Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

God can do more through one act of obedience

than all the apostles could do in a hundred lifetimes

or a thousand mission trips.

What God needs is he just wants you to obey.

It is not about you changing the world

or your friends to the right hand of strength.

It is about you yielding yourself to him.

It's all about obedience.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. Okay, let's be honest.

Nobody truly enjoys pain, right? In fact, when we suffer, we usually look for any means possible

to escape or minimize the impact. But according to Scripture, sometimes God uses our pain to

actually draw us back to him. I know we've all heard that,

but how does this all work? Today, Pastor Jady invites us to follow along as we trace the footsteps

of an Old Testament character. His story helps us understand God's compassion and love, even when

he chooses to discipline us. So let's pick up again in Judges Chapter 3.

Pastor J.D. titled this message, South Paul Savior.

The story that we're going to look at today is about a man named A. Hood. Ahood. If you have a Bible,

Judges Chapter 3 contains his story, so begin to open it there.

Before I really jump into his story, I want to show you a little phrase that the author

of judges uses to set up these stories because it shows you how God wants you to interpret

these stories and how they apply to your life. So he introduces the stories of the judges

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