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Andy Stanley - Modern Men (Part 2)

June 20, 2026 | 28:29

Andy Stanley - Modern Men (Part 2)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - Modern Men (Part 2) | June 20, 2026
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  • Andy stanley: hi, everybody, welcome to "your move".
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  • I'm andy stanley, and today i'm gonna teach you how to do
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  • Something that you don't know how to do that you think you
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  • Know how to do, and once you learn how to do it, you'll be
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  • Glad that you know, so stick around.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: today is actually part two of a miniseries because it's
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  • Only two parts, and it's specifically for men, "modern
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  • Men and our ancient scripts."
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  • And if you missed part one last week, i hope you go back, men,
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  • And listen or watch or save it for your son someday, or maybe
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  • Sit down and maybe talk about it with your sons or
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  • Your grandsons.
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  • But essentially, just to kind of catch you up, if you missed part
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  • One, last time we talked about the fact that every man--every
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  • Man listening, every man in the world, this isn't a christian
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  • Thing or a religious thing, this is just kind of a thing
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  • Thing--that every man, all of us have made a decision, and we
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  • Discussed this decision last time.
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  • The decision is, what does it mean to be a man?
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  • I mean, i've decided for me, every man's decided for himself,
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  • What does it mean to be a man, or they've come up, we've all
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  • Come up with our own definition of masculinity.
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  • If i were to say to you, "hey, hey, define masculinity," or
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  • "what does it mean to be a man?"
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  • I don't think i'd get many, "i have no idea, andy.
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  • I have absolutely no idea what it means to be a man," right?
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  • I mean, you have a definition, you have some idea, and so do i,
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  • Because in each of us, every man is subconsciously or maybe
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  • Intentionally, depending on how this works out for you,
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  • Subconsciously or intentionally trying to live out what it means
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  • To be a man, to live up to our responsibility in the roles or
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  • However you view masculinity.
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  • So here's a general definition of masculinity or what it means
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  • To be a man.
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  • It has some wiggle room because we're sorting this out together.
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  • And we talked about this last time, i didn't make this up,
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  • I adapted it from something else.
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  • Masculinity is basically a set of attributes, behaviors, and
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  • Roles generally associated with men and boys.
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  • That's kind of the general definition.
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  • And every guy in here and every man listening, we all have some
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  • Idea of what those attributes are, those behaviors are, and
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  • Those roles are, in terms of our view of what it means to live
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  • Out being a man.
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  • But as we discovered last time, masculinity is not as
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  • Self-evident as we assume.
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  • Again, we think, well, everybody should kind of play by the same
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  • Rules, but we discovered last week, not only does not
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  • Everybody play by the same rules generationally and historically,
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  • Men have played by a whole lot of different rules.
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  • So your definition, your assumptions essentially were in
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  • Large part--this is kind of the case i made last time--your
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  • Definition and assumptions about those roles and everything else
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  • Associated with them, they were--they were actually in
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  • Large part--and this is hard for us to admit, some of us guys,
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  • Because some of us are very stubborn--a lot of that was
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  • Scripted for us.
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  • That you were raised on or you inherited a cultural or family
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  • Script, a script that essentially says, "this is what
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  • It means to be a man."
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  • Your dad or your grandfather, an uncle or culture or the city or
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  • The town or the country or the pa--or the section of the
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  • Country that you were raised in handed you or modeled a script,
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  • "this is what it means to be a man."
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  • "real men always," "real men never."
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  • And that script--and this is true of all of us and, you know,
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  • To admit this is going to allow you to move forward, the script
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  • Created an expectation.
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  • An expectation for us to shoot for, to aim for, because we like
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  • To shoot name things, right?
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  • To shoot for and aim for, a sort of a north star, something for
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  • Us to strive for, something for our sisters to look for.
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  • Or if it was a toxic definition of masculinity, it was something
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  • For our sisters to be on the lookout for.
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  • And some of us easily put that mantle on our shoulders that our
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  • Dads or culture gave us, and it was--it was easy for us because
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  • That script matched our temperament, our interest,
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  • Our physicality, you know.
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  • But for others, it didn't work.
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  • It just didn't fit.
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  • In fact, maybe you watched your older brother or younger
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  • Brother struggle.
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  • You wore it well, you know, what masculinity was supposed to be
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  • Based on your family script and your cultural script, or the
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  • Part of the country you were raised in or what country you
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  • Were raised in.
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  • But you watched your younger or older brother struggle with
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  • That, and he tried to kind of live up to the script, but it
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  • Just didn't fit.
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  • Or maybe you were the brother and it just didn't really fit
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  • For you, it wasn't easy for you, which brings us to what i think
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  • Is a really uncomfortable, for some of us, but
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  • Important observation.
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  • To a large degree--don't leave early, don't tune out early.
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  • To a large degree, to a larger degree than i think we want to
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  • Admit sometimes, that masculinity is really a social
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  • And cultural construct, as is femininity.
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  • Like, think about medieval art women, "this is what the
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  • Sophisticated woman looks like."
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  • If you think about art through the ages, isn't it true at
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  • Times, women, you look at those pictures and you're thinking,
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  • That's not really what i'm going for.
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  • That's not really the look, that is not really the thing, why?
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  • Well, femininity has changed through the ages, as reflected
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  • In art.
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  • And the same is true for masculinity, it is very much
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  • Culturally defined, and that's just a--just a reality.
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  • But it's an important reality for us to recognize as fathers
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  • As we raise sons, and it's important to differentiate or to
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  • Recognize when we think about our own masculinity and trying
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  • To figure out, what in the world does it mean to be a man?
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  • Because every generation, every culture within every generation
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  • Has its own construct, its own definition of what it means to
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  • Live out being a man.
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  • And then--this is where we left off last time--then you come to
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  • Church and you hear me or somebody like me say, "men, men,
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  • I want you to be like jesus!"
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  • And, okay, i can--i can take this, and you look at the person
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  • Saying that, in this case me, or you think about the church you
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  • Grew up in or the priest you grew up with or the
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  • Denomination, whatever it was, you look at the guy up there
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  • Saying that and you think, if you're what we're shooting for,
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  • I'm not shooting for you, okay?
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  • If you're telling me i need to be like jesus and somehow you
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  • Think you're looking like or acting like or behave, you know,
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  • That i, you know, i think i'll pass.
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  • Or maybe when the preacher gets up and says, "you need to be
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  • Like jesus," you think of this guy.
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  • No offense, andy, this guy could ne--this guy, he couldn't change
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  • His own oil if his life depended on it, okay?
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  • So if this is what we're shooting for, that's not what
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  • I'm shooting for, right?
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  • And as we said last time, when you think about biblical
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  • Characters, honestly, there are a lot better biblical characters
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  • That some of us men want to be like, other than this guy.
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  • I mean, how about this guy?
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  • This is david.
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  • I mean, this is kind of more of what some of us want to think
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  • About when it comes to being a man, you know, leading warriors
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  • Into battle, the warrior king.
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  • Or maybe--and this is kind of me to be honest, or maybe when you
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  • Think about jesus, you don't think about medieval art, you
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  • Don't think about david the warrior king.
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  • You think more about the winsome, love other people,
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  • Go the extra mile jesus the people were attracted to.
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  • And seriously, if i could have that hair, i would so want to be
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  • This jesus, okay?
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  • That is an amazing picture.
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  • I mean, you just like this guy, right?
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  • Okay, anyway, so the question is, which is it?
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  • You know, is it all or some of each?
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  • And what does it mean when i say, you know, men, we need to
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  • Follow jesus, right?
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  • Well, as we said last time, jesus actually provides us
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  • With--jesus of nazareth actually provides us with and models for
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  • Us, the script that all of us men need to subscribe to if
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  • We're gonna be jesus followers.
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  • And let me just say this, if you're not a christian, or you
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  • Used to be, or you've been out of church for a long time and
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  • You're coming back for the first time, or somebody's making you
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  • Watch this because you had breakfast in their home, they're
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  • Like, "we always watch the preacher, so," whatever.
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  • Here's the thing, i want you to listen.
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  • Because the invitation of jesus to follow--let me just narrow it
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  • Down, just talking to men for a minute.
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  • The invitation that jesus extends to men to follow is
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  • Life changing.
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  • And if you follow jesus, i promise you, you will become
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  • A better man, and you do not need to fear, oh, i'm gonna lose
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  • My masculinity.
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  • I'm gonna have to be soft or gentle, or i'm gonna have to be
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  • Harsher than i want.
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  • I mean, what--you do not need to fear that because he was the
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  • Godman, as we're going to see in just a minute, and he models
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  • For us guys the perfect script.
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  • It's the script that supersedes family scripts, cultural
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  • Scripts, generational scripts.
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  • So you need not fear this.
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  • You need to be, i would suggest, be open to this, and even if
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  • You're not really a religious person or a christian.
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  • And when i talk about jesus, i wanna be specific.
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  • I'm talking about jesus as described by the men and jesus
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  • As experienced by the women who knew him personally.
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  • Andy: hey, i wanted to take just a minute to address a growing
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  • Crisis in america.
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  • Did you know that nearly 75 million americans have no
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  • Religious affiliation, none whatsoever?
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  • Most of us know some of these people.
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  • Many of us are related to some of these people.
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  • So for us, they aren't statistics, they're people we
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  • Love and would love to see return to faith in jesus.
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  • So at "your move," we are committed to reaching people
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  • With the teaching of jesus right where they are and when they
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  • Least expect it.
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  • We use a research backed digital strategy that's already making
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  • A difference.
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  • So if you'll stick around after today's message, we would love
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  • To tell you more about it, or visit the website or call the
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  • Number on your screen to learn how you can be a part of this
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  • Revolutionary approach to introducing and reintroducing
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  • People to jesus.
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  • Andy: for example, john, who wrote matthew, mark, luke, john,
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  • The gospel of john.
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  • John grew up as a fisherman, okay, calloused hands.
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  • Early he spent his years--he spent his years--he didn't have
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  • Much education.
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  • We find out later he spent years hauling nets, cleaning fish.
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  • He was rope burn, sunburned, but he knew jesus personally.
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  • And after jesus's resurrection and john had traveled around
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  • Telling the mess--the news, he decided he needed to get his
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  • Story out, so he dictates his experience with jesus.
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  • Matthew, mark, luke, john, this is where we find the gospel
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  • Of john.
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  • And as i read these words to you, i just--i say this all the
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  • Time, and sometimes people misunderstand it, but i'm gonna
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  • Keep saying it.
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  • I don't want you to hear me reading the bible, i want you to
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  • Hear me reading the words of a man who spent three years with
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  • Jesus, then spent the next 20 or 30 years talking about jesus.
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  • Now he's at the end of his life and he's as convinced as ever of
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  • Who jesus is, that jesus is god in a body who came to earth.
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  • So this isn't the bible.
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  • When john wrote these words, there was--nobody had a concept
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  • That there's ever going to be a bible.
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  • He's just documenting his story.
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  • And when he sits down--this is so amazing to me,
  • 00:10:41.692 --> 00:10:43.894
  • I get emotional.
  • 00:10:43.894 --> 00:10:45.262
  • When he sits down to dictate his story of, here was my experience
  • 00:10:45.262 --> 00:10:48.132
  • With jesus, i think he struggled with how do i start this?
  • 00:10:48.132 --> 00:10:52.203
  • It's not once upon a time for sure, how do i even start?
  • 00:10:52.203 --> 00:10:57.174
  • How do i encapsulate this experience in words?
  • 00:10:57.174 --> 00:11:01.479
  • And he does the most fascinating thing.
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  • And when you read your english bible, you miss it.
  • 00:11:03.881 --> 00:11:06.350
  • And it's not anybody's fault, it's just the nature of greek
  • 00:11:06.350 --> 00:11:09.053
  • To english.
  • 00:11:09.053 --> 00:11:10.387
  • And so i'm gonna put a greek word in the text because this is
  • 00:11:10.387 --> 00:11:13.357
  • So powerful.
  • 00:11:13.357 --> 00:11:14.725
  • He's making a point that is lost on us.
  • 00:11:14.725 --> 00:11:16.360
  • Here's how he opens his description of jesus, in his
  • 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:18.929
  • Life with jesus.
  • 00:11:18.929 --> 00:11:20.264
  • Not once upon a time, but he goes way back, almost to the end
  • 00:11:20.264 --> 00:11:23.634
  • And the beginning all at the same time.
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  • I love this.
  • 00:11:25.169 --> 00:11:26.504
  • He says this, this is the new testament creation story.
  • 00:11:26.504 --> 00:11:29.740
  • John says, "in the beginning was the logos," in our english text
  • 00:11:29.740 --> 00:11:34.545
  • It says the word, which is confusing.
  • 00:11:34.545 --> 00:11:38.282
  • "and the logos was with god."
  • 00:11:38.282 --> 00:11:39.984
  • It's like "the word was with god," what, what?
  • 00:11:39.984 --> 00:11:42.052
  • "and the logos was god."
  • 00:11:42.052 --> 00:11:44.889
  • Now this was a showstopper, and here's why.
  • 00:11:44.889 --> 00:11:47.825
  • John--this is amazing.
  • 00:11:47.825 --> 00:11:49.160
  • That's why you should read the bible.
  • 00:11:49.160 --> 00:11:50.494
  • John sits down to start the story of jesus and he's like,
  • 00:11:50.494 --> 00:11:54.832
  • "where do i begin?
  • 00:11:54.832 --> 00:11:56.167
  • I mean, i was like toe to toe, hand to hand, eye to eye, face
  • 00:11:56.167 --> 00:12:00.237
  • To face with this human being that was god in a body."
  • 00:12:00.237 --> 00:12:06.443
  • So he opens his gospel by declaring that logos was not
  • 00:12:06.443 --> 00:12:10.548
  • An it after all, and logos was not a god.
  • 00:12:10.548 --> 00:12:14.852
  • This is why this statement is so powerful.
  • 00:12:14.852 --> 00:12:17.054
  • Logos was god, and he had shown up as a man.
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  • A man who embodied wisdom and embodied justice, and embodied
  • 00:12:26.430 --> 00:12:32.903
  • Truth and embodied virtue.
  • 00:12:32.903 --> 00:12:37.107
  • And he says, "ah, at best, i don't know any other way to
  • 00:12:37.107 --> 00:12:39.510
  • Explain it.
  • 00:12:39.510 --> 00:12:40.878
  • And this logos," he wrote, goes on, he says, "and the logos
  • 00:12:40.878 --> 00:12:43.214
  • Became a man, became a person, became flesh, and he made his
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  • Dwelling among us."
  • 00:12:46.584 --> 00:12:47.952
  • He camped out with us.
  • 00:12:47.952 --> 00:12:49.286
  • This isn't ethereal, this isn't religious, this isn't
  • 00:12:49.286 --> 00:12:52.456
  • Spiritual experience.
  • 00:12:52.456 --> 00:12:53.824
  • He's like, no, no, no, i'm talking about he was a person.
  • 00:12:53.824 --> 00:12:56.827
  • Like we hugged each other, like we held hands, like we did
  • 00:12:56.827 --> 00:13:01.832
  • Life together.
  • 00:13:01.832 --> 00:13:03.200
  • "and we have seen his glory."
  • 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:04.535
  • Again, not in a dream and not in a vision.
  • 00:13:04.535 --> 00:13:06.003
  • Oh no, no, no, i mean, i physically, we physically saw
  • 00:13:06.003 --> 00:13:09.940
  • His glory, "the glory of the one and only," best way i know to
  • 00:13:09.940 --> 00:13:14.011
  • Describe him, "son, who came from the father, absolutely full
  • 00:13:14.011 --> 00:13:17.915
  • Of grace and truth."
  • 00:13:17.915 --> 00:13:19.250
  • He was not a balance of grace and truth.
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  • He was full on grace.
  • 00:13:21.352 --> 00:13:22.820
  • He was full on truth all the time, and it was amazing.
  • 00:13:22.820 --> 00:13:28.592
  • He's saying, "look, i camped with him.
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  • I gathered firewood with him.
  • 00:13:30.427 --> 00:13:32.062
  • I fished with him.
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  • I hauled nets with him.
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  • I mourned with him.
  • 00:13:34.765 --> 00:13:36.100
  • I cleaned fish with him.
  • 00:13:36.100 --> 00:13:37.468
  • And it was amazing.
  • 00:13:37.468 --> 00:13:39.403
  • And he was like no other.
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  • And he was fearless."
  • 00:13:41.538 --> 00:13:43.140
  • We--john would say, "we feared the priests, they controlled our
  • 00:13:43.140 --> 00:13:45.876
  • Destiny, our standing in society.
  • 00:13:45.876 --> 00:13:48.045
  • He was fearless with the priests."
  • 00:13:48.045 --> 00:13:51.015
  • I--john would say, "i was there when we went to the temple.
  • 00:13:51.015 --> 00:13:53.250
  • Next thing i know, he's putting together--braiding something.
  • 00:13:53.250 --> 00:13:55.920
  • I'm thinking for maybe a woman's hair.
  • 00:13:55.920 --> 00:13:57.321
  • No, he makes a whip.
  • 00:13:57.321 --> 00:13:58.689
  • And he kicks over tables and creates glorious chaos
  • 00:13:58.689 --> 00:14:02.293
  • In the temple.
  • 00:14:02.293 --> 00:14:03.627
  • And he was not afraid and he faced down these powerful
  • 00:14:03.627 --> 00:14:05.529
  • Money changers.
  • 00:14:05.529 --> 00:14:06.864
  • Then he immediately switches gears, turns around, and begins
  • 00:14:06.864 --> 00:14:09.366
  • Healing people and touching the untouchables, and people could
  • 00:14:09.366 --> 00:14:12.937
  • Not get enough of him.
  • 00:14:12.937 --> 00:14:14.438
  • He was nothing like us and people liked him.
  • 00:14:14.438 --> 00:14:17.174
  • We were nothing like him.
  • 00:14:17.174 --> 00:14:18.709
  • And people weren't sure if they liked us, but they sure
  • 00:14:18.709 --> 00:14:20.978
  • Liked jesus.
  • 00:14:20.978 --> 00:14:22.479
  • They flocked to him.
  • 00:14:22.479 --> 00:14:23.881
  • There was something dynamic and powerful and catalytic and
  • 00:14:23.881 --> 00:14:27.117
  • Gentle and strong and fearless and kind."
  • 00:14:27.117 --> 00:14:32.056
  • He's like, i--"it was nothing which--i don't know what
  • 00:14:32.056 --> 00:14:35.926
  • To say," john would say.
  • 00:14:35.926 --> 00:14:37.661
  • Back to his introduction.
  • 00:14:37.661 --> 00:14:38.996
  • And men, this is--this is for us.
  • 00:14:38.996 --> 00:14:40.364
  • Isn't that exciting?
  • 00:14:40.364 --> 00:14:41.699
  • I mean, i just get so excited about that.
  • 00:14:41.699 --> 00:14:43.067
  • Then he says this to men, he says, "men, in jesus--in the
  • 00:14:43.067 --> 00:14:49.340
  • Logos--was life.
  • 00:14:49.340 --> 00:14:51.508
  • And that life--that way of life--was the light," here it
  • 00:14:51.508 --> 00:14:56.347
  • Is, "of men."
  • 00:14:56.347 --> 00:14:59.216
  • That his way, his life, what he modeled, lit the path, lit the
  • 00:14:59.216 --> 00:15:04.888
  • Way for men.
  • 00:15:04.888 --> 00:15:06.590
  • Let me change gears, ask you this.
  • 00:15:06.590 --> 00:15:08.525
  • Don't raise your hand or answer out loud.
  • 00:15:08.525 --> 00:15:12.629
  • Have you ever seen a man get lost?
  • 00:15:12.629 --> 00:15:14.865
  • Maybe your dad.
  • 00:15:14.865 --> 00:15:16.400
  • He just somehow--you don't know any other way to describe it,
  • 00:15:16.400 --> 00:15:18.235
  • It's like somewhere along the way he just got lost.
  • 00:15:18.235 --> 00:15:20.437
  • I mean, we knew where he was physically, but he--maybe
  • 00:15:20.437 --> 00:15:24.208
  • A friend, maybe you had a season in your life when you would say,
  • 00:15:24.208 --> 00:15:29.446
  • You know, i was--i don't mean lost spiritually, like lost away
  • 00:15:29.446 --> 00:15:32.116
  • From god.
  • 00:15:32.116 --> 00:15:33.484
  • I mean like you just kind of--you just--life just wasn't
  • 00:15:33.484 --> 00:15:35.285
  • Making--working out for you, just, you just felt lost.
  • 00:15:35.285 --> 00:15:39.089
  • Maybe you're there now, and it's understandable.
  • 00:15:39.089 --> 00:15:42.126
  • And ladies, i know you can appreciate it.
  • 00:15:42.126 --> 00:15:43.494
  • But guys, we assume, if we were raised to assume, that we're
  • 00:15:43.494 --> 00:15:50.134
  • Enough, i got this.
  • 00:15:50.134 --> 00:15:52.703
  • I mean, that--that's the script.
  • 00:15:52.703 --> 00:15:54.071
  • You got this, until you don't.
  • 00:15:54.071 --> 00:15:57.374
  • And there's something going on on the inside and you dare not
  • 00:15:57.374 --> 00:15:59.276
  • Talk about it because we're men, we can't talk about this kind
  • 00:15:59.276 --> 00:16:01.311
  • Of stuff.
  • 00:16:01.311 --> 00:16:02.679
  • But you just--i mean, everything's kind of moving, you
  • 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:04.915
  • Just kind of feel lost.
  • 00:16:04.915 --> 00:16:06.283
  • And here's what john is saying to me, here's what john is
  • 00:16:06.283 --> 00:16:07.918
  • Saying to you.
  • 00:16:07.918 --> 00:16:09.253
  • Here's what john is saying to men everywhere, regardless of
  • 00:16:09.253 --> 00:16:10.621
  • The culture, nationality, belief system, religious, not
  • 00:16:10.621 --> 00:16:13.190
  • Religious, he's saying, look, he's saying, "look, look up
  • 00:16:13.190 --> 00:16:16.026
  • Here," he would say, "this is what i'm trying to get at.
  • 00:16:16.026 --> 00:16:19.129
  • This is what i'm talking about.
  • 00:16:19.129 --> 00:16:20.964
  • Logos, god in a body, addressed all of that.
  • 00:16:20.964 --> 00:16:25.002
  • He showed us a way around that.
  • 00:16:25.002 --> 00:16:26.970
  • He showed us a way past that.
  • 00:16:26.970 --> 00:16:28.672
  • He showed us a way through that."
  • 00:16:28.672 --> 00:16:30.674
  • "in him, in him was life, and that life," specifically that
  • 00:16:30.674 --> 00:16:36.046
  • Way of life, "was the light of men."
  • 00:16:36.046 --> 00:16:43.220
  • He taught us a different way of living, a different way of
  • 00:16:43.220 --> 00:16:46.423
  • Thinking, a different way of loving.
  • 00:16:46.423 --> 00:16:48.425
  • He taught us a different way of perceiving the world around us.
  • 00:16:48.425 --> 00:16:51.361
  • He lit up everything and he lit up everybody with that light,
  • 00:16:51.361 --> 00:16:54.598
  • Including god the father.
  • 00:16:54.598 --> 00:16:55.966
  • We were so confused about what god was like, and he kept saying
  • 00:16:55.966 --> 00:16:58.635
  • To us, "you wanna know what god is like?
  • 00:16:58.635 --> 00:17:00.938
  • Watch me, look at me.
  • 00:17:00.938 --> 00:17:02.840
  • If you've seen me, if you've camped with me, if you've woken
  • 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.509
  • Up in the morning around a campfire with me, if you've
  • 00:17:05.509 --> 00:17:07.778
  • Eaten with me, if you've watched me with other people, you have
  • 00:17:07.778 --> 00:17:10.948
  • Seen the father in action."
  • 00:17:10.948 --> 00:17:13.383
  • He lit up everything, including the father.
  • 00:17:13.383 --> 00:17:15.185
  • And then he says this, "and the light," who's jesus, the logos,
  • 00:17:15.185 --> 00:17:18.455
  • "the light shines in the darkness."
  • 00:17:18.455 --> 00:17:21.291
  • And he would say, "and it was so bright at times, it exposed
  • 00:17:21.291 --> 00:17:24.228
  • So much.
  • 00:17:24.228 --> 00:17:25.596
  • We felt so stupid.
  • 00:17:25.596 --> 00:17:26.930
  • We gave all the wrong answers, and yet he continued
  • 00:17:26.930 --> 00:17:28.365
  • To love us."
  • 00:17:28.365 --> 00:17:29.700
  • And sometimes that light was so bright, it was threatening.
  • 00:17:29.700 --> 00:17:31.468
  • It was disorienting.
  • 00:17:31.468 --> 00:17:33.137
  • The first shall be last.
  • 00:17:33.137 --> 00:17:34.505
  • It's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, the first shall be last.
  • 00:17:34.505 --> 00:17:36.206
  • Nobody wants to be last.
  • 00:17:36.206 --> 00:17:37.541
  • He's like, "well, then you'll never be first," and we just
  • 00:17:37.541 --> 00:17:39.343
  • Didn't--then he walks off, we're like, what, right?
  • 00:17:39.343 --> 00:17:42.713
  • And then in the end, they would tell us that jesus, the light of
  • 00:17:42.713 --> 00:17:46.717
  • The world, the light of your life, the light of men, marched
  • 00:17:46.717 --> 00:17:49.720
  • His light into the darkness of jerusalem, knowing it wouldn't
  • 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:55.559
  • Work out.
  • 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:56.894
  • The darkness of jerusalem where holy men were plotting to
  • 00:17:56.894 --> 00:18:00.097
  • Kill him.
  • 00:18:00.097 --> 00:18:01.798
  • And john would tell you, hey, we're following at a distance,
  • 00:18:01.798 --> 00:18:05.035
  • And we knew things would not end well.
  • 00:18:05.035 --> 00:18:10.274
  • And they didn't.
  • 00:18:10.274 --> 00:18:12.442
  • And then they did and everything changed, "and the darkness has
  • 00:18:12.442 --> 00:18:19.983
  • Not overcome it," did not overpower it, did not snuff
  • 00:18:19.983 --> 00:18:25.422
  • It out.
  • 00:18:25.422 --> 00:18:26.757
  • The logos, the way of the king, prevailed and the darkness lost.
  • 00:18:26.757 --> 00:18:33.130
  • Peter, john, the guys, women that experienced jesus, they
  • 00:18:33.130 --> 00:18:36.567
  • Would tell you, they would tell me.
  • 00:18:36.567 --> 00:18:38.235
  • They've tried to tell us through their lives, their testimonies,
  • 00:18:38.235 --> 00:18:40.904
  • Their writings that survived the centuries because of how
  • 00:18:40.904 --> 00:18:43.540
  • Precious they were.
  • 00:18:43.540 --> 00:18:44.875
  • The people who knew jesus, they would assure us, "we were never
  • 00:18:44.875 --> 00:18:48.845
  • More alive, we were never more fully alive than when we were
  • 00:18:48.845 --> 00:18:53.283
  • With our king and walked in the way of logos."
  • 00:18:53.283 --> 00:18:56.753
  • And i think they would say, "and we would do it all over again."
  • 00:18:56.753 --> 00:19:02.392
  • So kind of brings us once again to where we left off last time.
  • 00:19:02.392 --> 00:19:05.662
  • And i wanna be super specific, so what does this look like?
  • 00:19:05.662 --> 00:19:09.633
  • What does this act like?
  • 00:19:09.633 --> 00:19:11.201
  • What does this feel like?
  • 00:19:11.201 --> 00:19:12.703
  • What does this react like and respond like?
  • 00:19:12.703 --> 00:19:15.505
  • And the answer, as i say all the time, is you simply follow jesus
  • 00:19:15.505 --> 00:19:18.842
  • Through the gospels to discover that.
  • 00:19:18.842 --> 00:19:20.310
  • But today, i'm gonna get you started.
  • 00:19:20.310 --> 00:19:23.447
  • I'm gonna give you some snapshots that are drawn
  • 00:19:23.447 --> 00:19:26.316
  • Directly from the gospels to get us started, if you're willing to
  • 00:19:26.316 --> 00:19:31.088
  • Adopt the script of jesus for you as a man.
  • 00:19:31.088 --> 00:19:38.262
  • A man who chooses the jesus script is a man who forgives
  • 00:19:38.262 --> 00:19:44.201
  • Regardless, without being asked.
  • 00:19:44.201 --> 00:19:48.505
  • It's a man who refuses to return evil for evil, but looks for
  • 00:19:48.505 --> 00:19:52.109
  • An opportunity to return good for evil.
  • 00:19:52.109 --> 00:19:56.246
  • Because that's what strength of character actually does, and
  • 00:19:56.246 --> 00:19:59.716
  • That's what your heavenly father did for you.
  • 00:19:59.716 --> 00:20:02.319
  • A person who embraces the jesus script is a man who understands
  • 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:08.125
  • That lust commoditizes a woman.
  • 00:20:08.125 --> 00:20:13.430
  • That mental lust reduces a woman to a thing to be used and
  • 00:20:13.430 --> 00:20:17.834
  • Discarded, in his mind, and is thus dishonoring to a person who
  • 00:20:17.834 --> 00:20:22.572
  • Is precious to his king.
  • 00:20:22.572 --> 00:20:28.145
  • A man who embraces the jesus script is a man who leaves
  • 00:20:28.145 --> 00:20:31.481
  • Revenge in god's capable hands.
  • 00:20:31.481 --> 00:20:34.217
  • Not because he's weak and afraid, but because he realizes
  • 00:20:34.217 --> 00:20:37.187
  • That revenge is for the weak.
  • 00:20:37.187 --> 00:20:41.558
  • A man who embraces the script for manhood from jesus is a man
  • 00:20:41.558 --> 00:20:47.397
  • Who publicly celebrates the success of other men because
  • 00:20:47.397 --> 00:20:51.401
  • You're not controlled by jealousy or envy.
  • 00:20:51.401 --> 00:20:53.870
  • It's a man who is not owned by his possessions, but sees his
  • 00:20:53.870 --> 00:20:57.708
  • Possessions as tools and a trust and an opportunity to express
  • 00:20:57.708 --> 00:21:02.245
  • His faithfulness to the kingdom of god, who recognizes that
  • 00:21:02.245 --> 00:21:06.516
  • Everything that's ever placed in our hands is the result of god's
  • 00:21:06.516 --> 00:21:09.286
  • Grace to us.
  • 00:21:09.286 --> 00:21:10.921
  • And it may come to me, but it's not all for me.
  • 00:21:10.921 --> 00:21:13.357
  • And they don't give--this is the man who doesn't give in to the
  • 00:21:13.357 --> 00:21:16.593
  • Assumption, the consumption assumption, that if it comes to
  • 00:21:16.593 --> 00:21:19.596
  • Me, it's to be consumed by me.
  • 00:21:19.596 --> 00:21:21.398
  • It's a man who equates greatness with elevating others rather
  • 00:21:21.398 --> 00:21:26.403
  • Than himself.
  • 00:21:26.403 --> 00:21:28.405
  • It's a man who stands at the funeral of a friend and
  • 00:21:28.405 --> 00:21:33.577
  • Weeps openly.
  • 00:21:33.577 --> 00:21:36.913
  • It's a man who stops to help someone who can't return and
  • 00:21:36.913 --> 00:21:42.919
  • Maybe wouldn't even return the favor.
  • 00:21:42.919 --> 00:21:47.891
  • It's a man who's more concerned with controlling himself than
  • 00:21:47.891 --> 00:21:53.830
  • Controlling the people around him.
  • 00:21:53.830 --> 00:21:57.367
  • It--it's a man who knows when it's time to turn over tables
  • 00:22:00.437 --> 00:22:05.909
  • And when it's time to turn the other cheek, and is not confused
  • 00:22:05.909 --> 00:22:11.314
  • About the difference or the people impacted.
  • 00:22:11.314 --> 00:22:16.553
  • It's a man who's more inclined to defend the rights of others
  • 00:22:16.553 --> 00:22:21.391
  • Than his own.
  • 00:22:21.391 --> 00:22:23.593
  • It's a man who will speak the truth regardless of
  • 00:22:23.593 --> 00:22:27.697
  • The consequences.
  • 00:22:27.697 --> 00:22:32.102
  • It's a man who is angered by the mistreatment of others, and yet
  • 00:22:32.102 --> 00:22:41.211
  • It's a man who's not overly troubled by trouble.
  • 00:22:41.211 --> 00:22:48.585
  • It's a man who ends every single day with a clear conscience
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  • Between him and god and him and the people around him.
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  • And this is--men, this is what i would just--is--i don't know how
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  • To extend a stronger invitation than to say, if you forget the
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  • Rest, if you would engage with this.
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  • When you take on the jesus script for you as a man, you
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  • Become a man who is willing to bring the fight to his two
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  • Primary enemies every single day, his appetites and
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  • His insecurities.
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  • It's a man who equates success with doing the will of his
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  • Father in heaven.
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  • So i create these and create these slides and i read these
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  • Things over and over and over in preparation, and it is so
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  • Convicting to me because i want to be that kind of man.
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  • And in my own strength, i cannot.
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  • As we've talked about recently, i keep bumping into my
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  • Own limitation.
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  • Mine runs out, my patience runs out, my self-control runs out,
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  • My kindness runs out, my gentleness runs out.
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  • My generosity and compassion, they run out.
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  • And it's in those moments, men, if we will acknowledge our need,
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  • If we will acknowledge, hey, turns out i'm not enough.
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  • I don't have it together.
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  • I can't pull this off without the help of my god.
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  • And this is where john and peter and the rest of them would say,
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  • "this is what was so amazing, that he invited us to expose our
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  • Weakness to each other and to him.
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  • And then we found the strength to be more like him because on
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  • Our own we were nothing like him.
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  • But we sure liked him and we wanted to be more like him."
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  • And i want to be that kind of man because sandra, my kids and
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  • My grandkids deserve that kind.
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  • And you know what, your wife and your children, and your future
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  • Wife and your future children deserve that kind of man as
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  • Well, because that's who you were created to be, and that's
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  • What was modeled by the god-man.
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  • So in the meantime, you know, fish and hunt and decorate and
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  • Paint and hike and code and shoot and design, drive a raptor
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  • Or drive a mini cooper, you know, collect things, build
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  • Things, create things, throw things, hit things, grow things,
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  • You know.
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  • All those things are just part of how you're designed and how
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  • You're created and your interest and your temperament, and your
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  • Personality and your physicality, we're not all
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  • The same.
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  • But in the midst of that, remember there is a script that
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  • Transcends interest, personality, and temperament.
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  • It's the script modeled by our savior.
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  • And that's what you're invited into.
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  • And that's what i would encourage you, even if you don't
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  • Consider yourself a religious person, to consider the script
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  • Modeled by our savior.
  • 00:25:48.665 --> 00:25:51.668
  • So back to our original question, what is it?
  • 00:25:51.668 --> 00:25:54.437
  • What does it mean to be a man?
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  • How do we define masculinity?
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  • I'm convinced that john--i'm convinced and i think john
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  • Was convinced.
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  • Peter was convinced, the women who experienced jesus were
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  • Convinced, that the answer really, literally is found in
  • 00:26:05.382 --> 00:26:08.284
  • The person of jesus of nazareth, the lion of judah, the lamb of
  • 00:26:08.284 --> 00:26:14.724
  • God, the light of men.
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  • And if we follow, men, men, if we follow, we will not all be
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  • The same.
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  • That is not in the plan.
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  • We will not all be the same, but we will all be better men and
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  • The world will be a better, safer place for everybody.
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  • Last thing, if you're not a jesus follower, perhaps you
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  • Should consider it.
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  • And here's what i'll promise you.
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  • You have everything and nothing to lose and you have everything
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  • To gain.
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  • Andy: hey, thanks so much for watching.
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  • A crisis personally.
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