#119: Biblical Manhood

On episode 119, Tim discusses a controversial subject in 2025 - biblical manhood.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome into episode one hundred and nineteen of Bring Heaven Down. First,
before I dive into the topic today, I must apologize
because I recorded this podcast yesterday and for some unknown
reason I got sidetracked. I accidentally closed the recording browser

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without saving it, and I lost all of my work.
But here we are back at it. So thank you
for joining the show today and for your understanding. Today
I want to discuss biblical manhood because this subject is

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a very important one and also a very controversial one
in twenty twenty five. But the Bible is clear on
what a man is responsible for. We're also going to
talk about what a man isn't supposed to do. But
can we just be honest about it. Men and women

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are created differently and are designed differently. There are things
women can do that men can't do, and there are
things men can do that women can do. You can
talk to or look at the two different genders for

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about two seconds and understand that men and women were
designed differently biologically, psychologically, and emotionally. And in the Fijis
chapter five, verses twenty five through thirty two, it says this, husbands,

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love your wife as Christ loved the church. And gave
himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having
cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
so that he might present the church to himself and splendor,
without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, that she
might be holy and without blemish. And the same way

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husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He
who loves his wife loves himself, for no one has
ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it,
just as Christ does the Church, because we are members
of his body. What these verses are telling us is

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that men are responsible for the spiritual leadership within their families.
But it is also clear that men are not called
to be tyrants. They are not called to rule families
with an iron fist or a dictator's attitude, nor are

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they instructed to be weak need toward their families. It
is about being humble. It is about self control, protection, provision,
and leadership. A good way I can illustrate this is
an experience that I had in my family's history. When
my wife and I were engaged to be married. She

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came up to me with this idea and said, you
know what would be a good idea is we should
pray together before we leave, and we still do that
to this day. When she goes to work or I
go to work. If we depart each other for whatever
the reason, we always pray for each other and our
days ahead, that we would glorify God in what we do.
And it wasn't my idea. So I could have iron

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fisted it and said no, not my idea, not doing it,
but that would have been the wrong approach. It was
a phenomenal idea. It wasn't my idea. But in that
position of leadership, I had a decision to make. Do
I support this idea, build up my wife, encourage her
and say hey, that was a great idea, and let's
do it as the leader, or as the leader, do

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I say, well, it wasn't my idea, we're not doing it.
And leadership isn't always about having the idea. It's about
humbling yourself to hear different ideas. And the statistics behind
the leadership of men are really astonishing because you look

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at the statistics and here's what it says. If men
attend church regularly on Sundays, the rest of the family
is going to follow about seventy five percent of the time.
If the women is the only one attending church on

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a Sunday, that percentage drops to around twenty. So it
just shows you the leadership role that a man holds
within the family. We are responsible for the spiritual leadership,
and it is not an easy job to have because

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we're also responsible for protection. Men are responsible for loving
their wives and protecting their wives and their children and
all of these things that I'm saying I don't think
are controversial at all, But in a society where women

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feel degraded because men have this leadership role, they're looking
at it wrong. The way you should be looking at
it is we were designed differently with different skills, and
women are just as equal as men are, but can

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do things that men can't. And the vice versa is
also true. Men are responsible for doing things that women
are not responsible to do. And where people get mistaken
is well, I don't feel respected because you said I

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can't do this thing that men can do, while you're
looking at it wrong. You can do things that men
can't do. So gender roles are very clear in scripture,
and I really should do a podcast on women and
the role that they play within the church and within
the family because it is a very important role too,

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so I'll do that one soon. But that's the podcast
for today. Thank you for choosing Jesus and I hope
this podcast was helpful for you, and I pray that
the Holy Spirit would reveal himself elf more and more
to you. Thank you for choosing Jesus today.