Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Do you realize that at Christmas, we're not talking about the birth of a baby who came to bring

goodwill and make us feel loving and warm to each other.

We're talking about the Son of God, that all the Bible, all the fuss, all of it has been about

him.

Do you realize what it will be like if you just ignore or trivialize him or pay lip service to him by

coming to church once in a while.

Welcome back to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry of pastor, author, and apologist J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich, and we're excited to be jumping back into God's

Word today with you. As a little kid, you probably believed a lot of the stories about the Christmas

season that you later learned were a bit exaggerated or maybe even made up entirely.

Certain flying mammals with red noses and gift delivery methods, for instance.

So is the story of Jesus' birth just another one of those stories?

Pastor Jady addresses that question today as he continues our new teaching series called foretold.

We began this teaching yesterday, so if you missed it, you can catch up online at jd.gere.com.

We're looking at a passage that you probably don't associate with Christmas from the book of

Deuteronomy. Pastor Jady titled this message, The Prophet.

I want you to make a list of everything that you think God ought to be like. And just, and if you need more than one page,

turn it over right in the back page, and make a list of every possible descriptor you can come up

with with what God ought to be like. And then I want you to go back after you're done and read

back through that list, and here's what you'll find. You want to be God. And you at least need to recognize that about

yourself, that you interpret what God says about himself a lot of times based on what you like and what

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