today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

God only saves bad people, because that's the only kind of people that there are.

Measure yourself against the Ten Commandments, and you'll see there is none righteous.

There's none righteous, not even one.

Salvation is a gift for those who recognize that to those who attempt no claim on eternal life

because of their supposed goodness.

Welcome back to another week of solid biblical teaching from Pastor J.D. Greer here on Summit Life. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. Today we're beginning a brand new,

never-before-aired teaching series titled Whatever It Takes. We're starting in the Gospel of Luke

as Pastor Jady walks us through the story of a man who missed out on an enormous, actually an eternal

opportunity, all because he was too afraid to take a risk.

Thinking only of what he would lose in following Jesus, he never considered what he would gain.

It was the biggest mistake of his life. And if we're not careful, it will be the biggest regret of

ours too. So you've joined us at the perfect time today. Grab your Bible and let's listen in

together. Here's Pastor Chedee. Here's the question. Do you know what this is? You know what that is?

That is the infamous flux capacitor that allowed Michael J. Fox to travel from 1985 back to 1955 and then back again to the future.

This is a real one, so I have to be careful not to touch it, or I might suddenly disappear off the

stage. Here's my question. If you stumbled onto an actual one of these, like a for real one that

worked, and I know it's all made up, but just pretend. And you can travel back to any one point

in your life. What year would you choose? I think, I think, I was thinking about this, I might choose

1997. July 1997, I just met Veronica, and she was hopelessly in love with me,

and she had commenced her desperate quest of locking me down. I would love to relive some of those

incredible moments. 1997 was also the year that I left for Southeast Asia to serve as a missionary,

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