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Welcome to day one of how to build a godly and manly foxhole.
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I'm your host, Kyle Thompson of Undaunted Life.
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Let's get into it.
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So you've heard it all before that men are lonely, men don't have any friends, men don't
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have other men that they can count on, men aren't engaged in the church in their homes
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or at their workplaces, men aren't leading themselves or others.
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You've heard a lot of things like this and even things that I didn't even list there.
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And guess what?
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That's pretty much true.
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At least it is for a lot of men.
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So many men are indeed lonely.
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They don't have real close friends.
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They don't have other men that they can actually count on.
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They aren't engaged in any real way in the church or in their homes or at their jobs.
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And they aren't leading themselves and they're especially not leading others.
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And so guys, even if that doesn't describe you completely, at least some of that is true
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for a lot of us and or you've really seen that in many of the people in your peer group.
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So there are a lot of people that have really tried to figure out why this is because this
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is an actual problem.
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This is an issue for a lot of men.
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This is an issue for a lot of people and the people that are trying to figure this out
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are many.
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So you have pastors trying to figure this out.
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You know, what exactly is going on with the people inside of our flock?
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Yeah.
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Trying to figure this out.
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Yeah.
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I mean, they need to figure this out so they can get your vote.
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But even psychologists and sociologists and anthropologists and on and on, they've all
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wondered and many of them allowed why this is.
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Why are these things true of so many men?
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And there are a lot of reasons that are given for this and the reasons are varied and some
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of them are random.
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But one one that I've heard is the digital revolution.
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So men are this way because we have cell phones and because we have social media and because
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we can play video games online with people across the world.
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And maybe there's some truth to that.
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There's also people that talk about how the feminization of culture has potentially led
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to that.
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So we've had first, second and third wave feminism.
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And that has led to the feminization of a lot of men and the masculinization of a lot
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of women.
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But that has caused some issues for men in our culture.
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That's certainly a potential reason.
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There's also the decline of the father, right?
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And so I don't mean that in a heavenly sense.
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I just mean that in the father, the father being there.
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The father being in the home and we have rampant fatherlessness and the numbers for
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fatherlessness and the stats, they keep getting worse year by year.
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They don't get better.
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We've even heard some arguments about maybe it's a reliance on the government as opposed
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to our community or to ourselves.
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Maybe that has something to do with it and this isn't a political show here, but there
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are a lot of reasons that might go into that.
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But I think there is some merit to some of those various reasons.
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But I think that ultimately the reason, the real reason is simpler than that.
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And it's this, men don't have a foxhole.
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And I don't typically mean that in a military sense.
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I mean, obviously some of you have been in a real foxhole.
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That's been an actual experience that you've had.
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But for most of us, I just mean generally and we'll get into much more detail as to
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what a foxhole is in day five of this devotional.
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But here's what a foxhole is in a nutshell.
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A foxhole is a group of men that constantly push each other to be better.
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So they're pushing each other to develop spiritual, mental, and physical resilience.
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And we'll certainly get much more into that later, but they're also pushing them to be
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a stellar husband, to be a phenomenal father, to be a successful person at their work or
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in their business.
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They're pushing them in all these ways.
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Okay.
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So in this devotional, we're going to get really, really practical towards the end.
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All right.
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I want to kind of take you on a journey for how you individually can build a godly and
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manly foxhole.
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So let me give you a breakdown of what the devotional is going to look look like in each
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of these seven days.
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Okay.
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So day one, this is today, we're going to be talking about what makes a godly man.
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We'll get to that here in just a second.
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Day two, what makes a manly man?
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Day three, can you be both godly and manly?
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Day four was Jesus a manly man.
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Day five, what is a foxhole? Day six, why do men need a foxhole and day seven?
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How do you build and maintain your foxhole?
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Okay.
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So for day one of this devotional, we're going to answer the question, what makes a godly
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man?
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And as with most things that are worth answering that you need an answer to, you need to go
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to scripture for guidance.
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And today is going to be a little bit different than the other six days of this devotional.
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Today is going to be rapid fire scripture day.
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Okay.
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Other days, we will go deep on certain scriptures or on certain stories from the Bible.
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But today we're going to be focus, you know, focusing mainly on the macro story, right?
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30,000 foot view, the macro narrative.
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So the two ways that I want to formulate how we're going to operate today is we're going
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to look at two things.
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The first thing is truce outside the self.
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And the second thing is truce displayed publicly.
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Okay.
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So truce outside of self.
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That is basically the narrative of humanity.
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Okay.
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So truce displayed publicly, that's where we're really going to get tangible and answer
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the question, what makes a godly man?
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So let's go ahead and get into the first one here.
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And that's truce outside the self.
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That's the narrative of humanity.
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And so by that, I mean that these are truths that exist outside of you.
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Okay.
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You can't cause or change these truths, but you do have to participate in them, right?
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They're true whether you believe in them or not.
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It's kind of like gravity.
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Like we don't get to opt into whether or not gravity is real.
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If we jump off a building, we're not going to float into outer space.
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We're going to hit the ground.
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That's just basically the reality.
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You don't have to believe in it.
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It's just true.
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But here is the story.
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This is the narrative of humanity.
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We were created to be like God.
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We blew it.
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We now require deliverance to become pure before the eyes of a holy and just God.
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God sent Jesus to pay for the sins of humanity.
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We simply have to accept God's free gift of grace and salvation.
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That's the story of humanity.
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So we're going to break down each one of those individually because this will really
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help us crescendo towards answering the question is what is a godly man?
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So the first part, we were created to be like God.
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So we see this in Genesis one verse 27 and says this.
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So God created man in his own image in the image God he created him male and female.
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He created them.
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And so just as a quick housekeeping thing, I'm going to be reading from the English standard
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version for all of these.
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So if you're wondering which version I'm going to be in, it will be the ESV.
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But again, they're in Genesis one 27.
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That's the definition of godliness.
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It's literally being like God sharing the characteristics and makeup of God.
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So we were created to be like him.
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But then we get into the next part of the story, which is that we blew it.
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And that's Genesis three one through 24.
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And I'm not going to read that for you here.
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You can read that on your own.
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It'll certainly be in the notes.
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But this that's the story of the fall and the story of the fall, frankly, is the story
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of us all that that's how we got to where we are right now, regardless of the situation
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you're in, it's broken in some form or fashion.
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But I do want to point out one little bit of detail and that's in Genesis three one.
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So the very first, the very first first of that chapter.
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Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
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He said to the woman, did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?
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So this is just an interesting thing.
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This is our enemy.
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And our enemy is so unbelievably crafty and you got to give it up to the devil because
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a lot of people think the devil does these these incredibly insanely evil things and
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he certainly does.
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But it's those little mistruths, those little times when he knocks you off of your your
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guided path, that that's how he really gets you.
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And that's all it really took for us to blow it for us as humanity as a creation of God
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to blow it.
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Let me get into the next part of the story here and that's that we now require deliverance
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to become purer before the eyes of a holy and just God.
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And we see this with Romans three twenty three for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
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of God.
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Okay, we cannot present ourselves before the eyes of a holy and just God.
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If we are in pure and we require deliverance for that purity.
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Next part of the story is that God sent Jesus to pay for the sins of humanity.
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So in Luke 19, 10, we see Jesus say this for the son of man came to seek and to save lost.
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And then that really goes nicely into the second Corinthians five twenty one.
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This is Paul speaking for our sake, he made him to be sin who knew no sin so that in him,
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we might become the righteousness of God.
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God sent Jesus so that we could have a path to the father.
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And then the last part of the story here is that we simply have to accept God's free gift
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of grace and salvation.
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And so we're going to go back to Paul.
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This is Romans 10 versus nine through 10.
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Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that
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God raised him from the dead, you will be saved for with the heart one believes and is justified
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and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
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So everyone that that is the story that we're living in.
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That's the narrative of humanity.
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Again, we were created to be like God.
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We blew it.
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We now require deliverance to become pure before the eyes of a holy and just God.
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God sent Jesus to pay for the sins of humanity.
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And we simply have to accept God's free gift of grace and salvation.
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Now, that kind of sets the tone that sets the stage for where we're at in terms of this
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story.
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And you're going to find yourself somewhere in that story.
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But this leads us to the truths that are displayed publicly.
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The second big thing that we're going to be talking about.
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And this is where we really start to answer what makes a godly man.
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Because a godly man has to exist inside that narrative, right?
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There are there are parameters to this story.
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And so what I was able to do is it's go to the scriptures to clean out 10 main characteristics
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from the Bible of what a godly man is.
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And certainly there are more and I probably could have, you know, cut this list down a
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little bit, but these 10 just they're just screaming from scripture for us.
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So this will really set the tone for the rest of the days of this devotional.
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So we'll go to number one here, a godly man has surrendered his life to Christ.
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So we look at Galatians 2, 20, I've been crucified with Christ.
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It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me and the life I now live in the
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flesh.
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I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
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So so that's a pretty simple thing from the very beginning.
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You can't really be a godly man if you haven't surrendered your life to Christ.
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I mean, that that's pretty basic Christianity, one of one type stuff.
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And I know there's a lot of people listening to this that are on kind of that early scale
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that, you know, that very immature scale of being coming a Christian and then you have
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a lot of mature Christians.
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Maybe you've been a Christian for decades, but that's where this all starts.
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If you haven't surrendered your life to Christ, then you can't be a godly man.
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It's impossible.
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So the second thing here is a godly man is selfless, not selfish, selfless.
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So we're going to go to Matthew 16, 24 and 25.
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Then Jesus told his disciples, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take
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up his cross and follow me for whoever would save his life will lose it.
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But whoever loses his life for my sake, we'll find it.
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So this is Jesus from the very beginning talking to his disciples and it's like, you know,
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how do we do this?
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How do we do this whole following you thing, becoming a disciple of you thing?
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Like how do we make that happen?
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And he said to deny yourself.
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Don't worry about yourself because I've got you.
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I'm Jesus.
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Like I'm, I'm going to make sure you're okay.
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You just worry about following me.
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That's all you need to worry about.
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Be selfless.
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Don't think about your needs.
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I've got you squared away.
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I've got you taken care of.
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Awesome.
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So number three, a godly man strives for holiness.
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And I really want to put emphasis on that word strives for holiness, not, you know, things
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they might become holy at some point and thinks that they should do holy things from time
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to time.
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No, no, no, you are striving for holiness.
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So we see this in 1 Peter 1, 13 through 18.
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Therefore, preparing your minds for action and being so reminded, set your hope fully
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on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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As obedient children do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but
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as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct.
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Since it is written, you shall be holy for I am holy.
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And that last part there, that is a reference to Leviticus 1144.
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So godly man strives for holiness.
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That is something that you're just looking at every single day.
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How can I be holy in all these situations that I'm going through?
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Number four, a godly man is repentant.
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So we see this in 1 John 1, 9, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive
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our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, repentance.
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And that just doesn't mean saying, Oh, God, I'm a real story about that bad thing I did.
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No, it's, it's turning away from a lifestyle of sin.
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That's what a godly man does.
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And you make a habit of that, right?
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You look for those deep and dark pockets of your life where you've got some sin, you've
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got some things that you're hiding from the people that you love, things that you think
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you're hiding from God, which if we see in Genesis, that's just not a possible thing
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for you to do, but a godly man is repentant.
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And I would even add to the scripture there, I know you're not supposed to do that, but
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I would add a little bit there and just say, repent quickly.
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So this isn't like a, you know, long, arduous process of, well, let me just think through
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this, let me just kind of make sure, let me do a flow chart.
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Let me kind of figure out, you know, pros and cons lists, whether or not I should repent
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now.
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No, you recognize via the Holy Spirit that what you've done is wrong and sinful and is going
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to hurt the heart of God.
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And you repent immediately for that.
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And then number five, a godly man loves his wife as Christ loved the church.
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So you probably knew this was going to happen.
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We're going to go to Ephesians five here.
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So we're going to look at 20 or 22 through 30.
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Christians love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her that
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he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word so that
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he might present the church to himself and splendor without spot or wrinkle or any such
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thing that she might be holy and without blemish.
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And the same way husbands show love should love their wives as their own bodies.
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He who loves his wife loves himself for no one ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes
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it and cherishes it just as Christ does the church because we are members of his body.
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And so I should obviously throw in here.
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Some of you don't have wives.
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I've got some young men listening to this or some folks that maybe have never been married
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before, but a godly man loves his wife as Christ loved the church.
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So don't just skip over this one because you're not a husband.
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Don't just skip over this because you don't have a wife currently because if you are not
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married currently and you're not called to a life of singleness, this is what you strive
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for.
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This is the target.
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Think about it like working out like, you know, maybe you're younger and you want to
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be a power lifter someday or you want to be an Olympic level wrestler or something like
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that.
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You can look to people that already have attained that type of status or really accomplished
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what you're looking to accomplish, even though you don't have that right now.
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So that's kind of an easy and maybe even a silly example.
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But for those of you that are single that are not married, this is the standard.
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So you shouldn't be waiting for that, that first, you know, marriage counseling session
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to figure out, okay, what am I supposed to be?
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What's my role here as a husband?
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You should know that now and for those of you that are married, again, that's the standard.
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A godly man loves his wife as Christ loved the church.
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And that is just a mind blowing thing to even think about because of how deeply and outwardly
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Christ loved the church.
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So that's very important.
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Then we have number six, a godly man is sexually pure.
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Mm.
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Yeah, I had to go there.
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I'm sorry, guys.
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Well, actually, no, you know what?
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I'm not sorry.
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I'm not sorry at all that I went there because this is incredibly important for every man
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because this is a tremendous struggle for a lot of guys.
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And so let's look at first Corinthians six and six, 18, flee from sexual immorality.
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Every other sin a person commits is outside the body.
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But the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
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Now guys, I know this is going to be the tough one because there are beautiful women everywhere.
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There is pornography everywhere.
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There is explicit jokes and language and videos and clips everywhere you look, even when you're
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not looking for them, they will find you.
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But a godly man is sexually pure and that starts with your eyes.
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When you're tempted to look at someone or something that you know is not for you.
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It's not your spouse, right?
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Are you bouncing your eyes off into the next thing?
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Are you praying to God?
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Hey, help me in this moment because I'm finding this to be a tempting situation.
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I want to look at the waitress or I want to look to that at that person on the beach.
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Do I need to take myself out of this situation, Lord?
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You do what's required of you to remain sexually pure, realizing that as a man, you are wired
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to not do that.
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You are wired to look around and gaze on all these beautiful things that God's created
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and you have a bunch of dumb friends that are telling, "Oh man, it's just natural.
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It's just looking.
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It's no big deal."
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But you know better.
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A godly man knows better, that that's not just checking out the waitress.
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You're doing something with her without actually doing it to her.
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The standard is clear that Jesus set out for us, that if you looked after a woman and
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lusted after her, you've already had sin in your own heart.
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You've already adulterred in that situation.
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We have to avoid that regardless.
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A godly man is sexually pure.
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The next one here, number seven, a godly man protects his mind and this goes back to number
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six.
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It's hard to be sexually pure if you're not protecting your mind, but this also is applicable
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as a standalone.
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A godly man protects his mind.
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Second Corinthians 10-5, one of my favorite scriptures ever.
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We destroy arguments in every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take
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every thought captive to obey Christ.
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So again, like I said, this can be applied individually, but I do want to attach it to
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number six.
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That's why these are back to back.
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But if you're tempted to check out somebody, if you're tempted to look at somebody and
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lust after them, you need to take that thought captive.
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You need to take a captive immediately and make it accountable to Christ because in that
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time, you're going to have that discussion with yourself where it's like, "Oh, I'm just
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looking.
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It's no big deal.
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This happens all the time.
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You know, all those silly, stupid, immature examples."
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But in that moment, you know, as a godly man, you're not allowed to do that.
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And so taking that back down to where we're talking about just being able to protect your
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mind, that also applies to cultural things.
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Perhaps somebody is trying to explain something to you or argue something politically or philosophically
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that you know is counter to what God would want for the world.
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God would want for that situation or God would want for you or that person.
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And you have to protect your mind and keep those bad thoughts out, those bad arguments
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out.
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You don't want them to kind of creep in.
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And again, this isn't a political show today, but there are a lot of things happening in
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the political climate, in the culture at large that are having that effect on people, that
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are having that effect on the church.
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We're seeing this slow creep of culture to where now the church is downstream of culture
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as opposed to the other way around.
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That's an issue.
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So a godly man protects his mind.
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Number eight, a godly man is humble.
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Robert was 27 to let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your
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own lips.
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And I know for some of you, maybe you're competitive.
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Maybe you were trying to be top of your class or trying to get the big time job or trying
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to make sure everyone knew your name.
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And the temptation when you're doing that is to be the one beating your own chest, right?
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The one that's got the neon sign blinking above you saying, no, no, hey, everybody listen
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to me.
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Everybody look at me.
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This is how good I am.
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This is how talented I am.
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Amazing. I'm going to be if you let me be a part of your team, but a godly man is humble.
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Some of the best men that I know, I've never heard them talk about the things that they've
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accomplished.
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I have two mentors specifically that come to mind.
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These men just don't to throw in horn.
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They don't even have a horn, right?
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Like if they do, it's a rusty one that's like in the shed or something like that.
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These guys just remain humble, but they're incredibly successful.
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They have incredibly strong marriages and relationships in their life, but they don't
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have to tell you about it.
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So for some of you, that's just natural.
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You never to your own horn, but for others of you, maybe there's a pride issue there.
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For me, that's certainly been an issue to where it's like, no, no, I need people to
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know this is happening.
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I need them to know I had this great idea, but it's not about you.
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Again, we should be pointing people to the father and a great way of doing that is to
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remain humble.
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Number nine, a godly man does not rely on his own strength alone.
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So for Olympians for 13, I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
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Now I will say that that scripture has been on basically every football helmet and you
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know, every basketball halftime speech, like it's, it's, it's out there for all those
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reasons.
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God probably doesn't mean he's helping you score a touchdown or helping you get up that
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last, you know, rep on bench press.
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That's probably not what God's talking about.
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He's probably letting you know that, Hey, you're weak.
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You are especially weak.
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If you operate without me, however, again, this is God talking, if you rely on my strength,
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you will be strong because for us, especially men, we think we can do it.
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Even if we're, we're kind of unsure, we're going to try, no, I don't need your help.
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No, I'm just, I'm going to do it myself, a bootstraps or whatever, pull myself up by
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my bootstraps.
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Like this is just the way that we're going to do it.
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That's not necessarily how you should be operating.
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And certainly that is not what a godly man would do because in almost every situation,
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we are not enough to get the job done.
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Sure.
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You might be able to fix the sink.
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Sure.
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You might be able to throw a spiral 30 yards or 40 yards or 50 yards.
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Maybe.
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Maybe that's you.
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But you don't have the strength to take care of everything.
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And I don't just mean your list of things to do for the day.
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I mean, just in general, you don't have the strength to be a good husband all the time.
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You don't have the strength to be a doting father all the time.
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You don't have the strength to be the best friend that anyone that ever runs into you
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can be.
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And all those moments, you have to rely on God and especially in those times when you're
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knocked down, when life has just punched you in the gut, you've lost the job.
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You took that phone call and lost a family member and dropped to your needs.
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In those moments, you are not enough.
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And that is the best news I could have given you because a godly man would never just rely
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on their own strength.
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They would rely on the strength of God, the strength of the father.
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And the last one here, number 10, a godly man loves God and his neighbor.
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So we're going to look at Mark 12 28 through 31.
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And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another and seeing
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that he answered them well, asked him, which commandment is the most important of all?
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Jesus answered, the most important is hero Israel, the Lord, our God, the Lord is one.
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And you shall love the Lord, your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
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with all your mind and with all your strength.
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The second is this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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There is no other commandment greater than these.
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So guys, as I reminded you from the beginning, this is not an exhaustive list, right?
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This is just 10 that I pulled out that I thought were the most potent and the most pertinent
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for you and applicable immediately.
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So this is the list again of kind of what makes a godly man.
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Number one, a godly man has surrendered his life to Christ.
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Number two, a godly man is selfless.
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Number three, a godly man strives for holiness.
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Number four, a godly man is repentant.
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Number five, a godly man loves his wife as Christ loved the church.
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Number six, a godly man is sexually pure.
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Number seven, a godly man protects his mind.
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Number eight, a godly man is humble.
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Number nine, a godly man does not rely on his own strength alone.
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And number 10, a godly man loves God as his neighbor.
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All right, guys, we're going to wrap up with some questions for you to consider.
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And we're going to do that with each one of these days because I want to give you some
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things to chew on.
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And here's the thing, these are questions for you to ask yourself.
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So before you move on to the next thing, here are some questions for you to chew on.
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Number one, where do I fit into the narrative of humanity?
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So go back to the beginning part of this episode where we talked about that narrative humanity.
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Where are you?
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You know, because there is a need to believe the good news of the gospel and to accept
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Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior because the rest of the stuff that we talked about in
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the episode, the godly mischaracteristic, you could have some of those, but it has to
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be in the right order.
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And so it starts with you accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
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And if you haven't done that right now, say a prayer, say a prayer and ask Jesus to come
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into your heart, to come into your life, to be the Lord of your life and dedicate yourself
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in that prayer to serving him.
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Certainly do that.
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So that's number one.
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Where do I fit into the narrative of humanity?
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The second question for you to chew on is this, how many of the godly attributes listed in
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this devotional do I possess?
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And this is kind of a tough one because if you look at that list, if you write them down
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or go into the notes and look at that list of 10, man, it's going to be hard for some
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of you to even check off one box.
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And I'm not saying that that's a bad thing for you.
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I'm saying you're normal.
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I mean, do some of those people check off one or two boxes?
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I mean, it's going to be almost impossible to not, you know, to accomplish what you're
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trying to accomplish in that situation. And then the third one we have is this, do I
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have men around me that are pushing me to sharpen or develop these godly attributes?
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And this is where the rubber really meets the road with the remainder of what we're
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going to be talking about today.
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Do I have or not today, but with this entire devotional do I have men around me that are
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pushing me to sharpen or develop these godly attributes?
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And then what I would add to that is am I doing that for other men?
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So again, the three questions for you today, where do I fit into the narrative of humanity?
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How many of the godly attributes listed in this devotional do I possess?
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And do I have men around me that are pushing me to sharpen or develop these godly attributes?
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