today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

If God didn't spare his son for you when you were his enemy,

of course he's going to work in the pain in your life to bring it about for good.

He wouldn't have done the first thing if he wasn't also going to do the second thing.

Jesus' resurrection is the promise of what is to come for us.

A resurrection in which every phrase of Psalm 91 is going to be literally true in your life.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich,

and we're so glad that you're back with us today.

Psalm 91 seems to say that if you trust God, nothing bad will happen to you and your life will go smoothly.

And so then if things aren't going well, you must not be trusting God. And that's troubling, right?

It almost sounds like karma, and that is certainly no place we want to hang our hat on, right?

Well, today, Pastor J.D. Greer uses Romans 828 to show us how the promises of Psalm 91 still can ring true, even when things might look a bit uneasy.

Today, we're concluding our teaching series called Help. To catch up on

previous messages you may have missed, go to jadie greer.com, but right now, let's rejoin Pastor

Jadie. Verses like Romans 828 show you how the promises in Psalm 91 or true. Romans 828 promises us that God is working all things together

for good. Work together for good does not mean that bad things are really good things in disguise.

It means that God takes genuinely bad things and he brings his power to bear in them so that you

will be better off for them having happened.

It means that from the vantage point of eternity, you're going to be able to see how God exercised

his power and grace in such a perfect way that all the evil that happened will in the end

only lead to greater glory for God and greater joy for us. That is the ultimate defeat of evil.

All evil deeds ultimately accomplish the reverse of what their authors intended. We see little

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