Andrew Tate, the king of toxic masculinity. That's what he called himself. He's a British
American influencer. He's a four-time world champion kick-boxer, appears in many videos,
flaunting luxury cars, jets, yachts; very famous online and at one time actually, he was banned
from everywhere. Now you're seeing him more and more on Twitter. They reinstated his account and
he styled as a self-help guru, offering a lot of males and boys, his recipe for making money,
pulling girls and escaping the matrix. Tate has gone from months of nobody knowing about
him to actually being one of the most talked about persons in the world. There were times
where there was more searches for his name than Donald Trump or Kim Kardashian and of course,
his influence didn't just come by chance, there was also some evidence that he had some followers
who would flood the social media with videos of him, choosing some of the most controversial clips
in order to achieve maximum views and engagement. At one time, he was banned from Twitter for saying
that women should bear some responsibility for being sexually assaulted and of course later on,
he was reinstated. Currently he's facing trial in Romania for alleged charges of rape,
human trafficking and forming an organization of sexually exploiting women. He claims that those
charges are fake and they are not true. A lot of boys look up to him. In fact,
one teacher described him as an intelligent, articulate and disciplined and that he is a role
model to many of her boys in the classroom and the same teacher said also but the problem is the Tate
is also pathetic, insecure and promotes Taliban beliefs on how to treat women. Now he has a lot
of nice things and good things to say and very encouraging things to say to boys to become men.
There's a lot of focus on self-discipline, hard work, dedication, self-reliance, physical fitness,
entrepreneurship, confidence, mental toughness, avoiding procrastination, not watching porn,
not smoking weed and personal growth, avoiding negative influence and all of that stuff. You
see him a lot of times with his brother Tristan Tate who claims to be a Christian. Now Andrew
was a Christian, who became an atheist and then became a Muslim. In late October there was a video
that went viral on Twitter showing this guy Andrew Tate actually learning how to pray like a Muslim
from his friend and fellow boxer and later on, it was confirmed that Tate converted to Islam. There
are a lot of things I would actually agree with Tate brothers and with some of their teachings,
the idea about what's happening in our culture today, about what's happening in politics and
media, in organizations that are hiding the truth from the real world in which we're living it and
we see this happen with the pandemic and so Andrew Tate actually refers to that as the matrix and the
term, take the red pill is a pop culture reference taken from the 1999 movie Matrix, which means open
your eyes to the truth. there's a huge attack that he has toward the gay agenda, exposing it
that the gay agenda is actually after our kids and that there is a plan evil plan to take and
indoctrinate and brainwash our children which one of the reasons why media is so against him.
He also exposes that there is a huge attack on men to really remove the masculinity out of men and to
make man soft and to make men not be men anymore. Focused on of course rejecting pornography, weed
and even got in a fight with Greta, the teenager who's pushing the climate change stuff online
and everywhere. He has a very strong, some of the very conservative views and he speaks about them
very bluntly and straightforward. He also stands against this garbage that is being pushed by a
media, the woke propaganda that washes the masses today in our generation and so a lot of people ,a
lot of young people especially they jump on that and some people I even saw get converted to Islam
now because they see him as a role model but is he a role model of a Biblical masculinity,
playboy lifestyle, nice cars, expensive clothes, beautiful women is not necessarily a Biblical
description of what it means to be a man. Many times you see them, you know both of the guys
the brothers smoking in interviews and you know talking about getting drunk and as well as his
brother probably it's an older video but mentioned that he would teach guys on how to seduce virgin
girls so that they could take their virginity. Tate described that in his earlier days,
he was a self-made multi-millionaire and he said that he earned his money through little webcam
business that actually started in his apartment. He had 75 women working for him in four locations
and he was doing like six hundred thousand dollars a month from web camera business. He said that in
the podcast interview and of course now that business is deleted and he's no longer doing
the adult entertainment industry as a self-help motivational speaker to encourage boys to become
come men. Yeah I don't have a problem with him but as a person that young believers begin to look up
to and see as a role model for them to develop into being the man that God wants him to be,
I think it's extremely alarming and and actually dangerous because a lot of the philosophy could
be correct, some of the things that he teaches, Andrew Tate they're actually pretty good. The
challenge is the way that he presents himself also really has three main temptations that the
Bible talks about which is pride, which is lust and which is greed. There's a lot of flashiness,
there's a lot of playboy kind of a push that is made and of course his explanation for that is
that one of the reasons why conservative ideas are not being received by younger generation is
because conservatives are boring and they're not exciting and he wants to show something to attract
younger men by showing beautiful women, by showing you know cigarettes, by showing Bugatti's and by
showing a lot of money so that he can appeal to their vanity and I get his point of view
from a human sinful stance but from the Biblical stance as a Christian who follows Jesus Christ,
I think it's something that we should be extremely concerned about when it comes
to seeing someone like him a role model for boys to become men. Concerning Biblical masculinity,
we must understand is that you are born a male but you become a man. You are male by birth but you
are man by choice. Maturity is what makes a man not necessarily having a lot of beautiful girls
around you, expensive cars or even millions of dollars. You can be poor and be a man. You can be
hard-working person that is living from paycheck to paycheck and be a masculine Biblical strong man
who is mature. It's easier to get married than to be mature. It's easier to become a father,
get somebody pregnant than to be a father meaning, to care and protect for children and so what makes
somebody a man is not necessary necessarily that you are born a male is that you have to become
a man through choices that you make and these choices is what we're going to discuss in this
video. The difference between a boy and a man. Now I'm not talking about right now the physical
boyhood and physical manhood. I'm talking about the state of mind, the attitude, the kind of
thing that you show, the kind of attitude that you have as a person. A boy is someone that's passive;
A man is assertive. Boy lives for a moment; A man plans for the future. Boys looks for a girlfriend;
Man looks for a wife. Boy speaks; Man acts. Boys are possessive; Men are protective. Boys
play games; Men show the responsibility. Boy tells that he is a man, Man simply quietly lives it. A
boy makes experiences; Man makes progress. A boy makes demands; A man serves. A boy lies,
cheats and deceives but a man always tells the truth. There are two extremes,
demonic extremes in the center and the balance of Biblical masculinity. The one is passiveness,
the other one is domination and control and then the balance is to be a Biblical man, to
be assertive man. On one side, it's passiveness. It's when you play a victim. It's when you are
too emotional. It's when you tolerate what's wrong. You don't stand up for right. You don't
take initiative and anything that is good. You're not leading. You are not asking that person that
you're interested out on a date. You're not asking the person that you are dating to get married.
You're not initiating anything. It's passive. The Bible has a person for that. In the Old Testament,
it was Ahab. He was just passive boy even though he was a king and that is a very dangerous place
to be in for any man. The other side is control, domination, suppressing other people and the
person in the story of the Bible actually was Jezebel. She was manipulating, dominating. She
hated authority. She hated leaders. She hated spiritual authority. Of course, her methods were
always lying, controversy, threats or seduction and so that's one other side of toxic masculinity
and then the Biblical masculinity is to be like Elijah. He was assertive. He was humble. He was
strong. He was honoring and he was honest. He was confident and so we have to be very careful not to
allow the enemy to pull us into passiveness which I think guys like the Tate brothers, they try to
really push people out of that passiveness but it's also we have to be very careful that we don't
allow the enemy to push us into the Jezebel spirit because Jezebel spirit doesn't just attack women,
it attacks men. It's this dominating, controling and it's manipulative spirit,
attitude that can possess and drive a man. Here are 12 traits of this Elijah spirit,
this assertiveness Biblical masculinity. Number one is leadership. Men are called to lead their
families. The husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. The second
thing is protection. Men many times are seen as protectors both physically and spiritually and
there are passages in the Bible we see men going into battle to protect their families from harm.
Today we go into battle spiritually to protect our families. Mumber three is a provider. The
scripture says he who doesn't provide for his own is worse than unbeliever. While men are called to
lead, they're also called to serve. The greatest example of what it means to be a man is actually
not Tate brothers, is Jesus Christ and He came to exemplify leadership that looked more like
servant-hood yet Jesus was still fully man but He washed the disciples feet. The fifth trait is
courage. Many Biblical heroes such as David and Joshua displayed physical strength and courage.
However, the Bible also emphasizes moral and spiritual strength while it's good to work out
and be disciplined; moral and spiritual strength is as important as your muscles. The sixth trait
is integrity and integrity, I mean honesty. In Proverbs it says that the righteous man walks in
his integrity and his children are blessed after him. Your integrity is more important than your
influence. Your honesty is more important than even your financial status. That's your character.
That's who you are. The seventh characteristic of a Biblical man is self-control. The scripture
says in Proverbs that better is a patient person than a warrior. One with self-control is the one
who can take the city. If you really want to be a warrior, control your emotions especially anger,
your impulses, your drive. Control your responses. That's what it makes someone into a Biblical man.
The eighth trait is love. Men are commanded to love their wives as Christ loved the church and
to be compassionate and kind. It's kind of like that toughness and tenderness combined. It's not
just being tough nor is it just being tender, it's bringing both together. Ninth trait is humility.
Biblical masculinity isn't about arrogance or pride. It's not about flashiness. The Bible says,
Do nothing out of selfish ambition and vain conceit Rather in humility value others above
yourselves. The tenth trait is faithfulness. Men are encouraged to be faithful to God,
to their families and their responsibilities. A man who cheats on his wife and just calls
it normal, that is not a Biblical man. That is a player. We're called to be prophets, priests
in the house not players. The eleventh trait is purity. In the world where temptation abound,
Biblical masculinity calls for purity of thought and action and Job tells us that. He was man's
man. He built a strong family but he says, I made a covenant with my eyes not to look
lustfully at the young woman and that testifies to that Biblical masculinity and the last trait
of Biblical masculinity is teach-ability. A godly man is the one who's willing to learn and to grow
in his understanding especially concerning the things of God. In Proverbs it says that whoever
loves discipline loves knowledge but he who hates to reproof is stupid. We must understand any man
who is stubborn, doesn't want to learn is not pliable, is not teachable, that man is not a
Biblical man. He may appear arrogant and proud but he's actually reflecting more of a Lucifer
and a leviathan spirit than the Holy Spirit. Now in the conclusion, I want to mention six signs of
toxic masculinity. Signs that you have went to the other side. You're exhibiting that Jezebel kind of
a spirit, when it comes to being a man. Number one is emotional suppression. It's when you live your
life thinking that you shouldn't show emotion. You shouldn't express righteous anger or compassion.
It's kind of like when you are suppressing everything but we must understand even Jesus wept
when Lazarus died. Jesus, we see showed emotion like compassion and righteous anger. The Bible
encourages honesty and emotional expression yet without sin that means when you get angry, don't
sin. You can feel emotions without becoming a feeler but staying as a believer. The second sign
of toxic masculinity is aggression and dominance. Now looking at Jesus, He preached peacemaking and
meekness. We also see that Jesus warns us against envy of a violent man and choosing of any of his
ways. It says that in Proverbs. God doesn't want us, He doesn't call us to be people that dominate
and crush. We should only rule over our own spirits. We should drive out demons but people we
should treat with love and kindness and it's this combination of toughness and tenderness toward
people. Yes, we fight against evil but we don't fight against people. The third trait of toxic
masculinity is hyper competitiveness. What happens is when we become ambitious beyond the normal,
healthy driven self, we lose humility. We lose values to what's important. We forsake
our families. We run over our own children in our drive and pursuit for the next the biggest, the
latest, the newest and the coolest or to achieve this success and while it's healthy to be driven,
to be excited, to be passionate about things but when you become hyper competitive, when you become
so ambitious, when you become so ambitious that you sacrifice your character, you sacrifice your
family, you sacrifice developing your faith, you are now into that toxic masculinity. The fourth
sign of toxic masculinity is sexual conquest. It's when you live your life and sex for you
is not confined to marriage but sex for you is also a form of entitlement. You feel like man,
I can conquer this. I can get this girl into bed. You know this person is attracted to me
because look of how successful I am. I deserve to satisfy my sexual desires and needs whichever
means I can as long as it doesn't hurt anybody, I don't see anything wrong with it. There is God
in heaven and He gave us the boundaries and said that sexual relationship belongs in the
context of marriage and this may sound outdated but please understand, the sun that warms up the
planet is old, it's still hot. These principles can change your life if you subscribe to them
and stop following your flesh and your biology and submit your biology to your theology, your
knowledge of God. The next sign is unwillingness to show weakness and that's when a man who only
thinks that he needs to be only strong but see Paul who wrote a lot of the New Testament says,
he boasted in his weakness. Now this doesn't mean that a man doesn't have strengths but means when
you do have weaknesses and you need to rely on somebody to help you, including in marriage,
including in a faith community, somebody to you know cover your blind spots, somebody to come
in and complement you in the area that you're not strong in, that you acknowledge that and
you appreciate those people that complement the places of your weaknesses. It also means coming
with your weaknesses to God and acknowledging you're not this and that, that you must decrease,
that Christ must increase and the last one and that is entitlement. Entitlement, I believe is
very deadly. It leads to offense. It's a root of pride. It's when we think that you know we're old.
We walk around like this is mine and it's all about us. Jesus teaches humility and service
and warns us against self-righteousness, pride and entitlement. Our life doesn't belong to us. It's
a gift. It's a loan from God and we must give it to God. So I want to encourage you today to look
to Jesus as your role model. If you have a father, if you have a man in your life that you look up to
as a role model, make sure that they line up with Jesus not with Samson or even Andrew Tate. Though
Andrew Tate and his brother, they have some good things that they say, I do believe that if you
as a young person live your life aspiring to be a Christian, your role ,odel shouldn't be the ones
that showcase pride, lust and greed and worship a different God. Your role models, your role model
should be Jesus and we should aspire to leave an example for others who follow us so that we
can raise an army of strong good and mighty man for our generation to see. Thank you for watching
this video. What do you think about the Tate brothers and what do you think about Biblical
masculinity? Do you think that they reflect that? Have you watched their content? Have you learned
anything or maybe on the opposite, you think it's a bad thing for anybody to even mention anything
good about them. Let me know that in the comments below and remember be nice in the comments below.
Be a Christian because some of us we lose our Christianity, the moment we start typing and
so be kind. Thank you so much for watching this video. God bless you until next time!