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.

All right, guys, welcome back to another week of the Daily Blade. Now, one of the greatest

things that I get to do because of my really weird job is I actually get invited to come

and speak at churches all over the country. So small churches, big churches, you know, some in the

middle of a city, some out in the middle of nowhere. I've even been able to speak at prisons.

So shout out to the guys over at Lewisburg Prison in Pennsylvania. So that is a really

cool thing I get to do for my job. And typically, I get to pick my subject matter. The people are just

like, yeah, I talk about whatever you want to talk about. So I usually have some that are kind of

prepackaged, ready to go. But if they do make a request, right, if the church or the men's group makes a request, they're like, hey, can you do something on, you know, quote unquote biblical masculinity? And that's a little bit hard, if I'm being

honest, because that's really broad and it's also kind of nebulous. You don't really know exactly

what people mean. But I've gotten that challenge and that request so much over the years that I've

decided with a lot of my talks to make like a list of like, okay, what are some elements

of a godly man? And so I did come up with a non-exhaustive, okay? So got to put emphasis on that, a non-exhaustive

list of the 10 elements of a godly man. So all of these come from the Bible. And that's what we're

going to be covering over the next two weeks on the daily blade. So all of this week and all of next week. So these elements are not in any particular order, but I will tell you the first one,

the one we're going over today, is preeminent. Okay? So here's element one of a godly man. A godly man

has surrendered his life to Christ. At which point you might be thinking, duh Kyle i mean you can't really be a godly man unless

you've surrendered your life to christ but some people have not really thought that through and so i figured

i would just be very explicit about it but the thing about it is if you haven't given your life

over to christ the pursuit of quote unquote godliness becomes one of two things it either

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