All Men’s Ministry Begins at Cain’s Door

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I was doing so well. My first post introduced the idea of how?God has amazing things for us men to do. These are good things, jaw-dropping things.

My second post talked about how the only thing we have to do to accomplish these good things?is enter into a covenant relationship with God.

Simple enough. But suddenly my third post went negative. We took a detour into the darkness of the true “man cave,” the inner recesses of our hearts, and discovered that all is not well with men. American men have an identity crisis. They don’t know who they are. They have lost their way. Why? Because our culture as a whole has turned its back on God. With nothing else to explain ourselves, we look to the natural world and begin to think of ourselves as mere animals. The result of this materialistic thinking?is that we men have become enslaved to our lusts.

My last post gave a specific example of this process of enslavement to lust: my interview with Steve Etner and his struggle with pornography. This courageous man shared his experience with lust, how he was introduced to pornography at a young age?and how it almost destroyed his life. But?he? eventually overcame it through meditation on the Word of God.

Which brings us to the main point of this current post. Before we can do the good God wants us to do, we have to deal with the evil Satan has already done in us, with us, and through us. We have to deal with the penalty, power and presence of sin in our lives.

Why? Because in our essence, we are all sons of Cain. In the story of Cain killing Abel in Genesis 4, we see Cain, consumed with jealousy of his brother Abel. He’s standing at the door, hearing sin knocking to come in and knowing that he is powerless to keep it out. And just as God spoke the following words to Cain, so God is speaking them to every man who has followed him:

“If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is knocking at your door and it’s desire is for you. But you must master it.”

In reality, all men’s ministry begins at Cain’s door. Every man has to deal with the issue of sin and how he is going to either master it or let it destroy him. Before we can do God’s amazing good, we have to deal with Satan’s horrible evil that he has and is accomplishing in and through us.

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