Blake Robert Templeton argues that frustration and emotional turmoil aren't isolated bad moments but signs of spiritual attachment to the enemy. He uses metaphors like an umbilical cord and a slave market to show how passivity keeps men bound to poisonous feelings, calling for a decisive break and unwavering allegiance to heaven instead.
You're never just having a bad moment. You're agreeing with a source. When you're reacting, when you're having frustration, when you're having lustful desires, when you're having things that are not from the feelings of God, that means you still have the umbilical cord of the enemy attached to you. So you can play the enemy's game if you want. I mean, you can allow him to Pinocchio you all you want. You can make, you can allow him to give you the rationalization that, man, I, I did my prayer, so God forgave me, so now I'm better. I've got a clean slate again. Oh, I lusted again. I did. Okay, you can play that game all you want, but that's the game of the slave market, where the man grinds in the slave market to find his value, only still tied to the poisonous feelings and emotions of the enemy. Or the man is emasculated and gives, gives money and gives his wife what she wants, to make everyone pleased, because he's passive and he doesn't hold a spine in the spiritual realm, but he's still stuck in the slave market. So you can play that game, but the truth is, if you want to be a biblically masculine man, you got to choose the team. You got to draw a line in the sand. You've got to actually cut ties with the enemy's voice. You got to actually have full allegiance to heaven, and that's got to be on autopilot.
