#110 - Joby Martin // Sword of the Spirit

The Daily Blade: Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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True greatness in God's kingdom comes through suffering, not worldly power or position. The desire for greatness isn't inherently wrong, but it must be pursued God's way, following Christ's example on the cross. • Matthew 20 reveals that great men know how to suffer • Direct correlation between suffering endured and responsibility God entrusts • Jesus asked disciples if they could drink His cup of suffering • The "cup" refers to bearing God's wrath that Jesus would endure on the cross • Foll...

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0:00.0	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.
0:20.3	All right, welcome back to the Daily Blade. This is day two. We are talking
0:24.1	about Matthew chapter 20. We're going to talk about what it means to be great. If you desire to be
0:30.4	great, that's not a bad thing. God put that in us. There's just a godly way and an ungodly way
0:35.0	to be great. This is not an exhaustive list. All of this comes from
0:38.7	Matthew chapter 20. So number two is this. A great man knows how to suffer. That there is a direct
0:45.5	correlation between the amount of suffering that you can endure and the responsibility that God will
0:50.8	trust you with. Let me say that again. A great man knows how to endure pain and suffering.
0:56.9	There is a direct correlation between the amount of pain and suffering that you can't endure
1:02.3	and the amount of responsibility that God will trust you with. And you may say, well, where in the
1:07.2	world do you get that? Well, first and foremost, I would point you to the cross of Jesus Christ. But let's go back to Matthew 20, verse 20. We'll repeat a few things. And she said to him, say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left in your kingdom.
1:29.2	And here's how Jesus answers.
1:31.1	You do not know what you were asking.
1:32.9	Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?
1:37.6	Now, the cup that Jesus is talking about, he also refers to this later in the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus goes to the Garden of Githemite.
1:45.2	In the Garden of Gessimini, Jesus feeling the weight of the world upon him, he knows that tomorrow he is
1:50.9	scheduled by his Heavenly Father to go to the cross to bear the sins of the entire world. In fact,
1:57.0	First Corinthians tells us not only does he bear the sins of the world, but he becomes sin that God made him who was without sin to be sin for us.
2:05.2	And the weight upon him is excruciating.
2:08.2	In fact, he gathers his disciples and he says, would you stay up and watch and pray?
2:11.8	He gets Peter, James, and John to come a little further and says, boys, will you please just stay up, watch, and pray?
2:17.4	And then he prays this as he sweats, drops of blood. Father... come a little further and says, boys, will you please just stay up, watch, and pray.
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