Men Like Noah in Days Like Noah — Brian Long

Thank you so much praise team and thank you so much brother Barry for the invitation to come. I've told brother Barry this but I feel I need to say it publicly that he has been used. He doesn't realize how much he's been used as an encouragement to me and in my life and Especially at this time in my life.

I had lunch with brother Barry not too long ago and I left there so Encouraged and so edified and It was the Lord in him that just met me in a very very special way. And I'm very very grateful for him.

I tell you brothers if you're part of this church, you're very very blessed. To have him as a pastor and you and this town is blessed to have a people Who are seeking him and who want his glory and his honor who are lifting up Jesus?

And I just commend you and I thank you so much brother. I thank you for this invitation. I I really don't have words to to tell you how grateful I am. I don't think I've ever experienced this before. I Got here early and I walked through those doors and there was a group of people as a praise team and brother Darren up here praying and I tell you I felt the presence of God and I just sat in that back pew and just thanked God.

You know that makes it so easy to preach. When you come to a place where the people are praying and their expectation is in the Lord. It's in the Lord not in man. And when my name is being lifted up in prayer as I walk in the door, they didn't know I was walking in the door.

But I'm so thankful. Thank you Darren. Thank you praise team very grateful. Very grateful to be here very humble to be here. Ah, we're going to turn to Matthew chapter 24. I Believe God has put a message on my heart for us tonight.

The Return of Christ and the Days of Noah

Matthew chapter 24. Men like Noah in days like Noah's. Men like Noah in days like Noah's. Matthew chapter 24. We'll begin reading in verse 36. These of course are all the words of the Lord Jesus Christ.

But of that day and hour knoweth no man. No, not the angels of heaven, but my father only. But as the days of Noah were So shall also the coming of the Son of Man be for as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking Marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark and knew not until the flood came and Took them all away.

So shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. Then shall to be in the field the one shall be taken and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill. The one shall be taken and the other left.

Watch therefore for you know, not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this that if the good man of the house had known and what watch the thief would come he would have watched and Would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Therefore be also ready. For in such an hour as you think not the Son of Man cometh. Let's pray together. Father, I thank you for the man the men that you have gathered here tonight. I Thank you for the expectation that is in this room in the hearts of these men an expectation to meet with you God and Our expectation is in you alone Lord Jesus.

You are everything you are Lord of all and you are a God who speaks to your people and We praise you tonight father that there's not a single one of us men gathered here tonight by accident or coincidence you have drawn us together and You want to do a special work in our hearts tonight you want to speak a direct and specific word to each and every one of our hearts and I pray my God that your word would go forth with power and Authority that you would speak to the depths of every one of our hearts Lord and that we would be changed.

That you would make us men of God Lord that you would conform us to the likeness of your son. We lift up your name in this house Lord Jesus and we ask you to be glorified and to be exalted and to put a fresh expectation and awakening in our hearts of Longing for your return of being ready for your return and of occupying Lord until you come.

Help me tonight. I pray in Jesus name. Amen. Verse 36 the Lord says but of that day that day. What day is he talking about? That day of the glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is coming a day brothers.

There is coming a day When Jesus Christ will part these skies and he will come in the fullness of his glory and the fullness of his majesty. He is coming again. He is coming again for his church. He's coming again for his people.

He's coming again to judge the world in righteousness. He promised that he would come again. He said I'm going away and if I go away So I'm going to prepare a place for you. And if I go away, I'm coming back.

I'm coming back to get you. Jesus is coming again that day. It's a day that much of the church honestly has lost the wonder of as we were speaking of earth has lost the Expectation of if you ask most Christians today, do they believe that Jesus Christ is coming again?

They'll say yes, of course I believe that that's what the Bible says. But if you ask them, do you believe he can come today? Do you believe Jesus Christ could come at any moment? Do we believe that he could come tonight?

And there are many who's lost that expectation and Lost that that real faith that belief that he could come at any moment. But I want to tell you brothers he can come at any moment. He can come at any hour.

In fact those that hour when most people think he's not going to come because that's in the heart of many. Well, I know he could I know he's coming but I don't think he's coming tonight. I don't think he's coming tomorrow at such an hour as you think not.

He said the Son of Man cometh that day that day of the glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ when he will descend from heaven with the shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trumpet call of God and he will come and get his church that day knows no man.

Not even the angels of heaven, but he said my father only. But the Lord says that day will be the days preceding that day will be. Like the days of Noah notice what he says there in verse 37, but as the days of Noah were.

So shall also the coming of the Son of Man be as the days of Noah were. So what was it like in Noah's day? Brothers, it was an evil day. It was an evil day in the days of Noah. Dark dark days evil days in fact Genesis chapter 6 tells us that the earth was corrupt in God's sight and full of violence and That all the people on the earth had corrupted their own ways so much so that even every Imagination of the thoughts and the intents and the heart of man was only evil continually.

They were evil days. Sexual perversion and immorality were rampant. And they continue to ignore God and to turn their backs upon God even to the point that God finally says enough. Enough is enough and God says my spirit shall not only always strive with man.

Now God is patient. He is far more patient than we can even perceive him to be because he is not willing that any should perish. But there comes a time When evil continue Continues and it continues to escalate there comes a time when God says finally says enough My spirit shall not always strive with man and that day is coming.

God said my spirit shall not always strive with man. His days will be a hundred and twenty years. The Bible says that God was grieved that he had made man and that his heart was filled with pain. That verse has has arrested my heart so many times.

We belong to a God and we serve a God who knows grief. Who experiences grief and when he sees? His creation men who were made in his image turning their backs on him and living in sin and rebellion. He hurts.

He grieves. He grieves to a greater degree than even a man could grieve who has had to bury his wife or His child. I don't know what grief could be greater than that. But God has a grief that is greater than that brothers and it's when he sees those who are called by his name.

Turn away from him and continue in sin. He grieves he said his heart was filled with pain and what he saw going on in the days of Noah. That day when God said he he couldn't and he wouldn't let it go on.

He said I'm going to put an end to all people. I'm going to destroy the earth and everyone on it. God pronounced a judgment that would cover the whole earth. He pronounced judgment upon all people and everything in the earth that is except for one man.

And this is amazing one man who found grace and favor in the sight of God. For in the midst of these dark evil days and a soon coming judgment that God pronounced upon the whole earth. Comes this wonderful verse in Genesis chapter 6 verse 8.

After the pronouncement of the evil days the judgment to come all these things. We come to Genesis chapter 6 verse 8 and we read these two words but Noah. But Noah, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

You see God found a man. He found a man, but Noah and in these evil days in which we live God still looks for a man. Even one man upon whom he can show his grace in his favor in the midst of a crooked and perverse world.

One man who is willing to be set apart. One even one man who is willing to simply trust and obey God. One man who is willing to look to Jesus and to follow him in his ways even though it's going Against the ways of the world and even though he may stand alone God is looking for that man.

He's looking for such a man and the question tonight is Who will answer that call? Will you answer that call to be that man to be like Noah in days like Noah's? For us to be such a man I'm going to give you there's seven ups.

Not the seven up that you drink but seven ups that the Lord gave me. I really believe he gave me to share with you tonight. I've never preached this before. God has called us to wake up. God has called us to get up.

God has called us to clean up. God has called us to stand up. God has called us to build up. God has called us never to give up and God has called us to look up because our redemption draweth nigh. We'll look at each one.

Waking Up to the Imminent Judgment

First of all, we've got to wake up to be a man. Like Noah in the days of like Noah's we've got to wake up. Noah had a wake-up call. He had to wake up to his call and he had to wake up to the warning that judgment was coming.

Judgment is coming. Noah heard the alarm on God's clock and he woke up. The alarm sounded something like this Genesis chapter 6 verse 3. And the Lord said my spirit shall not always strive with man for that He is also flesh yet.

His day shall be a hundred and twenty years. That's an alarm. That's supposed to wake us up and it woke up Noah. God is saying 120 years. That's all this left 120 years. My spirit shall not always strive with man.

That alarm. Sounded something like this verse 7 of chapter 6 and the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth. Both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Verse 13 and God said unto Noah the end of all flesh has come before me for the earth is filled with violence. Through them and behold, I will deliver. I will destroy them with the earth. Now build an ark.

That's the alarm God. Noah heard the voice of God and it awakened his soul. He woke up. Hey things can't go on as usual. Judgment is coming. God has spoken to me. God has something for me to do. The time is short and he awakened he woke up.

Have you heard the alarm? Have you heard God's alarm? It sounds something like this Jesus Christ again saying. But of that day and hour knoweth no man. Not even the angels of heaven, but my father only watch therefore for you do not know what hour the your Lord doth come.

But know this I'm coming. Behold Jesus says I'm coming quickly. I'm coming suddenly. Have you heard that alarm? Has it awakened something in you? Have you heard the alarm. Acts chapter 17 verse 30 where God says there was a time when he winked at all this ignorance.

But now today God commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Have you heard the alarm? Romans 14 10 the alarm for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. That is an alarm that should awaken us.

We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 2nd Peter chapter 3 tells us the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in The which the heavens shall pass away with the great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. That is an alarm on God's clock that should awaken us. Everything we see on this earth as we know it will one day perish will one day come under the judgment of God.

In Noah's day it came in a universal flood and the last days it will come in a universal unquenchable fire. When God judges the earth it's coming. Judgment is coming and that should wake us up men. It should wake us up and Just like the days of Noah it will come as a sudden surprise on so many.

Because there is no warning. Jesus saying okay in 10 minutes. I'm coming in an hour I'm coming. He says no in an hour that you think not he said it'll be like the days of Noah. They're going about eating and drinking.

Marrying and giving in marriage. These aren't sinful things necessarily. They're just everyday things that we get caught up with eating. But here's the thing. They were eating without God. They were drinking without God.

They were marrying and giving in marriage without God. It was a day in which there was a total indifference toward God. There was a rebellion that gay had forgotten God. The mentality would be we're doing fine without him.

And thinking that that we don't need him. We'll just carry on with life. We're going about our merry way casually carefree and careless and suddenly It comes. The flood comes it took them by absolute total surprise and I tell you my friends the day is coming.

When Jesus Christ will come to this earth and there are multitudes who are not yet ready for him. Are you ready for him? Have you heard the alarm? Are you awake? Spiritually awake. Because even children of God even men of God even the Church of Jesus Christ can be lulled into a spiritual slumber.

And we need to be awakened. You can be doing things even in the name of Christ and yet be falling asleep. Yeah, I can't get away what Jeff and Clint and I were just talking about a while ago losing the wonder.

Losing the wonder of Christ. You can you can be a Christian and yet lose the wonder of Jesus Christ and fall asleep. Fall spiritually asleep. You can get caught up. I know what I'm talking about. I've experienced this get caught up in everyday life and busyness and buying and selling and working and all the things of this world.

Losing the wonder of Christ that you once had that once gripped your heart. Eating and drinking and marrying and given in marriage. But being asleep. Don't be asleep when he comes. Don't be caught sleeping when Jesus comes we've got to wake up first.

Thessalonians chapter 5. First Thessalonians chapter 5 and Verse was starting verse 1. He says but of the times and the seasons brethren. You have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

For when they shall say peace and safety. Then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape. But ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief.

You're all the children of light and the children of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. He's saying wake up men. We've got to wake up.

We've got to stay awake. We've got to let that alarm of God's Word. Alert us and be ready when he comes, but not only must we wake up. We've got to get up. Though they to go together. Do they not you wake up in the morning for the purpose of getting up?

Rising from Discouragement and Defeat

Doesn't do any good to wake up and stay in bed. You wake up to get up. We've got to get up. No, I had to get up and do what God called him to do. He couldn't just lay around. He couldn't sit around well hearing that judgments coming.

Hearing God giving him instructions of what he wanted him to do. He had to get up and This is what burns on my heart tonight. What am I talking about? Who am I talking to? I'm talking to the man who has fallen down.

I'm talking to the man who is greatly discouraged. I'm talking to the man who has experienced defeat after defeat after defeat. I'm talking to the man who is wallowing in condemnation. I'm talking to the man who is lying down in Condemnation and the devil is kicking you while you're down and he's convincing you that you will never rise again.

I Want you to hear the Word of God. He says it. He said it to Noah. He said it to Joshua. He's saying it to us tonight. Get up. Get up my child. Get up my child. You've been down long enough. You've been on the ground long enough.

It's not over for you and God is not through with you. Those who are feeling defeated those who are just keep wondering that will it ever be like it used to be? Those who always dwell on the good old days.

I'm telling you it's not over for you. These are the best times to live. These are the greatest days to be a Christian. Jesus is coming and he still has something for you to do. Jesus is coming and you're not to be lying on your on the ground.

You are to get up you say but I've sinned. I'm defeated. Well, I want to show you someone else who sinned and was defeated and what God said to him. Joshua chapter 7. Turn there with me, please. Joshua chapter 7.

Now some of you know this this story here in Joshua 7. Joshua and the children of Israel had just defeated Jericho. This was a tremendous feat. I mean a huge city with Huge walls and they saw the power of God.

They saw God bring down the walls. They defeated a mighty army. They saw the power of God displayed Tremendous victory, but after that victory they fall back to sleep and they think they can do it on their own.

And they face another city called AI and it's not that big a city we don't need that many men. I'll just send a few soldiers. We'll go and defeat them. We did Jericho we can do them. The only problem is they went without God.

They tried to rely on the arm of the flesh and their own strength and what happened they came back defeated. They were absolutely defeated. They come back running back and I want you to notice Joshua's response here in verse 6 of Joshua chapter 7 after this defeat.

Verse 6 says Joshua rent his clothes and he fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide he and the elders of Israel and put dust upon their heads and Joshua said alas, oh Lord God.

Wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. Would to God we had been content and dwelt on the other side Jordan. Oh Lord, what shall I say when Israel turn at their backs before their enemies for the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land Shall hear of it and shall environ us around and cut off our name from the earth.

And what will thou do unto thy great name? And Joshua's having a big pity party and he's saying God Is better for us not to even have come across the river it's better we should we'd be better for us to go back to where we used to be and He's moaning and he's complaining and he's having a big pity party.

He's sinned Israel's sin. They're defeated. What is God's word to this man? Look at the very next verse verse 10. The Lord said unto Joshua Get thee up. Get up. There's a time to lay on your face and pray.

Yes indeed. But there's also a time when God says, okay now get up. You've prayed you've cried out you've moaned. You've groaned get up. There's a time to get up and he told Joshua get up and what he's telling Joshua.

He's telling someone tonight. It's time for you now to get up. That What he's saying to Joshua he's saying to us the devil. He loves to keep you down and he loves to kick you while you're down. You know, he'll use other people to kick you while you're down.

You know, that's what I believe is. One of the truest signs of a true man of God is how he treats someone else who's broken it's true and how he deals with a wounded soldier how he deals with a a Another brother who has fallen who has been defeated who is discouraged.

God the scripture says knowledge puffs up but love builds up. Love edifies love lifts up your brother. Folks the devil went around knocking people down. The devil went around pushing people down and trying to keep them down.

Jesus did just the opposite. Jesus went around lifting people up. Jesus went around. He's always picking someone up. What did he say? There was a crippled man a Paralyzed man lying on a mat. His friends wanted to get him to Jesus.

He couldn't get there on his own. His friends found there. Jesus was in a house. They found that house, but that house was so crowded. They couldn't get in so they crawl up on top of the house with their friend on the mat.

They tear a hole in the roof of the house. They lower their friend down through the hole down right right to the in the presence of Jesus. And what does Jesus say. Jesus says first son your sins are forgiven.

But he knew the murmuring going on in the heart of the Pharisees and this man blasphemy blasphemes. Who is he to say you can forgive sins? Jesus knew their hearts. He knew what was going on. He says tell me what's easier to say son your sins be forgiven or Get off your mat and walk.

Jesus said son your sins are forgiven. Now what. Get up get up take your mat and walk. Devil pushes him down. Jesus says get up. Jairus had a young daughter 12 years old. She got sick. She was at home dying.

She was at the point of death. He runs to find Jesus. He finds Jesus Lord. He says just come to my house lay your hands on my daughter and she shall be healed. She shall live well,. Jesus Starts heading that way, but he gets interrupted.

There's a woman with an issue of blood. She touches the hem of his garment. She is healed. They're delayed for a moment after that. They continue on to Jairus's house. Somebody meets them on the way and they said hey don't bat.

Don't bother the master anymore. Your daughter's dead. G. Jairus's heart must have fallen. His face must have fallen. Could you imagine your daughter is dead? Don't trouble him anymore. Jesus looked at that man.

See this is the difference between our Lord. Don't be afraid he said only believe. He goes into this house. Everybody's weeping and wailing. Jesus says she's not dead. She's just asleep. They laugh him to scorn.

He drives them out of the house. He approaches this young dead girl reaches down and takes her by the hand and he says Talithi kumai that is to say young girl. I say to you get up. Arise, that's our Lord.

The devil pushes him down. Jesus lifts us up. He says get up. David said The Lord he said I waited patiently for the Lord. He inclined unto me and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit and set my feet upon a rock put a new song in my heart.

The Lord lifts us up. He pulls us up. Jesus Christ on A hill called Mount Calvary was crucified. He died on a cross he died. They placed his body in a tomb. Two full days had gone by his dead body lying in the tomb.

But on the third day the father has something to say to the son. Son my son. Stay down. Arise, get up arise my son arise my son. Death no longer has a hold on you. And I believe it's the same word is to a child of God has been adopted as a son of God.

And that is all of us men who have faith in Jesus Christ. Arise my son arise my son. Death no longer has a hold on you. Sin has no more dominion over you get up. You've lined down long enough. You've listened to the devil's lie long enough.

It's time to get up get up arise. Hallelujah. You say well, but what if I've sinned well again we go back to Joshua. Joshua had sinned the children of Israel had sinned and what does God say get up. And then verse 11 Israel has sinned and They have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them for they have even taken of the accursed thing and have also Stolen and dissembled also and they have put it even among their own stuff.

Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies. But turn their backs before their enemies because they were accursed. Neither will I be with you anymore except you destroy the accursed from among you.

Repentance, Cleansing, and Righteousness by Faith

Now get up sanctify the people and say Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow for thus says the Lord God of Israel. There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee. Oh Israel thou can not stand before thine enemies until you take away the accursed thing from among you.

We wake up. We get up, but now we've got to clean up. Okay. There was sin in the camp. God said specifically when you defeat Jericho you're not to take any spoil. You to leave that but there was a man Achan who disobeyed God.

He lusted after something he took it. He hid it in his tent and God says as long as you hang on to this accursed thing I'm not going to be with you and you're not going to be able to stand before your enemies.

There's sin in the camp. It's time to clean up. It's time to clean house. Can I talk to you heart-to-heart brothers? Some of us have some have things at the house that you need to throw away. Some of us have some housecleaning to do.

I Will not be with you anymore. As long as this accursed thing remains among you there are things in our lives that we have to repent of. There are things in our lives that we have to let go of there are things in our lives that we have to destroy.

Destroy it what is worth losing fellowship with the Father? What is worth losing that power to be able to stand against your enemies the powers of darkness. There's a curse thing among you it's time to clean house.

It's time to clean up that's called repentance and God commanded all men everywhere to repent. Is there whatever it may be and the Holy Spirit will tell you what it is that one thing? That one thing that besetting sin that the Holy Spirit of God is Calling you convicting you get rid of it turn from it.

But that's not that's not the end of cleaning. You're not fully cleaned up just by getting rid of that. We've got to clean up and there's only one way to truly clean up. There's only one place whereby we can be totally clean and washed whiter than snow and that is at the cross of Jesus Christ.

I Want to say to you brothers this man Noah in the midst of a crooked and evil perverse Generation in the midst of absolute gross darkness this man was a clean man. This man was a holy man. How do I know this God called him a righteous man?

God called him a blameless man, but I want to ask you how did he become righteous? The same way and the only way any of us can become righteous and that is by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. You say Jesus hadn't died on a cross yet.

Yeah, but it was the same faith. He looked he was looking Forward to Christ. We're looking back at the cross, but it's still grace by faith. That we're saved and made righteous. You can find this in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 7.

Listen to this Hebrews 11 7 by faith Noah. Being warned of God of things not seen as yet. Moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house by the witch. He condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness.

Which is by what? Faith it's only faith. It's faith in the blood. It's faith in the blood of Jesus. There's only one way to be made righteous one way to be made clean and that is at the cross of Jesus Christ.

Yes, you need to do some housecleaning, but that's not the end of cleaning. You need to do some housecleaning. You need to agree with God that this is sin and I'm willing to turn from it. And then you come to the cross and at the cross there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Daniel's veins and sinners plunge beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.

Hallelujah, there is not a sin in in this house there's not a sin among any of us men that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot wash away and Cleanse and make you whiter than snow. Hallelujah pure and holy.

The Bible says through faith in Jesus Christ. You are declared righteous. Through faith in Jesus Christ you are declared Justified just as if I'd never sinned that God can look at me as his son. That God can look at me clean and white as snow and pure and holy.

That's good news. That's good news. And it's through faith. It's through faith Jesus. Your sacrifice is perfect your blood pure and powerful. What can wash away my sin? Nothing, but the blood of Jesus.

But God says let us reason come let us reason together though your sin be like crimson and shall be white as snow. Pure as freshly fallen snow. You can't go any further until you get cleaned up and I want to tell you something brothers.

You and I won't stand in these evil days. Unless we're cleaned up. We're talking about evil days. We're talking about dark days. You and I both know it. Sin is rampant. It's everywhere. There were two predominant sins in the days of Noah sexual sin and violence.

Sexual sin and violence. The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful and they took everyone they wanted for. And married them. It wasn't the kind of marriage that God honors. It was the worst kind of adultery and perversion.

There was homosexuality going on. There was all kinds of sexual sin going on even to the point that God says my spirit cannot strive with man forever. There's I've got to put an end to this. Sexual sin and violence.

He says violence had covered the earth. It had corrupted the earth and God destroyed the whole earth with the flood. Two predominant sins in the days of Lot at Sodom and Gomorrah. What were they? Sexual sin and violence and God judged it.

He came down. It's judging it in with fire and brimstone two predominant sins in our society. You will be hard-pressed to find a movie that doesn't have one of these. Most of them have both sexual sin and Violence and because of it the judgment of God is coming.

The judgment of God is coming. Living in a day and in a nation where Homosexuals are getting married and and and much of a nation is condoning it brothers. That's not okay. That is not okay. That is sin in the sight of a holy God.

Violence to the point that little babies are being slaughtered and their body parts sold for a profit. I don't even like to say it. It's happening. Sexual sin and violence how long. How long before God says enough and judgment comes.

We better be clean. We better be clean to stand in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. The temptation is everywhere and you know, it is the temptation is everywhere. Sexual sin and violence, but you can be clean in a dirty world.

You can be clean because you're clothed in the righteousness of Christ. You can be clean because God has given you a new heart and God has given you a pure heart and God will change our desires as we draw near to him and abide in him.

God will change our want to's. He will change our appetites and you can be clean in a dirty world and you must be because listen to this. No purity. No power. No purity no power. No purity no power. What did he say?

You cannot stand before your enemies because there was sin in the camp. No purity no power. I will not be with you. He says as long as you hang on to this accursed thing, it's time to clean up. We must wake up.

We must get up. We must clean up at the cross of Jesus Christ, and then we must stand up. It's time for men to be men. It's time for men to stand for men to stand up. Romans chapter 8 verse 1 and 2 says there is therefore now no Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.