11/20/2025
Wednesday night November 19th 2025
What does it mean to live humble.
Matthew 5:5 blessed is the meek they shall inherit the earth.
Psalms 37:11 the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in an abundance of peace.
Meekness is submissiveness a willingness to submit.
I heard a study that being meek is like this it’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.
We as followers need to understand that surrendering to God is where we find the blessings of God.
If my people who all called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sins and heal their land. 2nd chronicles 7:14
Surrendering to God willingly is you humbling yourself.
The definition of gallant
1: brave or heroic
2: giving special attention and respect to women; chivalrous
There 2 more parts of the definition that are basically flirting with a lady and paying more attention to a lady.
In the book the author Neil Kennedy is really focusing on the first two and to understand what he means by the definition he brings is how we will lay the ground work for the purpose of the study.
He said this inner quality dictates a man’s appearance. The gallant man is groomed, fashionable, and appropriately prepared for every occasion.
On page 90 right the top of the page Neil talks about bringing back authenticity of being gallant. Our society is suffering from the lack of honorable conduct.
What do you guys think about that?
Ok what does it mean to you to be honorable?
What can we do to show the next generation how to be honorable?
In the church world we say train up a child in the way they should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly proverbs 13:24
In order to train up our sons and daughters it’s going to take some work on our parts. I am going to need to be proactive in my attempt to raise up my children. I am going to need to be present with them.
When I was first married to Kendall we had a blended family and I was struggling on how to handle new wife and some kids. One day I was praying about the hardships and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said why are you trying to prove to them that you are their father. Then he spoke to me in the struggle and said just be their father. It took the weight of the pressure I was putting on myself right off. Then I got to just be their father.
He writes about defending your honor or the honor of someone you love.
Also that we don’t stand up to bullies anymore but we try to counsel them.
I think if you don’t standup for yourself no one else will, just like if you don’t have confidence in yourself no one else will.
I’d say a gallant man understands when is the best time to be honorable and when is the best time to not give the dishonorable your time.
Life is in the seed.
If you didn’t read this part of the book I think you should read again. It’s a very good point on passing on who you are to your children. The power that is in your seed is the power of who you are. Your seed gives life.
Proximity
This part is about how you spend your time with a lady. First if you are married you should never be alone with a lady at any point just to protect yourself. Second it only takes one mess up to completely ruin your life and devastate your families lives.
Things don’t just happen. You allow them to happen when you let down your guard. We as men should always be on guard or keep a watchful eye on our surroundings. Also understand the enemy wants to see you fail he wants to see families devastated.
John 10:10 the thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
In order to have this abundant life our lord and savior talks about we must surrender to him. We have to get to the place where he is our guide then you will find peace that surpasses all understanding.
As gallant men we should live with conviction. The reason you men don’t live honorable lives is because they are tossed to and fro as children and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by tricky men, in cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting Ephesians 4:14
Ezekiel 36:27 I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statues, and you will keep my judgments and do them.
What statues should we live by. The biggest problem is we all to often live by our own and not our fathers in heaven.
It sounds good on tick tock or instagrams or snap chat it’s got to be good right. Oh I seen the on a Facebook reel. And we allow our faith to be altered by something that is so far from the truth that it makes us loose out way.
We are talking about being gallant being heroic and brave I tell you it takes a brave man to stand up against the whiles of the enemy, the darts he’s flinging your way. Sexual immorality has always been a problem and will continue until the day of our lord Jesus Christ.
You just have to decide what kind of man you want to be. God has given you free will and with that free will come choices and responsibilities. I will choose to serve my lord and savior Jesus Christ. I will choose to love and respect my wife. I will choose to respect my children even if they don’t choose to respect me because I am trying to teach them how godly men/women acts.
Will I make mistakes absolutely but when I do make a mistake I will own it. I also have an advocate with the father 1st John 2:1
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1st John 1:9
Here is the point we can all live as gallant men and lead our families in the ways of the lord. We can love our wives as Christ loved the church and dies for her. We can raise our children with honor and dignity so that they grow up and follow the lord.
