Today on Summit Life, Pastor JD Greer talks about experiencing God.

God did not save you as an automaton. He saved you as a person to walk with him

and the verification that this is real is you have actual experience with him.

Now I know what some of you are saying now. You're like, well, how do we do this? Great question.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor JD Greer. As always, I'm your host Molly Vittovich.

You know, the deepest held beliefs in your life are probably not things that have been proven

to you through philosophical reasoning or reading lots of facts. Usually, our strongest beliefs are

result of personally experiencing things. We believe because we've seen, heard or felt it,

but that begs the question. We can't see God, so is it even possible to know him beyond

just an intellectual knowledge? Can we ever really experience him enough to truly believe?

Pastor JD argues, yes. And today on Summit Life, he'll explain how. Get ready to taste and see

God's goodness. Pastor JD titled this message, certainty through experience.

Well, the thing that we are going to chase this morning is this one. It is how you can be certain

about your experience with God through an experience of fellowship with him. I'll explain

you what I mean by that. You got a Bible. First John, chapter one. Let's look in verse one.

Verse John one, one. That which was from the beginning, John says, that which we have heard,

which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands concerning

the word of life. The life was made manifest and we have seen it and testified to it and proclaimed

to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us. Now, let's stop

there for a minute and think about what John is actually trying to say here. John is saying that the

reason that he was so sure about what he was teaching is that he and the other apostles actually

saw Jesus. They observed his miracles. They felt his resurrected body. John is saying, this is not

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