Stand Firm & Act Like Men with Pastor Joby Martin (EP. 268)

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This week's episode is sponsored by Backgate Prayers (https://www.backgateprayers.com/). Curated prayer cards, made personal. Helping make prayer for your loved ones a daily habit in every stage of life. These prayer cards are an amazing way to be intentional about praying for your wife and kids! Use the code "menofiron" for 10% off your next purchase! Order by April 30th for a great Mother's Day gift for your wife!This week we finish The Restoration Series with a very special guest, Pastor Joby Martin! Joby Martin is the founder and lead pastor of The Church of Eleven22 (https://coe22.com) in Jacksonville, Florida. In addition to providing The Church of Eleven22 with vision and leadership, Pastor Joby is a national and international preacher and teacher. Joby grew up in South Carolina and spent much of his Sunday mornings hunting and fishing, and not at Sunday service. Joby knew of God but knew nothing of Jesus being the propitiation of his sins. He was at youth camp as a teenager and the counselors reenacted the crucifixion of Jesus, they gave a gospel presentation and a salvation invitation.Check out Joby Martin's new book Stand Firm & Act Like Men (https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Firm-Act-Like-Men/dp/1546008217). Becoming the Man You Were Created to Be Instead of Who the World Says You are.Joby would later go back to that same camp in college, and started preaching. It was at camp that one of the speakers said, "Some of you need to go into full-time vocational ministry," and Joby felt like God was talking to directly to him.So I went and talked to my pastor and he said, "God will always confirm what he calls," and he invited me to be an intern.Joby went on to launch his church in 2012. At The Church of Eleven22, they are calling all men to stand up and act like men. "There is a real attack on manhood in today's culture." It's a high holy calling to be created in the image of God as a man. To be a provider, protector, and servant king.The problem is that men have abdicated their responsibility to be advancers of the Kingdom of God"Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong." 1 Corinthians 16:13 (NIV). The most dangerous thing a man can do say, "I got this." You cannot act like a man until you bend your knee down to Jesus and have him help you do what you can't do. To be a man is to imitate Jesus. It's pride that leads men to say they got this on their own.We all need men in our lives, Mark 2 mat carriers, friends who will carry you to Jesus when you can't walk. Write down those four men right now, if you can't write those four men down you aren't doing it right. The enemy is trying to steal kill destroy, we need a band of brothers to distinguish the flames of the enemy. Do you have friends that have enough faith that when y