-2.png)
The Jason DeMars Podcast
The Jason DeMars Podcast
It's Good To Be A Man
Unlock the secrets of biblical manhood and leadership as we draw from the profound teachings of Brother William Marion Branham. Have you ever wondered how proper family order aligns with God's design and contributes to the flourishing of wives and children? This episode uncovers the true essence of manliness according to scripture, reflecting on the distinctive roles of men and women and the importance of bravery, strength, and sacred trusts in modern times.
We'll journey through scriptures like 1 Corinthians 16:13 and Joshua 1:6-9 to understand the divine blueprint for true masculinity. Discover the responsibilities that come with being a man in alignment with Christ's nature, and how addressing gender roles according to biblical expectations can lead to a more harmonious family dynamic. Together, we’ll explore the consequences of deviating from these roles and the crucial role men play in guiding their families faithfully, drawing wisdom from Adam's account in the Garden of Eden.
Finally, we’ll discuss the sacred trust of strength and how physical and spiritual resilience are vital to fulfilling God's design for men. From the importance of character over mere physical prowess to practical tips on enhancing physical strength and health, this episode serves as a comprehensive guide for young men aspiring to be effective leaders. Embrace true masculinity and leadership by integrating wisdom, workmanship, and strength into your everyday life, and rise to contribute positively to societal change.
Greetings Bible believers and followers of the End Time Message. Welcome to another episode of the Jason DeMars Podcast, the place where we explore the incredible mysteries hidden within the pages of the Bible. I'm your host, jason DeMars. It's time to get started on another journey into the heart of God's Word. If it's your desire to grow in revelation and see the message in the light of the Bible, you're in the right place. Today, brothers and sisters, we delve into the scripture, guided by the extraordinary revelations that God chose to unveil through Brother William Marion Branham, a messenger with a unique calling to fulfill Malachi 4 and Revelation 10-7 and unlock the secrets of the end time message. Our purpose isn't to have another basic Bible study. We're going to dig deep and peel back the layers of prophecy, decoding the signs and perhaps discovering how the Bible resonates within the very fabric of our present day and time. In this podcast, my purpose is to help you grow in your faith through solid Bible teaching through the lens of the message of Malachi 4. So grab your Bible, a cup of coffee and let's get started. And remember that your feedback, testimonies, questions and prayer requests are always welcome. Please send them on social media or at jasondemarscom.
Speaker 1:Before we go into today's episode. I want to share something with you. Before we go into today's episode. I want to share something with you. Head over to jasondemarscom, where I'm giving away free books. These books have been ordered by believers around the world and many testimonies have been given about the great blessing they have been. I also want you to know that, by God's grace and provision, we are also covering the shipping costs. Free books and free shipping.
Speaker 1:My purpose is not to sell books but to proclaim the message of the hour free of charge. I've written these books to build your faith, increase your spiritual revelation and be a witness for God's message in the end time. Here's a list of a few of them A summary of the revelation of the seven seals, the end time message. Hand them a summary of the Revelation of the Seven Seals, the End Time Message Handbook, the Mystery of the Malachi for Elijah, holiness to the Lord and Foundations. Head over to jasondemarscom right now and claim your free books.
Speaker 1:With that said, let's get into today's podcast. God bless you everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast, whether you're listening on YouTube or on Apple Podcasts. Welcome. So thankful that you're listening in and I know I had a little bit of a break from recording.
Speaker 1:Travel was very busy throughout the summertime, so now we're coming into September. I honestly can't believe that it's September now, but we just give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, for the wonderful trips that we had there throughout the summertime to Canada, to Honduras, to Zambia and a few other places as well Oregon, tennessee, maybe a few other places, but right now it's not coming to mind. School year is starting for everyone for the children getting back into school, homeschooling, and seems like the time gets faster Time and time and time and time again. Never seems to slow down. So well, praise the lord.
Speaker 1:Um, I wanted to just take a few minutes and read a couple reviews. Appreciate that people giving me reviews on apple podcast encourage everyone that's a. And read a couple reviews. Appreciate that People giving me reviews on Apple Podcasts Encourage everyone that's a listener there. Please give me a review. So far, it's 21 out of 21 five-star reviews. Appreciate the reviews.
Speaker 1:This is from someone named Raspberry Noises I'm assuming that's not their name, but they say deep teaching on a simple level amazing teaching on scripture and the message of the hour. Been listening to the attributes of God and the picture that is painted from scripture in quotes of the vastness of God is just absolutely beautiful and deep in my desire to know God more intimately. Thank you, brother Jason, for your faithfulness to God's ministry placed in you. It has been a true blessing. Thank you very, very much. I greatly appreciate that I got also a review, five-star review from Bruh T I think that's Brother Tony, my guess but he says Insightful.
Speaker 1:This podcast offers fresh perspective on a variety of topics. The host's thoughtful approach and expert guests make each episode a captivating experience and must listen for those seeking thought-provoking content. So just appreciate everyone's reviews and everyone's feedback. As I always say, questions are welcome and I'm very much open to them, and we're going to continue with more of our thoughts about family. I'm going to entitle this podcast it's Good to Be a man. I took that title from a book that I read recently that I really enjoyed, about biblical manliness, and I very much enjoyed it, and some of the thoughts in this podcast will be from that, but most of it is just from general studies. I originally prepared this for a men's Bible study at a church in Tennessee, but have since then expanded on it a bit and wanted to share it with you all.
Speaker 1:I think I could say the greatest burden on my heart is to speak, at least recently, to speak a lot about family, uh, parenting, um, the family being in the right order, uh, and I think when the family's in the right order, it's, it's set for uh, wives and um, daughters and sons to definitely flourish. And there's a number of things I think, as I observe the scripture and observe the message and observe the movement of the message, that were, I would say, maybe letting down the bars a bit and going backwards. There was a point in time where men, definitely you could say there was a chauvinistic and misogynistic approach to leadership of wives and sort of an over-the-top approach, and I think perhaps much of that is corrected Leadership of wives and sort of an over-the-top approach, and I think perhaps much of that is corrected. But then the pendulum swings. It's like the pendulum was way out of balance. You know, shut up, woman, be in the kitchen and keep your mouth shut, and then the pendulum swings and maybe the feminist, a little bit of the feminist spirit of the age, starts creeping in Women getting out of their place, men not knowing their place or being fearful of entering into their place. So I believe we all, myself included, need correction in many ways. I could say. In the last three or four years I really felt that I've learned about biblical headship, what that actually means, and I'm growing into it. It's helping improve my marriage and my relationship with my wife and my children.
Speaker 1:And so, with that said, let's get into the subject Exodus 24, 17,. I want to read. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. I want to focus on this term glory. The glory in Hebrew is kabod. Kabod properly means weight and it figuratively means splendor or, as it's translated, glory. So this word is used, obviously, over and over again. It could be a whole study in itself.
Speaker 1:Throughout the Bible, the glory of the Lord appears. The glory of the Lord is manifested. This is the glory of a man. This is the glory of a woman. The glory of young men is his strength. The glory of old men is his white hair. Man is the glory of God. Woman is the glory of man. Jesus wants us to see him in his glory. This is part of his prayer. Believers are to be glorified, our bodies. That we get when this body is changed is a glorified body. When we're looking at this and we're looking at the term glory, in many ways it's speaking of coming to the full manifestation, coming to the place of full reward. But when it comes to the very undergirding of the word, we look at that Hebrew, which is wadi. When I think of the word wadi, I think of the word gravitas.
Speaker 1:Gravitas speaks of a high seriousness, a dignity, a solemnity of manner. Gravitas was one of the ancient Roman virtues that denoted seriousness. It also translated variously as weight, dignity, importance, and connotes restraint and moral rigor. It also conveys a sense of responsibility and commitment to the task. Those things that are spoken of within gravitas are key to understanding manhood, as we've referred to before 1 Corinthians 11.7,.
Speaker 1:For a man indeed, ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. So when we tell a boy to grow up and become a man, we mean go get some gravitas. A real man has a seriousness, a sacredness, a weightiness to him, he has a purpose, he has a vision for his life and he has boundaries around that vision and he has the audacity or the bravery to fulfill it, regardless of what those around him would say. So the word glory and the word gravitas are similar, but they're not the same. Think about it this way Glory can be conferred upon you, but gravitas cannot. Gravitas is like character it must be developed, must be earned, it must be recognized. Glory is restored to us by the new birth. Positionally, we receive glory, but gravitas is what we grow into through the work of the Holy Spirit within us, the work of the Holy Spirit within us. Gravitas is when you settle into the man you were created to be. Gravitas is when you actually express the glory that you were born into.
Speaker 1:Now young men are reminded in the book of Proverbs to fear the Lord over and over again, and the Bible tends to warn us about the sins we easily fall into. It warns husbands not to despise and to neglect their wives and it warns wives against disrespecting and controlling or nagging their husbands. So young men are reminded the book of Proverbs against pride and are told to fear the Lord, because young men and even grown men who haven't become mature men, can often tend to be cocky, arrogant and have a false bravado. That is hypocritical and sinful. A man who fears the Lord receives correction and appreciates rebuke because it causes him to grow in wisdom. A man who fears the Lord hates pride, arrogance and perverted speech. But the reason he hates it and the reason he's warned that he must hate it is that these are three things that men fall prey to pride, arrogance and perverted speech. But as Christians we're called to overcome that, to grow in gravitas and not have those evil things manifested in his life. A man who fears the Lord is content to be made low because he knows where he stands in the sight of God. He knows he is a sinner, he knows he is born in sin, that he has wickedness and evil dwelling in him. We will have wickedness and evil dwelling within us until that moment that we are changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trump this corruptible must put on incorruption. So a man who fears the Lord trusts the Lord above himself. All men must fear the Lord and avoid prideful behavior, refusing correction, refusing humility. They must refuse arrogance, they must refuse perverted speech and resist against it. These are areas that men tend to struggle and they need to fight against these things. Having gravitas is not being arrogant and prideful Gravitas speaks of manifesting the nature of manhood, which is a reflection of the glory of God.
Speaker 1:So true manhood is reflecting the glory of God. So the man is a reflection of the glory of God. The woman is the glory of the man, and we'll talk about this more. But the woman was taken out from the man, she was made for the man, and so she is then to reflect the vision, the life mission of the man. God made Adam with a life mission and he created Eve from Adam in order for him to be able to complete his mission, which was taking dominion. He could do that. He's the stronger vessel, but she is created for the purpose of childbirth and child-rearing as a companion to the man. Now there are three parts to manifesting true manhood that all need to be in place and that all need to be manifest for manhood to be complete. We'll talk more about those three at the very end, but when there's three sacred trusts of manhood that are manifest in us, then gravitas will, by default, be there.
Speaker 1:Now watch this 1 Corinthians 16, verse 13. Watch ye stand fast in the faith. Quit you like men, be strong. The word quit you like man is one Greek word. It's the word andrizomai and from the Thayer definition it's to make a man of or make brave, to show oneself. A man be brave. So in the Bible, from this definition, we can see that bravery is one for one with manhood. Being a man means being brave. A true man will then manifest the attributes of bravery. What's the opposite of bravery? It's being a coward. We'll read more about what Brother Branham says about that, but it's a direct quote that Brother Branham says God hates a coward.
Speaker 1:Now, in one of the things I had a feedback from a brother well, being brave could be apologizing. That's exactly right when you make a mistake. I just had a situation today. One of my daughters did something that was frustrating to me and I expressed that frustration. I had to apologize. I said I'm sorry, honey. Daddy Shouldn't have got upset like that. See, that's I'm not trying to. I'm not trying to blow my own horn there. I'm just using that as an example, because the fact is I failed, I made a mistake. But the true brave thing to do is to get your child on your lap and look her in the eye and say I'm sorry, I made a mistake.
Speaker 1:Being brave speaks of being courageous, bold, daring, intrepid, fearless of danger. As a brave warrior, it usually unites the sense of courage with generosity and dignity of mind. Quality is often united. The brave man will not deliberately do an injury to his fellow man. So it there's some words. It's gallant, lofty, graceful, nobility, dignified. So we see, this is the nature, should be the nature and attributes of a man that's like unto Christ. Joshua 1, 6 through 9. This is written to men, to warriors, to people that were going to go to war. So a woman was not to go to war. In the Bible the man was. So this is written to the man, though we can see it applies in other ways to the female.
Speaker 1:Be strong and of a good courage, for unto this people shalt thou divide for inheritance the land which I swear unto their fathers to give them Only. Be thou strong and very courageous. That thou mayest observe to do according to all the law which Moses, my servant, commanded thee. Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left. That thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night. That thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein, for then shalt thou make thy way prosperous and then shalt thou have good success, have not? I commanded thee Be strong and of a good courage. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord, thy God, is with thee whithersoever thou goest. All right so. Deuteronomy 22, 5. So let me back up before I go into Deuteronomy 22.
Speaker 1:Men are supposed to be strong and courageous. God commands it. So when a person is fearful, when a person is lacking in courage, this isn't pleasing to the Lord. I think of Revelation 21, verse 7 and 8. He that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son. But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. So being fearful is being disobedient to God. It's not expressing the character and attributes and nature of God.
Speaker 1:Deuteronomy 22.5 and 1 Corinthians 11 shows us that men are to dress like men, wear their hair short like men, and along with these outward expressions, there's a great need for our character and behavior to be manly. Conversely, it also expresses that a woman is to dress like a woman. She's not to dress like a man. And she's not to have short hair like a man. She's to wear her hair long and uncut. And along with these outward expressions, there's a great need for her character and her behavior to be feminine, to be womanly. And 1 Corinthians 6, 9 tells us that effeminate men will not inherit the kingdom of God. So men who act like women are barred from heaven, because it's an abomination in the sight of God for a man to dress and act like a woman, and vice versa is true. It's also an abomination for a woman to dress and act like a man. Excuse me for drinking my soda water during the podcast, but we're friends, right, I hope we are.
Speaker 1:God made Adam first from the dust of the ground and he is the image and glory of God. Both man and woman are the image and likeness of God, but Paul uses a different term that he is the image and glory of God. He took Eve out of Adam's side and showed in the great drama of creation that the woman was made for the man, to be his helper. Man wasn't made for woman. Woman was made for man. Man is designed to take a certain role and woman is designed to take a certain role by God's predetermined design. He created the man and the woman with nature specific to their roles in creation order.
Speaker 1:1 Corinthians 14.20 says brethren, be not children in understanding, albeit in malice, be children, but in understanding, be men. So there is a mature manhood that we need to grow into in our understanding, and if our understanding is stunted and our understanding is like children, we aren't being what God has called us to be. So there needs to be a growth in understanding. Let me just pause right there before I go further. A little bit of inspiration is striking. But I and as men, we need to grow in understanding. So, first of all, the greatest place we can grow in understanding is by reading the Bible. The second greatest place we can grow in understanding is by reading the message of the hour, reading what Brother Branham spoke about.
Speaker 1:But besides that, I think we should learn how to do a lot of different things around our house. I'm speaking to myself Learn how to fix the toilet. Learn how to do a lot of different things around our house. I'm speaking to myself Learn how to fix the toilet, learn how to fix the shower. Learn how to fix the washing machine or the dryer. You say it might be difficult. Okay, that's fine, it certainly might be difficult and you may need to call the repairman.
Speaker 1:But as men, we shouldn't walk around in fear and say I can't do this, I'm too afraid to do that. But we should grow in knowledge, grow in understanding. We should be students of the bible. Student of the bible doesn't necessarily grant you revelation. A student of life, understanding of life, understanding of women, understanding of children this is of women, understanding of children, this is something that we should grow in. We shouldn't say that that's for the preacher, that's for the Sunday school teacher. It's all of our duties to grow in wisdom.
Speaker 1:So get yourself a good library I'm working on mine of good books, read them and educate yourself. And I believe both men and women should do that and educate yourself. And I believe both men and women should do that. And the book may be something that you don't agree with everything, but it might be something that helps you in your understanding towards what you do believe and what you do understand. I try to always be reading one or two or more books than that. I love reading. I believe that all of us should learn to become good readers. Good leaders are good readers, and I think sometimes the other way around goes good readers become good leaders.
Speaker 1:And so, just as the woman is given three sacred trusts that are specific to her duties, which are based upon her design, which are her body, her virtue and her character of womanhood, so she's given those based upon her design and the nature that she has. So the man has been given three sacred trusts committed to him, based upon his design. So let's begin to lay the groundwork for that. Genesis 2.15,. And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. To dress it, that word literally means to work, to work it, and to keep it means to guard it. So working and guarding are the first two duties of a man. So if we want to be good men, we need to learn how to work and we need to have the strength to guard. So we need to learn how to guard and protect our family. That's not just physically, though we should have the physical capability to do it but it's also spiritually having the spiritual moxie and understanding to be able to see the wiles of the devil, the very thing that Adam was charged to do is the very thing that he failed in and the very thing that he was cursed under. He was told to guard and to work in the Garden of Eden and the devil came right into the Garden of Eden, deceived and had sex with his wife and planted a foreign seed in the garden of his wife. This was Adam's failure. He wasn't deceived, the woman was deceived, but Adam failed to guard and, as a result, the curse went on everything.
Speaker 1:We'll read that momentarily Genesis 3, 8 through 10. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam and said when art thou? And he said I heard thy voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. So Adam was called to account in the garden.
Speaker 1:He was the one that was responsible. God looked to him and said what happened. Even though Eve had her part, the serpent had his part. He called unto Adam because Adam was responsible. This was your duty. I gave you the command. You passed it on to your wife. You didn't guard her. She was deceived. This was your responsibility, adam, and as husbands that's our responsibility. If our wife makes a mistake, god comes to you and says wait a minute, what happened? You failed in your duty. You can say it's my wife's fault. That's what Adam did. The woman you gave me gave me to eat the woman you gave me. So really it's God's fault. Genesis 3, 17 and 18,.
Speaker 1:Unto Adam, he said because thou hast hearkened this is Adam's curse because thou hast hearkened under the voice of thy wife and has eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying thou shall not eat of it. Cursed is the ground for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life, thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat the herb of the field. So adam's, adam's guardianship was cursed. All of creation was changed at the atomic level. All of creation was placed under the curse. Now Adam works, but it's with a ground and a land and a world and an earth that is under the curse and under the dominion of the devil. And it's all because he listened to the voice of his wife.
Speaker 1:Now, if our wife speaks according to the word of God, we should listen to our wife. But if our wife speaks contrary to what the Lord God says, we are to listen first to the Lord God and to come and correct our wives, amen. We have to have the courage and the audacity to lovingly correct our wife, not angrily, the anger of man works, not the righteousness of God, but it's speaking the truth. In love there's a need for tenderness, for nurturing, but there's a need for correction. Brothers, we have to correct our wives.
Speaker 1:I don't have that in my notes, but Brother Branham says so many times, let's see if I can pull up a few of them while I'm speaking. He says over and over again, a man that would let his wife do such and such, and he calls the man all kinds of names a sissy and not a real Christian. It's quite alarming some of the things, quite alarming and quite convicting. Alarming some of the things, quite alarming and quite convicting. And I've got my opinion of a man that would let his wife smoke cigarettes. It shows who's the boss, as I'm excuse me as I continue to look. And you man, you poor little, boneless, sissified things, you that would let your wife do such a thing that shows what you're made out. That's the reason you ain't got the Holy Ghost like you profess to have her. You'd have enough something about you to make her act like a lady as long as she lived with you anyhow. That sounds old-fashioned, cutting, but that's what the church needs today is an old-fashioned Holy Ghost washing out and hanging out and drying it out and ironing it out by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1:Sure, brother Branham's speaking about women dressing immodestly and he speaks the same about listen. Here man is the ruler. Don't you think you'll rule the house? You're not the ruler of the house. You're not a slave now, now, but you're a helpmate. The man has the rule over his wife and he's responsible solely for his wife. God makes the man answer for his wife. Man that'll let his wife wear a dress like that and smoke cigarettes. It shows how much of a man you are. Try to skip forward into later in the message and you man will let your wife do a thing like that Wear shorts. Them ain't Methodist Baptist, that's Pentecostal, that's right.
Speaker 1:The prophet just goes on and on and says this over and over again. So understand this is not destined to be an evil thing. It's not a man mistreating, manipulating his wife. It's a man who lovingly takes the time to teach and instruct his wife. Honey, the scripture says a sister shouldn't cut her hair. This is what the scripture says. Now you're my wife, I want you to follow the scriptures. This is what a duty of a man should be. He must, but he must have the guts to say no to his wife. He has to tell her no Again, not beating her, not gaslighting her, not mistreating her. It's speaking the truth in love, but it's taking a stand, being firm without being rude or unloving. It's with patience and kindness, instructing. You should do the same for your daughters Patiently instruct them of what the Word says. If you don't know what the Word says, we have books. We can help you. Teach you yourself. Learn how to teach your daughters and your wife how to dress modestly. Show them in the word All right. So, as we said before, I'm going to cover it again.
Speaker 1:Adam was tasked to guard and to work in the garden. He was also tasked to lead his wife, for he was the one that passed the command regarding the fruit unto Eve. He also was called to account, first for what happened. He had to answer for his wife, and then he told he was not to listen to the voice of his wife but to the voice of the Lord. And then, even with the curse, you can see Eve's curse was limited to within herself, but Adam's was regarding his full task, which was the dominion over the earth. So the two things that they were responsible for. Eve was responsible for childbearing. She failed in childbearing. She bore someone else's child and Adam listened to her voice, identified with her sin. So Adam's charge was all of creation. All of creation was cursed. Woman's charge was childbearing. Childbearing was cursed. So the sentence of death was passed to all of creation and the frustrated work of his hands was broad and all-encompassing.
Speaker 1:So again we said before, woman was given three sacred trusts in the very beginning her body, her virtue and character of womanhood to her family. Man, I believe, is also given three sacred trusts, and these sacred trusts are speaking of something God has entrusted to man specifically so that he keeps them sacred and even develops and grows in them. Man's duty that he is entrusted with requires that he has these three sacred trusts developing and manifesting in his life. The first one is wisdom. Wisdom speaks of the right use or exercise of knowledge, the choice of laudable ends and of the best means to accomplish them. This is wisdom in act, effect or practice. If wisdom is to be considered as a faculty of the mind, it is the faculty of discerning or judging what is most just, proper and useful. And if it is to be considered as an acquirement, it is the knowledge and use of what is best, most just, most proper, most conducive to prosperity or happiness.
Speaker 1:Wisdom in the first sense, or practical wisdom, is nearly synonymous with discretion. It differs somewhat from prudence In this respect. Prudence is the exercise of sound judgment in avoiding evils. Wisdom is the exercise of sound judgment either in avoiding evils or attempting good. Prudence, then, is a species of which wisdom is the genus. Wisdom gained by experience is of inestimable value, and wisdom isn't just in application to spiritual things.
Speaker 1:Now, as you'll see from these verses in Exodus, 31, 3 through 5, wisdom not only applies to spiritual things, but it applies to natural things and I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship to devise cunning works, to work in gold and in silver and in brass, and in cutting of stones to set them, and in carving of timber to work in. So God anointed a man with the Spirit in order to give him wisdom to know how to do works of art, works of beauty, craftsmanship. Psalms 51.6,. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part, thou shall make me to know wisdom. Wisdom from the inside out, wisdom on the soul level Proverbs 1.7,.
Speaker 1:The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 4.5,. Get wisdom, get. Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 4.5,. Get wisdom, get understanding. Forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. So we're to pursue wisdom and pursue understanding. So being ignorant and being a fool is not a virtue. Brother Branham was not an ignoramus. Brother Branham spent a lot of time reading good godly books and he used them and had quite a wonderful library.
Speaker 1:I believe that all men should do the same. Proverbs 14.8 says the wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way. But the folly of fools is deceit. So the man is the head of the woman, and so he needs to have an understanding of a man and the ability to apply the understanding which is wisdom. I heard a little joke one time that knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit, but wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. Okay, that's probably a bad dad joke, but nevertheless it does describe knowledge versus understanding, versus wisdom.
Speaker 1:So 1 Corinthians, 14, 34, and 35, showing that every man needs to be pursuing wisdom and able to answer questions. Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. So a man should be able to answer his wife's questions at home. So a man should be able to answer his wife's questions at home. Often we put this off on the pastor's duty, but a husband should be growing in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ to such an extent that his wife would have enough respect for him that she would ask her husband the question at home, not in the public setting of the church. To ask the pastor Now, when a question and answer session is in place, of course that's fine, but a woman is not to speak or teach in the church or be a part of any disputations in the church.
Speaker 1:One thing that's a misconception is that women can't speak about the Bible. They can't speak about biblical truth. They can't speak about doctrines. No, they can't teach doctrine. That's for the ministry, that's for the men. But she can speak with sisters about the things that the Lord is showing her from the Word All right, proverbs 20, 29.
Speaker 1:The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the gray head that's not speaking of, although it's implying that old men get gray hair. I wouldn't know anything about that. I don't have any gray hair. No, I'm just kidding. Gray hair is an expression of wisdom. So the beauty of old men is the wisdom that they have gained through life. With a man lacking in wisdom, then the household will fail, because the man is supposed to be the head or the brains of the operation.
Speaker 1:There are many who may be lacking in wisdom, but there's a means of gaining it, according to the word James 1.5 says and if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God giveth all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. You just only have to ask God Give me wisdom of how to fix this vehicle. Give me wisdom of how to answer my wife. Give me wisdom about how to answer this question for my son. Give me wisdom how to speak to my daughter about not wearing pants or cutting her hair. Give me wisdom, the Lord will give you wisdom. You also, it says get wisdom, get understanding. So there's also a sense where you need to pursue it. You need to pursue it through reading good books. We have here lots of wonderful books, lots of books of Brother Branham, his sermons. Read them, grow an understanding, get the table app. Learn how to study, learn how to put together a little outline of how to teach your children. All right.
Speaker 1:First sacred trust was wisdom. Second sacred trust is workmanship. That's part of the original duty of man is work, but not just work. Ephesians 2.10 says, for we are his workmanship. That's part of the original duty of man is work, but not just work. Ephesians 2.10 says, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, under good works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. When God speaks to a man, he has faith and he has ambition and he has a purpose. When God speaks to a man, it gives him purpose gives him a purpose. When God speaks to a man, it gives him ambition. When God speaks to a man, it gives him purpose. It gives him a purpose when God speaks to a man. It gives him ambition. When God speaks to a man, it gives him faith to do it, to accomplish or achieve what his purpose in life is, what God has called him to do From the sermon, what it Takes to Overcome All Unbelief in 1960.
Speaker 1:So workmanship is beyond merely the ability to work. We read in Matthew 25, 14 through 23 about the parable of the talents. And he gives unto one five talents, another two, another one, and to every man, according to his several ability, and takes his journey. The one with five talents trades and makes another five. The one with two trades and makes another two. The one that had one dug up the earth, hid his Lord's money. Then, when the Lord came back, the five talents, he brought the other five, giving him 10. The other one with two gave him four, the other one with two gave him four, and he tells them well done, good and faithful servants, right. And he rebukes the one that has the buried talent, that didn't improve it. And so workmanship is taking your gifts, your natural gifts and talents. They can be natural, they can be supernatural. Taking those gifts and talents and putting them to work using wisdom and strength.
Speaker 1:Workmanship is developing the natural talent God has given you so that it expresses excellence and mastery of what you do. This is what God has called us to do. As a minister, you pray, you study and you develop your gift. As you operate under it, you get better at it, you work at it, you work at your notes, you work at your studying, you work at reading books, you work at listening to the message, so that you become more and more excellent at what you do. As a carpenter, you study, you work at your craft, you improve the tools you have, you study other people that are good at it, and you ask questions and you practice. You take the time that you need to master your skill, whether that is in plumbing or HVAC or carpentry or building, or mechanic, banking or whatever it is. You take the time to study your craft and become excellent at it. As a Christian, that's what God wants us to do is to be the very best at what we do. So workmanship is beyond merely being able to work, but instead is becoming useful. Remember, god ordained Adam to work in the garden and he was to become a wise master builder. And he's ordained for all of us to do the same.
Speaker 1:1 Thessalonians 4.11 says and that you study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work with your hands, as we commanded you. The first coin that was minted in America had the phrase Mind your business on it. It was taken from this verse. It could also be translated study to be quiet and to mind your own business. And so this isn't just speaking of don't be a busybody, although it is speaking partially of that. It's speaking of focus on your business and work hard on your business not everyone else's and to work with your hands.
Speaker 1:Still, study to be quiet, live a quiet life. That should be our goal. That should be. Our aim is to live a quiet life, focus on the business that we do, become excellent at it, working with our own hands. God loves and commends working with our own hands. Paul does that twice 2 Thessalonians 3.10-12. For even when we were with you, this, we commanded you that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly working not at all, but are busybodies. Now then that are such. We command and exhort by our Lord, jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread. So, with quietness, with simpleness, with humility, we work and we become excellent at our work.
Speaker 1:That's the second sacred virtue workmanship. The third sacred trust of men that they're to have. I called it a sacred virtue before, but it's a sacred trust. The third is strength. He's instructed and invested man to be the stronger vessel. 1 Timothy 3.7 shows us the woman is the weaker vessel. So by default, man is the stronger vessel. He's made men, on average, to be 60 to 100 times stronger than women.
Speaker 1:Strength speaks of the ability to work while bearing weight. So men are entrusted to have strength. Again, this is a sacred trust that we must work at and develop. When we stop working at it, we become weak, our bodies become weak, our bodies become weak, they become fat and they become useless. So spiritual and physical strength are often intertwined, so that spiritual strength is connected to being strong physically. The Bible says be thou strong and courageous. So spiritual strength and spiritual courage go along with physical strength and physical courage.
Speaker 1:A man that is physically weak and physically a coward will likely be spiritually weak and spiritually a coward. He'll be a compromiser, and this is something that God doesn't want to see in men. Now, a person could be very, very strong physically and very, very weak spiritually. That's understood. But when we let ourselves go, we become fat jellyfish. It's going to impact our health and in turn it's going to impact our spiritual strength. It's going to lead to depression.
Speaker 1:I'm going to read some quotes from Brother Branham. This is Faith, 1956. See him heal in things and wheelchairs, make the blind to see, the deaf to hear. And then we poor little weaklings calling ourselves Christians and will faint and fall away to some little something. Why, it's as spineless as jellyfish, certainly. What do you want, god's word? If God said so, that settles it. Believest thou this, 1950. What's the matter with Christians? Wishy-washy, half jellyfish. Get a backbone in you and stand up for God and what's right, and today, stand for what the Bible says and believe it with all your heart. Amen.
Speaker 1:In the sermon, the unfailing realities of the living God. I seen men going down the street yesterday. I was going downtown for something when I seen him, seen man after man walking down the street with his young, pretty wife with little clothes on look horrible. That ain't a man, that's a sissy. Anybody would let his wife dress like that. Ain't much of a man. Oh, he may have muscles like that, like that's brute, that's animal.
Speaker 1:A man is character. Jesus, the greatest man ever lived, he was just a little bitty guy, no beauty. We should desire him, but there never was a character ever presented to the earth like Jesus Christ. I've seen some men weigh 250 pounds, didn't have an ounce of man in them when it come, never be as strong as a horse. Yet we also know that when we're weak in our own strength, having surrendered ourselves entirely to the plan and purpose of God, then His strength is made perfect in us. Our own personal weakness produces supernatural strength. Yet I can also personally testify that when my body was weakened through poor health, poor stewardship, then into sickness of COVID, almost dying, god delivering me from that. Your body is weakened, your faith becomes weakened and your ability to bear a spiritual load tumbles when your ability to carry a physical load tumbles. So God designed men to be stronger than women, both physically, emotionally and spiritually, so that a man that is weaker than a woman in any of these areas is leaning towards being effeminate and is not manifesting a portion of his own sacred trust. A man must grow in strength and gain spiritual strength and as he ages he must work to keep his wisdom, keep his workmanship and keep his strength.
Speaker 1:Strength is a defining virtue of manhood. If you're weak, if you're spindly, if you don't have muscles, or if you're fat, if you're overweight and you know it's impacting your health, do something about it. If you're weak and you're staying inside all the time and you're playing video games, quit doing that. Go outside, get in the sun, get vitamin D, lift weights, walk, move your body, increase your testosterone. Increasing your testosterone will increase your strength.
Speaker 1:If you're a young man looking for a wife and you're low in strength and low in testosterone, you're not going to be as desirable to a young woman. I'm just being flat. A woman wants a man that's strong, because she wants a man that can protect her. You say that's not important. We're living in the 21st century. A feminist, I don't care. Sissified conditions Go and lift heavy things.
Speaker 1:Go. Lift heavy weights. Go bench press, go squat, go deadlift. Grow in strength. When you grow in strength that way, it's stewardship of your body. It's not worshiping yourself in the gym room. No, that's to me, that's effeminate as well.
Speaker 1:As men, we're not trying to create an image that a woman will adore and worship. We're trying to be strong so that we can really be godly men, so that we can be spiritually strong. Man is the stronger vessel. Woman is the weaker vessel. Strength is how we stand firm in our convictions and tell the truth, no matter the cost. Strength is how we overcome and defeat the enemy. Strength is the force with which we do and dare to do what we are called to do Now. All three sacred trusts must be in balance.
Speaker 1:If you have strength but no wisdom, there's a problem. If we have workmanship but no strength, there's also a problem. It needs to be wisdom, not wisdom alone, but wisdom and workmanship and strength. And when you're doing all three of those and growing in all three of those, you're growing in true manliness and true manhood. It is good to be a man. God said it was good. Now he said it was not good that we be alone. That's why he made a help meet for us. But he made us in the beginning good and he wants us to express true masculinity.
Speaker 1:The world of feminism says it's bad to be a man. Don't be a man, become an effeminate, so that then you can be more like women and be more acceptable. The only way for this world to change and for our churches to change is that men would rise up and be men and truly lead their family and truly lead their sons and daughters. You can be all wisdom without strength. You can be all workmanship and strength, but God requires a man to be all three of them to be wise, to have excellence in his work and to be strong. All three of those bear the load of the trust, sacred trust of manhood. Well, god bless you all. I hope that was a blessing to you. If you have any questions, let me know. More episodes you can find at jasondemarscom. More episodes you can find at jasondemarscom. You can find my podcast on Apple Podcasts, spotify, amazon and YouTube as well. If you're on X, I'll be posting these to X as well. God bless.