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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 Friday preparation day,

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November twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is

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

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every

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single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing

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in our lesson study series themes in the Gospel of John.

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We are rounding off lesson number nine under the caption

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God with Us, God with Us. Oh. Before we get

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into that, I'd like to just say welcome to you

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and ask you to please go over to your Daily

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Portion dot com. If you have not done so already,

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thousand or more of you to click that number seven

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and join and subscribe there for continual spiritual growth beyond

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your daily portion. Yes, there's a special treat there for us.

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Thank you, and I ask you please also to tell

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us where you are in the world. There's a little

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form there, where are you in the world at your

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Daily portion dot com. I love that form because it

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is giving me an indication of how far and wide

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the gospel is being spread. Like, go ahead and type

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in the chat. As a matter of fact, as we

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are getting ready to pray, where are you in the world?

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And I know that there are people on the radio

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and two hundred radio stations beyond who is online listening

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and watching me here on podcasts, But just type it

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in the chat because this encourages me that this Gospel

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of the Kingdom shall be preached into all the world

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for a witness, and then and only then shall the

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end come. And I'm encouraged because the Philippines is finally

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taking off, like you're taking off. I finally see traction

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there in the Philippines, and I'm grateful. I'm grateful continue

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to spread the word there. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,

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we thank you for this day of preparation. Please help

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us to live your words, help us to live as

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in the visible presence of God. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Okay, Well, I'm grateful because God

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didn't leave us down here to perish. The Bible says

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God so loved the world that he gave his only

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begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,

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but have everlasting life. God did not send his son

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into the world to condemn the world. Remember we were

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reading about this yesterday, not to condemn the world, but

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that the world through him might be saved. And so

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I'm grateful that God has done all that He in

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his holiness can do in order to save people from

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our sins. I'm thankful no condemnation if we're in Christ Jesus. Okay,

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And so from the lesson writer, Well, there are quotes

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in the Lesson from the book Desire of Ages, page

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twenty five, and I read here in stooping to take

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upon himself humanity. Did you see that word? Did you

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hear it? In stooping? That means he's condescending. That means

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Jesus is reaching down. It's an infinite humiliation for him,

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even if he had taken on the form of humanity

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as Adam stood in his innocence in Eden. But after

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four thousand years of degradation, Jesus does this. He's stooping

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down to take upon him himself humanity. Christ revealed a

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character opposite of the character of Satan. He did what

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he revealed, a character that is the opposite of Satan.

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But he stepped still. But he stepped still lower into

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the path of humiliation, being found in the fashion as

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a man. He humbled himself and became obedient unto death,

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even the death of the cross. You understand, Jesus is life. Remember,

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he's the source of life. He's the one who saves us.

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He's the one who created us. In him his life,

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and in him he's the life, who is also the

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light of all humans. And so he is now yielding

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himself and becoming obedient to death, even the death of

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the cross. And the quote continues as the high priest

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laid aside his gorgeous pontifical robes and officiated in the

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white linen dress of the common priest. So Christ took

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the form of a servant and offered sacrifice himself, the priest,

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himself the victim. He was wounded for our transgression. God

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help us. He was bruised for our iniquities. The tastisement

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of our peace was upon him. May I continue, and

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by his stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep,

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have gone astray, each and every one of us going

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in our own direction, thinking that we can, we can

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figure out our own lives without God. Mark out and

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tart out our own pathway. Because all roads, according to

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some people falsely so lead to God, and all roads

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don't lead to God. There was a path of righteousness

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that God reveals through Christ. Let me continue the quote

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before I get to preaching. Christ was treated as we deserve.

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I need you to let that settle. Christ was treated

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like we deserve. How do I deserve to be treated?

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Do I deserve to be treated like a medallion member

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in the American Express and Delta ecosphere? Do I deserve

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to be treated as royalty like those who have black

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cards are? Do I deserve to be treated like a

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diplomat like diplomats actually do? Hmm? Well, when we talk

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about it in a spiritual sense, we deserve to be destroyed.

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Quite frankly, can I just say that really quickly here,

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don't take this lightly. We deserve to be destroyed, and

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we deserve to be destroyed with the most painful, ignominious death,

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like that is what we deserve because we have chosen

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to read in times past to reject God, reject our

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very breath, the one who gave all for us. Yeah,

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but I'm thankful for this reality that Christ was treated

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as we deserve, that we might be treated as he deserves.

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He was condemned for our sins in which he had

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no share. You see, Jesus never sinned that we might

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be justified. That means that we can be seen just

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as if we had never sinned. Okay, that we might

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be justified by his righteousness in which we had no share.

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He suffered the death which was ours that we might

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receive the life that was his. With his stripes. We

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are healed. That is the end of the quote. I'm grateful.

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I am I grateful because God made a way. He

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made a way. I feel sad sometimes thinking about what

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Jesus went through because of me, He went through because

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of you. He never did any wrong, and yet he

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was treated like the worst sinner in the universe, and

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then died with the burden of that on his shoulders.

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The Holy One of God, the one blessed be his name,

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who created us, the one who never did any wrong,

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became sin for us so that we could not be

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fearful of the condemnation that comes to those who are

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addicted to pornography. Oh, did I just say that we

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need to be practical here, those who have been addicted

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to the rum bottle, those who have been addicted to

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their own images or sitting in the high places of

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churches and having people yield to them and bringing greetings.

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Like sometimes people are addicted to our own reflection in

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the mirror. We are addicted sometimes to those filters that

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make us look lovely on toc TikTok and Instagram. Sometimes

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we believe our own press. There's a press release going

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out that fill in the blank person from filling the

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blank entity is doing this great deed. And now everybody

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in a constituency, everybody who is under the pr news wire,

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everybody who's in a particular news setting, now knows that

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we're so wonderful, and look at what we're doing for

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our community. Look at the thing that we did to

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help the homeless. Look at the thing that now we

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can pat ourselves on the back. Well, really pat on

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ourselves on the back for the things that we did

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for people during the pandemic. Come on, y'all, God with us,

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Jesus coming into human flesh, came to dispel all of

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the lies that the devil has told us about God

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and the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. With Jesus

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in our lives, we receive by faith the life that

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he deserves and escape the condemnation that we deserve.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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