Hey, everyone.

This is Matt Love.

Welcome to Ask Me Anything with Pastor J.D. Greer.

All right. So today, I'm right off the bat. I'm just going to let you know that we are trying something new on the show. Okay. So as you know, Pastor J.D. has been teaching God's word for more than 20 years, most of it here at the Summit Church in Raleigh. And during that time, he has tackled lots of difficult questions from the pulpit that we then cover here on the show as well.

So we thought, you know, maybe we try sharing some of the original teaching that he did for the church with you here on the podcast as a way to answer some of those difficult questions.

So we're not going to do this every week, but we might sprinkle these in on the podcast as we feel like they're going to be helpful.

So we're going to get right into it.

The question that J.D. is going to address today is this. The Bible says we are to live in the world, but not be of the world, which is like a great line, but what does that really mean?

What does that look like? And how do we do that practically? Maybe the other way he's going to phrase it is, is there a difference between living

in the world and making your home there? And he's going to use an illustration of three circles of

friendship as he answers this important question today. So here we go. We're going to join Pastor J.D.

for his thoughts from God's word about who you really want to be and where you really want to belong.

There is a progression of sin in your life. Most Christians do not intend to become Sodom and

Gomorrah. Lot certainly didn't. He never intended to make it his home and he certainly

did not intend to be included in its judgment. But many Christians, like Lot, are so attracted to

the world that they make their home as close to it as possible. And if they're honest, they end up

identifying as much with the world as they do with the people of God. So be honest. Who do you think of

most instinctively as my brothers? Who do you feel the closest kinship with it's

kind of an easy question to answer who do you hang out with most easily who do you spend most of your

time with the lesson from lot's life is that you have to make up your mind from the beginning

who do you really want beginning. Who do you really

want to be? Where do you really want to belong? If it's with the world, go there 100%. If it's with God, go with him 100%.

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