil men create bad times, but
1:04:29strong men in God create good times. Let
1:04:32it be so once more, Father, we pray in
1:04:34Jesus' name. Amen.

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