How many of you have heard the term toxic masculinity?

Some of you.

Well, in this age of so-called toxic masculinity,

in the age of transgenderism,

in the age of a ferocious attack on biblical manhood and biblical womanhood, an age where many

are father proven to be delinquent in exercising their God-given servant leadership in the home,

in an age where many a father have abandoned their families, in an age where fathers

are portrayed on television as buffoons and a bumbling idiots, someone who's really just slightly

more valuable than a family pet. In this toxic environment, and it is toxic. The words of 1 Corinthians 4, 14,

to 21 are sobering words regarding fatherhood. By the way, I don't need to tell you that the whole

reason we are in this confusion, cultural confusion, national confusion,

or even global confusion, is a result of turning our backs on God and His Word.

Please listen to me.

The answer is not surrendering to the so-called sexual revolution.

The answer is not capitulating to the so-called sexual revolution. The answer is not capitulating to this mass deception regarding manhood and womanhood. The answer is not to invite into the

Church of Jesus the tampering with God's created order. Why do I say this?

Because doing that will only lead us further into moral decay and moral extinction.

To do this is going to literally dissolve our Western civilization before our eyes. Indeed, this is the time for God's people

to faithfully but lovingly say, thus says the Lord. Say it with me. Thus,

that God calls men and fathers to be role models, to lovingly serve and lead, to lovingly model

godliness, to be a role model in authentically leading by sacrificial giving and living and loving.

So we've been seeing in this series of messages from 1 Corinthians,

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