Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

When you see yourself as a recipient of great grace,

then God's compassion, listen, becomes his most precious attribute to you.

And when God's compassion becomes his most precious attribute to you,

then you become compassionate by nature to others. Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. I'm your host Molly Vidovich.

Today we're continuing our study from the Book of

Jonah. This small but masterfully written book has been challenging us as we

catch glimpses of ourselves through Jonah's disobedience, his deliverance, and then finally his decision

to reluctantly obey God.

You won't want to miss a single day here on the program, so if you need to catch up, you

can find all of the previous broadcasts online at J.D.

Grieer.com.

Today, Pastor J.D. turns to Jonah Chapter 4 to explain what a whole new kind of

obedience looks like. Let's join him right now.

Jonah, our prophet, has a kind of disease. It's a disease that I believe most religious people have and in this final chapter you're going to see the effects of that disease and you'll probably because most of you are religious you'll probably see some of the symptoms of the same disease in your own life.

Now if you don't consider yourself religious you will still probably see some of the symptoms of this disease in your own life because essentially at the end of the day we're all people

we're all made up with the same stuff whether you're religious or not.

Sometimes people ask me, JD when you preach do you preach to do you

treat your seekers or do you preach to save people?

And the answer is, I preach to sinners, right?

And sinners are people that when you're saved,

you still have that sinful heart at work in you

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