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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much, because yesterday's

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food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do

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some of us expect yesterday's portion of
heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On
this program, we are going to change

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all of that. Let's experience God's
words today and receive the power we need

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to live healthy, vibrant lives.
Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, Good morning, Good

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morning. It is Wednesday, July
three, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is Elle David Harris.
I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you
God's word every single day and today is

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no exception. We are continuing in
our new Lesson study series through the Book

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of Mark and our caption for today
is Jesus's Baptism. Jesus' is Baptism.

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We'll get into that in just a
moment, but first like to say welcome

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we can continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father

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in heaven, thank you for giving
us Jesus. Thank you for loving us

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so much that before you called us, you knew where we would go,

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how we would live, and you
still called us. Father. I pray

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that you will give us the fullness
of your Holy Spirit. In Jesus name,

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I pray Amen and Amen again.
Well. Our caption again for today

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is Jesus's baptism and the very first
thing that I wrote in my lesson,

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even though I am a Bible teacher, even though I have been a believer

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for a few years. Here right
why I wrote it in my lessons,

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in my lessons study guide. I
wrote it in big red letters, exclamation

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point like why why was Jesus baptized? And naturally my brain wants to say,

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well, why did he need to
be baptized? Because listen, our

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baptism is for the remission of sins. We are confessing that we are not

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enough. We are confessing that we
have sinned and come short of the glory

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of God. We are confessing that
we want to die to sin and be

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raised into a right relationship with God
where we surrender our will to God.

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This is what we are desiring.
Why that's the question. Well, the

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answer is very interesting, very interesting. You see, Jesus said, let

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it be so now, when even
John the Baptist was like, why,

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like I should be baptized of you, and Jesus said, let it be

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so now. I need you to
do it now so that we can fulfill

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all righteousness. There are so many
things packed into Jesus's statement. Number one,

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let me just say that clearly,
Jesus never sinned, and so he

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did not need to be baptized because
he committed sin. Absolutely not. Ah,

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but we have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. Every

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human being has who has ever lived
besides him has sinned and come short of

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the glory of God and need to
be cleansed from all unrighteousness. Yes,

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and so Jesus came as the one
who would become, in this context our

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substitute. He took the punishment.
Ultimately, when he goes to the cross,

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he takes the punishment that we deserve
so that we can live the life

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that he deserved. We get the
holiness and the righteousness based on his good

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works. People talk about faith versus
works. Yeah, his good work is

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the basis of anything that has to
do with our holiness. And then we

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just follow suit in the power of
the Holy Spirit, you see. And

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so Jesus. One of the reasons
Jesus died to fulfill all righteousness is so

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in the baptism, is so that
we could we could be holy. So

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he dies to sin in symbol like
we should. He's raised unto holiness like

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by in symbol like we need to
be, so that He can give that

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to us. You're like, well, where are you getting this from?

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Let me read really quickly from the
Bible Book of Romans. We have to

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go there Romans chapter six, and
the Bible reads beginning at verse one,

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what shall we say, then,
shall we continue to sin? So it's

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about us clearly, So shall we
continue to sin that grace may abound?

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God forbid? How shall we that
are dead sin live any longer? Therein

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so, God is not giving us
any excuses. So that you know,

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some people are like, well,
we want to see the grace of God

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abound, like people to be able
to see how good God is. So

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maybe people should sin in order to
manifest or reveal how good God is.

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And it's like no, no,
no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, weak argument from the devil. No,

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we shall not continue to sin,
because how can those who are dead

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to sin live any longer? Therein
verse three, know ye not that so

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many of us, as we're baptized. There's that word again, into Christ.

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We're baptized into his death. So
Jesus is giving a foreshadowing, a

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symbol of what's to happen, what
is to come baptized into his death.

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Therefore we are buried with him in
baptism unto death. So when we go

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down under the water, in that
baptism, by what we call immersion,

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go down under the water, then
it's a baptism into death. Keep going

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verse four. That like as Christ
was raised up from the dead by the

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glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in the newness of

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life. So when he comes up
out of the water, when we come

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up out of the water, that
is a symbol of us, of us

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humans walking in the newness of life. And so he did that for us.

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Verse five. For if we have
been planted together in the likeness of

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his death, we shall also be
in the likeness of his resurrection. Let

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me read verse six from another translation, the New English translation. We know

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that our old man was crucified with
him so that the body of sin would

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no longer dominate us, so that
we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

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So verse seven, someone who has
died has been freed from sin.

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So much more I could read there. So in short, we see that

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Jesus was baptized to fulfill all righteousness, so that we, like he went

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under the water and came up,
we can die to sin, and when

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we come up with him, we
are raised and freed from sin. You

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understand, Okay, good, very
good. So that is part of it

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now. There, of course,
was prophecy that he had with which he

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needed to contend. There were promises
made that Jesus or Messiah, the anointed

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One, would appear at a certain
time. He would appear at a certain

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time in Jesus when he was in
the Jordan River being baptized, with the

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Father's voice giving his stamp of approval. This is my beloved son, in

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whom I am well pleased. God
wants to say that about you, And

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indeed does as you yield your will
to him, God is saying, this

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is my beloved child, and whom
I am well pleased. I want you

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to in filling the blank right here
with your name. This is l d

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the Anomaly. This is El David
Harris. This is Dave David or whoever

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that people call me. This is
David, my beloved son, in whom

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I am well pleased. What is
your name, Naomi? What is your

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name Lisa? What is your name
John? Like fill in the blank here,

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This is my beloved child, in
whom I am well pleased. Why

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because Jesus came and gave his life
for us, and was raised in the

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newness of power, yes, and
authority, And therefore we are accepted in

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the Beloved And so the prophecies foretold
that this would happen. He would come

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as the anointed one in the Book
of Daniel chapter nine. And indeed he

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did come, and three and a
half years later, as the text would

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have predicted, the prophecy predicted that
Jesus would give his life for us.

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But in the meantime, as the
Father says, this is my son in

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whom I am well pleased, Jesus
is is filled with the Holy Ghost,

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and then God leads him into the
wilderness and he's tempted. He's tempted in

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like manner as we are. He's
tempted in every way that we can be

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tempted then and beyond. And he
was victorious and without sin, and therefore

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now he can give you that victory, brothers and sisters. So he came

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to fulfill all righteousness so that we
could be saved. I'm thankful. I'm

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thankful that Jesus humbled himself even to
the point of the cross, and in

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the meantime he was baptized so that
he could help you as you want to

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live for holiness peace. Thanks for
joining us listening. Friends, Always remember

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we cannot live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the

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mouth of God. This has been
your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,