today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

If you only obey Jesus when he makes sense to you,

then he is not your Lord, he is your advisor.

Obeying God only when he makes sense to you

is not obedience, it's agreement.

So that's the question, is Jesus your Lord

or is he your advisor? Thanks for Summit Life with Pastor J.Grier. I'm your host Molly Bidovich.

Today, Pastor J.D. focuses on a chapter that frankly many of us might find confusing, if not downright offensive.

By walking through King David's mysterious census and the massive punishment that follows,

Pastor Jady deals with one of the biggest obstacles many people have to

trusting in God. You see, deep down we're not really sure he's a good person that he's really there and cares

if you feel like God is less loving and forgiving and more vindictive and cruel this

obscure story might just change your perspective.

This is the first part of the last sermon in this teaching series, so be sure to get caught up in time

for the grand finale on Monday by visiting our website

Jiddy Greer.com. Right now let's join Pastor J.D. in 2nd Samuel chapter 24.

Today we're bringing our series on David to a close and we're going to end it on one of those

passages in the Bible that most people don't quite know what to do with.

You know, for all of us, a lot of us, the Old Testament as a whole is kind of difficult.

For many of us, it can even be an obstacle to trust in God. I mean Jesus seems to be somebody like we can

jive with you know he's full of love and tenderness and mercy and forgiveness and

forgiveness and he likes to be kind of little kids and he's always looking out

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