The Principles Of Courageous Manhood

What happens is that you’re translated from out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God’s own dear Son. The life you now live, you live by the faith of Him who gave His life for you. This is a whole new way of living. So, you no longer live in powerlessness, but now you live in the power of God. And even when we do sin, praise God, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous who, because of His presence at the right hand of the Father sitting before the throne of God, when we approach God and we ask in His name anything, the Father will do it because Jesus paid the price at Calvary.

The point is that before we came to Jesus, there was no power of God in our lives. But once the Spirit of God came into us, once the blood cleansed us, once the Word began to dwell in us, the power of God came into our lives. Disagreement results in powerlessness but agreement produces power.

The Bible says in Genesis 10 that the people were trying to build a tower up to the heavens. They wanted to make a name for themselves. God came down and took a look at them, saw that because they were all of one language, they were all of one political persuasion, they were all of one mind, they were all of one heart, because they were all in unity, they were going to be able to do it. So, God brought tongues and divided their ability to communicate. And when He brought the tongues so that it brought the disagreement, it resulted in powerlessness and they could not then be able to continue to build. So the disagreement brought powerlessness.

Now because God’s transcendent glory is God’s ability to take the things that are meant for evil and turn them around and make them work for good, God took the tongues of the Old Testament that produced the disagreement that resulted in powerlessness, and when the people came on the day of Pentecost and they were all with one accord and one place and the Spirit of God came upon them, it was the tongues that released the power of God in their lives. So, tongues then became the blessing that had been the cursing in the Old Testament. God’s transcendent glory is His ability to take the things that are meant for evil and to turn them around and make them work for our good.

Disagreement is the reason why many of us don’t have the excellence that we desire. It’s the reason why some of us don’t achieve the things that we want to achieve because we’re working in disagreement with ourselves.

You take some guy that’s going to work on the job. He hates where he’s going to work, and as a result he imagines being someplace else, and his heart is back home with his family. He is in disagreement while he works. He will never achieve excellence there and will never be able to do what he needs to be able to do as long as he’s in disagreement.

You take a guy that goes out on a golf course and just before he leaves he realizes on his desk is a big pile of work and his wife calls and says the plumbing broke in the garage and there’s water all over the garage floor and some guy walks by at the same time and says it’s a beautiful day, let’s go play golf. So, he turns to the secretary and says, take care of this pile of work, calls his wife says, call the plumber and goes out and plays golf and shoots 110…on the first 9. The reason is because he’s in disagreement! His heart’s at home, his mind’s at work and his body is on the golf course. He cannot shoot a good game of golf. But, you put him out there when the family is on vacation and there’s little work and it’s all done, get him on the golf course where he’s got his mind, his heart and his spirit all in unity and he’ll be able to shoot a good game of golf.