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, over the next two weeks, we're going over the 10 elements of a godly man,

and this is as we see in scripture. So so far, we've talked about a godly man has

surrendered his life to Christ, and a godly man is selfless. Today we're talking about

element three, and element three of a godly man is a godly man strives for holiness. Now, as men, we strive for

a lot of stuff, right? We strive for more money. We want, you know, career and business success. We

want prestige. We want notoriety. We want fame. How about this? We want higher one-rep maxes, right? We

want more jiu-jitsu trophies. We want faster miles. We want the best spring break bod. Right? We want more Jiu-Jitsu trophies. We want faster miles. We want the best spring break bod. We want back-to-back fantasy football championships. We're on level up in some random video game. We strive for stuff, right? Well, what about holiness? I mean, I'll just say for a lot of people, and even for me at times, it's kind of an afterthought, right? We don't really focus on holiness,

but my job today is to bring that idea, the idea of striving for holiness to the front of your brain. And I'm going to use the apostle Peter to help me do that. Now, I love me some Peter.

And here's the reason why I love me some Peter, because he's kind of dumb, right? And I'm kind of

dumb. Like Peter is long on words,

but not long on thinking. And you can see this throughout his ministry. So I'm like, hey, if there's

hope for Peter and if he can be the rock on which Jesus was going to build his church, maybe he

could do something with a dumber like me. But here's the thing about Peter. Peter is going to be calling us to be holy. Okay? It's not going to be a polite

suggestion. So let's go to the words of Peter in 1st Peter 1, verses 13 through 20. Therefore,

preparing your minds for action and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that

will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be

conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as He who called you as holy, you also be

holy in all your conduct, since it is written, you shall be holy, for I am holy. And if you can call

on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds,

conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,

knowing that you were ransomed from the feudal ways inherited from your forefathers,

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