Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Religion that's real.

Religion that's not just a sham.

That kind of religion is shown by.

Watch visiting orphans and widows in their affliction

and keeping oneself unstained from the world.

There are two signs that your faith is genuine and that it is real.

Number one, you love those people that God loves.

And number two, you're busy rooting out sin.

You're taking sin seriously and not just big sins, but anything in your heart that displeases God.

Welcome to Summit Life with pastor, author, and theologian J.D. Greer. I'm your host, Molly Vitovich.

We've been learning over the past week or so that Jesus truly does reveal the beauty of the gospel in his parables, but only for those who truly listen.

Well, today, Pastor J.D. shares another one of these stories, and this one is going to show us what it looks like to be a Christian in today's world, a timely message, no doubt, as we seek to be a light in this dark world.

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But now let's jump into today's message titled either a sheep or a goat.

Matthew explains to us that Jesus spoke to his disciples and to these first audio. a sheep or a goat.

Matthew explains to us that Jesus spoke to his disciples and to these first audiences in parables so that those who were not genuinely listening would miss what he was saying.

One of our campus pastors told me a story this week about when he was in college.

You may have had something like this happened to you where he was given an exam. And the professor said, you know, make sure you read all the way through to the end.

So my friend looked at the exam and saw the instructions there were to read all the way to the end before he did anything.

But he said, I saw a couple questions right there on the front page and I knew the answers to and didn't want to take a chance of forgetting them. So I just jotted them down real quick. He said, I started to work through the rest of the exam. He said, and I noticed

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