Today on Summit Life, JD Greer talks about spiritual freedom.

What God is wanting to do is free us so that the desires of our heart are in line with what he wants.

He changes our hearts and the gospel so that we love him, so that obeying the great commandment feels to us like freedom.

And how does he do that? He does that by faith in the gospel. Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor J. Grieer.

I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

If your hands are free at the moment, stop and feel your wrist or put a finger under the edge of your jaw.

If you do it right, you'll be able to feel your pulse.

Pretty convincing proof that you're alive, right? So what does the Bible mean when it talks about

our need to be spiritually alive? How can we know if we are? Surely it's more than a

metaphorical pulse check, right? Pastor J.D. Greer tackles that subject today as he

continues the teaching series called Freedom in the In Between.

Remember you can always catch up on any teaching you've missed by visiting our website

J.D.Grier.com. He titled Today's Message,

Freed to be Alive.

Five hundred years ago,

Martin Luther Wald the half mile or so

between his home and the castle church there in Vittenberg, Germany, and he nailed up his 95 theses that claimed that salvation came by faith alone

and not by the works of the law and in so doing he changed history.

As you can see from that quote, Luther believed that faith

works together with the Holy Spirit to bring about spiritual change in our hearts.

If there is a secret, so to speak, of Christian growth, that is is it faith through the power of the

holy spirit

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