Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Listen, if all Jesus ever did in your life was save you from hell.

And then after that, everything else in your life was taken,

would we still not consider ourselves the recipients of incalculable levels of grace?

What would even the worst pain and the worst loss on earth be compared to the joys

that you and I experience in eternity that

Jesus purchased for us that we don't deserve.

Welcome back to Summit Life with pastor and author J.D. Greer. I'm your host, Molly Vitovich.

In our culture, we conduct business by creating agreements or contracts so that it's clear we know what we're getting or what we are expected to deliver.

It's a binding legal document meant to clarify a relationship between parties. But consider this. How many of us

extend that same mindset to our relationship with God? I'll do this, you do that. I'll deliver here,

you deliver there. Pastor J.D. Greer teaches about the dangers of believing God actually

owes us something. A slippery slope for sure. Now, if you missed any of the other

messages in this teaching series so far, you can find them online anytime at jd.grier.com. We also have a

new resource that we want to tell you about, but that's coming a bit later in the program, so stick

around. It's time to get started with a message, Pastor J.D., creatively titled

11th Hour Faith. So we got your Bibles this weekend, and I hope that you do. Take them out and

open them to Matthew 20 or turn them on to chapter 20 and scroll down there. As you're turning there,

you know, being able to listen and truly understand

what is being said is a critical life skill in any context. When I was, it reminded me of a story

I heard when I was young about a couple of rednecks who were out in the woods hunting together

and all of a sudden one of them grabbed his chest and fell to the ground and he was scarcely breathing

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