Finish This

At the end of every podcast, we like to ask our guests to share what God has been teaching them in this season of life. This week’s guest is J.D. Greear. He’s lead pastor of The Summit Church in North Carolina, President of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a fountain of wisdom.

Galatians 3:3

Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?

The thing this week that God has been pressing into my heart is what you began in the spirit you can't finish in the flesh. That's what Paul said to the Galatians. And whether you're talking about your own, in theological terms, sanctification, which means growing to be more like Jesus or whether you're talking about your marriage, your parenting, or a ministry that God's given you, or a dream that you're pursuing. If it came from the spirit, it can only be completed by the spirit. And for me, you know, like most people here, they're probably high capacity men and women. And they've been used to saying, just show me the mountain and I'll get over it. And that's how I've lived a lot. And so God has been just working, just kind of tearing some things down to say you cannot finish this in the flesh.

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