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.

Welcome back to the show. This week, we're looking at one of my favorite books from one of my

favorite authors of all time, and that's Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. So specifically, we're

going to dig into some passages from the book that really cut to the heart of a man and center

everything on the gospel of Jesus Christ. So yesterday we talked about natural law,

as we've seen in book one, chapter three of mere Christianity. And I post some questions at the

end there. What are we supposed to do with the natural law of God? Like how are we supposed to

perform now? And can we be perfect? And today we're going to discuss that as we look at the cost of

perfection. And in order to do that, let's read the following passage from book four chapter eight

of mere Christianity. The Christian way is different, harder and easier. Christ says,

give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work. I want you. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half measures are any good. I don't want to cut off a branch here and a branch there i want to

have the whole tree down i don't want to drill the tooth or crown it or stop it but to have it out

hand over the whole natural self all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones

you think wicked the as well as the ones you think wicked, the whole

outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself, my own will shall become

yours. And guys, that's the deal.

That's God's final offer.

All of Christ for all of you.

But this doesn't really jive with our modern sensibilities, does it?

Right?

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