The heart of being the man God desires you to be is to get a grip on the responsibility

you have for the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of your wife and your family.

That's where you begin. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. The buck stops here.

A sign with those words sat on President

Harry Truman's desk during his years

in the Oval Office.

The motto symbolized his leadership style. As Truman explained more than once, those words meant

there's no shirking responsibility. Someone has to be held accountable. That's certainly a good motto for husbands to follow, and it's a biblical one, as

you'll see today. John MacArthur is continuing his study, the fulfilled family, by focusing

on the leadership responsibilities God has given men in the home.

So head to the book of Ephesians as John begins today's lesson.

Turn in your Bible to Ephesians chapter 5. lesson. We have direct instruction to husbands by God's design and by God's will clearly

expressed in scripture the man is the head of the household he is leader, he is the one responsible for the success of the marriage,

the success of the family, the well-being of everyone involved.

So say what we must, and we must must say it about the women's liberation movement.

Say what we must and will say about feminism and its agenda.

Say what we will about the satanic assault on the proper role of a woman, we also cannot

ignore the issue of male irresponsibility, the issue of male liberation, which perhaps in the end is even more devastating.

It would seem to me that feminism would have a much tougher time surviving, let alone gaining ground in a world where men understood their responsibility

clearly. And we are asking the question today, and it's a question that all of us ponder, where are the strong husbands?

Where are the loyal loving, leading husbands and fathers?

Where are those men who are the backbone, the solid framework of structure

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