When God created the universe, he made it both our bodies, our souls, physical, immaterial, good.

All of that's been affected by sin.

And without a bodily resurrection that leads to a glorification, we don't have salvation.

We're not just sort of disbody people, right?

We need our bodies redeemed.

We need our souls redeemed. We need our souls redeemed. We need

us redeemed as entire people. And the bodily resurrection is absolutely essential to that.

Without that, there is no salvation the way the Bible describes it.

Outstanding is a production of the Washington Stand, your source for news and commentary from a

biblical worldview. Welcome to Outstanding, a podcast where Standing is a production of the Washington Stand, your source for news and commentary from a biblical

worldview. Welcome to Outstanding, a podcast where we examine outstanding issues in the news

and how they affect our lives from a biblical worldview. I'm Jared Bridges, editor-in-chief of

the Washington Stand, and I'll be your host for today's special edition of Outstanding.

The news we hear on a daily basis, by definition, is always changing. The stock market rises

and falls. Presidents are elected leave office and then are elected again on a continually

rotating basis.

The balance of Congress changes just as often. The price of eggs is cheap, then it's

expensive, then it's cheap again. Fuel prices fluctuate by the week and even the weather,

that news item that most of us check in on daily, often turns out

quite differently than what the forecast told us it would be. Much of the news we consume is bad

news. Perhaps we gravitate toward bad news because it makes us feel good from the difficulties we're facing ourselves.

But bad news makes us aware of dangers, but it often captivates our attention away from

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