Speaker 1: 0:06

Welcome to Made for Good, the podcast where we explore how to live out our purpose through good works out of a biblical tree. Hey, I'm Josh.

Speaker 2: 0:13

And I'm Mark. Today, josh, we're discussing one of the greatest challenges that we face as believers, and that's this battle between good and evil. Doing good isn't just about making the world a better place around us. It's about standing firm against opposition and resisting temptation and staying faithful, and really in the middle of this spiritual warfare, I have a question to start off. We're 15 weeks in to this study on good works and have you ever felt, like the moment you start doing something good, you're starting to do these good works that these obstacles just appear out of nowhere?

Speaker 1: 0:57

Absolutely I have. As a matter of fact, I believe that's how Job felt and we were talking about this before we started recording. But Job 1.8 says and the Lord said to Satan have you ever considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil? What Job didn't know that was happening behind the scenes here was that God was having a conversation with Satan. You made the comment we're 15 weeks in. Well to the listener, we are 15 weeks in and there's a lot of great things that you may have done and pushed yourself to do and we're very happy that that's happening.

Speaker 1: 1:37

But the reality is, in the midst of all of that, you could have experienced an unexpected challenge, you could be discouraged. You could be discouraged, you could be distracted, and some of this stuff is really heavy. You could be a family thing, a sickness, something related to your spouse, financial, and it just feels like sometimes, when you're finally doing something great or you're pushing yourself to do good things, there's this enemy that's working against us and we're going to talk about him more as we go. But it's difficult when we're trying to live out our faith right, when we're faced with this. So I just go back to this, job 1.8. When you know that you are doing things that are good, but you feel discouraged, I want you to read Job 1.8 and just plug your name in here. Have you ever considered my servant? Fill in the blank your name in here.

Speaker 2: 2:25

Have you ever considered my servant? Fill in the blank yeah, I think a lot of times it's difficult for us to even to put ourselves in the position of Job, because the comment there Job was an awesome person in the sight of God. But we know for a fact that because Job was a man, he sinned, he had struggles. Maybe he had a greater grasp on that and he was able to be more righteous. He was a man, yeah, but God viewed him as a righteous person and really someone to be an example of what it means to serve, to fear God and serve God so much so that you know, if you notice then that conversation, it was God that brought up Job, not Satan. I think that we that's a very good exercise for us to put our own name in there and to understand and we're going to support this a little more as we get into this podcast today about this battle. There is a spiritual battle that's going on. Spiritual battle that's going on, and you know our foundational verse that we're basing this on this whole podcast, on Ephesians 2.10, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in. You know God has prepared these good works. If God has prepared these good works, then you can be sure that Satan is working to derail us from those good works.

Speaker 2: 3:50

When you look at, there's a parallel verse in Titus and I think it says a lot of the same things that Ephesians 2.10 does, but it inserts another element. So I want to read that. I'll read verses 11 through 14, but we want to focus on verse 14. So to get the full context, this is Titus 2. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, godly lives in this present age. That sounds like Job to me, waiting for our blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, jesus Christ. Here's verse 14, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify himself a people for.

Speaker 2: 4:46

So let's break down verse 14 and compare it with Ephesians 2.10. The first part of that verse says Well, that is in essence us being created in Christ Jesus, we're recreated, we're born again in Christ Jesus. And if you skip to the end of the verse, who are these people that he's created? Are zealous for good works, and that parallels Ephesians 2.10 as well, that we're created in Christ Jesus for the purpose of good works.

Speaker 2: 5:26

But there's an element in between there that we haven't talked about yet, and that's the purification, it says, and to purify himself by people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. It's almost, in this case, like the purification is a prerequisite for the good works. It sets our mind to do the good works, but we're going to talk about in a later verse how the reciprocal of that is true as well. The good works can aid in our purification, and so I just find it striking the comparison between both of these, and, if you'll notice, paul is the author of both of these. He's writing to the Ephesians and he's writing to Titus, and he's saying a very, very similar thing. And so today we're going to break down the reality of this battle and how we can stand firm and the role that good works can play in that.

Speaker 1: 6:21

Let's get into our Bible basis segment of this episode. The Bible makes it clear that good and evil are constantly at war. Isaiah 520 warns us of such, where the Bible says Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. And Romans 12, 21 gives us our battle plan where it says do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Speaker 2: 6:52

Okay, and so that overcome evil with good. Again, I think that that's the reciprocal that we just talked about in Ephesians 2, 14, overcoming evil with good. We can use the good to overcome the evil. We can use the good in the purification and the sanctification of our lives. I think God intends for that. So that's the key. Evil isn't just something that we avoid, it's something that we actively fight against. By doing good, we're displacing that. We're spending the resource of time and energy on doing good that we could and probably would be spending on evil or on sin.

Speaker 2: 7:38

Romans 2, 6 through 8 tells us that our choices in this life have eternal consequences. And you know, this is, Josh, a very sobering passage. It says for he will render to every man according to his works. To those who, by patience and well-doing, see glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are factious and do not obey the truth but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury. So we want to be in the first group. To those who, by patience and well-doing, what's well-doing, it's doing well, it's good works, it's good works, it's doing good, and we seek for glory and honor and immortality, but we seek that in eternal life with God. And again, if we don't do that the second part of that verse we don't obey the truth, we're factious, we're wicked. God promises wrath and fury. The battle is real, but God has equipped us for victory. He's given us everything that we need. We just need to take advantage of it.

Speaker 1: 8:51

Yeah, I love that. We've all heard this statement before and I'll say it for the purpose of where we're going. One of the biggest lies of the enemy is convincing people that he doesn't exist. But Jesus made it clear in John 8, 44, where he says he, satan, was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Speaker 2: 9:19

You know, another verse that we want to look at is in Ephesians six, and this to me is um, it's, it's just otherworldly, literally, yeah, uh, it's a fascinating verse. It reminds me of the conversation that you were mentioning earlier between God and the devil, where the devil was hurling these accusations against Job. This conversation was happening unbeknownst to Job.

Speaker 2: 9:50

Ephesians 6, verse 12 says For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. This is such a sobering thought. That also reminds me of the passage in 2 Kings 6, where Elisha prayed that his servant could, that his eyes would be opened and that he could see, and it was described as the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. There are powers and battles going on that we may not know, and Elisha's servant couldn't see the power of God that was there to help his people win this battle. And so the battle, the battle is real and this is really happening. We don't see it with our eyes, but we see it by faith.

Speaker 1: 10:56

So, if the battle is real, how do we fight back? Well, let's get right into that. I think this battle for us is both an internal one and an external one, and we face both of them right. Let's first start off with the internal battles, and one of them is just flat out resisting temptation. Folks, the fight against sin. It's just flat out a daily struggle.

Speaker 2: 11:12

Absolutely. The devil doesn't give up and he has the ability these days to put so many things in front of us. You know, from television, media, phones, advertisements, you know just the, maybe even the national conversation that goes on, it's, it's, it's all around us.

Speaker 1: 11:31

Yeah, it is. Another internal battle is just overcoming doubt. We've talked about this on previous episodes. But the enemy attacks our minds with fear and discouragement. But the enemy attacks our minds with fear and discouragement.

Speaker 2: 11:41

There are these things that get hurled at us again, that Satan hurled at Job. He had this huge discouragement of losing his family, losing his possessions. So it's there, it's real and it happens to us today as well.

Speaker 1: 11:58

Yeah, and the last internal battle that I want to touch on with you is staying focused on God's mission.

Speaker 2: 12:05

Yeah, the battle that goes on inside our minds is strong, it's very powerful, and it can derail us from our mission.

Speaker 1: 12:13

For sure, and the last internal battle that we'll discuss together is just staying focused on God's mission. I mean, we've talked about distractions throughout these last 15 weeks, but the reality is, distractions can pull us away from our calling.

Speaker 2: 12:27

Yeah, but as we've already talked about that, I think you mentioned the Romans 12, 21 verse that that's really the key to victory and that's to overcome evil with good. Yeah, and don't let the reverse of that happen. Yeah. And Jesus also warned us what happens if we try to just clean up our act, if you will, without replacing the wrongdoing that we're doing with doing good. You know, when he tells us the parable of the unclean spirit in Matthew 12, he tells the story of the spirit leaving the person. The spirit came back and he found a place all cleaned up and empty, and he brought back seven other spirits, and so the person was actually worse off than before. And so what we're talking about here is filling the empty void.

Speaker 2: 13:14

When we push sin out, we can fill our lives with good, and it's a defense. We have displaced sin in our life with doing good. If you do enough good, you don't have a lot of time to sin, to do evil, and that's literally what it means. We're overcoming evil with good. We are displacing evil in our life, displacing sin in our life with doing good, and if we don't do that, then we can push the sin out and avoid sin for a period of time, but there's no defense and we leave ourself open for attack and it can come back, and it can be, as the case with the unclean spirit, even worse than it was before Mark.

Speaker 1: 13:55

Beyond our personal struggles the internal ones that we talked about we also face external opposition. There's a number of things we could discuss. Let's just touch on three Cultural pressures the world often opposes Christian values.

Speaker 2: 14:10

Yeah, it's everywhere. It's very hard for us as believers to stand up and to profess our faith, to stand in defense of what's right. We mentioned the passage before, I think, in Isaiah, where people are calling evil good and good evil and they put in darkness for light and light for darkness back in Isaiah 5. And that's the world that we live in.

Speaker 1: 14:39

Yeah, we face it and our children face it at school. Another external battle is discouragement from others, and here's the thing about this. You would think that discouragement from others can just happen for people that you don't really know that well, the hardest battle that we face within that is sometimes we get discouraged from our own friends, our close friends and even our family, and maybe it's because they don't understand our faith.

Speaker 2: 15:07

Yeah, you know you may have. Again. We're 15 weeks into this season one of Made for Good, this podcast on trying to give glory to God and fulfill our mission, and doing that by doing good works. You know you may have already faced some snide comment yeah, I can't believe you listened to that, or I can't believe you did this. You're just again. You're looking for recognition.

Speaker 2: 15:37

All the things that were the motives are right, but someone else makes a discouraging comment, or maybe they just make a joke. Well, hey, is this another one of your good works? You know, rolling their eyes, this could be someone, and you may, you may have someone quote the Bible to you to say well, you know Matthew 6, you're not supposed to let the left hand know what the right hand is doing. And they omit Matthew 5, where we're to let our light shine. Again, we need to be careful about our motivation. Our motivation is to give glory to God. Our motivation should always be to give glory to God in these good works.

Speaker 2: 16:14

But somebody very close to us a spouse, a family member, a close friend, somebody in our church family, can make a comment that just you know we're so excited and we're feeling good about what we're doing as we've talked about in previous episode, and then somebody comes along with a pen and just pops that and it deflates us and then we get in our head and that's an external force. That's happened to us. But we need to not let that, and you mentioned maybe the person who's making those negative comments needs to look at themselves. Maybe they're jealous that they didn't do it or some other things that you mentioned. But that should not discourage us from doing good. We just need to go back read these verses again the Ephesians 2.10, the Matthew 5 verse, where it talks about letting our light shine. Do not be afraid to let your light shine, but always when people comment, it's all glory to God. That's where our focus needs to be.

Speaker 1: 17:17

You touched on this, but our last external battle that we wanted to talk about is spiritual attacks, and so, yes, this can happen, unfortunately, with our friends and our family, but we want to really kind of hone in on this, as the enemy is actively working against those who are making an impact.

Speaker 2: 17:35

That's absolutely true, josh. These challenges that we've been working on for the past several weeks might have put you on Satan's radar, and how might that be manifested? It could be any one of these things that could be discouraging that he could be behind the motivation of someone that's jealous to make a snide comment about what you're doing. It could be other things that are just the distractions where we have a sick child, we have someone who's facing potential family member, facing a bad medical diagnosis. There are all these things that are evil, that we experience living in a fallen world, that we do. We believe that Satan is behind those things. Often and those are we can look at those as being spiritual attacks.

Speaker 1: 18:29

Mark, you referenced this earlier Ephesians 6, 12. It reminds us that our real enemy isn't people, it's spiritual forces working behind the scenes. Think about the times where you just have a bad experience somewhere You've talked about this before, yeah, you mentioned in class and you just think well, that person just flat out mean what they did to me at the counter or in the parking lot or whatever, and we need to shift our focus from thinking about people as people and people as souls and, as we mentioned earlier, that will change everything. That person could be having a terrible day. That person could be dealing with pain and suffering, of death or loss or financial issues. We need to remember that there are spiritual forces working behind the scenes.

Speaker 2: 19:14

That's absolutely true, Josh. You look at 1 Peter 5, verse 8, there's a warning there for us. It says be sober minded, be watchful. And this is so powerful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring line seeking someone to devour. Yeah, he's evil incarnate. He is our adversary and he's active. He's on the prowl. And if you're doing good and if you look at the people that are doing evil and they've embraced evil he has them. He didn't need to spend any more time on them. Maybe the ones he's spending time on are the ones that he doesn't have, and that could be you and me. Yeah, and our good works can put us on his radar and we need to be prepared. When we do good, we are engaging in battle against evil. The more you commit to doing good, the more you may become a target, and that's why we've got to rely on God's strength and not our own.

Speaker 1: 20:26

Yeah, mark, I was sitting across it was a very similar setup, by the way. I was doing an episode of Stop being a Pew Potato and I was sitting across Alan Yator and I made the comment to Alan and I was being sincere that even as a child and growing up to the point where I'm at now, I have never doubted God. I was just raised in a Christian home. I believe in Jesus and the older I get, the more my love for what was done for me and the plan grows even deeper.

Speaker 1: 20:56

But the reality is there have been times where I have doubted Satan, that he even exists, and so the comment I made to him was that I questioned sometimes if Satan's even real, because you fall into this trap as a human where when you mess up or you sin, like oh, I did that and I got to do work on myself, and so you can beat yourself up and I'm not saying that you are not the cause of some bad decisions, of what you do yourself, but the reality is, in that moment when I said that to Alan, he looked at me in the face and he says never doubt the power of Satan and he described that what he just did, that he's described as a lion seeking someone to devour, and so we have to remember the devil is real and we must pray like Jesus taught in his model prayer. We must pray that God will help deliver us from the evil one.

Speaker 2: 21:50

And I'll just add one more thing. One of the things that we've already discussed in this series is the idea of distraction. You may have embraced these mission challenges over week after week after week and done those things. As this season one draws to a close, the same way our class drew to a close, there is a there's a tendency for that energy to dissipate. It's so easy to go back to how you know that season 12 of that show that we binge watch is coming out next month and my wife and I like to watch that, or our family likes to watch this together, and we can easily slide back into the way we were before and being lazy, yeah, and letting the energy and maybe even the habits which would be great that are being generated by doing these things on a regular basis. We've had people we challenge people to try a lot of different things, yeah, and if we're not careful, he can use those distractions. So I'm saying it can be subtle him grabbing us back into that routine. That doesn't involve doing good, it's the inertness of being on the couch and not being out and doing good and serving others.

Speaker 2: 23:16

As we draw this season one to a close, we need to be mindful. We need to be vigilant. The same way we talked about in our class is to keep doing these things. Remind ourselves, maybe have, in a way, accountability partners in that hey, let's have lunch with so-and-so. You know, they've just gone through some things. Have people to help you along the way, whether it's your spouse, best friends, family members, others. The battle goes on even after the class was over, and after this season, one is over, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 23:49

Well, that leads us into our most significant mission, and I say that because it's a seven-day battle plan. We've been talking about a battle that goes on within us, internally and externally, and so I'll just add you've got 15 weeks behind you, and so we feel that you're ready for this, so let's talk about it. And, by the way, I'll go ahead and say we'll put this out on social later, because there's a lot to unpack here, because we've got a Sunday through Saturday. So, mark, let's start with Sunday. What we want you to do on Sunday is to give generously.

Speaker 2: 24:22

Christians are called to give generously every Sunday. So really, kind of, what we're talking about is and then some, yeah, a little extra. Now your finances, that little extra might be $10 more extra. Now your finances, that little extra might be $10 more. It may be on your finances that it's $100 more, or maybe double what you normally give, or, if God's really blessed you, maybe $1,000. I don't know, we don't know everyone's situation, but what we're doing is challenging everyone to give a little more than what we normally give Right, and that gets us into Monday.

Speaker 1: 24:59

So Monday what's funny is well, people will see from this battle plan is that you've done several of these, so you should be good at them at this point. But Monday is about encouraging two people. Two people, and we don't care how that happens or what it looks like. You could send a text, that's simple, right, you could call them, or maybe even you could take the time to visit someone in church.

Speaker 2: 25:20

Yeah, it could be something like you know, this Monday maybe you worshiped on the day before Somebody led a prayer that really moved you, someone led a song that really encouraged you and just send them a text. Or somebody said something to you after church services. That was a big encouragement, so the text can be just a thank you. I've been thinking about what you said, or I've been thinking about what you prayed in your prayer and it stuck with me and I've really benefited from it, thank you.

Speaker 1: 25:52

Yeah, tuesday is all about removing distractions. What we mean by that is take a break from social media and it's not going to kill you, I'll tell you You'll be okay. And we want you to commit to a screen-free evening. And if you have a family, if you're married, we want you to do that Wait, wait, wait, wait, screen-free.

Speaker 2: 26:10

You said social media that's fine, but you mean like no screens like no TV.

Speaker 1: 26:14

I have a example of this. There's a family that we know I won't say their name. They go to church with us and they have one of their days, one of their evenings where they have screen free evening, a screen free evening. And, by the way, they have a large family. So that means no TVs, no gaming systems. There's different consoles that you play on. There's just nothing. And it's all about, by the way, just conversations with people.

Speaker 2: 26:42

You have an interaction with someone, so what they do is, you know, they have board games, they have conversations, there's interaction, there's bonding as a family. I think that's so powerful and that's things that these children will remember. Yeah, game night my wife and her family growing up, you know, with her aunt and uncle and cousins. You know Friday night was pizza night. They didn't get together and watch a TV show, they got together and they played games and they ate pizza and it was. She still talks about it today. It's one of her, I think one of her favorite memories. Screens weren't involved, there was interaction. Yeah, just strengthens your relationships, exactly, and so you know the relationships are built stronger and you know where people are and therefore you can tell if they're down, if there's something bothering you. There's the opportunity to serve more visibly when you know the person.

Speaker 1: 27:31

Right, right Wednesday. We want you to step out of your comfort and we know this one's not really fun. But we want you to introduce yourself to three new people at church Not one, not two, but three.

Speaker 2: 27:45

Maybe you're at a small church Bible study on a Wednesday night and maybe you know everybody, but you probably don't talk to everybody every time you're together. While you may know them, maybe you don't need to introduce yourself to them. In larger church families, yeah, you could probably introduce yourself to someone new that you've never spoken to before, but go talk to the widow that sits up there. Go talk to maybe one of the teenagers that you don't talk to regularly. Just go talk to someone new, whether it's someone that you know already or someone you don't regularly talk to. So that's the challenge for Wednesday.

Speaker 1: 28:23

You know we both have moved around quite a bit and we've lived in different states, we've been members of different congregations and wherever I have been you probably can say this is true for you too there are like circles, there's like I don't like to use the word clicks, but it's basically clicks people after a man, they get with their people and they stay with them.

Speaker 1: 28:43

So, going back to what you said, I've also grown up in a very rural congregation very small group where I could say well, I know everyone, but you were related to most of them. I was related to most of them and they're probably laughing at this now listening. But our point is, even within the smaller groups, that what you were saying you are closer to someone there's after a man, you are going to your person. What we're asking you to do is don't do that. Talk to someone else. Ok, on Thursday we want you to get out and serve in your community, and this can look like a number of things, but we want you to participate and maybe helping out at your kids schools. And I'll be on a project Go to a local food bank, Maybe it's you're going to go visit some widows at some assisted living centers.

Speaker 2: 29:23

Some schools have regular volunteer spots all the time that parents can can volunteer for.

Speaker 1: 29:28

So, yeah, these are great Serving in your community being a light Right, and that's leads us into Friday, and this is one of my favorite ones. Yeah, I love this one. It's about building relationships.

Speaker 2: 29:39

Because I love food. Yeah, sorry. Well, you have talked about ice cream on multiple episodes of this podcast.

Speaker 1: 29:46

Okay, so it's about building relationships. Our request is that you invite someone it can just be one person to lunch or to dinner.

Speaker 2: 29:54

Okay, and if you look at how many times you know Jesus taught and had meaningful conversations over a meal yeah, I mean, it's over and over again. It's really good when you don't know the person very well because you've got these little interludes of chewing. I call them interludes of chewing, but you don't have to talk the whole time. It's not a conversation where you're just, you know, one-on-one-on-one, you're back and forth. There can be a little quiet time. It gives you the opportunity to ask a question and then you know you can take a bite of your sandwich and let the other person talk. You're giving them space to talk. It's a great way to build relationships and we're emulating Jesus when we do that. We are doing what he did.

Speaker 1: 30:32

So what you're saying is I'm going back to an episode where we talked about active listening. Let's say, at this moment you still struggle with active listening. A drink of tea or a bite of something helps you with your active listening.

Speaker 2: 30:42

Yeah, absolutely. But you know chew with your mouth closed.

Speaker 1: 30:46

So that you're on distraction. Okay, and this is our last day of our seven day spiritual battle plan ends with Saturday, where the request is for you to go the extra mile and you're giving. You're thinking, wait a minute, we just talked about giving on Sunday. This is a little bit different. We're not talking about your contribution at church. What we're saying is to plan to give one time to a legitimate charity outside of church.

Speaker 2: 31:11

Of course, if you're listening and you've got some ideas of reputable charities, if you're listening and you've got some ideas of reputable charities meaningful charities, those that are very effective in their work let us know what they are through our comments on social media and various places and share them with others. What we're looking for is efficient use of these gifts. I'll just say this one time offering we're talking about financial offering, but it could be taking some things down to admission. I sometimes take old things to the thrift store but I know they're going to sell them and they're going to get money for that and then they're going to. You know somebody else is going to buy that and, yes, there might be good that's done from that. I'm sure there is. You know, make-a-wish Foundation is what, like one of the thrift stores in our neighborhood that they have identified as their charity to support Taking clothes to a shelter, like particularly a women's shelter.

Speaker 2: 32:09

There are women and children in those shelters taking old toys there. You will know that that toy, gently used, might be in the hands of a child that very day. It is so much more impactful, I think, giving to the people who are going to actually use it, so it could be a financial gift by a reputable, efficient, effective charitable organization, or it could be taking things to a shelter where people are in dire need to have nothing. In those shelters people have left bad situations, maybe with just the clothes on their back. You know, one idea is prepare these, little a little, a personal bag that has, you know, things that a mom would need. It could be a toothbrush and deodorant and and and makeup, and you know these things. A lot of times they left in in really dire situation again with nothing. And preparing a few of those and bringing those to a women's shelter, so powerful and you're doing direct good to the recipient that that's there at the shelter yeah, I appreciate you saying for people to to say something on social media, on you know.

Speaker 1: 33:27

Obviously, as you all know, at this point we're on facebook, instagram and x, and you may be thinking, well, well, I know these, these charitable, these legitimate charity charitable companies or groups because I'm doing it. Well, that's great. There may be some that don't, and so this could be really helpful. So we're not asking to know how much you give or what you do. That's between you and God but what we do want to know is what some legitimate charitable companies, organizations that we can help share that news out to others.

Speaker 2: 33:57

So the challenge here in this episode, if you really want to boil it down, is to actively fight against our enemy, our adversary, the devil, by filling your life with good works. Well, josh, that's it for today's episode of Made for Good. If this conversation has encouraged you or challenged you, be sure to subscribe so you don't miss. We've got one more, one more this season and we're going to try to tell a bow around all the things that we've talked about and maybe add one more element into our journey for good works, our mission, executing this mission of good works.

Speaker 1: 34:32

Well, we hope you found this helpful and if you did consider sharing with a friend, until next time, stand firm, resist evil and remember you were made for this. Thank you.