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

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

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

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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

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

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Tuesday, November five,

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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. These themes I said, these themes in the

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Gospel of John, and our caption for today is acceptance

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and rejection, the reinteresting acceptance and rejection. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but first I'd like to

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say welcome, Welcome, welcome to everyone joining us, especially those

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joining us for the very first time. I'm asking you

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to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com

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please join our online community. I need you also to

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click that number seven. I have been saying it steadily

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since my birthday that I want at least one thousand

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people to click that number seven and subscribe. I'm asking

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you to also let us know where you are in

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the world. There's a little thing that says where are

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you in the world. Fill that out so we can

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know and continue to build our map, because we know

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that the Gospel of the Kingdom must be preached into

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all the world for a witness, and then and only

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then shall the income. And I'm looking forward to that day.

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It's encouraging to see the many, many, many many places

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around the world that you are all healing from, and

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that lets me know that you are sharing from those

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places as well. Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for

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this day and for the privilege to open up your word.

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Thank you for giving us the opportunity to accept you.

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Help us to accept you and reject the enemy. In

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Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and amen again, acceptance and rejection. Okay,

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so we are going into John chapter six, and I

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would have mentioned to you several weeks ago. I'm not

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even sure if we were even in the Book of

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jon As yet, but I mentioned to you that this

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is a place. This is one of my favorite places

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in scripture. And I know I say that often because

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I love the Bible, but this one is really interesting.

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And so we begin our reading from John chapter six,

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beginning at verse fifty one. And let's see what God

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has to say to us here. And it's Jesus speaking,

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Jesus speaking. I am the living Bread that came down

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from Heaven, the living Bread. If anyone eats from this bread,

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he will live forever. The bread that I will give

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for the bread that I will give for the life

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of the world is my flesh. And so Jesus is

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giving us an opportunity to be transformed. You see, you

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ever have you ever heard the idiom? What does it say?

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You are what you eat? You are what you eat? Well,

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Jesus is saying that if we eat of the bread

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of life, we will receive life, and will receive life

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more abundantly. Okay, And so he wants us to have

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his life. No, let's put it this way, like the

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hymn writer said it, he wants our life to be

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hid within him. He wants to abide in our lives

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so that our lives will shine out into the world.

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And people will say, well, how can I get that life,

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eternal life, eternity with God? How do I get that?

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How do I get to the point where I am

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being transformed? No longer having to be addicted to substances,

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no longer having to be addicted to my own face

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or voice with all kinds of pride, no longer having

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to be bound by relationships that really do not add

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anything of value to my life, just so I could

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feel a little better. And so Jesus is saying, those

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who ate in the wilderness the manna that quote Moses

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gave to them, they died. They died. You know, with

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the exception of Joshua and Caleb, every single person who

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ate mana that was older than twenty years of age,

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all of those individuals died. And he's saying that even

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the ones now by the time Jesus is on planet Earth,

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even the children twenty years and younger, those individuals died

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eventually too. Some died before they and that didn't go

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into the Promised Land. And then the ones who did

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go into the promised land. They're dead too, and they

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ate the manna from heaven. So Jesus is saying, I'm

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giving you the kind of bread that will transform your

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life verse fifty two. Then the people of God who

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are against God, who were hostile to Jesus, began to

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argue with one another. How can this man give us

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flesh to eat? And Jesus said, unto them, I tell

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you the solemn truth. Unless you eat the flesh of

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the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have

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no life in yourselves. The one who eats my flesh

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and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will

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raise him up on the last day. For my flesh

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is true food, my blood is true drink. Remember I

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said you are what you eat. We're I'm talking about literal.

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Jesus is not condoning a new religion of cannibalism. This

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has nothing to do with what Jesus is saying. He's

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saying that I can transform you from the inside out.

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From the inside out verse fifty six. The one who

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eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides and abides

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in me, and I in him. Now we understand where

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he's going. Okay, just as the Living Father sent me,

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I live because of the Father, So the one who

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consumes me will live because of me. So do you

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want to be connected to God our Father? Do you

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want to live eternally? Do you want to overcome those

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dead circumstances, the dead mindsets, the dead relationships on planet

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Earth right, the dead time wasters in your daily walk?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Do you want to overcome the dead feelings of inadequacy,

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the dead abusive situation that you are allowing to happen

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because you need a check at work? Are you open

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to living forever? Okay? Verse fifty nine I already shared

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with you with fifty eight said Jesus said these things

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while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernium. Then

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many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, Ah,

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this is a difficult saying. Who can understand it? Then,

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when Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this,

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he said to them, does this cause you to be offended?

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And what that means is offended in this context means

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is this causing you to leave me? Is this causing

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you to separate from me? Is this causing you to

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no longer want to walk with me and be on

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my team and in my family verse sixty two. Then

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what if you see the son of Man ascending to

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where he was before. The spirit is the one who

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gives life. Human nature is of no health. The words

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that I have spoken to you, they are spirit and

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they are life. But there are some of you who

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don't believe. For Jesus had already known from the beginning

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those who did not believe, and who it was who

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would betray him. We're almost there. We're almost there, so

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Jesus added. Because of this, I told you that no

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one can come to me unless the Father, unless the

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Father has allowed him to come. After this, many of

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his disciples offended or quit following him and did not

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accompany him any longer. And so Jesus said to the twelve.

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Now the closer ones to him. He says, to the twelve,

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you don't want to go away to do you? Simon

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Peter answered him, Lord, to whom would we go? You

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have the words of eternal life. We have come to

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believe and to know that you are the Holy One

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of God. Jesus replied, didn't I choose you, the twelve?

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And yet one of you has the devil not so fast, Peter,

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not so fast. There are people who will come and

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align in air, quotes themselves with Jesus and act like

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they love him just so they can get human and

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earthly food. They can get notoriety. And by the way,

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didn't I choose you the twelve? And yet one of

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you is a devil? Now? He said this about Judas,

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the son of Simon Escariot, for Judas, one of the twelve,

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was going to betray him. So we get to accept

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Christ and live eternally, or if we reject him, that's

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on us. That's a silly, silly reason.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, listening to friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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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,