Well ya know, I believe it’s time for a positive assault on this problem. And it’s not what you might think. It is a vigorous promotion of the gospel answer to men caught in this sin.
Now I want to digress here to say I think the gospel we usually hear today is the wimpiest thing in a long time. There’s no way that most of what you hear in modern churches is going to fill men with the courage to be manly men, to use their innate toughness to glorify God, filled with God, instead of using it to glorify idols, filled with idol power. That went out with the medieval knights or something, it seems to me. And it is a DAMNED shame and I mean that word DAMNED. God is mighty disappointed here!
WE NEED THE CURE AND WE CAN’T GET IT IF WE KEEP REJECTING IT.
I think the tough, even “macho” (if we dare use that term) redneck he-man set are the right population to carry that gospel. If they will rediscover its power, and it’s a whale of a lot more than going oh shucks out in the field hunting ducks. It’s the power to forcefully say no to Satan’s baloney while saying an emphatic yes to God’s truth... it’s the power that both builds in God’s spirit and that stops the work of the destroyer.
In another aside, here’s one very little publicized thing about those men saved by gospel power from sex sin. They are MORE, not less, manly than their unbelieving counterparts who happened into natural gifts that “look okay” but which are not God centered at all. Yes, the more filled with God a man is, the more manly he will be.
I hope this does not come across as just empty philosophizing here. I hope it means something to somebody!
**I think the tough, even “macho” (if we dare use that term) redneck he-man set are the right population to carry that gospel.**
Like John the baptist: “O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?”
Or Jesus Christ: “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?”
Paul and Barnabas: “It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.”
And they were addressing religious people! And it wasn’t an ‘uncertain sound’. There are licensed ‘ministers’ all across this nation that are so afraid to tell the truth it’s pitiful. Some obviously don’t even know the truth. Mr Robertson didn’t sidestep the subject. He spoke the truth with love, imo.
http://www.sobran.com/columns/1999-2001/991202.shtml
My good friend who works for a high tech company set me this response to go with the above link. He was referring to the libs, homos, and haters of Jesus when he wrote this:
“They hate Him (ie Jesus) because He is the antithesis of their god, Satan, and He disregards all they value, which is their worldly lives. Most of the people around me claim they are atheists and have not been brought up in Christ, have never gone to church, have nothing to believe in but what is in this world. Can you imagine how pathetic your existence must be if you value nothing higher than yourself and the people around you, and worship at the altar of science? No wonder so many atheists kill themselves!