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Welcome to Day 2209 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.\nThis is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom\nWisdom Nuggets \u2013 What Does God Want? \u2013 God is With His Family Forever \u2013 Daily Wisdom\nPutnam Church Message \u2013 02/26/2023\xa0\nWhat Does God Want? -\xa0 God Is With His Family Forever\xa0\nLast week, we continued our series with the overall theme to answer the question: What does God want? The answer we discovered over the past five weeks was that God wants you and everyone who will ever live. In other words, God wanted a human family. God wants co-workers to take care of His creation. God wants you to know who you are and why your life has value to him. He loves you and desires that you also love Him. So, in last week\u2019s message, we explored how \u201cGod Pursues His Family through the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This week, we will extend that thought and see that \u201cGod is With His Family Forever\u201d throughout all eternity.\n\nI ended last week\u2019s message with a firm grasp of some apparent points. Christ is risen. All those who have put their trust in what he did on the cross and his resurrection as the only means of salvation will have everlasting life. But while we are already members of Christ\u2019s kingdom (Colossians 1:13), that kingdom has not yet come to its fullness and finality.\n\nThe same is true of the defeat and destruction of The Satan (devil) and various fallen sons of God. It is already in progress, but not yet realized. The Satan, the devil, and all the evil ones have no claim\u2014 no ownership, no power of death\u2014over any member of the kingdom of God. We belong to God through Jesus, and Jesus conquered death so that we might be resurrected to everlasting life with him and God the Father (Rom 6:8-9; Rom 8:11; 1 Cor 6:14).\n\n1 Corinthians 15:42-49\n\nIt is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.\u202f Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength.\u202fThey are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies.\n\nThe Scriptures tell us, \u201cThe first man, Adam, became a living person.\u201d\u202fBut the last Adam\u2014that is, Christ\u2014is a life-giving Spirit. What comes first is the natural body, then the spiritual body comes later.\u202fAdam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven. Earthly people are like the earthly man, and heavenly people are like the heavenly man. Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like\u202fthe heavenly man. \n\nWhile this is terrific, we must remember that while we are still here on earth, we have evil adversaries influencing those who have not yet become citizens of God\u2019s kingdom. Ephesians 2:2 says,\u202f <span style="color:...