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, I don't know about you, but I am super excited for the next

two days. But this week, we are using John Eldridge's book, Beautiful Outlaw, to help us

get to know the personality of Jesus better. And before preparing these episodes for this week,

I did ask John, what were the five chapters that really encapsulate his point about bringing

out the personality of Jesus? And he said chapters two, three, four, five, and seven. So that's what we're going to put

our focus on. Yesterday, we talked about chapters two and three, where we began to see many of us,

you know, what we've been missing this entire time. And that's that Jesus had a personality.

And then we look specifically at the playfulness of Jesus, the man. But for the next two days, we're going to look at chapter four of John Eldridge's book, and that's fierce intention.

And so the beginning of chapter four dovetails nicely with the conclusion of chapter three.

So I'll go ahead and read it here.

And so he's going to jerusalem and suffer

many things at the hands of the elders chief priests and teachers of the law and that he must be killed

and on the third day be raised to life peter took him aside and began to rebuke him never lord he said

this shall never happen to you jesus turned and said to peter get behind me sat Satan. You are a stumbling block to me. You do not

have in mind the things of God, but the things of men. Hold on now. This doesn't sound very

playful. What are we to make of the sudden mood change that erupts from Jesus like thunder from a

clear sky? If your children acted this way, you'd send them into their rooms.

Whatever we have here, we certainly don't have a man of mild emotion or two-dimensional passivity.

For some reason, we keep forgetting that Jesus is operating in enemy territory.

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