MEN,
WEAKNESS OF

A LITTLE boy watched his dad leave for a business trip and figured that he was now in charge. He had two sisters, so he announced to them after his father left that he was now the head of the family. That night at dinner, he decided to sit in his dad’s chair. His mother was impressed. The little boy was really trying to take over. She gave him permission to sit in his dad’s chair at the table.

Well, his sisters didn’t like that one bit. They reminded the boy that he was not the father and that he really didn’t know what he was doing anyway.

One of his sisters decided to corner her brother. “If you are going to take Dad’s place, then we’ll present you with a family problem.” She manufactured a family problem and then asked him what he would do about it.

The boy thought for a minute and then said, “I’m gonna do what Dad would do. Ask your mother.”

Today we’re living in a world of boys, in particular, who have become feminized.626

[Character, Importance of; Men]

1 Cor. 11:3; 1 Peter 3:7

THERE is a certain kind of wasp that stings spiders. It’ll sting a spider and its sting will paralyze the spider for a few moments. The female wasp will then lay her eggs in the abdomen of the spider. So this spider now has in its belly eggs of a wasp and the spider has no idea.

After the spider regains its ability to move, sooner or later, it will begin doing what spiders do. It will make a web. After ten days, the eggs in the abdomen of the spider will begin to secrete a substance that causes the spider to stop making the web and start making a cocoon.

Spiders don’t make cocoons. That’s not what spiders do. But because of this foreign element that has been introduced to it by the female wasp, it is now acting very unnaturally. It’s making a cocoon. When the cocoon is near finished, it’s time for life to come from the egg. That life comes from the eggs, kills the spider, and the baby wasps live in the cocoon that should’ve never been made in the first place—except that a female wasp got ahold of the spider.

We’ve got a generation of males who aren’t acting naturally.627

[Men]

Prov. 7:6–27