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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 Sabbath, October 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 the themes of the Gospel of John, and

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our caption for today is I can just tell you

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one of my favorite signs of divinity. Signs of divinity.

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Of course, we're talking about Jesus's divinity. 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 to you, pardon me, and ask you to

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please go over to your Daily Portion. Dot com please

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join our online community and need you to also look

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for that number seven at the appropriate time and see

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what God has for you there. And this is one

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of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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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 giving us this new

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day and for the privilege that we have to come

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together on this Sabbath morning and to consider one of

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the most holy subjects that we can even begin to

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discover in the scriptures. Please help us to be holy

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as a result. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again, signs of divinity, Signs of divinity. And as

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I said already, it was so important for me to

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remember to say it. It's in my notes one of

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my favorite subjects in scripture, elevating the nature of Christ,

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because there are so many people that will try to

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bring Jesus down in your mindset. There are people who

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will even knock on your door and try to give

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you magazines and pamphlets and flyers about things that seem

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to be related to godliness. But then when you drill

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it some more, you realize that they have degraded Jesus

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in their thought process. Yeah, and so one of the

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Jesus is the one who gives his life for us.

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He gave his life for us. He must be equal

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to or greater than the law the ten commandments that

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were broken. Okay, so before we go into the scriptures,

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I'd like to read. I'd like to read from the

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book the Book The Story of Redemption, pages forty seven

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and forty eight. It reminded me when I was looking

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at this subject. It reminded me of something I read

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just about I don't know about thirty years ago, almost

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thirty years ago, and it reads the angels related to them,

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meaning Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve, the grief that

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was felt in heaven as it was announced that they

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had transgressed the law of God. We're talking about Adam

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and Eve when they broke God's law. Okay, so they

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ate the fruit that God said don't eat. And yeah.

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The rest is history, which had made it expedient for

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Christ to make the great sacrifice of his own precious life. Man,

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I just say that again. It made it expedient for

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Christ to make the great sacrifice of his own precious life.

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Do you remember the song were you there when they

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crucified my lord. Yes, so it's my sins that caused that.

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When Adam and Eve realized how exalted and sacred was

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the law of God, I need you to get this part,

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brothers and sisters. When they realized how exalted was the

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law of God, hmm, the transgression of which made it

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made so costly a sacrifice necessary to save them and

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their posterity. That means their bloodline, people who would come

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after them, from utter ruin. They pleaded to die themselves.

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They realized, Wait a minute, I can't believe that this

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is the cost. Are you saying, the one who created

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me in unison with God, our father, he has to

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give his life because I hate of this fruit that

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you forbade me God from eating. Yes, yes, yes, they pled.

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They pleaded to die themselves or to let them and

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their posterity endure the penalty of their transgression, rather than

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that the beloved son of God should make this great sacrifice.

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The anguish of Adam was increased he saw that his

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sins were of so great magnitude as to involve fearful consequences.

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Brothers and sisters, I want you to think about the

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love of God. The Bible says, for God so loved

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the world that he gave his only begotten son. Now

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we're starting to feel how important this is. That whosoever

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believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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God did not send his son into the world to

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condemn the world, but that the world through him might

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be saved. And I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful. But

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Adam was broken hearted. The anguish of Adam was increased.

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He saw that his sins were of so great magnitude

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as to involve fearful consequensequences. And it must be that

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Heaven's honored commander, who is that? Say his name? Jesus,

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who had walked with him and talked with him while

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in his holy innocence, whom angels honored and worshiped, must

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be brought down from his exalted position to die because

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of his transgression. Adam was informed that an angel's life,

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I need you to hear this. He was informed that

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an angel's life could not pay the debt. Why not

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the law of Yahweh Blessed be his name. The foundation

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of his government in heaven and upon earth was as

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sacred as God himself. And for this reason, the life

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of an angel could not be accepted of God as

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a sacrifice for its transgression the law. His law is

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of more importance in his sight than the holy angels

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around the throne. The Father could not abolish or change

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one precept in his law. We're talking about the Ten

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Commandments law. Let's not be confused here. He could not

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change or abolish even one precept in his holy law

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to meet man in his fallen condition. But the Son

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of God, who had, in unison with the Father, created

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human beings, could make an atonement for man to God

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by giving his life a sacrifice and bearing the wrath

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of his father. Angels informed Adam that as his transgression

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had brought death and wretchedness, life and immortality would be

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brought to light through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Aren't

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you glad that God is not like us? Aren't you

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glad that Jesus Christ, being divine, being holy, being eternal

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with God our Father, would condescend to fix this problem

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that only he could fix. Aren't you glad that Jesus

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Christ gave himself for us. Yes, it's a fearful thing.

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Yes it is saddening and heartbreaking to know that Jesus

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would have had to do that, But I'm grateful that

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he volunteered. Nobody coerced him, nobody twisted his divine arm,

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as if that were even possible. But he did it

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for you, He did it for me. And then, of course,

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of course, now we read in John chapter eleven and

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verse twenty five, Jesus said to her, I am the

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Resurrection and the life. Of course, he's speaking to Lazarus's sister,

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he who believes in me? Do you believe in Jesus,

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brothers and sisters, he who believes in me. I'm talking

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about all of his divine essence and the fact that

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he condescended and became as a human in order to

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save us. Do you believe in him? That he has

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the power to deliver you? He said, He who believes

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in me, though he may die, he shall live. And

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whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do

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you believe this, brothers and sisters. The one who is

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equal to God, our father, he's the one who became

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obedient unto the cross, the death of the cross. He

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didn't think it something to be grasped or held on to.

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That He is equal and equivalent to God, our Father,

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that he would just allow us to be down here,

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flailing and dying. I'm grateful that, in Jesus's divinity, he

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was willing to condescend to become human.

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Speaker 1: So he could see. Thanks for joining us, listening to friends.

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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,