today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

Jesus did not lower God's standards,

or he did not say that God's gonna grade on a curve.

He could not have done that.

God is holy, God is who God is.

Jesus lived out the full righteousness of God fully,

but then he died in our place

so that we would not perish.

Thanks for joining us today for Summit Life with J.D. Greer,

lead pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich.

Christmas is getting close, so we've shifted our teaching now in that direction. In his incarnation, Jesus personified

God's defining characteristics of grace and truth, yet religion so often espouses one without the

other to the point of condemnation and exclusion.

In today's teaching, Pastor Jady continues to walk through Jesus' resume in John 1 in order to show us how Jesus is the glory of God in the flesh and in turn how we should respond to

his offer of grace, truth, and eternal life. Are you ready?

Let's join Pastor Jady in John chapter one as we continue our teaching called In the Beginning was Jesus.

The main thing to get here is that John is connecting Jesus to the original work of creation.

In Genesis 1, God spoke. Matter sprang from nothing.

Order came from chaos. Light came from darkness and life sprang from deadness. In the same way,

John says, Jesus' word brings order to chaotic, confused lives.

His words are going to calm storms and bring peace.

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