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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hello, and thank you for listening to your

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Speaker 1: Daily Bible Verse, the podcast that examines the Bible each

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Speaker 1: day to help us learn more about God and his

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Speaker 1: will for us. I'm your host, Shaka Heinz, and after

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Speaker 1: lent series God Meets You in the Wilderness with a

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Speaker 1: discussion on First Corinthians fifteen, verses twenty one and twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Today's Bible passages One Corinthians fifteen, verses twenty one and

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Speaker 1: twenty two. For as an atom, all die so in Christ,

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Speaker 1: all will be made alive. Since losing our our son

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen and my best friend being diagnosed with

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Speaker 1: early onset Parkinson's that same.

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Speaker 2: Year, I've lived through a long and often.

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Speaker 1: Lonely season of grief, wilderness seasons, right times wandering and

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Speaker 1: just trying to find my way through. Four days after

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Speaker 1: our son left us to be with Jesus, and on

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Speaker 1: his twelfth birthday, we closed on a house in the

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Speaker 1: countryside that he had helped us pick out. Two weeks

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Speaker 1: after his death, we uprooted and moved away from neighbors

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Speaker 1: of fifteen years who'd become family and supported us through

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Speaker 1: the ups and downs of life. Our oldest son left

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Speaker 1: for college a few months later, and I went from

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Speaker 1: being this stay at home mom of four surrounded by

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Speaker 1: families who knew and loved me, to mom of one

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Speaker 1: at home and one in high school and living in

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Speaker 1: the middle of our own private kind of wilderness. Right

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Speaker 1: Over the years since my friend was diagnosed with such

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Speaker 1: a debilitating illness, our friendship has deepened. But until we

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Speaker 1: find a cure, gone are the care free days of

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Speaker 1: meeting whenever we feel like it, talking daily on the

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Speaker 1: phone and making lighthearted plans. I'm not gonna lie. At times,

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Speaker 1: I have been lost in the wilderness of my pain,

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Speaker 1: wandering afraid, lonely. I've suffered my share of hardships and failures.

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Speaker 1: You know. I've made the wrong decision with my children,

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Speaker 1: had to apologize to my husband so so many times,

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Speaker 1: disappointed friends failed to keep my word, and struggle with

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Speaker 1: grief so heavy I didn't feel like I could keep going.

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Speaker 1: At some point on the journey through life, we all

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Speaker 1: wander through wilderness seasons. We may lose an opportunity because

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Speaker 1: we're laid low by grief or depression, or we might

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Speaker 1: even be responsible for a tragedy. We might mismanage our money,

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Speaker 1: we might fail to show up when we're needed, or

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Speaker 1: hurt someone we love, or eat even sometimes we just

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Speaker 1: suffer completely unjustly. The truth is that because of Adam,

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Speaker 1: every single one of us struggles through wilderness seasons. For

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Speaker 1: as an atom, all die. Paul teaches both here and

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Speaker 1: in Romans five that the entire human race is represented

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Speaker 1: in Atom. So sin entered the world through Atom, and

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Speaker 1: the consequence of sin is death for all, both physical

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Speaker 1: and spiritual. Adam introduced sin into the world, and because

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Speaker 1: of sin, where we all face broken roads. Sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: our own doing, sometimes as someone else is doing, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's the build in obstacles of a sin staying world.

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Speaker 1: Because of Adam, this broken road leads to one place death.

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Speaker 1: For as an atom, all die. But then we get

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Speaker 1: to the second half of the verse. So in Christ

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Speaker 1: all will be made alive. Through the one man, death came,

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Speaker 1: but through the other life.

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Speaker 2: Came for all.

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Speaker 1: Jesus came to represent broken humanity and to suffer the

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Speaker 1: consequences of Adams and all of our sins. Death. He

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Speaker 1: carried that cursed cross and allowed himself to be crucified,

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Speaker 1: so that he might nail every one of our mistakes

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Speaker 1: and also our intentional, willful crimes against God to the cross.

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Speaker 1: And three days later he triumphed over death and walked

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Speaker 1: out of that tomb. So in Christ all will be

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Speaker 1: made alive. Jesus came so that even our most desperate

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Speaker 1: wandering in the wilderness always leads to life, no matter

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Speaker 1: what your wilderness looks like, or how long or hard

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Speaker 1: the journey. If you are in Christ and Christ is

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Speaker 1: in you, your wilderness season does not determine your destination.

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Speaker 2: Christ does.

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Speaker 1: And the truth is that Jesus says and John ten

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Speaker 1: ten that he came that we might have life and

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Speaker 1: have it to the full. Life doesn't await you merely

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Speaker 1: at the end of a law. He owns log through

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Speaker 1: the wilderness, but he wants to meet you with hope

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Speaker 1: and joy and forgiveness and love all along the way.

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Speaker 1: All will be made alive. In my seasons of grief

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Speaker 1: and loss and wandering, I have felt the indescribable presence

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Speaker 1: me with unexpected joys all along the way. Keep walking,

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Speaker 1: my friend, keep walking wherever you are and whatever you're

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Speaker 1: going through. In Christ, you are on the road that

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Speaker 1: leads to life. Let's pray God, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: that because of what Jesus went through, because he chose

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Speaker 1: nail our sins to the tree, because he is God

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Speaker 1: and was able to resurrect from the dead and walk

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Speaker 2: Because of Jesus, we have life. Father.

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Speaker 1: I pray for all of us, all of us who

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Speaker 1: are listening to me today, that no matter where we

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Speaker 1: are on our wilderness journey, no matter what we're going through, Abbah,

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Speaker 1: would we experience. Help us to experience life and life

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Speaker 1: to the fool right where we're at, Help us to

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Speaker 1: remember that Jesus, what he did was enough. The important

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Speaker 1: part is not the wilderness journey. It's not how badly

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Speaker 2: These things don't define us. What defines both us and

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Speaker 2: our destination is Jesus, Jesus who was triumphant over death

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Speaker 2: and Jesus who brings us life. So Abbah, help us

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Speaker 2: to experience life.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus for walking to that cross, Thank you

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Speaker 1: for taking that journey before us and then walking our

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Speaker 1: journeys with us. We love you, Lord, we praise you

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Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. A man