Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Every other false God favors or rewards the insiders.

He loves and accepts you because you keep the rules.

But the true God reaches out for the outsiders because truth be told we're all

outsiders and we're all desperately in need of God's great grace. God seeks the

outsider. He's seeking the outsider in this story. He still seeks the outsider today. Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer, I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

You know, a lot of us can tend to think of people from the Old Testament as a bit primitive and backward,

worshiping little stone statues or golden images.

And while you may not find too many statues being worshipped today here in America,

rest assured that idle worship is still going strong. In fact, we might be worshipping a false

God even when we think we're worshiping the God of the Bible. I mean that's a little

scary, right? So today, Pastor J.D. explains how we can tell if we are worshiping the true God or a self-created

figment of our imagination.

It's part of our new teaching series called Something Better and Pastor JD titled

this message, A God Like like no other so let's

join him now in the book of First Kings. First Kings 17 if you recall God picked a fight with evil King Ahab and his pet God

bail by declaring that it wasn't going to rain until Elijah said it was going to rain.

You see Bale specialized in me and the rainmaker.

So Elijah basically gets all up in his territory and says,

you're not the rainmaker.

God is the rainmaker.

And it's not going to rain until God says it's going to rain and he's going to do it through,

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