Today on Summit Life, JD Greer talks about suffering.

What Peter's showing you is that it's almost like a thermostat.

Your thermostat, it's the cold that kicks on the thermostat, makes a heat come on.

Peter's saying the cold of suffering is what kicks on the heat of your faith.

There is a kind of joy, inexpressible joy.

Some of you have never really felt because you've never been through the pain of despair.

Happy Friday and welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor JD Greer.

I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch.

You know, a lot of people come to Jesus with the expectation that help make their life better.

I mean, let's be real. We hear it all the time, right?

In fact, it's not even that they think things will be perfect,

but they still sort of expect some improvements.

Happy your family, financial stability, and a help line when things get sticky.

But the problem is, the Bible never promised us an easy life.

In fact, Jesus said that in this world, we will have trouble.

So how should we respond when life gets hard?

Let's join Pastor JD in first Peter as he answers this question from a biblical perspective.

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First Peter, if you got your Bible open to first Peter,

Peter writes this book as a normal guy to normal people,

and he writes it to people who are in the midst of suffering.

All right, so let's begin in verse one.

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