Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer, the most determining fact about any man is not what he

at a guinea-given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives of God to be like.

Let's see, that's basically the same thing that Solomon was saying.

Our knowledge of God is the shaping most determining influence on our lives.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor Arthur and Apologist J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host,

Molly Bitovich. You know, popular thought says that there are lots of ways to know and be close to God.

And in modern society, claiming to have exclusive access makes you sound prejudice and narrow-minded.

But is knowing God really just like climbing a mountain where all roads lead to the top?

Do we all just have different pieces of the same puzzle? Pastor J.D. answers those questions

today as he continues our series called The Man Who Had It All and our teaching today is called

Solomon's Knowledge of God. Let's join Pastor J.D. in First Kings, Chapter 8.

I went through a streak a few months ago where I got into listening to famous commencement addresses,

graduation addresses from around the country. There's some really great ones out there on YouTube and

other things like that. One was from Admiral William McRaven, the U.S. Admiral and former Navy

seal who shared with graduates from the University of Texas 10 different life lessons that he learned

as a Navy seal. The first he said was to make your bed the first thing when you get up every morning.

If you do, he said you will have accomplished the first task of the day and that will, he said,

give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and then another and then

by the end of the day that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. I know

that some of you mothers feel 100% justified right now in how you're raising your kids but I thought

it was a great speech. That was of course the famous speech given by Steve Jobs at Stanford in 2005

who told graduates there that a simple slogan had shaped his life. He took it from a 1970s magazine

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