When the Good Goes Bad, Part 2

Summit Life with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a tendency to take a bit too much credit for your success while overlooking God’s blessing in your life? Even with the best of intentions, the human heart always defaults toward pride. Beginning in Judges Chapter 8, we see how Gideon’s victory as a warrior began to inflate his ego. Rather than giving glory to God, he chose to act like a king who deserved special treatment. In a real sense, Gideon manufactured his own “broken savior.”

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0:00.0	Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.
0:02.5	The human heart has to be changed. Your heart needs to be changed.
0:06.4	Which means that we need a savior who can deliver us not only from the curse around us.
0:11.1	We need a savior who can deliver us from the curse within us.
0:14.0	We don't just need a savior to fix our situation.
0:16.4	We need a savior who can fix us.
0:19.6	Hey, welcome back for another week of teaching here on Summit Life with Pastor JD Greer of the
0:32.9	Summit Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch.
0:38.7	Let me ask you a question. Do you think you have a tendency to take a bit too much credit for
0:43.5	your success while overlooking God's blessing in your life?
0:48.0	Even with the best of intentions, the human heart always defaults towards pride.
0:53.7	Beginning in Judges 8, we see how Gideon's victory as a warrior began to inflate his ego.
1:00.6	Rather than giving glory to God, he chose to act like a king who deserved special treatment.
1:06.4	If you missed the beginning of this sermon, I just wanted to remind you that you can always hear
1:11.1	previous broadcasts at our website, jiddygreer.com.
1:15.1	Pastor JD titled today's message when the good goes bad.
1:18.8	So let's get started.
1:23.2	When we left Gideon last week, we left him on a high.
1:25.7	Gideon had just pulled off what is arguably the most incredible upset in military history.
1:30.8	Gideon has assumed that it was his strength that accomplished this and his heart has turned inward
1:35.5	and it has begun to spoil.
1:37.4	Verse 22, then the men of Israel said to Gideon, rule over us,
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