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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 Thursday, December

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twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El

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

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Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series themes in the Gospel of John and

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our caption for today is abiding in Jesus. So we're

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going to talk about that in just a moment. But

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first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask

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you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community. I need you to pick

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and that is again at your Daily Portion dot com.

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and

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then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you

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for today. Please teach us to abide. Abide in Jesus.

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

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And so yesterday I didn't talk about the theology from

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beneath because it was beneath me. Okay, I just made

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that up. But really and truly, there are too many

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times that we focus on the wrong side of the argument. Okay.

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So I will say very quickly and briefly that the

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theology from beneath is always trying to examine and put

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God under a microscope, put him on trial. And by

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the way, when they do get to see godly movements,

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then they are not obedient to what God says, And

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so the theology from beneath really is about human argumentation.

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It's to determine whether God is worthy to be served,

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Like if God doesn't act in the way that I

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consider to be godly or god like, like, I won't

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serve him. Come down now from the cross, and then

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I will worship you, or wake my husband, wake my

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child up who has died, or else I'm not going

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to believe you. If you are God, then please pay

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my rent for me. You see what I mean, Like

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let the sun go backward. I seen you do it

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in the Bible. And it's like, oh, so you think

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you can put God on trial, like you can actually

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put God to the test so that he has to

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bow and scuffle and do what you say in order

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to determine if he indeed is divine and holy and

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omniscient and perfect. No no, no, no, no, no no no.

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God is not on trial. He is not on trial.

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That is the theology from beneath. We already talked about

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yesterday what it's like from above, and so I'll share

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just a little bit from him because we're talking about

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abiding in Christ. And so I'm going to share just

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a little bit of abide with me in that vein.

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This is what we're after the kind of relationship that abides.

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Speaker 3: Abide with me, fast falls, the even tide, the dark,

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nasty pens.

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Speaker 4: Lord with me, abide.

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Speaker 5: When a other he burs, fall and comforts flee hell

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by the helpless sol.

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Speaker 6: Hebide with me, swift to its close.

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Speaker 3: Ass out lies live little day, earth joy's growned, its glories,

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pass change, chendyck in all around I see.

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Speaker 5: Oh thou, who changeest not about with me?

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Speaker 3: I need thy presence every passingle What but thy grass

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can foil the tempters pas a like thinself, My guide

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and strength can be.

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Speaker 6: The cloud and sunshine.

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Speaker 4: Oh aby.

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Speaker 6: With me, a fear no fall with the at hand to.

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Speaker 4: Bless is they have no weight and tears, they have

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no bittern.

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Speaker 3: Where is dasting wear grain thy.

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Speaker 5: Ditary ay a triumph Still If thou aby with me,

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hold thou thy cross, be for my closing nye shine

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through the gloom and point.

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Speaker 6: Me to the sky.

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Speaker 5: Hands morning breaks and earth vain shadows.

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Speaker 7: Flee in life, in death, Oh Lord, aby with.

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Speaker 1: Me.

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Speaker 2: If God forbid we should die, We're just looking forward

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to the day when we will live again. If we

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have faith in God. And so what I want you

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to do today. I know I sang all the way

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through this, but I want you to focus your attention

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on John chapter fifteen. And I want you to see.

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I am the vine, the true vine, and my Father

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is the Husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit,

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he taketh away, and every branch that beareth fruit he

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prunes it. He purges it that it may bring forth

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more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which

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I have spoken to you. Here it comes. Abide in

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me and I in you. That's why we sang today.

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That's why we listen today. That's why we paused in

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this moment in time today, because we're running along sometimes

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too quickly. We're on the hamster wheel of life, trying

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to be successful, trying in our own strength to be holy.

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But Jesus is saying, I need you to pause. I

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need you to determine. Are you connected to me? Abide

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in me, Abide in me, and I in you. As

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a branch cannot bear fruit of itself except abide in

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the vine. No more can ye accept ye abide in me.

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Here it comes at the end of verse five. Accept

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it it says the same, bringeth forth much fruit, for

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without me you can do nothing. So that means you

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can do all things through Christ, which strengthens you. Abide

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in Jesus. Abide in Jesus. Abide in Jesus, and be

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saved and help.

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Speaker 1: Others too be Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always

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remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every

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word that comes from the mouth of God. This has

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been your daily portion with El. David Harris, make it

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a great day.

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Speaker 5: Yeah,