Today on Summit Life with J.D. Creer.

Being in the belly of a fish can coerce your obedience.

Seeing that Jesus went into the belly of the fish for you

is what will create desire in your heart.

God's not just after obedience, he's after a whole new kind of

obedience. The goal of every sermon that I ever preach is not to tell you, don't be like

Jonah. The goal of every sermon is to help you worship. Thanks for joining us today on

Thanks for joining us today on Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

Haven't we all gone through the motions to do something we really didn't want to do?

What do they say sometimes? just suck up and do it?

Well today on Summit Life, Pastor Jady turns to the Book of Jonah to remind us that just because we do

what God asks us to do doesn't necessarily mean that we're acting from

a heart of obedience.

It's another thought-provoking message from our castaway series in the Book of Jonah.

Don't miss a message by revisiting previous broadcasts online

or downloading the free unedited sermon transcripts.

They're available at J.D.grier.

com. Now here's JD with part two of a message he's titled The Moment of

Crisis. Just to review real quick. Jonah was running from God and disobedience.

God told him to go to Nineveh. Jonah didn't want to go. So God sent a storm to just about

kill everybody on that boat, so they take Jonah and they throw him overboard, Jonah hits

the water, the water goes calm, Jonah thinks everything's cool when all the sudden out of

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