Good Soldier | Pastor John Greiner

In this message, Pastor John Greiner draws from 2 Timothy chapter 2 to unpack what it truly means to be a good soldier of Jesus Christ. While the war has already been won, believers are still called to occupy, engage, and force the enemy to honor his terms of surrender. Pastor Greiner identifies three critical battlefields every Christian must navigate: the war of truth, where deception runs rampant and rightly dividing the Word is essential; the war of the flesh, where believers must make a definitive break from iniquity and guard who they allow into their inner circle; and the war of the mind, where thoughts left unchecked become imaginations, and imaginations become strongholds. Practical, direct, and deeply rooted in Scripture, this message is a rallying call for every believer to stay sharp, stay pure, and stay focused on pleasing the One who called them to serve.

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Opening Prayer And Declaration

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And let's lift our Bibles up. We'll wave them around. I'll get into the Word with you tonight. Let's say this together. Say, Heavenly Father, I thank you for your holy written word and for your Holy Spirit. I thank you for the name of Jesus. I thank you, Father, that I'm moving on from one level of faith to the next. From one level of strength to the next higher level of strength. From one glory to the next glory. I'm not static. I'm not in the status quo. I want more of you, and I will receive it in Jesus' name. Amen. 2 Timothy chapter 2 tonight. A number of years ago, God told me to teach what you take for granted. And I gave, you know, it just set me free, trying to come up with all kinds of new fancy messages and stuff. I've got two file cabinets full of treasure that God has given me over 40 years. And, you know, sometimes I go fishing in the treasure house and find a message that I hadn't preached in a while. And, you know, it's always different than the last time. Tonight we're going to talk about being a good soldier. You know, we got soldiers and we've got three aircraft carrier groups surrounding Iran. I mean, our soldier boys are out there now. And I tell you, we've got some good soldiers. We've got some good commanders. We've got some, for the first time, I mean, we fired a bunch of the upper echelon generals, got rid of the woke generals, and we've got some. I like that raisin cane. I mean, that guy, he's top drawer. But anyway, being a good soldier, 2 Timothy chapter 2, verse 1. Thou, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and the things that thou hast heard of me by many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also. Notice the line of authority. It came from Paul to a people that hung around Paul that had a witness, and they they witnessed to these men, and then now these men are going to teach others also. That's how it goes. Thou, therefore, talking to Timothy, thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. I think about in the waning months of World War II, the Germans tried one more last-ditch effort to break through our lines in Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge was what it was called. Our lines bulged. They almost broke through and they could have won the war. And everybody was pretty upset. Ike was very concerned. Is there anybody can go to Bastone and relieve them there? They're under their outman. They've only they've only got a few people, and they've got a whole regiment of German soldiers out there, and they're holding them off, but they can't hold them up, hold them off much longer. Is there anybody? Well, Phil Mark Marshal Montgomery, I'm sorry, but there's nothing he can do with nothing, nothing he could ever do. I mean, he guy was overrated. But Patton said, Oh, I can I can attack with full force in 48 hours. What do you mean that you're a hundred miles from there? It's winter time. What do you mean? He said, He said, I uh there's no way. He said, my my guys, my my my my staff has already drawn up the plans. And we're underway. We know exactly what how we're gonna do and what we're gonna do. And they they he marched his men a hundred miles in freezing weather, snow on the ground, with no hot food. On the day before Christmas, they arrived in Bastogne and and and relieved that group in Bastogne. I mean, it that you talk about suffering hardness. I mean, our soldiers suffer hardness. And here, you know, Paul is telling Timothy, hey, you know, you're gonna have to endure some hardness as a soldier, as a good soldier. You know, if you're a good soldier, you could be a bad soldier. How many of you want to be a good soldier? Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Hardship, trouble, affliction. That's what hard hard hardness is. Hardship, trouble, and affliction. He said, No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. Everybody say, I've been chosen to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries, let it not be let him not be crowned except he strive lawfully. The husbandman that laboreth must be first partaker of the fruits. Consider what I say. The Lord give thee understanding in all things. Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel. I'll just stop there at verse 7. The Lord give thee understanding in all things. So being a good soldier. You know, I heard a message back when I first got saved. A prophet came to town. I went and sat under his meaning, but he's talking about, you know, we're in a war. A lot of Christians don't know we're in a war, but we are in a war. I mean, Jesus won the war, but I mean the devil is not, I mean, he has to be subdued. We don't have to win the war again, but we do have to uh engage in in forcing the devil to agree to his terms of surrender. He doesn't he doesn't play fair and he doesn't obey uh his signature where he gave up unconditionally. He offered Jesus an unconditional surrender, I assure you. But he's a rebel, and he's a liar, and he's a murderer. And he does not go uh uh according to the Geneva Convention. And so, you know, for that reason, you know, we got to understand that we are at war. And we're soldiers occupying until Jesus comes, and we have to endure hardship. So I just read here in chapter four, in verse four, five, and six, three comparisons. The first was military, endure hardness as a good soldier. No man that warreth. No man that warreth, no man that goes to war gets entangled with the affairs of this life. What does that mean? It means let's stay, let's put our attention on what is important. Let's not get diverted. We're in war. I didn't live during World War II. I was born right after that, but I read about how it was, even if you weren't in the military, I mean, they had rationing. I mean, you couldn't get all the sugar you wanted, you couldn't get tires for your car, you couldn't have all the gas you wanted. They rationed everything so that they could take all the raw material of this nation and put it in the in the production of war machines. No cars made. They had a few handful of 1942 models. If you can find a 42 model car, that's a rare model. Because 41 was the last year they made, and they had a few 42s before they shut them down. I don't know that you could get that done in today's day. But uh, so there's three comparisons. He says, you know, military there. You know, don't get sidetracked. We're in a war. You're gonna have to war, you know. Don't get sidetracked. Why? Because you want to please him that chose you to be a soldier. I want to please him. I want him to say, well done. You're a good soldier. Here's a medal for that last campaign. I don't want to get sent to the brig. I don't want to be sent home. Are y'all with me now? Some people have been sent home. Home to heaven. Because they didn't war good warfare. And then the next comp uh comparison in verse five is sports. Paul was liked to compare things about games and the sports and the races, and he said, you know, if a man strives for mastery, in other words, he's he wants to win the race, he wants to win the medal, then he's got to compete lawfully. He can't cheat. If he cheats, he doesn't get the medal. He didn't get the crown. And then the third comparison is agriculture. You know, the husbandman that laboreth must be first partaker of the fruits. Consider what I say, and the Lord give thee understanding. In other words, you know, you when you live in the ministry, you depend on the people you're ministering to to minister to you the carnal things that you need to live. You shouldn't have to go to work in the secular world. I knew a uh a young pastor, and I mean he just worked himself, and he was an employee of a city. I think he ran the water department, and on the weekends here, he's a little Baptist pastor, you know, a little old dried-up town, South Texas. I thought, man, oh man, it's terrible. You know, they don't know anything about the Bible. They don't know how to have a proper church. A pastor should not have to have a job. His job ought to be right here. And he ought to be counted of double honor if he labors in the word of God and doctrine. That's the Bible. And so the tithe is belonging, you know, if people don't tithe, then there's no money for the pastor. The tithe has always been for the ministry. And then offerings over and above are for everything else, building programs and whatever. So since we are in combat, everybody say, I am in combat. Just want to remind you, the bullets are flying. You might want to duck every now and then, okay? Oh. But since we are in combat, where are the battlefields? You know, I don't know. I just think that way. Maybe, maybe you don't think that way. When I read my Bibles, I mean it just begs the question. Okay, I hear you. I hear you. Now, where are the battlefields? Where's the battlefield that I'm supposed to be fighting on? You know, in World War II, they had all kinds of battlefields. They had, you know, Sardinia, they had Italy, they had uh France, they had Belgium. I mean, they they had a lot of battlefields. Then they had the Pacific. They had all those islands. Island by Iwo Jima. All these islands, you can't even pronounce their names. I mean, went from island to island. Talk about battlefields. Well, where are the battlefields that we're fighting in? And tonight I wanted to give you three. And they're found on down as we read. The first one, uh, battlefield is the war of truth, verse 15. Study to show yourself approved unto God. And again, he's talking to an apostle, a young apostle, uh Timothy, his son in the faith, and he's encouraging him. He said, Study to show yourself approved. See, again, if you can be approved, you can be unapproved, disapproved. You can study wrong, you can study in the wrong area, you can you can have error. He said, study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. If you can rightly divide it, you can wrongly divide it. You can miss what it means by a lack of study and knowledge and sitting under the right kind of teaching as you're being prepared to enter into your ministry. He sat under Timothy. He had a close association with Timothy. He was a young man, got a lot of persecution because of his age, but he had the goods. But like any young minister, he needed to be encouraged from time to time. And so this is Paul encouraging him about the warfare that he's in. And you are in a, he's basically saying you're in a war of truth. You've got the word of truth. You've got to rightly divide the word of truth. And so in Luke 21, 8, when they asked Jesus, when are you coming back? What are going to be the signs of the times? How are we going to know when you're coming back? The first thing that Jesus said, He the first thing he said before he talked about that, he said, Take heed that no man deceive you. And we have a spirit of deception that's been loosed upon this generation that's unprecedented. We go from psy-ops after psyops after psy-ops. Do you know what a psychological operation is? It is exactly how Hitler took over Germany. It's how communists took over Russia. How do you think they gained? They just lied. And they made people believe a lie. And they lied to them about what they would do if they were in charge. And they they didn't do what they said they'd do. And we keep, we've had this over and over and over and over, and I know fine people that are just deceived. Listen, let's rightly divide the word of truth, the answers right here. This ought to inform anytime you're voting. This right here ought to inform your voting. It ought to inform who you're for. And 2 Thessalonians, you know, keep your place there and turn over a few pages to the left. 2 Thessalonians chapter 3. Or excuse me, verse 2. Talking about the Antichrist. Verse 9, even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, which all power and signs and lying wonders, he's going to have those. People are going to be deceived. We're going to be gone when he shows up. We're not going to be here when he's here. And uh, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved. People are going to miss the rapture because they didn't love the truth. And look, I'm going to instill in you a love of truth by telling you the truth. As best I can. I mean, I'm not perfect, but I am, when I know what the truth is, I'm going to let you know what the truth is. And we're not going to paint some kind of picture of deception. We must be lovers of the truth. You know, there's wrong doctrines, especially since COVID. You've got all these false apostles, false teachers, false pastors, false churches. This Taller Rico guy, he's he's a, I'm telling you, he is the Antichrist spirit. That guy is crazy. It just seems like all of the their candidates. I mean, they're just lunatics. I'm not going to be deceived by that. But wrong doctrines, you know, with replacement theology. I mean, the Catholic Church still believes that. I hate to tell all my Catholic friends, you need to get out of the Catholic Church now. They are not right. I'm not saying that all Catholics are going to hell. I'm saying because there are some Catholics that are saved, but they're not saved from anything that they heard in church. Because they're not taught the truth. They're not given the tools to get saved. I confronted my parish priest after I got saved. I went to his office and I confronted him nose to nose. I said, Why didn't you tell me about being born again, Father Blank? Well, he later on was had to resign because he was guilty of molesting the altar boys. That's what kind of man he was. Are y'all with me now? Talking about loving the truth. And so this Pope, he is off. The last one was sure off, but he's off, he's off just as off as that guy. I don't have much replacement theology, Pastor, what are you talking about? That the church took the place of Israel. So they don't love Israel. They hate, they hate Jews. They don't say that out loud, but that's really underneath all of their. They copied Judaism. All the pomp and ceremony and the funny hats and all the vestments. I mean, they they took, and that's what they did. They took Judaism and moved it into the Catholic Church and called it, you know, Christianity. It's not. It's not. Now I'm not saying that all Catholics are going to hell. Don't misunderstand. I mean, some Catholics are saved in spite of being under that error. But I mean, I tell you, if I had any Catholic friends or family, I'd do everything I could to convince them to get out. Get out now while the getting's good. And so replacement theology is a lie. Methodists believe that. Some of the Presbyterians believe that. I mean, you've got to, the denominational churches, there are some non-denominational churches that teach it. You've got to be careful. The greasy grace message. Anything goes. God's grace covers everything. There's no problem. Sin's not a problem. Don't worry about repenting. Don't worry about, you know, I've one one preacher that was all over television and still is and broke books and everything else. I mean, he's just completely out of it. He went to ORU. Brother Oral Roberts sat with him and tried to correct him. He wouldn't listen. Tony Cook from Raymouth sat with him five hours, opened his Bible, showed him all the errors. He didn't care. He willingly wants to teach people that there's no problem with sin. You don't have to repent. Just keep on. 1 John 1 9 is not written to Christians. Is that right? Well, how did you get to that? My Bible says it's written to Christians. Why would it? Who else would it be written to? And so, you know, I just say, I, you know, let's be careful. Everybody say a war of truth. Eternal security. Once saved, always saved. Once saved, always saved. You know, the only person I believe that for is me. I was once saved, I'm always going to be saved, and I'm never going to be lost. Now I can say that about me, but I can't say that about you. Because you could conceivably turn. I went to school, high school, with a guy that, you know, I wasn't saved in those years. And uh, but he and I were not friendly. I didn't like him. He didn't like me. I mean, just between you and me, he was a jerk face. But then, you know, I just but time goes on, little Rifurio, Texas, little town, you know. Live and let live. He married somebody that I knew. And he abused, I found, you know, you know things you don't really want to know. Then I get saved and I find out he's abusing his wife, choked her, you know, and all this, and he was a drunk, and he was just, you know, he was living the beginning of his life started bad and it got worse all the way through, you know. And so I ran into him in the street out in front of my mother-in-law's house one time. Gladstone and I were down to see her mother, and here he's coming down the street, and I I waved at him. He rolled the window down. Hey, Larry, and shook hands with him. How you doing? And uh just chatted with him a minute, you know. And I said, Well, I, you know, how are you doing? I said, Well, I'm doing great. I said, Between the last time you saw me, I got saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. Have you ever accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior? Oh, yeah, I did that when I was 10 years old. Yeah? I wonder why. I didn't take. I didn't say that. See, he's deceived. He thought he was saved just by going down and joining the church at 10 years old. Once saved, always say he never, never lived for God. I knew the guy. I knew he was a drunk in high school. He's drunk as an adult, abused his wife, and died of cirrhosis of the liver. I think he might have gotten in just by the skin of his teeth. I knew somebody that ministered to him in his last days. Once saved, always saved. Eternal security. That's an error. It's a war of truth out there. All right, the second one. The second battlefield, the truth battlefield, the one, the next one is the flesh battlefield, the war in the flesh. Verse 19. Well, let's get back to the war of truth. I wanted to forgot back verse 18. Verse 16. Shun, I'm still on back on the war of truth. Shun profane and vain babblings, they will increase unto more and godliness. Their word will eat as doth a canker, of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus. Now, Paul names names. He names names that that had erred. Who concerning the truth have erred. They're in the church and they've gone against truth. They've erred, saying that the resurrection is passed already and overthrow the faith of some. See, they're ministers, false ministers. And people are getting wrong information and making wrong decisions based on the lack of truth. And so they stop being people of the word. Amen. Alright, then it gets into the war of the flesh. Verse 19. Nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are his. And let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Depart from iniquity. Depart means to make a definite stand or break from unrighteousness. To make a definite stand or break from unrighteousness. It's always dangerous to give in to addiction, whether it's addiction to alcohol, whether it's addiction, you know, anything like that. It's it's if you don't make a stand and a final break and turn from that. See the war of the flesh. You're giving in to the flesh. And he goes on to say. He said, let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart. Take a definite break from iniquity. You know, don't live with a woman that's not your wife. Or why or wives don't live with a man that's not your husband. Don't live together before marriage. That's iniquity. It's fornication. Don't do it. When we have young couples, we find out what they're doing and how and and we give them a way out. Getting married. We'll do the ceremony. How about next week? How about tonight? We'll get you married tonight. Make you legal. Let's end the iniquity. See, society has said, oh, this is just fine. Hollywood says it's just fine. It's not fine. Not fine. Truth. War of the flesh. So then he says, but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and earth, and some to honor and some to dishonor. If a man therefore purge or prune himself from these, from these what? From these unworthy vessels, these vessels of wood and earth. What is a vessel of wood or earth? It's just, it's temporary, it can't really hold what a vessel of gold or silver can. A vessel of gold and silver, that's why they used them in the temple because they can be cleaned, but a a wood, uh, a wood vessel is going to get dirty and it you you can't clean it. You see a chopping block. I mean, you you have a chopping block for a while, you better get rid of it because it's going to have that bacteria embedded down in the wood grain. I mean, it looks pretty at first, but it's it's kind of dangerous to have one of those hanging. Well, I put it through my dish. Listen, it's got it inside that grain. You better get rid of it. And earth, wood and earth. I mean, they're they're not suitable vessels for the Holy Ghost to live in, is what he's talking about. In a great house, you're going to have all kinds of people. And you'd be best to separate yourself from people that are not pure. Don't hang out with people that just love iniquity, that haven't made a break with iniquity. You can witness to them, you can pray for them, but you don't hang with them. Are y'all getting this now? If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified in meet for the master's use and prepared for every good work. And so, if that's the case, then you're a yielded vessel. I like what Catherine Kuhlman used to say. God's not really looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He's looking for yielded vessels. And by definition, a yielded vessel is a gold or silver. Because that's what kind you'd have to be. To be used of God, you've got to be pure. You've got to separate yourself from iniquity up here, the war of the flesh, and you've got to separate from that. Verse 22 flee also youthful lusts, but also righteousness, faith, and agape and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. It's amazing how people get hung up trying to relive their youth. They go back on Facebook now or social media, they look up their old high school sweetheart, and they find out that they're, you know, available, and now you're available, and so you get hang together, you know, and next thing you know, and sometimes they're not really available. Sometimes they have, they start off with emotional affairs with a person. Why does that happen? Well, there's a there is a familiar spirit that connects you, a soul tie between your old girlfriend or old boyfriend and you, and especially if you had uh relations, and many people did, when you have that relation, it binds you to that person forever. And the only way to get rid of that tie is to break it in the name of Jesus. And most people don't know how to do that. So they go back to their youthful lusts and they start flirting around with their old boyfriend or the old girlfriend, they have an affair, and next thing you know, they're blowed up. Can't imagine how many times that's happened. I've had to minister to people that got into that trap. Flee. Youthful lust. And uh follow after righteousness, faith, agape, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. See, hang with the right people. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strife. What does that mean? It just means to learn to walk in unity by minding your own business. You've heard of B Y O B, bring your own bottle with M Y-O-B, mind your own business. Everybody say I'm minding my own business. I mean, let's not be, you know, let's not ask indelicate questions of people. Let's just let, you know, let people want to share with you their secrets, that's fine, but let's not be nosy. Let's let's let people that's how you walk in unity. All right. So we've had the war of truth, that's one battlefield, war of the flesh is another one. And then the last one is the war, is the war of the mind. The mind is the other battlefield. And we have a warfare and it's intense for the mind. Verse 24. And the servant of the Lord, everybody say that's me. He could have said the soldier of Jesus Christ. That's all saying, that's me. See, one and the same. The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves, if God perventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will. What in the world? Well, first of all, be patient with people. Uh, you know. Don't fright and quarrel with people. Sometimes you're going to come across people that are not as mature as you are. They haven't been, you know, they might not be emotionally as emotionally mature as you are. Sometimes it's just plain baby Christians. Baby Christians can be kind of a little bit of a uh hard to get along with. They get easily offended and they get mad and they and you have to be patient and gentle with them. And you you take them under your wing and you and you get and you gently minister to them and see and get them to to you know to to say and do the right thing. I'm I'm glad I had people around me that told me the truth about me. And uh, and so it helps uh for a church to have people like that. Gentle. James 1.19, I like this one of my favorites. Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. That's a good way to be. And then when we started here in 2 Timothy chapter 2 in verse 4, it says, No man that warreth. So what is the war? Really, the word warreth there is a Greek word that means to engage in an apostolic campaign, to live an apostolic lifestyle. What does that mean? Apostolic. What does that mean? It means that you're a trailblazer, it means that you're a first responder. It means that you're first on the fight, and you're confronting uh the devil. And where is that fight mostly? It's in the mind. Let's look at 2 uh Corinthians real quick. Turn over to 2 Corinthians chapter 10. Keep the thing about wareth. No man that warreth. Verse 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, they're not of the flesh, but they're mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into obedience of the uh into captivity, uh, bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. So the weapons of our warfare, of our apostolic lifestyle. This is an apostolic vine with a prophetic flow. You're in an apostolic vine. Really, the whole church is apostolic and just doesn't know it. Apostolic means you're going out. You're going out and you're giving your testimony. You're going out and talking to people about Jesus. That's really what it means. Where's the big, where's the big battlefield? Where's right in here in your mind, because he says the weapons of our warfare are not carnally. You cast down these imaginations and so forth and so on. And in 2 Corinthians, uh a few pages over, chapter 4, verse 3, if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, and in the lost person, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them. The God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest they light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine in unto them. So the apostolic lifestyle brings you in contact and resistance with the God of this world or the God of this age. And when you look up the meaning of the God of this age, yeah, it's Satan, but it's more than that. It's all that floating mass of opinions, maxims, you know, all of that kind of thing. It's it's woke, it's LGBTQ, it's transgender mutilation, it's all of the stuff that we have out there that is all of that, all of that is the God of this age. And that is where the impact comes into our mind. I mean, you've got to make sure that you take thought, every thought captive, because if you don't, it'll turn into an imagination. And then if you don't do anything about it, it'll turn into what? A stronghold. And I've seen good Christian people, they just they just get uh beat down little by little. Maybe they have a little darling that gets off and gets over into, you know, an alternative lifestyle, and they come home and you just love your little darling, and you don't want to break with them, and you don't want to, you know, separate from them. And uh rather than uh confront the situation, you just go along with it and you make excuses for it. What have you done? Well, you've just agreed with the devil. The God of this age has invaded your brain, and now you're headed down the tubes. Now, I mean, you can't love your child more than you love Jesus, you can't love your mother and daddy more than you love Jesus. Jesus comes first. I don't care who they are. Now you're gonna have to confront that. You're gonna say, now, little darling, we didn't, we don't believe in that in this house. I love you, but I don't love what you're doing. And as long as you're doing it, you can't be here with your partner. You can come and visit. We'd love to see you. But what you have nowadays, you've got this, you've got this uh uh advocacy now. They get they get on a high horse, don't they? Well, then you just don't, you know, you're just fake. You don't really love anything. I'm just with I'm just with the person I love. I'm just with the person. That's what they say. I'm with the person I love. They don't know anything about love. Are y'all getting anything out of this? Everybody say the war of the mind. I mean, you know, you get thoughts and they become imaginations, they become strongholds, and then when they become strongholds, you've got trouble. You're probably gonna need help to get rid of a stronghold. You're gonna have to have a break from that thought pattern and that that recurring thought. And uh you got to the only person to keep your thought life is you. You've got to keep your thought life clear, and then you'll be able to relate to others and be a blessing to others and help lift them up when they're going down the wrong road. To my way of thinking, when you have children that go that way, you've got to look ahead and see what who they're hanging with, and you've got to stop that and nip that in the butt. But it's pretty hard if they go to a school and they hide from you this whole lie about coming out as a you know transgender and all that. It's a lie. I really I feel I feel for parents nowadays. It's tough. But the quicker you act on it, the better it is. I mean, you know, cut it off. You've got power over the power of the enemy in the name of Jesus. So as you grow in the word and spirit, win the confrontations on these three battlefields, and you'll be a good soldier who pleases the one who called him to be a soldier. Come on, lift your hands and receive tonight. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord.