Live Ready | Luke 12:35-47 | IN STEP
Summit Life with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear Ministries
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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As we continue our “In Step” series through the book of Luke, Pastor J.D. teaches what it means to “live ready” for Jesus’ return. Are we awake to the task Jesus left for his church, or are we asleep at the wheel? Are we confident Jesus will return soon, or do we live without urgency? As followers of Jesus, we should live in such a way that only makes sense if we believe Jesus could be back at any moment.
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| 0:00.0 | is the dividing line of judgment between those who are Christians and those who aren't, |
| 0:06.4 | or are some Christians also going to be caught unprepared and swept away in judgment? |
| 0:12.4 | In other words, does just becoming a Christian, so to speak, make you prepared, or is Jesus talking about something more? |
| 0:29.5 | No. make you prepared, or is Jesus talking about something more? Thanks for joining us today for the Summit Life podcast with J.D. Greer. |
| 0:34.5 | Staying spiritually grounded in a busy world can be a challenge. That's why Summit Life |
| 0:39.4 | offers a daily email devotional, your opportunity to connect with God every morning through |
| 0:45.3 | his word. These devotionals align with the teaching we're diving into here on the program, |
| 0:50.7 | making it easy to apply what you're learning to your everyday life. Take a moment to sign up for this |
| 0:55.5 | free resource at jadie greer.com slash resources. Now today, Pastor Jady shows us what it means to |
| 1:02.5 | live ready for Jesus' return. Are we awake to the task Jesus left for his church? Or are we |
| 1:08.4 | asleep at the wheel? Are we confident Jesus will return soon? Or do we |
| 1:12.6 | live without much urgency? Let's join Pastor J.D.S. He shares today's message titled Live Ready. |
| 1:22.7 | One of my favorite Christmas movies of all time, a true classic, does not come on the Hallmark |
| 1:27.2 | Channel. It is a Charles Dickens, a Christmas Carol, the one with George C. Scott, not |
| 1:32.7 | Mickey Mouse, by the way, although that one is good also. But the gist of the movie is that |
| 1:37.3 | Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy, heartless man. He is a workaholic. He is a miser. He |
| 1:43.1 | scrimps on paying his workers, and he looks down on |
| 1:46.2 | the needy. He despises Christmas because he thinks of Christmas as a sentimental holiday for |
| 1:52.6 | freeloaders. All of that changes one night when he gets visited by three ghosts, the ghost of |
| 1:59.1 | Christmas past, present, and future. All of them have an impact on him, |
| 2:04.2 | but it is his vision of the future that transforms him. With that one vision, he gets a glimpse |
| 2:11.1 | of the impact of his selfishness. He hears how people regarded him. His grave is abandoned and the only emotional response that |
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