today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

What God did when Jesus died on the cross is he absorbed the pain of our injustice and said,

it will go no farther than here. I will not give you wrath and anger for what you have done.

I will swallow. I will absorb the effects of your sin, and I will give you love and acceptance even though you deserve

anger.

Welcome back to Summit Life with pastor, author, and apologist Jidi Greer.

I'm your host, Molly Vitovich,

and we're thankful to be jumping into God's Word with you again. Today, we have reached the pinnacle of our teaching series called Instead of Me. Pastor Jady is walking us through some of the

important moments before Jesus's crucifixion that we often tend to breeze through rather quickly.

There are lessons to be learned, and we don't want to miss them. As always, if you miss any of our

programs, or if you're in search of our featured monthly resource, you can find everything

online at jd.gere.com or by giving us a call at 866-33335220. But right now, let's join Pastor Jadie for this

challenging message he titled, Punished for Me. Matthew 27, if you got your Bible this weekend,

I would invite you to take it out. Matthew 27, here is a question for you as you turn in your Bible to Matthew 27.

Has there ever been a significant event in your life that you and somebody else interpreted very, very differently?

I remember hearing the story of four people who were sitting across from each other in the stall of a train as it was barreling along the tracks.

It was a

basketball player, a college basketball player and his coach. And then across from them

was a beautiful young college age girls sitting next to her grandmother. And so you can tell

that the college basketball player and this college girl were kind of hitting it off and they

were making, you know, exchanging flirtatious glances when all of a sudden the train goes through a tunnel a short tunnel

and for 10 or 15 seconds it was total darkness on the train and during that 10 or 15 seconds of total

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