Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

There's some of you that are beginning to taste some of these painful consequences of sin

and you're tempted to look at God and say, God, what's going on? Why are you judging me?

And God said, I'm not judging you. This is mercy.

Judging would be for me to back up and say, as you wish and let you go to the full fruition

and never wake up, I am allowing these things to come into your life just to say,

do you really want this path?

Welcome back to another week of solid biblical teaching here on Summit Life with Pastor JD Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vittovic, and we're so glad that you're with us today.

Did you know that Thomas Jefferson once famously took a razor blade to his Bible and cut out

the parts he disliked? And while most of us haven't literally chopped up our

Bibles in that way, we often cut out certain passages in our minds, skipping past the

uncomfortable verses that talk about God's wrath and the punishment for sin.

But today, Pastor JD explains that the wrath of God isn't a demeaning doctrine to be ignored.

It's a glorious reality. Let's join Pastor JD for a message he titled by no means.

One of the things that I have learned now after being a pastor now for a few years is that people

expect me to talk like I have it all together. Many of you think that I open my eyes every morning

and I say, oh, good morning, Lord, and then I roll over and I grab the harp that I keep

beside my bed and I strum out a few love songs to Jesus and then I go downstairs to a kitchen

that smells like cinnamon and all my kids are sitting around the table with their Bibles opens,

saying, teach us daddy. I can assure you that that is not the usual way that I wake up in the

morning. In fact, by not usual, I mean, not ever. I usually wake up with the sounds of someone

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