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The Warrior's Heart: Keeping the Faith
October 7, 2025 · 34 min
Drawing from Paul's words in 2 Timothy 4:7-8, John Mark explores how a warrior's heart must fight the good fight, finish the race, and keep the faith.
Series "Men's Breakfast" with John Mark Caton October 7, 2025 · 34 min · "Men's Breakfast" with John Mark Caton
Drawing from Paul's words in 2 Timothy 4:7-8, John Mark explores how a warrior's heart must fight the good fight, finish the race, and keep the faith. ...more Show the full description Show less Drawing from Paul's words in 2 Timothy 4:7-8, John Mark explores how a warrior's heart must fight the good fight, finish the race, and keep the faith.
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A Warrior's Legacy: Fighting the Good Fight 0:02 Welcome to Men's Breakfast with John Mark Keaton. Join us as John Mark shares his insights with other men in his ministry rooted in the timeless truths of the gospel. Today's message will encourage you to0:14 inspire, inform, and invest in the lives of others. This is men's breakfast with your host, John Mark Caton.0:21 We've been in a series, entitled A Warrior's Heart, and if, you missed any of it, you can find it on the podcast on Bible study men's low, men's download. Week 1, we looked at, a warrior's0:33 heart, has a heart like David. The reality, if you can go look at that, man looks on the outside, but God looks on a heart, of all people who would lead Israel and ultimately defeat,0:45 Goliath and do all that he did of all the people and all the sons that Jesse had. David seemed like the least likely. But God had a different plan because David, God didn't look on the outside, he0:57 looked at his heart. And so guys, maybe there's someone in here you think to yourself or about yourself, man, of all the people in this room, or of all the people in this church, certainly God can't use me. Can I tell1:08 you, God can use you, because God will look at your heart, and others may look at your appearance, the outward appearance, but God will look at your heart, we looked at that week 1? Week 2, we talked about the call to1:18 the battlefield. That every 1 of us as men, as godly men, we are called to the battle. We're called to the battle for our families, for our kids, for our cities, for our church,1:30 and for our community, and if we are not, moving towards the battle, we are not answering the call that God has placed on our life. And so we talked that second week about the call to the battle. Last1:42 week, we talked about if we're going to the battlefield, we better have the right weapons. And what do those weapons look like, for a man of God if we are gonna go to the battlefield? We wanna go there with1:54 God provided weapons. And so we looked at what those were and then today I wanna talk to us about the legacy of a warrior. What kind of legacy are you going to leave? What kind of2:06 legacy are you going to leave, for your family, for your church, for your city, for your country, for your community? And ultimately it is about our2:17 legacy. You know, we talked a little bit and had a little joke about Luca. What is Luca's legacy gonna be now? There's no doubt, the trade was amazing. Everybody in the NBA is shocked, everybody in Dallas is2:29 shocked, clearly a generational player. But something happened, or was going on behind the scenes that you and I will probably never know for a long, long time, that caused2:41 the Mavericks to say, you know what, we're better without him than with him. Let me tell you, you just don't say that to a generational player regardless. So you must think there's something going on behind the scenes,2:53 right? What is his legacy gonna be like? I will tell you, take the current general manager, Nico, his legacy is going to be defined by this trait. 1 way or the other.3:05 When you see what he got back, AD, who by the way is a great player, he's not Luca, but he's a great player. That Max they brought back, he will immediately, from the day he steps on the field, be our3:17 best perimeter defender as a 2 guard. He's better than people think. However, no 1 is Luca. You say, well, why would they make that trade? Well, it may well turn out to be good for3:29 Luca. I mean that really. Clearly Luca didn't respect the people in our organization enough to show up literally in shape. This is the truth, okay? The in shape. As good3:41 as he was, he never met his full potential. It's going to be interesting to me when he shows up next year and goes to camp with Lebron, and Lebron looks at him. My3:53 guess is there's a good chance this will be great for Luka. As good as he already was, he's gonna show up ripped, you're gonna see muscles, you're gonna see a lean Luka, this might be better for both organizations, but4:05 what is Luka's legacy gonna be? What are the Dallas Mavericks' legacy gonna be? It's gonna be defined by the decisions that they made, and so as we think about it, I ran across this quote4:17 as we think about a legacy of a warrior. Here's a quote I ran across this week, it's not the beginning, but the ending that makes a soldier great. It's not the beginning, but the ending that makes a4:28 soldier great. We're gonna see this. It's not the beginning of the trade because if you look at the trade on face value, the Mavericks didn't get enough back. We didn't get nearly enough back, but apparently they won at4:39 AD. Alright? That's what they wanted because they think they can win with that 1 player. Can they win? It remains to be seen, but my guess is if they put a championship up this year or next year, that's4:51 I think that's their 2 year window, everybody's gonna forget about this, alright? And then the next 20 years down the road, everybody's gonna be watching how awesome Luke is, right? But it's not the beginning, it's the5:00 ending that ultimately leaves the lasting legacy. And so guys, where are you right now? If you look at your beginning, my guess is there's some5:12 guys in the room that from the beginning till now, you look pretty dadgum awesome. Can I remind you it's not the beginning, it's the ending that really matters? My guess is there are some guys in the room5:23 or maybe guys online or guys that are listening to this podcast that from the beginning till now, it doesn't look real good for you. You don't look like you're gonna leave that much of a legacy. You don't look like,5:36 you're gonna leave that much of a legacy for your family or your church from the beginning till now, it just doesn't look that good. I just wanna encourage you. It's not the beginning that matters, it's the ending. And5:46 so as we talk through today the idea of leaving a legacy, a warrior leaves a legacy, let's tap in, hear what God challenges with and says to us, and I also want you to hear me5:58 well. Every guy in this room has an opportunity between now and your earthly ending to6:09 leave a great legacy. I believe that. I was praying that last night. I was walking downstairs praying last night, and Jesus said, what are you doing? Well, as a public speaker, you have a6:21 tendency to talk to yourself a lot. Anybody do that? I come, she goes, who you talking to? And, luckily I had my shocks on, there was nobody. I was just talking to God. I said, God, let me deliver this message in a way6:32 that if there's some guys this morning that you wonder, when you look at your beginning, can God still use me? Yes. As we focus towards our ending, regardless of where you are guys, I want you to know6:44 I truly believe from this moment on, everybody can have a fantastic ending. So let's pick it up, let's start reading. Look at second Timothy, chapter 4 verse 7. This is Paul, he is6:56 talking about his ending. We're teaching on weekends, through the book of Philippians. Paul is in chains, he turns around after that, writes second Timothy, to young Timothy, and7:08 he says this. He says about his ending, I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Notice that, I fought the good fight. Guys, there are a lot of fights you and I can get7:19 into. If you're married, you realize this, there are a lot of fights you can get into. How many of you know? Very few you can win. Better. Or very few that are worth winning. Right?7:32 If you go around and roll through the house and you and your wife are always fighting and she's always losing, who loses? Y'all. So he says, I fought the good fight, we have to have, the intellect, we have to have the7:43 perception to understand what is a good fight. You don't want to fight everything. But Paul says, I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race. That means from the moment that7:55 God showed up to Paul, on the road to Damascus, that God had a plan for Paul. He says, Paul, you've been running this way, I want you to go that way. You've been running away from me,8:07 or or towards persecuting me in the church, but Paul, but God says, Paul, I've got a different plan. I want your race to be the 1 where you go on missionary journeys, you plant churches, you go through hardships, you go8:19 through difficulty, you be the 1 that takes the gospel to Europe, that's what you're going to do and then ultimately you're going to end up in prison, you're going to die. And so here's what he says, I have finished the8:30 race. Guys, you may not look like you're going to finish, I want to tell you if you'll push through the pain and if you'll push through your past, you can finish God's race. If you will push through whatever you're going8:42 through, you can finish your race. And then he says, I have kept the faith. And those are 3 powerful things that he says. I've fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I've kept the faith. Are you willing to keep8:54 the faith? Are you digging in deep in God's word? Are you surrounding yourself with other men, who are going to invest in you and encourage you so so you can ultimately keep the faith, even in those dark seasons, those9:04 difficult seasons, those hard seasons, that you are willing to keep the faith. Then read on. He says, now there is in store for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge,9:16 will award to me on that day. Guys, listen, we don't have to live our lives to please our brothers. We don't have to live our lives to please our community.9:28 All we have to do is live our lives in such a way from this point on until our end that we please god, because ultimately at the end of the day that's where our reward is going to come from, right?9:40 It's not, the reward that ultimately matters eternally, it's it's not just a pat on the back. It's not just a pat on the back, it's a pat on the back for God for all of eternity. So here we are continuing in second9:51 Timothy chapter 4 verse 7 and 8, he says, who is our righteous judge will award to me that day, not only to me, but to all who have longed for his appearing. I love what Paul says there.10:03 He says man, God is not only, gonna reward me for my race, but he's gonna reward all of us for our race. And so, maybe you look10:15 around in this room, maybe there's some of you, you're sitting at a table and you've gotten to know some of these guys. I love, hearing the fellowship that takes place and, when we stand up and talk and you meet more10:24 people. My guess is, there are some guys that are sitting in the room that you've gotten to know somebody else at your table or someone else in the church or someone else in your life group that you're like, that dude's10:35 a spiritual stud. That dude's a spiritual stud. And there's no doubt he is running his race and God is blessing him and God is using him. And you might even think think to yourself, I wish10:48 I had lived his race. I wish I had run his race. I wish I had lived his life. And you might even think from this that just like Paul, that dude is gonna get a reward.10:59 Man, when I hear his testimony for the last 30 years or 20 years or 15 years, he has been serving God in a powerful and a real way and you're like that dude is definitely gonna get rewarded by God11:11 for his faithfulness and you think man, I wish I could be like him. Paul adds you in here, he says you can. So notice what he says, but also to all11:23 who have longed for His appearing. Paul is saying listen, I'm not going to get rewarded by myself, he says everyone. He says Timothy, if you want to stay faithful, fight the good fight, live out your faith, keep the11:35 faith, you're gonna get rewarded. He says, he says men at Cottonwood Creek, if you continue to run your race, if you fight the good fight, if you, finish strong, you're gonna get a reward.11:47 And so guys, as you think about our legacy, your legacy, yeah, it might be shaded by your past, but it would be painted by your future.11:59 You get that? Your legacy may well be shaded by your past, but it'd be painted in your future by the decisions that we make beginning12:11 today until the lord takes me home, And we can all then say, man, I have fought the good fight. We might say, hey, for 30 years I didn't fight a very good fight.12:24 But the last 30 years I did. So you might say, man, there were times that I wondered in my faith. Those last 30 years I did, last 10 years I did, last 5 years12:36 I did, and then there will be a reward to all those who peer, appear. I love this, ran across this quote, a warrior's legacy is not just about the battle's fault,12:48 but how the battle's ended. Did you get it? Not just how their fault, but how the battle's ended. Guys, we're all in a battle. We're in a battle for our faith, we're in a battle for our character,13:00 we're in a battle for our integrity to live well regardless of how you fought to this point, it matters how we finish. Alright, so let me give you a couple of thoughts from God's word13:13 on building a godly legacy. Number 1, we just saw this, a warrior, a godly warrior that wants to leave a lasting legacy has to fight the good fight. He has to fight13:25 the good fight. GK Chesterton, a great theologian of yesteryear said this, a true soldier, based on Paul's passage in second Timothy chapter 4, he says a true soldier fights not because13:37 he hates what's in front of him, but because he loves what's behind him. Do you get that? A true soldier doesn't fight13:48 because he hates the enemy. He fights because he loves what's behind him. Does that make sense? Why do men and women, in the armed forces get on a plane, go to a14:00 different country and fight people they don't know. They don't do it because they hate the enemy. They do it because they love their country. Do you get it? Guys, why do we fight the good fight? Not necessarily because14:11 we hate other people or hate this, it's because we love our family. It's because we love our kids. It's because we love our country. It's because we love our church. And so guys, what's your motivation? Your14:23 motivation to fight a good fight and leave a lasting legacy is not hatred for the enemy, although we need to hate Satan, but it's because we love our kids, we love our14:35 wives, we love our spouses, we love our church, does that make sense? Why do you and I go to the battlefield? Not hate, love. And so as you think about it, you leave today, why do you go to the14:47 office today? It's It's not because you don't want to be with your family, it's because you want your family to do well. Man, so think about that. Why do I fight? It's not hatred for what's in front of me, it's love for14:57 what's behind me and I love that quote. It's a great challenging aspect for me to carry on and not to give up. Why? Because I love the people behind me. Man, when we disperse today and you go fight15:09 your individual battle, do it because you love the dudes in this room. If you're battling through some sort of pleasure or sin or, integrity problem or or some addiction, I want to encourage you, you better15:21 do it. You better fight. And it's a hard fight, but it is a good fight. It's a good fight if you're overcoming something, if you don't overcome, it's gonna hurt your wife.15:33 If you don't overcome it, it's gonna hurt your kids. And so remember, when you are gonna leave a lasting legacy, fight the good fight and a fight, good fight reminds us, man I don't fight because I hate what's in front15:44 of me, I fight because I love what's behind me. Look at this, first Timothy chapter 6 verse 12. He says this word again, in first Timothy, not just second Timothy, he says fight the good fight. What is the15:55 good fight? It's the good fight of faith. He says take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you were, you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. So, here there it is, fight the16:07 good fight. What is the good fight for a man? It's a fight for my character, it's a fight for my integrity, it's a fight for my faith, it's a fight for the people around me. Man, Paul is encouraging us over and over16:19 again, guys, let's make sure that we are fighting the good fight. Here's another quote, a soldier does not enter the battlefield unprepared. He trains,16:31 strategizes, and commits to the mission. He trains, strategizes, and commits to the mission. What kind of training are you going through to prepare yourself for this16:43 fight? If we're all in a battle, if we know the enemy's out there, if we know the enemy's doing everything he can to tear you down, to take you down, destroy you, and destroy your family,16:54 How are you training? How many again have military background? What's the first thing they do when you, besides cut your hair? We've all seen those maybe, right? They send you to the battlefield,17:06 right? No. They send you boot camp. They send you into training. They start trying to figure out who you are and what you're good at, right? Then they decide this is this kind of17:18 guy, he's gonna do this or he's gonna help here, and then they put you in training for that specific specialty and they don't let you hit the battlefield or go work on an airplane or or do this or do that17:30 until they're ready, right? Because they wanna make sure you are trained. So what are you being trained for right now? How are you making sure you're trained? Here's good. Being in here is good. It's a good challenge.17:41 It's a it's a good opportunity. We teach. Are you studying God's word? Are you reading the manual? Are you finding your way, into worship on the weekends? Are you in involved in a daily Bible reading plan where you17:53 are training, where you're learning? When you're here on the weekends, do you worship and find yourself in a group so you can, did you grow and learn? Man, what is your training? And so notice, he says, he is the 1 who18:04 doesn't go in unprepared, he trains, and then he strategizes. What's your strategy for winning your fight? What's your strategy?18:16 Because I will tell you when when when you think about war, there's not 1 overriding strategy. There's 1 overriding desire, let's win. Right? But, depending on18:28 the battlefield and depending on the platoon and depending on the man, there is a different strategy for each 1. Does that make sense? It's not 1 general blanket, let's go win and everybody goes,18:40 ah. Right? That's not what happens. All the way down to each individual, they have a strategy to win and I will submit to you, you need a specific strategy for you.18:52 Why do you need a specific strategy for you? There's some general principles we all have to learn and all we all have to do, but you are shaded by your past. Some of you have certain strategies that you have to19:04 employ to make sure you don't get taken out by a sinful past or a hardship or a difficulty. You need a strategy that some other guy doesn't. You say what do you mean by that?19:16 Well, what what if you have a guy over here that, man, he has he has dealt with addictions, some sort of addiction all of his life. He may need a different strategy than a guy over here that hasn't.19:28 Does that make sense? This guy that doesn't have an addiction, he may not have to deal with this. Maybe there there's a guy in here that has this brokenness in his past or a physical disability or some other thing, that19:40 he struggles with, and every guy in this room needs a specific strategy based on who you are. The principles are the same, but there are some of you maybe in your own heart19:52 and in your own mind that because of a sinful nature or sinful past, you might say well, they might be able to get away with that, but the way I'm built I can't. Does that make20:04 sense? And you have to know your own heart. You have to know your own past. You have to have your own strategy. I want to train. I want to strategize, and20:16 then commitment. Guys, if if men don't commit to the battle, the battle's lost. Say that again, if men20:28 do not commit to the battle, the battle is lost. I don't care how much you love what is behind you. I'm gonna20:40 say it again. I don't care how much you love what is behind you. Doesn't matter how much I love what is behind you. Remember, I don't fight because I hate the enemy. I I I fight because I love what's behind me.20:52 Doesn't matter how much you love me if you don't commit to the battle, if you don't commit to stay in the race, if you don't commit to get back up after21:03 being knocked down, if you don't commit to fight on even when you're wounded, even when you're hurting, even when you're discouraged,21:16 even when you feel a little lost. Guys, there needs to be a deeper, more committed level of commitment from God's men than anyone else, because if21:28 men don't commit to the battle, battle's law. I I will tell you this as your pastor, if men don't step up and commit in this church, this church will be lost in21:40 20 years. Got it? If men don't step up and fend for their families, your family will be lost.21:52 Your kids will be lost. And you might think, well, you know, they really don't know or they're young or whatever, man, what I do with my life is really not going to affect them. Can I22:04 just tell you that's a bunch of bull? How you fight allows you to leave a legacy for your kids. So I want to22:15 encourage you guys, let's fight the good fight of faith. Let's don't give up. Let's train. Some of you haven't been training well. Some of you don't have a good strategy, so you22:27 haven't committed. Takes all 3 of those to win the battle. Takes all 3 of those to win the battle. So here are a couple of thoughts on how to stand firm, fight the good fight. Stand firm and22:39 safe and resist the enemy. Notice what it says in James chapter 4 verse 7. This is James, the brother of Jesus. He says, submit yourselves then to God, resist the devil and he will flee22:51 from you. So that's how I say, I submit myself first to God. Alright, what does that look like? Man, if I'm in the middle of a sin or a struggle or I've got this secret sin that hasn't exposed me yet or hurt me23:03 yet, Start by saying, God, I give myself to you. Submit yourself. It starts with me, right? I can give a lot of things to God, but the most23:14 important thing I can give is not a thing, it's a you. Says submit yourself to God. What does that look like? God, listen. I know others don't know about this. I know, man, others don't think it's a big deal, but23:26 I know it's a big deal for me, so I'm going to submit myself to God. God, if you want this gone, I'm going to take it out. I'm going to follow your leadership, God. I'm going to choose choose23:38 serving you with a passion over my personal pleasure. Submit yourself to God, then he says you will be able to resist the devil. Well, it says, God, I'm all in on your plan, not23:50 my plan. God, I'm all in on your strategy, not my strategy. Then what'll happen is you can resist the devil, you can stand firm, and he will flee from you. Now, he will come back. How many of24:02 you remember Jesus tempted, after his, after he's gone out and he's been out in the wilderness and, Satan shows up and tempts him and he stands against him and Satan goes away, then Satan comes back. Tempts24:14 him again, Jesus stands with the word and he Satan goes away and then Satan comes back. Remember what it says at the end of that passage? It says after the third temptation, it says Satan went away24:27 looking for a better opportunity. Looking for a better opportunity. So my guess is, there are some of you, you're in that season right now that you've submitted to God, Satan has lead, but be24:39 ready, he's gonna show back up at a better opportunity. Maybe some of you are in the temptation right now, maybe you've fallen. Maybe others don't24:50 even know that you've fallen. That we wanna be in such a place that I'm going to submit myself to God. Maybe you need to tell some of the other guys around you, listen, man, I look pretty good25:02 on the outside, but I am struggling on the inside. When no 1 else is looking, I'm failing in ways that no 1 knows about. Man, if I continue to fail, not25:14 only am I going to fail to resist Satan, I'm going to lose the battle for those I love behind me. And so we want to stand firm and resist the enemy. Next thing we say, we see it over in second Corinthians chapter25:26 10, is you wanna arm yourself with the best weapons possible. We wanna arm ourselves with the best weapons possible. I I love what Paul said, talking to the Corinthians. He says, for though we25:37 live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they're divine powers that demolish25:49 strongholds. In other words, there is something unique about the way the Christian fights. There is something unique about the way we fight. Man, I want to pray that God would fight the battle for me, but I want to join26:00 him in that battle. I want to invite God, to equip me with his word, his spiritual gifts, enable me with my talents, to fight in such a26:12 way that I would be successful. But I also want you to know, you are not to simply fight in your own flesh. Biblically we see the argument that, man we fight26:24 a spiritual battle. You say, what does that look like? Well, everybody in here, you think about why if you have a secret sin or a hidden sin, where do you26:36 first lose that battle? It's here. It's in the mind, right? And every 1 of us begins to have this thought, boy I'd really like to do that, that brings me a little short term pleasure, but then your26:47 mind says, yeah, but then you feel guilty afterwards. You say yeah, but it's really pleasurable, but then what happens? We go back and forth and ultimately we say well let me let me just try a little. That is a spiritual26:59 battle that we have to stand firm and say god, give me your words, start reading your word, I wanna pray, I wanna call somebody. So instead of going over here by myself, so I said I'm gonna go be with a group of guys.27:10 That is a spiritual response to a spiritual temptation. That we wanna make sure man, I am fighting the battle with the right things. Not only that, I want to fight with some endurance. I want to27:22 make sure that I finish my race. We don't ever want to stop. I joked last week about, people putting, the sign on their, the back of their car, the half marathon sign. How many of you were here last week? You talked27:33 about that. You're proud of the fact that you didn't finish the race. It does. There is no such thing as a half marathon. It's a marathon or it's not. Right? Don't go put a sticker, I made it27:44 halfway. Guys, some of us are halfway. Let's be honest, some of you know you're well beyond halfway. How many of you know what you're talking about? Man, let's put the sticker on the27:56 car. Finish the race! Finish the race. I love this, Hebrews chapter 12 verse 1, therefore since we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, let28:08 us throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that so easily entangles and let us run with endurance or perseverance the race that is marked out for us.28:20 Guys, we want to finish the race. We don't want to pull up halfway. Man, some of you hadn't looked that good or I haven't looked that good in my current space and current28:32 place. Man, some of us are running through a wall. A wall of our own temptation, a wall of our own making, a wall of our own difficulty, a wall we just haven't trained well enough to go through this hardship or go28:43 through this difficulty. However, I wanna encourage you, keep running. Some of you are at a place right now where you're running so hard and you seem to be losing and and you have that pain28:54 in your side. How many of you remember that? From, man, you just run through what do you do? If you quit every time you get that pain in your side, you'll never get better. A good coach is gonna challenge you, just keep29:06 running. Right? You got to run through it. Your body is, desiring some oxygen. Keep running. Once you break through it, you'll be able to get to the other side. So we need to understand that we need to run29:18 with some perseverance. So let me read that again. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses in heaven and on earth, let us draw off everything that hinders us. That's our sin and the sin that29:30 easily entangles us. Our biggest problem as men is always gonna be some sin. I'm gonna say that again. Our biggest problem with men is always going to be some sin.29:42 The thing that's most likely to take you out, most likely to take me out, is not Satan. You're not gonna see Satan punch, push me up against the wall and slap me in the face. What you're gonna do is you're gonna see a29:54 man who fails and he falls to a sin. Look around you. Anybody know a godly man that's fallen? He fell to his own sin. So, as men,30:05 we usually lose because of sin. That's why I love what the writer Hebrews says right there, listen, if we're going to run with perseverance, we need to throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that so30:17 easily entangles us. If you're a guy sitting here right now and you do a little self reflection, my guess is30:29 everybody can say this is my sin. This is my sin. You can probably define it for yourself. And you know what,30:41 if if we if we wrote them all on the screen, put them all on the screen, there would be some similar sins. But see, similar sins are not as dangerous as specific sins.30:53 What is the sin that will take you out of the race? If you can put a name to it, you gotta do everything you can to get rid of it31:05 because it will ultimately trip you up. It'll be a pain in your side the rest of your life. That doesn't mean it's gonna be easy And, you might be in a place where that sin is known by a lot of people.31:18 Some of you might be in a place where that sin is not known by a lot of people. You might be in a place where you know and you're honest, actually no 1 knows about this sin. And that's a good thing,31:30 by the way. However, if you march that forward, there are some of you in this room, you look good in here, I may not know about the sin, the other men may not know about your sin, but your wife and kids know about that31:41 sin. You ever been in that space when all of a sudden you thought you could get away with it, your wife finds out? When you thought you could get away with it, your kids find out? So I I want you to know,31:53 god, those sins that may be secret now, be careful because they will be public later. And those people that you love that are behind you, you're going to32:04 let them down, you're going to hurt them, you're going to fail them. Here's another little thought as we think and I know we're coming closer to time. Just talked about finishing the race. Here's a quote. Victory32:16 was is always possible for the man who simply refuses to stop fighting. Victory is always possible,32:28 guys, for the man who simply refuses to stop fighting. Just show up.32:41 Guys, just show up. I don't know if you feel worn up, worn out, beaten up. Maybe you're in the darkest hour in the moment right now. I'm going to encourage you,32:53 don't stop fighting because God wants to give every man in this room the victory if you just show up.33:05 Show up today for your family. Show up today for your church. Show up today for your kids. Show up today for your and tomorrow, show33:17 up. And the next day, show up. And if you need some help showing up, call someone that'll help you show up because you fight,33:29 not just because you hate what's in front of you, but it's because we love what's behind us. Let's pray. God, thank you so much for men who are willing to just hear your33:41 word. God, let us be the kind of men that leave a legacy. Man, let us train well. Let us strategize well.33:53 Let us fight to the finish because that's ultimately where the reward is. In Jesus' name we pray, amen and amen. We're glad you're here guys. God bless.34:05 Hey, go show up. Go show up and fight somebody. Not literally, just34:11 Thank you for tuning in to Men's Breakfast with John Mark Cayton. For more information on John Mark's ministry and resources, please visit johnmarkkayton dot com. Until next time, remember, we're on34:23 this journey of life together.In this video 0:00 A Warrior's Legacy: Fighting the Good Fight
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