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All right, guys, over the last couple of weeks, we've been looking at the 10 elements of a

godly man that we see in scripture. So element one, a godly man has surrendered his life to

Christ. Element two, a godly man is selfless. Element three, a godly man strives for holiness.

Element four, a godly man is repentant. Element five, a godly man loves his wife as Christ love the church. Element six, a godly man is repentant. Element five, a godly man loves his wife as Christ loved the church.

Element six, a godly man is sexually pure. Element seven, a godly man protects his mind. And

element eight, a godly man is humble. Today, we're looking at element nine of a godly man. A godly man

does not rely on his own strength alone. Now, I'm just going to tell you this right from the jump. I hate this one.

I mean, I hate it. And I'm the one that wrote it, right? Okay, that's, you know, when I was going back

doing these speeches of liar, let's give like my top 10 list of elements of a godly man as we see

from scripture. And this one was just so readily apparent. I didn't want to put it on the list, but I did. Why? Because I'm a very

conscientious guy. If you take the big five personality test, I'm incredibly high. I'm like a 99 out of 100

on conscientiousness. Not only am I going to get it done, I'm going to get it done early. It's going to be

perfect and I will pull people over in order to get it done. I love relying on my own strength because that typically works out for me, but that's a problem, right? And part of that is because, you know, I as many others in modernity have been kind of pulled to more of a stoic philosophy, you know, the philosophy of stoicism. So we see people going back and reading, you know, Zeno of Sidium, that's the founder of stoicism, and then they'll read Marcus Aurelius and Seneca the Younger. And, you know, they'll read stuff from some modern-day Stoics, if you can

call them that, like Ryan Holliday or Tim Ferriss or Donald Robertson. And guys, there's a lot of

value that you can get from Stoicism, from Stoic philosophy. Again, we've seen people that are like, you know, Jordan Peterson will say, hey, be the one guy at your father's funeral that everybody can like tether themselves to. Be the guy that's under control.

And there's a lot of value in that, I promise. But there's a big, probably the main problem

with stoicism is that it requires that we look inside of ourselves in order to gain power

and contentment. We have to look to us, to ourselves.

And look, Jeremiah 179 should disabuse us of that notion because it reads this, the heart is deceitful

above all things and desperately sick. Who can understand it? But the thing is, guys, is we should

look outside of ourselves for power

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