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GYC Southeast

Manliness 101

Israel Ramos

Session 1: God in the Image of Man - Seeking to Understand God and Man

Session 3: The Difference Between Men and Dogs - What is Manliness, Anyway?

Session 2: A Society of Actors - Understanding Our Problem

Father, we ask your presence to be with us in this last hour, that you would grant us your spirit, open our minds, and show us, Lord, reveal yourself to us in a special way, we ask in Jesus' name, amen.

I hope no 1 is here just because of the title of this seminar, which is the difference between men and dogs.

When I was asked to do this seminar, I've been telling the people that some of my friends, it's just, it's like the hardest thing to be asked to talk to men about manliness.

It's like men don't go to manliness seminars, you know.

And Then they asked me for titles and I was like thinking to myself, I just gave them the titles frankly because I had, I just didn't know what to talk about.

And so I said that's an easy 1, the difference between men and dogs is that, you know, men were created in the image of God and dogs weren't.

But I wanted to go over with us, I've been going over with us the book Education.

We've been dealing with 3, primarily 3 chapters.

In our first talk we had, we dealt with lives of great men and we talked about men in the Bible and we tried to draw attributes from their life and how that applies specifically to men living in today's society.

In our last hour we talked about how God has the end, how you and I are the answer to society's problems.

And we are to be a counter influence by establishing character.

And in this, and that was taken from Education and Character.

This one's taken from the chapter called The Source and Aim of True Education, the very first chapter in the book, Education.

I want to read to us a couple of paragraphs from here, and then I want to draw from those 2 paragraphs insights as to how it is that God intended us to be.

What has happened as a result of sin, what sin caused in the image of God being reflected in mankind, and God's plan for restoring in, for fulfilling his purpose even after sin.

I'm reading from page 15, it says, "'When Adam came from the creator's hand, he bore in his physical, mental, and spiritual nature, a likeness to his maker.

First off, you know that man has created in the image of God.

Therefore, man and God have these 3 specific attributes which are physical, mental, and spiritual powers or nature.

And in these 3 things, he was to reflect the likeness of his maker.

And it was his purpose that The longer man lived, the more fully he should reveal this image, the more fully reflect the glory of the Creator.

When God created mankind, He created them with an ability.

And in that ability, in that ability, the ability that God gave mankind, it says that he was to, in his image, it was his purpose that the longer that man lived, the longer he, the longer man lived, he would more fully, more fully should he reveal his image in his being.

And now it says this, all of his faculties were capable of development, and notice this is just, It's ridiculous when you think about this, all right?

Their capacity and vigor were to continually increase.

Their capacity and their vigor were to continually increase.

I want us to just for a moment pause and think about what it is that God designed for mankind to be.

He said, I'm going to create man in my own image.

He's going to have a social or an emotional nature.

That's how I'm going to create him, just like me.

And he says, what I want for mankind is that the longer he lives, okay, the longer he lives, this is actually life, the longer he lives, The more, the larger his capacity to become more like Jesus will be, and the larger will be not just the quality, not just the quantity, but also the quality.

Do you see that there, what I'm trying to say?

God intended, God intended that the longer Adam lived, First of all, the stronger he would become, not only the stronger would he become, but also not only would he be able to develop the thing, not only would he be able to develop his power, his physical ability, but God would increase the quality as well as the quantity of his ability to get stronger.

That means like God gives you a brain, not only will God give you information to fill your brain, he would continue to expand your brain larger and larger and larger, and that would continue on throughout eternity.

That's what God intended Adam to be, okay?

First, he says, the longer Adam lived, the larger would be his capacity to understand.

That means his brain would enlargen, and also the vigor would continue to increase.

So that the only thing that would prevent Adam from becoming God is the fact that God is infinite.

The only thing that would prevent Adam from becoming God himself is the fact that even in infinity you cannot reach Godness.

But he says, listen, Adam, not only will you be stronger tomorrow, you will have the capacity to even gain more and more strength.

The box that I give you is going to continue to get larger and larger, as well as your ability to retain, to put in the box that which I'm giving you.

It says here, all of his faculties were capable of development, their capacity and vigor, they were to continually increase.

Vast was the scope offered for their existence, glorious the field open to their research, the mysteries of the Bible, of the visible universe, the wondrous works of him, which is perfect in knowledge, invited man's study.

Face to face, heart to heart communion with his maker was his high privilege.

Had he remained loyal to God, all this would have been his forever.

Through the eternal ages, he would have continued to gain new treasures of knowledge, to discover fresh springs of happiness, and to obtain clear and yet clear conceptions of the wisdom, first of all, the wisdom of the power and also of the love of God.

God created Adam with this capacity to infinitely grow and to infinitely obtain information so that as he grew and as he understood more, all of this would point to the fact that the wisdom and the power and the love of God are as infinite as God himself.

In other words, throughout eternity, Adam would wake up the next day and he would say, God, I cannot believe how, I mean, you are the most powerful being in the entire universe.

And then the next day Adam would wake up and his understanding of power would have grown more.

And then he would say, man, I thought you were powerful yesterday, but now that I understand that you are even more powerful than what I already thought you were, it just blows me away.

And then the next day, he would learn that there is even more power to God, and there's even more power to God, and there is more, and this is why Adam throughout eternity would be happy.

You get to heaven, you're thinking, man, heaven's going to be boring.

It's not going to be boring because every single day, you're going to realize that the day before you knew nothing like the day, like today.

And so God said this thing was to continue forever.

We Adam was to look at his Creator and he was to say, man, the love of God, it just blows me away how much God loves me.

I just cannot understand and believe how loving God is.

And then the next day, God would say, Adam, I'm gonna give you more ability so that you can understand more.

And so the next day Adam would wake up and he'd say, he'd be blown away just as much as he was blown away the day before.

This is what God intended for Adam in a perfect state so that Adam would understand the wisdom, the power, and the love of God.

He would do the same thing with the wisdom of God.

And then the next day, God would say, I'm going to allow you to understand a larger problem because I'm going to solve it and you need to know how much more powerful and or how much more wise I am.

And this he was to continue to have throughout eternity.

And then it says this, more and more fully would he have fulfilled the object of his creation, more and more fully have reflected the Creator's glory.

Through sin, the divine likeness was marred and well nigh obliterated.

And then it says his spiritual vision was dimmed.

Now let me just, I'm trying to draw these simple pictures Because these help me to understand how grave the change was.

Now if, if all you do is stop Adam and Eve from living eternally, That's all you do, you just say, look, from now on you can't live eternally.

That automatically completely disqualifies us from having obtained any type of godliness, right?

Because it requires eternity to be godly.

That's, I mean, it's going to require eternity for us to fulfill God's purpose for us.

So if in the end, all that sin did was to stop life.

Series

Manliness 101

Session 3: The Difference Between Men and Dogs - What is Manliness, Anyway?

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