Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

What we're afraid of, we come up with a God to take care of.

Israel created this image because the promises of an invisible God were not enough for them at this point.

Not when there were real needs and real enemies to be met.

Counterfeit gods always grow out of distrust.

Those places where we feel like we need something beyond God and His promises.

Welcome back to Summit Life, the Bible Teaching Ministry of Pastor JD Greer.

I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch.

Tell me if you've ever done this.

When you're afraid or in a bind, you kind of try to bargain with God.

We've all been there before, promising something back to God in order to get him to agree to our demands.

If you'll just help me with this, then I'll go to church every Sunday.

Or if I just get that job, I promise I promise I'll be a better person.

But today, Pastor JD helps us to get our theology right when it comes to asking God for help.

He's continuing our series called Not God Enough.

And today's teaching explains that you don't get your own personal Jesus.

Let's jump into the book of Exodus Together.

Here's Pastor JD.

Exodus Chapter 20, this is a series called Not God Enough,

which corresponds to a book that I have by that same title.

One of the stories that I tell in the book is of a talk show that I was watching.

Several years ago where there were two people on this talk show.

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