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

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

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

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

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

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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 morning,

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it is no it's Monday, November
twenty, twenty twenty three. Hello.

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My name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this

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

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is no exception. We are continuing
in our Lesson study series. God's mission,

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my mission, and our caption for
today is Christ's Method alone. Christ's

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Method alone. That's ringing a bell
and some of your minds. Yes,

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we are going to get into that
in just a moment, But first I'd

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like to ask you to go over
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online community. Also, let us
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There's a little form there that asks
the question where are you in the world?

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Yes, And I get the alerts, and I'm really excited when I

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read where you are what your names
are? Some of them I can't pronounce

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because we come from different cultures,
and I'm learning how to yes. So

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I really am excited to see where
God or from what vantage point God is

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spreading the gospel through you. You
are all over the world, every continent

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on this planet. People are coming
in and then also clicking share to spread

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this great news of the Word of
God into all the world. Let's go

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ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father in Heaven,

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thank you for this day and for
giving us the privilege to come together.

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Please teach us to live like Jesus
lived, and then minister in the same

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way. In Jesus' name, I
pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay,

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Christ's method alone, I'm going to
just jump right into it because you've

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been waiting for it from the book
The Ministry of Healing, page one hundred

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forty three, one hundred forty three. And let me just say that Jesus

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gave a five step process, or
let me say, in his method of

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reaching people, there is a five
step process in the quote that we're going

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to read, especially to those who
are in need. And the quote is

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Christ's method alone will give true success
in reaching the people. So our gold

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standard really platinum, titanium, like
whatever the most valuable or strong mineral or

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precious metal you can find. Yes, attached that right, So this is

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the standard for true success in reaching
peace. This is what he did.

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The Savior mingled with men as one
who desired their good. He showed his

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sympathy for him for them, excuse
me, ministered to their needs, and

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won their confidence, and ultimately,
ultimately, I will add here, then

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he bade them follow me. Can
we go through that just one more time?

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The Savior mingled with people as one
who desired their good. When you

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are in people's presence, why are
you there? Are you just a taker?

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Are you someone who wants to give
and then shoo, disappear like some

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kind of fictitious superhero, or are
you mingling with them as one who desired

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their good? Now, I'll say
I know that there are people who are

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like ah, but I'm an introvert, Dave, I'm somebody I don't really

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like being around people. It's not
that I hate people, but I just

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kind of don't like that whole mix
and mingle thing. And listen, I

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get it. But what God is
saying here is that Jesus fight any other

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thing. When he was in the
presence of people, all he wanted to

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demonstrate was that he desired their good. Okay, he showed his sympathy for

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them. There are times people are
in need of a friend. They've been

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going through some things, They've had
challenges that are too heavy for them to

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bear. They need someone to pray
for them. They need some practical things

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like going to the supermarket for them. They may need you to take care

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of their children for just a moment, right may need you to go and

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to clean up their yard, or
to fix and steady things around the house

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that seemed to be breaking down because
they're in such a bad situation. He

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showed sympathy for them. He ministered
to their needs. He did not if

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it's a guidance to us. It's
not for us to determine what their needs

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are and tell them that. It
is for us to see and experience and

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say, oh, based on this, I see that they need, and

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they give them according to their needs. And he won their confidence. Of

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course, that is self explanatory.
And having done all of this, he

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could say, now come follow me, Come follow me. Why because he

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demonstrated that he had their best interest
at heart. Now we have here in

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the Lesson Study. And by the
way, that's the end of the quote

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in the Lesson Study, John chapter
five, verses one through nine, and

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Mark chapter one, verses twenty three
through twenty eight. Let's see what we

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can glean from these, if anything
at all, because that's a lot to

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read. Right, Let's go with
the first passage and see how we're working

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with time. And the Bible reads
John chapter five and verse one. After

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this, there was a feast of
the Jews, and Jesus went up to

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Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem
a sheep market and pool, which is

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called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda,
having five and these lay a great multitude

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of impotent folk, blind and halt
withered, waiting for the moving of the

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water. For an angel went down
at a certain season into the pool.

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This is what they were waiting for. This is what the individuals believed was

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happening. And so Jesus is working
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I wish I had the time,
and he troubled the water. According to

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this whosoever, then first after the
troubling of the water, stepped in was

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made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there which

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had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie and knew

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that he had been now a long
time. In that case, he said,

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unto him, wilt thou be made
whole? See this is the question

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that God is asking you. Even
now. You may or may not have

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a physical malady, may or may
not have a disease. Ah, But

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everybody has been sinking deep in sin, right far from the peaceful shore,

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very deeply stained within, sinking to
rise no more. And so the master

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of the sea he hears your despairing
cry, and he from the waters he'll

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lift you, huh, so that
you can be safe. Asking you,

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will you be made whole? Verse
seven, the impotent man answered him,

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sir, I have no man.
So this is where the man is getting

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himself mixed up. Jesus did not
ask him if he had a man.

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He did not ask him if he
had a friend. He did not ask

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him if he had a method in
order to make his own needs be addressed.

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He did not ask him for a
prescription on how to heal him.

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Jesus simply asked, wilt thou be
made whole? Hmm? And then the

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man is complaining. The impotent man
answered him, so I have no man

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when the water is troubled to put
me in the pool. But while I

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am coming, another step is down
in before me. And so he's complaining

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because he believes that the power is
in some water. That he believes that

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there is some angel that comes down
and stirs up the water and people are

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getting healed. He believes this stuff. And now he is lamenting the fact

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that he cannot get his healing because
other people get in before him. He

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cannot get his healing because maybe his
timing is off. He cannot get his

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healing when the one who is life
himself is right there and saying, wilt

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thou be made whole? Why give
excuses? So God is saying I am

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here, I am here, and
so and so verse eight, Jesus saith

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unto him, rise, take up
thy bed and walk, and guess what

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happens verse nine, And immediately the
man was made hole and took up his

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bad and walked. And on the
same day was the Sabbath. See Christ's

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method alone in this moment was to
see the man's need give him the power

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he needed to overcome the challenge.
Even though it was a thirty eight year

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challenge, and despite the man's objections
and excuses and broken mindset, Jesus pushed

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through all of that and through his
kind, sympathetic method, he healed the

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man. Man was amazed and his
life was changed forever. Christ's method alone

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will bring true spiritual success of a
wonderful day. Peace. Thanks for joining

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us listening. Friends. Always remember
we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the
mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with el David Harris.
Make it a great day. Yeah,