The following was written by one of our elders at Unity ARP Church. It is posted with permission.
TRUE HEIRS OF GOD TEND THEIR
GARDENS
For Men Only: TEND
AND KEEP,
Gen.
2:15
THE GARDEN GOD GIVES YOU
Heirs
need MEN to take on their God-given responsibilities as heads
of
homes – holy men, lovers of Jesus, lovers of wives and lovers
of
their heirs.
Beloved family and friends, what
has ever happened to the 21st
century man?
Sadly, see the demise of the home, the weakness of the church
and the
curse of society because most men have abandoned, forgotten
and given
up their Divinely-appointed responsibilities. Stop and really
think
about it. Why have our lives, our homes, churches and society
imploded into chaos, sin, and despair? Yes,
I
know it is SIN,
that root of all evil, death and corruption. Yes,
it was at the Fall all was undone.
Beloved
family and friends, please observe ever so carefully with
spiritual
eyes. For
this is where all the problems of the world come from:
men did not keep God’s instruction: Then
the Lord God took THE MAN and put him in the garden of
Eden to TEND
AND KEEP IT,
Gen.
2:15. We know
well
what happened and how our demise came about. Men as in Adam “resisted
the will of God. The Word of God was rejected, and the way
of God was
deserted,” (A.
W. Pink) and
men,
because of our disobedience, You
shall surely die,
Gen.
2:17. Because
of our
sin, we are today NOT
TENDING AND KEEPING
our garden. That murderer and liar, Satan, twists us into
blind, dead
fools, attempting to kill us; and we, men, have become the
laughing
stock of the world. Most of all we do not guard our hearts and
especially our homes from the evil one. For the word in
Hebrew,
“Keep”
here means “hedge
about; protect; guard; watch for those who lay in wait to
harm” our
gardens. Beloved men, mark this well; for this is the sin of
our
hearts. I pray that we would wake up and see the whole world
laughs
at us and rightfully so, placing us at the bottom of the
family in
respect and honor. Children are the masters of the homes;
wives take
over the morals and decision-making; fathers are the brunt of
the
jokes and ridicule – disrespected fools. The sinful world sees
through our great sin, even from Adam, that we do not take the
initiative to our God-given covenant responsibilities of tending
and guarding
our hearts and homes. So in pride we sought after sin and the
pleasures of this world, to the point we have become aimlessly
lost
in sin. Cursed
is the man who trusts in man and makes his flesh his
strength whose
heart departs from the Lord,
Jer.
7:5.
LET
US SEE HOW WE ARE TENDING AND GUARDING THE GARDENS GOD HAS
GIVEN US:
I.
Our hearts need
to be broken and new life enter in. We need to FLEE
TO JESUS for
help and
forgiveness, pleading for restoration in the blood of Jesus.
No
excuses! No Adam blaming Eve or others. Stop
sinning
by grace;
for every moment hold on in prayer for dear life. Study hard
the Word
of God. Attend a place of worship with sound preaching that
stirs
your soul to see your own sin and the need of Christ at all
times, for all
things.
II.
Our Homes
-
Do a lot of daily tending the garden of your homes; be daily in the Word with your wife and children.
Love
your wife; care for her; pray for her.
FLEE DAILY TO JESUS.
Together read Scriptures with her; pray with her; both of you
pray –
pray together. That is first and foremost. Then lead your HEIRS
to Jesus in family worship in respect and honor of the Lord.
-
Keep guard: protect your home, your God-given garden
Do
not allow the seeds of sin, disrespect, bad attitudes and
anger kill
the garden of your home. Be honorable in order to have honor.
Be a
protector of your home; do not allow your precious wife or
children
to wander where Satan dwells. Rule well your home in loving
respect.
Do not allow your home to be ruled by a wife or child or any
other
than Christ, through you, especially in spiritual matters.
Men: you
make the decisions; do not put your wife out in front to be
your
voice. YOU
PROTECT YOUR HOME in loving devotion.
III. Our
Churches: Men,
stand up in faithfulness to Christ. Lead in the worship,
teaching and
loving care of the very body and bride of Christ. Men:
love Christ! If you do you will love your wives and your
homes
as unto the Lord. Men in love to the Lord will find a church
that
Biblically cares for souls in loving devotion to the Lord
Jesus and
to one another. Men, be in leadership over your heart, over
your home
and over the church in truth and love to Jesus.
Finally,
beloved, the world
today
needs men to tend
to
their
gardens and with hard work in faithfulness to Christ guard
their hearts, homes and places of worship with loving
devotion unto
Jesus Christ.
Think of
it men; it is wicked men not tending or protecting our
God-given
gardens that allows unfaithfulness,, bitterness, hatred,
divorce,
murder, pornography, homosexuality, abortion and violence to
reign in
our society. This is why the roles of men and women are
reversed;
this is why our lives and homes are breeding grounds for
rebellious
heirs.
Men,
we need to turn this world upside-down back to the blessed
order God
has given us. Let us tend
and guard
our lives, homes and
churches in Christ Jesus. We must be born again and today,
every day,
FLEE
TO
JESUS to
enable us by
His grace, to do this.
Blessed
is the man YOU choose,
Ps.
65:4
Blessed
is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the
Lord,
Jer.
17:7
Blessed
is the man whose strength is in You,
Ps.
84:8
The
righteous man walks in integrity. His children are blessed
after him,
Prov.
20:7
Oh,
how glorious is the Lord!
Beloved
family and friends, we
need today a revival in the hearts of men
in order to have Godly
heirs!
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