Tonight a very close friend of mine sent me an email. In this email, included a discussion and link to a video sermon about what it means to truly be a Godly Man. I have always wanted to hear a sermon like this on how to be a Godly Man and this one does and excellent job of really hitting home. The main message was about how in 1 Peter 3:7, men are called to honor their wives. Now, for me I am still very much single. In fact I'm not even dating anyone right now. However, every single point made in this sermon about honoring our wives is something that even a single man can learn and work on in his on life.
I really encourage you, guys and girls, to go and watch the sermon. I posted the link at the bottom of this blog. If for some reason you don't have time (please make time), or you just don't want to, I'm going to touch on the 8 points that he talks about for how men should honor their wives.
1) Honor women Maritally- Be Christ-like in your relationship (Ephesians 5: 25)
2) Honor women Physically- Men are genetically more stronger. We should never intimidate a woman, hit a woman, or scare a woman. This could even be so much as a look or the way he talks during an argument. He might then try to turn the blame to the women. No matter what has happened it is never the woman's fault! A man should never physically or emotionally scare a women in any way!
3) Honor women Emotionally- Women want men to be intimate with them. Women want to know their men, and want their men to know them!
4) Honor women Verbally- How do you speak to speak women? What do you say when wife or girlfriend isn't around? What kind of names do you call her?
5) Honor women Financially- Men should provide for their wives. The woman's job should not be to solely or even mostly support a family. That was the man's curse from God in Genesis. Men should not give this curse to women, so that they have to carry both of them.
6) Honor women Practically- Men should take of practical things such as the yard, house, car, and budget for the family. Our wives should not be ashamed of the sort of things.
7) Honor women Parentally- Men are called to love their children and act as Pastor Daddy to their children (Ephesians 6). Play with your kids, spend time with them, teach them, and pray with them.
8) Honor women Spiritually- We should pray with our families, read scripture with our families, make the decision to join a church, help decide what mid-week class or small group to attend. Lead the family spiritually!
The main message of the sermon that truly hit home for me was when the pastor said this, "We are dating God's daughters!" He goes to also say that if you we are disrespecting our girlfriends or wives in any way, shape, or form, and at the same time asking God to help us find a wife; then we are crazy! What father would help a man who is abusing and disrespecting his daughter. So before we as men start asking God to help us find a wife or lead us in our spiritual walks. We need to make sure we are honoring the women we are dating!
Here is the link to the sermon. This sermon will really change your life for guys and girls. Girls need to really examine these issues to because you are ultimately deciding on who you date.
http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/trial/marriage-and-men
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