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