Responsibility of a Man

• Gen 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” 29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Man came from the image of God. We were given authority over all things of the earth. Creatures along the ground, in the water, as well as plant life. We have to take responsibility over what we have dominion over: the life on earth.

• Gen 2:5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,

We have to work the ground for life to spring up. Being a farmer doesn’t sound appealing, but it’s necessary in order for life to spring up.

• Gen 2:22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

2nd responsibility - To our wife. Our companion came directly from us. We must leave our fathers and join a woman to protect and care for her. She is part of us.

• Ezekiel 22:30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.

3rd responsibility - To our fellow men. We have to be strong for those who are weak. To stand for our wives. To stand in the gap for other men so that they do not see destruction.

• Ps 1:1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,

4th responsibility - take advice with a grain of salt, but also find Godly council. Don’t stay with those walking a wicked path.

• 1Cor 11:3 But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Lastly, we must submit to our authority. Men have to put Christ as our head and follow him. Sure women are submitted to us, but men are ultimately responsible for our families’ actions.

That is what it takes to be a man.