Today on Summit Life, JD Greer talks about an important test of our faith.

Maybe you don't know God at all.

Maybe your experience with God has not been genuine.

Because even if you're very religious, if this has not occurred in your heart,

if this test, this is so foundational.

If you don't pass this test, it indicates that something in you may have never actually encountered and met God.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor, author, and theologian JD Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vittavitch.

In Matthew 7, Jesus makes it clear that it's possible to call yourself a Christian

and believe all the right things and do the right stuff without ever truly being saved.

Jesus even says that it's possible to prophesy and cast out demons

and do mighty works in His name without truly recognizing Him.

So how do we know where we stand?

What's the difference between knowing about Jesus and truly knowing Him?

Pastor JD answers that question for us today with a message titled

Assured Because of Your Love of the Father.

We are in week number four of a series that we are calling Assured.

Assured, knowing for sure that you are saved and how first John speaks to that,

my purpose in this series has been to help you find the assurance of salvation

for at least a couple of reasons.

The first is that I am concerned about a lot of people,

even people here in our church who tell me that they are assured of their salvation

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