MAN HAS A MAJOR ROLE

Principle One.
God made men and women in his image. God made man as a leader and woman as a helper. They were created with the ability to communicate and reproduce through sexual union... sexual activity is sacred (according to God’s law) and reserved for married couples alone. Men and women are created with specific roles and purposes... when these are breeched, problems follow.

Principle Two
God created men and women to be divided into family units. God identified himself as our Father and made it clear that we would be bound to one partner and produce children... just as he had done.

Observations
1.Men are more than willing to allow women to take the lead in spiritual matters. Adam was with Eve when she spoke to the serpent and the man stood silently by while allowing Eve to make the spiritual decisions. This ended their covenant arrangement with God.
This is a weakness in men. God being well aware of this male tendency to avoid spiritual matters, reserves certain in the church for men only forcing them to engage with the church and God. Failure to appreciate these truths also ends our covenant with God.

2. God made women attractive to men (the first thing they became aware of after they ate the fruit was they were naked... their sexual characteristics were awakened), also, like the trees in the garden, he could not partake of a fruit that was not blessed by God.

Solutions

1. Men need to initiate family fellowship, family prayer life, supervise children’s social commitments... honour all God given responsibilities through the power of the Holy Spirit. Eph 5:25-28
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

2. ‘’But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed’’.Jam 1:14 Temptations have to be stopped before they start... this minimises sinful behaviour. Commitment to spiritual responsibilities minimises temptations and minimises sin at the same time. Gal 5:16 This I say then, ‘’Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh’’