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Welcome to the Daily Blade. The word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit,
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the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts
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are Jobimartin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's
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Alright, welcome to a new week of the Daily Blade. Toxic, masculinity. That's the headline,
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I mean, you guys have seen it all over the place. It's just kind of casually thrown out there as
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an accusation and as an ace of space to end any argument about culture, right? And guys, to be
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honest, I get interviewed on a lot of shows and I almost always get asked about quote-unquote toxic
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masculinity, what it is, what it isn't, how to avoid it. Should we even care about it? So on
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and so forth and for me, the accusation is always pretty amusing. I mean, anytime someone accuses me
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of being toxically masculine or doing something in a toxically masculine category, actually look
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at it as a compliment. I think you should as well. The reason is because I've dealt with people
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like that for so long that I know that they, well, I know what they mean by the term toxic
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masculinity, but they don't even have the foggy idea of why I act the way that I do and why I do
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the things that I do and why I encourage men all over the globe to do the same things.
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The reason isn't toxic masculinity. It's actually a new term that I want to introduce to
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all of you so that you can start using it. Tethered masculinity. Tethered masculinity. So what is it?
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It's actually pretty simple. It's the identity and actions of a man submitted to the authority
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of scripture. That's it. It's the identity and the actions of a man submitted to the authority
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of scripture. So this week on the Daily Blade, we're going to look at five different cultural
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claims, things that the culture would say is toxic masculinity, but we're going to set the record
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straight and show how it is actually tethered masculinity. So cultural claim number one that we're
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going to look at is masculine aggression is toxic. So this is one of the main things thrown out
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there by our atheistic culture that hates God, hates men and resents the blessings that have come
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from men acting like men. They say that men being aggressive, which is shown by their competitiveness,
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their intensity, and sometimes even violence, makes men as a whole dangerous. But with most
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things from our sick and depraved culture, they get the description kind of right, but the prescription
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is completely messed up. So they will say that since men have used their aggression to hurt people
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throughout history, which is obviously insertifiably true, that masculinity in and of itself is toxic
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and should be suppressed if not outright destroyed. But again, what's the theme for this week?
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It's about displaying tethered masculinity. Because here's the difference when men do not tether
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their masculinity to what the Bible says, what God says, then the overwhelming likelihood is that
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they will indeed use their masculine aggression improperly, and it will lead to destruction.
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So what does tethered masculine aggression look like? Let's actually go to John 2, starting in verse
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13, this is right after the wedding in Kena, where Jesus did his first public miracle of turning
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water into wine. The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
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and the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the moneychangers
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sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple with the sheep
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in the oxen, and he poured out the coins of the moneychangers and overturned their tables,
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and he told those who sold pigeons, take these things away, do not make my father's house,
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a house of trade. His disciples remembered that it was written,
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zeal for your house will consume me. So right there, that's the line of Judah. It's premeditated,
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righteous, aggressive violence. Yes, violence. And people will sometimes read this and just
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picture Jesus driving the animals out like, you know, kind of this angry farmer or cowboy,
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but they forget that Jesus drove the people out, not just the animals, and he did it with a whip
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that he made for the occasion. But did Jesus just see something that made a mad and then he
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just decided to go crazy and break stuff and scare people because he had, you know, an uncontrollable
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fit of rage? Well, no, that would have been toxic masculinity. You see, he got angry and express
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his physical righteous aggression because people had to file the temple grounds by scheming and
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stealing in order to make money. Now, super aggro, aggressive guys love that Jesus did this
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at the beginning of his ministry. And they love that Jesus did it again, you know, the week of
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its crucifixion as we see in Matthew 21, Mark 11 and Luke 19. But this wasn't aggression without
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restraint. That's just immaturity. That's toxic. It was aggression under submission to God and
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in defense of his moral mandates. So do you listen to this? Have you bought into the cultural lie
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that your masculine aggression is somehow toxic? If you haven't, have you tethered your masculine
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aggression to God's word and his will for your life? Keep those questions in mind today.
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