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.

Happy hump day, fellas. All week this week, we've been looking at some of my favorite

quotes and highlights from Jobie's new book out now called Stand Firm and Act Like

Men, becoming the man you were created to be instead of who the world says you are.

And we'll be digging into the scriptural truce therein. Here's another one of my favorite

quotes from the introduction of the book.

Don't miss this.

He bows before he swings his sword.

So like any normal red-blooded young boy, I turned everything I could into a weapon, right?

So you may see a stick or a used wrapping paper roll, but what does a little boy see?

I mean, he sees a sword. He sees a firearm of some kind, and I'm sure you are all the same way.

So as men, we have the desire for battle in our DNA, something innate. It's deep inside of us.

And God is the one that puts that there.

A normal functioning male has a deep design to be a warrior and protector.

And many of you guys train to make sure that you can pull that off.

You do shooting classes so that you can be more proficient with your long guns, your carbines, your pistols.

You train jujitsu and kickboxing, you've done mental preparation

work so that if something does become kinetic, that you respond immediately as opposed to freezing

or hesitating. And dude, I am pro all of those things. But as good as those things are, that's not where

true manhood begins. That's not where true manhood is rooted. It's not rooted in our

martial ability. It's rooted in our submission. Now, I know that many of you don't like that word.

I don't like it much either, but that doesn't matter. Before we can engage in the battles of life,

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