Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

Happy Monday, and thanks for joining us again today on Summit Life with Pastor JD Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Bitovich, and I hope you're ready for another great

week of Biblical teaching here on the program. So let me ask, have you ever wondered how much

goodness God can bring about in your life? The reason I mentioned it is that many of us aren't

even sure that any goodness is possible. Pastor JD Greer tackles that question today as he examines

the sufferings of the Apostle Paul. And more importantly, God's goodness through his suffering.

In today's brand new teaching called goodness in me, he's continuing our teaching series in Psalm 23.

So if you've missed any part of it and would like to catch up, you can always do that free of charge

at JD Greer.com. But for now, open your Bible to Psalm 23 and let's join Pastor JD for this important

teaching. Psalm 23, you've got your Bibles with you this weekend and I hope that you

brought them. Here is something I have observed as a pastor and that is a lot of people quit following

Jesus like shortly after high school or out of college. And for a lot of them, it's because they

asked God to do something that to them seemed perfectly reasonable. But when God didn't do it,

they wondered if God was even there or if he was there, what the point of this whole church

thing was because they just could not understand why a good and loving God would not do what they

had asked. They even, you know, up their game, we're up their religious game when they ask God.

They started, you know, getting more consistent in church and starting praying every night,

even started giving. But after a few weeks or months of doing this and nothing happened,

nothing changing, they started thinking things like, well, you know, what's wrong with me?

And that turned into God, what's wrong with you? And that turned into God, are you even there?

And then it turned into, even if you are there, I'm not sure that all this religious effort is

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