Today on Summit Life, an encouraging message from JD Greer.

When you're feeling the pain and the heartache that comes from stupid, sinful choices

that you have made, the Father says to the Son, go again, go again, go again, do not give up.

I will never give up because I will not be happy again until I have restored you to salvation. to salvation. Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Badeck. Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

You know, sometimes when we are struggling with sin,

it's tempting to just pull away from God for a little bit.

We figure he's not really hearing us anyway, right? We're worried

he's going to run out of patience and we feel like we need to clean ourselves up before we go back to

him. So rather than moving towards him, we stop going to church for a while and put a hold on our prayers

while we try to pull ourselves together. But that's not how a relationship with God should look.

Today, Pastor J.D. Greer reminds us that even if we pull away from God, he never

stops pursuing us. So why not simply return to Him? If you miss the first part of his teaching,

you can always catch up online at JDgrear.com.

Pastor JD titled this message, scandalous love.

Josea chapter 1, 1, 1, verse 2.

Jose has to go down in history as the man who received the worst ministry assignment

ever.

Jose I want to go and marry a prostitute and have children with her.

But God had a purpose for this.

Verse 2, this will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute

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