September 23, 2025 • 21 mins
Are you striving to become a man who is strong, successful, and respected? This video introduces a new series, 'Jesus: The Man Most Worth Following I,' where he explores how Jesus embodies the ultimate role model for men.
Don argues that qualities men aspire to, such as strength, courage, and honor, were perfectly demonstrated by Jesus. Whether it's about success, building relationships, or living with purpose, Jesus set the example.
If you want to grow into the best version of yourself, join us in this journey of examining the life of Jesus through the lens of manhood.
00:00 Introduction: Becoming a Man Worthy of Respect
01:10 Introducing the Series: Jesus, The Man Most Worth Following
03:59 Jesus as the Embodiment of the Best Man
05:23 The Five Marks of Manhood
09:01 Jesus and Success: Redefining Achievement
12:17 Jesus and Relationships: Righteousness in Action
16:51 Purpose and Mission: Living with Intent
19:15 Conclusion: Join the Conversation
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Don Ross (00:00):
If you're like most men, you're probably trying to
become someone who is worthy ofbeing respected.
You want to be a man who isstrong, solid, successful.
Competent, dependable, all ofthese things are really, really
good, but figuring out how toget there, how to become that
(00:22):
version of yourself can feelsometimes more challenging maybe
than it seems even worth.
What if I told you that thatversion of yourself already
exists?
The man you're trying to becomeis a real person, and his name
is Jesus.
Okay, hang with me.
(00:44):
Don't click away just yet.
I want to try to present to youan idea that maybe you've not
given much thought to, that theman you're aspiring to be is
someone who is actually worthfollowing, and whether or not
you're currently following him.
It's worth giving it somethought about what kind of role
(01:06):
Jesus can or does play in yourlife.
Okay, my name's Don, and here weare at the Manhood Tribes
Channel, and I would love to beable to introduce you to this
new series of episodes that weare doing.
I'm calling this series JesusThe Man Most Worth Following I.
(01:27):
Now I'm doing this for a fewreasons.
One, I've just come out with abook.
It's called How to Be a Man, andat the end of that book I talk
about this idea that Jesus isthe man most worth following,
but I only am able to give it afew pages there in that book,
and I really would like to giveit more of a treatment.
So I, I wanna do that here, butmore importantly, I want to be
(01:49):
able to help you as a man tofigure out who it is that you
are trying to become.
See, the thing about us as menis that.
The way that we go aboutfiguring out who we are, who we
want to be.
The kind of men that we'retrying to become is usually by
looking at other men around usor in our world.
(02:11):
So we identify role models.
I.
Or leading figures or maybe evenmen from history who we admire,
who we think stand for thethings that are worthy of
standing up for, and who wethink accomplish the things that
we would like to be able toaccomplish, who are successful
in the ways that we would liketo be successful, and we try to
(02:33):
aim our life.
Somewhat in those directions totry to be like those men to try
to become what they are or to dowhat they did or to, in some way
follow along in their footstepsas a way of emulating.
Yeah.
This seems like the wise path tofollow for being the kind of man
that I want to be.
(02:54):
Now I say all of that, knowingthat that sounds very
intentional, right?
It sounds like, oh, I've gotthis plan and here's who I'm
trying to become and this iswhat I want to be like, and this
is what I want to do with mylife.
I think the reality for most ofus guys is that it's not nearly
that intentional in the way thatwe're actually living it out.
It's kind of much more nebulous,sort of this idea of like, yeah,
(03:16):
I kind of have an idea of what agood man is supposed to be, or
the kind of man that I want tobe like.
But if I'm honest, I'm reallyjust kind of taking it day to
day.
And as life kind of presentsitself to me, I'm doing the best
I can with the situations that Ihave to face.
Yeah, I might have some goals, Imight have some things that I'm
trying to accomplish, but forthe most part I'm just sort of.
(03:40):
Managing the difficulty and thetension in my life and doing the
best that I can with what I'mgiven.
Now, that's not all bad, butdoing the best that you can.
Comes from somewhere.
You've got some idea of bestthat you have figured out from
some place.
What I really want to try tochallenge you with is the idea
(04:02):
that Best already has adefinition, and we get to see
that definition lived out in theperson of Jesus.
The best man that you can bealready has an embodiment in who
he is.
Now, that doesn't mean thatyou're going to live exactly the
(04:22):
same kind of life that Jesuslived, right?
He lived his life.
He lived it in a certain way,and he did certain things that
fit in his context and histimeframe while he was here on
the earth.
You are not in that.
Same context and that sametimeframe.
So the way that you live yourlife is not going to look
exactly like the way that helived his life, but there are
(04:44):
some things about him and thekind of man that he was that are
worthy of emulating and I thinkcan help us be able to get to be
the best man that we possiblycan be.
So let's talk about a little bitof what that looks like.
What would it look like to bethe kind of man that Jesus was?
(05:05):
If he really is the man who ismost worth following, what makes
him so great?
Why would we actually want tofollow him?
What about my life as a man isgoing to get better?
Or how am I going to become theman that I want to be if I do
follow him and try to live likehe lived?
If you followed along on thischannel at all, you know that I
(05:27):
talk a lot about the.
Five marks of manhood.
These are the things that Ibelieve every man should possess
in order to demonstrate what itmeans to be a man.
And those five marks arestrength, courage, skill, honor,
and allegiance.
Now, I'm gonna spend a lot oftime unpacking those specific
things and how Jesus embodiedthose things individually in
(05:50):
another episode.
So I don't wanna spend a lot oftime on it here.
But what I do want to say isthat Jesus lived those things
out.
The most perfect way possiblethat a man ever could.
And I say this because I thinkthis is really important for us
to understand at the outset.
Jesus was a man.
(06:12):
Right.
So like we know he was a person,we know he was human.
But I think it's reallyimportant for us to remember
that Jesus was male.
He was a man, and this is, thisis a really important part of
who he is and how he came to theearth.
He demonstrated what it was likefor God to become man by
actually being.
A man being a male, and he livedout masculinity in the best way
(06:36):
possible.
I think in a lot of ways ourcultural kind of moment wants to
sort of forget the masculinityof Jesus.
We'd like to kind of downplaythat side of him in order to
make him.
More relatable, more relevant toa culture that has both men and
women in it, right?
How if, if Jesus is just a man,does he have anything to say to
(06:58):
women?
Well, of course he does.
But our culture has gotten intothis very binary, uh, mode of
thinking where if you are promale, that means you have to be
anti female.
That's just rubbish.
And Jesus made it really clearthat that wasn't the case.
He was able to be pro male andpro female and do it really well
while living as a man.
(07:19):
As a man, and that's soimportant.
He lived out the life of a manand did it as well as any man
could.
So we're gonna spend a littlemore time unpacking that in a
future episode, but I just wannahighlight that point off from
the beginning.
That Jesus living as a man isimportant.
We're following him not justbecause he's good, but also
(07:40):
because he's masculine.
He actually demonstrates what itmeans to be a man, and as men,
we can learn from him about.
Manhood.
We don't just learn from himabout what it means to be a good
person or how to be a servant,or how to be holy or you know,
whatever.
Like any of those kind ofreligious things that you think
(08:02):
Jesus is all about.
Well, he is about those things,but he also is about being a
man.
And so we need to kind ofrecapture this idea that.
Whatever it does mean to be aman and how to be able to do it
well.
Jesus did it best.
He lived as a man better thananyone else did, and if we can
begin with that idea in mind,then it's not so hard to
(08:26):
actually find the ways that heis being the kind of man that.
All of us actually do want tobe.
So let's look at some big areaswhere we as men are kind of
chasing.
What are the things that you asa man really kind of want to be
able to be and to be able to doin your life?
Now, uh, again, Jesus didn'tlive the same kind of life that
(08:49):
you lived, so not everything isgonna line up perfectly, but the
way that he lived and the waythat you live, I think are meant
to have a lot of things incommon.
So let's start with a big one.
Let's start with success.
Most of us as men are reallykind of chasing success in one
way or another.
We want to be successful in ourcareers.
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We want to be successful atmaking money.
We want to be successful athaving an impact and leaving a
legacy.
We want to be known forsomething.
We want some measure of successin this life that is gonna carry
over in some way.
Whether that's, uh, sendingsomething down to our kids, you
know, our descendants, uh, orwhether that's just leaving
(09:32):
behind a mark on the earth.
We did some good here thatactually counted for something
and impacted lives beyond ourown life.
Whatever that looks like, we'relooking for some.
Kind of success.
And it feels a little weird attimes to talk about success and
Jesus in the same conversation.
I think we've kind of gotten itinto our heads that like, that
(09:52):
feels prideful or that thatfeels like, uh, arrogant or
inappropriate in some way.
To look at Jesus and to say, ohyeah, he was successful or he
desired to be successful, but.
Guys, let's be honest.
Name another teacher in thecourse of human history who has
had more of an impact on humans.
Anywhere you won't find one.
(10:15):
Jesus is the best teacher whohas ever lived.
He has had more impact onbillions and billions of people
who live and have lived on theearth than any other person who
has ever lived.
Okay, you wanna talk aboutimpact?
You wanna talk about success?
Jesus accomplished it.
(10:37):
Again, maybe not in exactly thesame way that you are thinking
about success, but that's thepoint.
Jesus was thinking aboutsuccess.
He was thinking about how can Iactually build my kingdom and
what is gonna be the way for meto do that?
He followed a path that mightlook and feel a little different
than you think about success.
(10:58):
But there's no denying that he'sbeen successful.
He absolutely has had anunbelievable and beyond
anybody's kind of capability orreach than we can imagine.
Big time version of success.
Okay, so Jesus understandssuccess and he understands as
men that this is something thatwe are going after.
And so as men, it's worth ourtime to really examine his life
(11:22):
and to say, well, how did hepursue success?
How did he think about the waythat he taught as a teacher?
How did he think about the waythat he planned for his legacy
or his future or what he wasgoing to leave behind so that
people could carry on hismission?
He thought about all of thesethings and he thought about them
really intentionally.
He set all of these things up sothat success could carry on
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beyond him, but using all of theteaching and all of the serving
and all of the ways of livingthat he made a priority.
He empowered other people to beable to do those things so that
his success reached far beyondhim and his specific lifetime
here on the earth.
So success.
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Jesus understands it as a man.
He models for us a way to beable to do it, and his life is
worth looking at for us tofigure out how to do that well.
Let's talk about another bigcategory.
Let's talk about relationships.
For many of us as men, we reallywant to be successful in the
area of relationships.
We want to be married, and wewant to have kids, and we want
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to relate well to our friends,to our coworkers, to our, you
know, distance family.
Like what, however you want tolabel the people in your life.
Whatever those relationships arethat you really want to do, well
at most of us do have that as acategory where we are kind of
chasing after we want a goodmarriage, we want to be a good
dad, those kinds of things.
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Now, Jesus really cared a lotabout relationships.
Again, maybe in his lifetime,not exactly kind of the ways
that you did, right?
Jesus didn't get married.
He didn't have kids, but he didvery much care about the way
that he treated people.
He modeled ways of being able tolove people well, to care for
(13:13):
them, to serve, for them, to puttheir needs even above his own
for the sake of being able tobuild them up as people.
And the scriptures, theChristian scriptures, there's a
word for the way that Jesusrelated to people that's kind of
become this like big, fancy,holy religious word.
That word is righteousness.
(13:35):
Righteousness really is just theidea of relating rightly to
other people, re relating toother people the way that God
would have us relate.
And that applies to the way thatwe relate to God as well.
Righteousness means relating.
I.
Rightly, and if we look atJesus, we see that he had truly
(13:57):
phenomenal relationships.
He was loved, and he loved sowell.
The people in his life were soholy devoted to him.
They couldn't resist beingaround him, wanting to spend
time with him, wanting to knowhim more, wanting to.
Follow him.
Respecting him, honoring him,serving him, doing as he asked,
(14:21):
adopting his mission, carryingout the things that he cared
about.
All of those are things that we,as men, I think long for, oh my
gosh.
What I wouldn't give to have my,you know, teenage sons rise up
in the morning and say, dad, Iwant to spend more time around
you today, and can I please doall of the things that you're
asking me to do?
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Oh my gosh, that would be.
Revolutionary, right?
That would be life changing.
To have people in my life whoacted that way.
Everyone around Jesus acted thatway towards him because he knew
how to relate rightly to thepeople in his life.
He modeled.
Righteousness, that idea ofrelating rightly.
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And so when we look at his life,we need to say, okay, maybe he
didn't have the exact same kindsof relationships in his life as
I have in mine, but he knew howto do relationships well.
He knew how to love people.
He knew how to serve people.
He knew how to care for theirinterests.
And in doing that, they couldn'thelp but want to do the same for
(15:24):
him.
Everyone in Jesus's presencefelt loved and cared for except
the people who were opposed tothe mission that he knew he was
supposed to be a part of.
And this is a key part as well.
Jesus was certainly not withoutenemies.
So when we talk about relatingrightly, we can look at his life
as well and see that, oh, therewere some places where, uh,
(15:46):
there were relationships in hislife that weren't going
smoothly.
Where there was real conflictand real opposition, but we can
look at those relationships andsee why was that opposition
there?
And it wasn't because Jesus wasantagonistic and difficult to
get along with.
It wasn't because Jesus wasawkward or because he was
painful to be around.
(16:07):
No, it was.
It was never that.
It was because he had clarity ofpurpose and mission, and he
wasn't afraid to call out thepeople who were opposed to that
mission or who were in the wayof seeing that mission
accomplished.
And when he did that, he made itreally clear what people he
wanted around him and whatpeople needed to move in another
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direction or get in line withwhat he was doing.
He was radically polarizingbecause of that.
He was a very polarizing.
Person during his lifetime.
But in doing so, he made itreally clear what relating
rightly was all about, and thisidea of purpose and mission was
a big part of that.
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Now speaking of purpose andmission, that's another thing
that I think we ought to talkabout in terms of what it means
that we as men are reallyhungering after we long to have
a sense of purpose in thisworld, to have an idea of what
we're meant for, what we'recalled to, how we're supposed
to.
Make a mark in the world howwe're supposed to leave a legacy
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and make a difference in thework that we do or the things
that we're passionate about andthat we care about.
We long to have a sense thatwhen we wake up in the morning,
I've got something to do, andthat's something matters.
Men are designed for that we aremeant to contribute to the world
in significant ways.
Nobody.
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Modeled this better than Jesus.
Jesus had perfect clarity aboutwhat his mission was, and he
talked about it regularly, howhe only did what he saw the
father doing.
He knew that God had given himthat mission and he was going
after it full throttle andfull-heartedly.
He knew that that was hispurpose and that was what he was
(17:54):
about, and so he.
Woke up every day knowing thisis what I'm here for.
This is what I'm meant to do.
He also, and we can sometimesforget this, because the Bible
actually only covers about threeyears of his life.
He also knew when it wasn't timeto focus on that mission.
He spent maybe upwards of about30 years of his life not being
(18:15):
specifically devoted to thatmission, or at least being
devoted to it in ways that weremore obscure.
He was building.
He was preparing, he wasbecoming the kind of man who
could live out that purpose whenthe time was right, when he was
called up into the big leagues,so to speak, he was ready for
his moment, but he spent a lotof years in obscurity preparing
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for and getting ready for that.
Purpose and being able to liveit out.
So there's a whole lot there.
I mean, we could spend, gosh,multiple episodes just on that
one idea alone.
But the idea that Jesus had apurpose and he lived it out very
well by preparing for it formany years.
And then by stepping into itwhen the moment was right, he
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knew what he was about and hemade the difference that he came
to make.
In fact, he's still making thatdifference.
Even 2000 years later.
We are still being impacted byhis purpose and his vision for
what he wanted to accomplish.
Okay.
Now look, I've only said a fewthings here, but I hope I'm
beginning to paint the picturefor you.
'cause this is really just thebeginning of our journey of
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examining Jesus as the man who'smost worthy of following.
But I think the idea probably isclear by this point what it is
that you're chasing after as aman.
You're going to find itsultimate fulfillment.
Jesus, you're going to find thathe is the man that you are
trying to become.
And so the more that you can getthat picture in your head, the
(19:46):
more I think that you're gonnaget.
Kind of curious about Jesus,kind of curious about his life
and why he lived the way that helived, why he did the things
that he did, and maybe that he'sworth looking at.
A little more of a secondglance.
Maybe he's worth giving anotheropportunity to, maybe you've
written him off in the pastbecause of things you've seen
his followers do, and Lord knowswe, his followers have certainly
(20:09):
made a lot of mistakes and havenot done him right many times
over.
But just because we, theimperfect ones, haven't lived
that out well.
It doesn't mean that he, theperfect man isn't still worth
following.
And that's what I'm hoping thatwe can do in this series is
really take a better look atJesus the man and examine why it
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is that he actually is worthfollowing and why we as men need
to see him as our ultimateexample sample.
So if you want to become astronger, better man, don't just
look at the men around you.
Look at Jesus.
And stick with us for thisseries.
We're just getting started and Ithink you're gonna love where
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we're going next.
Okay, in the comments downbelow, I would love for you to
engage with us.
Just post one thing about Jesusthat you would like to grow in
as a man.
What's one quality of Jesus'life that you admire that you
would like to get better at?
And if you're curious about howyou can get better as a man,
I've got a resource that I wouldlove to get in front of you that
(21:12):
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If you're like most men, you're probably trying to
become someone who is worthy ofbeing respected.
You want to be a man who isstrong, solid, successful.
Competent, dependable, all ofthese things are really, really
good, but figuring out how toget there, how to become that
(00:22):
version of yourself can feelsometimes more challenging maybe
than it seems even worth.
What if I told you that thatversion of yourself already
exists?
The man you're trying to becomeis a real person, and his name
is Jesus.
Okay, hang with me.
(00:44):
Don't click away just yet.
I want to try to present to youan idea that maybe you've not
given much thought to, that theman you're aspiring to be is
someone who is actually worthfollowing, and whether or not
you're currently following him.
It's worth giving it somethought about what kind of role
(01:06):
Jesus can or does play in yourlife.
Okay, my name's Don, and here weare at the Manhood Tribes
Channel, and I would love to beable to introduce you to this
new series of episodes that weare doing.
I'm calling this series JesusThe Man Most Worth Following I.
(01:27):
Now I'm doing this for a fewreasons.
One, I've just come out with abook.
It's called How to Be a Man, andat the end of that book I talk
about this idea that Jesus isthe man most worth following,
but I only am able to give it afew pages there in that book,
and I really would like to giveit more of a treatment.
So I, I wanna do that here, butmore importantly, I want to be
(01:49):
able to help you as a man tofigure out who it is that you
are trying to become.
See, the thing about us as menis that.
The way that we go aboutfiguring out who we are, who we
want to be.
The kind of men that we'retrying to become is usually by
looking at other men around usor in our world.
(02:11):
So we identify role models.
I.
Or leading figures or maybe evenmen from history who we admire,
who we think stand for thethings that are worthy of
standing up for, and who wethink accomplish the things that
we would like to be able toaccomplish, who are successful
in the ways that we would liketo be successful, and we try to
(02:33):
aim our life.
Somewhat in those directions totry to be like those men to try
to become what they are or to dowhat they did or to, in some way
follow along in their footstepsas a way of emulating.
Yeah.
This seems like the wise path tofollow for being the kind of man
that I want to be.
(02:54):
Now I say all of that, knowingthat that sounds very
intentional, right?
It sounds like, oh, I've gotthis plan and here's who I'm
trying to become and this iswhat I want to be like, and this
is what I want to do with mylife.
I think the reality for most ofus guys is that it's not nearly
that intentional in the way thatwe're actually living it out.
It's kind of much more nebulous,sort of this idea of like, yeah,
(03:16):
I kind of have an idea of what agood man is supposed to be, or
the kind of man that I want tobe like.
But if I'm honest, I'm reallyjust kind of taking it day to
day.
And as life kind of presentsitself to me, I'm doing the best
I can with the situations that Ihave to face.
Yeah, I might have some goals, Imight have some things that I'm
trying to accomplish, but forthe most part I'm just sort of.
(03:40):
Managing the difficulty and thetension in my life and doing the
best that I can with what I'mgiven.
Now, that's not all bad, butdoing the best that you can.
Comes from somewhere.
You've got some idea of bestthat you have figured out from
some place.
What I really want to try tochallenge you with is the idea
(04:02):
that Best already has adefinition, and we get to see
that definition lived out in theperson of Jesus.
The best man that you can bealready has an embodiment in who
he is.
Now, that doesn't mean thatyou're going to live exactly the
(04:22):
same kind of life that Jesuslived, right?
He lived his life.
He lived it in a certain way,and he did certain things that
fit in his context and histimeframe while he was here on
the earth.
You are not in that.
Same context and that sametimeframe.
So the way that you live yourlife is not going to look
exactly like the way that helived his life, but there are
(04:44):
some things about him and thekind of man that he was that are
worthy of emulating and I thinkcan help us be able to get to be
the best man that we possiblycan be.
So let's talk about a little bitof what that looks like.
What would it look like to bethe kind of man that Jesus was?
(05:05):
If he really is the man who ismost worth following, what makes
him so great?
Why would we actually want tofollow him?
What about my life as a man isgoing to get better?
Or how am I going to become theman that I want to be if I do
follow him and try to live likehe lived?
If you followed along on thischannel at all, you know that I
(05:27):
talk a lot about the.
Five marks of manhood.
These are the things that Ibelieve every man should possess
in order to demonstrate what itmeans to be a man.
And those five marks arestrength, courage, skill, honor,
and allegiance.
Now, I'm gonna spend a lot oftime unpacking those specific
things and how Jesus embodiedthose things individually in
(05:50):
another episode.
So I don't wanna spend a lot oftime on it here.
But what I do want to say isthat Jesus lived those things
out.
The most perfect way possiblethat a man ever could.
And I say this because I thinkthis is really important for us
to understand at the outset.
Jesus was a man.
(06:12):
Right.
So like we know he was a person,we know he was human.
But I think it's reallyimportant for us to remember
that Jesus was male.
He was a man, and this is, thisis a really important part of
who he is and how he came to theearth.
He demonstrated what it was likefor God to become man by
actually being.
A man being a male, and he livedout masculinity in the best way
(06:36):
possible.
I think in a lot of ways ourcultural kind of moment wants to
sort of forget the masculinityof Jesus.
We'd like to kind of downplaythat side of him in order to
make him.
More relatable, more relevant toa culture that has both men and
women in it, right?
How if, if Jesus is just a man,does he have anything to say to
(06:58):
women?
Well, of course he does.
But our culture has gotten intothis very binary, uh, mode of
thinking where if you are promale, that means you have to be
anti female.
That's just rubbish.
And Jesus made it really clearthat that wasn't the case.
He was able to be pro male andpro female and do it really well
while living as a man.
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As a man, and that's soimportant.
He lived out the life of a manand did it as well as any man
could.
So we're gonna spend a littlemore time unpacking that in a
future episode, but I just wannahighlight that point off from
the beginning.
That Jesus living as a man isimportant.
We're following him not justbecause he's good, but also
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because he's masculine.
He actually demonstrates what itmeans to be a man, and as men,
we can learn from him about.
Manhood.
We don't just learn from himabout what it means to be a good
person or how to be a servant,or how to be holy or you know,
whatever.
Like any of those kind ofreligious things that you think
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Jesus is all about.
Well, he is about those things,but he also is about being a
man.
And so we need to kind ofrecapture this idea that.
Whatever it does mean to be aman and how to be able to do it
well.
Jesus did it best.
He lived as a man better thananyone else did, and if we can
begin with that idea in mind,then it's not so hard to
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actually find the ways that heis being the kind of man that.
All of us actually do want tobe.
So let's look at some big areaswhere we as men are kind of
chasing.
What are the things that you asa man really kind of want to be
able to be and to be able to doin your life?
Now, uh, again, Jesus didn'tlive the same kind of life that
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you lived, so not everything isgonna line up perfectly, but the
way that he lived and the waythat you live, I think are meant
to have a lot of things incommon.
So let's start with a big one.
Let's start with success.
Most of us as men are reallykind of chasing success in one
way or another.
We want to be successful in ourcareers.
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We want to be successful atmaking money.
We want to be successful athaving an impact and leaving a
legacy.
We want to be known forsomething.
We want some measure of successin this life that is gonna carry
over in some way.
Whether that's, uh, sendingsomething down to our kids, you
know, our descendants, uh, orwhether that's just leaving
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behind a mark on the earth.
We did some good here thatactually counted for something
and impacted lives beyond ourown life.
Whatever that looks like, we'relooking for some.
Kind of success.
And it feels a little weird attimes to talk about success and
Jesus in the same conversation.
I think we've kind of gotten itinto our heads that like, that
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feels prideful or that thatfeels like, uh, arrogant or
inappropriate in some way.
To look at Jesus and to say, ohyeah, he was successful or he
desired to be successful, but.
Guys, let's be honest.
Name another teacher in thecourse of human history who has
had more of an impact on humans.
Anywhere you won't find one.
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Jesus is the best teacher whohas ever lived.
He has had more impact onbillions and billions of people
who live and have lived on theearth than any other person who
has ever lived.
Okay, you wanna talk aboutimpact?
You wanna talk about success?
Jesus accomplished it.
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Again, maybe not in exactly thesame way that you are thinking
about success, but that's thepoint.
Jesus was thinking aboutsuccess.
He was thinking about how can Iactually build my kingdom and
what is gonna be the way for meto do that?
He followed a path that mightlook and feel a little different
than you think about success.
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But there's no denying that he'sbeen successful.
He absolutely has had anunbelievable and beyond
anybody's kind of capability orreach than we can imagine.
Big time version of success.
Okay, so Jesus understandssuccess and he understands as
men that this is something thatwe are going after.
And so as men, it's worth ourtime to really examine his life
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and to say, well, how did hepursue success?
How did he think about the waythat he taught as a teacher?
How did he think about the waythat he planned for his legacy
or his future or what he wasgoing to leave behind so that
people could carry on hismission?
He thought about all of thesethings and he thought about them
really intentionally.
He set all of these things up sothat success could carry on
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beyond him, but using all of theteaching and all of the serving
and all of the ways of livingthat he made a priority.
He empowered other people to beable to do those things so that
his success reached far beyondhim and his specific lifetime
here on the earth.
So success.
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Jesus understands it as a man.
He models for us a way to beable to do it, and his life is
worth looking at for us tofigure out how to do that well.
Let's talk about another bigcategory.
Let's talk about relationships.
For many of us as men, we reallywant to be successful in the
area of relationships.
We want to be married, and wewant to have kids, and we want
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to relate well to our friends,to our coworkers, to our, you
know, distance family.
Like what, however you want tolabel the people in your life.
Whatever those relationships arethat you really want to do, well
at most of us do have that as acategory where we are kind of
chasing after we want a goodmarriage, we want to be a good
dad, those kinds of things.
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Now, Jesus really cared a lotabout relationships.
Again, maybe in his lifetime,not exactly kind of the ways
that you did, right?
Jesus didn't get married.
He didn't have kids, but he didvery much care about the way
that he treated people.
He modeled ways of being able tolove people well, to care for
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them, to serve, for them, to puttheir needs even above his own
for the sake of being able tobuild them up as people.
And the scriptures, theChristian scriptures, there's a
word for the way that Jesusrelated to people that's kind of
become this like big, fancy,holy religious word.
That word is righteousness.
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Righteousness really is just theidea of relating rightly to
other people, re relating toother people the way that God
would have us relate.
And that applies to the way thatwe relate to God as well.
Righteousness means relating.
I.
Rightly, and if we look atJesus, we see that he had truly
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phenomenal relationships.
He was loved, and he loved sowell.
The people in his life were soholy devoted to him.
They couldn't resist beingaround him, wanting to spend
time with him, wanting to knowhim more, wanting to.
Follow him.
Respecting him, honoring him,serving him, doing as he asked,
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adopting his mission, carryingout the things that he cared
about.
All of those are things that we,as men, I think long for, oh my
gosh.
What I wouldn't give to have my,you know, teenage sons rise up
in the morning and say, dad, Iwant to spend more time around
you today, and can I please doall of the things that you're
asking me to do?
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Oh my gosh, that would be.
Revolutionary, right?
That would be life changing.
To have people in my life whoacted that way.
Everyone around Jesus acted thatway towards him because he knew
how to relate rightly to thepeople in his life.
He modeled.
Righteousness, that idea ofrelating rightly.
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And so when we look at his life,we need to say, okay, maybe he
didn't have the exact same kindsof relationships in his life as
I have in mine, but he knew howto do relationships well.
He knew how to love people.
He knew how to serve people.
He knew how to care for theirinterests.
And in doing that, they couldn'thelp but want to do the same for
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him.
Everyone in Jesus's presencefelt loved and cared for except
the people who were opposed tothe mission that he knew he was
supposed to be a part of.
And this is a key part as well.
Jesus was certainly not withoutenemies.
So when we talk about relatingrightly, we can look at his life
as well and see that, oh, therewere some places where, uh,
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there were relationships in hislife that weren't going
smoothly.
Where there was real conflictand real opposition, but we can
look at those relationships andsee why was that opposition
there?
And it wasn't because Jesus wasantagonistic and difficult to
get along with.
It wasn't because Jesus wasawkward or because he was
painful to be around.
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No, it was.
It was never that.
It was because he had clarity ofpurpose and mission, and he
wasn't afraid to call out thepeople who were opposed to that
mission or who were in the wayof seeing that mission
accomplished.
And when he did that, he made itreally clear what people he
wanted around him and whatpeople needed to move in another
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direction or get in line withwhat he was doing.
He was radically polarizingbecause of that.
He was a very polarizing.
Person during his lifetime.
But in doing so, he made itreally clear what relating
rightly was all about, and thisidea of purpose and mission was
a big part of that.
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Now speaking of purpose andmission, that's another thing
that I think we ought to talkabout in terms of what it means
that we as men are reallyhungering after we long to have
a sense of purpose in thisworld, to have an idea of what
we're meant for, what we'recalled to, how we're supposed
to.
Make a mark in the world howwe're supposed to leave a legacy
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and make a difference in thework that we do or the things
that we're passionate about andthat we care about.
We long to have a sense thatwhen we wake up in the morning,
I've got something to do, andthat's something matters.
Men are designed for that we aremeant to contribute to the world
in significant ways.
Nobody.
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Modeled this better than Jesus.
Jesus had perfect clarity aboutwhat his mission was, and he
talked about it regularly, howhe only did what he saw the
father doing.
He knew that God had given himthat mission and he was going
after it full throttle andfull-heartedly.
He knew that that was hispurpose and that was what he was
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about, and so he.
Woke up every day knowing thisis what I'm here for.
This is what I'm meant to do.
He also, and we can sometimesforget this, because the Bible
actually only covers about threeyears of his life.
He also knew when it wasn't timeto focus on that mission.
He spent maybe upwards of about30 years of his life not being
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specifically devoted to thatmission, or at least being
devoted to it in ways that weremore obscure.
He was building.
He was preparing, he wasbecoming the kind of man who
could live out that purpose whenthe time was right, when he was
called up into the big leagues,so to speak, he was ready for
his moment, but he spent a lotof years in obscurity preparing
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for and getting ready for that.
Purpose and being able to liveit out.
So there's a whole lot there.
I mean, we could spend, gosh,multiple episodes just on that
one idea alone.
But the idea that Jesus had apurpose and he lived it out very
well by preparing for it formany years.
And then by stepping into itwhen the moment was right, he
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knew what he was about and hemade the difference that he came
to make.
In fact, he's still making thatdifference.
Even 2000 years later.
We are still being impacted byhis purpose and his vision for
what he wanted to accomplish.
Okay.
Now look, I've only said a fewthings here, but I hope I'm
beginning to paint the picturefor you.
'cause this is really just thebeginning of our journey of
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examining Jesus as the man who'smost worthy of following.
But I think the idea probably isclear by this point what it is
that you're chasing after as aman.
You're going to find itsultimate fulfillment.
Jesus, you're going to find thathe is the man that you are
trying to become.
And so the more that you can getthat picture in your head, the
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more I think that you're gonnaget.
Kind of curious about Jesus,kind of curious about his life
and why he lived the way that helived, why he did the things
that he did, and maybe that he'sworth looking at.
A little more of a secondglance.
Maybe he's worth giving anotheropportunity to, maybe you've
written him off in the pastbecause of things you've seen
his followers do, and Lord knowswe, his followers have certainly
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made a lot of mistakes and havenot done him right many times
over.
But just because we, theimperfect ones, haven't lived
that out well.
It doesn't mean that he, theperfect man isn't still worth
following.
And that's what I'm hoping thatwe can do in this series is
really take a better look atJesus the man and examine why it
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is that he actually is worthfollowing and why we as men need
to see him as our ultimateexample sample.
So if you want to become astronger, better man, don't just
look at the men around you.
Look at Jesus.
And stick with us for thisseries.
We're just getting started and Ithink you're gonna love where
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we're going next.
Okay, in the comments downbelow, I would love for you to
engage with us.
Just post one thing about Jesusthat you would like to grow in
as a man.
What's one quality of Jesus'life that you admire that you
would like to get better at?
And if you're curious about howyou can get better as a man,
I've got a resource that I wouldlove to get in front of you that
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is called How Manly are You?
It's a free quiz that we havehere in Manhood Tribes that will
help you explore those fivemarks of manhood that I
mentioned earlier, and to figureout where you're doing well and
where you can get better.
If you go to manhoodtribes.com/manly, you can
download our, how Manly are you?
Quiz for free today, so check itout now.
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I appreciate it and I lookforward to talking to you again
next time here on the ManhoodTribes Channel.
I'll see you then.
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