Worship the active ingredient of Masculinity

My assignment is to reunite your worship and Masculinity. In other words Connect "who you are" with "whose you are". The divorce of "who you are" from "whose you are" will flaw your navigation through life as a man,  because you have no sense of direction or purpose. It's like using a GPS system to travel but never entering a destination.

2 EFFECTS OF THE DISCONNECT

I. Without this connection there is no defenses against obvious traps. You are prone to fall for anything.

II. No Repellant against nagging parasites that suck life from you. A parasite is An organism that lives in or outside of an host and benefits from deriving nutrients from it.

     -endoparasite Live on the inside. They live off and leave their waste in you.
Therefore, the porn, sexual glutiny, gambling, stubborness, homosexuality live off the nutrients of your finance and time while leaving the waste of debit and emptiness. Brothers what endoparasite have you let inside?

I argue that, THE UNION OF WORSHIP AND MASCULINITY IS VITAL TO MEN. I have to know who I am and whose I am. MASCULINITY is found in being the image of God.

Genesis 1:26-27
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

MASCULINITY therefore is mirroring our FATHER.
Worship allows us to see the Father so we can adjust our image accordingly.
True worship is established when a man follows the direction of His Father
Idolatry is disobeying His word and in that practice we lose
- our purpose
-completeness
-and ultimately  masculinity

All this Leads then to THE CURSE TO PERFORM.
After the fall of man, Genesis 3:17-19
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Meaning we will be driven with the desire to perform/work but never being satisfied. Worship is the only place we find the fulfillment Adam enjoyed prior to his fall. that's why no matter how hard we perform outside of His presences, we feel lack. Sex, work , relationships and even our spirituality without worship is empty.


LUKE 15 speaks of a man in this predicament. The prodigal son.
Vs. 13 A. Clause ............"And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country,"
The son decides to disconnect from the father . Decides to not follow the wishes of his father and leaves the House. He disassociates his identity to his father.

13b - 14....."and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want."
WE ARE ALL IN A STATE OF WANT. DON'T BELIEVE ME CHECK THE SIN YOU. YOUR SINS ARE LANDMARKS TO YOUR LACK AND EMPTINESS. WHAT ARE YOU LACKING TONIGHT?


He suffers the 2 EFFECTS OF DISCONNECT

1. His disassociation of identity shows  No defense against traps. The B. clause states he wasted his money. He fell in a trap that sapped his resource.

2. He works for a parasite that doesn't recognize his value and is thrown to the pigs. It's scary to be comfortable with pigs. If he remembered the Son he was ....then he would not have be CONNECTED TO PIGS.
-consider your connections




Verse 17. And when he came to himself.  This means that "who he was" aligned back to "whose he was".
WHEN THE MAN REUNITES WITH THE WORSHIPPER
WHEN THE HUSBAND REUNITES WITH THE WORSHIPPER
WHEN THE SON REUNITES WITH THE WORSHIPPER

THEN LIVE IN THE HOUSE , THE PRESENCE OF GOD NOT IN THE PIG PEN

Tonight we have come to reunite masculinity and worship. This Devine alignment. The alignment is repentance.

Words from the Cross - The Horizontal Dimension

Of the many things we have mastered in church we have greatly failed in relationship.

We are "Experts" at marketing services and events. We are skilled in areas of music, industry and enterprise. We have successfully crossed our music over on secular airwaves. Corporations and government agencies will pour financial support into our buildings and missions. And multimillion dollar ministry can be erected on the charisma of a single person and present opportunity for branding and world wide prestige. Behind the pulpit people can master speaking awesome  messages yet fail the test of Relational  ministry.

In our review of the cross we can not over look the 2 dimensional figure presented before us. The vertical dimension manifested in the reconnection of God and man, can not be more important than but is equal to the horizontal dimension reconnecting man to his brother. When racial killing is done on the basis of being black, then the healing of the relational piece is missing. What has happened to the horizontal mission of the cross?

The absence of this essential ministry robs the Christian experience of its greatest life here on Earth. The fullness of life Jesus offers is completed in the relationships of incomplete people that have been redesigned according to the word of GOD.

Early church fathers took the idea of community and love very serious. In scripture consider the following. 

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. (1 John 3:14 KJV)

The way we know we've been transferred from death to life is that we love our brothers and sisters. Anyone who doesn't love is as good as dead. (1 John 3:14 MSG) 

 

 

Loveless people are dead people. 

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:1, 2 KJV)

Loveless people are worthless people. 

From the cross Jesus establishes a principle we often over look. When He looks in the crowd, he sees 2 people that He loves. And sees that they are going to be wounded due to the connection they have with Him.  

A disciple. One willing to be close to his master at the cross  even if would cost his life. John being there speaks to the devotion John had for the master. For as the others where a far off, John stayed close. He now watches the one he loves get rip violently from his life. Leaving a void that only love could fill.

A mother. She after enduring the labor pains of child that was never meant for her enjoyment, watches Him die. Did she know He would be snatched from her like this? What pain she has to endure. She too has a void only love could fill.

Jesus sees the 2 needs and as The word speaks from the cross.......... "Mother behold your son, Son behold your mother." Remember .......The fullness of life Jesus offers is completed in the relationships of incomplete people that have been redesigned according to the word of GOD. In that moment Mary's void of a son is matched with John's void and through the word the voids resolve each other. This is the miracle of this word and the one we need to rediscover. The answer to my void is in you and at His word we can find fullness in relationship with each other.

 

Like puzzle pieces that look odd when they stand alone, we are deformed when follow the desire of isolation. But when we see our selves as one body, we will discover that joining together makes our lives complete and changes puzzles into masterpieces.