Mystery and Assurance

Summit Life with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s a question people have struggled with throughout the ages: If God is merciful, then why does he choose to save some and not others? To answer this and some other tough questions in today’s message, Pastor J.D. looks at Romans 9 to show us how the mystery of God’s ways should point us to his sovereignty and our unworthiness. When we see ourselves rightly, we are emboldened to share his mercy with the least likely.

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0:00.0	Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.
0:02.4	God is the center of everything.
0:03.7	Every time you walk outside and look up at the stars,
0:06.2	it is screaming at you.
0:07.9	You're not the point.
0:09.9	The exaltation of God's glory is the greatest good in the universe.
0:14.2	And that might offend us in a culture who grew up thinking and being told all of our lives
0:18.4	that we were the point of it all, that we're special, that we're unique, that we're snowflakes.
0:22.2	But that is true.
0:30.7	Thanks for joining us today on Summit Life with Pastor,
0:35.8	author, and theologian JD Greer.
0:38.4	As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch.
0:41.2	So I have a question that many people have struggled with for all of history.
0:46.2	You ready?
0:46.9	Here it is.
0:48.0	If God is merciful, then why does he choose to save some and not others?
0:53.2	We've all heard the arguments.
0:55.2	A loving God would never condemn anyone to hell, right?
0:58.6	Well, Pastor JD Greer will answer this and some other tough questions as we continue our
1:03.5	teaching series in the Book of Romans.
1:05.7	We'll learn that the mystery of God's ways should always point us to his sovereignty,
1:10.6	most importantly, and secondly, to power unworthiness.
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