MANHOOD ACADEMY #1. The Constitution of A Man - RC BLAKES

manhood has little to do with age and everything to do with character and responsibility little to do with age and everything to do with character and responsibility manhood if you want to take one word okay now listen to this very carefully if you want to take one word that I believe caps Eliza's or is a is a nearly perfect synonym for manhood it is the word responsibility I don't care how old you are I don't care how male you are I don't care how virile you are how sexual you are as a male if you are not responsible you are not a man little to do with age and everything to do with character and responsibility in fact about it as a text in the Bible that challenges this vague definition that I that I read that a man is a male or an adult person who is male as opposed to female and the the text we see is is the one relative to David and Goliath Goliath was a Philistine warrior of giant like stature and he was defying God and the armies of God yeah I'm glad you're twelve years son your son is watching Wow tell him pay very close attention right now Goliath was defined the armies of God and they had all of these great warriors Saul sitting on his throne everybody's scared and Goliath call for a man says can y'all send me a man can y'all send me a man everything y'all sent out here is scared I'm killing it the rest of y'all scared to come so scared to come is there any man in Israel and this little boy this little shepherd boy by the name of David answered the call manhood has little to do with age and everything to do with responsibility it's not your age it's your responsibility and if you look in 1st Samuel 17 4 through 10 no you're not a man if you're sleeping with multiple women because that's what you're responsible there's such a thing as a grown boy he looks like a man he talks like a man he shaves like a man but he does not behave like a man because he is not responsible in 1st Samuel 17 4 through 10 says and there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath whose height was six cubits and a span and he had an helmet of brass upon his head and he was armed with a coat of mail and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass and he had Greaves of brass upon his legs and target of brass between his shoulders and the staff of his spear was like a Weaver's beam in his is very descriptive and his Spears had weighed 600 shekels of iron and one bearing a shield went with went before him and he stood and cried into the armies of Israel and said unto them why are ye come out to set your battle in array am not IA Philistine and use servants of soul choose you a man for you and let him come down to me if he be able to fight with me and to kill me then will we be your servants but if I win and kill him then shall you be our servants and the Philistine said I defy the armies of Israel this day give me a and that we may fight together so Goliath calls for man and none of the aged men responded a man is not determined by years a man is determined by character what is character character is the person's willingness and strength to do what is godly what is courageous and what is responsible it is it is the it is the willingness and the strength to do what is gotten it what is courageous and what is responsible it takes a man to stick with his family through hard times and not run off and leave his wife and his children over foolishness takes a man to be committed to one woman takes a man to RACI a boy can make babies but a man takes a man to raise them because manhood is about character not age it's about one's willingness and one strength to do what is godly what is courageous and what is responsible so here we see that we see that we see the giant calling for man and here we see that we see who answers in 1st Samuel 17 24 through 29 says and all the men of Israel when they saw the man fled from him and will suffer 8 and the men of Israel said have you seen this man that has come up surely to the fire Israel as he come up and it shall be that the man who killed him the King will enrich him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father well verse 26 says in David speak to the men that stood by him saying what shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine and taketh away the approach from Israel for who who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the Living God and the people answered him after this man is saying so shall it be done so a long story short all of the aged men didn't respond this little boy said I gotta go get him I'm not gonna let this man stand out here and disrespect my nation disrespect my god disrespect my faith I'm going to get him it was a little boy the man called for a man and it was a little boy that responded and defeated him manhood is about response capacity reading my notes I teach from notes and you can't see it light too bright manhood is about response capacity how well are you able to respond to crisis to demands to needs my wife said something to me the other day that bless me you know this has been a very tedious financial season for us but the Lord has been providing and taking care of us and she was she was talking about a certain financial matter and she said to my daughter to my daughter all don't worry about that daddy's gonna take care of that daddy's gonna handle that don't don't you worry about that and see that's that that was a that was a testament of my manhood displayed before my wife that my wife can put a hit on a pill at night and don't worry about nothing because she has a man as evil here who has response capacity whatever whatever challenges the family y'all just stay focused on me whatever challenges the family she has a man in place to respond so now let's look at this let's go let's go a little deeper y'all wanna go a little deeper um email let me see I'm just trying to see you see what's going on here a mail watch this watch this email is a man when he is equipped to respond to god to family and society in a functional supportive protective okay maybe yeah I think I got something now praise the Lord I think I got some he is a man when he is able to respond to family God Society in a functional supportive protective and effective manner and he's not a man until when he is able to respond to God society and family any productive supportive protective and effective manner he is not a man until he's able to respond in that capacity now here's the myth the myth is that one may be considered a man automatically when he reaches 20 years 21 years of age and here's the truth the truth is that you are not a man just because you've been here 21 years manhood must be proven and manhood must be verified manhood must be proven and manhood must be verified my wife could say what she said because I've proven my manhood very fired my manhood even when you think in terms of women submitting to men as the Bible commands you know submission is not something that a man at real man forces or tries to force on a woman a real man he just lives as the man and his manhood on display automatically produces submission from his wife many times women are not submitted because we've not verified our manhood yet it has to be proven and verified watch this let me show you let me show you give you an example for the little twelve-year-old kid watching pay very close attention right now the twelve-year-old boy all young boys pay attention it is right here in first Kings 2 1 & 2 verses 1 & 2 says now the days of David drew nigh that he should die and he charged Solomon his son who was 12 years old when he was talking to him he charged Solomon his son saying I go the way of all the earth I'm getting ready to die son be thou strong therefore watch this and show thyself a man man it has nothing to do with age it has everything to do with character and responsibility David says to his young son who's getting ready to assume the throne as king he says be strong and show yourself a man be strong and show yourself a man so David instructs Solomon to demonstrate his manhood don't just sit on this throne and think that people are going to just automatically respect you as a man show yourself a man boy I wish I could be around here longer to raise you more but you got to be a man now show yourself a man manhood has to be demonstrated now here's some common myths regarding manhood y'all inviting people into this thing with me the teach this in the next father daughters huh he oh good to see pastor Howard on yeah pastor I'll put information on about what's going to happen in India next next week next Sunday night Monday here's some common myths regarding manhood number one here's his number one myth only you young young guys listen to this very carefully because this is what music will tell you manhood is this is what me movies will tell you manhood is this is what dudes on the corner will tell you manhood is this is what you might see modeled as manhood before you at home at church in school but these are myths this is doesn't has no real this is our enemy ready for you number one here's number one myth manhood is about muscles I'm a man when I have muscles when I'm big and how muscles I'm a man I was in the barber shop I was in the barber shop I'm a 51 year old man and I was in the barber shop Saturday and there was a 14 year old kid who's 6 - Dada the doctor says that he's going to end up being like 7 4 he's 14 years old 6 - he has to be well over 300 pounds and I'm more than certain he was much stronger than me but the world would tell you that manhood is about muscles get in the gym get in a gym muscles will make you a man the second myth is watch this manhood is the capacity to physically dominate others that I'm a man when I'm going beat other men up and I can I can whip women and kick children around and beat my woman does he have a dad out I don't know I'm a man if I if I can physically dominate others if I can beat people up and if I can force my will on others I'm a man I can go to jail and I don't have a problem I'm a man that's a myth third myth mana there's the ability to have sex and to make babies I'm a man when I can when I can chorus a lot of women into the bed and make a bunch of children I can't even support and don't even have enough don't even have enough man and me to get up and try to get a job to take care of the ones I've made and still making more I'm a man when I can have sex and make babies well last time I checked I went to the zoo gorillas make babies and have sex you know man and make no babies and have sex dogs doing that monkeys doing that yeah I don't make you a man that just makes you a male that is at a certain point in your chronological development reproductively that doesn't make you imagine as you make babies that mean you're man number 4 man it is about having big toys I won't be cause big money fine women fancy clothes lot of jewelry that makes me a man not so so now what is a man looking if you look in Psalm number eight Psalm number eight verses four through six is what is man that thou art mindful of him here's the question in the son of man that thou visitest him but thou has made him a little lower than the Angels and has crowned him with glory and honor now made us him to have dominion over the works of thy hands that has put all things under his feet a real man is the reflection of God's image in the earth a real man is the reflection of God's image in the earth remember that it's not about your muscles is not about sex it's not about big toys a real man is the reflection of God's image in the earth when people see a real man he reflects God and because he is the reflection of God yeah so many women associate those things with manners especially in my generation that's exactly right this may need to be a part of the father-daughter talk because young women don't even know what a real man looks like you're passing over real men all the time reaching for grown boys and then when it when the time comes for them to be responsible you're trying to figure out why you trying to figure out why he can't respond my brother says do you look like your daddy a real man looks like his daddy people tell me all the time you look like your father talking about my biological father a real man ought to look like his ultimate father he ought to look like God yalda if he doesn't look like God he's incomplete he's in process but he's incomplete right now when you look at a real man you ought to see the image of God in that man watch this and because he is the image of God in the earth a real man will represent God in character and dominion character and dominion man my father was a was a real man oh my goodness you talk about a real man you talk about somebody that started out from below zero and because he walked with God he was a responsible man took care of his family took care of his church helped the poor brought people up with him when you looked at him all you could see was God and the man walked Dominion because he was the reflection of God in the earth God favoured him in the earth he walked in Dominion everything he put his hands on prospered feels good bills look like they were outrageous the man went on his knees and God would just provide the money because a real man it's not about money my son my younger boys and teens it's not about money it's not about how many women you can have a real man learns how to temper himself he doesn't sleep with all old women he waits for God to give him a wife he goes home at night in running the clubs what are you a married man doing out the club drinking and your family is at home you don't know what's going on with your wife and your children you are drinking with your boys your husband or you supposed to be you got to be responsible you got to be more you got to do more than go home and have sex with this woman you gotta you got to make love to this woman and that's not that's that's way beyond sex watch this all right watch this I got area so the constitution of a real man the constitution of a thing is the act of forming it or establishing it what the constitution of something is what it is formed how it is formed and what it is established on now listen to this statement very carefully listen to this statement very carefully oh man I've been a half hour already Wow give me give me y'all give me about 10 more minutes of your attention and we'll let you go watch this but men now listen to this carefully exactly men are not born they are formed men are not born they are formed men are not born they are formed watch this the first man Adam was formed by the hand of God so there's no such thing as a self-made man if you're self-made man you're half made man men are not born they are formed boys are born born men are formed now if you look in Genesis 2 and 7 the Bible says in the Lord let's see something here praise the Lord the Bible says in Genesis 2 and 7 in the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground so from the very start man was formed he doesn't just evolve he has to be intentionally shaped what is the manhood Academy all about it is God's Way of using me to shape those who are willing to hear yeah did I get that yeah I got it watch this now when God begins to form or shape and and the word form there literally it means to squeeze into far more squeeze into shape when God formed Adam he squeezed him into into form squeezed him into shape so number one under God's formation of the man men are made under pressure men are made under show y'all catching it I pause because I want you to think about what I'm saying then I'm reading to see what we got on this thing at the same time I need to do some things men are made under pressure now check this out check this out Holy Ghost game of this today watch this watch this now y'all listening pay attention it is men are made under pressure God forms a man under pressure watch this all of the other aspects of God's creation God spoken they were everything else God made he spoken it was let there be let it be let it be and it was when it comes to man God puts his hand on him and he takes some dirt and he squeezes him he doesn't speak him into existence he squeezes him into existence because you can't just speak a man into existence he has to be formed he can't he's not just born he has to be formed so God himself had to make man physically squeeze him into shape so man was formed under pressure so now this is why I have no tolerance for this is why I have no tolerance for a soft load oops I don't have no tolerance for that I don't know tell us a little soft oh dude that I got a stroke you your feelings always heard you may need to go you mean not to be may not need to be so close to me because I don't have no tolerance for that I wasn't raised that way I was brought up that way my father my physical natural father he formed us with a stern hand he played and he ain't stroke and he worried about your feelings he put it to you like it was and he'll adduced you got 9 church they wanted to tell me there won't be all my bearers but they always in the corner crying and whining like no women a man has to be formed under pressure you're not supposed to be breaking like no woman and God puts you in pressurised situations intentionally to squeeze the man out of you we all he and me look what the Bible says look what the psalmist says in psalm 119 71 number 119 and verse 71 sawfish shulman there you go he says it is good for me listen to the psalmist it is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes that some things a man does not learn until he's put into a pressurized situation now let me talk to you you single mothers with sons the worst thing you can do for your boy is a treat him like a little girl his dad is not then you trying to compensate for the absence of his father by just stroking him and rubbing on him and feminizing him you got to learn to put some pressure on that boy he's got to grow up and be a man he ain't gonna be your little boy for the rest of his life he's gonna be left in a world without you and he's not gonna know how to function you got to learn how to put some pressure on that boy and bring him to somebody's church and bring into somebody's football team where there's a man that can put certain demands on him because you can't get no man out of a boy rubbing on him and just stroking him and combing and brushing his hair and all this kind of stuff breeding his head and putting earrings in his ears and all this kind of stuff like he's a little girl oh my god see what a man is robbed when a man is robbed of his pressure moments his emotional and spiritual development is hindered when I look back on my life right now to be quite honest with you the things that made me the man I am today were the things that I thought were killing me while I was going through them my daddy always said he said man you got to go through it you got to go through it I wanted somebody to rescue me so bad I wanted rescuing so bad but I had to go through it I had to go through it because I had to be a man and had to be a certain caliber of man you can't be you can't be a little soft weak man and lead men I got men on this thing I mean real men that follow me that called me their father and everything else that I pastor men that I can call them and say do X Y & Z they gonna do it those kind of men don't follow no little weak flimsy feminized man and you ain't got to be homosexual to be fit my knives you just rounded crying and whining and always down you feminized that's woman's stuff ain't for no man when your daddy knock you down on the floor until your mama don't bother then don't pick him up your daddy know what you're doing because life is gonna knock a man all around all down up in any other kind of way you can imagine and you got to know how to be able to get up from it okay I may feel as a mad man hello Jesus thank you lord now men are made under pressure because the man is designed to withstand the pressure for the family that's right some men are worse than girls men are designed to withstand the pressure for the family that's why you shouldn't marrying a little weak man y'all running out too much you falling in love with a little men these boys are not proven they've not been verified they've not been verified and are you bringing him to the altar and then you have to care all the way to the family he gonna be the weakest one in the house emotionally physically he is something moving outside he gonna tell you go see what it is he's scared to go all right here's the application every man should expect and embrace the pressures of life expect pressure and embrace pressure when your boy comes home mother to my Dakota we didn't won't put me in stay out of that stay out of that stay out of that there's a reason he not going and he's probably off right now stay out of that coach trying to toughen him up stay out of that every man should expect and embrace the pressures of life pressure does for the man the same as it does for the cold if the cold is never pressurized it will never reveal the diamond that it is okay so God forms a man number one under pressure number two as God forms the man a man possesses God's Spirit when God forms a man God forms a man he forms him in pressure and then God fills him with his spirit look what the Bible says in Genesis 2 and 7 it goes on to say and and breathe into his nostrils talking about Adam the breath of life real men have the Spirit of God when a man does not have his relationship secare with God he throws the balance of the family and society off it's why that's what the Bible means when it talks about be not unequally yoked together when you have a man who does not have his relationship with God right and tight how is he gonna be your head as Christ was there how's it going to love you as Christ loved the church how is he going to be your spiritual head a real man possesses the Spirit of God in 1st Corinthians 11:3 it says and this is the amplified but I want you to know 1st Corinthians 11 and 3 but I want you to know and realize that Christ is the head of every man and the head of every woman is her husband and the head of Christ is God how can you have a man who's not under the authority of God to be authority over you does that make sense it says right here the head of every man and Christ is the head of every man the head of a woman is her husband and head of Christ is God God is over Jesus Jesus over the man man is pulled to be hit over the well if the man is out of place and he's not covered how you gonna follow somebody that's not following anybody how are you gonna lead brother how you gonna lead a woman and a family and your relationship with God is not right I don't know I don't know how you can send your family to church while you go back home and watch the game some of y'all bring them to church or out to drop them off and you go back home and then you come back and pick them up after church sit in the parking lot waiting on parking lot waiting on why would you allow another man in speaking to your wife and your children spirit and you don't know what he's saying and you'd ahead of the house that's not responsible as a man your responsibility is to know what thus saith the Lord for yourself so if you come sit in a place for somebody like me is talking you should be able to say to your wife and I know this dude is not right this is not right we getting out of here we're going down the street to be going somewhere but we're getting out of here but you at home you don't know what I'm saying to your wife you don't know what these preachers saying to your wife as a man the breath of God is supposed to be in you which equips you to be the covering for your family spiritually so if you've not gotten your relationship with God right your development is incomplete I don't care how much money you make I don't care told you how many muscles you have how many babies you make if you and if you don't have the breath of God in you your development is incomplete the Bible says Adam became a living soul only after God breathed into him until he received the breath of God he was nothing but a form man I can't believe his time is ruling here's the application every man should seek God on his own terms separate and apart from religious ritual which is what drives most men away from church religious ritual people like me who hold on to all of this religious junk and when the man finally comes the church is filled with nothing but junk God's no way in it so brother I say to you you don't have to come and sit in a religious setting to really connect with God I say to you seek God on your own terms and when you find him God will meet you to a place that you can bring your family where you can be fed and led third thing that happens is God forms a man he sanctifies his mentality God formed Adam them squeezed him out breathe in terment in Genesis 2 and 7 says and man became a living soul kind of got ahead of myself he sanctifies his mentality the soul speaks of the inner being with its thoughts and emotions God breathe in Adam and sanctified his thoughts and his emotions see when you get when you become a living soul you then realize that you don't need to run all of these women you need to go home your responsibility is to go home and be with your wife when you become a living soul those desires of your flesh begin to die off one by one by one by one when you become a living soul you no longer need to run with the same kind of childish men that you've been accustomed to running with because now God has breathe into your emotions your thoughts and your decisions without the man's soul lining up he's just a shell he looks like a man but he can't function if his mentality is not sanctified he's just a shell of a man proverbs 23 and 7 says for as he thinketh in his heart so he is here's the application the man must challenge foolish the man must challenge foolish childish ungodly and counterproductive thinking because men are self-disciplined little boys must be made to do men automatically do what they need to do men are self disciplined the reason you have the prisons that are filled of course we know that there's some factors that play into that that cause some people to be there that probably shouldn't be there but the majority of them are there because they're not self discipline they've not challenged the foolish and childish thoughts in their own minds in the watch this uh he goes to number one we said as God forms a man he's formed under pressure man possesses God's Spirit he sanctified his mentality sanctified God gives the man here you go against this would be number four God gives the man and awareness of his purpose Genesis 2:15 Bible says in the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it God did all of the brought down through all these stages and then he gives him a clear understanding of his purpose now the problem with society today is that men lack purpose and the main thing that causes men to miss purpose if any man will come after me he must first deny himself the main thing that causes men to miss purpose is money when when you live in pursuit of money you will always miss purpose when men lack purpose the Bible says God took at him and put him in the garden and to dress this and keep it so Adam understood its purpose real men have vision and if you don't have it you're in pursuit of it because a real man understands I have to live within the confines of my purpose I can do other things that can make a whole lot of money but if it's not God's purpose for me he is a here it is real men live on purpose ladies when you when you're looking for a man pay attention to the fact or pay attention look to see if he has identified purpose does he talk purpose does he talk vision where is he going does he know what God has told him to do this is what God showed me this is what God told me see real men talk like that God told me to dress this God and God told me to keep this garden and they're preoccupied in their purpose if a man has not gotten to a point where he knows his purpose he's not ready for life all right watch this here is his day application a man seeks to know God's place for him and allows nothing to prevent him from doing what God created him to do a man seeks to know God's place for him and allows nothing to prevent him from doing what he knows God created him to do and then watch this number 5 is God it forms this man I'm almost done thank y'all for bearing with me number 5 we see in in the in the in the shaping of Adam number 5 god enforces authority in this man's life in Genesis 2:16 17 it says and the Lord God commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die god enforces Authority God says now don't play with me I made you and I've given you Dominion but don't play with me don't touch this now if you touch this this is what's going to happen every man needs Authority it's bad to be in authority and not under Authority every man needs to be submitted to somebody right now I'm submitted to people that speak into my life that hold me accountable every man has to have authority if you a man and you want no authority in your life your development is not complete because a real man needs a man every man needs a man thank you Pastor Howard every man needs a man and as a woman when you're seeking a man to lead your life pay attention to who he's following if he's following nobody who watched us here yo Hebrews twelve and eleven man this is it's almost our good God Hebrews twelve and eleven this is the amplified version says for the time being no discipline brings joy but seems Grievous and painful but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it a harvest of fruit which consist in righteousness in conformity to God's will and purpose thought and action resulting in right living and right standing with God every man needs Authority if he's going to live right before God he has to have somebody all right so there you have it now watch this so God forms this first man Adam and I promise I'm done three minutes but here's something interesting this is interesting this is very interesting God forms this first man Adam by his own hand solely and then after God forms the first man he gives him the capacity to procreate and to create other little men called boys men and training men in development but then he gives man the responsibility gives Adam the responsibility of shaping the next generations of men this is why men of certain age we have to get it together because we are forming the next generation of men be it good or bad ultimately my son is going to reproduce in life what he's seen in me good or bad I am the pure reflection of my father who came before me look what the Bible says in Genesis 5 and 3 in Adam Livan hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness after his image and called his name Seth God Adam begot a son in his own image in his own likeness so now let me ask you brothers who are of a certain age if your boys are exactly what you currently are what does their families in the future have to look forward to man is formed not only by the hand of God but man is formed by the influence of manly examples men need examples we're asking men to be what they've never seen we're asking this generation of young men to be what they've never seen people like me my age those in your fought is in those in your 30s we are responsible for these these boys walking the street with their pants hanging down and all of their underwear showing and they think that's right because a man he can only be he cannot be what he's not seen this is what he's seen in the in the streets these fools walking the streets with their under clothes showing so he's simply modeling the examples in front of him because people like us are not there and we don't create a church environment that welcomes him when he comes in we looking at him strange so he has no examples God will form him God and do the in would work but it requires a man to help bring him into the external manifestation of himself watch this father's must understand that everything we are and are not is forming our sons concept of manhood women must understand that the man she has children for the man she has children for will greatly determine the quality of the man her son will become so man is formed by the hand of God by the influence or the influences of man the examples and then sometimes when and I'm done I promise him cutting it off sometimes when he's in a situation where he does not even have any examples around him God will use necessity to form him for instance in the life of david necessity cold for david's manhood to come forth warp-speed when he heard that giant out there you know define god in israel necessity called something that seed that was already planning him by God God breathed on it and just called him into manhood so even those of you who who and you mothers let me say this to you so much I could see it but I gotta let y'all go your mothers that don't have the father's present in the boys lives or you don't have strong churches where you have examples you don't have mentors or what have you for your boys let me tell you something don't you buy into this stuff that a woman can't raise a man you pray and you raise that ball with a stern hand and you teach him right from wrong when you go to see em actin you know carrying out a whole lot of feminine tendencies and all that you make him understand that's not for you that's for your sister useful behaved X Y & Z that boy will grow up make you proud that boy will grow up and make you proud because sometimes men are formed by the circumstances of life sometimes God says I'm just gonna give you a grace that you won't have to have father brother uncle or nobody I'm just gonna raise you up and I'm gonna make you a great father to somebody else so that's

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