YAH'S PURPOSE FOR THE MALE!!!!!!!

Genesis chapter 1







Today we are walking in: Yah's Purpose For The Male!!!!!




Today we look to the word- KING- H4427- Malak- to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel:—consult, indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reigning, rule, surely.










The Torah Testifies……………………




Genesis 14:18

And Melchizedek king H4427 of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.











The Prophets Proclaim……………………




Isaiah 44:6

Thus saith the LORD the King H4427 of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.










The Writings Bear Witness…………………..




Psalm 10:16

The LORD is King H4427 for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.




Yah’s Purpose for The Male




Yah Designed and Equipped the Male to Carry Out Every Purpose and Function He Has Been Given.




Many men are still wondering why they exist. Yet the Creator of man did not leave us guessing about who the male is supposed to be and what he is designed to do. In this teaching, we are going to explore Yah‘s original intentions for men, so that there‘s no more worry, no more guessing as to their reason for being. We turn again to Proverbs 19:21 for the vital truth, “Many are the plans in a man‟s heart, but it is the Most High‟s purpose that prevails.” Many are our opinions of what man should be, but the Most High‘s purpose is the only one that counts—and this purpose is the key to our fulfillment.




What we will be looking at is the male‘s ideal purpose. This is not where we are right now. Yet Yah‘s ideal is what we should be moving toward; and by His grace, we will.




The Creation of the Male-Man




We first need to remember that Yah creates according to the requirements of His purposes. In the previous teaching, we learned that Yah desired to dominate and influence the planet through mankind, and so He created man—the spirit—in His image and then placed the man in two physical ―houses, male and female. “So Yah created man in his own image, in the image of Yah he created him; male and female he created them” (Gen. 1:27).




I would like to point out here that since the spirit-man dwells in both male and female, we may refer to the male as a male-man and to the female as a female-man. This will remind us that men and women are both man. The distinctions between men and women are physical and functional, rather than of their essence.




The purpose of man—the spirit—and the purpose of the male are two different things, although they are related. Man was created in Yah‘s image for the purposes we discussed in the previous teaching. Male was made to serve the needs of man on earth and to enable him to fulfill his purpose.




Genesis 2 gives us a more detailed explanation of the manner in which Yah made male and female. First, He “formed” the male: “The Most High Yah formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being” (Gen. 2:7). The male was made first, and there was an interlude of time before the female was made. There is much we can learn about Yah‘s purposes for the male by what the male saw, heard, and learned during this interlude.




Remember that the purpose of something determines its nature, its design, and its features. This means that the nature, design, and qualities of males were decided upon by Yah and created by Him according to what He determined was best for the sake of His purposes.




Elements of the Male’s Purpose




-The purpose of the male may be summed up as his priority, his position, and his assignment.

-Priority refers to the man‘s order in creation and what this means in regard to his reason for being.

-Position refers to the environment and place in which the man is to carry out his purpose.

-Assignment means the functions or tasks that the man has been given.




1. The Male’s Priority




The order in which the male was created gives us the first indication of his reason for being. Why did Yah make the male first? It was not because the male was better, but because of his purpose.




When you think about it, Yah really made only one human being. When He created the female, He didn‘t go back to the soil, but He fashioned her from the side of the man. (See Genesis 2:21–23.) Only the male came directly from the earth. This was because the male was designed by Yah to be the foundation of the human family. The woman came out of the man rather than the earth because she was designed to rest on the man—to have the male as her support.




I believe that the foundation of society, the infrastructure Yah intended for this world, has been misunderstood. We often say that the family is the foundation of society. It is very true that the family is the adhesive that holds it together. Yet Yah did not start to build earthly society with a family. He began it with one person. He began it with the male- man.




Remember our discussion of the principles of purpose in past teachings? Because Yah is a Yah of purpose, He planned everything before He began to create, so that when He started digging the foundation, He knew exactly what He wanted and what the completed picture would look like. But he had to start with the foundation.




Have you ever seen a contractor build a house starting with the roof? Have you ever seen a guy walk into an empty lot and hold up a window in the air, trying to get it to stay? You don‘t start with the windows. You don‘t start with the roof. You don‘t start with the rafters. Likewise, Yah starts like any other builder. The priority in building is always what you need to do first. You start with the foundation.




Yah‘s communications to man in the Bible indicate the importance He places on building from the foundation up.




What did Yahusha describe as our foremost priority? What we‘re building on. (See Matthew 7:24–27.) He said, in effect, ―Now, some of you are building on sand. Your building looks good, but I don‘t care how good your building looks. If your foundation isn‘t right, there‘s going to be a great crash.




Paul said, “No one can lay any [spiritual] foundation other than the one already laid” (1 Cor. 3:11). What—or rather, who—is that foundation? “Yahusha Hamachiach” (v. 11). So Yah does not think of foundations in terms of only concrete and water, but also in terms of people.




That is why, when Yah began to build the human race, He began by laying the foundation of the male. Yah placed males at the bottom of the entire building of humanity. This means that society is only as strong as its males. If the males don‘t learn what it means to be a strong foundation in Yah, then society is sunk. That goes for America, Canada, Russia, China—all the nations of the world. If the male leaves the home, or if he neglects his responsibility, you have a house built on sand. It becomes very difficult for those windows to stay intact. The rafters rock when the pressures come because the man isn‘t there.




You children of divorce know what I‘m talking about. Your mother was a single parent and had to struggle, so that you weren‘t sure what was going to happen to the family. Of course, you are grateful to your mother. You really appreciate what she did, and you thank Yah that she weathered the storm and got through life. She did well. However, you all suffered the trauma of a missing foundation.




When the male-man has cracks and faults in the substructure of his life, then the whole building is on shaky ground. Now men, let‘s talk. This is the year you must decide to get yourself on solid ground, for as the man goes, so goes the family, society, and the world. Take a look at the condition of our societies and nations. How do you think the men are doing?




Our societies are in a mess because, as the foundation, men have become sandy—uncertain and unstable. How can you build a human race on a foundation that is full of sand mixed with straw? A foundation is always measured by how much weight can be placed on it.




When I was building my house, the architect and contractor were discussing all these figures, and I got confused. I was sitting there acting as if I knew what they were talking about. They were saying things like, ―How much weight can the foundation hold? I said, Concrete is concrete. But, no, I found out that they had to calculate things like the height of the house, how many stories it would have, and what the roof would weigh when it was finished. They had to check all those things before they even started the foundation. Why? Because if there are twenty tons weighing on the foundation, they have to put in enough reinforced steel so that when the weight sits on it, it doesn‘t crack. The foundation has to have the first priority because everything else will be built on it.




Again, when Yah made the male first, He wasn‘t saying that the male is more important than the female. He was saying that the male has a specific responsibility. He has a purpose to fulfill that is just like the foundation. Even though the foundation is important, it‘s not more important than the other parts of the building. The foundation can‘t perform all the functions itself. For example, it cannot protect the occupants from the weather. You can walk around saying, ―I have a $500,000 foundation here. Isn‘t that nice— solid concrete. But then the rain comes. The foundation can‘t keep you dry; only the roof can. It‘s the same way with the human family. The foundation is crucial, but the rest of the family is essential, also.




Remember that the foundation is often hidden. I don‘t see the foundation of my house anymore, even though I was involved in discussions about it and watched it being dug and poured. I know it‘s there, because I saw it being put in. Today, I walk on the foundation all the time, but I never see it. The foundation is meant to be solid, dependable, but not necessarily seen.




Many of you men need to live like the foundation you were created to be just be there and keep the home steady so that your wife and children can always lean on you and know that you aren‘t going to crack. Many young boys with absentee fathers—men who are missing either physically or emotionally are walking in mud instead of on concrete. These young boys are trying to find a foundation for their lives, but there‘s mud all over them, because there‘s just no place where they can stand on solid ground. Their foundations are missing. Then, when they grow up, they will go out and try to become foundations themselves. The only problem is, they were never shown what a true foundation is.




I once heard the statement, ―A young boy becomes a man when his father tells him he‘s a man. Many young boys never had a father to tell them who they are. The purpose of the male-man is to give foundation to the structure of life.




I‘m praying that Yah will raise up some strong foundational men. Men who will stand by their wives and stand with their children and be there as a stabilizer. Men whose families will feel secure in their strength. It doesn‘t matter what your father was you can be a strong foundation by becoming the man Yah created you to be.




I was speaking about this topic recently, and a young man said to me, But you don‘t understand the history of the Afro-Caribbean man. I inherited my granddaddy and great-granddaddy‘s legacy, you know. I said, Hold it right there. Whenever a negative history predicts your future, your present is in trouble. Don‘t come and tell me that you have to repeat your history. What men are about is creating history. You need to create a new history for all our children‘s children. And then I told him, It doesn‘t matter who your grandfather was. The important issue is what your grandchildren are going to say about you.




Solomon said, “A good man leaves an inheritance for his children‟s children” (Prov. 13:22). I like that. A good man doesn‘t think about the past. He thinks about the fu- ture. A good man doesn‘t leave an inheritance of just money and land. That‘s not the only inheritance Solomon was talking about. He was talking about a heritage, something to stand on, something to lean on throughout life.




Maybe when you were growing up, your father left when things got tough. You think you need to do the same thing now that you have a family. Let me tell you: if you have a little boy, and you leave, you‘ll teach him the same thing your father taught you. It doesn‘t stop. It causes a perpetual cycle of destruction. We have to stop this cycle by getting back to Yah‘s Manual and getting on course again.

THE CREATION OF MAN!!!!

Genesis chapter 1




Today we are walking in: The Creation Of Man!!







Today we look to the word- CREATE- H1254- bara’ - create, creator, choose, make, cut down, dispatch, done, make fat









The Torah testifies……………




Genesis 1:1




In the beginning God created H1254 the heaven and the earth.










The Prophets proclaim…………………




Isaiah 4:5




And the LORD will create H1254 upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.









The Writings witness……………………




Psalm 51:10




Create H1254 in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.




The Creation of Man




The Spirit-man Resides within Both Male and Female.




Men can know the true meaning of their existence only by understanding who they are in relation to Yah‘s creation of mankind as a whole. They need to see how they fit into Yah‘s great picture of humanity, which He designed and then constructed when the world began.




The first thing we must realize is that there is a distinction between being man and being male, and that each has unique purposes for being. What do I mean by this? The account of Creation in the first two chapters of Genesis reveals the essential difference. Genesis 1 is a declaration chapter. It declares what Yah did in Creation. Genesis 2 is an explanation chapter. It explains how Yah accomplished His act of Creation and shows how the creation of man relates to the creation of man‘s two physical manifestations: male and female.




In Genesis 1:26–28, we read,

Then Yah said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule [“have dominion” NKJV] over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So Yah created man in his own image, in the image of Yah he created him; male and female he created them. Yah blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.”




The first thing we learn from this passage is that man was made in the image of Yah. When Yah made man, He essentially drew man out of Himself, so that the essence of man would be just like Him. Since “Yah is spirit” (John 4:24), He created man as spirit. Spirit is eternal. Man was created as an eternal being, because Yah is eternal.




It is important to recognize that we are not yet talking about male and female. It was mankind that Yah created in His image. Man is spirit, and spirits have no gender. The Bible never talks about a male or female spirit.




What was the reason Yah created mankind in His image? He didn‘t create any of the animals or plants in His image. He didn‘t even make angels in His image. Man is the only being of Yah‘s creation that is like Him.




To Be His Offspring




Yah created mankind for relationship with Himself—to be His family, His offspring, spiritual children of Yah. The nature of Yah is to love and to give. Since “Yah is love” (1 John 4:8, 16), He wanted a being who could be the object of His love and grace. He wanted man to be the recipient of all that He is and all that He has.




The fact that man was created in Yah‘s image is an awesome revelation about our relationship to Him. Yah desired children who would be like Himself. Yet He didn‘t just desire it, then walk away without doing anything about it. He conceived His desire and made it a reality. He became pregnant with what He was desiring. Once Yah conceived, He began to prepare for the ―birth or creation of man. Before there was anything at all on the earth, there was Yah, and Yah was pregnant with us.




What do we call a woman who is pregnant? Expectant. Yah was in expectation of man‘s birth, so right away He began to prepare a ―nursery for His children, even before there was any physical evidence of His offspring. Yah‘s desire for His children caused Him to create the universe in preparation for their arrival.




Let me tell you what we‘ve been taught, and it‘s not biblical. We‘ve been taught that Yah created the universe, and then He decided to make man. That‘s not the way it happened. Yah first decided to make man, and that was the reason for the creation of the world.




When I first moved into this house, I had the daycare setup before I had any daycare children. I had the nursery fixed up before the babies arrived. I remember the day my sister, Aisha, flew out and began putting up walls and decorations and I remember her surprising me when it was finished and we stood looking at the whole thing. She had thoroughly cleaned the room. We had the new pack n play’s, emoji pillows, chairs, tables, toys, high chairs, baby food, and everything else all ready. We had pictures on the walls. There were no children, but everything the kids would need and use was ready. Then we stepped back, looked at the room, and said, This is good. What were we doing? Preparing. That‘s exactly what Yah was doing in Genesis 1 when He made the world in preparation for the creation of man.




Just as a new baby is at the center of his parents‘ thoughts, mankind was and is at the center of Yah‘s thoughts. The wonder of this idea struck King David one day. He said, “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?” (Ps. 8:3–4). David asked Yah, in effect, ―Why are you thinking only about us? Although the psalm doesn‘t give us Yah‘s answer, I think His reply would be, ―Every time you see the moon and the stars, and everything else I‘ve created, I want you to know that all that exists because of you.




We are so important to Yah that He created the entire universe for us. Not only that, He created it with great care to make sure we had the best environment in which to live. Everything Yah created keeps everything else in balance. For example, when He made our solar system, He created the sun to be a light for us, and then He carefully placed the planets around it. I can imagine Yah making adjustments so that the solar system would be just right for us. I see Him pushing the earth out a bit, then saying, ―No, it‘s too close to the sun. That‘s too hot. Let‘s pull it back a little. Now it‘s too cold. They‘ll freeze. Ah, this is just right. The conditions are perfect. The baby will do fine. Then I imagine Him saying, ―Children like colors, so let‘s cause some vivid flowers to spring up from the ground. That‘s a beautiful rose; they‘ll like that. Let‘s put some colors on the fish, too. Now, we‘ve already created the sunset, but let‘s make the ozone layer run right past the light so that it changes color. Let the light come through the atmosphere and the stratosphere, so that when it hits them it will turn purple, yellow, blue, and pink. I see Him thinking about man‘s future physical needs. Now we must have a lot of food for the baby. We‘ll need some fruits and vegetables. We also need to separate the salt water from the fresh, so that the baby can drink. Now everything is in order. The nursery is ready!




I submit to you that man is the reason for the universe. I didn‘t say man is the center of it. Humanists say that man is the center of the universe. That is wrong. Yah is the center of everything. He “[upholds] all things by the word of his power” (Heb. 1:3 KJV). It is He who is the center of life. Everything He created and every movement of our being exists in Him. Yet because we are His offspring, He created the universe just for us.




When Yah finished creating the world, He called everything good. (See Genesis 1:4–25.) I believe He said this be- cause everything was ready. It was after Yah called the physical world good that He said, “Let us make man” (v. 26). What‘s so interesting about this is that the heavens and the earth were created first because of their purpose. Some people might say, ―Well, if the heavens and earth were created first, does that mean that they are more important than man? No. They were just leading up to the advent of man. Their purpose was to be a perfect environment for Yah‘s children. When my wife and I were getting the nursery ready, we had the crib, powder, and all the other material things in the room first. Did that mean they were more important than the baby? No. Those things were there only because of the baby. The same is true concerning man‘s relationship to the physical world. Ephesians 1:4 explains the order of priority in this way: “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world” (emphasis added).




To Have Fellowship with Him




Another reason man was created in Yah‘s image was to have fellowship with Him, like a close family relationship. The only reason man can have this fellowship with Yah is that Yah made man to be spirit, just as He is Spirit. “Yah is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).




Although Yah is the Creator, He has always emphasized that He is man‘s Father. It wasn‘t His desire to be primarily thought of by man as an awesome Yah or a “consuming fire” (Deut. 4:24). Although at times it is difficult for our religious minds to grasp this concept, Yah wants us to approach Him as a child would a loving father.




Yah and humanity were made for one another. That is why, no matter how many relationships you have or how many gifts you buy for others, in the end, you aren‘t going to be satisfied until you love Yah. Yah must have the primary place in your life. Your love was designed to be fulfilled in Him.




To Manifest His Nature




Yah created man in His image so that man could also reflect His character and personality. When Yah created man, heaven and earth stood in awe of this amazing being who manifested the Creator‘s very nature and reflected His glory.




Consider this remarkable verse in Psalm 82: “I said, „You are Yahs, and all of you are children of the Most High‟” (v. 6 NKJV). This verse is speaking of mankind. It calls us “Yahs” and “children of the Most High.” Why are we called little Yahs? It is because as children of the Most High Yah, we have His nature and share His purposes. Physically, we are children of men, but spiritually, we are children of Yah.




Two foundational aspects of Yah‘s character are love and light, and man is meant to exhibit these qualities. However, man‘s being made in Yah‘s image does not mean that man can reveal these qualities apart from Him. Man was always meant to reveal Yah‘s nature in the context of being continually connected to Him in fellowship. First John 4:16 says, “Whoever lives in love lives in Yah, and Yah in him,” and Proverbs 20:27 says, “The spirit of man is the candle of the Most High” (KJV). This means that when you have fellowship with Yah, you reflect His light. You show the nature of Yah, for “Yah is light; in him there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).




Yah also created man to demonstrate His wisdom and the goodness of His precepts. This purpose is part of Yah‘s eternal plans, and it culminated in the coming of Hamachiach Yahusha and the birth of the community:




His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of Yah should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Hamachiach




Physically, we are children of men, but spiritually, we are children of Yah. Yahusha our Most High.

(Eph. 3:10–11)




To Share His Rule




Yah said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule [“have dominion” NKJV]” (Gen. 1:26, emphasis added). Man was created to share Yah‘s authority. Yah never wanted to rule by Himself. Love doesn‘t think in those terms. You can always tell a person who is full of love. He doesn‘t want to do anything for his purposes alone. A selfish person wants all the glory, all the credit, all the recognition, all the attention, all the power, all the authority, all the rights, and all the privileges. But a person of love wants others to share in what he has.




Note that the word “man” in Genesis 1:26 refers to the spirit-being created in Yah‘s image. The purpose of dominion was given to man the spirit. This was before the creation of male and female, which we will discuss in more detail shortly. Therefore, spiritually, both male and female have the same responsibility toward the earth because rule was given to the spirit-man, which resides in both of them.




The account of Creation reveals an interesting fact that we often overlook today. Yah didn‘t create man for heaven. He created man for the earth. Yah is the Ruler of heaven, and He made man to express His authority on earth. He said, I want what‘s happening in heaven to happen in the created world; I want My rule to extend to another realm, but I don‘t want to do it directly. I want man to share My rule. The plan of Creation was this: as Yah ruled the unseen realm in heaven, man would rule the visible realm on earth, with Yah and man enjoying continual communion through their spiritual natures. Yah said to man, in essence, ―Let Me rule through you so you can appreciate, enjoy, and share in rulership and know how it feels to be ̳little Yahs.




It‘s important to realize that man was created not only for fellowship with Yah but also with a responsibility to carry out. I want to emphasize this point because sometimes people use their worship of Yah as an excuse for negligence in other areas of their lives. They say, ―I was created only to love the Most High, worship the Most High, and praise the Most High. These things are good and necessary. However, you can‘t spend all your time in the sanctuary worshiping, praising, and singing. There comes a time when you have to carry out your responsibility to demonstrate what your relationship with the Most High means in terms of living and ruling in the world.




Man has been given the freedom to exhibit creativity while governing the physical earth and all the other living things that dwell in it. The earth is to be ruled over, taken care of, fashioned, and molded by beings made in the image of their Creator. In this way, man is meant to reflect the loving and creative Spirit of Yah.




To Expand the Family Business




We also need to understand that when Yah created man to share His authority, it was in the context of man‘s relationship to Him as His offspring. Yah didn‘t create man to be a servant but to be a son who is involved in running the family business. This was His plan for mankind from the beginning. He has always wanted His children to help Him fulfill His purposes.




This means that Yah doesn‘t want man to work for Him; He wants man to work with Him. The Bible says that we are “Yah‟s fellow workers” (2 Cor. 6:1) or “workers to- gether with him” (KJV). In the original Greek, “fellow workers” means those who ―cooperate, who ―help with, who ―work together.




It‘s common to hear people say, ―I‘m working for Yahusha. If you are working for Yahusha, you are still a hired hand. When you understand the family business, then you become a worker alongside Hamachiach.




To Rely on the Father for Personal Needs




What are some of the implications of our being Yah‘s children, working in His business? First, we don‘t have to worry about our day-to-day living expenses. If your father and mother owned a prosperous business, and they put you in the business to run it, should you wonder where you will get food to eat? Should you wonder where you will get water to drink? Should you wonder where you‘re going to get clothes to wear? No, you are family, and you are going to be provided for.




If you are hired to work in the business only as an employee, then you don‘t know the company‘s true financial condition. In addition, if you want more money, you have to ask for a raise. You have to work hard to receive a bonus. You have to impress the boss so that you can get just a little increase in salary. You may also live in fear of being fired. However, if you are a son, you know just how well the company is doing.




In Yah‘s company, there‘s always plenty of provision to go around, and you can rely on that with confidence. Yahusha said,




Do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. (Matt. 6:31–33)




Yahusha didn‘t say, ―The boss knows that you need these things. He said, ―Your Father knows that you need these things. We can trust our Father, the wealthy Businessman, to provide for all our needs.




To Rely on the Father for Kingdom Needs




When Yahusha knew that His earthly ministry was about to end and that He would be crucified, resurrected, and then return to His heavenly Father, He

talked to His disciples about their role in advancing the family business on earth.




“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master‟s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15). What was Yahusha‘ reason for calling His disciples His friends? He said, in effect, ―The servant doesn‘t know what the boss is doing. I call you friends because I have told you everything the Father has revealed to Me.




Think about how large and prosperous Yah‘s business is. It is so big that Yah says He can supply all your needs (Phil. 4:19). I don‘t think that in this context He is referring to your smaller needs, such as a house, a car, clothes, or food. Remember that He told us we don‘t even have to ask for those things. Therefore, He must be talking about leads for further investment for the purpose of expanding the company business. He is saying, in essence, ―The company has so much collateral that My children never have to worry about materials for further investment.




I believe that if we will get busy spreading the company‘s influence and building its interests, our access to resources will be unclogged. (See Matthew 6:33.) Yah created man to be His offspring and to work in His business, and He has all the resources we need to fulfill this purpose.




To Execute His Righteous Judgment




Man was created in Yah‘s image for yet another reason: to execute His righteous judgment. In all the prophecies about the Messiah, especially in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel, you will find that this was also the main purpose for Hamachiach‘s coming to earth. It was the result of His life, ministry, death, and resurrection. All these things were connected to His fulfilling His purpose of executing righteous judgment on the earth.




The reason this is also the purpose of man is that it is Yah‘s intention that we rule the earth through the Spirit of Hamachiach. Recall that, through man, Yah desires to extend His rule from the unseen to the seen. He wants to expose His character, nature, principles, precepts, and righteous judgment to the visible world. Even though the fall of man brought humanity out from under Yah‘s purposes, Hamachiach redeemed us so we could be restored to His original plans for us. Dominion over the earth, including exercising righteous judgment, is not a temporary but an eternal assignment from Yah to man.




Because of the Fall, when we die, our spirits will separate from our bodies, and we will go to be with Yah in heaven. Again, it was never Yah‘s intention that man would work in heaven. Even though in our spiritual growth and development we will learn to have dominion over spiritual as well as physical things (see 1 Corinthians 6:3), Yah gave man the earth to rule. Since Yah‘s purposes never change, He made provision in His plan of redemption for man to fulfill that purpose.




Yah made us a promise. He said that when we come to the head office (heaven), we will stay there only for a while. There will come a Day when our bodies will be resurrected and rejoined with our spirits, so that He can send us back to finish the job. (See 1 Corinthians 15:42–44, 52–53; Isaiah 65:17.)




If you are finding it hard to take all this in, read the book of Revelation. Yah keeps on talking about thrones, reigning with Him, and ruling with Him. The reason we will reign is that Yahusha came to bring righteous judgment back to the earth. He came to bring it back to where it was supposed to be in the first place. That has always been Yah‘s purpose for man. Yah made you a manager, and He always fulfills His eternal purposes.




He isn‘t going to raise you from the dead just to live with Him forever. He‘s going to raise you from the dead so that you can get on with your work. That‘s why the Scripture says that when Yahusha returns to earth and we are resurrected, we will reign with Him (Rev. 5:10.) Reign means what? To have dominion, to administrate.




Created Male and Female




Therefore, Yah created man so that He could have someone to love, someone who would work with Him in His purposes for the earth. Yet the earth is a physical entity, and man is spirit. The earth needed someone with a physical body to live in it and take care of it. Yah knew this would be necessary, and that is a primary reason He created the male and the female.




“So Yah created man in his own image, in the image of Yah he created him; male and female he created them” (Gen. 1:27). After Yah created man, He placed him in two physical ―houses: male and female. This means that man the spirit exists within every male and every female. All of us—males and females alike—are man. The essence of both male and female is the resident spirit within them, called ―man. Genesis 5:1–2 says, “When Yah created man, he made him in the likeness of Yah. He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them [together] „man.‟”




Why did Yah take man, who is spirit, and put him in two separate physical entities rather than just one? It was because He wanted man to fulfill two distinct purposes. We‘ll explore the significance of this fact in more detail in coming teachings. For now, we need to remember that the spirit-man has no gender and that, in order to fulfill His eternal purposes, Yah used two physical forms to express the spiritual being made in His image.




Therefore, whether you are male or female, the person who lives inside you—the essential you—is the spirit-man. Although males and females have differences, they are of the same essence.




Since human beings fellowship with Yah and worship Him through their spirits, this means that men and women both have direct spiritual access to Yah and are individually responsible to Him.




“Created” versus “Made”




Genesis 1:26–27 implies that the process through which Yah created man was different from the process through which He produced the male and female. We can think of the distinction in this way: Yah created man, but He made male and female. The words for “made” in verse 26 and “created” in verse 27 are different words in the Hebrew. “Make” comes from asah, which means to form out of something that is already there. “Created” comes from bara, which means to form out of nothing. These verses say that Yah created man in His own image, but that Yah also made man. Yah used both of these words in reference to how He brought man into existence. In effect, He was saying, ―I will both create him and make him. I will create him out of nothing and I will make him out of something.




Recall that Yah created the spirit-man out of His own being rather than out of anything from the physical world. Man was not created from matter; man came out of Yah‘s Spirit. Therefore, the part of man that was made from ―nothing came out of Yah. Yah spoke him into existence, similar to the way in which He spoke, “„Let there be light,‟ and there was light” (Gen. 1:3). Yet when Yah made male and female, He used material from the physical world that He had already created.




Recognizing this distinction is critical to understanding our purpose in the world as both spiritual beings made in Yah‘s image and physical beings who carry out man‘s Yah- ordained purposes in the world. It is also essential to the male‘s understanding of who he is and how he is meant to relate to the female. We will see the practical implications of these purposes in the next teaching.




Principles




1. Men can know the true meaning of their existence only by understanding who they are in relation to Yah‘s creation of mankind as a whole.




2. There is a distinction between being man and being male.




3. Mankind was created in the image of Yah.




4. Yah created man to be spirit, as He is Spirit.




5. Man was created to be Yah‘s offspring, to have fellowship with Him, to manifest His nature, to share His rule, to expand the family business, to rely on the Father for personal needs and for kingdom needs, and to execute Yah‘s righteous judgment.




6. After Yah created man, He placed him in two physical ―houses: male and female.




7. Man—the spirit-man—resides within both male and female.




8. Yah created man, but He made male and female.




9. Yah made male and female because He wanted man to fulfill two distinct purposes on the physical earth.

PRINCIPLES OF PURPOSE!!!! PART 2!!!!

Genesis chapter 1







Today we are walking in: The Principles Of Purpose Part 2!!!!







Today we look to the word-UNDERSTAND- H8085 shama`--to hear with attention or interest, listen to understand (language)










The Torah testifies...............




Genesis 11:7




Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand H8085 one another's speech.










The prophets proclaim..................




Nehemiah 8:2




And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear H8085 with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.











The writings bear witness...........................




1 Kings 3:9




Give therefore thy servant an understanding H8085 heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?







1. Yah Is a Yah of Purpose




Yah is a purposeful Being. He has a purpose for everything He has ever done. He established His purpose before He created what was needed to fulfill it. What He plans is intentional, meaningful, and guaranteed to succeed.




This theme is found throughout the Bible. Consider these Scriptures:




The Most High Almighty has sworn, “Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will stand.” (Isa. 14:24)




The plans of The Most High stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. (Ps. 33:11)




As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

(Isa. 55:10–11)




Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument. Because Yah wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath.

(Heb. 6:16–17)




Yah has purposes that He determines beforehand and then carries out. These include plans for humanity as a whole and plans for males and females who carry out humanity‘s purposes. To bring this to a personal level, this includes plans for you and me. Yah does not do anything on a whim or without knowing the end result.




The origins of humanity are described in the book of Genesis, which means beginning. However, the Creation that we read about in Genesis was not the real beginning. I would like to call Genesis the end result after Yah finished His thought processes. When Yah finished deciding what He wanted to do, then He created. First Yah predetermined, predestined, or purposed everything. Then He produced it.




This concept is crucial to our understanding of purpose. It means that Genesis was not the beginning of a supernatural experiment with an unknown outcome. Genesis was the beginning of the production of something that was sure. So, when we talk about what happened in Genesis, we‘re really talking about what happened after Yah finished thinking.




Therefore, in Genesis, we are looking at the start-up of the project, as I like to call it. Those of you who are studying project management know that this is an important step in the process of building. When you reach the start-up phase, it means that you have all the plans drawn, all the physical resources in place, all the management resources in order, and now you‘re ready to begin. That‘s Genesis.




Do you begin building a house when you dig the foundation? No, you begin building it when the idea is conceived.




This means that the finished house is in the unseen. People pass by the property, and they don‘t see it. However, to you who understand and know what is going to happen, it is already finished. Digging the foundation is the beginning of the implementation of your purpose. So, after you dig the foundation, when somebody asks you, What are you doing? your answer is very definite. You point to the architect‘s rendering of the house and say, I am building this.




Yah revealed this truth to me in a very visual way. There is a street near where I live called Shirley Street. At one time, there was only a parking lot there. One day when I was driving along that street I saw a large sign with a beautifully painted picture of a building. There was no building on the site yet, but there was the big sign and the name of a building. It showed the landscape, the color of the building, the windows, everything. It was a detailed picture of what the completed building would look like. The sign said, Coming soon.




I drove past the lot and sensed the Holy Spirit saying to me, Did you see that? I said, See what? He said, Did you see the finish? Did I see the finish? I drove by the post office and came back around to take another look at the painting. He said, There it is. The finish. The construction company was showing us the end of their purpose. To have vision means to see something coming into view as if it were already there. The company had a vision for this building.




Likewise, Yah in His wisdom is not guessing about His plans for us for humanity as a whole or for each of us individually. Yah has already decided on His purpose. He has the complete picture. It‘s on His drawing board. It‘s His vision for us. It isn‘t an afterthought. In Genesis 1, we read how He began to dig the foundation of humanity. We‘ll pick up on this theme in chapter 4, because it is essential to understanding the nature and purpose of the male.




What we need to understand at this point is that when Yah created the male and the female, He had already predetermined what they were supposed to be and do. They are not divine experiments. Together, they are an intentional divine project with a predetermined purpose.




2. Yah Created Everything with a Purpose




Yah created everything with a purpose in mind, and He also created it with the ability to fulfill its purpose. Everything Yah has made is the way it is because of why it was created. The why dictates its makeup. The purpose of a thing determines its nature, its design, and its features.




You don‘t make something until you know what you want and why you want it. You‘ll never find a manufacturer starting a project in a plant, hoping it will turn out to be something useful. Its purpose and design are complete before production starts. For example, if a manufacturer decides he wants to build an apparatus that can both record moving pictures onto a magnetic tape for replay and broadcast them live through the medium of television, then he has created a product, a video camera but the manufacturer designed it first. What‘s more, everything in the video camera is necessary for its proper functioning. If you could look inside such a camera, you would see things that you didn‘t know were there and that you don‘t know the use for. Yet nothing in that product is there for the fun of it. As a matter of fact, because it is so expensive, there had better be nothing in it just for the fun of it.




Let me give you another illustration that is even closer to home than your big toe. Are you aware that if your big toe were cut off, you would lose your balance and fall down? You probably never think about your big toe until you stub it. Then it just seems like an annoyance. Yet it keeps you standing up when you lean forward. Your big toe isn‘t there just for fun. Thank Yah for big toes! There‘s also a purpose for your fingernails. Some of you know exactly how important they are because you‘ve had an accident and lost one. Your fingernails are there to protect the softer skin on your fingers.




Since Yah created everything with a purpose, both males and females need to go to Him if they want to know their true reason for being. If they try to change His plans or fight against them, they are in essence fighting against themselves, because they‘re working against their own nature, their own makeup, the way they function best based on the Manufacturer‘s design. Moreover, because Yah is love, His plans embody what is best for us, so they would also be working against their own highest good.




Yah‘s purpose requires two genders working together in cooperation to accomplish a mutual vision. Accordingly, males and females have complementary designs that enable them to fulfill Yah‘s purpose together.





3. Not Every Purpose Is Known to Us




Although everyone and everything on earth has a purpose, this does not mean that we are aware of their purposes. When human beings as a race turned their backs on Yah and His ways, as we learn about in Genesis 3, they ended up losing their knowledge of Yah‘s intent for themselves and for the world.




Rejecting Yah was the equivalent of buying a sophisticated and intricate piece of equipment and then throwing away the user‘s manual. If you get something to work under those circumstances, it is only by pure chance. The more likely scenario is that you will never get it to function properly. You will also miss out on the many features and functions it has to offer. It will never fulfill its complete purpose.




Likewise, humanity has not honored the fact that Yah‘s creation and His directions for living were established for a specific reason and that, if that purpose continues to be abandoned, males and females will never function properly as human beings. This is a very dangerous situation for them to be in, because it leads right to the next principle.




4. Where Purpose Is Not Known, Abuse Is Inevitable




Whenever purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. Suppose I‘m Henry T. Ford. I‘m going to add a motor to a carriage and build a product called a motorcar. I know the purpose before I build this vehicle. It will enable people to be more mobile on land. Now suppose you decide, I want to use this motorcar as a boat, and you drive it off a cliff and into the water. What will happen? You‘re probably going to drown, and the car is going to be ruined. Why? The car was built to fulfill a specific purpose, and if you do not use it according to its purpose, then you will likely be harmed in the process. We need to keep from driving off the cliff of life by understanding and fulfilling our purpose as human beings.




Here is another aspect of this principle: the penalty for drinking poison is death from poisoning. You don‘t need Yah to kill you after you have swallowed poison. What this means for us is that Yah doesn‘t have to do anything to judge us for abusing our lives. We judge ourselves by receiving the consequences of our participation in harmful practices based on our determination to live according to our own knowledge rather than His. Consequently, we are victims of our own decisions, not of Yah‘s judgment.




These examples demonstrate that if you don‘t know the purpose of something, you will misuse or abuse it in some way. That‘s why it‘s possible to be sincerely wrong. It‘s possible to be faithfully wrong. It‘s possible to be seriously wrong. You‘re serious, but you‘re wrong, because you don‘t know the purpose for the thing you‘re involved in.




This principle holds true for everything, including people.




How many people go into marriage very seriously? Most people do. They go to the church, stand at the altar, and say to their betrothed, I will love you until I die. They‘re very serious. But then they die in three months. At least their love dies. Then their family and friends try to figure out what happened. Their marriage failed because they didn‘t understand the purpose of marriage, the purpose of a mate, or the purpose of family. Because they didn‘t understand these things, they abused their union.




People abuse things because they just don‘t know their purposes or because they disregard those purposes. When males and females don‘t know Yah‘s intentions, they end up abusing each other, even if they don‘t mean to. If males are going to solve their current identity crisis and fulfill their purpose as men, husbands, and fathers, they must rediscover Yah‘s plan for them. Otherwise, they will hurt those around them, even if it‘s unintentional.




5. To Discover Purpose, Never Ask the Creation; Ask the Creator




If you want to know the purpose of something, don‘t ask the thing itself. Why? It didn‘t plan, design, or build it- self. Only the manufacturer knows the why and how of his product; no one else truly does. That is why he can claim perfect relationship with his product.




Therefore, if you‘re going to use something, the first question you need to ask is, Who made this? If you buy a certain kind of guitar, you need to consult the manufacturer who made that particular guitar. That is why the company includes an instructional booklet with the instrument; the booklet tells you how to use the guitar based on its purpose. You don‘t use it to paddle a boat. You don‘t use it to play baseball. In other words, the manufacturer sent you the manual to protect you from abusing the product and so you could have the full enjoyment of it.




The point is this: to understand how we function as human beings as males and females we need to go to the Manual given to us by the Designer and Manufacturer who created us: the Bible. Yah knew exactly what He wanted when He thought of the male. Remember that He created both male and female after He had decided what each should be in order to fulfill His purposes and plans, and that He designed them accordingly.




This means that He is the only One who knows how humanity is intended to function. If you have any questions about why you are here, you should check the Manual. If you don‘t know the purpose of a thing, all you can do is experiment. Everybody who doesn‘t know his or her purpose is just experimenting with life.




Let me use marriage as an illustration again. Do you know what most marriages are today? Big experiments. I don‘t really know what a wife is for, but I‘m old enough to get married, so I‘m going to have one. You get married because you‘re twenty-five. All right, then what? Do you know what you have? No, but she looks good. What‘s a wife for? Hey, man, to have sex with and to clean the kitchen. This is a big experiment. But guess what? After three weeks, you realize she doesn‘t agree with your definition. The experiment isn‘t working. She isn‘t cleaning those dishes, and she isn‘t into being a living sacrifice every night. She begins to ask for things like time. She wants love and affection and attention. She wants appreciation. Hey, I didn‘t bargain for all that. Well, my friend, marriage is not a trial run.




Again, whenever you don‘t know the purpose of a thing, you‘re experimenting. That‘s what many people, especially young people are doing with life. They don‘t know what education is for, so they treat school like an experiment. They skip classes and spend their time partying, then they flunk out. They experiment with sex and sexual identity, and they end up with all kinds of problems. They experiment with drugs and hurt their bodies.




Dr. Munroe said, When I was a boy, I was tempted to experiment in order to find out about life. I‘m grateful Yah protected me from much of that. But many of the young people whom I grew up with did not make it through their experimentation. The experiment blew up. Some are dead. The bodies of others are contaminated and wrecked from using destructive substances. They didn‘t know the purpose of the elements they were using.




I‘d like to say to the young people listening to this series: if you want to know why you were born, the worst people to ask are your friends, because your friends are trying to figure out why they‘re here, too. If you want to know your reason for existence, don‘t ask another product; ask the Manufacturer. Everyone else is guessing.




What we‘ve been doing all these years is asking the product why it exists. Because the world doesn‘t understand much about the reason for the existence of things, it functions like one big experimental lab. All of us seem to have been assuming the position of scientists. We have imagined that we have the time and intelligence to discover the reason for our existence through experimentation. Then we find out that life is short, and that we‘re very poor researchers.




Life is too precious to treat like a trial run. The only way to avoid the cost of trial and error is to learn the purpose of your life. Think about a car mechanic. If he‘s just experimenting, he won‘t last long in the automotive business. If he says, I wonder what this part is for? Let me guess what section of the engine I should attach it to, that‘s experimentation. He doesn‘t know what the manufacturer had in mind.




Well, if you wouldn‘t let an inexperienced mechanic work on your car, what about your life? No university professor knows people well enough to write a definitive book about what makes us tick. No psychologist or psychiatrist truly knows me. Yah wrote a book on His product, and the product is me. Tell yourself, I‘m an expensive product. I won‘t let anyone experiment with me. It‘s a dangerous thing for us to experiment with this precious commodity called life.




Therefore, if a man wants to know his reason for living, He must look to Yah and His Manual not to other males. If he looks to himself or others, he will travel an unreliable and hazardous course in life.




6. We Find Purpose Only in the Mind of Our Maker




If you remember this principle all your life, you‘ll be safe: before you buy something, check to see who made it. Right away, you‘ll know what was in the mind of the maker. If you buy a shirt on sale at a discount store, and you see the store‘s label in the collar, you‘ll treat it differently than if you buy a Pierre Cardin shirt. You might toss the discount shirt on a chair, but you‘ll put the designer shirt on a hanger in your closet.




We need to understand the mind of our Maker. How do we do this? By learning how He thinks. The only way for us to succeed is by discovering and living in the purposes of our Maker, by undergoing a transformation in the way we think about ourselves based on His original intentions for us. That transformation comes about by a renewal of our minds: Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of Yah’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to Yah this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what Yah’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Rom. 12:1–2)




Yah‘s ways will transform your spirit, your mind, and your outlook. When you present yourself to Yah and learn from Him, you will begin to understand His purpose. “The law of The Most High is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of The Most High are trustworthy, making wise the simple” (Ps. 19:7).




The greatest way for you to find purpose is to yield your life to the Manufacturer. You shouldn‘t come to Yah because it‘s the religious thing to do. You shouldn‘t come to Yah because everybody is doing it. You shouldn‘t come to Yah because it‘s good to be a part of the community. You should come to Yah because you want to find out how not to waste your life. No one knows you like the One who made you. That‘s the bottom line.




We are so special to Yah that He sent His only Son to die for us. There must be something unique about each one of us for Yah to want us to receive salvation so that we can fulfill the purpose for which He gave us life. We need to seek Him earnestly in order to discover that purpose. “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart” (Jer. 29:13).




Thus, the male will fulfill his purpose only if he seeks the mind of his Maker with all his heart. When Yah‘s plans unfold before him, his fragmented life will become an orderly whole, and he can become the man he was meant to be.




7. Yah’s Purpose Is the Key to Our Fulfillment




You can never be totally and completely satisfied until you find your purpose and then live in it. You cannot do what you‘re supposed to do until you discover what you are supposed to do. And if you do what you‘re not supposed to do, you‘re not going to be fulfilled. You‘re wasting time. You‘re abusing your life. Stop it right now.




I was speaking about purpose at a community in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A lady came up to me after the service and said, I‘m fifty-six years old. Where were you fifty-six years ago? I said, What do you mean? She said, You‘re the first person ever to come into my life and help me understand that I have a reason for living and I can‘t give an account of fifty-six years right now. Where were you for fifty-six years?




Sometimes people begin to feel the way that woman did; they‘re distressed because they‘ve wasted so much time. If this is your situation, don‘t be discouraged. One of the wonderful things about Yah is that He has a way of restoring the years that the locusts have eaten. (See Joel 2:23– 26.) When you go to Him, He knows how to make up for the time that you‘ve lost.




Yet Yah would prefer that we follow Him and know our purpose all our lives. That is why the Word of Yah says very strongly to young people, “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth” (Eccl. 12:1). The Bible is saying to us, Remember Yah now—not when you‘ve finished partying and ruining your health with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, so that you say, Well, I‘m sick now; I‘d better go find Yah. Don‘t wait until after you have messed up your life to remember Yah.




“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth.” Why? Yah wants you to remember the Manufacturer early so that He can set you on course for your entire life.




Yah didn‘t say, Remember the university. He didn‘t say, Remember the school guidance counselor, or Remember what your friends are saying. They can give you only their opinions about what you should do. Yah said, Remember your Creator, the Manufacturer, the One who made you. Remember Him first while you‘re young. Why? So that the evil days won‘t rob your life.




Some of you know what I‘m talking about because you‘ve been there and now regret it. Some of you might still be in the middle of it. Others of you might not be using harmful substances, but you‘re still ruining your life. You‘re working fourteen hours a day trying to be successful, but you‘re not doing what you were put on the earth to do. You‘re not going to be fulfilled.




Wouldn‘t it be great to live every day effectively, doing exactly what you were born to do? There‘s no fulfillment without knowing your purpose.




Remember the painting of that building on Shirley Street? After I had driven past the sign the second time, the Holy Spirit said to me, If you were to see the men working on that project, digging up all the mud and muck, all the rocks and everything, making big holes, and if you were to ask them what they were doing, they would say, We‘re moving toward that. We are building that.‘ They could tell you exactly where they were headed. I have never forgotten that lesson.




I have a question for you: is your life similar to that? If someone were to ask you what you‘re doing, could you tell them you‘re headed somewhere? Could you tell them where? Are you so clear about your dream that you could paint a picture of it?




If you know where you‘re going, then when someone doesn‘t understand the reason for the mud, the muck, the water, and the hole, it doesn‘t matter. All that might not look right, but you see, that‘s the process. The process gets really messy sometimes. When you‘re in the midst of the process, your life might not look like it‘s becoming anything. But take careful note: there‘s a painting of you. Yah has painted it for you in His Word. Anytime you get bogged down in the mud and the muck, every time you get discouraged, you can look at that painting.




When a person works in construction, sometimes the contractor will tell him just to dig a trench. He can‘t see what this trench has to do with anything, but he has to trust him. He digs the trench because he knows the contractor sees things he doesn‘t know about. Likewise, Yah is in the business of constructing us and our lives. He is the Contractor. Sometimes He will tell you to do something, and He won‘t explain much about it.




You may be in the middle of something right now that He‘s told you to do, but that you don‘t understand; it doesn‘t seem to make any sense. You feel like you‘re just digging a trench. You‘re saying, This isn‘t what I bargained for. Maybe your job is a trench. Maybe your marriage is a trench. But when you are pursuing Yah and His purposes, He‘s saying, Don‘t quit. You don‘t understand. Just stay where you are. We‘re building something here. Just dig the trench.




A man may be able to see the outcome of Yah‘s purposes in his life twenty years into the future or only one day ahead. Yet if he is living in Yah‘s plans for him, he has found the key to his existence.




Yah Put Your Purpose within You




Becoming what Yah has purposed for you not only allows you to live effectively, but also to worship your Creator, who has given you ideas, talents, resources, and energy to fulfill His desires and plans for your life. Proverbs 20:5 says, “The purposes of a man‟s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.” That‘s a powerful statement, isn‘t it? “The purposes of a man‟s heart are deep waters.” That means your purpose is inside you. Yah has placed it deeply within you. However, in order to draw it out, you need to be assisted by Yah‘s wisdom and revelation because your purpose was born in the mind of your Maker.




Remember that Yah created the male with a specific purpose in mind, and He designed him uniquely for that purpose. Therefore, a man possesses inherent characteristics and qualities that are necessary for his functioning and fulfillment as a male. Moreover, when a man identifies, understands, effectively applies, and manifests these qualities in his life and relationships, the female will also experience a fulfillment she has always longed for.




As we‘ve seen, it is beneficial to look at the overall picture before seeing how all the details fit into it. In order for a man to know Yah‘s purpose for him as a male and as an individual, he first needs to see Yah‘s purposes for humanity as a whole. In the next teaching, we are going to take a close look at Yah‘s wisdom and revelation in regard to the creation of man.




Principles




1. Yah is a Yah of purpose.




2. What Yah plans is intentional, meaningful, and guaranteed to succeed.




3. Yah created everything with a purpose.




4. The purpose of something determines its nature, design, and features.




5. Not every purpose is known to us because we have lost our understanding of Yah‘s original intent for us.




6. Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.




7. To discover the purpose of something, never ask the creation; ask the creator.




8. If we don‘t know the purpose for our lives, we‘re just experimenting.




9. When you go to Yah, He knows how to make up for the time that you lost from not knowing your purpose.




10. We find our purpose only in the mind of our Maker.




11. Yah‘s purpose is the key to our fulfillment.




12. Yah put your purpose within you. To draw it out, you need to be assisted by His wisdom and revelation.

PRINCIPLES OF PURPOSE

Genesis chapter 1







Today we are walking in: The Principles of Purpose!!!







Today we look to the word-PURPOSE- H6213 ’asah--to do, work, make, produce; to act, act with effect, effect








The Torah testifies...............

****








The prophets proclaim..................






Isaiah 14:26

This is the purpose H6213 that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.









The writings bear witness...........................






Ecclesiates 3:1

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose H6213 under the heaven:







Seven Principles of Purpose




Yah’s Purpose Is the Key to Our Fulfillment.




Yah desires that every man find his purpose and fulfill it. If a man wants to know who he is in order to live fully in that reality, he must first understand Yah‘s principles of purpose. He has to learn these anchors for living from the Word of Yah. Otherwise, he will fall into a trap of confusion where many of us are right now.




Proverbs 19:21 is a foundational Scripture in regard to understanding Yah‘s purpose: “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is The Most High’s purpose that prevails.” This crucial truth tells us that we can make all the plans we want to in life, but if we don‘t make our plans according to the purposes for which Yah created us, then our plans will be in vain. We won‘t live up to our full potential, and we will be unfulfilled. We may even pursue goals and engage in practices that are harmful for us. We have only one life, and we have to make that life count if we are ever to fulfill our purpose.




How Are You Using Your Life?




What value do you place on your life? Do you know that one of the most dangerous things in life is wasting time? It is said that time is a commodity that you never are able to recapture. Once you‘ve lost time, it‘s gone forever. What you‘ve lived, you can never relive. So the best thing to do with time is to use it in a way that will bring the greatest results. The best way, the only way, to use time effectively is to do what you are supposed to do when you are supposed to do it. Effectiveness does not mean just doing good things, but rather doing the right thing.




Good versus Best




It would be terrible to be busy doing the wrong things your entire life. Wouldn‘t it be sad to be serious and committed and faithful to the wrong thing? It‘s possible to do what is good but not what is right. What I mean is this: it is possible to do good things but not the things that are best based on Yah‘s purposes for you. One of HaSatan‘s greatest weapons against my life is to get me busy doing things that are good but that are not right and best for me.




Yah created each of us with a purpose. That purpose is what‘s right for us. Suppose Yahusha had become a priest in the Sanhedrin, the highest council and tribunal of the Jews.




That would have been a good thing. Suppose He had become a member of the Sadducees and been one of the leaders in the social structure of Galilee and Judea. That would have been a good thing. Suppose He had become a social worker, helping the poor, having massive crusades, feeding multitudes of people every day with bread and fish. Would that have been a good thing? Sure. Suppose He had devoted every hour to healing the sick and raising the dead. That would have been a good thing, wouldn‘t it? Yet it would not have been the right thing for Him.




There was a time when Yahusha began to tell His disciples that He would be crucified. They didn‘t want to hear that. “Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Most High!‟ he said. “This shall never happen to you!” (Matt. 16:22). The disciples‘ reaction to Yahusha‘ purpose was, We rebuke You. Get that thought out of Your mind. You will not die. But Yahusha turned around and rebuked them for their shortsighted perspective. “Yahusha turned and said to Peter, Get behind me, HaSatan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of Yah, but the things of men” (v. 23). Yahusha was saying, in effect, I know why I was born. I know the purpose for My life. Don‘t distract Me with things that are merely good. I must pursue the highest purpose.




One of the reasons Yahusha knew His purpose was that He was continually seeking Yah and in constant communication with Him. That is the pattern each of us needs to follow. Why? It‘s dangerous to live without Yah. If you don‘t know Yah, you‘ll never know your reason for existence. And if you don‘t know why you were born, you could live a completely wrong life. I didn‘t say a bad life. There are many good people who are pursuing relationships, careers, and goals in life that are not best for them. What we have to concern ourselves with is living effectively. The only way to live a fulfilled life is to know why you were born.




Fulfilling Your Purpose




Have you ever had a new car break down on you right in the middle of traffic? You got out and kicked one of the tires. You just wanted to curse at it because the car wasn‘t fulfilling its purpose. It was brand-new. It looked sleek. It had a nice paint job. But you couldn‘t drive it. What made you angry at the car?




It‘s simple: the car‘s purpose was to transport you, to make you mobile; but the car was not taking you anywhere. No matter how great the car looked, it wasn‘t right; it wasn‘t fulfilling its purpose.




Many men are like that car. They‘re stopped in the middle of traffic, and they don‘t even realize it. They‘re spending their lives doing things that look good, but they don‘t know Yah or they know much too little about Him and His ways.




We have to realize that good deeds are not a substitute for rightness. Knowing and fulfilling your purpose is the only way to do what is right. Remember our foundational verse: “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is The Most High’s purpose that prevails” (Prov. 19:21). One of the reasons why this verse is so important is that many people are planning to use charitable work as their ticket into heaven. It‘s very dangerous to attempt to bribe Yah. Yah is not impressed with all the good things we do. He‘s waiting for us to do what He‘s asked us to do in the first place.




Discovering our purpose enables us to stop wasting our lives and start fulfilling our potential. However, then we must be careful not to become sidetracked along the way. The greatest way to destroy someone is to distract the person from his or her true purpose. Sometimes people will do this unintentionally, as we saw from the example of Peter and Yahusha. However, whether people try to distract us out of the best or worst of intentions, we must learn to remain steadfast in the purpose for which we were created.




Remaining Constant in Your Purpose




Nehemiah fulfilled an important purpose in life, but he might have been persuaded to be sidetracked. He was in exile serving as cupbearer to the king of Persia when he heard that the city of Jerusalem was still in a broken-down condition. He was distressed over this news and determined, I‘ve got to repair the city. So he prayed, and then he obtained permission from the king to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem. Yah‘s favor was on his plans because this was the purpose for which he was created. He went and started to rebuild the wall with the help of the remnant of Hebrews in Jerusalem.




However, some men from the surrounding area didn‘t like what Nehemiah was doing, and they tried to stop him. They ridiculed and slandered him, but he kept on with the work. They conspired to kill him, but he armed some of the workers with weapons and thwarted the plot. They tried to fill him with fear and make him flee for his life. One of the last things they tried is usually the most effective means of sidetracking people. They said, Come, let‘s have a meeting; let‘s discuss what you‘re doing. Maybe we can help you. (See Nehemiah 1–6.)




Again, the best way to prevent a man from accomplishing something is to get him to do a good thing, like have a meeting, instead of what he should be doing. Yet Nehemiah wasn‘t fooled. He told them, “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?” (Neh. 6:3).




Reinforce Your Purpose




I can‘t emphasize strongly enough that knowing your purpose is crucial for your life‘s course. Every young person comes to a time when he or she leaves childhood and enters adulthood. That period is called adolescence. This is the time in which young people are trying to discover who they are and why they are.




This is also often the time when we lose them or gain them, lose them to a destructive lifestyle and a wasted life or gain them for a positive, fulfilling future.




Purpose, therefore, is key to a young person‘s effectiveness and happiness in life.




Did Yahusha have an adolescent problem? The answer is, very simply, no. Why? His purpose was reinforced from birth. His earthly mother and father were told why He was born. Somehow I believe that Yah would love for all parents to know Him so well that they would have an idea of the life purpose of their children.




The messenger of The Most High said to Joseph, “You are to give him the name Yahusha, because he will save his people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21). Joseph shared this message with Mary. When Yahusha was born, Mary could talk to Him about His purpose. Even though, at the time, she didn‘t fully understand the implications of His name, she could tell Him, You‘re going to be a Savior.




The Hebrew meaning of the name Yahusha is The Most High is salvation. In essence, Yahusha‘ name means Savior. When He was a boy, His friends would say to Him, Savior, come out and play with us. His parents would say to Him, Savior, come in for supper. When people heard Him coming, they‘d say, Is that you, Yahusha? How are you doing today, Savior? All His life, He heard that name. Yet it was not just a name; it was a reason for being, and He grew up with that purpose in His mind.




When Yahusha was twelve years old, He went to Jerusalem with His parents to celebrate the Feast of the Passover. When the Feast was over, His parents started for home, thinking that Yahusha was among the large group of relatives and friends traveling with them. When they didn‘t find Him, they went back to Jerusalem and finally found Him in the temple courts. They said, Why did you leave us, Son? Why did you do this to us? (See Luke 2:48.) His answer was very powerful. At twelve years of age, He was able to say to His parents, “I must be about My Father‟s business” (v. 49 NKJV).




How old are you?




Are you still questioning what you are about?




Are you still wondering what kind of business your Father is in and which part you are to play in the company?




Are you still ―changing your major in life every three years?




Do you find you can‘t graduate from Yah‘s preparatory school into Yah‘s work world?




Are you fifty years old and still looking for a job transfer?




I know it‘s not easy to take a hard look at yourself, but it‘s necessary if you‘re going to discover your true purpose in life.




You will be busy doing meaningful work when you learn why you are here. At twelve years of age, Yahusha was busy with His purpose. Isn‘t that an exciting way to live? Don‘t give up on having a purposeful life, no matter what your age is. Get busy with the right thing.




Principles for Finding Your Purpose




How do you discover what‘s right? Yah has given us seven principles of purpose so that we can live successful, fulfilled lives. Write them on a sheet of paper and put them on your mirror so you can look at them every morning when you‘re getting ready for work. Use them as a bookmark in your Bible to remind yourself of them when you‘re praying and reading the Word. When you understand these principles, you‘ll be able to learn and live in your purpose:




1. Yah is a Yah of purpose.




2. Yah created everything with a purpose.




3. Not every purpose is known to us because we have lost our understanding of Yah‘s original intent for us.




4. Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.




5. To discover the purpose of something, never ask the creation; ask the creator.




6. We find our purpose only in the mind of our Maker.




7. Yah‘s purpose is the key to our fulfillment.

WHAT IS A REAL MAN????

Genesis Chapter 1







Today we are walking in: What Is A Real Man???







Today we look to the word- MAN- H120- 'adam-ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)









The Torah Testifies……….




Genesis 1:27




So God created man H120 in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.







The Prophets Proclaim………





Isaiah 17:7




At that day shall a man H120 look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.






Jeremiah 5:1




Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man H120, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.







The Writings Witness………





Proverbs 7:7




And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man H120 void of understanding,






Proverbs 9:9




Give instruction to a wise man H120, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.







Biology Is No Longer as Great a Factor





Biology doesn‘t determine male-female roles and functions the way it used to. Today, because of the prevalence of both dual careers and birth control, a husband and wife might choose not to have children. Also, because of the widespread idea that fertility is a woman‘s business alone, the woman will often tell the man when or if they will have a baby. Even if they do have a child, that doesn‘t necessarily mean that the wife will stay home to take care of the baby all day or every day. Daycare and other childcare options enable her to work at a job outside the home either part- time or full-time.





This change is bringing new kinds of stresses to the family. If daycare workers or nannies are bringing up the children, sometimes the children don‘t really know their parents. Also, the parents don‘t always know what the baby-sitter is doing or teaching the children while they are at work. Essentially, this means that the children are being brought up by people whom the parents cannot be sure of.





In addition, since a woman‘s childbearing and childrearing was what formerly brought her honor from her husband, the man now has to find another way to honor his wife. Because of the traditional pattern, when a wife demands honor from her husband today, he sometimes thinks, ―Well, what are you doing to earn it?




Twenty-first century relationships are difficult.





We Are No Longer in Survival Mode





Most of us don‘t focus on survival and protection the way people used to. This is not to say that we don‘t face economic challenges and job-related stress, but the physical risk is not the same. We‘re not out hunting food and facing the elements just to stay alive. We have twenty-four- hour-a-day grocery stores and microwave ovens. While we live in an uncertain world where there are still dangers, the physical environment is much friendlier now than it was for our forefathers. Today, a man will leave the house in the morning dressed in his three-piece suit as he drives his Lexus to work as a doctor in a fancy office. The physical risk is gone for most people.





One of the differences between the old and the new ways is that, when people get married, they often already have most of what they need, instead of having to struggle for it. Moreover, the woman is no longer dependent on the man to provide for her after they marry. Because the traditional role of provider is ingrained in many men, this situation can be unsettling to a man.





For example, a man will meet a woman and discover that she already owns material possessions. Because she has been working for a while, she makes more money than he does and drives an expensive car. She owns a condominium, a thirty-five inch television, a refrigerator, and the food in it. She can buy her own gas for her car. She has it all worked out, and then he says he wants to marry her and take care of her. How is she going to depend on him? She has money in the bank. What is the man going to give her? She isn‘t looking for survival and protection; she‘s independent, and so her expectations in regard to men and marriage are totally different.





Some women wonder, How am I supposed to be submissive when I make more money than my husband, and the house and furniture are mine? In other words, she‘s saying to the man, You have to earn the right for me to submit to you by giving me something I haven‘t already given you. That‘s a tough statement for a man to hear. So the man says, Well, I can‘t give you anything because you owned more than I did from the very beginning. How does a woman submit to somebody whom she believes she is supporting? It‘s a difficult situation for both men and women. But it‘s the world we live in.





Do you wonder why divorces are so common these days? One reason is that a woman can now tell a man straight and fast, If you can‘t take care of this properly, I‘m going to leave. My mother had eleven children. When she had a problem, she couldn‘t say to my father, I‘m going to leave you. Where was she going to go? She had no professional or academic training, no preparation for a job outside the home. The home was her life.





Independence is a relatively new situation for women, and men are still learning to cope with the change. In many ways, the woman has taken over not only the man‘s traditional role of provider, but also that of protector. She has mace, she has a gun in her purse, and she has a cell phone to call the police instantly. So what does the man do? He says, I‘m your protector, and she says, I don‘t need you to protect

me. It‘s a different world. Men don‘t know what they‘re supposed to do for women anymore.





Roles and Skills Are Less Compartmentalized





Men and women used to exist in different spheres. A man‘s sphere was work and survival. The woman‘s world was the home and children. There was no confusion of roles. They knew exactly where they were supposed to be.





A woman leaving the home and entering the workplace means that the home is no longer kept by her specifically. The man isn‘t sure what his job in the home is, and the woman isn‘t sure what her job in the home is. They‘re confused.





Your father used to bring home the beef, but now your wife is bringing home not only the beef but the cow. Besides that, she owned two cows before you married her. She doesn‘t want any beef from you; she already has beef.





If both husband and wife are now bringing home the beef, then who‘s the provider? That‘s a problematic question for men. If both are paying the mortgage, then who‘s putting the roof over their heads? Your father was considered the owner of his house because he bought and paid for it. Today, the house doesn‘t belong to the man. It belongs to both the man and the woman.





Some men wonder how their fathers used to be the man of the house. Now, if a man puts his foot down, his wife will put her foot down, too. The things men were taught no longer work. Your father says, Put her in her place. You say, But the place belongs to her. Show her who wears the pants in the family. But she wears pants, too!





Many couples face difficult economic situations that require both of them to work to make ends meet. However, the cultural shift of women going to college, pursuing careers, and delaying marriage has made significant changes in family life.




For example, a man may say, Honey, you have to bring up the children, and she‘ll say, No, I‘m going to work. Why? I want to use my education, and I want a certain standard of living that requires a double salary, so I‘m going to work. He says, But who will bring up the kids? You are the child-bearer and the child-nurturer. Her answer is, My employer has a daycare center. I‘m taking the job.





What does a man do when his wife makes more money than he does, and he believes he‘s supposed to be the provider and protector of the home? He‘s frustrated and even ashamed. That‘s one of the reasons why there‘s so much quarreling in our modern marriages. We keep arguing over who‘s supposed to do what.





These and other similar situations have changed our perspectives dramatically and altered our traditional roles. The male isn‘t sure what a man is anymore, and the female isn‘t sure what a woman is anymore. This change has caused tension for women as well as men.





For instance, some woman actually feel guilty when they say, I‘m a homemaker. Do you think that in your parents‘ or grandparents‘ time, people asked a woman, So, what do you do? The question never came up. But today, almost every woman is asked what she does. In other words, we know what she doesn’t do. She doesn‘t just stay home and bring up children with the implication that this is something to be ashamed of.





It used to be much easier for the woman who stayed at home with her children. She had support in this role because every woman in the neighborhood was at home. Today, people think something is wrong with a woman if she is a homemaker. They think things like: What‘s the matter with her? Is she lazy? or She‘s not very creative, or She must not be smart enough to have a career, or She needs to get a life. The idea is being promoted in society that only dumb women stay home.




The results of changing gender roles can be distressing for both men and women.




People are confused about how to act in this new world. It has become a psychological dilemma for them. Many are feeling tense and displaced, and they are trying to figure out what is wrong with them. I‘ll tell you right now what is wrong: it‘s simply a different world.





Independence Has Changed the Parameters of Appreciation





Increasingly independent, self-sufficient, contemporary women no longer feel the need for men to provide for and protect them. This is a problem for men. They‘re trying to get along in a relationship, and they‘re not sure who is responsible for what. For example, a boy takes a girl out for lunch, and he looks at her and says, Are you going to pay for yours? Thirty years ago, the man automatically paid. Why? It was the man‘s job to be the provider. But now if a man takes a woman to dinner, and he finds he doesn‘t have enough money, she reaches into her purse and says, I‘ll make up for it. He feels shame, but she‘s not ashamed, because she has the money. And guess what? She still likes him. She likes him because she feels there aren‘t too many good men around anyway.




The independence of women is diminishing men‘s traditional value to them. Historically, men have always died at an earlier age than women. Why? They had to go out into the cold and sleet in the winter, even if they were coughing with tuberculosis, in order to provide for the family. They were the sole element of survival for the family. This is why women valued them. Sometimes, when a woman reveals that her husband is abusing her, and she‘s asked, Why don‘t you leave him? She‘ll reply, I can‘t do that. That‘s a deep answer. There are certain things about him she values.




If a man spent every day risking his life to protect you and the children and to provide for you, then how are you going to feel about him? Obviously, you are going to esteem him highly, because you know what he‘s doing to take care of the family. That is why it was natural for your mother, even when your father didn‘t always act right, to love and honor him. He was valuable to her.




Today, however, this is not necessarily the case. When a man shows interest in a woman, she may tell him, Now, let me tell you this right up front: if you can‘t cut the mustard, you can leave whenever you‘re ready. And if we get married, I want you to sign a prenuptial agreement so that everything I bring into this marriage will stay mine if the marriage ends. Women don‘t value men in the way that they used to because the needs men used to supply are now being supplied by the women themselves. Some husbands are afraid of their wives because they think their wives don‘t need them.




Another significant change is that, for the first time in recorded history, men and women look to one another primarily for love and companionship rather than survival and protection. Our priorities as human beings have changed. People are looking for something more in their relationships. Happiness, intimacy, and lasting passion are now requirements for a relationship. Yet understanding how to provide these things often does not come easy for a man.




Happiness




The male‘s traditional roles are not enough to make his partner happy anymore. Women want companionship andattention in order to be happy. My father couldn‘t take my mother for walks or out to dinner at a restaurant. There was no time for it. He made my mother happy just by making sure that the family had clothing, running water, and so on.




What can men do to make women happy today? That‘s the challenge. Have you ever heard a man say, What does a woman want? In the past, men used to tell their wives, Woman, what else do you want from me? I put a roof over your head and food in the kitchen. Remember when men said that? Those days are over.




Intimacy




When the man risked his life to give his wife food and protection, then intimacy, sensitivity, and good communication skills were not an issue. The woman didn‘t say, Honey, you have to learn the psychological and emotional instability of a woman going through menstruation. A man didn‘t have time to learn to get along with a woman. Again, when he arrived home, it was dark, he was tired, and all he wanted was food and sex. The house was his, the food was his, and the rationale was, It‘s time to pay up. But nowadays, women want intimacy and communication. Talk to me. You haven‘t told me you love me all day. That‘s the way women think today. You looked at everybody else except me. You didn‘t notice my dress. Listen, the caveman didn‘t have time to look at any dress. He was too busy trying to survive. But the world has changed.




Did your parents or grandparents ever talk about PMS? They were probably too busy to talk about it, and people even husbands and wives weren‘t as open about such topics. Now, the social atmosphere has changed, and we have more time to think about these things. These days, a woman might say, Don‘t touch me now; I‘m going through my cycle. My hormones are out of balance. A man now has to study what mood his wife is in. When you‘re just trying to survive, you‘re not thinking in terms of moods. It wasn‘t necessarily a better way of life, but it was definitely a different way. Men are still trying to figure out how to build intimacy and communication into their relationships.




A woman may wonder why her husband has problems talking with her. He doesn‘t know what to say, and she doesn‘t realize what he‘s going through. For example, suppose she has a fantastic job, a leadership job, an administrative job and he has a lesser job. She comes home and tries to talk to him at dinner. What do they talk about? She‘s conversing on a highly intellectual level, and he‘s not there yet, because his job doesn‘t require him to stretch that far. So she says a couple of sentences, and he‘s intimidated. He says to himself, Oh, that‘s a big word she used. He doesn‘t know what to do, because his leadership role seems to have diminished.




In this challenging time in our culture, women need to show understanding to the men in their lives. For example, suppose a woman marries a man, and they are settled in their house, and she says to him, Be a man. He says, Okay...how? His back is against the wall. He used to know what that meant, but not any longer. So she says things like, Be my spiritual head. He looks at her blankly. My father was a caveman. He taught me that the Bible and community are for weaklings. So I‘m really not much into being in the community. I‘ll go to please you, but if that makes me a man, it‘s going to take a while. He doesn‘t understand spiritual matters as well as she does because he was taught that religion is for women.




So she says, Comfort me, and he says, How? He didn‘t receive that kind of training from his father. She says, Show me affection, and he says, Oh, no. How do you spell that? She says, Be sentimental, and he says, Sentamen- who? What is that? He doesn‘t understand what she means.




What do many women do in this situation? They become angry. Just be a man! How? Provide for me! But you make more money than I do. The man is confused. He doesn‘t realize she wants him to provide for her emotional needs or if he does understand, he doesn‘t know how to fulfill those needs. Men need patience and understanding from their wives.




Passion




Passion is also necessary for today‘s relationships.




Remember that, in the old days, the man would just ask, Woman, are you ready or not? There were no romantic preliminaries. He‘d say, Tarzan ready for Jane. Jane ready? Okay, bring it on. That was it.




Now, however, women want men to turn the lights down, bring scented candles into the room, and put flowers everywhere. The men say, What‘s going on here? You have to work for it now, men. It‘s hard work!




These days, women want men to start romancing them in the morning make them breakfast, run the bathwater for them, take them out to lunch, call them five times to tell them they love them, pick them up in a limousine and take them out for a nice dinner then they might be rewarded that night. There‘s no guarantee, but they won‘t be rewarded without working for it.




Male-Female Relationships Have Become a Mystery




In many aspects of life, therefore, the roles and relationships of men and women have completely changed in the last few decades. This putting aside of traditional male roles seems frightening and even dangerous to many men because they don‘t know where it leaves them. They feel there‘s now a

great deal of mystery in the relationships between men and women, and they don‘t know what to expect. I can empathize with what they‘re going through. Studying this topic has made me realize that we‘re really in a cultural dilemma. I feel for men. They don‘t know what to do. If you are a woman, you need to understand that men are really in trouble.




I have tried to give you a picture of what changing gender roles have done to throw men off balance, so that you can see the nature of the dilemma they‘re facing. Some of the scenarios I‘ve given are humorous, but the problems males are facing are serious because they have to do with purpose and identity. They are serious because confusion over purpose will sideline and even destroy people‘s lives.




Roles versus Purpose




All this ultimately comes down to what males use as a basis for their self-worth and identity. Because men have linked their identity to their roles, now that the roles have changed, they have left themselves no basis for manhood. Whatever they replace their old idea of masculinity with may or may not be a true or fulfilling role for them. What is more troubling, when men don‘t understand their place in the world, they will often either withdraw from it or use their influence in harmful ways, such as committing crimes.




What can men do to regain their footing and identity?




First, they must adopt an entirely new way of thinking. They need to think in terms of purpose rather than roles. The reason they are having problems today is that they have been basing their worth on the wrong thing all along. Roles have never been the true basis of a male‘s identity and purpose. Roles can be helpful or harmful, but ultimately they merely reflect culture and tradition.




What men really need to discover is their underlying purpose, which transcends culture and tradition. A man‘s position and actions must flow out of his purpose, not the other way around. That is why the answer to the male‘s dilemma is not just to adjust to changing times although some of this will be needed but to discover the inherent purpose of the male. Since we live in a confused society, the knowledge of what it means to be a true man cannot be acquired by observing the culture around us. Males need an understanding of themselves that is not overly influenced by societal trends in short, by someone else‘s image of them. Where, then, can we go for answers? One of the themes we‘ll keep returning to in this series is that the purpose of something can be found only in the mind of its maker. Men therefore need a Yah-given identity if they are to fulfill their true purpose. We must learn what Yah originally intended for them. To do this, we must go back and rediscover the Creator‘s original plan for both men and women.




Once more, we must realize that when men are ignorant of their true identity, it affects not only their own callings and fulfillment, but also that of their families and of society as a whole. This is because Yah has given males a unique leadership influence. As the man goes, so goes the family, society, and the world. I believe that if we don‘t address the male‘s identity crisis, our whole generation is in trouble. There‘s no escaping this fact.




The answer for males in the twenty-first century is therefore to




• Define their worth based on Yah‘s purpose, rather than society‘s roles.




• Learn Yah‘s vision for their lives.




• Continue to live in the truth of who they were created to be.




If males understand the purpose and responsibilities Yah has given them and the true design of their relationship with females, they can be free to fulfill their destiny and potential. They can be the men they were created to be.




If you are a man, you don‘t need to be confused about your identity and place in life, regardless of the conflicting signals society is currently sending out. You will find fresh vision and direction in rediscovering Yah‘s purposes for both males and females. Through this knowledge, men can be and do more than they ever imagined, and women can gain a new understanding and appreciation for men while enabling them to fulfill their calling.




What is a real man? Someone who knows the reality of who he is and who lives in that reality. This knowledge starts with understanding the significance of being created purposefully by Yah.




Principles




1. Males have traditionally defined their manhood by their roles.




2. Historically, men and women had established roles that didn‘t overlap.




3. Relationships are different for men and women now that we no longer depend on one another for security and survival.




4. Men are in a crisis of identity and purpose.




5. Confusion over purpose will sideline and even destroy a person‘s life.




6. If a man links his identity to his roles, when the roles change, he gives himself no basis for manhood.




7. A man‘s identity is found in his purpose, not in his roles.




8. Men‘s underlying purpose transcends culture and tradition.




9. Knowledge of what it means to be a true man cannot be acquired by observing the confused culture around us.




10. The purpose of something can be found only in the mind of its maker.




11. Men need a Yah-given identity if they are to fulfill their true purpose.




12. When men are ignorant of their true identity, it affects not only their own callings and fulfillment, but also that of their families and of society as a whole. This is because, as the man goes, so goes the family, society, and the world.




13. A real man is someone who knows the reality of who he is and who lives in that reality.