Today on Summit Life, an urgent reminder from Pastor J.D. Greer.

Jesus said for us to live ready that there's always an apocalyptic kind of edge to the gospel,

because there are two things that could happen at any moment that none of us know.

One is that Jesus could return.

He says he's going to come like a thief in the night.

They don't show up.

They don't send a courtesy call.

They just come when you're not expecting it. The other thing that could happen with you not knowing is death.

Welcome back to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry of pastor, author, and

apologist, J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. When you were a kid, or let's face it, a college student,

did you ever get a really big homework assignment? But instead of chipping away at it over the semester,

you kept putting it off and then frantically tried to finish it the night before

it was due. I think most of us did something along those lines at least once. And thankfully,

with a homework assignment, the worst that can happen is that we get a bad grade. But today,

Pastor J.D. talks about something you might be putting off that has much higher stakes. Wondering

what assignment that might be. Time to buckle up

for our teaching today and a message he titled, Get Ready. So are you ready? Let's go.

Today in Matthew 3, we're going to jump into the story of a rather strange figure who was sent

by God ahead of Jesus in order to prepare everybody

for the coming of Jesus. This guy was sent to prepare the way. He captured the attention of the

entire nation of Israel in part because he was so odd. I just got back, most of you know,

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