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I’m going to ask you to turn your Bibles to Genesis CH 3: 8 to2 and I want the men to stand as I read these verses Genesis 3 vers 8-2 they heard the sound of the Lord God Walking In The Garden in the cool of the
Day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God Among the Trees of the garden then the Lord God Called To The Man and said to him where are you he said I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I
Was naked so I hid myself and he said who told you that you were naked have you eaten eaten from the Tree of which I commanded you not to eat the man said the woman who you gave to be with me the man said the woman who you gave to be with
Me she gave me from the tree and I ate and now for father as we bring men and women before your word with an emphasis on men we ask you to help me help us to hear from you in Jesus name amen 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 and 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
It’s the question of churches and pastors who have to keep calling on ladies to do do jobs that men ought to do because the men are missing in action and the question is Adam where you at as I stood in a prison a couple of months ago speaking to a group group of
Prisoners in the male jail and I asked them all of you who grew up without a father in your life raised your hand and 90% of the hands went up so as I looked at them I wondered Adam where you at I was talking to this week
A teacher in one of our public schools and he told me I’m resigning this year I’m resigning this year I can’t take it anymore he was talking about the Rebellion the insubordination the lack of respect coming from the students in his classroom and the question is Adam where you at because they didn’t
Have a father it’s the question of a girl who decides to become a lesbian because of the abuse of a male somewhere in her developmental years so the question on the floor is Adam where you at we’re living in a day of terrorism where vience 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 where are
You now God is omniscient he knows all God is omnipresent he exists everywhere simultaneously so God’s question about where Adam was was not F fundamentally a question of location he knows where Adam is located he’s the one in the garden with him so the question that I am raising
That God raises with the first Adam and the Hebrew word for Adam means Earth for he was created from the earth the woman was not created from the earth she was created from Adam now that’s a deeper point that we’ll get too later but Adam is Earth and God says where are
You no let me tell you what was at the heart of the question at the heart of the question where are you was not fundamentally a question of location it was a question of position see Adam had abandoned his role he had abandon his calling he had abandoned his
Position so the question of where are you is a question of positioning Ezekiel CH 22:30 God says I was looking for a man to stand in the Gap so I would not have to curse the land but I could find none there were plenty of
Males but he said I can’t find a man so apparently you can be a male and not be a man and he says because I couldn’t find a man I had to curse the land so a land becomes cursed when men cannot be located even when males are everywhere 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 Now ladies there are going to be two reactions to what I say today and what I say ongoingly as long as this onep part series keeps going some of you will be frustrated cuz you will be thinking oh here we go with this man thing others of you will be estatic
Because the man in your life or the one you hope comes along will man up to God’s definition 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 1 Timothy chapter 2:12 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 six cuz you first you know how we tell our oldest child particularly if it’s a boy you’re the old oldest your first holding you responsible when God looks at a man he says I hold you responsible they don’t fire teams they fire
Coaches the coach doesn’t drop the ball fumble the ball miss the block the coach doesn’t do any of that but he is the one that gets fired cuz he is responsible for having the team ready to play so if you are a man if you are a male God says I’m holding you
Responsible even if it’s not your fault see it may not even be your fault but I’m holding you responsible for fixing it the heart of being God’s man means adopting responsibility why because everything that comes after that is banking on you God says in Malachi 4 verses
4-6 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 where’s 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 you’re 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 in
The messed up City and your city’s part of the county when now your messed 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 messed 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 now your messed 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 when now your messed up State’s going to 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 as part of a messed up County that’s contributing to a messed up state that contribut to a messed up country
And your country is 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 compos the better countries and have by better States cuz they made made up of better counties composed of better
Cities inhabited by better neighborhoods illuminated by better churches that are made up a better families we got to start by becoming better men cuz it all rests on the position of the [Applause] man because the man was first he is to function as the found 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 to keep the windows and the
Doors and the roof in place get out of whack because the foundation 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 so in this day of male abandonment male
Abuse male disregard male irresponsibility we have cultural chaos he says that man has a priority responsibility now the foundation isn’t the whole thing that’s where the woman comes in and we’re going to get to that but the foundation is always the first thing if you’re building a
Building and so God says that the man is not to be a weak part of the the society the house the church us to be the foundation of it and while I know we live in a day when for many women this is not a popular thought the goal is not to be
Popular it’s to be biblical the goal is not to say well what are they saying in the culture the goal is saying what is God saying in his word and as you will see when we unfold this word the man is the foundation but the wife or the woman is critical she’s
Not a extra thrown in she’s not a a just a diaper changer and a bottle washer so you all come back now you here but neither do we want to disregard the point that men have left this priority it says in that verse verse eight 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 place he lived Adam went to the house to get the leaves to hide from God so he used what
God 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 see you can hide from God in church so if you’re going to be God’s man what I call God’s kingdom man then you and I we are going to have to accept the role we’re going to have to accept the role see all you need to be is a male is
The right Plumbing that’s that’s merely a plumbing situation but to be a man you got to own the responsibility you got to own [Applause] that now I realize that many men today do not have the privilege of having somebody in their life who’ve helped them to do that you weren’t raised with
A father you weren’t given guidance by some other responsible male and that wasn’t your fault but it is your responsibility not to repeat it yourself or else the cycle goes unbroken they were hiding from the presence of the Lord and Adam was responsible the heart of God’s
Man is that he is operating underneath the authority and in the presence of God not running from it so then how does this man operate Adam where are you how does this this kind of man roll in chapter 2 verse 15 it says then the Lord God
Took the man cuz there’s 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 single women make it known own early if there is no Finance there won’t be no romance he gave him a place to live he gave him a job to work before he gave him a woman to lead an irresponsible man is not worthy to be a
Husband because if he ain’t even taking care of him why you think he going to take care of [Applause] you but I want I want I want 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 cultivated ah oh that’s a different word cultivated see he didn’t just give him a job he told him to be productive see the cultivate something is to produce something more than what you start with so if you’re in farming
You take seeds 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 in other words if a real man is going to have some Vision he doesn’t just want to stay
Where he is he wants to produce more than what he starts with so the question is not are you going to work the question is are you productive in the work you do do you have a productive mindset he says I want you to cultivate
It I want you to there is no woman I want you to I want you to produce more than you start with I’m going get you started I’mma I’mma get you this home I’mma get you this Garden I’mma get you eating but now you supposed to turn this Place into something
Spectacular you’re not you’re not you’re not trying to just not be nothing not go anywhere you’re trying to become all that you were created to be and other words you got a purpose your purpose isn’t just to to be here your purpose is to cultivate to embellish to enhance to to
Expand to dream far too many men have lost their ability to dream have lost their ability to see what is not yet to look further than they can see now that’s not the same for every man because every man doesn’t do the same thing but every man should be
Dissatisfied with things staying where they are because the calling on a man underneath God is to expand what whatever God has placed in his hand and to multiply it to expand it in fact one of the reasons that we don’t see more of God is God don’t see more of our
Dream now that dream has to be with our gift and for his glory but he says I want you to cultivate it I want you to you know you have appliances I have appliances those appliances aren’t just sitting there looking pretty those appliances are for functional purposes the refrigerator
Keeps it cold the stove makes it hot the uh toaster pops it up the can opener opens it up in other words they are producing they are productive they’re not just sitting there they’re functional 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 cuz he’s not married yet he’s a single man hanging out with God in the Gard
G in other words even as a single man he was living in the presence of God he was living under the covering of God something we’ll get into more detail at another time but that’s where he was rolling that’s where he was operating 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 guard or protect I want you to protect your house I want you to protect your garden what is he 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 there going to be problems in the garden cuz 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 Ser in the garden and your job is to keep him out the opening line in the book Kingdom man says it all when a kingdom man gets up the devil ought to say oh crap he’s
Up I got to deal with him again today because you are responsible for the garden to keep the devil out because he trying to get in and he may be trying to get in through your wife no man better say Amen right now so provision and protection that is the
Environment that Adam was responsible for and then he gives him another instruction verse 16 Genesis 3 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 command 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 posy not his friends not his homeboy nobody overrules God not even his wife because God is going to 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 amen or as Joshua said as for me in my house Joshua 24:15 This is how we roll This Is How We
Roll as for me in my house this is how we there’s no vote here God commanded me I’m under commandment but notice the command the command the command was a happy command see we we look at the negative part don’t eat from that tree no no that’s not the first part of the
Command the first part of the command was live it up first car of man command was from every tree of the garden you may freely eat the first part of the command he’s a single man he tells him the first part of the command is maximize all that I have given you
Maximize my creation maximize all that you can do just don’t mess with that tree you remember Don Cornelius and the Soul Train you remember the the scramble board there were letters on the scramble board and and those letters referred to a particular singer or particular musical group or particular song but the
Letters were all over the place and so they’ get a couple of the dancers and they’d have to unscramble the scramble board and so they would get 60 seconds to get the letter is in order so that they could identify the group or the singer or the song and so they had to
Work out the scramble boy you see one of the reasons we’re in trouble as men is God’s word has gotten all scrambled up and our job is to get the letters in place he says the day you eat of it you’re going to break relationship with me that’s death that’s like unplugging
Something in your house it’s alive when you plug it in cuz electricity flows once you unplug it the instrument dies it can’t function anymore and what we have today are males who don’t function anymore because they’re unplugged because death has entered into him or the relationship or the scenario
Or the parenting or whatever the case may be 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 it was an 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 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’mma 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 we we we 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 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 V Vengeance cuz when the devil ask 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 and 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 yeah you do cuz all you got to do is steal from me 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 so I did the work you
Become the thief your family gets the information 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 know knows the most is who’s responsible that’s who it is and this places things in
Order it gets things in the proper place God says not your reason but my word must Define you before I give you a woman because when I give you a woman and then when I give you a family and then when I give you a culture then when
I give you a career then when I give you all this stuff it will be managed by me through you it will not be managed by you apart from me a man is to be the vehicle the flow through from God to those entities Family Church society that he flows
Through as the first point of contact yes women you have your own personal responsibility and relation relationship with the Lord that is to be primary the Bible says even a husband can’t overrule God in the life of his wife but at the same time God has a
Process that he prefers to flow through I know in this day of being politically correct that’s not a popular position but let’s get this straight I ain’t trying to be popular I’m trying to be biblical [Applause] human reason was never to govern the man divine revelation was when
I when my son Anthony was small and we bought him a bicycle and back then they didn’t put it together for you you had to put it together yourself It came it came with all all these nuts and bolts and screws and and washers and all this stuff came
With all this stuff and a thick book of instructions thick book of instructions so I looked at all these pieces in this thick book and I rationalized I said now wait a minute I have a college degree I’m working on my Master’s and I’m G to go for my
Doctorate so I can figure this out I I can do this eight hours later with just the handlebars on with just the handlebar I’m out there fing I guess the handle bars on sister Evans comes to the garage door and gives me a a piece of interesting
Advice that I didn’t want to hear basically she said could it be Ju Just could it be that the bicycle maker knows more about bicycle assembly then the degreed one knows [Applause] so I ask you could it be that the man maker knows more about manhood than the man
Does and I was able to complete in 45 minutes what my own understanding had not been able to fix in8 hours many men say my wife won’t change whose book are you using my kids won’t change which manual are you using because if you using from the wrong
Tree there’s no power there’s no God there’s just the best you can come up with wife after wife family after family so God is calling on men and he’s asking the question Adam where are you and not just the location question but a position question now I don’t I don’t have I
Don’t have time to to go into this so I’m I’m when I’m getting ready to tell you now I’m I’m G wait because but I’m I’m just gonna introduce it right now just gonna introduce it as you all have heard me say at least the men have heard me
Say I love being a man okay when I get up in the morning and I look in the mirror hey yeah you a man I mean that’s how that’s how I feel I I I feel that thing is on me I got that thing that thing is on me I love being a
Man and let me tell you one reason why verse 19 of chapter 2 out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky and brought them to the man to see what he would call them and whatever the man called a living
Creature there it is ooh that was his name you know why I love being a man I get the name stuff I get the name stuff you know what the name stuff means in the Bible when you got the name stuff you got to own it
When you got to name stuff you could exercise authority over it now you can’t just go name anything you got to name what God brings you but once God brings it to you you get to own that thing so I be naming everything I can get my hands on
And giving it back to God God gives you the ability and the authority that’s why when a woman comes on the scene she changes her name cuz you lay hold to that thing you you grab that thing you you you you say no no no you mine because I named you
You get the name that’s exercising Spiritual Authority you get to do that if you’re underneath his Covenant and his covering so the question on the floor is Adam where are you now I know that many men as I said earlier have grown up without a Biblical world
Viiew and I know that we 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 cuz in the Bible there are two men named Adam not
One you got the first Adam in Genesis 2 2 and three 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 chap 15:
2245 and 47 it says there’s another Adam Adam number two he’s called the last Adam while Adam number one got us booted out of the garden the Bible says the last Adam is a lifegiving 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 were wrong the last Adam can rename you there were there were there were two
Mount 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 the mountain but in order to get them 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 Adam 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 ax 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 men it’s time to come Home A [Applause] N a A A A M [Applause] Oh [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] N [Applause] [Applause] Oh
