RISE UP AND act like men

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RISE UP AND act like men

• 1 Corinthians 1613-14 NKJV
• Be watchful, stand fast in the faith, be brave,
  be strong. Let all that you do be done with
  love.

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ACT LIKE MEN

• stand fastbe bravebe strong (NKJV)
• stand firm...be men of courage...be strong
  (NIV)
• stand fastquit you like menbe strong (KJV)
• stand firmact like menbe strong (ESV, NASB)
• andrízo (from aner, a man or husband) - To
  behave like a man (New American Standard
  Exhaustive Concordance), to act manly (Strong),
  to show oneself to be a man (Thayer)
• to behave oneself with the wisdom and courage of
  a man, as opposed to a baby (The Complete Word
  Study Dictionary).

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COURAGEACTING LIKE A MAN VS. ACTING LIKE A BABY

• Strength - courage

• Fear- trembling- dismay

• Firmness
• Steadiness
• Resoluteness
• Fixity of purpose
• Decisive action
• Determined action
• Hopefulness

• Faint-heartedness
• Despondence
• Shrinking back from decision
• Shrinking back from action
• Weak-kneed response
• Vacillating response
• Hopelessness

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CONVICTIONS WHICH ARE AT THE ROOT OF GODLY COURAGE

• The assurance of the presence of God with us
• The certainty of a righteous cause
• The confidence in the providence of God

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THE COURAGE OF JESUS CHRIST

• Hebrews 123-4 NKJV
• (3) For consider Him who endured such hostility
  from sinners against Himself, lest you become
  weary and discouraged in your souls. (4) You
  have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving
  against sin.
• Hebrews 121-2 NKJV
• since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of
  witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight,
  and sin which clings so closely, and let us run
  with endurance the race that is set before us,
  (2) looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter
  of our faith, who for the joy that was set before
  him endured the cross, despising the shame, and
  is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
  

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A MANS CALLING

• Ephesians 522-33 NKJV
• (22) Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to
  the Lord. (23) For the husband is head of the
  wife, as also Christ is head of the church and
  He is the Savior of the body. (24) Therefore,
  just as the church is subject to Christ, so let
  the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
  (25) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
  also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
  (26) that He might sanctify and cleanse her with
  the washing of water by the word, (27) that He
  might present her to Himself a glorious church,
  not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but
  that she should be holy and without blemish.
  (28) So husbands ought to love their own wives
  as their own bodies he who loves his wife loves
  himself. (29) For no one ever hated his own
  flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as
  the Lord does the church. (30) For we are
  members of His body, of His flesh and of His
  bones. (31) "FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE
  HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE,
  AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH." (32) This
  is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ
  and the church. (33) Nevertheless let each one
  of you in particular so love his own wife as
  himself, and let the wife see that she respects
  her husband.

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NOT CALLED TO LIVE LIKE THE GENTILES

• Ephesians 417-19 NKJV
• This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord,
  that you should no longer walk as the rest of the
  Gentiles walk
• How do the Gentiles walk?
• in the futility of their mind
• with a darkened understanding
• alienated from the life of God
• Why do they walk that way?
• they are ignorant
• they have blind hearts
• they are past feeling
• they have given themselves over to lewdness, to
  work all uncleanness with greediness

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CALLED TO LIVE LIKE WE LEARNED CHRIST

• Ephesians 420-24 NKJV
• But you have not so learned Christ, (21) if
  indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by
  Him, as the truth is in Jesus
• What did Christ teach them?
• to put off our former conduct
• to put off the old man which grows corrupt
  according to the deceitful lusts
• that we are renewed in the spirit of our mind
• to put on the new man which was created
  according to God, in true righteousness and
  holiness.

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CALLED TO LIVE LIKE CHRIST NOT LIKE THE GENTILES

• Ephesians 522-33 NKJV
• (22) Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to
  the Lord. (23) For the husband is head of the
  wife, as also Christ is head of the church and
  He is the Savior of the body. (24) Therefore,
  just as the church is subject to Christ, so let
  the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
  (25) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
  also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
  (26) that He might sanctify and cleanse her with
  the washing of water by the word, (27) that He
  might present her to Himself a glorious church,
  not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but
  that she should be holy and without blemish.
  (28) So husbands ought to love their own wives
  as their own bodies he who loves his wife loves
  himself. (29) For no one ever hated his own
  flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as
  the Lord does the church. (30) For we are
  members of His body, of His flesh and of His
  bones. (31) "FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE
  HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE,
  AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH." (32) This
  is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ
  and the church. (33) Nevertheless let each one
  of you in particular so love his own wife as
  himself, and let the wife see that she respects
  her husband.

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CALLED TO LIVE LIKE CHRIST

• Ephesians 522-33
• (22) Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to
  the Lord. (23) For the husband is head of the
  wife, as also Christ is head of the church and
  He is the Savior of the body. (24) Therefore,
  just as the church is subject to Christ, so let
  the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
  
• (25) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
  also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
  (26) that He might sanctify and cleanse her with
  the washing of water by the word, (27) that He
  might present her to Himself a glorious church,
  not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but
  that she should be holy and without blemish.
  (28) So husbands ought to love their own wives
  as their own bodies he who loves his wife loves
  himself. (29) For no one ever hated his own
  flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as
  the Lord does the church. (30) For we are
  members of His body, of His flesh and of His
  bones. (31) "FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE
  HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE,
  AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH." (32) This
  is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ
  and the church. (33) Nevertheless let each one
  of you in particular so love his own wife as
  himself,
• (33)and let the wife see that she respects her
  husband.

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CALLED TO LIVE LIKE CHRIST

• Ephesians 525-33a NKJV
• (25) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
  also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
  (26) that He might sanctify and cleanse her with
  the washing of water by the word, (27) that He
  might present her to Himself a glorious church,
  not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but
  that she should be holy and without blemish.
• (28) So husbands ought to love their own wives as
  their own bodies he who loves his wife loves
  himself. (29) For no one ever hated his own
  flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as
  the Lord does the church. (30) For we are
  members of His body, of His flesh and of His
  bones. (31) "FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE
  HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE,
  AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.
• (32) This is a great mystery, but I speak
  concerning Christ and the church. (33)
  Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so
  love his own wife as himself

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A CHRIST CENTERED HOME

• 1Corinthians 113 NKJV
• But I want you to know that the head of every man
  is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head
  of Christ is God.

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A CHRIST CENTERED HOME

• 1Corinthians 113 NKJV
• But I want you to know that the head of every man
  is Christ
• the head of woman is man
• and the head of Christ is God.

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HOW A MAN TREATS HIS WIFE(AND OTHER WOMEN)

• 1 Peter 37 NKJV
• Husbands, likewise , dwell with them with
  understanding, giving honor to the wife
• as to the weaker vessel
• and as being heirs together of the grace of
  life
• so that your prayers may not be hindered.
• likewise like the Lord Jesus Christ

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A MATURE MAN

• Ephesians 47-14 NKJV
• But to each one of us grace was given according
  to the measure of Christ's gift.
• And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some
  prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and
  teachers for
• the equipping of the saints for the work of
  ministry
• the edifying of the body of Christ
• until we all come
• to the unity of the faith
• to the knowledge of the Son of God
• to a perfect mature or complete man
• to the measure of the stature of the fullness of
  Christ
• so that we should no longer be childrenwho
  are tossed to and fro and carried about with
  every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men,
  in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting

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A MATURE MANS CHARACTER

• blameless
• the husband of one wife
• temperate
• sober-minded
• of good behavior
• hospitable
• able to teach
• not given to wine
• not violent
• not greedy for money
• gentle
• not quarrelsome
• not covetous
• ...he must have a good testimony among those who
  are outside

one who rules his own house well, having his
children in submission with all reverence (for if
a man does not know how to rule his own house,
how will he take care of the church of God?)
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FATHERS AND THE GOSPEL

• Malachi 44-6 NKJV
• (4) "Remember the Law of Moses, My servant,
  Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,
  With the statutes and judgments. (5) Behold, I
  will send you Elijah the prophet Before the
  coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
  (6) And he will turn The hearts of the fathers
  to the children, And the hearts of the children
  to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the
  earth with a curse.

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FATHERS NEED TO TEACH

• Deuteronomy 64-12 NKJV
• Hear, O Israel The LORD our God, the LORD is
  one!
• You shall love the LORD your God with all your
  heart, with all your soul, and with all your
  strength. "And these words which I command you
  today shall be in your heart.
• You shall teach them diligently to your children,
  and shall talk of them when you sit in your
  house, when you walk by the way, when you lie
  down, and when you rise up.
• You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and
  they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
• You shall write them on the doorposts of your
  house and on your gates.

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FATHERS AS MENTORS

• John 519-20 NKJV
• Then Jesus answered and said to them, Most
  assuredly, I say to you, The Son can do nothing
  of Himself, but what he sees the Father do for
  whatever he does, the Son also does in like
  manner. For the Father loves the Son , and shows
  him all things that He Himself does and He will
  show Him greater works than these, that you may
  marvel.

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THE HOME IS THE FOUNTAIN LIFE TO THE WORLD