Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

Faith is choosing to rest the hopes of your salvation

on Jesus Christ and what he said he did when he died on the cross.

And you come to him and say I've got a lot of questions and I don't know if I understand

everything but I am hoping and what you said you did is my salvation and I may not

understand how all this works until I get to heaven but Jesus you are my hope and you're my

savior. That's the instrument of salvation is faith.

Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor, author and theologian JD Greer.

As always I'm your host Molly Vitavitch. As sinners we don't just need improvement.

We need to be saved. We don't need a life coach to help us start over. We need a resurrected

savior to raise us from death. And today Pastor JD teaches us the four things that we must

understand about salvation in order to fully appreciate the gift of grace.

Are you looking for answers to life's questions? Here at Summit Life we see those answers in the

gospel of Jesus Christ. So come along with us right now as we join Pastor JD in Ephesians chapter 2.

Verse 4 contains probably the largest conjunction ever uttered in human history but God.

But God that's it. John Stott calls those the two most significant words ever uttered in the

English language but God would you just let the force of that hits you for a minute?

You were helpless but not hopeless because hope wouldn't going to come from inside of you by

your ability to help yourself. Hope was going to come from outside of you when God in mercy looked

at you and buried his mighty arm and began the process of salvation. When you were dead in sin but

God being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us. Let's talk about those for

a minute. Great love. Some theologians, some Christians talk about salvation so coldly and

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