The Ideal Man – Part 3
MEMORANDUM # 3 THE IDEAL MALE: THE PASSIONATE MIND
1. A LOT IS SAID ABOUT SIN OF ADULTERY — CHAPTERS 5,7
2. ABOUT THE SIN OF FORNICATION — CHAPTER 6
3. AVOIDING THE WAYWARD WIFE — CHAPTER 6
4. SEX HERE IS PRESENTED IN THE ABSTRACT (IDEA)
-COULD STAND FOR ALL OF MAN’S PASSIONATE PURSUITS
5. I THINK PROVERBS SAYS SO MUCH ABOUT SEX/SEXUALITY…
BECAUSE IT SO CHARACTERIZES ALL THE OTHER PASSIONS
6. THERE IS HERE A PICTURE OF THE YOUNG MAN AS PASSIONATE
7:6-9
7. THE BAD WOMAN USES “PERSUASIVE WORDS” 7:21
—-“SEDUCTIVE TALK”
IF THE YOUNG MAN FALLS FOR THIS HE’S AN “OX” 7:22
8. HERE PASSION IS FUELED BY LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE CALCULATED TO INFLAME
CAN OVERCOME THE RATIONAL SELF
9. PASSIONS ARE NOT “OUT THERE”
BUT THERE “IN HERE” (HEART/MIND)
10. PROBLEM: THE MIND IS ASLEEP
A KIND OF STATE OF SLUMBER
A KIND OF STUPOR
11. THE WORLDLY PASSIONS AT THEIR ZENITH – STUPEFY
12. CONVENTIONAL WISDOM = THE PASSIONS MAKE US FEEL ALIVE
BUT THEY WILL KILL YOU 7:24-27
13. THE IDEAL PASSIONATE MALE = PASSIONATE ABOUT GOD, HIS
WISDOM THE WORD OF GOD AND HIS WAYS 8:10-21, 34-36
14. MANY OF US MALES ARE DEAD TO THE SCRIPTURES
WE GO TO CHURCH BUT THERE IS NO PASSION
WE ARE THEREFORE IN A KIND OF STUPOR
MEMORANDUM #4 THE IDEAL MALE: HIS PSYCHOLOGICAL ECONOMY
1. IDEALISM IS A RESULT, NOT A STARTING POINT
2. GOVERNED BY ULTIMACY 14:19
3. EMBODIES RIGHTEOUSNESS 14:34
4. SEES HIMSELF AS A RIVER TO HIS FAMILY 14:26
5. KNOWS HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH 23:4
6. NOT FOOLED BY APPEARANCES 13:7
7. DEFERS TO THE LORD IN REAL TIME
8. TEMPERAMENT
9. KNOWS THE REMEDY FOR FAILURE 16:6
10. MAINTAINS INCOMPATIBILITIES 1:8, 23
11. THE IDEAL ECONOMIST 30:7-9
12. IDEALISM DOES NOT GIVE WAY TO SITUATIONS 15:24, 4:11-12,26
MEMORANDUM #5 IDEAL MALE AND PERFECTING THE LANGUAGE CIRCLE
1. THE BEGINNING IS THE CHARACTER OF GOD
2. WE BECOME THE TEMPORAL VERSION OF THAT CHARACTER
3. THE LANGUAGE CIRCLE:
CHARACTER OF GOD
OUR CHARACTER AS A TEMPORAL
TEMPORAL VERSION
ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS
OUR LANGUAGE AS A
TEMPORAL VERSION
3:19-26; 8; 9 “WISDOM” IF INCARNATED = TEMPORAL VERSION
4. THE PERFECTED CASE