Today on Summit Life, JD Greer explains the danger of religion without submission.

God cannot build his kingdom and fill it with a bunch of people like Saul who don't want God to be king.

Jesus could only bring the kingdom to earth by creating a race of people that have peace in here

because they have peace with God. Jesus put away the Saul in us by dying Saul's death for us.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor, author, and theologian JD Greer. As always, I'm your host,

Molly Vitavitch. You know, sometimes when I feel distant from God and my prayers don't seem to get

any response, I often start to wonder if God is even hearing me or does He just not really care?

Today, Pastor JD addresses these concerns as he continues our study in the book of First Samuel,

titled Search for a King. If you've missed any of the previous messages, you can hear them online

at JD Greer.com. The title of today's message is The Tragedy of Dying Without God. So let's jump

into God's word together. First Samuel 28, we're going to begin in verse 3. Now, Samuel, who was the

Prophet of God in Israel, had died and all of Israel had mourned for him and buried him at Ramah,

which was his hometown. Now, Saul had put the mediums, which mediums are people who communicate

with spirits. They're the ones who write horoscopes. They're the ones who answer the 1,900 calls.

Saul had taken those people and the necromancers, which is kind of a weird word, but it just means

people who talk with the dead. He had put them out of the land. They all lived in a place called

Hogwarts now. Saul was the one who had done that. And the point here, by the way, is that that

was a good thing that Saul had done. He'd rid the land of demon worship. When Saul inquired the Lord

to what to do in this situation, the Lord did not answer him. Now, by dreams, not by urine or by

profit. Saul is being frustrated because God won't answer him. Verse 7, then Saul said to his servants,

we'll seek out a woman who is a medium or a witch that I may go to her and inquire of her. And

his servant said to him, Behold, there's a medium at indoor and two men went with him and they came

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