Today on Summit Life, Pastor Jady Greer talks about the Ten Commandment.

These laws, these ten laws, don't change you.

Obeying them don't change you.

They just reveal how messed up your heart actually is.

God's not after you coercing your behavior and earning your way into heaven.

God wants people who obey him because they love it.

Yeah. wants people who obey him because they love it. Hello, and thanks for joining us on Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer.

I'm Molly Bedevich, and it's always a blessing to spend this time with you.

You know, many people think of the Bible

as just a big, thick book of rules and regulations. Thou shall do this and thou shall not do that.

And the Old Testament tends to be especially intimidating even for believers, because it seems to be

full of impossible standards we can never live up to. Be honest, many of us give up our

Bible reading plans right about, well, now. Well, today, Pastor Jady explains the true purpose

behind all of God's standards and an encouraging message from our series called The Whole

Story. Jady originally preached this sermon on Easter Sunday,

so you'll definitely hear the gospel urgency in this message he titled,

Great Failure, Greater Hope.

Late one evening, two men sat alone together in a bar in downtown Detroit,

and one of them looked at the other one and said are

you from around here and the guy said yep grew up right here in Detroit and the other guy said well

that's amazing he said I grew up right here in Detroit also he said what year did you graduate high

school said I graduated in 1993 he said well that's pretty amazing I graduated from high school in 1993

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