There is a cultural crowd, a day Kingdom, men, men who are all areas that would rule from the perspective of heaven who get their instructions from above, but flesh it out here below in the nasty here and now where real life has to be lived. There's a cry for Kingdom men, it's the cry of a of a child who grow up grows up every day without a father. It's the cry of a single woman who's whose biological clock is ticking at. There is no man to marry who would be responsible in the relationship. It's a cry of churches when women volunteer for everything in and often the men are, am ia missing in action and it's the cry of a culture where terrorists have taken over the streets.
You know there used to be a time when, when men, walk down the street - and there were a group of boys - they would move over off the curb and let the man by. Now men have to move over because of the threat of social terrorism. So there is a cry today for not just males but “Kingdom Men.” In fact it's even deeper than that. The cry for a kingdom man is also God's cry. It's the culture's cry, it's the cry of men, but it's the cry of Almighty God, because in Ezekiel 22:30 God said
“I searched for a man among them who would build up a wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found [a]no one.”
He said the destruction was. I went man hunting and couldn't find men. Now it's not that he couldn't find males. He couldn't find men.
So there must be a difference between just being a male and being a man in Malachi 4:6. God says unless the hearts of the fathers are reconnected with the children and the hearts of the children are reconnected with the father, there will be a curse on the land, so God is having trouble finding a kingdom man. In fact, in Isaiah 3:12, God says the children have become oppressors and the women have taken taken over ruling showing the destruction of the culture. So when men are not Kingdom men and the children are in chaos and the wives have to lead, then you know you are living in a disintegrating culture.
There is this cry for a kingdom man. So now that raises the question doesn't it? What is a kingdom man? What do I mean by Kingdom man. When you read the book of Genesis, you see the creation of the first man. His name is Adam. Adam is the man prototype. He was man as he was meant to be. We know he was man as it was meant to be, because there's never been a man before him and he was created in a perfect environment, so he was created by a perfect person in a perfect environment. His man, as he was created to be, in other words all of you - should nickname yourself Adam, because this is what God meant for us to be. When you see Adam created by God, you see something in chapter 2, where he's created that you don't see in Chapter 1, when God does the creation in chapter 1, you see, and God said, and God said, and God said Let there be let there be. The Hebrew word is Elohim that has to do with the power God, the God who has the power to create. He can create something out of nothing.
So in chapter one when Gods just creating stuff, he's Elohim. But now when he wants to interact with the man, he's Yahweh. Elohim he's the Lord God because he's not just the power God, he is the God that wants to relate to you and oversee your affairs. So when we talk about a kingdom man we're talking about a man who not simply believes in God, but we're talking about a man who believes in God and the God he believes in is also his Lord. He is the God overseeing the affairs of his life to define it another way. If the kingdom, man is a male who has learned to live his life under the lordship of Jesus Christ start with Kingdom, the word Kingdom means rule or governance.
God's kingdom is as comprehensive, ruled over all of life. Well, that's the concept of kingdom. Now, when you have Kingdom he has a plan or a program. We call it the kingdom agenda. That is the visible manifestation of the comprehensive rule of God over all of life.
So God's kingdom, the rule of God, has this management over all of life. When a man is a kingdom man, he is operating underneath that rule. You are not a kingdom man unless God is telling you what to do. You're, not a referee. Unless the Commissioner is telling you what to do, if you're a referee and you say it's my thing and I'm gonna do what I want to do, then you become a rebellious, ref and you're no longer any good to the league office.
God has a lot of males who are no longer any good to the kingdom because they want to wear the stripes like they blow but run the affairs independently of God. So the challenge we face today is the absence of men. There is a Clarion cry for men. The problem is one of the great issues is the independence of men. Men Don't like people telling them what to do.
We certainly know what I can tell them, what else what to do, and even if A wife tell us what to do, we don't go for it. We don't want another man in our business telling us what to do and that works up to not even wanting God to tell us what to do. Unless we happen to like what he happens to say. I just got a word from a man who stopped coming to our church and the reason he stopped coming to our church he said is because I don't want to be told what to do, even if it's God doing the telling now. What would you say to a referee who said I don't want, commissioner telling me what to do?
Well, you don't want that job. Okay, in other words, chaos comes when God is not allowed to be God in the life of a man. The goal of a kingdom man is to implement the rule of God, not create his own rules along the way. We would save ourselves a lot of pain and anguish. In fact, so many men have received a lot of pain and anguish and are passing it on to their families, because they don't know a kingdom man and they aren't being a kingdom man.
But when God can get men to leave their normal activities, you would men. Would say: well, if I leave things are going who's going to take care of my family God. It says I got if I can get this. If I can get your undivided attention, you will see me do things back home that you never imagined. This is not your world.
You have been placed here to oversee it by the king, but what a generation of men has not have done is decided we're gonna run this like we want to run it; like we own it. A kingdom man understands that he is obligated to a higher order. I had the privilege of growing up for a large part of my life under the guidance of a kingdom man. It didn't start out that way. My father started out as a as a rebel.
That was great conflict in my house. It was chaos, confusion and it looked like. I would become a statistic in the urban Baltimore, as things were unraveling in our family. One day my father became a Christian. He was led to Christ by two men who asked him one day.
Did he know where he would spend eternity? He didn't, even though he went to church every week and led the men's choir? He couldn't answer the question about eternal destiny. Well, when he trusted Christ, he came home transformed. He wanted to know everything about this new life. He could learn.
Now. My mother didn't like him as a sinner and couldn't stand him as a saint. I mean she made life miserable for my father. My daddy would get up at midnight to read his Bible, because that was the only time he could have peace and quiet no conflict, but he grew and grew in his faith, and my mother came down one day and said while he was reading his Bible late At night I don't get it and she's crying, he says. What do you mean?
I don't get it the more. I hate you, the more you love me back, the more I reject you, the more you accept me, then, why the more I push you away. The more you want to do things good for me. I don't get it and I've done everything I know to dissuade this direction so whatever it is, you have must be real. How can I have it too?
He got on his knees that day and he led my mother to Christ long story short. Then my parents led us to Christ, I'm the oldest of four. What sent me in a whole different direction in life than the direction I was headed. I was headed in the wrong direction until a kingdom man showed up in my house and when this Kingdom man showed up in my house by placing his own life under the rule of God and then bringing the family underneath that rule my house was totally changed. So was the life of my children and my grandchildren all because the kingdom man came home, God is not just looking for males he's, not just looking for guys who go to church, although that has its place.
God is looking for Kingdom men, men who will live under his rule because there is only room for one king in this world.
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