Get in The Arena - S21E6

Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin

Pastor Joby Martin

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.9 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Discipleship isn’t a spectator sport—it’s an active fight. In this final week of In the Arena, Pastor Joby Martin challenges us to move from passive comfort to purposeful action. Drawing on John 2’s temple cleansings, Deuteronomy 14’s “wait” that means “ready to pounce,” and the imprecatory Psalms, Joby shows how righteous anger fuels justice, mercy, and gospel advance. Whether you’ve felt called to fight for orphans, the unborn, or your own spiritual growth, today’s message will equip you to trade your couch for the front lines of God’s kingdom work. 👉 Next Steps: Ready to step into the fight? Text SERVE to 44122 to join a team. Whether it’s mentoring kids, feeding the hungry, or pushing back darkness in our city, there’s a place for you to turn your faith into action. 📣 Episode Mentions: Scripture Passage: John 2:13-22 The Chosen: Season 5 (Episodes 1-2) 📌 Supplemental Sermon Resources: This Week's Story This Week's Sermon In The Arena Sermon Series

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0:00.0	Welcome to Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin.
0:04.0	The Church of 1122 is a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ.
0:10.6	And we're praying this message helps you deepen your relationship with him.
0:15.0	Now let's dive in.
0:17.5	All right, Pastor Joby, I want to ask you a question.
0:20.2	The series in the arena, which is this is the last week, we've talked about kind of two different things.
0:27.7	One is get in the arena and what is you're in the arena.
0:32.1	You're in the fight.
0:33.2	You know what I mean?
0:33.7	And Pastor Adam last week was saying, hey, you're already in a fight.
0:37.7	You know, so wake up in a fight, you know,
0:43.6	so wake up to it. And you said it again tonight. So is there anything else you would add to that,
0:48.8	you know, different ways to look at it, like get in the fight versus you're in a fight?
0:55.7	It'd be a little bit of that Gulag Archipelago quote that I misquote all the time.
0:59.3	Like, it's, the fight is coming for you. So if you don't realize you're in the fight, you're going to lose. So I guess technically we could say start fighting because the fight is coming at you.
1:04.6	Yeah, it's a little wordy. Um, but I do. Not the same ring to it.
1:09.8	Totally. And there are a lot of, like in tonight's sermon, I do think there are a lot of people that just sit
1:18.0	on their couch and just criticize all the problems in the world, but don't do anything about
1:22.7	it, you know, especially Christians.
1:25.1	And so I was just trying to encourage people to take action. Yeah, bias toward action. I especially Christians. And so I was just trying to encourage people to take action.
1:29.6	Yeah, biased toward action.
1:31.0	I especially like when you were saying it's not just about feeling good,
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