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

Jobi Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

Today we will continue digging into the notion of godly companionship

by describing things that make up true godly companionship. So far this week, we have talked about

how godly companionship is present, sacrificial, and uncomfortable. Today we're going to build

off of what we discussed yesterday and cover this. Godly companionship is confrontational.

Godly companionship is confrontational.

We're going to do that by looking at an interaction between Peter and Paul as described in Galatians 2.

Now, I love me some Peter.

You know why?

Because I see a lot of myself in him.

Now, before you think that's me patting myself on the back and giving my, giving myself, you know, a great compliment. I mean that I see a lot of myself in the bad parts of Peter. The dude always has something to say, right? Which I can appreciate. But you can tell that he rarely stops to consider, should I say this? Is this the right time to say this thing?

So, Peter, the rock, the man that Jesus put in charge of the church, the man that spent three years at Jesus' side during his public ministry, he bought into the concept of

Gospel Plus.

Now, you may not have ever heard of Gospel Plus.

Maybe you're thinking that this is a new

service you might be interested in. It's the gospel, but for $9.99 a month, you can get access to

gospel plus, or something like that. And that's, you know, not exactly what I'm talking about. Okay.

I'm talking about the fact that Peter, that Peter, lost the thread of the true gospel message,

a message that is sweet enough on its own, a message that doesn't need any additions.

But Peter, as many of us are, was susceptible to influence from outside parties.

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