today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

In the sermon on the Mount, he's going to give us eight ways to be happy.

Now, I'm going to warn you that what Jesus tells you in these 12 verses is upside down

from everything else you're ever going to hear on this topic.

It's revolutionary.

But even if you're not a Christian, I think you'll have to admit that these things,

even though they are counterintuitive at first,

are going to make a lot of sense.

Welcome to another day of solid biblical teaching here on Summit Life with pastor and author, J.D. Greer.

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

Happiness. It's something we all crave, and yet it often seems so elusive.

We pin our hopes on something in the future like marriage or kids, career success or retirement,

and we think that if we can just

get there, then we'll be happy. And yet, once we arrive, there's still more that we want,

and it's just never quite enough. So what's the solution? How do we escape that rat race

and find true lasting happiness and joy? Today we're discovering eight ways to be

happy according to Jesus. It's part of our teaching series called The Whole Story. So let's join

Pastor J.D. right now in Matthew chapter five. You got your Bibles. I'd love for you to take

them out and open them to Matthew chapter 5.

It's the most famous sermon ever given called the sermon on the Mount.

We're only going to look at the first 12 verses of it.

But Jesus begins this sermon with a question that everybody in the world at some point has asked themselves.

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