Amen and amen and amen.

I'm saying, you can't touch me.

I'm a child of God.

How about that?

Hey, I talked to Paul on Thursday night and his cancer is 100% gone.

Praise God for that.

If you've got your Bibles, and I hope you do, John chapter 2 is where we are going to be.

We're on the sixth and final week of this series called In the Arena, and we've been talking

about fights.

This whole year we've been focused on men standing firm and acting like men, because when

men lead in love well, everybody flourishes, and we've been talking about fighting.

And so if you're going to be a follower of Jesus, let me just give you a baseline definition.

To be a Christian, to be a follower of Jesus means that we are to follow in the footsteps of Jesus,

that we are conformed into the image and likeness of the Son of God, which means sometimes you've got to fight.

Now, if you're a pacifist, you're not here. You left a long time ago. You may be watching online and you're critical. That's fine. Actually, nobody's a pacifist. They just outsource their violence to other people. But I don't have time for that. Anyway, but sometimes you got to fight. Sometimes you fight theologically. We do that a lot, right? Sometimes you fight spiritually. We talk about that a lot.

Sometimes you fight politically. Which, by the way, remember when that evil amendment four

tried to creep into our state? You fought. You went to the battle boxes. We fought for life.

And I've never told you this, I probably should have.

After that happened, we, you received a letter from the governor's office saying thank you for getting in the fight, and because of the actions of 1122, we had a significant part in

voting that thing down, and what they have told us is that 40,000 babies will be born every year because we said no to that evil

in our state. Amen. Way to go. So we fight. We fight. Sometimes you fight relationally and

sometimes you've even got to fight physically. The Bible says the Lord is a warrior. The Lord

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