Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative and author of over 100 books, booklets and Bible studies. The first African American to earn a doctorate of theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, he has been named one of the 12 Most Effective Preachers in the English-Speaking World by Baylor University. Dr. Evans holds the honor of writing and publishing the first full-Bible commentary and study Bible by an African American. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on over 1,400 radio outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. Dr. Evans’ sermons are also streamed and downloaded over 20,000,000 times annually.
far too many men
are waiting on god when god is waiting
for
us far too many men are sitting on the
sidelines
rather than playing in the game
you have god’s permission to assume
greatness far too many men do not fully
realize that god has already given you
the equipment
to be the man he has created to be
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he doesn’t want any excuses he really
wants us to leave
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no excuses he wants us to give it
all we’ve got trusting him to take the
tools he’s given
to give us the victory
we gotta go get it
your love is loaded
like a ring of solid gold
like
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beyond the horizon
with mercy for today
faithful you have been
and faithful you will be
you pledge yourself
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ever
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your grace will be
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and your strengths become
bringing beauty from ashes
and that’s why
is
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you will be praised
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me
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me
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your prayers with me
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ever be on my left forever
your praise will be
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we’re excited to worship with you so i
want you to sing along if you don’t know
this you’ll know it in about a minute so
let’s go let’s go
we live in the shadow of the almighty
almighty god
safe in the shelter of his love
his perfect love
there’s nothing to fear our faith is our
shield
your mercy surrounds us yeah
we’ll follow your heart even into the
dark
we stand on your promise a thousand
people
i’ll keep standing in the storm wages
on
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though everything changed
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changes
we trust in the god of our salvation
we put all of our confidence in him
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his word is
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joy it changes
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it
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though everything shuts down
i know your word won’t change
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i’m
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foreign
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you will remain
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let’s go
god we thank you for your promises that
you never leave us you never forsake us
in our hard times that you are working
all things
together for our good
we love you we give you honor i ask we
ask that you would meet us here
today for every man watching
i pray that you will remind him remind
me remind us
of our potential which you’ve called us
to you’ve called us to rise and that’s
what we’re here to do
we are grateful for you we are grateful
for you if you believe that
there is no condemnation
for those in christ jesus by his blood
i have been made free
there is no condemnation
for those in christ jesus
by his blood
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if you believe this i want to hear you
sing it out
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oh
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i don’t have to live with shame
anymore
because it is redemption no more
condemnation there’s no cause
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there’s no more condemnation
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there’s no way
made a way for me
there’s no death there’s no height
that can separate
christ to die praise
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me
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foreign
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is
one more time if you believe it come on
for me
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us
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in christ jesus blood
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we’ve been
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yeah welcome welcome welcome to no more
excuses
our men’s conference for 2021 kingdom
men rising i am
so excited to be here with my dad
and my brother jonathan evans and tony
evans well i’m excited to be here with
my sons
anthony evans jr jonathan evans and most
importantly
all the men who have gathered from all
around the country to be part
of our no more excuses men’s conference
this conference
was birthed out of our church oakland
bible fellowship in dallas
and now coming out of the pandemic we
wanted to reach as many men as possible
so
our church has partnered with our
national ministry the urban alternative
to bring you a challenge like none
other we are excited about the influence
and impact
that we believe god is going to make in
your life so thank you for taking the
time out
to be part of our conference this year
as we
challenge you me and us
to be kingdom men rising listen this
is going to be a great day it is
i can’t tell you how excited i am about
today because you’re going to have a
great word like he talked about you
experience
the worship we’re going to have
giveaways we got things that we want to
send straight to your house
that are going gonna bless you for the
weeks months
and years to come so we’re just getting
started
well you know um these conferences do
cost
i mean they’re quite expensive but we
haven’t charged anybody because we
wanted to reach as many
men as many males as possible so it’s
free
but it’s free to you but it’s costly to
us to do it in an
excellent way so as much as you can do
to support
undergird and uh help us defray the cost
of this
we would appreciate it it’s not a
requirement we just want to reach
men for good and for god but thank you
in advance for helping us to do it
in an effective way through your
generosity
and all throughout today’s conference
we’ll give you um exact ways to give and
support the ministry
and we’re gonna have again like my
brother said we’re gonna have an amazing
time listen we have
dr tony evans is here i mean he’s he’s
right here yo
and and as his kids we can tell you that
the man you’ve heard for years on the
radio
or books you’ve read or who you’re
hearing for the first time today he is
that same guy and has been at home they
our parents
have made sure that there’s nothing
different going on up here than there is
at home and that’s why we’re proud to
stand beside you that
and and support you we support you
uh today so later on we’re gonna hear
like a tony evans moment
but can you just give us like a little
something to start off with like
like a little something just a little
just one of your things bring them to
the table
well you know um every football team
has a huddle before each play they have
a huddle where they
express the plan in order to make the
impact
now the hull is private it’s not for
public consumption
but the goal of the huddle is not the
huddle the goal of the huddle is to play
and the play is to make a difference on
the field well our conference
is like a huddle it’s where we’re
gathering privately as men
for god to call the plays that he wants
us to execute
on the field of life our personal lives
our families our churches
and within the culture because our
culture needs to see some touchdowns
for the kingdom of god so let’s hollow
together let’s hear god call the play
so that when we give the benediction and
we say hud hut
we’re ready to go public and make a
difference for the glory of god the
kingdom god
of god and the good of others
there you go tony evans speaking of
huddles and football and scoring and
touchdowns i feel like that’s the
perfect segue into
one of our speakers so i mean don’t you
think we should just
bring it back i first speak up nfl
great tight end he loves god
he loves his family has seven kids he’s
known for his prowess
on the field
super bowl championship absolutely he’s
a winner okay
but not only is he great on the field
he’s great as a man
off the field challenging families
challenging
men challenging fatherhood taking a
strong stand for
life none other than ben watson
i love this brother he’s a clearly overt
christian but he’s real practical at the
same time
so help me welcome as our first speaker
in this year’s conference ben watson
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dr evans jonathan thank you so much for
the intro look it is an
honor to be here with you for the no
more excuses conference
i’m excited i know you all are uh and
before i go any further i must say
a sincere thank you to the evans family
dr evans i’ve told you this before
um it’s no secret but outside of my
father uh your voice has been one that
has spoken the most into my life i
remember
being a child in norfolk virginia
riding around norfolk virginia virginia
beach virginia with my father
sitting in the back seat and hearing
your voice over the airways on the urban
alternative
and so now fast forward 20 actually 30
something years later
um it is exciting for me anytime i get
to connect with
any of the family members in the evans
family i truly do
uh pray for you all my family and i my
wife and i because
we so appreciate not only the the true
example that you set
and the way you follow the lord but also
we’ve seen in our lives
the legacy that you are leaving and it
encourages me as a father
as a man as a kingdom man to do the same
thing
for my family a kingdom men rising
this is an exciting topic this is an
exciting time for us as men
really to lean in and to carry the baton
no one’s going to do it for us the movie
talks about a few good men
we are looking for more than a few good
men we’re looking for men that are going
to inspire
other men to be king domin one of my
favorite movies uh my father
ken watson he’s a kind of a history buff
and so i remember being a kid
and i’m the oldest of six kids and there
was one summer where we traveled around
the country
to civil war battlefields like daddy why
we gotta go to the civil war
battlefields he’s like look we
i want you to understand the history of
our country and also the history of our
people
and so we traveled to places like
gettysburg where hundreds of thousands
of
union and confederate soldiers passed
away we traveled to
places in northern virginia and other
battlefields around the country
and and i realized right there just how
important it is to understand history
well from those conversations a movie in
1989 came out
called glory if you remember the movie
glory it was
an epic movie about a civil war battle
more particularly a civil war regiment
of the 54th massachusetts the 54
massachusetts was
the second all-black union regiment that
fought
in the civil war there’s a point in the
movie toward the very end of the movie
where
where the 54 of the massachusetts and
the rest of the union army was
trying to breach fort wagner fort wagner
was down in south carolina it was a very
important place
for the confederates a stronghold of
theirs and nobody had been able to
breach this fort before
and if you remember in the movie they
said who’s going to go first
because whatever regiment decided to go
first
they were going to sustain substantial
casualties many of them may not come
back
they said the 54th will go first and so
that night
you remember they were sitting there
they were having almost a church service
reminiscing thinking about their
families thinking about what they were
about to do the next morning in the wee
hours of the morning they got up
they got ready and they started marching
towards
fort wagner as they marched through the
other white regiments
it was silent and then at some point
somebody yelled out go get them 54th
and everybody started cheering and raha
arrived so they keep marching out in
pride going toward fort wagner going
toward
what was most likely certain death so
they keep going they’re on the beach
exposed the confederates see them coming
they start firing shells and the men
start running harder and harder toward
the fort toward battle towards certain
death
and at one point in the movie
the commander the colonel robert shaw he
gets shot
they’re right at the precipice they’re
right about to go into the fort
and the confederates lower their cannons
and they lower their guns and they shoot
right at the men who are totally exposed
and he falls and there’s silence in the
movie
and if you know what i’m talking about
you’re gonna remember a young
a young girl denzel washington looking
back and forth and morgan freeman is
there and all these other great actors
that we know and there’s complete
silence and denzel washington looks and
he looks
and he goes and he picks up the american
flag
he turns back to the men and he gives
out a yell
and all of the sudden all the men who
were terrified all the men who were
afraid that day all the men who were
doubting at that point
because their leader had been killed
they got up and they
charged the fourth they made it into the
fort they made it pretty far but they
didn’t take the fourth that day
the fort didn’t wasn’t taken until over
60 days later i believe
on that day the 54th massachusetts lost
about 40 percent
of their men 120 men or so died or
presumed dead
125 wounded but they were remembered
for their prowess in fighting and most
importantly
they’re remembered for their courage
i say that story and i tell that story
because right now when it comes to
manhood we need men
like denzel washington was in that movie
so many of us
are afraid of tomorrow we’re afraid of
failure we’re afraid of how we’re going
to lead our families we’re afraid of
a pandemic we’re afraid of economic
upheaval were afraid
to fail all these things we’re afraid of
and we’re looking for kingdom men to
rise like denzel did and pick up the
banner
and say i’m going to move forward
because when men
step forward and when men rise other men
follow them
play 16 years in the nfl what you look
for in the nfl locker room
is not just talent a lot of people got
talent
a lot of people can run a lot of people
can throw the ball wish i could throw
the ball wish i was the quarterback i
was the guy
that would catch the ball and get hit if
i could do it all over again
i’d be the guy that’s protected and just
throws the ball and get the big contract
but i digress
what you look for in an nfl locker room
are men who know how to lead you’re
looking for men who stand out
men who have character men who have a
willingness
to take chances men who are honest
about their failures men who were will
garner
other people to do the same thing that
they’re trying to do
we are dealing with a chasm or a void or
a vacuum
in manhood and so right now at the no
more excuses conference right now as we
talk about kingdom men rising
you are the men that can change the
tithe
nobody else is going to do it you’re the
man that can do it
but it’s important to number one have a
plan it’s important to understand what
it looks like
it’s important to understand the
identifying characteristics
of a kingdom man rising so what are
those characteristics briefly i want to
go through some things
so that you can understand what it looks
like
for a kingdom man to rise
david in psalms was dealing with uh
much of what we’re dealing with right
now as far as what the landscape looks
like there’s nothing new under the sun
many times we say oh now the culture is
doing this but our culture
been bad since adam and eve got here in
the garden like there’s been issues
there’s been manhood problems if we look
in the garden
we see the beginning of our problem with
manhood when adam stood there
and didn’t do his job when he stood
there
and watched eve bdc that he partook
and didn’t protect her we as men have
inherited much of that so
this has been going on for some time but
god always provides the power through
his spirit for men to overcome if we
engage in it what does it look like
when a kingdom man rises there are three
things that i want to point out number
one
his character is renewed his community
is restored
and his culture is reclaimed number one
his character is renewed
inside of him something starts to happen
that can be identified on the outside
number two his
community is restored meaning his
relationships
in his home in the neighborhood at his
workplace those things are restored and
restructured
and the culture is reclaimed when that
happens meaning
mass movements happen when individual
men rise
to the occasion i mentioned david and
the fact that manhood
has stereotypes if we’re being honest we
all have different stereotypes of
manhood they change over time you know
whether you were a teenager or whether
you were your 20s 30s or 40s or 50s or
60s or 70s or 80s
that the stereotypes change but they’re
basically three things number one it’s
sex
man who’s defined by the number of women
or the type of woman
or how she looks or your conquest
sex defines manhood a lot of times if
you watch films if you watch
movies or tv shows or listen to music or
whatever
maybe even in print how do we sell so
much stuff by a dude
with a bunch of women like on tv even if
it’s even if it’s
meta medicine it’s going to be sold by a
guy
with some woman half his age because sex
sells
and manhood is tied directly to sex
ladies men
ladies man being a conquester strength
number two sports again
i was involved with sports for so long
manhood is defined by how well
you play a particular sport if you can
shoot a basketball or not you know the
guy who could shoot the
the the hoops always got the girls
physical acts of strength
number three success
how much money do you have in your bank
account as it’s always been said i’ve
never seen a u-haul behind a hearse but
still
as men we focus on sex strength
and success during david’s day it was
the same way
he dealt with these things and in psalm
15 he gives us kind of a sneak
peek into what being a kingdom man
rising is
he kind of shows us some characteristics
of that man i want to read psalm 15 very
briefly
psalm 15. verse 1 oh lord who may abide
in your tent he says who may dwell on
your holy hill
he goes on to say he who walks with
integrity
and works righteousness and speaks truth
in his heart
he does not slander with his tongue nor
does evil to his neighbor
nor does he take up a reproach against
his friend
and whose eyes a reprobate is despised
but who
honors those who fear the lord
this man swears to his own hurt
and does not change he does not put out
his money at interest
nor does he take a bribe against the
innocent he who does
these things will never be shaken
that’s a kingdom man rising that’s a man
who identifies his character his
character is renewed
his community is restored his culture is
reclaimed
let’s break it down but the first thing
he talks about is who may dwell in your
holy tent who may abide in your holy
tent and dwell on your holy mountain
what david doesn’t want is simply an
experience
he’s not looking just to be around god
and just to get something from him
he says who may abide who may dwell
what he’s saying is who may live in
god’s presence
lord who may live who who will you
receive what what is
what does it look like for a man to come
into god’s presence
and be accepted to find refuge in his in
his wings to
to to be able to worship at his feet
what does that man look like
he says who may live in your house and
worship
you who may dwell in your presence as i
said before our life should be about
encampment not about experiences
our lives should be about encampment
meaning
much like the 54th of massachusetts when
they camped and they stayed there
we should be men who want to stay in
god’s presence i don’t know what your
personal life looks like
i don’t know if you’re reading your
bible every single day i don’t know if
you’re going to church
i don’t know if you’re worshiping i
don’t know if you’re praying but i do
know this
god will honor and he will grow you as a
man
when you spend time with him when you
dwell with him
not when you show up for a couple of
seconds here and there
so many of us men have memberships to
the gym
and we like to talk about the fact that
we have memberships to the gym
got to remember gender plant plant and
fitness la fitness
whatever it is you name the fitness
place we have memberships to those
places
sometimes you look at guys and say you
got a membership but i don’t see no
evidence
of your membership well it’s because
they got a membership and the closest
they get to the bench press is when they
drive past the planet fitness on their
way
to the subway or to the dunkin donuts
that’s the closest that they get to
using their membership
another person has the membership and he
starts to see gains and he starts to
grow and those sorts of things
because he is camping out
in the gym he’s going there four days a
week
three days a week or five days a week
he’s not missing those workouts
two men same opportunity one of them is
camping out the other one just wants a
simple experience
and just wants to say he did it david
says
who may abide and dwell in your tent he
wants to abide and be where god is
experience over encampment he goes on to
talk about integrity
and i love this word about integrity he
who walks with integrity and works
righteousness
and speaks the truth in their heart i
had a coach
a university of georgia named coach
johnson and i remember
sitting in the meetings before we would
go to practice
and we all had these wooden desks in
front of us where we would write down
our notes and those sorts of things and
mine was a beautiful brown wood and one
day he tried to teach us
a a lesson he said man do you think
those
desks are real wood now i had no idea
what was wood and wasn’t what i said of
course coach these are real
why would they give us fake wood he said
i want you to
peel back a little bit that outer layer
so we all sat there and we’re digging
away you know
college kids digging away on the desk we
peel back and be
underneath it there was this kind of
cork board
that was not genuine wood and he says
men
i don’t want you to be like those desks
i don’t want you to live lives of
duplicity i don’t want you to be
two-faced i don’t want you to be a
charlatan i don’t want what you see on
the outside not to be what’s on the
inside
and david says who is going to dwell in
the tent it is the man
who has integrity it is a man who
works his righteousness it’s the man who
speaks the truth
in his heart are we being men of
integrity your walk
your work and your words
should look different than the world
your walk
your words your work should all look
different than the world
i shouldn’t be able to confuse the one
who’s not
saved the one who’s not looking after
god with you
there should be a line of distinction
growing up i used to go over to my
grandmother’s house
my uncle lived there for some time as
well we would walk around the corner to
my grandmother’s house and she would
make pork chops fried chicken collard
greens
i’m getting lost i’m getting lost but
she would make all those things but my
uncle was there and we were going to the
refrigerator
and my uncle had stuff like carrot juice
um salad he would have
grape juice prune juice he’d have a
little bag that was
fresh with cashews or pecans or
almonds some other nut he ate totally
different and we always thought that
that was weird
as i got older i started to realize why
he looked and seemed different
i used to watch uncle elbert walk around
he walked differently than i did in
other people and i was trying to figure
out what was going on
well my uncle was a professional dancer
for alvin ailey
my uncle had set apart a line of
distinction
between what he was going to put in his
body and what i was gonna put in my body
at that point not that it was bad
because i love the pork chops and the
fried chicken don’t get me wrong
but my point is that he wanted to
eat different and not only that because
of how he took care of his body and the
things that he did with his body
he even walked differently
my daughter’s a ballerina i look at her
she
walks differently i notice something
different about her because of the
muscles that she uses as opposed to
other kids her
age we as kingdom men need to look
differently than the culture
secondly and i’m moving on his community
is restored
his family his friendships his neighbors
is restored because he does not slander
others with his tongue
we are in a twitter universe now
we are in a quick sound bite universe
now
we insult people with our tongue with
our looks with our action
and we don’t apologize because it is
what it is and you got to deal with it
david in psalm 15 would say no for your
community to be restored
for your relationships between husband
and wife and father and child to be
restored and it can be
there has to be repentance and there has
to be forgiveness
when kingdom men rise their communities
are restored
right now as we speak one in three some
people say one in four
men are not in their home and they have
children
we are living what many would say is a
fatherless generation now many of these
fathers are still in touch but many of
them are not in the home and they’re not
around
their kids and that is having an impact
on the next generation are you one of
those men when you rise you go back
you restore relationships that you have
destroyed you restore relationships that
you have
neglected over time you do things that
maybe you weren’t taught as a kid
maybe you had a poor example
maybe you don’t know what it looks like
but it’s time
for you to go back a gallup poll showed
that
20 to 25 of adults up from 17 percent in
2009 would consider themselves to be
what we call nuns not
nun and o-n-e-s if i spelled it
correctly
nuns they have no religion
that is a ramification that’s a
consequence
of men not doing our job
lastly when a kingdom mayor rises his
culture
is reclaimed and i really love this one
because
our culture will reflect
its leadership our culture will reflect
leadership at the top at the bottom in
the home
our culture will reflect whatever is
going on or whatever is not going on
at the present i say something all the
time sometimes i say truth is greater
than trend
truth is greater than trend we live in a
world of trends there always has been
there’s but one truth if our anchor is
not in the truth
we will be swept back and forth by every
single trend that comes along there’s
nothing new men
there’s nothing new there is but one
truth
and david would say are we anchored in
it he goes on in psalms
15 where he talks about this man does
not
put out his money at interest
he doesn’t take a bribe against the
innocent
he swears to his own hurt so he he’s
he’s a promise keeper
he honors those who fear the lord what
that’s saying to me and what’s that
saying to us is
he he cares about justice
justice is thrown around a lot there’s
environmental justice there’s racial
justice there’s social justice there’s
all these types of justices but justice
is simply
giving people their just due whether
that be protection
or whether that be punishment god is the
god of justice
and so what a kingdom man does is he
says you know what i care about treating
people
right proverbs 31 9 he talks about
speaking up for those who cannot speak
for themselves speaking for the
vulnerable
that’s that’s directed at men
are you a man of justice
finally in psalm 15 it says this man
will never be
moved he will never be shaken
and what david is saying from the very
beginning saying lord what does it look
like for a man to be in your presence
what are his identifying characteristics
how can i not be
moved away from your presence how can i
not
continue to worship you and abide in you
and dwell with you
he says the man that does these things
will never be shaken now you may be
sitting there like i was when i read
psalm 15 and said wow that’s a lot of
stuff
this dude is a man of integrity this guy
doesn’t take advantage of people
this dude doesn’t back bite and talk bad
about folks
he doesn’t lend his money at interest to
those within the family of god he
doesn’t
you know attack the innocent or take a
bribe man this dude is like perfect
how am i gonna do that
it’s not in your own power we must be
empowered by the spirit
ezekiel 37 10 talks about this which is
the verse for this conference it says
so i prophesied and he commanded me and
the breath came into them
and they came to life and stood on their
feet an exceedingly
great army the word and the spirit
bring about this revival so if you’re
feeling pressure right now like man i
want to rise
i want to be a king to man i want to do
all these things
no it’s not in your own power it’s not
in your own power
you can’t do it in your own power the
word and the spirit being about revival
the word and the spirit are what give
kingdom men
the power to rise
i’m reminded of a story as we wrap up
that was told to me some time ago about
a very very wealthy man
this man had a huge estate billionaire
100 millionaire whatever it was a huge
estate couldn’t even count it
he passed away and his family decided
through the will to do an estate sale so
they were going to sell off some of his
most prized possessions
his possessions that were invaluable and
a lot of people just came just to see
what this guy had because you know
people be nosy
so everybody came and showed up at this
estate sale
and they were sitting there waiting for
it to start at one o’clock at 12 59
the man comes out who was the
administrator over the estate and he
said we’re going to start
selling off or auctioning off these
items
so they start the auction and
everybody’s waiting for the first item
to come out because they didn’t know
what it was gonna be if it was gonna be
like
you know one of his old school cars or
if it was gonna be
some sort of artifact that he got on an
excursion somewhere they didn’t know
what was going to be an article of
clothing
the first item that the auctioneer said
we were going to start with was
a portrait you see the man
had had a son and there was a portrait
that was drawn of his son
and they were getting rid of all these
things and so the first
item was the portrait now most of the
people looking
at the portrait said i don’t really care
about the sun
i want to get to the good stuff let me
get to the gold bars
or whatever else he’s got back there in
the shed and so the auctioneer
started asking he set a price nobody
claimed it he set another price nobody
claimed it going once going twice three
times nobody claimed it
and then a servant came out someone who
was
working over the estate throughout the
life of the master
and of the estate and and also knew the
son very well had a great relationship
with that son
and he said sir i don’t have any money
but if possible can i have the
the portrait if nobody else wants it he
says sure take the portrait now we can
get on to the good stuff that
everybody’s looking forward to
the administrator over the estate at
that point
took out the will one more time and
reading through it he read to everybody
there
that it was the man’s wishes that
whoever
took the portrait of his son
could have the rest of the estate
the billions dollars the billions of
dollars whatever was in the estate
said he could have whoever took the
portrait of my son shocked everybody was
clearly upset because now this poor man
who was a servant of the estate and a
caretaker over the estate now he was a
billionaire because he took the portrait
of
the son he got all the father’s riches
because he took the portrait of the son
man you don’t have to do this
on your own the bible says that we have
all we need
to live this life of godliness we
already have it in the sun
through the sun we have access to
everything we need to be a kingdom man
rising we have access to be everything
we need
to this list in psalm 15 of a citizen of
zion or a heavenly citizen who sits at
god’s feet and worships him and
transforms
his community his character his culture
we have everything that we need but now
the question is will you rise
through the power of the son
let’s pray god we thank you for this day
lord i thank you for every single man
lord that is
watching every single man that is a part
of this this conference
lord i pray for myself lord where i fall
short
but i ask forgiveness for those times so
what i
i know god that you are calling men to
yourself and calling us to lead
to our character but we’ll be renewed
god so that our communities
lord will be restored god so that our
culture will be
ultimately reclaim lord for you
so right now through this conference i
thank you
for the power that you have in your holy
spirit to bring these things to pass
in jesus name we pray everybody say amen
god bless
listen i can’t tell you how excited i am
coming off the heels of that message not
just because it was coming
from a super bowl champion but that’s a
super bowl message because when you
recognize like he said at the end when
you have the son you have all of the
riches of the father
not just in having the gospel believing
but also
receiving the gospel and how we live our
life with grace and mercy and
righteousness and justice and so i want
to thank ben for the opportunity that we
have to listen to the message that god
gave him and we got to work it out we’ve
got to learn grow and achieve based on
it listen
anytime we have a conference whether
it’s here in person and now obviously
virtual
we give away resources we give away
resources we want you to have resources
so that you can have the opportunity to
learn grow and achieve at a whole nother
level
day by day week by week month by month
and year by year
and we’re doing it the same way this
year and we’re going to do it for a gift
of any amount
for a gift of any amount you can walk
away from this conference with kingdom
men rising the book
the new book that my dad has just come
out with it’s the sequel to kingdom man
and so you want to walk away with that
book so that you can rise like the book
is going to call you to rise
also for a gift of any amount you can
get your time is now
that’s my new book my first solo book
i’m excited about it just came out
but it’s going to help you go through
the nuances of understanding how you can
position yourself for the purposes
promises
of god also for a gift of any amount
you can get my brother’s cd altered
and he can sing you all know my brother
can sing so you need to get that cd
so that you can have the opportunity to
praise the lord wherever you are
whenever you can and so that is for you
for a gift
of any amount but listen if you give 75
or more today not only will you get the
things that i just mentioned
but we’re also going to include the
kingdom men rising cd series
and forever starts now cd series to go
along with all the resources
that we just talked about so you’re
going to get so much more
by a gift of 75 or more to the ministry
the ministry continues to need your
support as we continue
to support you with the gospel of jesus
christ you know this is the 40th year
of my dad working alongside and building
up the body of christ with the urban
alternative
and so the urban alternative has done so
much for the community and not just the
community but the entire world
with his radio broadcast and television
broadcast
and so any gift that you give not only
will you be getting a resource
but you’ll be giving to the ministry so
that we can continue to resource the
masses
with the gospel of jesus christ and so
we’re grateful to be able to work
together
today as we encourage each other to be
kingdom
men rising but we’re going to keep
giving stuff away these are the moments
that i love because i love the giveaways
and we got
signed footballs from ben watson
that’s a super bowl champion by the way
we got signed footballs
that we’re going to give away and we’re
going to give them away right now so go
ahead and throw it to me
go ahead let me see it oh yeah
oh yeah you already know what time it is
you know i got hands and here we go
the ben watson signed football and we
got four of them that we’re going to
give away
we’ve already pre-selected winners who
registered at a certain time we were we
were looking at those registrations
and we got four names right here that
i’m going to read and give
these balls away so i want you to listen
to see if your name gets called
i want to i want you to see if your name
gets called okay first we have
jeffrey perkitt jeffrey perkitt i don’t
know where you are
but this ball is about to come find you
i wish i could throw it to you
but we’re virtual so we’re gonna send
you this ball
and i’m just glad that you registered
when you did uh
randall good randall good
you’re getting one of these championship
football sir i hope you’re excited
jumping around in your house right now
but if you have a son with you go ahead
and give it to him be nice to him and
then we have
terrance hitchens terence hutchins i’m
sorry i messed up your name
terrence hutchins that’s all right
listen you’re getting assigned football
benjamin watson okay who else do we have
maurice watson maurice watson my
guy i don’t really know who you are but
that’s all right you still my guy
because we’re in the kingdom men rising
conference and you’re getting this
signed
football we appreciate you registering
appreciate you being a part
of what we have going on here locally
but also nationally as we continue to
grow together so for you
four men congratulations on getting this
giveaway it’s a big one for us and thank
you ben watson
for signing it listen when i wrote the
book your time is now
i was thinking about how important it is
for all men to realize
that your time is right now in ezekiel
22 verse 30 it talks about god looking
for a man but he could find none
and our time is now as men to be the men
that god has created us to be
to no longer sit soaking sour to no
longer just
sit behind our problems and our
obstacles but to move forward in the
call of god on our lives
so that our families can be better so
that our marriages can be better so that
our community can be better
so that our churches can be better
because it was the passivity of adam
in genesis chapter 3 that allowed the
whole world to fall apart
many people just talk about eve holding
the fruit and passing it to adam
but genesis chapter 3 talks about adam
being with her
and he allowed it to happen and there’s
so many things in our culture and in our
personal lives and in our families
that we are allowing to happen when god
is calling us to go forward to the
purposes and promises
and destiny that he has for our life we
should no longer allow
certain things to happen it’s time for
us to step up and step
out to be the men that god has called us
to be i remember
reading joshua chapter one when you turn
the page from deuteronomy
34 to joshua chapter 1 the first word is
now
now means right now now means not later
now means imminent now means it’s time
to get going
they experienced the death of moses in
deuteronomy 34
and then you turn the page from
deuteronomy to joshua one and the first
word is now
i know you’re hurting joshua i know
you’re hurting because
they’ve been mourning for 30 days over
the death of moses and the things
that they lost that has brought them so
far i know it’s tough
that’s why in the book of joshua chapter
one
god tells joshua four times be strong
and courageous
be strong and courageous be strong and
courageous be strong and courageous why
did he have to tell joshua
four times in one chapter to be strong
and courageous
simple because he wasn’t because when he
got that call
after experience that big loss his knees
were weak and his palms were sweaty
he didn’t know how he was going to be
able to move forward after experiencing
so much pain but god made a promise to
him he said everywhere your foot treads
i have already given it to you
that even though you’re experiencing the
pain oh best believe i have a purpose
and i need you to reach out and grab it
right
now understand i know a lot of you are
hurting
i know a lot of you are struggling
whether it’s your marriage whether it’s
your finances whether it’s career
whether it’s purpose whether it’s
destiny
uh whether you just feel like the people
of israel and you’re just stuck in the
wilderness i know
there are those things that you’re
mourning about right now like the people
of israel were mourning
but it’s time for us today as we are
kingdom men rising
to turn the page and when we turn the
page we see that god is saying
right now right now i’m calling you i
know what you’re going through
but even in what you’re going through
i’m still calling you
so it’s time for us men to go to the
next level
he says that he wants us to rise in
chapter one verse two
rise to the next level so it’s time for
us to rise
out of our anxiety and our depression
time for us to rise
out of our loss it’s time for us to rise
to the next level
through the pain and through the morning
that we have experienced
it’s time for us to realize that the
time
is now to go back
to life let’s go
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confusion i breathe in
your truth i
breathe out
all my fear i breathe in
your peace
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confusion i
breathe
your truth i
breathe out
all my fear
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behind
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jesus
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is
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because
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is
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depression and all anxiety
they have no power over
me addictions
strongholds and every
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disease
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addiction
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is
no depression
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addictions
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is
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because it is
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is
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jesus
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is
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it’s is you jesus
it’s only you jesus
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bring your shadows
every shackle yeah
and lay them all down lay them all
down at the end
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break your stresses
with every question
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to
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watch what he will
he do the grave then there’s nothing
to create what he
will do
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and lay them all
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that’s what he will do
watch what he will do
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cause it’s coming it’s coming
for you
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foreign
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is
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we will do
get ready
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is
is
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if the grave
there’s nothing too great watch what he
will do oh
watch what he will do
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we’re watching jesus
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no more excuses kingdom men
rising i’m honored to be once again with
the general
one of my heroes dr tony evans
coming out of his coven 19 pandemic here
we are
no more excuses kingdom men
rising for such a time as this this is
the clarion call for each
and every one of us here’s a story that
compels me
i actually lived out a similar portion
of the story
in this past year it stems from ii
chronicles chapter 20
verse 21 this is what they sang
give thanks to the lord his faithful
love
endures forever what if i tell you that
love answers a man’s desperate cry
when a man has a prayer of desperation
a cry of despair what is heaven’s
response love answers
a man’s desperate cry we don’t know what
to do
but we’re looking for you for help
that’s second chronicles
chapter 20 verse 12. let me explain
the bible is full of powerful prayers
that exhibit
unbridled faith for the purpose of
bringing down
heaven to earth as it pertains to
destiny
determination and divine designations
let me give you some prayers moses
prayed show me your glory
caleb prayed give me my mountain
jabez prayed bless me indeed enlarge my
territory
king hezekiah prayed add years to my
life
jesus prayed thine kingdom come
thy will be done yet not every prayer in
scripture comes from a person
a man that stands filled with perfect
faith
or pristine clarity as it pertains to
what to do next the matter of fact i’m
here to tell you
one of the most powerful prayers you can
ever make
is the prayer of desperation a desperate
prayer
indeed have you ever been desperate have
you ever been in a place in your life
where you had no idea what to do next
if so this message is for you if we are
really to rise up
as men of god’s kingdom with no more
excuses
it behooves us to understand there is a
prayer
that god has committed himself according
to the psalmist
to forevermore respond to it is that
prayer of desperation
we don’t know what to do next but we’re
looking
to you for help once upon a time the
people of judah had a king his name was
jehoshaphat
the people of god stood surrounded by
the enemies the mucho malo hombres
vastly outnumbered with no possible
human way
of avoiding annihilation the king
jehoshaphat
made that prayer can you believe that
the king
of god’s people made that prayer i have
no idea what to do next
but you do have you ever been there can
you relate
have you ever been in a place in your
life where you had no idea
what will take place next but only god
could take you out and help you out
july 2020 i lived this moment
in the midst of this kobe 19 pandemic in
the state of california
my entire family was stricken with covet
i was primarily
asymptomatic about 97 98
we contact traced the the variant that
came in it actually came from a friend
of ours
that came in from texas i’m telling you
texans hey
thank you for messing up california
different story for another day
but here we are my family was stricken
with covet and
i was asymptomatic as i just referenced
my son nathan was 100 asymptomatic
my daughter just gave birth to my first
granddaughter mila
her white blood cell count was very low
she ended up in icu barely being able to
breathe
inching closer and closer to the other
side
i found myself just like jehoshaphat god
i have no idea what to do next i’m
driving
on douglas folsom boulevard in granite
bay california i’m a pastor i’m a
preacher
the tomatoes is not entertainment it’s
not hype it’s not rhetoric i have lived
this
i know god his grace to such an extent
that i can’t doubt him
i know he’s real his vicarious atoning
work i’ve experienced it
but man i was driving my jeep wrangler
and i was broken i was broken i couldn’t
line this up and i cried out just like
jehoshaphat god
i have no idea what to do next and to be
very forthright
i wept i wept
i wept i wept
but you see there’s something the bible
clearly lays out regarding
weeping the bible talks about weeping
weeping may tarry for the night
but joy comes with the mourning
psalm 30 verse 5. in other words
men put a smile on your face because
nothing can stop the sun from rising
all of a sudden the spiritual antibodies
kicked in
and god’s promises filled my mouth
some men trust in chariots others trust
in horses
but i trust in the name of the lord our
god
psalm chapter 20 verse 7 i was young but
now i’m old but this i know for certain
i will never ever see the righteous
forsaken no there’s seed begging for
bread
psalm 37 verse 25 and of course romans 8
28
doug quintessential promise god makes
all things work together for the good
of those who love him and are called
according to his purpose
here’s what i discovered as i made the
jehoshaphat prayer
that prayer that prompted love to
intervene
love to speak into me to shine upon me
here’s what i discovered the god that
masters the outcome is the same god that
manages the process
let me repeat that the god of the
outcome is the same god of the process
you have to trust him through the
process as well as
believing him for the outcome either on
this side of eternity
or on the next side of eternity i
discovered
that when your hunger is greater than
your fear
nothing can stop you when your integrity
is more important in your influence
nothing can stop you when your praise
speaks louder than
your pain nothing can stop you
and what’s behind you when what’s behind
you is under the blood of jesus
what’s in front of you cannot be stopped
i discovered
that we make it this far i made it this
far we’ve made it this far
not because we perfectly held on to god
but because
god perfectly held on to us we’ve made
it this far
even coming out of this cobin 19
pandemic and all the
the social political racial angst
everything we’ve seen in the past 14 15
months how did we make it
we made it this far not because our
faith is so efficient
but rather because his grace is always
sufficient
we made it this far because god does
great things of broken pieces
we made it this far because we’ve
learned that when life throws us rocks
we build an altar first corinthians 15
10
by the grace of god i am what i am
i don’t know what to do next jehoshaphat
prayed
that desperate clarion called that
desperate prayer
coming from a man who is in leadership i
don’t know what to do next
but you do one of the most beautiful
prayers you could ever make
is a confessional declaration disrupting
every notion of self-dependency
opens the portal for divine
interruption let me repeat that
i don’t know what to do may arguably be
the most beautiful prayer we can ever
make a confessional
declaration disrupting every notion of
self-dependency
opening the portal for divine
interruption love not only answers a
desperate prayer
a desperate cry but number two love
always sends the holy spirit let me read
it
he made this prayer second chronicles 20
verse 12
verse 13 says all the men of judah stood
before the lord
and the spirit of the lord came upon
one of the men standing there one of the
men
who stood there impacted with the spirit
of the living god
love answers a desperate man’s prayer
and love will always send the holy
spirit
the spirit of the lord came the spirit
of the lord came
the spirit of the lord came let us be
clear and i must
be clear about this to clear up some of
the ambiguity and
and confusion out there the holy spirit
is not a denomination
the holy spirit is not a network the
holy spirit is not an emotion
the holy spirit is way beyond an
experience the holy spirit is not a
moment
the holy spirit is not a service a
conference an ideology
a philosophy or an app the holy spirit
is the active presence of god
here on earth the holy spirit is the
third person
of the trinity in charge of the church
today
the holy spirit is the greatest
influencer
with the greatest amount of followers on
the planet today
the holy spirit who is the spirit of
christ the same spirit that raised
jesus from the dead romans 8 11 if
you’re born again
and jesus is lord of your life that same
identical holy spirit lives inside of
you
that’s what the apostle paul wrote about
the holy spirit romans 8 11
the same identical not a clone not a
derivative
not some sort of similar spirit the same
identical spirit
that raised jesus from the dead lives
inside of you which means what
if via the conduit of that spirit jesus
came out of the tomb
you can come out of everything did you
hear that
if you have the same spirit that took
jesus out
you can come out of everything you can
come out of fear
anxiety depression sin shame
condemnation consternation whatever it
may be
the spirit of god has the power to take
you out of it
the holy spirit the holy spirit is in
texas
the holy spirit is in oklahoma and
believe it or not i come from california
this may be difficult for some of y’all
to believe but the holy spirit is moving
in california
my friends jokingly make fun of me when
i say god is moving in california i want
i want to be clear about this listen to
me carefully there’s not
an executive order a supreme court
decision
a legislative initiative a law or a
social media campaign
that has the power to stop the holy
spirit from moving upon the face of the
earth
nothing can stop god’s spirit let me
repeat that
there’s not an executive order a supreme
court decision
a legislative initiative a law or a
social media campaign
that has the power to stop the holy
spirit
from moving upon the face of the earth
nothing
can stop god’s spirit you can’t cancel
the holy spirit
you can’t boycott the holy spirit and
you can’t de-platform
the holy spirit just like jehoshaphat
today
god’s people stand surrounded we stand
surrounded
by moral ideological cultural and
spiritual enemies
of truth love faith and grace but let
not your heart be troubled
john 3 16 god so loved first
john 4 16 god is love and when we are
surrounded
by god who is love he sends the holy
spirit
he does a man makes
a desperate cry out for help
god who is love responds
and he sends whom the holy spirit
so what do i believe is next not
speaking out of the womb of emotional
exuberance
but committed to biblical orthodoxy the
centrality of christ
and the advancement of the kingdom of
heaven here on earth
as dr tony evans has instructed us for
so many years
what do i believe i wholeheartedly
believe and it’s not being optimistic
here
it’s just being biblical about it i
believe
that the next thing to fill the earth
will not be covered 20 21
or 22. the next thing to fill the earth
will be an awakening
that will make the jesus movement look
like an opening act
i believe we’re about to see god’s
spirit move upon the face of the earth
like never before and you man of god
are an integral part of this next
chapter
so don’t drink the kool-aid don’t drink
the kool-aid of
abc nbc cbs cnn msnbc and we don’t
discriminate here
univisioni telemundo don’t drink the
kool-aid
what do you mean don’t drink don’t
believe the hype what does that mean
i believe what acts 2 17 says not what
any news source may say
regarding what’s next and what’s next in
the last days god says
i will pour out my spirit
upon all people your sons and daughters
will prophesy
your young men will see visions and your
old men will dream dreams
get ready get ready and i do believe get
ready
turn your porch light on your prodigal
sons and daughters are coming back home
love love answers a desperate
man’s cry for help love sends
to men who are rising up with no more
excuses
his precious holy spirit and love
fights for you love fights for you
he said listen all you people of judah
and jerusalem
listen king jehoshaphat this is what the
lord says
do not be afraid do not be discouraged
by this mighty army for the battle is
not yours
but god’s second chronicles 2015
but god but god
but god conjunction junction
what’s your function that’s but right
there
but god don’t be afraid don’t be
discouraged
the battle is not yours it belongs to
god
god is with you god is in you god is for
you the battle belongs to god i want you
to hear me
the battle belongs to god whatever
you’re
battling right now whatever you’re
confronting right now whatever it may be
internal external financial emotional
spiritual
it may be in your relationship in your
marriage with your children
regarding your career whatever it may be
the battle belongs to god
the battle between your mind and your
mantle
belongs to god the battle between your
flesh and your spirit
belongs to god the battle between your
past and your future
belongs to god the battle between the
prophetic
and the pathetic belongs to god
the battle between generational bondage
and supernatural freedom
belongs to god the battle between your
drama
and your destiny belongs to god
please please stop saying it’s yours
stop texting is yours stop posting is
yours
stop thinking is yours it’s not yours
it belongs to god let me tell you what
does belong to you
to the vicarious atoning work of jesus
through his crucifixion and his
resurrection when you receive him
when you confess with your mouth and
believe in your heart let me tell you
what is yours
his righteousness second corinthians 5
21
his peace according to philippians
chapter 1 verse 2
his joy john 15 11
eternal life that only christ can give
john 3 16
new life second corinthians 5 17
abundant
life john 10 10. so what’s yours
let me tell you what’s mine what is mine
is a destiny
that cannot be stopped a dream that
cannot be quenched
and a designation that cannot be undone
saved by grace love
love love answers a man’s desperate cry
love sends the holy spirit love
fights for you and love wins the war
you heard me correctly love wins the war
verse 21
after consulting the people the king
appointed singers to walk ahead of the
army
singing to the lord and praising him for
his holy splendor and this is what they
sang
give thanks to the lord his faithful
love
endures forever his faithful love
endures forever throughout the myriad
expressions of love in all of human
history
there exists only one perfect
unadulterated unbridled
unprecedented expression of love friends
men of god listen carefully this love
that i’ve been preaching about
for the past minutes for the past 15
plus minutes this love this radical
transformative beautiful truth-telling
grace-filled redemptive sanctifying
righteous love this love
cannot be defined by culture this love
cannot be legislated by politicians
this love cannot be captivated by
ideologies or societal trends
this love is not a variable this love
is a constant this love is more than a
construct an emotion an idea or a
philosophy
this love is a being this love is a
person
the love that i’m talking about is the
love that said let there be light
this love clothed adam and eve after the
wall
this love stood by moses in the desert
as he saw the others proceed to the
promise
this love empowered samson in the midst
of a coliseum
redeeming his failure this love took
gideon out of the threshing floor and
restored for david
the joy of his salvation this love
was born in a manger baptized in the
jordan
this love changed water into wine
fishermen into fisher of men
and sinners into saints this love walked
on water turned tables and broke
bread this love told zacchaeus to come
down
lazarus to come forth and to the woman
of the well this love said go
and sin no more this love died on the
cross
and on the third day on the third day
on the third day this love
resurrected this love ascended
this love sent the holy spirit and get
ready for this
this love is coming back again
for you and when we embrace this love
the love of god the love that is god we
are driven compelled required
and commanded to love one another
that’s what we’re going to do no more
excuses with this love
the love that answers your desperate
prayer your desperate cry
the love that sends the holy spirit the
love that fights for you and the love
that wins the war
with that love we will love one another
with that love whoo we will
we will see the coming together of what
the lamb died for on the cross
when we love one another we bless those
that curse us we forgive those that
condemn us
and we lift up those that attempt to
break us down
it’s crazy love it’s time for you and i
to rise up with no more excuses with
this
love that answers a desperate man’s
prayer and cry
let’s do this let’s bring good news to
the poor
let’s fulfill the great commission make
disciples equip the saints
and worship god in spirit and in truth
with this
love we can literally change the world
love changes everything on the fourth
day they gathered in the valley of
blessing
which god has named that day because the
people praised and
thanked the lord there it is still
called the valley of blessing today
so god shows up love shows up and fights
for this man of god who made and issued
a call a cry of desperation once again
love answers a man’s desperate cry for
help
love sends the holy spirit love fights
for you
love wins the war and the final point
the five stones here
love changes everything what do you mean
the valley that was meant to be the
valley of defeat
had a new name acquired a new name when
god showed up
it’s now called the valley of blessing
are you ready for this
get ready men of god get ready as we
come out of this cobin 19 pandemic i am
excited
i’m telling you get ready we’re about to
see the flipping of the proverbial
script
what does that mean instead of riot’s
revival
instead of lockdowns open heavens
instead of strife
unity instead of hatred love instead of
relativism
truth instead of confrontations
conversations
instead of political affiliations
prophetic designations
and instead of storming the capital
we’re about to storm the gates of hell
in the name of jesus love
changes everything this love
demands that we reconcile our
eschatology with our missiology
which means what we do believe jesus is
coming
but he’s not coming back for a broken
church a whining church
a depressed church a fearful church a
politically correct church
a comfortable church or a dying church
he’s coming back for a triumphant
holy victorious thriving church
let’s do this with the love of god
let’s change the world around us i made
that cry
driving my jeep wrangler i made that cry
just like jehoshaphat
and god by his grace for his namesake
intervened and he flipped the script
in my family with great empathy for
those who did not have a similar outcome
on this side of eternity
but i understood this even regardless
with great due difference of the outcome
i understood that god will always
answer a man’s desperate cry for help
i don’t know what to do next but you do
love love answers your prayers
so today i am believing that driven by
love
with no more excuses men of god’s
kingdom will rise up
and we will change the world around us
and if we do this according to the word
of god
our children will not inherit our sins
our children will inherit our blessings
our children will not inherit our
mistakes our children will inherit
our mantles i believe that so get ready
with this love let’s do something
together
in jesus name for the glory of god
are you ready men let’s go change the
world
[Music]
listen you can’t tell me that that word
didn’t bless you the way that it blessed
me love
wins the war if we learn to love like
christ loved us
if we learn to demonstrate that love
that even while someone’s a center
against us the bible says love your
enemies
that’s how we win so i want to thank
sammy rodriguez right now
for that blessed word that he just gave
us i’m so excited about that word and
how we can use it
i’m also excited right now because as we
continue
there are some giveaways that i have for
you there are some giveaways that i have
and the giveaway
is the kingdom men rising book we got
signed copies
that we’re about to give away right now
to four
blessed men who are watching this right
now and so i’m going to call your name
out go ahead and get the drum roll on
your kitchen table
because it’s about to come to you let’s
go winner number one is chris
sledge chris congratulations from
wherever you
are this book is about to come to your
house we’re gonna put it in the mail for
you
winner number two kenneth guyton kenneth
my guy you just won this book is on its
way
to your house signed copy winner number
three
david collins david it’s coming to you
sir
winner number four and the final winner
drum roll please kitchen tables
matthew white matthew this book
is coming to you signed copy of kingdom
men
rising it’s time to rise up and as we
talk about
rising up which we’ve been talking about
this whole conference
this is where we go to another
level i can’t wait for this moment right
now
because this is what i’ve been taught my
whole life by this man
to go to another level to rise up
to go to the next level that god is
calling me in my life as a son
and i know my siblings would say the
same thing and i know my mom
if she was here would be saying the
exact same thing because every night
around the kitchen table he would open
up his word
and he would teach us how to rise up and
i’m talking about not just
as a preacher but as a father the legacy
that he is leaving behind in the legacy
that he continues
to carry with over 51 years of preaching
over 45 years of local ministry 40 years
of national ministry he’s been doing
this
telling men and women alike to rise up
and today he’s going to do just that but
i want you to know
before we go to my dad dr tony evans i
want you to know
that this is not just something that he
preaches coming from a son
who sat in this front row all my life
i’m letting you know that when i went
home what he preaches
is exactly what he lived men
it’s time to rise
wake up men you’re more than a job title
you’re greater than the balance in the
bank status fades
but character and courage leave a legacy
that lasts
don’t let your yesterdays define your
tomorrow you were made for much more
look ahead not behind you eyes forward
all god has for you is there for you
right now
but you’ve got to go and get it focus
and faith are what’s needed right now
well i hope you’ve enjoyed and been
blessed by the conference so far
we appreciate my good friends ben watson
sammy rodriguez and of course my two
sons jonathan evans anthony evans for
putting together this special special
time for men
it is our goal in the no more excuses
men’s conference to challenge men
to the next level of biblical manhood
to become kingdom men and in this year’s
emphasis
kingdom men rising i’m excited about the
new book i’m excited about the
uh the the impact it’s going to make in
challenging men
to not only become kingdom men but to
become
influencers as kingdom men in the lives
of other young boys and young men
who desperately need to know what it
looks like
to be a real man god’s kind of man a man
of life and a man of impact
and a man of cultural transformation so
thanks for joining us so far and we
we we’re not quite finished yet we’re
going to believe god to
close us out and to take us further in
understanding what it means
to follow christ as a man
now you know uh we are living in a time
when we are the visiting team
christians are the visiting team
christian men
we’re the visiting team there used to be
a time
when christian men were the home team
that’s because
the crowd was on our side they shared
christian values
they shared a judeo-christian ethic
they shared a respect for god jesus and
the bible
and a christian worldview would be
applauded and appreciated
and even people who didn’t embrace it
would at least
respect it but we’ve become the visiting
team
in this post-modern culture
that has rejected the values of god’s
word
we’re no longer being applauded and
cheered
we’re often being booed and rejected
if you are a christian man today and you
are serious
about your faith you’re the visiting
team
the crowd is no longer on your side or
mine
uh the acceptance that you used to know
enjoy and appreciate
uh just won’t be there at least it won’t
be there to the same degree you’re used
to it
we are the visiting team but you know
something
in a football game the visiting team
is still expected to score in fact
the visiting team is still expected to
win just because
the crowd is booing you and the refs
aren’t supporting you
and there’s another team against you
doesn’t mean you walk off the field
throw in the towel and decide not to
play the game
no you’ve got to up the game because
you’re still
expected to win away from home
and that means that what we need is
kingdom men
rising rising to the occasion
of representing god in a culture that no
longer embraces him
embraces his word yeah they may
reference him but he’s no longer the
standard
by which decisions are made it’s time
for kingdom men to rise
if i was to pick one verse one verse in
all of the bible that defined
and summarized kingdom
men what it means to be a kingdom man
and what it means to be kingdom men
rising
that verse would be ezra chapter 10
verse 4. let me read it to you
it says arise for this matter is your
responsibility
but we will be with you be courageous
and act let me read it again arise
for this matter is your responsibility
but we will be with you be courageous
and act let’s review what a kingdom man
is a kingdom man is a male
who is consistently operating
under the lordship of jesus christ it’s
a male who has made the decision
to be responsible underneath the rule
of god where god rules him overrules him
guides him and directs him and where he
submits to that divine authority
in and over his life
in this verse in ezra chapter 10 verse 4
what we are finding is there’s a problem
in the culture
there’s a problem in the culture and
that is that the men
have compromised when you read chapter
10
for example he says that the men
have been unfaithful to god in verse 2.
they’ve married foreign women from the
peoples of the land
he says you’ve compromised as men you’ve
compromised in your morals you’ve
compromised in your relationship
and you’ve compromised by buying into
the secular culture
one of the reasons why we are the
visiting team
is that we are now operating in the
secular culture
when operating in the secular society we
have adopted
the values of this world order to define
our maleness and our manhood
and that compromise has brought
devastating results
in every category of life
in the areas of our personal lives in
the areas of
family breakdown divorce abandonment
single parents
generation of women with no one to marry
it’s demonstrated itself in churches
that have to overly depend on
the women because the men are missing in
action and it most certainly has
demonstrated
itself in the culture with the
redefinition of gender it’s
demonstrated itself with crime and
terrorism
and all manner of vitriol and
and hatred and racial strife cultural
strife
class strife political strife one
pandemic on top of
another pandemic and that boils down
to one overarching fact
and that is god can’t find enough men
to get the job done as we regularly
quote for me
ezekiel chapter 22 verse 30 god says i
look for a man
so that i would not have to curse the
land but i could find none
so the land got cursed because the men
were missing in
action well here we find the men of
compromise
they’ve decided that they’re going to be
like
everybody else they’re not going to rise
to the occasion of what it means
to follow god in spite of what everybody
else decides to do
and so ezra chapter 10 verse 4 says
arise in other words get up
in other words no more sleep no more
snoring
no more passivity no more
uh just playing church
and playing christianity he says get up
now it’s interesting why he’s saying get
up
because in chapter 9
the previous chapter ezra the priest
has been kneeling
it says in verse five i fell on my knees
and stretched out my hands to the lord
my god
he says our situation is bad if you read
the whole prayer
in chapter nine he says we’re desperate
situation
families in disarray stuff is crazy
men have compromised he says and i’m
just
god we need help so he’s now
on his knees that’s that’s where you
start if you’re going to be a kingdom
man rising you’ve got to start by being
a kingdom man kneeling
going before god and he confesses his
sins he confesses the sins of the people
he confesses the sins of himself he
confesses the fact we
have failed you because god will not
allow you to rise if he can’t get you to
kneel
that is to surrender to the lordship of
god
he surrenders to the rule of god when
god called the men in exodus 34 to meet
with him
he was calling them to surrender to his
rule
so anything else you want to do if you
are not surrendered to god
then don’t be surprised that you won’t
be able to get up and get anything done
he says i’m on my knees first
but now in verse 4 of chapter 10 he says
get up
it’s time to go to work start on your
knees but don’t stay on your knees
don’t skip your knees but don’t reside
there
get up it’s time to get going
because the culture is declining
families are disintegrating children are
without
direction and destiny he says arise
it’s time to get the job done now why
does he tell him to arise
well he says in verse 4 because it’s
your responsibility
if you follow me on anything related to
being a kingdom man it boils down to
responsibility
the bible says that adam was responsible
now eve got it started because he
listened to the serpent
obeyed the serpent and tempted adam
but when god came looking for who he was
going to blame
he says in genesis 3 adam where are you
when the bible looks at the human race
in romans chapter 5 it says in adam
all die when it refers to jesus christ
it refers to him as the last
adam you see it all falls on adam
you must accept an overriding principle
if you’re going to be
a kingdom man rising and that
responsibility simply is
it’s your responsibility ezra 10 4 says
it is your responsibility i’m not saying
it’s all your fault
don’t misunderstand me i’m saying it’s
your responsibility
it’s your responsibility to lead your
family
it’s your responsibility to raise your
children it’s your responsibility to be
the spiritual head of your home
and to guide your wife spiritually it’s
your responsibility
to have an influence in the culture not
because it’s all your fault
but it is your responsibility and our
tragedy today
is that we’re not getting enough men to
rise
to the responsibility to fix
what’s broken even if you didn’t break
it
you’re responsible to get it fixed so if
your wife’s not
being all that she should be it may be
her fault it’s your responsibility
if your children are in rebellion it may
be their fault
but it’s your responsibility if the
church is not working right it may not
be your fault
it’s just your responsibility and if the
culture has gone crazy and lost its mind
it may not be your fault but it is
your responsibility because god is
looking for men to
own it not to come up with excuses
for why it’s not getting done
he says it is your responsibility which
means you got to get up
you can’t be staying in bed you can’t be
just uh
uh uh faking it till you make it no
you’ve got to own it
because that’s what kingdom men do when
they rise to the occasion
it’s your responsibility it reminds me
of
a husband who was failing to take
responsibility he was blaming the white
blaming the kids
blaming everybody else blaming the
culture blaming what’s wrong in the
world he’s just blaming everybody
so his wife looked at him one day and
said look look
you better put on your big boy pants
and if you’re not willing to put on your
big boy pants i’ll give you
a pair of mine for you to wear because
that’s what a lot of men are facing
right now they refuse
to pull up their pants and their wives
their women
have got to take their role and take
their responsibility
because they refuse to own it and rise
to the occasion it’s your responsibility
we have too many men who’ve been
neutered
too many men who who haven’t owned their
manhood i’m not talking about meanness
i’m not talking about domination no
i’m talking about responsibility too
many men who’ve been
spiritually castrated who haven’t owned
their
manhood in terms of their responsibility
too many men who’ve been domesticated
they have not
owned their responsibility underneath
god and so if you’re going to be a
kingdom man rising
then you’re going to have to rise to the
responsibility of manhood as
god defines it not as the culture
defines it not as your posse defines it
not as your friends define it not as the
media defines it
but as god defines it he says it’s your
responsibility he goes on to say in
verse 4
of uh ezra 10 he says you’re gonna have
to be courageous
you’re gonna have to get some guts and
you’re gonna have to you
have to decide that that you’re gonna be
strong
i like the words of first corinthians
chapter 16 verse 13
it says act like a man in other words
stop acting like a punk
stop acting like a chump okay act like a
man
and what does he mean by that his next
phrase says be strong
stop being a weakling stop
throwing in the towel walking off the
field at half time
talking about the other team is hitting
me too hard tackling me too hard
uh they won’t they won’t let me run the
ball and they won’t let me score uh-uh
that’s that’s the that’s the statement
of a chump that’s somebody
who doesn’t believe that they are
winners he says no act like a man in
first corinthians
16 verse 13. today we have too many
passive men
and i’m not telling my personality i’m
talking about not owning up
to the strength required to be a kingdom
man
rising what got adam in trouble was his
passivity
when satan talked to eve and eve brought
him the fruit
instead of him standing up based on what
god said
he chomped down punked out
based on what was being said around him
by the devil by his wife and it
overruled god
when god gave instruction to adam eve
had not even been created yet
why because god expected adam to be
biblically spiritually responsible and
this is more than saying grace before
you eat
this is tenaciously holding in love
in kindness to god’s word as
the standard of how you operate and if
that word doesn’t have any authority
over you
then that means you’re not a kingdom man
you’re a cultural man
you may be a popular man but you’re not
a biblical man you’re not
and you can’t rise to the occasion of
what you’re being called on
which is why there’s so much chaos in
the world today he says
be courageous let me tell you something
about jellyfish
jellyfish have no backbone okay you ever
been in the ocean and
been stung by jellyfish you know
jellyfish
don’t have backbones so what do they do
float
jellyfish float they just kind of wander
around
because they don’t have any backbone
they don’t have anything to hold them
steady
and hold them strong okay but now they
will hurt you
if jellyfish will sting you it will hurt
you
so we’ve got a generation of men who
will hurt you
but that doesn’t mean they’ve got
backbone they’ll sting you
because they’re floating they have no
standard they have no governance they
have no guidance
they have no direction but they’ll hurt
you
they’ll steal from you they’ll they’ll
they’ll jump you
they’ll terrorize you but
they’re floating because they’re jelly
men
they’re not kingdom men rising and so
we want to challenge you to go against
the culture
and ezra he’s saying the men had had had
done what everybody else was doing
thinking like everybody else was
thinking
they weren’t kingdom men risings they
were cultural men declining you remember
jesse owens right
jesse owens had the whole crowd against
him hitler was against him
germany was against him the crowd was
against him here is a
here is a man who was called by by
hitler monkey
because uh of his uh uh african-american
said and so they they they they ignored
him
but he decided he was gonna rise to the
occasion
he wasn’t gonna let everything happening
around him or what people were saying
about him
determine what he did so he got out on
that track and he
blew stuff away why because he wasn’t
listening to all those voices
he knew who he was and he functioned
accordingly
even when being fully rejected by the
environment
in germany where he found himself so it
is we need kingdom men who rise
in spite of what the culture says a man
is in spite of
how you’re being put down rejected in
spite of
how people are are relating to you you
know you you
you’re operating on a different standard
you’re running a different race
and you’re running to win he says i want
you to be
courageous not a passive man he says
act he says be courageous
and act don’t be courageous and talk
don’t be courageous and woof
don’t be courageous and mutter he says
be courageous and let’s get something
done
let’s let’s get going here in other
words what you gonna do
act like a man because anybody say i’m
the king of my castle
i’m the man okay all that’s noise
okay i want to see what your feet are
doing
god wants to see what your feet are
doing are you
acting in fulfillment of god’s word are
you acting in fulfillment of leading
your family
are you leading in devotions are you
guiding your family to church or do they
have to wake you up and ask you are you
going today
are you active in the ministry of your
church
are you at the pta meetings uh yes the
woman can help but they shouldn’t be
replacing you
he says i need you to act
i need you to take responsibility
if you want to see god move
then you must move you must act
we must act we we’ve got to show a
difference
not verbalize one we need sight and
sound not just sound
people can your wife can your children
can your posse
can your church look at you and say look
at what that man is doing
look at his action look at that kingdom
man rising
to the occasion that is desperately
calling for
men to step out publicly and step
forwardly yes
in humility yes in love
yes in caring but also in clarity
in other words there shouldn’t be a an
uncertain sound that is if you’re going
to be
a kingdom man he says act
he said something else in this verse i
love this he says
and we will be with you
he says and we will be with you in other
words you don’t do this by yourself
we’re gonna have a company of men who
gonna hang out with you
in other words this is not being a lone
ranger christian yes there is personal
responsibility but you need to be part
of a group of men
who will own that responsibility with
you
to whom you can be accountable whom you
can be responsible
for them to encourage you for for for
you to encourage
them men who you are mentoring men who
are mentoring you
a court of three the bible says it’s not
easily easily broken
so that at least at a minimum should be
two other men
to whom you relate your manhood to
so that we can hold each other up as we
try to
overcome all the pressures that we are
facing
he says we will be with you
it reminds me of the story of the pygmy
who was standing over the rhinoceros
the pygmy is standing over the
rhinoceros the rhinoceros has been
killed
and he’s standing over him and a hunter
came and saw this little pygmy
standing over this huge rhinoceros he
says
to the pygmy did you kill this
rhinoceros
he said i sure did he says you killed
this rhinoceros he said
yeah he said well how did you kill this
huge beast
how did you kill this rhinoceros he says
well i killed this rhinoceros with my
club
you killed a rhinoceros with a club
he said i need to see this how big is
your club
oh he said i got 100 dudes in my club
how many are in your club cause we’re
dealing with a rhinoceros situation
in the culture everywhere the schools
are falling apart
you see the politics are in chaos that’s
because we don’t have kingdom in rising
we got
we got kingdom men floating and we got
we got well we got men floating
who have not yet become kingdom men
because they’re not rising
to god’s definition of manhood and god’s
definition of manhood is a male
who has accepted the responsibility to
operate under divine rule
in every area of his life he doesn’t
pick and choose
god rules over all god corrects him
guides him
impacts him inspires him challenges him
so it’s time now
for kingdom in the rise and for kingdom
men to take
their stand and you can’t do that as a
lone ranger you can impact
your personal environment but we’ve got
bigger than
just your personal environment now we
are now dealing with
national and cultural collapse
we are dealing with the devolution of a
nation
you’re watching your nation destroyed
in front of your eyes you’re watching
that
so you either gonna step back and say
well
what will be will be or
i’m going to meet my responsibility and
me and my posse
you know because we will be with you you
know we got too many lone ranger
christians every
it reminds me of you know the story of
uh
muhammad ali is on the plane true story
i’m told
and he’s sitting on the plane and the
student comes by and says mr ali
will you will you buckle your seatbelt
she came back a few minutes later they
wanted to take off she said mr ali you
haven’t buckled your teeth seat belt
would you please buckle your seatbelt
she came back a minute later
he still hadn’t buckled his seatbelt mr
ali please we need to take off you need
to buckle your seatbelt
it’s reported that ali said
superman don’t need no seat belt to
which the stewardess said
well superman don’t need no plane so
buckle your seatbelt all right
see you have to understand you got
limitations
and you can’t do everything on your own
there are certain things you must do to
fulfill your personal responsibility
but then there are collective things we
must do because
no man is an island in himself he says
we will be with you which is why
every man needs to be a functioning part
of a local church
a functioning part of a men’s ministry a
functioning part of a local connection
every man must own that
with other men your pastor shouldn’t be
just looking for
uh uh uh ladies to do what men
should do the children’s ministry the
boys in the children ministry
shouldn’t only see ladies they should
see some men going through there and
men in the youth ministry and and
college ministry
uh so so so that they see what a real
man looks like
and knows who they ought to be emulating
he says that we will be with you
so what does this mean well
the statement is made in ezra chapter 10
verse 3 so now let us make a covenant
with our god let us make a covenant
now if you’ve heard me talk about
kingdom then you’ve heard me talk about
covenant
a covenant is a divinely created
relational bond
a divinely created relational bond
covenants are official they’re not
casual which is why you can’t be
shacking
all right you can’t be just shacking
with somebody okay
because that means you’re not covenanted
all right you get married
because it’s legal it has accountability
tied to it
now the reason why you covenant
is that god operates his kingdom
with his covenant and the reason that
you want to covenant
is because it is through the covenant
that god expresses his dominion
let me say that again because far too
many men don’t get it don’t get it don’t
get it don’t get did you hear me don’t
get it
a covenant is a divinely created
relational bond
through which god expresses his kingdom
authority and dominion
for example uh when when you look at the
scripture
and you see what god has to say in for
example in exodus chapter
uh 34 verse 10 let me read that real
quick because i want you to see
what god has to say he says in exodus
chapter 34
uh verse verse 10 god said behold i am
going
to make a covenant before all your
people i will perform
miracles which have not been produced in
all the earth nor among all the nations
and all the people
among whom you live will see the working
of the lord
for it is a fearful thing that i’m going
to perform
with you he says if you do my covenant
then you’ll see my miracles
why more men sing miracles with their
wives changing
miracles with their children coming back
home miracles and their jobs
miracles and their impact in society
because they refuse the covenant now
they’ll go to church that’s not a
covenant
that’s a visit a covenant is an official
alignment
coming under divine authority if you
don’t come under divine authority
you’re not officially coveted and if
you’re not officially covenanted
then you are missing out on the
supernatural involvement
impact and expression of god working
in through and for your life it is time
for men to covenant that is to
officially place yourself
under divine authority and under divine
rule
that’s how david was able to kill
goliath in first seventeen
he says who’s this uncircumcised
philistine
that’s taunted the armies of the living
god why did he say
uncircumcised because that was the sign
of the covenant
among the jews your way you covenanted
was to circumcise your son
bringing him under divine rule
so he was able to kill big goliath
and exercise dominion over this
monstrosity
in his life because he was under the
covenant and goliath
was not who is this uncircumcised
philistine
and david was able to do something even
the king couldn’t do so
because he didn’t understand how
powerful the covenant
is isn’t that what football teams do
when they go on the field
they get on the field and what do they
say they get in that little circle
before the game
and they say this is our house dominate
okay dominic you hear them saying
dominate why in other words we’re going
to rule this environment
well guess what god wants to give
righteous rule
just rule you’re worried about the
racial problem social problem cultural
problem
but we need some kingdom men to arise so
that god can express
his rule through those men who are
committed
to covenanting with him through coming
under his divine
authority so that we can see god’s rule
exercise in their lives he says and we
will be with you
now some of some of you are saying well
things are really bad yeah you’re right
things don’t look good yeah yeah you’re
right
my wife my wife is she won’t submit
yeah you’re right you know my children
they won’t obey
you show you right yeah we
we uh we you know the job not working
out
i got you i heard that okay
now that you didn’t give me all the
excuses now that you
told me why everything is wrong and you
can add to that whatever you want to add
to it
okay now let’s arise okay let’s arise
let’s get some guts let’s put on our
pants
have some carriage act like men
be strong and let’s get going he says
and here’s why as bad as it was
as difficult as things
looked he goes on to say in ezra chapter
10
these words verse two we’ve been
unfaithful to god married foreign women
from the peoples of the land in other
words we would
we didn’t we didn’t we didn’t compromise
spiritually
in our relationships and then he says
this at the end of verse 2.
yet now there is
hope for israel in spite of this
oh did you hear that no you didn’t hear
let me read it again
yet there is hope for israel
in spite of this we then messed up we
toe ups from the flow
up and there’s still hope
i know things don’t look good when you
look at the news
i know things don’t look good when you
when you when you
see what’s happening in society when you
see
all the collapse i know they don’t look
good
they may not look good for you
personally it doesn’t look like that
marriage can be saved
it doesn’t look like you can heal the
wounds of your sins
from the past because these folks had
sinned they had sinned
it doesn’t look good i got you but yet
verse 2 says but there’s still hope
and what’s going to be the hope he says
the hope
is going to be in the men now unless you
think i’m making that up
that it’s all about the men all about
the men it’s only about the man
you keep getting on the mend i’m hey i’m
just reading what the bible says folks
he says in verse 9 of chapter 10 so all
the men
of judah and benjamin assembled there
verse 16
ezra the priest selected men
verse 17. they finish investigating
all the men hello
i don’t see them about women here except
the women that they’re married
which means he’s talking about the men
again it’s the men the men the men the
men the men the men the men
not because the women aren’t important
not because women don’t have
responsibility
but because you are responsible
ultimately
before god so it’s time for kingdom men
to rise
to rise to the biblical definition of
manhood
to do it responsibly lovingly caringly
humbly but clearly time for kingdom men
rising
you know uh if you go to walmart and you
buy some checkers
you’ll see a crown on top of each
checker
because each checker was created to be
crowned as a king
you know that right each checker was
created
to get to the other side of the board
and be crowned
as a king
but there’s a problem most of the
checkers won’t make it to the other side
of the board
because they’re going to be jumped
they’re going to be jumped
and they’ll never get their crown
you know what determines whether you
jumped or not
whose hand is guiding you because see
there’s a hand guide on this side has a
handguard on that side
and depending upon whose hand is over
you
and who you’re underneath as a checker
determines whether you get to the other
side and when you get to the other side
what do they do crown me
kind of king me and guess what happens
when they put that crown on you
oh you now dominate you can go up and
down the board you can jump all over the
place
you you control what’s happening in the
environment of the board other folk got
to think twice before they move
because they got to move thinking about
you because your impact and influence
will now dominate the environment
because you have been crowned
we got too many men today have been
jumped that’s because they won’t place
themselves on the god’s hand
so that he can move them and and keep
them from being jumped by the devil jump
by the culture
jump by other men jump by situations and
circumstances
but there’s still hope there’s still
hope
because if you decide to be covenanted
unto god
to officially come under his authority
then it’s time to get up rise up
because the world is waiting for kingdom
men
rising let’s pray
father thank you for this conference
thank you for all the men who are
watching listening observing thinking
praying
i repent and i repent with other men who
repent
for allowing the culture to contaminate
us
to cause us to quit when we should be
getting stronger to throw in the towel
when we should be getting back into the
ring
to walk off the field when we ought to
be scoring
crown me crown us so that we dominate
the environment
in a biblical way and bring glory
to the king of kings and lord of lords
raise up kingdom men who rise
thank you for allowing us to be together
as men
to hold one another accountable to rise
to the high calling of what it means
to be a kingdom man in jesus name
amen
well i hope you were blessed encouraged
empowered and challenged by this year’s
no more excuses men’s conference
and that you will be a kingdom man on
the rise
making a difference for his glory and in
the lives of other
men and boys who desperately need
god’s way to look at life so on behalf
of my sons anthony evans jr and jonathan
evans
thank you for being part of this day
yeah and before we go
don’t forget you can support the
ministry of tony evans kingdom and
rising the
global ministry at tonyevins.org and
uh what else are we forgetting about
anything else yeah promise keepers
oh oh absolutely because i am speaking
at promise keepers 2021
july 16th and 17th it’s another
opportunity
for you your sons your fathers your
uncles your brothers
to be a part of the promise keepers big
comeback at texas stadium
they’re going to be at texas stadium but
they’re going to be streaming all over
the world so take advantage of that
opportunity as well that’s wild in and
of itself because we grew up going to
promise keepers that was our special
trip but we got to go we were young and
so to
see you speak on the same stage he did
it’s a it’s an amazing thing listen we
are glad that you are here
with us for this year’s no more excuses
conference and we will see you
next year at no more excuses 22.
you guys be safe god bless you thank you
be good
come on hey you want to sing it with us
daddy no
just give us one
we’ll see you guys next time
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