Tony Evans Sermons - Why Men Matter - The Alternative

one of the dominant questions of today can be recited simply by asking adam where you at the missing man has become the crisis of the day not the missing male the missing man it is the question of the single woman who can't find a worthwhile man to marry she want to know adam where you at it's the question of the single parent who's been abandoned by the father of her children she wants to know adam where you at it's that child who has to grow up with a physically or emotionally absent father and he's asking

the question however he phrases it adam where you at we're living in a day when men have become domesticated or abusive or sissified and the question on the floor is adam where you at we're living in a day of terrorism where violence due to the absence of the conscience and the dumbing down of decency has raised again the question adam where you at but worst of all worse than all of that is that god is asking the question adam where are you now if god can't find adam then you shouldn't be shocked we can't find

him either adam had abandoned his position and so the desperate need of today is to call males back to being men as god defines a man not as the culture defines it and so i want to speak with you about answering the question about the position of a man adam where are you here is the first thing that you need to understand about a man in and his position not his location alone but his position and that is that it is a position of priority i know some won't like that but this is not a

popularity meeting it is a position of priority because god says in first timothy chapter 2 verse 12 god created adam first and then he created eve word first first has to do with order first has to do with progress in time adam and eve were not created at the same time adam first then eve god spends a whole chapter genesis 2 discussing adam before eve is ever created for adam why because it would be the man who would be responsible the man was created first because god would hold him responsible even though it was adam

and eve in the garden hiding from god god didn't say adam and eve where are y'all he said adam where are you because you are responsible if you're going to be god's man then you're going to have to accept responsibility for everything he brings behind you second third fourth fifth and sixth because you first god says in malachi chapter 4 verses 4 through 6 he says there will be a messenger who will come who restore the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers so that i will not have to curse the land

so if our culture is declining while we can discuss all the peripheral political sociological racial we can discuss all of those reasons why the culture is declining but what god says is first on the front end the man as you've heard me say if you're a messed up man and you have a family you're going to help make a messed up family if you're a messed up man contributing to a messed up family and your messed up family goes to church then your messed up family is going to make its contribution to a messed up

church if you're a messed up man contributing to a messed up family resulting in a messed up church and your church is supposed to be the light to the neighborhood then your messed up church is going to make its contribution to a messed up neighborhood if you're a messed up man contributing to a messed up family resulting in a messed up church causing a messed up neighborhood and your neighborhood's part of a city when your messed up neighborhood is going to make its contribution to a messed up city if you're a messed up man contributing

to a messed up family resulting in a messed up church causing a messed up neighborhood that resides from the messed up city and your city's part of the county well now your mess-up city is going to make its contribution to a messed up county if you're a messed up man contributing to a messed up family resulting in a mess-up church causing a messed up neighborhood that resides in a messed up city that's part of a messed up county and your county is part of the state when your mess-up county is going to make its contribution

to a messed up state if you're a messed up man contributing to a messed up family resulting in a messed up church causing a messed up neighborhood that resides in a messed up city as part of a messed up county contributing to a messed up state and your state's part of the country where your messed up state's gonna make its contribution to a messed up nation if you're a messed up man contributing to a messed up family resulting in a messed up church causing a messed up neighborhood that resides in a messed up city it's

part of a messed up county it's contributing to a mess of state that contributes to a messed up country and your country's part of the world well now your messed up country is going to make its contribution to a messed up world so if you want a better world compose the better countries and have it by better states because they're better made up of better counties composed of better cities inhabited by better neighborhoods illuminated by better churches that are made up of better families we got to start by becoming better men because it all rests

on the position of the man because the man was first he is to function as the foundation when you are building a house the first thing you do is pour a foundation because anything else you bring into that house is banking on it holding if the foundation collapses everything on it collapses with it if the foundation is shaky then the things that are banking on it to keep the windows and the doors and the roof in place get out of whack because foundations aren't fancy foundations aren't pretty but they better be solid when he says

i created adam first he's saying you are the foundation and this whole ball of wax is banking on you the world says to man up but they're often talking about things you can see money status what does god say to be a man and rise up in society you can't leave god on the sidelines to do so is the difference between good and great see greatness isn't achieved it's demonstrated every day a man leaves his legacy through a million middle moments done well it requires showing up being present standing up speaking truth in his powerful

and long-awaited sequel to the instant bestseller kingdom man tony evans kingdom men rising challenges men to rise up for what they believe in he inspires men to leave a legacy of both impact and influence get the much anticipated sequel kingdom men rising and get going seize what's yours claim what's ours for the collective body of christ time is ticking kingdom men we must rise find out more at tonyevins.org it says in that verse verse 8 he was hiding from the presence of god watch this in the garden he was hiding from god in his house

see don't miss that not only was he hiding from god in his house because the garden was adam's house this place he lived adam went to the house to get the leaves to hide from god so he used what god gave him to hide from god he literally used god's blessing to run from god today we have men who want all the blessings of god and they use the blessings to hide from god he says he was hiding from the presence of god in the garden in chapter 2 verse 15 it says then the lord

god took the man because there is no woman yet the lord god took the man and put him in the garden that's his house the garden of eden to cultivate it and to keep it he gives the man a job he gives the man a house places in the garden that's his house and he gives him a job i want you to notice something man he gave him a house he gave him a place to live he gave him a job but but notice he told him to cultivate it ah oh that's a different word

cultivate it see he didn't just give him a job he told him to be productive see to cultivate something is to produce something more than what you start with so if you're in farming you take seed you farm the seeds because you now want growth and plants and in other words you want to be productive in other words you want more than what you start with god expects a man to maximize his potential underneath god in whatever sphere of opportunity god gives him and whatever gifting he's placed on him all of this by the way

was happening in the garden the garden was the place where god was hanging out in adam's house as a single man because he got married yet he's a single man hanging out with god in the garden he says not only do i want you to do that but i want you to keep the garden cultivate it and keep it the hebrew word for keep means to god or protect i want you to protect your house i want you to protect your garden what is it protecting the house from i mean this is a perfect world

he's living in no it's not slick is in the garden satan is in the garden chapter three the serpent comes up to eve so they're going to be problems in the garden because the snake is there and the snake is going to cause stuff the snake is going to try to stir stuff up the snake is going to try to get you away from god there is a serpent in the garden and your job is to keep him out because you are responsible for the garden to keep the devil out because he trying to get

in and then he gives him another instruction verse 16 genesis 2 the lord god commanded the man saying from any tree of the garden you may eat freely but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat for in the day that you eat from it you will show enough die he gives him his word his commandment not his request his commandment why because a male who plans to be a man must position himself under divine authority which means god's word has the final say-so in his life not his posse

not his friends not his homeboys nobody overrules god not even his wife because god is gonna say in chapter three because you listen to your wife all hell is broken loose in your life because as much as you love her she's not supposed to overrule me that his job is to oversee the communication and the operation of god's word in his sphere of influence starting with his family or as joshua said as for me and my house joshua 24 15 this is how we roll this is how we roll he says the day you eat

of it you're going to break relationship with me that's death he says that you are to carry my word what was the difference between what was the problem with this tree in the middle called the tree it was a google tree because it calls it a tree of knowledge it was it was google it was the internet tree this tree was full of data all kind of data good data bad data tree of the knowledge of good and evil so the tree wasn't all bad it had evil but it also had good but he said

i don't want you to eat it even though it's got good stuff on it why because adam if you're going to be the man that i want you to be created you to be and you're going to be operating like you're supposed to be then i want you to live by revelation not reason i do not want your human reason to determine your actions i want divine revelation what i say and when i'm ready for you to know it i'ma tell it to you don't go out there apart from me and learn it on your

own one of the problems today with so many men is that they've gone so secular or they've been to some college or they've gotten stuck in some career or they've been hanging out with the wrong folk and they've gotten all of this definition of manhood messing them up so that they're not able to function in the way god wants them to function and we wind up as men being dead men walking we got the title and and you know we like we want people to recognize the title i'm the head of this house i'm the

boss i'm the man we we want the title without the responsibility he says no he's talking to adam guess what adam's job was to be he was to make sure this information got transferred to eve he got he wanted to make sure this information got transferred to eve and he transferred it to eve in fact he transferred it with a vengeance what do i mean he transferred it with a vengeance because when the devil asks eve can you eat from the tree she said not only can i not eat from it i can't touch it

so what adam told her was girlfriend baby girl sweetheart honey sugar dumpling don't eat from that tree in case you didn't get it don't even go near where you can brush up against it he was to transfer so if the wife has got to ask you are you going to church today if the wife has got to ask you are you going to pray with the family if the wife has got to ask you are you going to have devotions that means you're not fulfilling the spiritual responsibility of spiritually leading your home you say but

i don't know what to do i didn't already done the work so all you got to do is take what i did and say family let's discuss the sermon that we had on sunday you are the spiritual you say but my wife knows more than me that got nothing to do with it that has absolutely nothing to do with it it's not who knows the most who's responsible that's who it is so god is calling on men and he's asking the question adam where are you not just a location question but a position question many

men as i said earlier have grown up without a biblical worldview and i know that we as men even if you had it stray from it and god is asking us today where are you where are you as i define you but that's where the good news comes in because in the bible there are two men named adam not one you got the first adam in genesis 2 and 3 and the bible says in romans 5 he blew it for the whole race in chap verse 18 and following of romans 5 the first adam blew

it for the whole race but in first corinthians chapter 15 verses 22 45 and 47 it says there's another atom atom number two he's called the last atom while adam number one got us booted out of the garden the bible says the last adam is a life-giving spirit and he can escort you back into the garden the first adam may have messed you up but the last adam can pick you up and you don't have to be like your daddy you don't have to be like your granddaddy you don't have to be like the people

who influenced your life who are wrong the last adam can rename you there were two two guys in a mountain climbing incident and there was a man in the front and a man in the back and there were two men in the middle who were climbing the mountain but in order to get him up there safely there was a guy at the front named adam and a guy at the back named adam said they are climbing up this mountain but the problem is as the first adam the atom up front he slipped and all the

all the folks were tied together by a rope the first adam slipped and when the first adam slipped he pulled the two men with him and they were going to fall off of the precipice but the last adam took his axe and plowed it into the mountain so that all the men that were behind him could climb back up the first adam slipped and he's dragging all the men down but the last adam on the cross has nailed that thing and he says if you climb up on me i will take you back to what

you think you lost so the question is adam where are you then it's time to come home [Music] so [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] so you [Music] so [Music] you