Summit Life with J.D. Greear

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today on Summit Life with JD. Greer.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
So I believe the Bible for the same reason these
first believers did.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
I believe it.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Because I am convinced of the testimony that the Apostles
dave us is true. I'm convinced that Jesus really did
resurrect from the dead. I'm convinced he really was on
a rescue mission to save us, that he died not
for his sin but for mine, That he really was
God in the flesh, and he is to be worshiped
by all peoples, of all nations and all places, at
all times forevermore.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Thanks for joining us today here on Summit Life with JD. Greer,
Pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina.
I'm your host Mally Vidovich. Today we're looking at the
Book of Acts once again and learning why the Apostles
believed that the scriptures carried the full authority of God.
In fact, they stake their lives on it, and that
type of confidence should give us the same assurance Today.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's part of our teaching series called.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Scent, and as always, you can catch up on previous
messages at Jdcreer dot com. Today's message is part two
of a message titled the Word of the Apostles as
the Foundation of the Movement. So let's rejoin Pastor JD
in Acts Chapter one.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Why should we trust what the apostles recorded? Why should
we think of that as authority from God? Why should
we interpret lordship of Jesus? Why should we interpret that
as adherence to what the Apostles taught and wrote down. Well, today,
I'm going to try to show you why we believe
the Bible is the Word of God and why it
was the teaching of the Apostles that was the.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Foundation of the movement. So here's what i want to do.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I want to show you four things about this passage
that support that. Number one, I'm going to show you
how the Apostles saw Old Testament scriptures. Number two, I'm
going to show you the authority that the Apostles assumed
for writing new scriptures, which is going to be the
New Testament. Number three, I'm going to show you the
resolution to an apparent contradiction. And then number four I'm

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going to get give you a reason for skeptics to
consider the Apostles' bold claims to authority. So number one,
how the apostles saw Old Testament scripture. All right, I'm
going to give you two things. Two ways they saw
Old Testament scripture. You can see in this.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Passage letter am.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
They saw them as authenticated prophecies about Jesus. Bible scholars
tell us there are close to, we're not close to
exactly three hundred and twenty two direct prophecies that describe
for us the character and the nature of the Messiah.
Details specifically about his life, his birth, his ministry, his death,
his resurrection, and the fulfillment of these prophecies helped prove

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to them that Jesus really was from God. They were
like a divine signature that could not be forged. So
as authenticated prophecies about Jesus. Here's the second thing. Let
her be as words from the Holy Spirit. They saw
the Old Testament as words from the Holy Spirit. Because
the apostles saw the Bible as divine, their opinions about
things ceased to matter. They quit speculating about their opinions,

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and they started to say, what does the Holy Spirit say?
And because they saw the Bible as divine, they devoted
themselves to it. Look, it's either from God or it's not.
If it's not from God, then choose your own way.
If it is from God, then you better surrender to
what he says.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Right.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
If it's the word of God, you devote yourself to it.
I'm trying to show you that at the very beginning
of Acts, the apostles have taken on the responsibility because
of the promise of Jesus to speak and write authoritatively
on Jesus, and from that point on, whenever they speak
or write about Jesus, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
what they write is considered to be the words of

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the Holy Spirit, the very words of God, which is
why we trust this book and it's why we build
everything we do on it because of the promise of Jesus.
Number three. Number three the resolution of an apparent contradiction.
Whenever people say the Bible contradicts itself, my response is
always okay, once you show me an example, and there's

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this awkward silence where they're like, well, no, I can't
really think of one right now, but I know there's
a lot of them. I'm like, well, just pick one.
Here's the supposed contradiction. Matthew twenty seven says that Judas
died by hanging himself, but in Acts one it says
that he died by falling off a cliff and having.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
His bowels burst out. Okay.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Matthew twenty seven says that the money that Judas earned
for betraying Jesus, he threw back into the temple and discussed,
and the Jewish authorities used it to buy a field.
But when Peter retells the story in Acts one, he
says that Judas.

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Bought the field with the thirty pieces of silver.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
So which is it? Did he die by hanging or
did he fall that have his bowels burst out? And
did he did he give the money back or did
he go buy a field with it?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Right? So they both kind of happened. It's not a contradiction.
It's just two.

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Different eyewitness accounts of the same thing. One guy saw
Peter's you know, or he saw Judas's body dangling from
the branch, and who hung himself. Another guy found him
after he'd done it. So they put the two together
and you got a fuller story than you do with
one account.

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So it's not really a contradiction. It's just different.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Whenever you have eyewitness accounts, you put them together and
you get a fuller story.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's what's happening here. Now.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
That is just one resolution to a supposed contradiction. All right,
don't be gullible, don't be naive. Studied out for yourself.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
All right.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Number four a reason for skeptics to consider the apostles
claims to authority. Look at what Peter claims there in
Acts one, Acts one one twenty two. He says, we
got to find somebody who was an eyewitness to the life,
the ministry, the death and the resurrection of Jesus.

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In his intro to the book of.

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Acts, Luke, Remember, Luke wrote, Luke, and Ax was like
a two volume set. So the intro to the whole
thing is in Luke and Luke says this, Luke one.
And as much as many have undertaken to compile a
narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us,
just as those who from the beginning the Apostles were
eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word have delivered them to us,
it seemed good to me, also, having followed all things

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closely for some time past, to write an orderly account
for you, that you may have certainty concerning the things
that you've been taught. So in the words Lucas saying,
I'm writing a bunch of eyewitness accounts. I'm gonna record
these eyewitness accounts for you. Before you consider the Bible
is the word of God, consider it as a series
of eyewitness accounts pointing to something supernatural that happened, namely

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the ministry of.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
The death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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And then evaluate whether these accounts are reliable and ought
to be believed. Don't evaluate them as if I'm telling
you you got to assume.

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They're the word of God.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Forget they're the word of God for a minute, or
forget I believe that, and just evaluate them on the
face of their claims that their eyewitness accounts. Okay, So
the most popular idea right now against that, because once
you say their eyewitnesses, it becomes really hard to kind
of you deny that what they saw was legit. I'll
tell you why that's true a minute. But the most

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popular theory against that right now is that the Gospels
are a bunch of myths and legends. The theory basically
goes like this, that Jesus was a really nice guy,
he had some cool religious thoughts, it's kind of a
beatific hippie.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
He kind of stuck up for the little guy, and
he stuck it to the man and and he got
this you know, kind of movement going. And then after
he died his disciples in order to beef up his authority,
they started to over the years add these little claim
these legends grew up so that they kind of added
into supernatural parts.

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Like me, give you a good example. One of my
college professors told me this one.

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He said, he said, he said, well, see what happened
is like the feeding of the five thousand. He said,
when when what happened, What probably really happened is when
Jesus brings a little boy up the five lows in
two fish, the little boy shares his lunch. Jesus shows everybody, hey,
little boy shared his lunch, and that makes all the
adults feel bad because they had the lunch hid in
their back pocket, didn't want to share. So they saw

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what the little boy did, so they all pulled out
their lunch and they shared, and that's how the five
thousand got fed. He said that with a straight face,
And I was like, oh, let me write that down,
you know, but that's the idea, and later when they
were telling the story, they're like, oh, he's God, and
he like you know, he did that all right? So
let me tell you four reasons that the Gospels could
not be myths or legends. Four reasons, okay, Joty's dam.

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A lot of these come from a book called Reason
for God, so you can check it out there too.

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Number one, the timing.

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Of the writing issue early for gospels the Gospels to
be a legend. The timing of the writing issue early
for the Gospels to be a legend. The books of
the Bible were written about thirty years after the death
of Jesus, some as early as twenty years. The last
one was written sixty years after Jesus's death. That is
just way too early for a myth or a legend
to spring up. I found some interesting proof recently that

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the Bible, the New Testament, was written within about fifty
or sixty years of jesus death. You know, how like
sometimes you can tell what parts of the world certain
things are coming from by which words are used, like,
for example, English, If you see something written in English
and the word color is spelled colou r, what does
that tell you a brit wrote it, that's right, because

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they have these crazy spellings. It don't make any sense,
like color hour and Jesus Christ are save the hour
and I'm going to go to the theatry or where's
the century?

Speaker 3 (09:10):
It's just like, yo, why would you spell it that way?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
So if you see it written that way, that tells
you it was written somewhere in England, right, Or you've
got names, same name, but it's going to be written
or pronounced differently, John, Johan, Juan, you know, the same deal.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
You got.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Certain manners of expression show you what time period things
are written in. So for example, if you're reading something
and it says, g golly whiz that swell, it's like
that probably wasn't spoken by Eminem in the nineteen nineties, right,
that's that's gonna come from, you know, leave it to
Bieber in the nineteen fifties. And so so what you find,
what's this? What you find is when you study the
New Testament, all the names and all the forms of expression,

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our first century early first century Palestinian okay, from that
part of the world. By contrast, all the spurious Gospels,
the Gospel of Peter, the Gospel of Thomas, all those
ones that that are what we call apocryphal gospels. They
all use name and words and manners of expression that
are dated much later from different parts of the world. Right,
So the idea that these things, you know, were legend,

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it just doesn't hold up because they're all it's too.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Early for gospels and legends.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
But you say, well, maybe maybe the early Christians believed
that Jesus was a good religious teacher, but maybe just
over time as they were recome, that's when the divinity
of Jesus got added in. No, listen, the very first
accounts of the Christian movement, First Corinthians is one of
the first books we know was written.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
The very first accounts.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Paul in First Corinthians quotes to him First Christian is fifteen.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Now you know what, sometimes when I'm preaching, all quote to.

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Him that you all kind of know in kind nod
your head like you know, Paul quotes to him because
he knows everybody knows it. And the hymn is about
the resurrection of Jesus, which means that they're already singing
about the resurrection of Jesus in the earliest church gatherings.
In uh they celebrated communion. The earliest Christians celebrated communion.
Why would you celebrate the murder of your leader if

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it hadn't been swallowed up in some kind of victory, right?
I mean, if you're a fan of Martin Luther King,
you're not like, oh, let's celebrate the day he got shot. No,
you mourn that day. They celebrate a communion because they've
believe in the resurrection. And Philippians Paul quotes another Hamn
where they celebrate the deity of Jesus Christ, which means
the earliest Christians worship Jesus as God.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
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Speaker 4 (11:21):
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Speaker 4 (12:23):
Now let's get back to today's teaching here on Summit Life.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Once again, here's Pastor JD.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
So here's your second reason.

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The content is far too counterproductive to be a legend.
So written too early to be a legend. Number two,
it's too counterproductive to be a legend. Here's what I
mean by that. There's a lot of stuff in there
you just wouldn't make up if you were writing a
legend to beef up your authority. If you're going to
write a legend to beef up your authority, you wouldn't
make up the stuff that's in there.

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For example, on nearly every.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Page the apostles are buffoons, right, You're reading the Gospels
and following them was like reading the Three Stooges episode.
They're always getting stuff wrong. They're being mean to little kids.
I mean, if you call that story yet and the
kids are annoying, get them away. You know they're they're
arguing about who is the most awesome among them. If

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there were puppies in the New Testament, these guys would
have been kicking them. That's just kind of how they're presented.
You're like, who were these guys? If you were writing
a legend to get people to believe, is that the
kind of thing you would just make up that all
your leaders were class A idiots for three years?

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Or here's one of the very best ones. Matthew records that.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Peter Peter, the head of the church now Jesus called
him one time one called Satan. Now?

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Is that the kind of thing you're gonna make up
about your leader?

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I mean, if you're trying to get somebody to come
to church here, or you're gonna be like, oh yeah,
Jesus had a conversation with our pastor the today and
called him satan. Right, I mean, I'm not tweeting that out.
If that happens, you know, Jesus called me Satan hashtag
humbled by this. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do that.
You wouldn't say that unless we're true. Why would they record.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
That if they were trying to beef up their authority.
Here's one more.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
All of the first resurrection accounts, all of them were women.
In those days. Listen, a woman's testimony was not accepted
in a court of law.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Right now. Again, that's offensive to you women, I understand that.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
But in those days, if you were trying to build
a case and make stuff up to get people to
believe you, why would you put women as the first
ones to see Jesus resurrected from the dead. You would
never do that unless it actually happened. So it's too
counterproductive to be a legend. Number three, the literary form
of the Gospels is too detailed to be a legend.

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The literary form of the Gospels is too detailed to
be a legend.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
This is one of my favorites because the idea is this.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
People think that maybe the Apostles made up all these
fictitious parables that had a true moral meaning, but they
were just making up the stories, and they were never
intended to be taken literally.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Here's the problem with that.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
The Bible's got all these random details included. They don't
have anything to do with the grand moral meaning. You know,
every time we get to one of these in the
Bible and I'm teaching, you always pointed out and like,
why'd you pointing that out?

Speaker 3 (15:11):
This is why Mark four thirty six is a good example.
I love it. It's just so random. You never know,
you never underlined this in your Bible.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Says that Jesus was teaching from a ship, you know,
out on the from the shore, and there were a
bunch of other little ships around him. What's the point
of the other little ships being around him? There is
no point to the other little ships being around him.
It's just guys remembering it.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
He's like, oh, yeah, there's like some ships there. I
to write that down. He's just recalling it from memory.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Or My absolute favorite one I'm pointed out to you
is Mark chapter fourteen. In the midst of a really
serious reflection on the Garden against Simony, Mark records a
detail about one guy fleeing from the seed naked. Why
is that detail in there? I'll tell you why, because
no matter what story you're telling, if a guy runs
through it naked, you put that in the story. Right

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If I go to J Crew to buy some jeans
and I come home and tell my wife guy runs
to the store naked, that's making it in.

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Whether it's part of the plot of the story or not.
Right be go.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
I was like, oh, yeah, we were doing this and
got ran away naked, and we write that down, you know.
So you said, well, maybe maybe they made up these
details so that they would sound historical. So in other words,
they were lying.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Okay? Did they have good motives for lying?

Speaker 5 (16:24):
You know?

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Did their lying get them out of trouble? That's why
I lie to get myself out of trouble. Did their
lion get them out of trouble? Oh, it got them
into trouble. Did their lying gain for them power and prestige?
Did it gain for them a lot of money?

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Not hardly.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
It caused them to lose everything. So what's the motive
for their line? That leads me to number four? The
message it was itself too costly to be a legend.
The message was too costly to be a legend. The
message that Jesus was Lord and originally for them. The
dead didn't get the Apostles any power prestige. It cost
them their lives. We know that from the very beginning
those preaching the Gospel were a highly persecuted group. Church

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history tells us that all the Apostles died in poverty.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Martyr's deaths.

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James he believed. Listen to this, Just let this sink
in on you. He came to believe that his older
brother was God. How many of you have an older brother?

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Pretty sure?

Speaker 2 (17:18):
What would it take to convince you that he was God?
That an easy case to make. You're like, maybe Satan,
maybe you might convince me of that, but not God.
James and all of his brothers an actuale and come
to believe that Jesus is God. Why because of the resurrection.
That's why they came to believe it. They were willing
to die to testify to it. To say that they

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just made up the stories about Jesus means just think
this out. It means that one day they're sitting around fishing,
I guess after.

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Jesus has died. Peter's like, man, I just stink that
Jesus died. Yeah, it was awesome for a while. You know,
they're real and they're fishing and pierces. I know, how
does that have an idea? Let's say that he resurrect.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, that's an awesome idea. Then we can be the
leaders of this new religious movement.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yes, resurrection, okay, Peter said, Okay, but let's tell people
that Jesus's kingdom is not of this world.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Therefore we should give away all our money. Yeah, that's awesome.
Let's give away all our money, and let's tell them
that Jesus was.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Because his kingdom was out of this world, because he
was a god of compassion, that when we're persecuted, we'll
never fight back. Let's just go to our martyr's deaths
joyfully and teach our friends and family to do the
same thing.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, that's awesome. Let's go die.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Does that really? I mean, is that you find that compelling?
I just don't find that that compelling. There's no way
that you're gonna go to your death dying for something
that you know to be alive.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Right.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
If you're gonna make a story up, that's not the
kind of story you make up.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
The kind that loses you everything.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Peter who is the leader here of the church would
eventually be crucified upside down.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
That's the same Peter who.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Denied Jesus three times in the space of one night.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
You think the Peter that betrayed.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
The living Jesus is going to turn around and die
for a dead one. I just don't think and find
that's very compelling. So to the skeptic, those are four
reasons for you to consider the claims by the apostles
that they really are speaking on God's behalf. You see,
follow this. If the resurrection is true, then it makes
sense to me that God would empower his apostles to

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record an accurate version of all that Jesus wanted us
to know and to do, right, Because what's the point
him going to all the trouble to send Jesus to
rescue us if we don't have an accurate copy of
what he wanted us to know?

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Right? I mean, it's like me.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
It will say I live in LA and I want
you to come visit me, and so I pay for
your plane ticket, not eight hundred bucks for a plane ticket,
but I don't tell you where I live in LA.
So when you get off the the airplane, like I
don't have any idea where he lives in LA. There's
nineteen million people here. You're no closer to me in
La than you were in North Carolina in that thing.
So I just wasted all my money. Why would God

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go to all the waste of sending Jesus to resurrect
from the dead and then not authorize an account that
would tell us accurately and authoritatively what he wanted us
to know. So I believe the Bible for the same
reason these first believers did. I believe it because I
am convinced of the testimony that the apostles gave us
is true. I'm convinced that Jesus really did resurrect from
the dead. I'm convinced he really was on a rescue

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mission to save us, that he died not for his
sin but for mind. That he really was God in
the flesh, and he is to be worshiped by all peoples,
of all nations and all places, at all times forevermore.
That's why I believe the Bible is the word of God.
Now let me flip it on you. That's why I
believe the Bible is the word of God. Why do
you believe it is not the word of God. Why
do you believe it's not? Be honest with yourself. Have

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you ever read it? It's amazing to me how many
people tell me that they don't believe the Bible, and
if it's never read it, they just never read it.
Or maybe how about this one. You don't like some
of the claims that it makes about morality or about
what God wants to do with your life, and so
just kind of from the beginning, you say, well, there's
no way I could consider whether it's true because I

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won't let this right here be challenged. I won't let
this view of morality be challenged. I won't let this
be touched. Let me ask you a question. I'm not
trying to be Snyde or Caddy. Does that sound open
minded to you? When you, from the beginning say this
couldn't be true because if it's true, it's going to
challenge this over here that I believe. That sounds to
me like the definition of closed mindedness. And I would say,

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if you're honest with yourself, that's probably more of the
reason why you don't believe. Not all of you, but
I'd say that's probably a big reason for some of
you Frank Mead said it this way. Men do not
reject the Bible because it contradicts itself. Men reject the
Bible because it contradicts them. And maybe you should just
be honest, see, because you'll never know the truth about
God until you are willing to let God shatter all

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of your categories, and until you're willing to come to
God and say, God, what I believe may be wrong,
and you're God and I'm not. And I'm just gonna
say that whatever I find to be the truth, I'm
going to surrender what I believe to what you say
is right. You see, I would say that there's a
number of you that for the last several weeks God's.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Been working on your heart. Right, that's why you're here.
You've seen you've seen.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
The power of the Bible go to work in one
of your friend's lives, and you're seeing it transform them.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Maybe you should just start reading it. Maybe that's your action.
Just start reading it.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Maybe read it with that person and say can we
get together once a week and just discuss what we're reading.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Maybe, if you're the Christian friend, you ought to invite
them to do that.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
You realize that more people have believed the Bible is
the word of God in history than any other religious doctrine. Ever,
it's at least worth you taking time to consider whether
or not it is actually from God.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
This is why we devote ourselves to it.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
It's why we memorize it, It's why we obsessive bout it,
because we believe it is the very words of God.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
As someone nineteen says, the Word is a lamp to
my feet and a light to my path. Do you
see it that way? If not, it's time to treat
it that way. You're listening to Summit Life with pastor,
author and apologist JD.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Greer. Pastor JD.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
This month we're giving away your newest book to all
of our faithful supporters. Tell us a little bit about
twelve truths in a Lie, answers to life's biggest questions.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
Twelve truths in a Lie are basically twelve answers to
the biggest questions, most frequently asked questions I get as
a pastor. The lie is that the presence of these
kinds of questions and the presence of doubts means there's
something defective about your faith, or that you're a bad
Christian you know. Some of the questions lean more of
like how do you answer the difficult question of a skeptic?

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Some of them are more just practical.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
As an added bonus for the Summit Life audience, we
got a chapter about chapter Discussion GUD that we will
send to go along with the book.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
We've never provided that before, but we'll give it to you.

Speaker 6 (23:51):
It should be really helpful and maybe studying with your
small group or just being able to reference it when
you're a teenager or your grandkid or your neighbor ask
you one of these questions being able to have a
good answer.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
So request twelve Truths in a Lie and the Discussion Guide.
You can request that when you.

Speaker 6 (24:05):
Give the support the ministry of Summit Life at jdguare
dot com.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
We'd be grateful to send you your copy of twelve
Truths in a Lie and the accompanying Discussion Guide as
our way to say thank you when you give thirty
five dollars or more to this ministry or when you
join us as a monthly Gospel partner. To give now
or join our Gospel partner family, call us at eight
six six three three five fifty two twenty. That's eight

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six six three three five fifty two twenty, or you
can head over to Jdgreer dot com.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
I'm Molli Vitevich.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
Be sure to listen tomorrow when Pastor JD discusses the
Miracles in the Message of Jesus. That's Wednesday on Summit
Life with Jdgreer. Today's program is produced and sponsored by
Jdgreer Ministries.