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All right, welcome back, gentlemen. This is my third day with you on

the Daily Blade. And let me just say, man, it's been an incredible honor to begin my day

with you in the Word of God to move forward and what it means to be men of God. As you guys who have been hanging out for the last couple days,

no, my name is Josh Howardton.

I'm the pastor of a church in Dallas called Lake Point.

And what we're doing this week is we are walking through the five commands.

The Apostle Paul gives men of God in 1st Corinthians 16, 13, and 14.

And each day we're like deep diving

theologically and biblically on one of them. So we hit be watchful. Yesterday, we hit

stand firm in the faith. And then he says, act like men, be strong, let all you do be done in

love. So today we're asking the question, what does he mean in 1st Corinthians 16 when he

says act like men? what does that actually mean?

Well, one tip is in other translations, it says be courageous, is what it says.

Instead of act like men, it just says be courageous.

Now, we can debate the translation, but it's actually, it's really helpful because it tells us that courage is one aspect of

biblical manhood. What does it mean to be a godly man? It means to be a courageous man.

Now, I want to talk real quick because there's, there's like an enormous misconception

about what it means to be courageous, what courage is, that I think, honestly,

it puts a tremendous amount of false guilt in the hearts of Christians. And it actually

keeps Christians from acting in courage because they have a misconception about what courage

actually is. Okay. So let me give

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