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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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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

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, December fifteen,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series themes in the Gospel of John, and I'm

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asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community. Make sure you

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get that Companion guide, the Life Application Guide. It is

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still useful even though we're coming to a close in

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our Lesson study series. And yeah, let's go ahead and pray.

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We're going to talk about what is truth? What is truth?

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

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Father and Heaven, thank you for this Sunday morning, for

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the new day that you have entrusted to us, and

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the new week for working, working, working, working for the

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night comes when no one can work. So Father, please

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help us to connect with you and to live truth,

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not just talk about it, not just be able to

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identify it, but to live the truth in Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and a man again, what is truth?

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And so I'm going to read from John chapter eighteen.

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I am still like if you look into you look

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into our Companion Guide, like I said at your Daily

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dot Com, I am still like, really kind of in

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my mind about Pilot, like Pilot did not own his responsibility.

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When he had the privilege to do the right thing,

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he didn't. And I want you to see in the

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Companion Guide the impact that that can have on our

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personal lives, our spiritual lives, relationship lives, and of course

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in our professions. So let me just read from the

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Bible here in John chapter eighteen, beginning of verse thirty three,

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Then Pilot entered into the judgment hall again and called

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Jesus and said unto him, art thou the king of

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the Jews. Jesus answered him, saying, thou hast saying thou wait,

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sayest thou this thyself? Or did others tell you this

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of me? Pilot answered, am I a Jew thine own nation?

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And the chief priests have delivered thee unto me? And

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what hast thou done? Jesus answered, My kingdom is not

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of this world. If my kingdom were of this world,

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then would my servants fight that I should not be

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delivered to these your God's people. But now is my

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kingdom not from this world. Pilot therefore said to him,

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art thou the king. Then Jesus answered, thou sayest I'm

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a king? To this end was I born? And for

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this cause came I into the world, that I should

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bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the

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truth heareth my voice. Pilots said, unto him, well, what

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is truth? And when he said this, he went out

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again to the people of God and said, unto them,

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I find in him no fault at all. Okay, so

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this is a whole big mess. Can I just say that?

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Like so now Jesus is had having this one on

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one discussion with Pilot in one of these mock trials, right,

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and Pilot is trying to get himself out of a mess,

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but at the same time trying to say and do

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the right thing, and he gets confused because he really

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didn't stand ten toes down and do the right thing.

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I wish I had the time to deal with this.

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But this question about Jesus, is he a king? Is

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he a king? You see the people of God while

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they were messing up, Can I say that that's understating it.

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While they were messing up and missing the truth because

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they decided not to connect with God in the deepest way.

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I'm talking about the ones that are bringing Jesus here

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and carting him, the ones to whom Judas betrayed Jesus

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and carting him from mock trial to mock trial. Now

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he's here and Pilot is listening to what those people

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are saying because they are trying to get the state

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or the government to be against Jesus. Well, how do

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you do that will make it seem like he's an insurrectionist,

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Make it seem as if Jesus is trying to take

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over the world through the government, like he's setting himself

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up as a king right And so now Pilot is

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having this philosophical discussion. But after all is said and done,

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he says, I find no fault in him. But in

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the meantime, he's like, well, what is truth? And that

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is the question that we need to answer. That's the

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one with which we must contend. What is the truth?

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I know, I know, I use English and sometimes I

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use broken English, sometimes I use slang, and I stop

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and pause in the middle of sentences and don't complete

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my thought. I need you to be very clear this time, however,

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that I said, what is the truth? The truth, definite article,

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the truth, not your truth, my truth, not a truth,

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not truth in a vacuum, the truth, the truth. And

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so the Bible does teach us, like Jesus was very

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very clear about what truth is, and we need to

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be seeking God's face through his word the truth. When

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Jesus was praying, he was praying to his father what

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we call the high priestly prayer, the mediatorial prayer. I

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referenced a little while back. He said, sanctify them, meaning

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God's people, his disciples, in the case of the ones

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right in front of him and all who would believe,

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sanctify them through thy truth. He's praying to God, our father,

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through thy truth. Well, what is truth, Jesus? Thy word

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is truth. God's word is truth. Do you live, brothers

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and sisters, as if God's word is truth in your life?

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What I'm saying is, when you open the Bible and

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then you read what God has to say, does your

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life look like what God has to say? I have

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to ask myself the same question, and so seeking truth

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in God's word is key to answering and living. The

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question that Pilot answered now number two comes from verse fourteen.

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I have given them thy word. Jesus is speaking some

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more in John seventeen to his father. I have given

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them thy word, and the world hath hated them because

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they are not of the world, even as I am

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not of the world. And so yeah, we have to

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embrace Jesus's example of truth, just as he was in

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front of Pilot. And Pilot is asking these philosophical questions

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that do kind of creep into the realm of spirituality,

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and he is not willing to receive and accept the

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truth even though his mind and conscience are pricked. His

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wife gave him mourning. He in this moment said, I

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find no fault in him and so and so. Yeah,

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but now we need to actually actively deliberately live out

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the truth of God's words. So we ask ourselves when

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we look into the scriptures, thy word is truth? Does

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my life look like thy word? And then if the

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answer is yes, and praise the Lord, we live more

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like that. But if not in those key areas that

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we're not living the truth living them out in our actions,

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then we say, God, I noticed that there is a

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disconnect here. I'm seeing because you gave me the Holy

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Ghost to see in my moment of despair, like I'm

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looking at the Bible and my life is different than

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what the Bible teaches. Can you please teach me how

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to live your truth, the truth God? And then yeah,

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we want to follow, We want to follow the truth. Well,

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I mentioned the word of God, the Bible. But let's

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go back to John chapter fourteen and verse six. Some

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of you were waiting for me to say this, and

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Jesus said, unto them, I am the Way, the Truth,

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and the life. No one comes to the Father except

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by me. And so Jesus is showing his people the pathway,

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or anybody really the pathway into a right relationship with God,

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our Father. And he's saying, I am the pathway, I

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am the truth. I'm the one that is the manifestation

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of all that the scriptures teach, and more, I manifest

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the full character of all that God represents. And I

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am giving you an opportunity to follow me. Follow the

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way into the paths of righteousness, follow the way to

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be victorious in all key areas of our life, and

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then we will know the truth. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,