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Summit Life with J.D. Greear

Keeping Sight of the Beginning, Part 2

Summit Life with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Every year on Black Friday, we see crazy news footage of the crowds of people shoving and pushing, trying to get a good deal on a new device like a flat screen. It brings to mind the age-old question, “Do you own your things, or do your things own you?” And that’s our subject as Pastor J.D. continues our series called, Staying Faith.

Transcript

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Today on Summit Life, we're looking at our bank accounts.

0:02.8

There are three things that to me comprise a biblical vision for money.

0:05.7

You want to put all of them together. It's this.

0:07.8

Be smart, be wise, be generous.

0:10.6

Smart means you track everything that you spend and you don't go into debt.

0:13.5

You know where every penny is going.

0:15.0

Be wise means that you save regularly.

0:17.6

To be generous means that you give extravagantly.

0:20.8

Hey, thanks for joining us here on Summit Life with Pastor JD Greer of the Summit Church in

0:33.9

Raleigh, North Carolina. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vittavitch.

0:38.7

As I'm sure you know, during a typical year of holiday shopping,

0:42.1

we see crazy news footage of crowds of people shoving and pushing,

0:46.5

trying to get that best deal on a new flat screen TV or the latest Black Friday gadget.

0:52.2

And it makes me think of the age old question.

0:54.6

Do you own your things or do your things own you?

0:58.6

An appropriate question to ask as we exit the holidays and enter into a new year

1:03.3

with so much economic uncertainty.

1:06.3

Today, Pastor JD continues our new teaching series called Staying Faith

1:10.6

with the second part of a message he titled Keeping Site of the Beginning.

1:18.4

Luke 19, verse 1, Jesus entered Jericho and he was passing through.

1:23.9

And behold, there was a man there named Zacchaeus.

1:27.5

He was a chief tax collector and he was rich.

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