Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

Don't just think that if you're anointed with oil and say the right

incantation that it's going to go away. You can pray for God to deliver you from all the harassment

of Satan, but don't just pray for God to bring you out of the trouble. You should also pray

that he puts himself into you through the trouble.

Thanks for joining us here on Summit Life with Pastor JD Greer. As always, I'm your host,

Molly Vitavitch. Today we're wrapping up our brand new teaching series in Psalm 23 called Goodness

in the Middle, picking up where we left off yesterday. In this final sermon, Pastor JD has been

drawing a parallel to the Apostle Paul who never asked for his throne in the flesh. In fact,

he repeatedly asked God to take it away. But through this painful situation, Paul learned to lean

upon God's goodness. Because if dependence is our objective, then weakness actually turns out to

be an advantage. So is anyone ready to be vulnerable? To be weak so that God can be strong?

Today's teaching just might help us get there. So open your Bibles 1 final time to Psalm 23

and let's get back to it.

Pride. Listen, I don't know about you all, but if I walked around victorious over all my temptations,

I for sure, my sinful heart would conclude that I was really awesome at this obeying Jesus thing.

There ain't ever been a Christian like me, which would fill me with pride, which ironically would

make me more like Satan than ever. So God lets me struggle with certain temptations so that I'm

going to say with Paul, oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death.

I'm convinced that is in me, that is in my flesh. There is nothing good. The only way for Jesus

to save me was to crucify my flesh and to put his resurrection inside of me. I'm crucified of a

Christ. I got a new pride. Nevertheless, I live. But this life I'm living, I'm not even living by

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