Toxic Masculinity?
In this video, Pastor Johnson discusses the topic of masculinity from a biblical perspective. He references to helpful passages like 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 and 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. (For your benefit, his script is below)
Strength for Life is a Ministry of NorthStone Baptist Church in Pensacola
Pastor James C. Johnson
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Toxic masculinity ?
Is that actually a thing? Certainly there are bad men out there but there are also bad women. People are sinners. Evil is prevalent. To refer to masculinity in general as toxic is a lazy broad brush and unhelpful.
In actuality, men should embrace their masculinity. The attack on masculinity in our day is all part of the devil’s agenda to blur gender distinctions.
The fact is, God created only two genders and entrusted to them unique abilities that complement one another.
Men should embrace their masculinity and women should embrace their femininity. Any attempt to merge the two is an attack on God‘s creation.
So what does it mean to be masculine? Interestingly, God‘s Word explains that men should act like men when it says, “Quit you like men” in 1 Corinthians 16:13.
The Bible instructs us men to act like men which implies that we are not to act like women, we’re not to act like animals, and we’re not to act like children, we are to act like men.
The text explains that men should be vigilant when it says “watch ye.” Men should watch over their own hearts, and vigilantly protect their families and those that God has entrusted to their care. Men are to be protectors and providers.
Also, masculine men should be men of Scriptural conviction as opposed to constant vacillation. The text says, “stand fast in the faith.” - “stand fast” implies conviction and “in the faith” is Scriptural.
Additionally the text tells men to be strong not weak. Strong physically, sure, but additionally Godly men should be strong spiritually, emotionally, and mentally.
Review- So biblical masculinity is seen in men who are vigilantly protecting their hearts, their families, men who have scriptural conviction, and men who are strong in all the areas of life that matter.
However, biblical masculinity is also seen in love.
Verse 14 says, “Let all your things be done with charity.”
And remember MEN that “charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
This is what biblical masculinity is all about.
It’s not about trying to be John Wayne or Andrew Tate. It’s about trying to be like Jesus Christ; conformed to HIS image.
We definitely don’t need more beta males, and actually we don’t need alpha males. Instead, we need more men that reflect the Alpha and Omega, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The rarity of strong biblical male leadership in our homes, churches, and our country is a part of the destruction of each of those institutions.
Ladies, if you have a strong, godly, Christlike man in your life, go tell him that you love him.
And Men, in spite of what our woke culture is telling us, God is telling us to embrace our masculinity and allow it to be tempered by His Spirit and regulated by His Word.
May God help us men to be watchful, intentional, strong, and charitable as we pursue being the men that God commands us to be.
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