Scripture And Sumo Wrestling: Footwork, Daily Discipline, & Spiritual Warfare

In this Solo Scripture Samurai sermon, I draw from my experience watching sumo wrestling in Japan to examine spiritual warfare, Christian discipline, and the feet of gospel peace described in Ephesians 6:13–15. While acknowledging the non-Christian religious traditions historically connected to sumo, I focus on the practical lessons its athletes demonstrate through stability, humility, preparation, and disciplined footwork.

A sumo wrestler can lose by stepping outside the ring or touching the ground with anything other than the soles of his feet. Spiritually, the enemy may not need to destroy us completely; he may only need to move us gradually beyond the boundaries God established. One compromise, hidden habit, dishonest decision, unhealthy relationship, relapse, or abandoned season of prayer can destabilize our footing. We may appear spiritually powerful above the ankles, but knowledge, church attendance, and public ministry cannot compensate for an unstable foundation.

I also examine shiko, the foundational sumo exercise involving the repeated lifting and stomping of each foot. The movement represents the repetitive training required before hardship arrives. Prayer, fasting, Scripture, repentance, sobriety, forgiveness, service, Christian community, and resistance to temptation may sometimes feel monotonous, but these disciplines develop believers who remain standing during hardship. We cannot wait until the spiritual battle begins to start putting on the armor of God.

Through Psalm 40:2, Psalm 18:33–36, Psalm 119:105, 1 Kings 18:46, Isaiah 52:7, and Romans 10:15, I explain that biblical footwork is about more than refusing to fall. God gives us the stability to stand where He places us, the discernment to know when to move, and the readiness to carry the Gospel wherever He sends us. The feet of gospel peace are designed for both protection and purpose: to hold our ground, charge forward when called, walk the right path, and bring the good news to those who need it most. 

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 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Solo Scripture Samurai Arc, a sub-series on the Radiating Faith Ministry that I run, and I'm super excited for this episode. This is about sumo. We're getting into sumo wrestling. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, it's actually, you know, the sport of Japan, and it's very distinguished in its look and style compared to other forms of wrestling, grappling, or other fighting like MMA or boxing. You know, it is its own type of sport, its own type of fighting, and it is a very traditional one. Now, I would err everyone on the side of caution as a Christian when it comes to sumo, because it does stem from, you know, non-Christian religious practice, which I didn't know beforehand. I actually would not have gone if I had realized how much religious tradition was fused into sumo. As an outsider just going in, I just thought sumo was a sport. You find out that a lot of what they do is based off of religious ideology that parallels a lot of Christianity, but isn't Christianity. And so I would err on the side of caution if you're going. The reason I think it's not the, the worst is because so much of it is just really for Continued practice and show rather than actual implementation of belief in that stuff. And it really is more of a sport than it was a religion. But it reminded me of an episode I did with Dr. Lorette on From New Age to New Creation. She's the founder of Praise Moves, which is actually specifically for Christians who wanna do yoga but not do yoga because it's evil. And people don't realize yoga has so much tradition stemmed into it from pagan practices, doorways to demonic entities, and praising. So she made a Christian alternative that fuses scripture, fitness, and full body renewal. And so you can check out the episode in the description below to learn more about it. I'm not gonna break down why yoga is bad here. I had been doing it for a little bit 'cause I thought it was just an exercise, just stretching, but it's not. The positions are set up based off of religious beliefs, and they're, they're meant to praise or open doorways that are not good for us as Christians. In fact, they, they are evil. And that's not to say that they will prevail against God. They won't. But you shouldn't be indulging in that behavior or allowing any kind of spiritual warfare into your life that's not necessary. So when it comes to sumo, I would err on the side of caution. I had already gone, and, you know, they went over it, and so here we are. But there were a couple takeaways that I personally took, uh, to develop this sermon, and I'm super excited about it. Sumo is so much more complicated than people think, or rather, there's a lot of minute details, right? There's so many different ways to win. There's many different ways to lose. And the most important part, number one thing, footwork And then stability and discipline. Those are the three main principles that we're gonna be discussing in this sermon stemming from that sumo. It was a great time again, and seeing it and learning about the rules and stuff really inspired this message. We're gonna start actually with Ephesians 6:13-15. For those of you who are unfamiliar, this comes from a section where we are talking about the full armor of God. Now, I don't have the full inclusion here because I just want us to focus on part of it. So looking at this, I'm gonna read it verbatim here. "Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace." And so this is, this is great. The belt of truth buckled around your waist, as much as I wanna get into that, because sumo wrestlers are pretty much bare except for their belt, and grabbing the belt is one of the techniques of sumo wrestling, we're not gonna get into that because I actually have a separate sermon just on the belt of truth. What we're focusing on in this particular sermon, the feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. And if you look at Ephesians 6:13-15, you'll see a couple times this repetition: stand your ground, to stand, stand firm, right? So we have a repetition of standing your ground, standing firm, of stability, and of footwork, which is what we're gonna get into. Before I break it down further, I do wanna share here Ephesians 6:13-15 in Japanese as part of this Solo Scripture Samurai arc series. Now, let's break it down. The thing that prepares us for spiritual conflict is the gospel of peace, right? It says the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. So there's gospel peace, which creates readiness, which creates stable footing for when pressure hits, that pressure being hardship, oftentimes unexpected hardship, and spiritual warfare, right? You are stable and ready so that it doesn't knock you off the ground. Why? Because why would something knock you off your feet when they're fitted with the gospel of peace? That is to say, when hardship comes, if you are disciplined in your spiritual life, you have stability and discipline and footwork from your daily practices, right? We're gonna get into that You're calm, you're praying through the affliction, you're collected through the affliction, you're not being knocked down. You have stability from peace, from reassurance, from trust, from faith. And so this is really important. And I wanna break down a little bit about sumo rules, because a sumo wrestler loses when he steps outside of the ring or touches the ground with anything other than the soles of his feet. This is gonna get really important in a minute here, right? Raw size alone cannot guarantee victory. Balance, positioning, and footing are what determine whether the wrestler remains standing. So you can look powerful above the ankles, that is to say, you could be doing a lot of scriptural knowledge, church attendance, you could be looking very strong in your walk of faith, but your footwork is shoddy 'cause you don't have the gospel of peace. You don't actually trust, you don't actually have that reassurance, you don't actually have that peace, and so you're gonna fall because the soles of your feet are slipping. Your s- your shoulders are strong, your biceps and back are strong, I mean, you're, you're able to resist, but you're getting knocked off your feet and you're losing. You're outside of the ring because you don't have that stability and footwork, because you don't have the gospel of peace. You're preaching, you're studying, you're attending, but you don't firmly have that belief and anchor in peace. And we're gonna get into some of these practices This is so important because sumo isn't about the whole body necessarily. Really, it's just about the feet. What does this mean? The enemy doesn't always need to completely destroy you. They just need to move you gradually outside the boundaries that God established, or they just need to trip you up lightly. One compromise, one hidden habit, one dishonest decision, one unhealthy relationship. Come on now. One return to addiction, one relapse, one season of abandoning prayer, one hardship even. This is so important, y'all. The foundation of faith has to be strong. The resting in the word of the Lord, the peace is so important. When the armor of God was created, it was established in a certain order for a reason. It didn't say the, the feet of X, Y, Z, A, B, C. It said the feet of gospel peace readied with the gospel of peace. So you could be built like a sumo wrestler spiritually, you could have done the training. Maybe it's your calling to be a s- a, a, a... Let's, let's just look at sumo wrestling itself. You could have done the training, it could've been your calling, but it doesn't mean you're gonna be one automatically. And to parallel into our Christian context, what this means is your calling cannot carry you where your character is not gonna keep you standing. There's layers of training and discipline, daily practice, and actual performance that determine whether you're gonna answer that calling or not I wanna look at Psalm 40 verse two He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire. He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. This is so important, y'all. This right here is one of the most known passages of scripture, not this particular verse, but the lamentations of being in the miry pit. It's a reference I make all the time when life is difficult, when the lamentations are heavy. This is important, this, the miry pit, the slimy pit. Why is it important? And what do we see about the rescue? The miry pit, you're slipping down, you're falling, you have instability. You can't stand firm. It says, "He set my feet on a rock," solid, sturdy, no slippage, "and gave me a firm place to stand." To stand, equipped, to hold your ground, right? Salvation is not just God pulling us out of something. It's God also placing us onto something, right? Because it's that transition from instability to stability. And that's not to say we can't go find the miry pit again and jump right back in, as some of us like to do, sometimes unintentionally. But God is setting us a firm place to stand. We have to stay there. We have to recognize that. And so this is so important, and before we move on, I also wanna share that same verse and psalm in Japanese. Now, sumo is notable for a number of practices in their training, and one of their foundational exercises and displays of performance is shiko. That's the repeated raising and forceful stomping of alternating feet. So you'll often see that in the ring. I would get up and do it for you now if, if I, if I could, but, you know, the level that they do it at for flexibility, for stability, it's amazing. Actually seeing them lay, raise their leg so high up so precisely and then stomping down. This isn't just for show. There was some religious connotation to it historically about scaring away evil spirits. Again, we don't believe in that. We believe in scriptural tactics against demonic entities and spiritual warfare, not physical. But it also has physical effects in the sense that it develops lower body strength, and it's part of the wrestler's basic preparation. Sumo training off- also emphasizes coordinated movements of the hands, hip, and feet. Right, talking about this footwork, this stability, lower body strength. Why is this all important? Because this is representative of that losing and winning reflect not only your footwork in the ring, but the preparation done beforehand, right? A collision in the ring, the match itself, that's a representation of the hardship, of the spiritual battle. Losing and winning isn't based off of just how you perform that day. It's the training you put in beforehand. You can't just wait until you're in the battle and tell the enemy, "Hold on a second. Let me put my shoes on. Let me put my feet of Gospel peace on." They're supposed to be readied already, right? You need to go into the battles already wearing the armor of God, and it's, it's better late than never. If you need to discover the spir- you know, the armor of God a little bit later on in hardship because of where you are as a believer or unbeliever, by all means, don't get me wrong, that is great, and I, and I pray that everyone who is in the midst of hardship with no armor right now would be equipped. That is my prayer. But you should be praying this way in advance. We have the ability to. How do we do that? Daily practices, right? Our own shiko, our own training, praying, fasting, studying scripture. This isn't just doing these things out of, you know, mandation, but out of love and out of commitment. This is praying even if there's not a hardship or a request needed. This is reading scripture when you're not inspired or in need of a verse. This is repenting, telling the truth, remaining sober, controlling anger, forgiving repeatedly, loving and mirroring Yeshua. This is attending church consistently or listening to sermons. This is serving without recognition, the integrity of your character. This is refusing temptation before it becomes a crisis. All of these are parts of our spiritual training that will help determine our performance. But most importantly, these are part of being anchored in the gospel of peace, of having your feet readied, of being able to stand firm and hold your ground. When it comes to sumo training, if you were to watch their training, it's not as exciting as the actual match, right? Their practices don't look that impressive or they can feel monotonous. You know, the foundational foot drills during training could feel monotonous. You could get tired of doing them 'cause you could say, "I feel ready. I know I can perform. I don't wanna keep doing these." But y'all, listen here. They build the believer who remains standing when pressure arrives. Over-reassurance of our own abilities, our own spiritual life will lead to defeat. Sumo emphasizes humility. One of their big principles is humility, and that is important. Sumo is one of the things where... And they have special terms for it, actually. If someone brand new defeats a high-ranking champion, you know, they have a whole ranking system, and it happens, right? And that's to say, we could be decades into our spiritual journey, our walk of faith, we could be fully equipped with knowledge, with years of church attendance, with community, and some little hardship could wipe us off our feet 'cause we stopped training. We got lazy. We said, "You know what? I've been reassured in the gospel of peace for so long, I don't need to pray anymore. I don't need to read scripture anymore. I've read scripture for decades. I'm, I'm so well-trained." Continual training is what preserves athletes, and ego and over-reassurance in their abilities is what will lead to their downfall, just as it will in our Christian world and our spiritual warfare. So, the not as exciting, the, the what we find routine and monotonous, "Man, I don't wanna pray again today. It's already been three times," it's necessary. It's necessary because you know who is training every day? The enemy. The enemy is training every day to defeat us. And so we need to be preparing just as much, if not more. Championship level faith comes from recreational discipline. Championship faith comes from recreational discipline. That's what we need to remember. So those habits that feel repetitive in times of peace, they become the footing that saves us under pressure during times of hardship, right? I, I always love to quote, "It is better to be a warrior in the garden than a gardener in war," right? Just because times are peaceful doesn't mean that they always will be. In fact, we know that they will not be, especially if we're living the true life as a believer. We are told of the imminent hardship. We're told of the inevitable win of Yeshua and the great promise. But up until that time, we are told we are going to suffer more in this life because we live in a fallen world, full of sin, full of evil, full of wickedness. So we need to be training every day. Even when times seem peaceful, there will be a time of upset, and we need to be ready for that. One of the most important parts of spiritual training is God's word, studying the scripture. It's not just about believing in God, it's about knowing God. The word is important. It does m- many things for our footwork. Look at Psalm 18:36, "You provide a broad path for my feet so that my ankles do not give way." And now also Psalm 119 verse 105. It says, "Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path." あなたは私の足元に広い道を備えてください。私の足首がよろめかないようにしてくださりました。 So here we have two scenarios where the word of God and God himself creating stability, creating your footwork placement. What do I mean by that? Look at this. Your word is a lamp for my feet. It doesn't just say a light on my path. It could have just said that, but it specifically mentions the feet. Why? Why does it do this? Because the biblical author and God recognized that feet are the foundation of stability. あなたの御言葉は私の足の灯です。 They understand that how we will trip or fall is based off the feet. 私の道の光です。 Not just in hardship, not just when hardship comes, but just daily living, just trying to navigate the path. And if we're trying to navigate the path of life in darkness and uncertainty, rather than being guided by the light of God's word, we're gonna trip. We're gonna fall. Our, our footwork is gonna become unstable. It's gonna just lead us astray. That's why it says, "Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path." Look at this. You provide a broad path for my feet so that my ankles do not give way. This is stability in creation. Now, we're gonna take it a step further, y'all. Sumo, I mentioned very minute details earlier that were so amazing and important. Listen to this. When we were at the sumo show, we were told that sumo wrestling, again, the sole of your feet. What does that mean? Not even the top part of your foot curled over or the top of your foot can touch the ring floor This is probably one of the most impactful and powerful parts of the sermon, in my opinion. Because so many people wanna get away with as much as they can. They wanna try and seem like they have stable footing or are keeping themselves up, but it's actually not by the guidelines of God's word. It disqualifies them. Do you understand what I'm saying, y'all? How many of us were able to stop our fall by what we think is acceptable footing, and it looks like acceptable footing, but it's actually against the rules? 'Cause our feet look stable, but it's really our toes or the top of our foot. It ain't the soles. So l- let me take it a step further, y'all, and, and, and stay with me now 'cause the Holy Spirit's really about to talk. A lot of us, in our Sumo matches, our spiritual warfare, we will get away with the top of our foot touching the floor because all the people spectating, our community, our family, our friends, our social media, whoever is in our circle who's watching our battle, who's cheering us on against the enemy, against the spiritual warfare, they're just focused on what looks good at the top, right? The clash itself. That's what they're looking at. They're looking at the bulk of it. They're not paying attention to the minute details, the footwork. They're seeing how we're pushing and palm thrusting the enemy, how the enemy's pushing us, right? That's what spectators are looking at. Only really educated spectators, maybe your church leader or a minister or, or a friend who is like a brother through adversity, someone who's really studied in the word and knows the rules, the guidelines, is gonna see that, "Hey, that ain't the sole of your foot. You standing on your toes. The top of your foot is touching the ring, man. Hey, you, you think that you, you're winning. You already lost. You already lost, it just ain't been called out by all these people around you, but I noticed." Talk Holy Spirit. We about to go a step further. Most people aren't gonna notice. Maybe some people will notice, but most of them aren't. Because if it looks good enough or close enough, we can get away for it, with it. They're still gonna be cheering us on. They don't understand how particular the footwork has to be in accordance to God's word when we talk about it spiritually. Let's talk further. Who else is watching? During a Sumo match, you've got a referee. We have our own one to parallel this analogy named Yeshua, AKA Jesus Christ, right? What do I mean by this? During a Sumo match, there's a referee. He knows exactly what to look for. He's watching your every move, and he's gonna call it out the minute your toes or the top of your, your foot is on there and your soles aren't touching. Boom, referee's gonna call you out. You lost. Now, this is a little different because Yeshua isn't gonna say, "Hey, you slipped up." He's not gonna show up and end the match and say, "Hey, spiritual warfare is over. This guy's lost." But you're gonna feel it spiritually. You're gonna see it in your life showing up spiritually and physically, the consequences of sin. Our life is a little more firm in our sumo match. If we are slipping up like that, we actually have to go tell the referee. The referee knows, but we have free will, so he's gonna let us keep doing what we're doing. His word tells us what we need to do, and we need to follow it And he may nudge you to try to get you to change, but a lot of us ignore God when he talks to us. And so this is really important because a lot of times we think we can get away with stuff. Maybe, quote, "The referee hasn't stopped the match yet," AKA called us out for losing already. Maybe the spectators or family or community think we look good, but the truth is we're already outside the word of God. We're already outside the guidelines that God put forward, right? And this isn't to make an analogy parallel with the law, but with what we're supposed to live as a Christian, right? There's something else, another layer to this that we gotta address. People who are interested in your lifestyle and are following you, they're watching your spiritual battles, they're gonna copy your example. So if the top sumo wrestler is always getting away with, you know, the top of his foot or toes curled or, you know, having footwork without the soles of his feet on the ground, the people he's training, the people watching him, the people learning from him, whether he knows about it or not, whether he knows they're watching or not, they're gonna copy his example, right? We need to set an example of the proper guidelines, the proper rules. Whether we can get away with it or not, this is about integrity and character. We mentioned that earlier. We need to teach them that we practice rule-following stability, that we're not gonna risk losing, that we're not gonna get away with what should disqualify us. This is really important. We need to hold our ground properly, otherwise we're gonna set other people up to be failing. But let's take it a step further. We've talked a lot about holding your ground, standing firm, important biblical principles in spiritual warfare. But if you read more scripture, especially focused on the feet, you'll find out that the feet and the footwork, it's not just about holding your ground and stability. It's about moving. In fact, most anime and other media that you've watched that is about sumo, you'll see they always emphasize the feet. They'll zoom in and they'll say, "What's the strongest part of a sumo wrestler?" And that's up to debate, but a lot of shows will say their feet are incredibly strong, muscular. They're important. We already talked about why they're so important for holding your ground, for balance, for stability, but they're necessary for charging and pushing as well, not just in the sumo world and match, but spiritually our feet are also for pushing forward, for charging, and for carrying something. I want you to take a look at 1 Kings 18:46. "The power of the Lord came on Elijah, and tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel." Now this is such a powerful part of scripture. Most people have never even picked up on this, that Elijah ran, he outran some of the finest horses in the country to deliver a message. His feet were for moving, not of his own accord, but of God's power. But still important because he was ready to answer the call. This happens after Elijah's confrontation with the prophets of Baal, which a lot of y'all are familiar with that scene. If you're not, it's really important, and this is after he prayed for the drought to end. So Elijah had already stood his ground. He stood up before Ahab. He stood against false worship. He knelt in prayer. He watched for the promised rain, and then he ran towards Jezreel. He held his ground, and then he charged forward. And this isn't about sometimes you charge forward first and then hold your ground second, right? That can happen. What's the key distinguishment? What is God saying? Elijah listened to God. Stand first, charge second. Sometimes in life, God is gonna say, "Charge first, stand your ground second." This is why those daily practices, prayer, scripture, we're gonna get into it more, listening to God and having discernment is important so you know how to move and effectively win. Elijah moved after holding his ground with the feet of Gospel peace. How do we know he had Gospel peace? He had obedience, discipline. That's not to say other parts of his life Elijah wasn't happy or wasn't unhappy, right? We know Elijah has plenty of great, great content, right? When you, when you read about his life, there are very human parts about it. But we do know that he had obedience and discipline, which are important parts of, of sumo, important parts of our spiritual warfare, and he moved after God had acted. So the Gospel footwear in Ephesians 6 that we read earlier, they represent readiness. Readiness includes two things: the stability to remain where God has placed you, and the willingness to move where God sends you. Holding your ground and charging forward, two main principles of sumo when it comes to the physical confrontation. Sometimes faithfulness is refusing to move, and it's holding your ground when things are charging against you and trying to push you outside the ring of, of, you know, your disciplined life, trying to get you to compromise, trying to get you to sin, trying to get you to abandon your faith. Other times, faithfulness means running ahead. The same God who plants our feet firmly as we read can suddenly command those feet to move. This means our footwork isn't just incredibly important, but this is why discernment and listening and obeying to God is so important, as I talked about earlier. Because we need to know when to move, we need to know when to hold our ground. Those daily disciplines are necessary for making those decisions. Being in the Word, praying, listening to God, being still, right? We need to know. We need to pray. We need to have that discernment. We need to know, right? Just like in sumo, before the match even begins, each sumo wrestler is thinking about, "What's the next move? What do I do?" Right? For us, it's not just about what we're thinking, it's about what are we discerning through the Word, through prayer. Before we make a decision, we need to be discerning, do I hold my ground or do I charge forward? What is the right cause of action? When the two clash, sumo wrestlers are thinking, "Do I just hold my ground for now? Do I try this technique? Do I try that technique? Do I push forward?" Right? They're discerning that through experience. Similarly, we need to, through reading the scripture, through prayer, through leaning into God, through understanding our relationship with Him, we need to make those discernments and decisions as well. And sometimes it's not gonna be God telling us exactly charge forward or hold our ground, but He's gonna say, "You know what to do," and you need to make that decision based in the fruit of the Holy Spirit, based in the Word. God gives us these abilities. Look at Psalm 18:33. "He makes my feet like the feet of a deer. He causes me to stand on the heights." Deer have excellent footwork when it comes to movement and speed, right? Feet like a deer. Wow, that's movement. Standing on the heights. Again, the word stand, so important. Now we're gonna share this one in Japanese as well. And then look at this. Isaiah 52:7, "How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, 'Your God reigns.'" 主は私の足を鹿のようにし、高いところに立たせてくださいます。 And then we hear this echoed in Romans chapter ten verse fifteen. What does it say? How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news. Now we'll listen to that in Japanese as well. So looking here at Isaiah and Romans, we see this mirroring of how beautiful are the feet, right? The feet that move, that carry, that brought a message. These are important in scripture. Some believers want the spiritual armor, but they never wanna go into the mission field. They never wanna carry the good message, or sometimes going into places or environments that are tough. Because of, because it's good news, sometimes we have to go to bad places, right? Some people never wanna have to charge forward. Some people never wanna have to hold their ground. They want the spiritual armor. They, they want shoes for protection, but not for purpose. They want shoes for protection, but not for movement Being able to just defend the faith isn't enough. We're supposed to go evangelize. We're supposed to go make disciples of all nations. We're supposed to move. We need to resist the enemy. We need to fight back against all this evil in the world. We need to make a, a difference and a purpose. It's not just about having spiritual armor and the feet of Gospel peace to just sit at home by ourselves and just live this cushy life. It's about going out there into spiritual warfare Gospel readiness means being prepared to carry the message and push forward, again, sometimes to awful places, because they need the good news. So to sum it all up, I recently saw a sumo match, a couple matches, and it comes down to the footwork. The feet are vital. It's also a sport and practice that emphasizes humility, discipline, and dedication. Our spiritual warfare is not the same as a sumo match, but it can parallel many parts of that: humility, discipline, dedication, and the vitality and the importance of footwork. Footwork that has stability, that has strength, that has balance, that has readiness for holding our ground, for charging forward, and for walking the right path in life, little tripping or falling, with the ability to keep stability when temptation and hardship comes. We need to be training them. Our feet, our footwork, the foundation and readiness of gospel peace, our daily disciplines and strength training of scripture and prayer and fasting and everything else, community. We need to have a character discipline and training them. This is the essence of sumo and of the spiritual warfare. So I encourage all of y'all to reflect on that, look at your footwork. How is it doing? Is it as trained as you think? And is it actually performing at the level you think? Are you holding your ground? Are you charging forward? Are you walking the right path? Are you doing none of those? It's never too late to start to have this training, to have good footwork. You know, Yeshua saves, the Word saves. The Word is alive, and it is beautiful. So please, I encourage you wherever you are on your journey to now equip yourself with this armor, to put on the feet of gospel peace. So not only that, but help train others and lead others in the right way. And I encourage you all to look at the things in the world and find inspiration for God. For all that we do, do it for God. Just as I went to the sumo match and have made this sermon because God has inspired me, I pray that God would inspire you from the things in your life, whether they're a rare event or an everyday occurrence, that He would be speaking to you through and with those things, and that you would carry that message onward. So now, with the gospel of peace feet equipped on you, I pray that you would go forward and spread the Word. Amen.