 and the what? Agony of what? Defeat. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. I can't help but think about that when I think about the message and the scriptures we're looking at tonight because we are talking about the Christian life. Now let me say tonight, we are talking about the Christian life in the sense of how we should live or some keys to living the Christian life. These are not things to do in order to make it to heaven.