I write to you dear children because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.

I write to you fathers because you have known him who is from the beginning.

I write to you young men because you have overcome the evil one.

I write to you dear children because you have known the father.

I write to you fathers because you have known the father. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning.

I write to you young men because you are strong.

And the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Friends welcome back to the Ransomed Heart Podcast,

John and Stacey Eldridge here in the second part of a series where we're trying to share with you our own wrestling with the role in the place of suffering, trial, hardship, pain in the life of the

believer here and now on this earth and how do we understand the promise of breakthrough and healing

and thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, which by the way is something we pray every day. And so we just have a number of

dear friends who are in this and in suffering and it's surfacing a lot of questions in our community

that we thought would be helpful to go ahead and put out there for you and your

community. So last time we started off by asking what's the

purpose of life? Like what do you believe about that? Because the convictions

you hold about the purpose of life are going to shape, oh my goodness, your expectations,

they're going to shape your prayer life, that's for sure, they're going to actually shape your theology what you think the

purpose of life is and one of the things I just wanted to kind of revisit from last time

is this idea of what happened to reward.

Nobody talks about reward.

Nobody talks about because of the things I'm living now,

because of the choices I'm making,

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