How to

Part 1 | Be a Man

From Genesis 2

The problems facing men:

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📖 1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

#2: A man is made for .

📖 Genesis 2:15 ESV The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

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#3: A man is made for .

📖 Genesis 2:10-14 ESV A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.

📖 Genesis 3:17-18 ESV And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

📖 John 15:5 ESV Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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📖 Proverbs 24:27 ESV “Put your outdoor work in order and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.”

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📖 Genesis 1:28 ESV And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth

📖 Psalm 127:3-4 ESV Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. 4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.

📖 Psalm 127:5 ESV Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

#4: A man is made for .

📖 Genesis 2:18 ESV Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

📖 Genesis 2:19-20 ESV Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.

📖 Ephesians 6:4 ESV Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

📖 Genesis 2:22-23 ESV And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

#5: A man is made for .

📖 Genesis 2:21-22 ESV So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

📖 Ephesians 5:25 ESV Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

#1: A man is made to be of the .

📖 Genesis 2:7 ESV then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

📖 John 20:20-22 ESV Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Sermon in a Sentence:

Men are by God for , , , and living in the power of the .