Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

God never promises us that if we follow him, we won't fail at anything.

What he tells us is that in all things, if we follow him, whether success or failure, he

will sustain us and he will be enough for us. Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

If you've been with us for a while now, you know that we've been in a new teaching series on the life of King David, but before

David we know a man named Saul was actually Israel's first King.

Today Pastor J.D walks through the tragic last chapter of Saul's life. King Saul held such

promise in the beginning, but the longer he reined, the more it became clear that

he wanted God's blessing much more than he wanted God and Saul isn't alone. In the church today

many people seem destined to miss heaven by 18 inches. That's the distance between

your head and your heart. So let's listen carefully and intently today

as Pastor J.D. opens God's word now.

So First Samuel 28, if you have your Bibles,

First Samuel 28, 28, if you have your Bibles, First Samuel 28, I was as you're turning there,

I was on a panel with an older pastor the other day.

This older pastor was probably in his 60s, I would guess. He said that his wife became a Christian

about 10 years into their ministry. When he said that you could tell this room full of Christian

leaders was confused you know and he kind of sensed that.

He said, well, she was never resistant to faith.

She wasn't some kind of blatant hypocrite.

She wasn't secretly an atheist or anything like that. She'd grown up in a Christian home.

She'd always gone along with everything.

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