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Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

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All right, guys, over the next two weeks we're going over the ten elements of a godly man, and this is as we see in Scripture. So so, so far we've talked about a godly man has surrendered his life to Christ, and a godly man is selfless. Today we're talking about element three, and element three of a godly man is a godly man strives for holiness. Now, as men, we strive for a lot of stuff, right. We strive for more money. We want, you know, career and business success. We want prestige. We want notoriety, we want fame how about this? We want higher one rep maxes, right. We want more jujitsu trophies. We want faster miles. We want the best spring break bod right. We want back-to-back fantasy football championships. We don't level up in some you know random video game. We strive for stuff, right. Well, what about holiness? I mean, I'll just say for a lot of people, and even for me, at times, it's kind of an afterthought, right. We don't really focus on holiness. But my job today is to bring that idea, the idea of striving for holiness, to the front of your brain, and I'm going to use the apostle Peter to help me do that. Now, I love me some, peter, and here's the reason why I love me some Peter, because he's kind of dumb. Right, and I'm kind of dumb Like Peter is long on words but not long on thinking, and you can see this throughout his ministry. So I'm like, hey, if there's hope for Peter and if he can be the rock on which Jesus was going to build his church, maybe he could do something with a dumber like me. But here's the thing about Peter Peter is going to be calling us to be holy. Okay, it's not going to be a polite suggestion, so let's go to the words of Peter in 1 Peter 1, verses 13 through 20.

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Therefore, preparing your minds for action and being sober minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance. But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct. Since it is written, you shall be holy, for I am holy and if you can call on him as father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb, without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times. For the sake of you who, through him, are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith.

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And so we need to do a little bit of a quick word study here, because some people think they know what holy means, but they don't really know what it means. So the word holy I guess the easiest way to think about it is to be set apart. Okay, so here's where everything is and all the muck and mire and darkness and sinfulness, and we're going to be set apart, we're going to be separated from that. And also it can mean consecrated. So consecrated is just a fancy word for a declared devotion to God, like a public declaration, okay. But here's our main problem we will declare with our mouths a devotion to God, but our actions are the opposite of holy right and for most people, as opposed to fixing our actions, we just make excuses for them. Oh well, this is how I'm wired, or this is how things were meant to be, or hey, you know, it's just genetic predisposition and hey, this is just how we act in my family and different things like that. We just like to make excuses as to why we're not upholding a certain standard in our lives. But here's the thing Recently we have a program out on Daunted Life called Dominion. This is like a personal coaching program that I do, and so we've got a wait list. So if you guys want to go to our website, you can sign up for it, all the stuff right.

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But during the interviews for people that I was looking to bring into my program, I kept hearing the same thing. I would hear guys say man, I really struggle, I really struggle with being in shape, I really struggle with getting over porn and masturbation, I really struggle with this, I really struggle with that. And then finally, after a few you know rough interviews in a row, I kind of just snapped at a guy, nicely, nicely snapped at a guy, you know, paul, to Peter's face, kind of snapping and I was like, dude, if you had been struggling to be in shape, you would actually be in shape, because you know what it takes to be in shape Struggling, because being in shape is not easy Waking up early and going to your garage gym or driving to the gym or hitting the pavement or something like that. That's not easy. But if you were striving for being in shape, if you were actually struggling, you would have arrived by now. Again, let's go back to verse 15.

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But as he who called you as holy, you also be holy in all of your conduct. You know what that takes, striving, I mean, it takes struggle, but you have to do that if you want to cover all those areas that God is telling us that we need to cover. But here's the thing I don't want you guys hearing what I'm not saying, which is that our works can somehow save us. Right, our works can't save us. I don't need to do a deep theological dive and prove that to you guys, but good works right, and a holiness being set apart is evidence of us pistooing in Jesus's payment of our sin debt. Guys, if you follow Joby for any length of time or listen to his sermons which, if you're not, you should one of the best preachers in America on any given weekend.

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But he talked about this word pistoo, which means you're transferring your faith into something right. I can look at a chair and have faith that that's a chair. But until I transfer my weight and my trust onto that chair to uphold me, I've not put my faith in that chair. If you pashduo in Jesus and the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross, you are transferring your faith into that reality. But, guys, it's going to be really, really hard to do that if we're not striving for holiness. Again, element one you got to be a Christian to even be dealing with any of this type of stuff. But day in and day out in our daily lives, we have to strive for holiness and that is element three of a godly man. A godly man strives for holiness. Come back tomorrow, we'll talk more.

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