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All right guys , welcome back to another week of the Daily Blade . Now one of the greatest things that I get to do because of my really weird job is I actually get invited to come and speak at churches all over the country . So small churches , big churches , you know , some in the middle of a city , some out in the middle of nowhere . I've even been able to speak at prisons , so shout out to the guys over at Lewisburg Prison in Pennsylvania . So that is a really cool thing I get to do for my job and typically I get to pick my subject matter . The people are just like yeah , talk about whatever you want to talk about . So I usually have some that are kind of prepackaged , ready to go . But if they do make a request , right . If the church or the men's group makes a request or like , hey , can you do something on , you know , quote unquote , biblical masculinity . And that's a little bit hard , if I'm being honest , because that's really broad and it's also kind of nebulous . You don't really know exactly what people mean . But I've gotten that challenge and that request so much over the years that I've decided with a lot of my talks to make like a list of like okay , what are some elements of a godly man , and so I did come up with a non-exhaustive okay so got to put emphasis on that a non-exhaustive list of the 10 elements of a godly man . So all of these come from the Bible and that's what we're going to be covering over the next two weeks on the Daily Blade
, so all of this week and all of next week . So these elements are not in any particular order , but I will tell you the first one , the one we're going over today , is preeminent , okay , so here's element one of a godly man . A godly man has surrendered his life to Christ , at which point you might be thinking , well , duh , kyle , I mean , you can't really be a godly man unless you've surrendered your life to Christ . But some people have not really thought that through , and so I figured I would just be very explicit about it . But the thing about it is , if you haven't given your life over to Christ , the pursuit of quote unquote godliness becomes one of two things . It either becomes one , being the ultimate rule follower , right , or two , making ourselves into a little G God . And those are kind of connected , because if you are the ultimate rule follower , then you can look at yourself like man . I am so awesome I've become this little G God .
Speaker 2But the text that we're going to be talking about today is from the end of the second chapter of Paul's letter to the church
in Galatia . So Galatians 2 contains both one of my favorite historical occurrences in the entire New Testament and one of my favorite passages in the entire New Testament perhaps the entire Bible . And so in Galatians 2 , verses 11 through 14 , we see Paul opposing Peter to his face . So Peter was not acting right . He was kind of buying into this whole gospel plus narrative because of the circumcision party . Yeah , that's an actual party , not a party I would want to go to , but I digress . But Paul opposed him to his face . I absolutely love that story .
Speaker 2But let's go into Galatians 2 , verses 20 and 21 . I have been crucified with Christ . It is no longer I who live , but Christ who lives in me , and the life I now live in the flesh . I live by faith in the Son of God , who loved me and gave himself up for me . I do not nullify the grace of God , for if righteousness were through the law , then Christ died for no purpose . So let's break this down just a little bit . Verse 20, . I have been crucified with Christ . It is no longer I who live , so you're dead . Right , guys , you are dead . You are no longer you . You were bought with a price . You're dead now . And so I thought of Philippians 3 , verse 10 , that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and may suffer or share his sufferings , becoming like him in death . Okay , so , you're like him in death Verse 20 again . But Christ who lives in me . Okay , so you're dead , but you're also not dead at the same time . Right , so you , the you that you were before , is dead now , but you are now not dead because Christ is now living in you . Okay , and let's go back to the verse and the life I now live in the flesh . I live by faith in the son of God , who loved me and gave himself up for me . Okay , so , right there in the verse , we have this uh , you know , contrasting of living in the flesh , and that's immediately contrasted with living by faith . But let's go ahead and go to verse 21 . I do not nullify the grace of God , for if righteousness were through the law , then Christ died for no purpose . Again . I'll read that again , verse 21 . I do not nullify
the grace of God , for if righteousness were through the law , then Christ died for no purpose .
Speaker 2Guys , if we could clean ourselves up , like if we could , as Wes Huff said on the Joe Rogan experience , like you know , the law is a mirror . Have you ever tried to like clean mud off your face with a mirror ? It doesn't do anything . It lets you know that you're dirty , but you can't clean yourself up . There's nothing that we can do to save ourselves , because if we could , if we could act good enough or give enough money or do those types of things , then Christ didn't need to die .
Speaker 2And so I actually found a great quote as I was digging into the scripture . It's from one of the greatest , if not the greatest , early church preachers . It's John Chrysostom . He says this Christ having died shows that the law has no power to justify us , for if the law can justify or make us righteous , the death of Christ is superfluous . And so , guys , I don't know about you , but you should just try to sneak superfluous into all your different quotes throughout the day . But the reality is this , guys Jesus was a real guy . He was a Middle Eastern Jewish construction worker that really did a worldly ministry for about three years . He really had apostles and disciples . He really was captured . He really was murdered by the Romans at the behest of the Jewish Sanhedrin . He really was put into Joseph of Arimathea's tomb and he really was resurrected three days later . And all of that counted for all of us . That's the reality . So , element one of a godly man , a godly man has surrendered his life to Christ . If you have not done so , I compel you to do so right now .
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