Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer, the single focus of the Bible is Jesus.

And as we see the glory of Jesus in the pages of the Bible, we are transformed and we become

people who seek glory because we love glory. We do righteousness because we love righteousness.

And that does not come through religious to do list. And it does not come by me giving you a

motivational speech. It comes by you leaving this place in awe of the greatness of the glory of God

who gave himself for you at the gospel. Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host Molly Vitavitch and we're so glad that you're back with us today.

We often refer to the first four books of the New Testament that's Matthew, Mark, Luke,

and John as the Gospels, right? But today, Pastor J.D. reveals that the entire Bible from Genesis

to Revelation is all one big story, the story of Jesus Christ. It's all the gospel.

And as we go deeper into understanding this message, that's when God can step in and transform

our lives. Pastor J.D. titled this message, the word, and it's part of our new teaching series

simply called gospel.

John, chapter 15, the gospel is not just the way that we begin in Christ. The gospel is also the

way that we grow in Christ. You see, for many of us in church, the gospel function for us something

like the diving board, off of which we jumped into the pool of Christianity. It was a prayer that

we prayed to invite Jesus into our life that began the Christian life. But now that we have become

Christians, we are going to grow in Christ by all these different new things we're going to learn,

precepts and principles and practical steps on how to do this. And what I tried to show you was

that that's not true. People will be able to think that you grow in Christ by learning five

ways to be a better husband. And here's how you control your temper and that's what it means to

grow in Christ. What I tried to show you was that according to Jesus, the gospel is not just the

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