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Hey, last week we started into Maximize Manhood. This is a book that we've been using in our Friday morning breakfast group by Edwin Cole. Just amazed at the content, amazed at the relative material and how it relates to today. Even though this book was first, the first draft was done in 1982. And I think the latest revision was done in 2015 when they added a couple more chapters. But absolutely fantastic book. Folks, if you're out there and looking for something to move into with your men's group or your small group. We recommend that you consider this book.
It has a workbook to go along with the reader and you will not be disappointed. Because we you know, we don't push certain products on the podcast, but this one is a diamond in the rough. It really is. It really is. And it is available on Amazon, not that I'm pushing Amazon either, but it's easy to get to Edwin Cole, Maximize Manhood. And there's many other books in the series which we haven't gone through yet, but absolutely wonderful book.
So Will, this week we want to talk at chapter 11 out of his book and it's called The Video Daddy. So appropriately put for men today who look at the boob tube as we used to call it. Yes, and quite a bit of time spent in front of the TV these days and they're getting so big, much bigger. It's like sitting in your own home theaters we talk about and men are gaming a lot. We've talked about that being the number two distraction among men is gaming, which is really kind of crazy deal for me to think about.
It is. But you know, he starts off in this in this chapter, Roy, talking about how basically how society and Hollywood in particular has projected men. You know, so when we look at the men that's being portrayed in the sitcoms, you know, like the Married with Children episodes or the Homer Simpsons and things like this.
This is the ideal of daddy that's being portrayed through Hollywood and society, which is really a disgusting picture of the way God, not the way God intended man to be portrayed. Very true. You know, I think of, you know, back when we were kids, you know, the man in the house, a man on TV was like Daniel Boone.
Exactly. The father of the Waltons. I mean, men's men, hardworking, loving, but yet very, very strong in their character, very strong in how they were stood. They weren't made fun of.
They weren't made to be appear dumb, dumb down, if you will. And just the ridiculous and ignorant and all the things that we see in today's TV. And, you know, I'm glad you brought that up, Roy, because TV was more wholesome back then.
You know, and even even some of the sitcoms that I think about, like Make Room for Daddy with Danny Thomas and and some of those sitcoms, you know, they always had. I cannot remember that one. Sure you do.
Sure you do. I do not know anything about that sitcom. But you know, it had a message after each and every episode, you know, that maybe one of the children were going through or the wife was going through or even he was going through. And that there was always a strong message about parenting or about love or about unity. It was always being portrayed. And so even some of the westerns, you know, like the little houses on the prairie and or a little house on the prairie.
I'm putting them in more than one house. But, you know, those always had messages. You know, the daughters were going through things, the dad would come along and give really good, sound advice as to what, you know, she shouldn't be doing or what she should be doing or how she got into a certain situation like that.
Right. And then the other side of how that was modeled, too, there was always a partnership in the family. You remember, you go back to the Waltons, it's still one of my favorite even today on the Me TV, but it's there was always a lesson to be learned and a lesson to be taught through the show. But there was always the husband and wife that were in tandem. There was they were always in tandem.
Now, they may have a different point of view, but at the end of the conversation, they were always in tandem. So one of the things that he says in the book here in Chapter 11 is the most powerful thing that can be done in life is to create an image. The next most powerful thing to do is destroy an image. Television has been creating and destroying images of manhood for decades with dangerous results. And we see that being acted out in so many ways during with crime, you know, or the absentee father, you know, or the individual who simply is don't he really don't want to find certain employment. And that's not to say that this applies to every man in every situation, for every nationality. But but there are men out there who are this way. We are not saying the bulk of them are because the bulk of men do want to work.
They do want to supply, you know, for their family and be that provider that God had called them to be. One thing Edwin says in the book here, Will, is our youths have been traumatized by the video daddy. These images, like it or not, are examples of an authority figure in the home. Those foolish male characters, too numerous to mention, have distorted the image of husbands and fathers. In its perversion, an image of manhood is stamped on the minds of our youth that results in the resentment, derision, anarchy and mockery. So that's the the collateral damage of the TV and the image that they're seeing of manhood. Right. So they watch TV, children watching TV, and they see this as the quote unquote model father or head of the house. Then they have no respect for that role, if you will.
And it brings in the collateral damage that comes back into the home in their behavior, potentially in their responses to their parents, specifically their father. Exactly. And, you know, he talks about a virtuous nation. And we have long past being a virtuous nation because of what we see today on the TV screen and the big screen and, you know, video on our phone.
Everything is so convenient. And in the end, it's all about dollars. And and the Hollywood says, well, we're simply giving the public what they want. But in the end, they're feeding a society because this society, eventually, if they continue to have themselves bombarded with these images and images play a strong thing, because, you know, we talked about once you see an image, you know, of of a man and a woman, you know, in an intercourse way, that image burns into the mind of that young man or that young woman. And what they begin to do eventually is, again, like we discussed on previous shows, they want to act it out. So what we have to do as men of God and men who are standing on the front line is we have to talk about, man, how do you get back and fight these images?
Well, that starts first with the control, right? Will of the taking control and responsibility for what's being viewed in your home. And, you know, we've talked about slow fade in the past. You know, 30 years ago, the things that we're seeing on TV today from the homosexuality piece to the to the relational piece, the intimacy piece of people out of wedlock, the exposure of more skin, if you will, than should be on any TV. All those things that are not biblical values and not biblical standards are being led into the household via the TV, which then becomes basically numb. People become numb. The father becomes numb. The kids get used to seeing it.
Then it's that whole slow fade thing, right, where it just continues to move across the chart. And all of a sudden you wake up one day and you're seeing stuff and hearing stuff and allowing things in your home that you had no idea that you would ever do. And then it's going to impact your children and their future and their relationships and their growth and their respect or lack of respect for you and your wife. So it's truly, truly important that you control the content of what's coming in for young children. And one thing that comes to mind wheels, and this came up several weeks ago in a conversation, you know, what we're trying to allow children to decide at such a young age is absolutely bizarre when you look at it in the scheme of things. The social decisions that we're allowing to be made, children that are below the age of 10, below the age of 15, they can't drive a car legally until they're 16, right? They can't vote until they're 18. They can't have a beer until they're 21, and they can't join the army until they're 18. All these things they can't do until they're over 18 years old and we're allowing things to go on early in their life and then make decisions about it. So do we think that they can really control the content that's coming in and filter it and process it properly at such a young age?
No, because what's happening is, again, they're viewing these images. These images now are being carried over to and ultimately will affect the decisions about when they're old enough to get a car, if they're old enough to join the army. And so all of these, this ideology that they have brought forward at that young age will now be carried over and it will start to affect them when they get to that 16-year age or the 18 or the 21. So now they're going out and they're saying, okay, now that I'm old enough to do some of these things, I'm going to go out and do it and mom and dad can't say anything about it because if I'm doing it away from home, they don't know what's going on anyway.
And let somebody within my little crew tell them that this is where we were and we had no business being there because, see, children will find a way of, you know, secretly holding things to themselves. It's just like here and he mentions Proverbs and he said in Proverbs, it says that God hates those who say that bad is good and good is bad. And that's what we're seeing today. We're seeing individuals when God specifically says in his word that there are certain things that we as God's people should not do or should not engage in, then we see these things happening today and society is saying it's okay.
It's healthy for you to go out and start engaging in some of these things because it's normal, you know. Well, that goes back to the slow faith, what you used to think wasn't normal. Now, the slow faith has occurred and people are accepting it as normal and it doesn't line up with biblical standards.
Exactly. In God's word. And, you know, folks, think about what Will just said. What God hates is when good has become bad and bad has become good when you're allowing that to happen, right? So what have we done as a society? Everything that we knew to be wrong has now become right, most everything, if you think about it from when we were kids. I mean, here it is 30 years later for you, you know, 60 years later, but for me, 30 years later. So here all of a sudden these things are now right and then by God's standards, they are still wrong. Exactly. And so when we come back, we're going to talk about how you can get away from some of these things.
And so think about Philippians chapter two, verses five and six, when we come back. Dr. Jeff Fricke has been caring for patients in High Point for 34 years. Physical therapy such as ultrasound and spinal decompression for disc conditions such as herniation, comprehensive care for auto accident injury patients with no out-of-pocket expense. Remember, affordable chiropractic on West Lexington Avenue in High Point.
Call 336-885-1987. Welcome back to Man Talk Radio, Roy. You know, we were talking about men. How can I get out of this this image that society has projected in reference to making man feel so immature, dumbing down man's responsibilities, man making man look like a buffoon and uncaring for his family and things like this? In Philippians chapter two, verses four and five, God says that we should look out not only for the interests of ourselves, but to look out for interests of others. So we're putting basically others, looking at others the way we would want ourselves to be looked at. So if we have a need, not just only care for your need, but if you are able to meet the need of that brother or sister, you know, go out and assist them. And see, I think this is how when we start aligning and joining ourselves up with those individuals who are spiritually stronger perhaps than we are, are more rooted and grounded in the word to where we can go and get some spiritual advice from, then this is the avenue avenue that we should take so as to help us to keep our mind focused on the things of God and not the things of the world. And then, of course, verse five, he says, Let this mind be in you, which is also in Christ Jesus. So mentally, we're allowing our mind to be changed.
How is it to be changed? Getting in that word, like we talked about, aligning ourselves with stronger believers in Christ, letting God pour into us what we cannot pour into ourselves, because if we pour into ourselves, what we're going to pour is the unhealthy things that society has given. Right. And we're not going to be nearly as strong to overcome the things that he needs us to overcome and to reject as a part of what's coming at us. You know, and then one of the questions that Edwin asks in the book, how can we change the negative images that are being basically embedded in our minds, in our children's minds, by letting God renew our minds, which goes back to Romans 12, right? So if we'll let God renew our minds, then he can also do the same for our children and for our family. But, man, you have to start taking control of what comes into your home via whatever, via the radio, via the telephones, the smartphones, via the TV. You need to be the priest of your home, like we talked about last week.
You need to be the priest of your home, which will enable you to oversee and properly guide your families. This is a key, a very key principle to your walk and leadership. Yeah, because he says we could have our minds renewed and our hearts regenerated. And then from there, our entire life would be so changed that old things would pass away and all things would become new.
And, of course, that's 2 Corinthians 5, 17 that he lists here. So if you continuously want to dwell in the things that are old, you know, then that's where you're going to be, and you're never going to see any change in your life. And you should ask yourself, have I really taken up my cross to follow Christ, if you're not willing to give up those things and change?
Amen. Because we talked about that last week, and then the prior week before that, you know, how do you know that you're growing? And you know that you're growing based on the information that you're listening to. And if God is blessing you to filter out this information that's bad for you, taking in what's good for you, that's the process of revelation. And then when you take that in, the things that God wants you to take into your spirit, then you begin to meditate on those things. That's allowing God to bless you to meditate. So meditation would be that third step. Transformation would be the fourth step, which means that I'm actually doing what the Word of God says that I'm doing.
And if I see no transforming ways in my life, then I know I'm not changed, and I know I'm not growing. And then, finally, you're demonstrating through the Holy Spirit what God had blessed you to meditate on, and then your life being transformed. And then God is blessing you to demonstrate that by laying hands on people, and God blessed them to recover, speaking the Word of God, and things will start changing. Because this is how we as men of God know that God has called through us through the demonstration of the Spirit. It is the Spirit. It's just like when God blessed Paul and Silas, and the man was healed, and they say, brothers, why are you looking on us as though we did something to make this man whole? But no, it wasn't us. It was the Spirit of God. Jesus Christ, whom you crucified, you put on the cross. He is the one who raised him up. So they understood where the power was coming from, that it wasn't just them. You got something there?
Yeah, I was just looking and falling up behind the imagery wheels. The best daddy is the one who uses the television to make the godly of the land his heroes. And we don't have many of them today. No.
If anything, it's an antihero. Yeah, exactly, exactly. And then it says, men, families, nations are great by the wealth of their virtues, not by virtue of their wealth.
Wow. Men produce nations. A nation is great because its men are great. And men, if you need a prayer, he's got one in the book.
And I'm on 127. He said the Psalmist wrote, I need your help. See, that's a prayer. Cry out to God that I need your help, especially in my own home, where I long to act as I should.
Oh, wow, that's a blessing. Help me to do what? Refuse the law and vulgar things, the low and vulgar things. Turn me away from those things. Don't let my mind be focused on those things.
And then he goes on to say what, Roy? Help me to abhor all crooked deals of every kind. Wow.
Wow. See, I mean, listen to the Psalmist's heart, man. He's saying, I don't want any part of anything that's going to make me crooked. I don't want to have any crooked deals. I don't want to have any crooked thoughts.
I don't want to have any crooked past before me, but I want God to lay straight the path. I will reject all selfishness and stay away from every evil. I'm getting chills right now. I'm just getting chills. I will not tolerate anyone who slanders his neighbors.
Wow. I will not permit conceit and pride. I will make the godly of the land my heroes and invite them to my home. Only those who are truly good shall enter or shall be my servants, but I will not allow those who deceive and lie to stay in my house. Don't even bring them in. This is what the Psalmist is saying, man. If you know that a person is toxic to your family, the word of God right here, we just read it. Psalms 127, it said, don't even bring them into your house. And see, people would look at that and say, oh, well, you're not just being neighborly. Well, I'm guarding my household from damage that could potentially get in here, plant a seed. Now that seed is starting to grow and I'm wondering what's going on. Right.
Why am I having these different attitudes toward my children or to my mate? Next line, it says, every man has three functions in the home will, to guide, guard, and govern. And there you have it right there. See, guiding your family in the way of the scripture, listening to the message that has been delivered on Sunday, talking through that message, making sure that your family, as well as you have that understanding, this is what the godly woman yearns for. And we saw that last week, you know, when we talk about, is there a priest in the house? A godly woman will follow that man to the ends of the earth.
If she knows that he is pouring his heart and soul out to his leader, which is Jesus Christ, who was the head of the church. But guard, and then guarding is what we just said. The Psalmist just said it. Don't invite people in your house who you know is toxic. And then finally, govern, making sure that those things that you lay down, for your family, is sound.
Yeah, exactly. And if you're not sure about that, seek the wisdom of your elders or people around you, if you're struggling with whether to make a decision or to make a particular decision, and pray over it. Pray over it. And pray over your family every day before and at the end of each day. And man, as we talked about in the other show, be sure and be praying with your wives as part of the priest of your home. And if you're not married, you're still the priest of your home. As we mentioned in the previous show, you need to be praying and living as a priest.
Pray and living as if you are priest over the family, because you are still priest of your home. Amen. And God is watching. So if you're doing things in the dark, the Word of God tells us it's going to be brought to the light.
Nothing is going, is escaping the eyes of God. God doesn't forget about anything. And see, we have this notion that, Roy, that, oh, my sins have been forgiven past, present, and future. Well, if we don't supposed to, if we sin and we never supposed to ask for forgiveness, no, I don't think so. Because of 1 John 1-9, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Amen. So God would not have said that if he did not need for you to confess your sins. So you still got to confess your sins. You got to still repent of your sins.
Even though your sins are forgiven, you need to vocalize that and just say, well, grace got me covered. See, that's a cop-out. It is.
That's a cop-out. It is. Hey, we're wrapping this thing up, Will. For America to recapture its greatness, Edwin says, it's men must recapture their manhood.
Wow. You must recapture your manhood, men. And as we roll out of this chapter, modern youth need fathers of good courage. They need heroes.
They need Joshua's who will cry. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Lloyd, Roy, why don't you just go ahead and pray for the audience with this last few times we have left.
Great. Thank you, Will. Father, we just lift this session up to you.
We just ask that you touch men's hearts and ladies' hearts that are listening. We thank you for the opportunity to spread your word and just to be a living example of what you've asked us to do. Yes, Lord. We just pray for all families represented and all individuals represented. Thank you, Lord.
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