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

This is Michael Brown, privilege 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. 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, let's say you play in the New York Yankees. That is the most prestigious

team in baseball over 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 on the Yankees. They have those distinct pinstripe uniforms, and they don't have the players' names on the uniforms. Others, 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 have a mustache,

but you're going to shave that beard. It's just a Yankee tradition. And let's say you make it,

you're a top college player in your sport, and now it's time to, maybe you're in football,

it's time to get in the NFL. You're going to have to up your game. You can't say, well, I was best in my class. No, no, because you're in football. It's time to get in the NFL. You're going to have to up your game.

You can't say, well, I was best in my class.

No, no, because you're at a whole other level of competition.

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