Thanks so much for joining us, friends on the line of fire.

This is Michael Brown.

Privileged to serve as your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity.

Privileged to be with you five days a week to infuse you with faith and truth and courage.

All this month, we're focusing on the beauty of holiness.

We're using the Bible and we're going to give you a lot of scripture today, and my book,

Go and Send No More.

If you don't have this book, I strongly encourage you to get a copy of it.

I was humble when Bill Bright wrote the forward to it and called it magnificent.

One of those rare, life-changing books. And I've been changed by preaching and teaching on holiness over the years and by applying the lessons from

going to similar more to my own life. So if you don't have the book, we want every one of you to get it.

Holiness is absolutely essential, friends. It's not optional. Why? Because without holiness,

no one will see the Lord. God is holy. And when he calls us into his family, he calls us to be

holy. You know, there are teams, if you play on a certain team team let's say you play in the new york

yankees that's that is the most prestigious team in baseball over the the last century plus

playing in new york it's the biggest spotlight with media attention and all of that and when

you join the yankees you're told this is you are privileged to be here join the Yankees, you're told this is, you are privileged to be here

on the Yankees. They have those distinct pinstripe uniforms and they don't have the,

the players' names on the uniforms. Other teams do. They don't. It's just kind of a Yankee

tradition. And let's say you come in with a full beard. No, you're going to shave that

beard if you want to be on the Yankees and play. Maybe you with a full beard no you're going to shave that beard if you want to be

on the yankees and play maybe you have a mustache but you're going to shave that beard it's just a

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