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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 Wednesday, December eighteen,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 our

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caption for today is the Empty Tomb, the Empty tumb

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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I like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. I

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need you to join our online community. That's where we

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have conversations online about what our study is. We can

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type to each other and ask our questions, give our comments.

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It's a vibrant a vibrant space for that. Yes, and

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I need you also to make sure that you have

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the companion guide we're doing. We have life Application. I've

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never seen it done before like this, so that is

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why we produced it. Okay, Life Application Guide. And also

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let us know where you are in the world at

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this day

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and getting us right into the middle of our work week. Father,

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thank you for keeping us safe, keeping us in a

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position where we can worship you and connect with you. Father,

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please give us understanding, help us not to look in

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the places of the dead for the living. In Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. The empty tomb, the

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empty tomb. Let me ask you a question, and it's

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a question that I need to be answering for myself, Like,

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am I looking Are you looking for life in dead places?

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I said, are you looking for life in dead places?

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What does that mean? I'm saying that if God is

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delivering you from filling the blank negative thing. Why do

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some of us go back and look at that thing

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that has been run over on the road, that roadkill,

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looking at that thing that is dead and buried and

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exhuming its body proverbially, so that we can remember when

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we used to be beaten up our in a relationship

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that we shouldn't have been in. Huh, going to those

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places where we failed because we were bound by rum,

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We were bound by drugs and other kinds of abuses

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to ourselves. Right, Why are we going to those dead

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places where we experienced church hurt? Looking for life? You see,

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sometimes people are looking for love and life in all

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the wrong places. I said, some people are looking for love,

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looking for life in all the wrong places. These are

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the times in which we live. And unfortunately they were

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some of God's people looking for Jesus in an empty tomb.

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He promised that he was not going to be there

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Sunday morning. He promised that he was going to be

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He was going to raise, he was going to take

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up his life again, and he would have all power

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in his hands. But they were looking for him in

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a dead space, looking for life in a dead space.

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I hope we're not looking for life in a dead space.

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The Bible says here in John chapter twenty, beginning at

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verse one, the first day of the week, cometh Mary

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Magdalene early when it was yet dark, unto the suppulcher,

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and see if the stone taken away from the sepulcher.

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You see, she should have been going there. And I

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don't really care if people think I'm being critical, And

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I really don't care if people say, oh, well, if

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it were you, you would do the same thing, And

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I'm like, well, I don't know, I don't know. I mean,

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the children of Israel did the wrong thing. The first

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generation of freed slaves, even Moses and Aaron, died in

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the wilderness with millions of others. Ah, but there was

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a Joshua, there was a Caleb, like there were men

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who believed God and said that God has promised, and

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therefore we can take the city. Those giants are not giants.

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Those giants don't matter to God. We serve a mighty God.

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And so Mary Magdalene, no disrespect. I'm saying Mary Magdalene,

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when she went to the sepulcher, she should have went

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gone there waiting to see that the stone was rolled away.

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She should have been there to worship and say, God,

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I knew that you would not leave us. I knew

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you would not forsake us. I knew that you would

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keep your promise, and that Jesus would not be here.

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I just wanted to see it with my own eyes.

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But alas, alas, that's not why she went. The Bible

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says in verse two. Then she runneth and cometh to Simon,

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Peter and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and

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seth unto them. They have taken away the Lord out

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of the sepulcher. What come on, Mary, no dis like.

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I know you love Jesus. You were forgiven much, therefore

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you loved much. I know you poured all out for her.

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I know that you chose the best part. Mary. But

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in this moment, Mary, why are you looking for Jesus

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where dead people are? And so she says that somebody

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took like somebody kidnapped his dead body. That's what she

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told Peter and the other disciple, and came to the sepulcher.

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So they ran both together, and the other disciple did

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out run Peter. Why were they running so fast?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Why were they running to see Jesus, to see Jesus

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in worship, because they knew he was alive, or something else. Well,

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let's go with the something else. Don't be distracted by

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by blinking camera. It is hot in here, so it's malfunctioning.

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I apologize, And the Bible continues verse five. And he's

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stooping down and looking in. Saw the linen clothes, of

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course he did, lying, yet he went not in. Then

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cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulcher,

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and see it the linen clothsed lie yes, verse seven,

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and the napkin that was about his head, not lying

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with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place

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by itself. This is where you begin to worship brothers

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and sisters, and you say, ah, Christ, the Lord has

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risen today, hallelujah. They should have been worshiping him Verse eight.

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And went also in that other disciple which came first

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into the sepulcher, and he saw and he believed. What

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did he believe? Oh wait a minute, for as yet

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they knew not the scripture. Oh so they weren't believing

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that Jesus did exactly what he said that he did,

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For they yet knew not the scripture that he must

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rise again from the dead. I thought Jesus said it

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to them directly Verse ten. Then the disciples went away

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again unto their own home. These dudes are fearful. These

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dudes are dejected and feel rejected. They're fearful man because

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they think the devil one when Jesus promised that he

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would come and wake up again, because he would take

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up his life on the third day, But they as

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yet knew not the scripture that he must rise from

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the dead. Why not, brothers and sisters? Why is it

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that in twenty twenty four some of us don't know

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the scriptures that teach us that we can be spiritually raised, incorruptible? Like,

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how is it that so few of us actually embrace

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the life applications that we don't look in dead places

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for living truths? Why is it? Well, because sometimes humans

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lack faith. And so I'm going into our companion guide.

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I'm going into the companion guide. You should see a

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link in the description to be able to get that.

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And I'm going to go into a relationship application. Okay,

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and this is how we win using the letters wi

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N Okay. If you need all of it. You're going

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to have to pick it up because I won't be

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able to cover it. But in relationships, w what is

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important now? In this case? Well, Mary, Magdalene, Peter, and

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John's reactions to the empty Tomb show different aspects of

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faith and understanding. Their responses teach us about the importance

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of community and how we can grow in our faith

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through shared experiences and support. I internalize the insight, internalize

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the insight. Reflect on your relationships within your faith community.

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Are you support awarding one another as Peter and John did,

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running together to seek answers and to find truth. Are

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there people in your community who may need encouragement to believe?

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You see these men and I'll leave the next best

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move for you to pick up in the book and

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you can share it in the community. Okay. But there

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are times that we as we are searching for truth,

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searching for our ability to live for God, searching for

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connection with God, that our brothers and sisters can help us,

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can help us and say, don't give up now, don't

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give up now, sister, don't give up now. Brother, He's

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alive like he's alive. Christ, the Lord has risen today. Hallelujah.

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Now live with him until Jesus God.

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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,