I wrote this book last year, staying firm and act like men, because how many of you know that when men lead and love well, everybody flourishes?

And so, ladies, I'm going to be talking to the men, but you're smart enough to make all of the connections.

They're not. So I have to put this thing on the bottom shelf. The Bible has so much good news for men that if you're a man that was God's idea, you don't

have to apologize for being a man.

In 1st Corinthians, chapter 16, 13, and 14.

This is where I got the title of the book from the Bible says, be watchful, stand firm in the

faith, act like men, be strong, let all that you do be done in love. And the way that I see

that, the imperative act like men is like the hub in the middle of the wheel and then the instructions

around it are how we are to do that. And so we live in a world, we even have to define what is a man.

What it means to stand up and act like a man is first and foremost, you've got to bend your knee to the God man, Jesus Christ.

And so the Apostle Paul says, be watchful or watch out because we are at war.

Very few people woke up this morning realizing that we have an enemy who is a thief

and he only wants to still kill and destroy.

And if you don't know that you're about to get in a fight, you're always going to lose.

You know what a sucker punch is? Some of going to lose you know what a sucker punch is

some of you look like you know what a sucker punch is a sucker punch is a sucker punch is when punches

are about to happen and you don't know punches were going to happen and you're the sucker

and the enemy if he can take out the man who was put on that wall to defend and protect those that he loves

and care for, our families, our community, our churches, our nation, then by definition, those that

we love most will be left defenseless.

The reason I want to go to 1st Peter chapter 5 is Peter is talking to the men in his church and he gives us he gives us

kind of the photo negative of what men ought to be doing in order to fight against the attacks

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