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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Hello, thank you for listening to your Daily Bible Verse,

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Speaker 2: the podcast that examines one verse each day to learn

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Speaker 2: more about God and his will for us. I'm your host,

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Speaker 2: joy A Williams, and after this short word from our sponsor,

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Speaker 2: will dive into today's Bible verse. Luke, chapter twenty four,

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Speaker 2: Verse forty and forty one. Today's Bible Verse. It's Luke,

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Speaker 2: chapter twenty four, verse forty and forty one. It says,

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Speaker 2: when he had said this, he showed them his hands

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Speaker 2: and feet, and while they still did not believe it

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Speaker 2: because of joy and amazing spent, he asked them, do

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Speaker 2: you have anything here to eat?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: Hello listener. Today's news and social media feeds are stuffed

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Speaker 2: with images and product offerings. Many of them calls me

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Speaker 2: to think this seems too good to be true. But

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Speaker 2: I don't have to look at a screen to wonder

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Speaker 2: if something is really what it appears to be. All

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Speaker 2: I have to do is look at my life. When

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Speaker 2: difficult seasons take a turn towards something wonderful, Sometimes there's

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Speaker 2: a hesitancy within me, and today's teaching may cause you

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Speaker 2: to check if you have a similar hesitation, or perhaps

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Speaker 2: you're thinking of someone who's had a tough time and

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Speaker 2: now things are getting better, but they aren't really feeling

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Speaker 2: better about things well. In today's Bible Burst, we get

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Speaker 2: to see Christ's disciples wonder if the worst was really over.

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Speaker 2: After all, there was that horrible night in Gefsymite when

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Speaker 2: they saw their friend betrayed their rabbi and the Messiah

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Speaker 2: was treated like a criminal. Then came those horrible trials

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Speaker 2: where Jesus was accused falsely and beaten unmercifully. But nothing

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Speaker 2: was as bad as the cruelty of the crucifixion. And

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Speaker 2: in Luke chapter twenty four, the disciples were assembled in

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Speaker 2: their grief. They had no idea that their pain was

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Speaker 2: also the backstory for their biggest miracle. By then, it

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Speaker 2: had been three days after Jesus died for our sins.

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Speaker 2: Two other Christ followers arrived with the news that they

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Speaker 2: saw the resurrected Jesus on the road to Emaeas. But

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Speaker 2: if that wasn't enough, then the resurrected Lord himself enters

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Speaker 2: the room. Amazingly, God uses the element of surprise to

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Speaker 2: elevate the disciples faith, and I believe he does that

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Speaker 2: for us too. And although the disciples struggle with their faith.

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Speaker 2: At least they stayed in the room, which causes me

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Speaker 2: to wonder, are we willing to stay in the space

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Speaker 2: where God is moving even if we didn't expect him

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Speaker 2: to move with such extravagant grace. And yet our daily

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Speaker 2: Bible burst tells us the disciples did not believe it

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Speaker 2: because of joy and amazement. Well, I've been there. This

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Speaker 2: is different than the ever popular paraphrase or phrase I

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Speaker 2: should say of being too blessed to be stressed. This

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Speaker 2: is being too blessed to believe. It's the ultimate self

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Speaker 2: protect mode. It's a human reflex that keeps us from

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Speaker 2: believing and receiving what makes us feel vulnerable. It's our

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Speaker 2: way to avoid being dooped. But self protect mode is

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Speaker 2: a problem. If we find ourselves avoiding the goodness of God,

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Speaker 2: then even when something wonderful is coming into view, something

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Speaker 2: that hurt us starts fut bombing the picture. Imagine a

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Speaker 2: dark cloud obstructing the sunrise or rainbow fading behind all

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Speaker 2: the ways we barely survived the storm. Eugene Peterson's paraphrase

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Speaker 2: of today's Bible verse helps us to see the disciples

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Speaker 2: dilemma a bit clearly and maybe see our own dilemma too.

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Speaker 2: And Luke chapter twenty four, verses thirty nine through forty

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Speaker 2: one of the message, it describes the scene once Jesus

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Speaker 2: came into the room. He continued with them, don't be upset,

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Speaker 2: and don't let all these doubting questions take over. Look

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Speaker 2: at my hands, look at my feet. It's really me.

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Speaker 2: Touch me me over from head to toe. A ghost

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Speaker 2: doesn't have muscle and bone like this. As he said this,

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Speaker 2: he showed them his hands and feet. They still couldn't

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Speaker 2: believe what they were seeing. It was too much. It

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Speaker 2: seemed too good to be true, and maybe that's what

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Speaker 2: we feel from time to time. But what Jesus does

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Speaker 2: next is what every soul stuck in self protect mode needs.

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Speaker 2: Jesus asked this question, did you have anything here to eat?

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Speaker 2: And they gave him a piece of brilled fish, and

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Speaker 2: he took it and ate it in their presence. Now

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Speaker 2: this doesn't mean that fish is the solution to trusting Jesus.

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Speaker 2: But before Christ's death, I wonder how many fish Dinners,

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Speaker 2: disciples and Jesus shared. After all, many of them were

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Speaker 2: fishermen by trade, so I'm thinking they ate fish with

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Speaker 2: Jesus pretty often, and it interesting that Jesus used something

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Speaker 2: the disciples were familiar with about him, even as they

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Speaker 2: had to believe something radically new about him. Now, while

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Speaker 2: Jesus will certainly comfort us in our pain, I believe

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Speaker 2: he loves to feast with us in our faith. So,

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Speaker 2: dear listener, is there a familiar way you connect with

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Speaker 2: Jesus and how might that lead you to having greater

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Speaker 2: trust in him? When I think of those ways for myself,

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Speaker 2: I meditate on familiar scriptures and pray heartfelt prayers or

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Speaker 2: sing songs of worship from my I Trust You God playlist,

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Speaker 2: because when life feels too good to be true, God's

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Speaker 2: word is the truth we need to remember. We need

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Speaker 2: our trust in God to keep doubt from taking over.

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Speaker 2: Then we can awaken to the realization that things really

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Speaker 2: have changed, or even if they don't, we've changed, We've

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Speaker 2: survived it. We're surviving it and thriving as possible too,

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Speaker 2: when we trust that with God, all things are possible. So,

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Speaker 2: dear friend, imagine the resurrect at Jesus. It's with you

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Speaker 2: in the road where you are right now. His empty

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Speaker 2: tone is our reminder that we don't have to live

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Speaker 2: with empty expectations of what God can do. And if

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Speaker 2: you've enjoyed this podcast, visit Jueywilliams dot com for more encouragement. Now,

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Speaker 2: let's invite Jesus to feast on our faith with this prayer. God,

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Speaker 2: thank you for being the God who not only brings

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Speaker 2: us through difficult times, you bring us to better days ahead.

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Speaker 2: You see every hurt in every obstacle we've been through,

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Speaker 2: but you are also the giver of every good and

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Speaker 2: perfect gift. Dear Lord, strengthen us so we don't just

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Speaker 2: grieve over what was lost. Help us to unwrap the

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Speaker 2: gift of what we found. To your grace in Christ.

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Speaker 2: It's so good and it's so true because you are

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Speaker 2: forever faithful in your word is forever true. May we

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Speaker 2: always cling to that reality in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Hey listeners, it's Kelly from the Life Audio team

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