The Search for One True Love, Part 2

Today on Summit life with Jeannie Greer. All I will disappoint because you may, from God try to tell you the arguments urging foreign romance more his arms. The security you're looking for a job bring money that security is found in his promise. The fulfillment that you're searching for in all your pursuit is found in the glory of his presence. St. Augustine set our hearts will always be restless until we find the rest of you another light actor and theologian Jeannie Greer.

I'm your host Molly that events there's no doubt that our culture tells us that one of the keys to being happy is finding your soulmate receipted movies on TV and social media.

Marriage gets rocky we start looking for something else to fill us up a career or kids or even a hobby but sadly those things will never truly satisfy either tape Pastor JD points us to the only source of lasting joy continues our series called the whole story. If you miss any of the previous messages you can catch up online. Jeannie Greer.com right now, here's Pastor JD in the book of Genesis. Jacob always got along was delighted with joy comes up to the village were his extended family lives in a he slumps down on this big old rock covering well there.

There she comes walking up garage, the most beautiful girl you ever see me talking to. Turns out not only is Rachel really pretty but their first cousins. This is the Old Testament baby and in the Old Testament being cousins with somebody was actually a turn on. So Jacob says to Laban, I want to marry my first cousin Rachel, Laban says well you know I me were related everything Thursday so that a patient had a broad price so Jacob volunteers all work for seven years together. Verse 18 Laban knows a sucker when he sees one. So he agrees and Jacob works for seven years, seven years, or verse 21 so Jacob comes to Laban and says I have fulfill my contract to be my wife.

So we remarry FOR THE CEREMONY SHE'S WEARING.

OF COURSE THE TRADITIONAL VEIL WHICH COVERS ONLY THE FACE WITH THE WAY THAT THEY GO TO THE CEREMONY AND JACOB IS SO HAPPY THAT HE REALLY POUNDS DOWN THE BOOZE OF THE RECESSION AND AFTER THE PARTY TAKES HIS VEILED WIFE BACK TO HIS TENT, AND THEY SPEND THEIR FIRST NIGHT TOGETHER. VERSE 25 AND JACOB AWOKE THE NEXT MORNING AND BAWLED. THERE WAS LEAH BEHOLD WAS LEAH TOM JACOB GOES BACK. OF COURSE SHE'S FURIOUS AND HE SAYS TO LABAN, WHAT'S THE DEAL. LABAN'S IS OH YES, JUST IF NOT THE CUSTOM IN OUR COUNTRY TO MARRY OFF THE YOUNGER BEFORE THE OLDER I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT JACOB DIDN'T SAY BACK. WELL, THAT WOULD'VE BEEN A GREAT POINT TO MAKE SEVEN YEARS AGO. JACOB IS NOT SO MUCH AS OFFER A SINGLE WORD OF ARGUMENT WHY NOT, WHY NOT JUST LIKE ISAAC HAD REACHED OUT IN THE DARK, THINKING IT WAS ESAU AND JACOB DECEIVED HIM, SO JACOB HAS NOW REACHED OUT IN THE DARK FOR RACHEL AND LABAN HAS DECEIVED HIM.

THE DECEIVER HAS BEEN DECEIVED YET. YOU SEE IT NOW. JACOB IS BROUGHT FACE-TO-FACE WITH WHO IS HE SO OBSESSED WITH RACHEL, HOWEVER, BUT NOT EVEN THIS CAN DETERMINE, SO GET LABAN TO AGREE THAT IF A WORK FOR ANOTHER SEVEN YEARS.

THEN HE'LL GET RACHEL AS HIS WIFE TO GRACIOUSLY LABAN GIVES RACHEL TO HIM RIGHT AWAY. INSTEAD OF MAKING HIM WAIT SEVEN YEARS.

I'M SO THE SPACE OF ONE WEEK. HE'S GOTTEN TWO SISTERS AS WIVES WHO ONE IS EXTREMELY JEALOUS OF THE OTHER ONE. WHAT KIND OF HOUSE DO YOU THINK THAT YIELDED FOUR JACOB WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS THOUGH, HOW BAD MUST THIS HAVE BEEN FOR POOR LEAH, WHICH IS WHY VERSE 31.

THE NARRATIVE SWITCHES ARE VERSE 31, BUT BECAUSE LEAH WAS ON LOVE THE LORD LET HER HAVE A CHILD. WHILE RACHEL WAS CHILDLESS. LEAH BECAME PREGNANT, HAD A SON SHE NAMED HIM RUBEN WHICH IN HEBREW MEANS SEE A SON FOR SHE SAID, THE LORD HAS SEEN HIS NOTICE MY MISERY AND NOW MY HUSBAND WILL LOVE ME, DO YOU THINK IT WORKS WELL IN THE VERY NEXT VERSE, VERSE 33. SHE SHE BECAME PREGNANT AGAIN AND HAD ANOTHER SON SHE NAMED THIS WHEN SIMEON WHICH IN HEBREW SOUNDS LIKE THE WORD HEARD FOR. SHE SAID THE LORD HAS HEARD THAT I WAS ON LOVE AND HAS GIVEN ME ANOTHER SON TO ONE SUNDAY JACOB LOVER NOTE BECAUSE SHE STILL UNLOVED. IN THIS VERSE RIGHT AS YOU THINK OF THE FIRST SON DIDN'T WORK.

BUT NOW THE SECOND SON OF THE WORD GOD IS HEARD MY MISERY AND GOT ANSWERED MY PRAYER BY GIVING ME A SON THAT'LL MAKE JACOB LOVE ME YOU THINK IT WORKED THE SECOND TIME. I WILL KEEP READING VERSE 34 AND SHE AGAIN SHE BECAME PREGNANT, NOT A SON SHE NAMED THIS WHEN LEVI WHICH IS THE HEBREW WORD FOR ATTACHED BECAUSE SHE SAID SURELY NOW MY HUSBAND WILL FEEL ATTACHED TO ME. ALSO AFFECTION TO ME SINCE I HAVE GIVEN AND NOW THREE SIGNS YOU SEE WAS GOING ON, JUST LIKE JACOB. SHE IS DEALING WITH HER DISAPPOINTMENT IN LIFE BY REACHING OUT FOR THAT ONE TRUE LOVE. ALSO, WHEN WE DEAL WITH DISAPPOINTMENT AND WHY WE ALMOST ALWAYS RESPOND THE SAME WAY RIGHT WIDENED BY MIDNIGHT ROMANCE SO I MAYBE THE NEXT ROMANCE THAT'S WHAT I'LL DO IT.

THAT'LL MAKE MY LIFE COMPLETE. NOT IN THIS JOB BUT I KNOW I GET ANOTHER JOB, THEN MY CAREER WILL FEEL COMPLETE AND THEN I'LL BE OUT FOR JUST LIKE LEAH. WE KEEP HAVING SIGNS OF THINKING THAT ONE MORE SIGN IS GOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM BUT IT ALWAYS ENDS UP THE SAME AND THEN IN VERSE 35 WE GET THE GOSPEL. ONCE AGAIN SHE BECAME PREGNANT YET ANOTHER SON SHE NAMED THIS WHEN JUDAH WHICH MEANS LITERALLY PRAISE TO GOD FOR SHE SAID, NOW I WILL PRAISE THE LORD.

IN OTHER WORDS, LEAH STOPPED TRYING TO EARN THE LOVE OF JACOB YOU HAVING SIGNS AND RECEIVE THE LOVE OF GOD WAS GIVEN TO HER AS A GIFT AND THAT BECAME THE SOURCE OF HER JOY AND THE SOURCE OF HER PRAISE IN LIFE. HERE'S WHAT'S MORE, JUDAH IS GOING TO GROW UP TO BE THE ANCESTOR OF A VERY IMPORTANT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILD. JESUS IS GOING TO BE REFERRED TO AS THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.

THIS WOULD BE THE SIGN, THROUGH WHOM JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF WOULD COME. IN OTHER WORDS, LISTEN TO THIS LINEAGE BECAME BEAUTIFUL, NOT BECAUSE SHE HAD SOME PHYSICAL BEAUTY TO PASS ON TO THEM, BUT BECAUSE GOD GAVE HER BEAUTY AS A GIFT GIVING JESUS SO RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS PAINFUL, UGLY, UNLOVED LIFE. LEAH LEARNS THE GOSPEL, SHE GETS A LONG TIME BEFORE JACOB THE FAMOUS PATRIARCH IS GOING TO GET IT SHE GETS IT FIRST, AND SHE PROBABLY GETS IT BETTER THAN ANYBODY IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS IS GOT UP TO THIS POINT BECAUSE SHE EMBODIES THE WHOLE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE.

I WOULD SAY IT'S FOURFOLD THINGS YOU CAN LEARN FROM LEAH'S EXPERIENCE OF THE GOSPEL. YOUR NUMBER ONE NUMBER ONE IN ALL OF OUR SEARCHING WE ARE SEARCHING FOR JESUS AND ALL OUR SEARCHING.

SHE SHOWS US WERE SEARCHING FOR JESUS. EVERY PERSON IS ON A SEARCH AND WHETHER THEY KNOW IT OR NOT, SEARCHING FOR JESUS, JACOB AND LEE ARE ON A SEARCH. JACOB THINKS HIS ANSWERS AND RICHES AND SAXONVILLE DO WHATEVER TO GET ON WHATEVER TO GET THE REAL RICHES HE WILL ALIENATE HIS FAMILY AND DESTROY THOSE RELATIONSHIPS TO GET LOVE ROMANTIC LOVE. HE'LL PAY WHATEVER PRICE LEAH THINKS THAT HER ANSWER IS FOUND IN BEING A MOM AND A WIFE.

ONE COMMENTATOR SAID TO JACOB IS THE LIBERAL WHO THINK SEX WILL FULFILL HIM. LEAH IS A CONSERVATIVE WHO THINKS FAMILY WILL FULFILL HER BOTH MET WITH LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE.

IN THE STORY END UP EMPTY. BECAUSE BOTH ARE TRYING TO FILL A VOID IN THEIR HEARTS THEY WENT ON IDLE OR A SUBSTITUTE. GOD, I'VE EXPLAINED BEFORE THAT ONE OF THE WORDS FOR WORSHIP IN HEBREW IS THE WORD ABODE AND ABODE LITERALLY MEANS WEIGHT SO YOU WORSHIP SOMETHING WHEN YOU GIVE IT AN EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF WEIGHT IN YOUR HEART WHEN THERE'S SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU FEEL LIKE HAS SO MUCH WEIGHT THAT YOU COULDN'T BE HAPPY WITHOUT IT. AT THAT POINT YOU BEGUN TO WORSHIP IT RIGHT. THAT'S WHAT WE SAID IDOLS ARE NOT USUALLY BAD THINKS IDOLS ARE USUALLY GOOD THINGS ARE GOOD THINGS LIKE MARRIAGE AND SEX IN FRIENDSHIP AND FAMILY AND AND THEN SUCCESS.

EVEN THERE GOOD THINGS THAT YOU GIVEN THE WEIGHT OF GOD THINGS WHICH THEN TURNING THE BAD THINGS TO THE QUESTION THAT IT OUGHT TO MAKE YOU ASK ABOUT YOURSELF IS WHAT IN YOUR LIFE DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT. WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ALMOST OBSESSED WITH OBTAINING IN YOUR LIFE ARE YOU JACOB THINKING IT'S GOING TO BE FOUND IN RICHES ARE IN ROMANTIC LOVE OR ARE YOU LEAH THINKING IT IS FOUND IN FAMILY STABILITY MAYBE IS THE RESPECT OF YOUR FRIENDS. MAYBE IT'S THE PRAISE OF PEOPLE.

MAYBE IT'S CAREER STATURE. MAYBE IT'S MONEY WELL OF OLD TESTAMENT SCHOLAR DEREK KIDNER SUMMARIZES THE STORY, THE WORDS BOLD. IT WAS LEAH ARE THE VERY EMBODIMENT OF ALL OF MAN'S DISAPPOINTMENT WITH LIFE IN THIS MOMENT WITH LEAH IS A SNAPSHOT OF THE DISILLUSIONMENT MAN HAS EXPERIENCE FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN ONWARD ALL THE BLESSINGS OF THE WORLD. IN OTHER WORDS TURN OUT TO BE LEAH'S MATTER WHAT YOU THINK IS RACHEL IN THE MORNING WHEN YOU FINALLY WAKE UP IT'S GOING TO BE LEAH.

EVERY TIME TO GET INTO A NEW RELATIONSHIP EVERY TIME YOU START A NEW JOB OR NEW MARRIAGE, YOU HAVE ANOTHER KID. YOU THINK THIS IS THAT THIS WILL FINALLY MAKE MY LIFE COMPLETE. THIS IS RACHEL, YOU HAVE WHAT I CALL THE JERRY MAGUIRE MOMENT. THIS WILL COMPLETE ME. YOU COMPLETE ME. I CAN ASSURE YOU SHE LOOKS LIKE A RACHEL NOW BUT IN THE MORNING WHEN YOU SEE HER IN THE FULL LIGHT OF DAY IT'S GOING TO BE LEAH. WHEN YOU EXPERIENCE THE INEVITABLE DISAPPOINTMENT OF A BROKEN TOWER FOR THE DEVIL DISAPPOINTMENT FROM AN IDOL YOU WANT FOR THINGS YOU NUMBER THESE FOUR THINGS YOU BLAME THE IDLE TRY TO REPLACE IT WITH A NEW VERSION OF THAT IDLE WAS NOT THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH A NEW RELATIONSHIP, KELLY CLARKSON, THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN IDOL SUITED TO THEIR AFTER SHE MADE A BIG SHE GOT INTO THIS ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP.

YOU KNOW IN PART OF HER START AND THAT OF COURSE IT WAS ALL PART BLASTED THE AVERAGE HOLLYWOOD RELATIONSHIP, ABOUT SIX MINUTES AND GOT ON HER NEXT ALBUM THAT CAME OUT SHE HAS A SONG ABOUT THAT DESTROY A RELATIONSHIP IN THE LYRIC OF THE SONG SAYS, I FELL SO HARD BECAUSE OF YOU I'M ASHAMED OF MY LIFE BECAUSE IT'S EMPTY BECAUSE HE I WOULD EXPECT THAT HER THIRD ALBUM WOULD'VE BEEN ABOUT A WHOLE NEW FOCUS IN LIFE, WHICH IS ABOUT THE NEXT GUY. I SOMETIMES PEOPLE WILL WILL WILL SWITCH IDOLS LIKE CATEGORIES OF ITEMS, SO A GREAT ILLUSTRATION OF THIS RECENTLY BY TAYLOR SWIFT TAYLOR SWIFT HAS A SONG THAT CAME OUT OF THE OTHER 2015 GOLD OUT OF THE WOODS. BOTH SONG IS ABOUT A RELATIONSHIP THAT GOES ON THE ROCKS WELL IN THE MUSIC VIDEO LIKE I WAS USING THE MUSIC VIDEO.

NO QUESTIONS PLEASE.

THE MUSIC OF THE MUSIC VIDEO JUST ENDS IN THESE WORDS ARE ON THE SCREEN IS THE MUSIC KINDA FADES AWAY. SHE LOST HIM, BUT SHE FOUND HERSELF, AND SOMEHOW THAT WAS EVERYTHING, AS IN THIS RELATIONSHIP TURNED OUT TO BE A LEAH BUT IN KNOWING MYSELF. THAT'S WHERE THE REAL JOY IS THAT'S WERE REAL FULFILLMENT IS I GOT NEWS FOR TAYLOR SWIFT. I FOUND MYSELF, AND IT'S NOT THAT PRETTY MUCH TURNED OUT TO BE LEAH BECAUSE THE ONE WHO WAS DISAPPOINTED ME MOST IN MY LIFE IS ME. ONE WAS BROKEN MORE PROMISES TO JD GREATER THAN ANY OTHER PERSON IN THE WORLD IS JD GREER IN THE MORNING TURN OUT TO BE LEAH TO TELL IF IT IS LIKE HE'S LEAH BUT I'M RACHEL AND I MIGHT KNOW EARLIER TO ALL IDOLS DISAPPOINT ALL IDOLS DISAPPOINT BECAUSE YOU MAY, FROM GOD TRY TO TELL YOU THE ARGUMENT SEARCHING FOR IN ROMANCE OR HIS ARMS. THE SECURITY YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A JOB OR IN MONEY THAT SECURITY IS FOUND IN HIS PROMISE. THE FULFILLMENT WHICH ARE SEARCHING FOR IN ALL YOUR PURSUIT IS FOUND IN THE GLORY OF HIS PRESENCE. ST. AUGUSTINE SET OUR HEARTS WILL ALWAYS BE RESTLESS UNTIL WE FIND A REST AND YOU BLAME THE IDLE YOU BLAME THE TALKING TO YOURSELF. CALL ME TO FIX MYSELF BUT I NEVER WORK WHEN THE WORLD BECOME A SENATE AND DISTRAUGHT AT YOU TO MEDICATE YOUR THROUGH ALCOHOL OR THROUGH THE SHOPPING OR SEX OR PORNOGRAPHY OR WHATEVER YOU CAN REALIZE THE FOURTH OPTION IS THAT YOU WERE CREATED FOR ANOTHER WORLD TO WHAT THE STORY SHOWS YOU IS THAT JESUS WAS THE TRUE BRIDEGROOM THAT LEAH WAS SEEKING. HE WAS THE ONE WHO WOULD GIVE THE LEAH THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE THAT SHE ALWAYS CRAVED A LOVE THAT WENT BEYOND PHYSICAL ATTRACTION FOR LOVE THAT WAS NOT CONDITIONED ON ANYTHING FOR LOVE THAT WAS DEEP AND FULFILLING.

JESUS IS THE BRIDEGROOM THAT YOU ARE SEEKING. ALSO, LONELY, INSECURE, BOASTING SINGLE PEOPLE BECOME LONELY, INSECURE, LOW ESTEEM MARRIED PEOPLE BECAUSE PROBLEMS LIKE LONELINESS AND INSECURITY AND LOW SELF-ESTEEM AREN'T CURED BY ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THERE CARE BY THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD FOR CAESAR CREATED YOU SUCH A LEAH'S LIFE SHOWS US IS IT WRONG TO SEARCH ALL OF US. WE CHOOSE DIFFERENT THINGS WERE SEARCHING FOR JESUS WHICH LEADS US TO NUMBER TWO GOD GIVES HIS BLESSING GOD GIVES HIS BLESSING OTHERS OR STRIVE TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE IT IN FAITH. IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU STOP TRYING. LEAH TELLS YOU TO STOP TRYING TO EARN GOD'S AND OTHER PEOPLE'S LOVE THAT YOU CAN BE FREE TO SEE THE GOSPEL FLIPS EVERYTHING THAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT LOVE ON ITS HEAD. JACOB CHOSE RACHEL BECAUSE SHE WAS NATURALLY APPEALING. GOD CHOSE LEAH TO BEAR THE MESSIAH. ISAAC CHOSE ESAU BECAUSE AESOP IN HIS DEFINITION OF WHAT HE WANTED HIS SON TO BE THE GOD CHOSE JACOB TO BE THE ONE THROUGH WHOM THE ULTIMATE MAN WOULD ONE DAY COME, GOD'S BLESSING DOES NOT COME TO THOSE WHO EARN IT. BUT TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE IT BY FAITH, WHICH IS WHY THE APOSTLE PAUL WOULD SUMMARIZE JACOB'S LIFE THIS WAY. THIS BALLROOM IS NOT WALKING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT JACOB. YOU SEE, IT DEPENDS ON HUMAN WILL NOT UNKNOT ON EXERTION. NONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO PLAY THE BEST TRICKS NOT OF THOSE YOU CAN HAVE THE MOST SIGNS IT DEPENDS ON GOD. TIME SHOWS MERCY. THAT'S WHY PAUL REPHRASED AN TIGHTEST REVIVAL, WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. WE HAVE DONE IS ACCORDING TO GOD'S MERCY. THEY SAY THAT IT'S A GIFT THAT HE GIVES US IS BY GRACE WE HAVE BEEN SAVED.

FAITH AND NOT EVEN THAT FROM OURSELVES THAT THE GIFT OF GOD IS NOT OF WORKS, IF NOT OF OUR ABILITY TO HAVE SIGNS OR BE BEAUTIFUL OR EXTORT OUR FAMILY FOR ONE OUR RELATIONSHIP. IT'S ON GOD GIVES IT AS A GIFT SO THAT WHEN IT HAPPENS, WE WILL NOT BOASTFULLY OVERWHELM WITH GRACE MOST WHEN THE REST OF OUR LIVES.

RESPONDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD THAT SET YOU FREE TO TELL YOU SOME OF YOU TALK, ESPECIALLY HERE THE LADIES FOR A MOMENT SINCE THIS IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT LEAH ALL YOUR LIFE YOU BEEN CAPTIVE TO THE LATE BENJAMIN JACOBS IN YOUR LIFE VOICES THAT YOU DEPENDED ON TO TELL YOU THAT YOU'RE PRETTY ENOUGH. WE WERE SKINNY ENOUGH THAT YOU HAD VALUE THAT YOU HAD WORD THAT YOU WERE GOING OUT.

YOU GOT A HEAVENLY FATHER WHO SET HIS LOVE ON YOU JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE HIS DAUGHTER IS LOVE IS ON EARN HIS LOVE IS THE LOVE THAT YOU YEARN FOR. WHICH LEADS ME TO NUMBER THREE, NUMBER THREE, GOD LOVE US BECAUSE WERE BEAUTIFUL AND BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE HE LOVES US RIGHTLY AND LAZILY GOT IN U IS BEAUTIFUL. HER LINEAGE BECAME BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE GOD SET HIS LOVE ON HER FOR LOVE HOW SALLY LLOYD JONES AND THE JESUS DOOR. THE BIBLE SUMMARIZES THE STORY GOD THAT NEED US TO BE BEAUTIFUL SO WE CAN LOVE US WITH ALL OF HIS HEART. WE BECOME BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE HE LOVES US AND LOVE US BECAUSE WERE VALUABLE. WE ARE VALUABLE BECAUSE HE LOVES US EVEN LOVE US BECAUSE WERE PURE.

HIS LOVE PURIFIES US LOVE US BECAUSE WERE STRONG, WE FIND STRENGTH TO HIS UNCONDITIONAL, IRREVOCABLE LOVE FOR US GIVEN TO US IN THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST. MARTIN LUTHER HAD A WONDERFUL WAY OF SAYING THIS IS YOU PUT YOUR THINKING CAP ON. BUT IT'S AWESOME.

THE LOVE OF GOD DOES NOT FIND IT CREATES THAT WHICH IS PLEASING TO IT GOTTEN LOOK ON THE OTHER SAY ALL HE'S GOT GREAT TALENT HE'S GOT GOOD POTENTIAL FOR HER. SHE'S GOT A GOOD HEART. SHE'S BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD, BUT I THINK A LOT ABOUT HER FULL DISPERSION EVERY YEAR THEY GOT REAL TALENT. THAT'S WHY I'M GOING TO LOVE THAT GOD DOESN'T LOOK AT US ABOUT ANYTHING THAT IS LOVELY IN AND OF ITSELF. GOD'S LOVE CREATE THAT WHICH IS LOVELY IS LOVE MAKES THE UNLOVELY LOVABLE. SO WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE A LEAH. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT YOU GOTTA REFLECT.

YOU GOTTA EMBRACE TWO THINGS ONE THAT GOT A SET HIS LOVE ON YOU UNCONDITIONALLY CONDITION ON HOW YOU PERFORM OR ANYTHING ABOUT YOU, BUT CONDITION ON THE FACT THAT HE IS MADE YOU HIS DAUGHTER OR SON IN JESUS CHRIST. PURCHASER YOU. I THOUGHT THIS WEEK ABOUT WHEN MY OLDEST DAUGHTER WAS LEARNING TO WALK YOU SHE'S AROUND THE HOUSE. SHE PULLED UP ON EVERYTHING IN THE JEEP, PLOTS DOWN AND THEN SCREW CIRRHOTIC. I DO WHAT REALLY THINK ABOUT IT, CRUEL.

YOU KNOW SHE GETS UP THERE ONE DAY AND WE CANNOT MOVE LIKE 5 FEET AWAY AND I THINK WE HEAR SOMETHING I LIKE THE 20 YOU AND SHE'S LIKE YOU. SHE'S LOOKING AT IT AND SEES YOU SCARED AND SO MIGHT WANT TO TWINKIE AND SHE.

SHE LEANS HER HEAD FOR THE TWINKIE AND THEN GRAVITY TAKES OVER RIGHT AND I'M TELLING IT RIGHT AND HAD LIKE THREE STEPS AS SHE FELL DOWN, BUT SHE WALKED SHE WALKED BACK.

I GUESS THE GREATEST THING THAT'S EVER HAPPENED SOME YOU'RE NOT GOD LOVE IT RIGHT. I'VE NEVER NOTED THAT HE WAS LIKE TWO STEPS.

THAT'S IT. MY KIDS AND THAT IT YOU'RE CELEBRATING IT AND WHAT HAPPENS IN PARENTING IS THAT LOVE THAT AFFIRMATION ENDS UP BECOMING THE STRENGTH WHICH GIVES HIM THE ABILITY TO GROWING THINGS LIKE WALK LATER YOU GOT A HEAVENLY FATHER. THAT'S NOT SAYING WE SEE HOW WELL YOU WALK THE DETERMINES WHETHER OR NOT I LOVE YOU. YOU HAD A HEAVENLY FATHER WHOSE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE BECOMES A STRENGTH THROUGH WHICH YOU CAN WALK BEAUTIFULLY IN ANY SITUATION IN YOUR LIFE TO THE FIRST THING A REFLECT ON IS A GOD LOVES ME UNCONDITIONALLY.

IT'S GIVEN TO ME AS A GIFT IN CHRIST'S SECOND TERM REFLECT THE FACT THAT ONE DAY HE'S GONNA MAKE MY OUTSIDE COMMITTEE OUTSIDE MATCH THE BEAUTY OF THE CRISES PUT ON MY INSIDE AND THAT'S NOT JUST LIKE POETIC LANGUAGE. FIRST JOHN 31 SAYS, BELOVED, WE ARE GOD'S CHILDREN AND WHAT WE WILL BE EXACTLY HAS NOT YET APPEARED TO US. THE ONE THING WE DO KNOW IS THAT WHEN HE APPEARS WILL BE LIKE HIM.

THEN WE'LL SEE HIM AS HE IS. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT ONE DAY GOD CAN TAKE ALL THE UGLINESS FROM THIS LIFE, MAYBE IT'S PHYSICAL UGLINESS MAYBE IS MORE UGLINESS. MY TEMPER MY PRIDE, MY JEALOUSY GOD CAN TAKE ALL THAT ONE DAY HE SHOULD TAKE THIS CRISES PUT ON THE INSIDE AND HE'S GOING TO MAKE THE BEAUTY OF MY OUTSIDE MATCH WHAT HE'S PUT ON MY INSIDE AND I CAN'T WAIT. I CAN'T WAIT BECAUSE HE IS NOT DUMB WITH ME AND IT IS NOT YET APPEAR WHAT I WILL BE BUT I KNOW HE'S MAKING A BEAUTIFUL WHEN YOU REALLY GRASP THESE TRUE TO LET HIM SLEEP IN YOUR SOUL.

I'M TELLING YOU TO BE FREE.

FINALLY FREE OF THE ADDICTION OF THE APPROVAL THAT YOU ADDICTION TO THE APPROVAL OF OTHERS, YOU LIVE WITH NEWLY RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY THAT YOU FEEL TOWARD YOUR SPOUSE, DEPENDING ON THEM FOR AFFIRMATION. YOU CAN FINALLY LET GO OF DAMAGE OR LIFESAVER BECAUSE JESUS WILL BE YOUR LIFESAVER. YOU WILL NEED THEM TO FEEL LIKE YOUR LAST YOU'LL NEED THEM TO FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE WORTH BECAUSE YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN JESUS AND THEN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YOUR LIFE YOU'LL BE FREE TO ACTUALLY LOVE THEM INSTEAD OF USING THEM, WHICH WAS WRITTEN ON BEFORE THE FINAL ONE YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN THE GOSPEL YOU STOP STRIVING TO FIND LOVE BOY THAT YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN THE GOSPELS WE STOP STRIVING TO FIND LOVE AND YOUR CHOICE OF THE LOVE THAT YOU HAVE LEARNED TO LOVE IT, CAN'T BE TAKEN AWAY. WHEN LIKELY YOUR PRAISE AND YOUR JOY IS NO LONGER BASED ON HOW MANY SONS YOU HAVE, OR WHETHER JACOB LOVES YOU OR HOW SMART YOU ARE. HOW PRETTY YOU ARE OR HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE YOUR PRAISE IS BASED ENTIRELY ON THE COVENANT RELATIONSHIP THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO YOU, AND IT'S THE COVENANT GOD GAVE YOU THAT IS THE SOURCE OF YOUR JOY, AND THE SOURCE OF YOUR PRAISE. INITIAL QUESTION, WHAT IS IT TAKE WHAT IS IT TAKE TO USE THE WORDS OF PASTOR CHUCK WHAT IT TAKE FOR YOU TO GET YOUR PRAISE ON WHAT MAKES YOU COME IN HERE FOR WHAT MAKES YOU REJOICE IS THAT HE HAD A GREAT WEEK MAGICAL AWESOME THAT YOU'RE PREGNANT YOU IN EVENT OF INHERIT A LOT OF MONEY.

WHAT WHAT IS IT THAT WOULD MAKE YOU JUST REJOICE, IS HOW MANY SONS YOU HAVE VISIT OF THESE THINGS ARE IS THAT I MAY NOT HAVE ANYTHING THAT MIGHT BE FOR YOU AND I HAVE SONS I MIGHT FEEL UGLY. I MIGHT NOT HAVE FOUND THE JACOB TO LOVE ME, I MIGHT NOT HAVE THIS THING THAT I'VE ALWAYS WANTED FOR MY DAD AND MY PARENTS DO NOT HAVE, BUT I GOT YOU I GOT YOU I GOT YOUR UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND YOUR BETTER THAN FATHERS IN YOUR BETTER THAN SONS AND YOU BETTER THAN RICH IS BETTER THAN A HUSBAND BECAUSE ALL MY LIFE WILL THING I WAS SEARCHING FOR SOME SEARCH OF YOU AND MY SOUL HAS REST IN MY LIFE CAN BE A JUDAH WHICH MEANS THE PRAISE GOES TO GOD FOR HIS CABINET AND NOT RUBEN AND IS NOT A SIMIAN AND IS NOT A LEVITE IS DEPENDENT ON HOW MANY SONS I HAVE PROSPERITY TO GOD HAS GIVEN ME IN MY LIFE. DON'T THINK GOD FOR THE BEAUTIFUL STORY OF UGLY LEAH BECAUSE HE THAT SHOWS ME THAT HE LOVES UGLY SINNERS LIKE ME. IT SHOWS ME IS BY GRACE THAT I'VE BEEN SAVED THROUGH FAITH, ONE BECAUSE OF JD GREER ONE FOR ME ONE BECAUSE AALIYAH WAS BY GRACIE DAVID AS A GIFT WHAT MY WORKS SO THAT I'M NOT IN A POST OR AM I GOING TO DESPAIR, TO DO WHAT LEE AT THE START OF PRAISE GOD FOR THE GRACE AND THE GIFT THAT HE GAVE TO ME, SAYING WITH LEAH PROBABLY DID USE THESE WORDS BUT SAYING THE ESSENCE OF THE SONG WE LOVE IN THE CHURCH. AMAZING GRACE, HOW SWEET THE SOUND THAT SAVED AN UGLY WRETCH LIKE ME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE I'LL BE RESPONDING TO THAT GRACE SAYING THANK YOU AND I WILL LOVE LIKE YOU HAVE LIKE YOU BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU GIVEN TO ME. I'LL SAVE JOHN NEWTON WHO WROTE AMAZING GRACE.

I KNOW ONE DAY WHEN I BEEN THERE 10,000 YEARS, BRIGHT SHINING AS THE SUN WILL HAVE NO LESS DAYS TO SING GOD'S RIGHT THAN WHEN I FIRST GOT THIS LIFETIME IS NOT TO BE ENOUGH TIME TO SAY THANK YOU GOD FOR THE GRACE THAT HE GAVE THAT PAYCHECK IS NOT TO BE ENOUGH. HOW MANY 10,000 LIGHT TIMES 10 LIFETIMES JUST TO RESPOND TO THE GRACE THAT GOD GAVE TO THOSE WHO ARE UNLOVABLE AND UNLOVELY AND GOD SAID, I'LL MAKE YOU LOVABLE AND I'LL MAKE YOU WORTHY BECAUSE I'LL GET JESUS TO PURCHASE YOUR SOUL AND I'LL BRING JESUS CHRIST. THANK GOD FOR THE BEAUTIFUL STORY OF UGLY LEAH SUSAN UGLY SINNERS, JUST LIKE DOING AND WE GET TO SPEND THE REST OF OUR LIVES PRAISING GOD FOR THAT SEARCH FOR WHEN TO LET THE TITLE BAR MESSAGE TODAY FROM PASTOR JD GREER IF YOU LIKE TO LISTEN AGAIN. YOU CAN FIND THE FULL SERMON online@jdgreer.com Jenny we are so thankful to be offering your newest book on prayer to our listeners this month. Can you tell us why exactly did you name this but just ask your ability to capture the simplicity of prayer Molly because a lot of people really have a complicated relationship in prayer because like they have all these questions about it is it changing God's mind and what about the sovereignty of God and MSA in the right thing and using the right phrases when the driving analogy you find to help Jesus's teaching of the Gospels is that we come to God like children to a parent, a loving parent and a loving parent in my kids when they come to me.

They don't think about anything. They just asked, they asked, whatever is in their heart and what we want to grow in our maturities, we pray. We also once you have that childlike dependence that rush toward our heavenly father.

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