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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, April two,

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twenty twenty five. 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 new

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Lesson study series how to Study the Bible, and our

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caption for today is studying the Words, studying the Word.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to just say

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welcome to you and ask you to go over to

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and when you are there, I also want you to

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touch that number seven that will be on your screen.

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I'm talking about at your Daily Portion dot com join

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also and subscribe there and let us know where you

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are in the world at your dailyportion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving

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us the privilege of coming together again this Wednesday and

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giving us the privilege of opening up your word. And

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I'm asking you to please give us your mindset when

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we study your Word. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen

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and Amen again. So this is a question that we

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all need to be asking and answering for ourselves. What

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is the purpose? Like why do we study the Word?

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There are some people who study because you want to

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be intelligent and you want people to know that you're intelligent.

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There are some people that like to argue, and I'm saying,

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you need to be honest with yourself, and I need

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to be honest with myself about the why that I

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study the Word. In fact, Jesus said to some folks

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that didn't really actually love him, he said, you search

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the scriptures for in them, ye think ye have eternal life. Right,

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So he was exposing the fact that they really were

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focusing on the words of the scrolls, the scriptures, and

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that is where they sort of pat themselves on the

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back and said, well, God owes me something, and God

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is saying to them, they are they that testify of Me.

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So they should have looked for Jesus in the scriptures.

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They should have looked for a relationship with Christ. They

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should have looked for the connection with God that leads

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to salvation. But instead they thought that they could derive

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and earn self from mastering understanding. There is a fine

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line that is between life and death when you look

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at it in those terms, because God is saying that

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I want to be found, and I am revealing myself

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in the scriptures, and therefore the only way you can

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have life is when you find me. Those who have

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Christ have life, and those who have not the Son

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of God hath not life. You see where we're going

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with this, And so, of course we have a legacy

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in our faith community about how we study the scriptures,

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and we could use many texts and take you into

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the history of our founders and those who laid the

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foundation as our church was developed back in the eighteen hundreds.

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But truthfully, it's right in the Bible, right in the Bible.

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One of the ways that we look at scripture. Besides

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what have already said is a comprehensive study method. And

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we get that from the Book of Isaiah, chapter twenty

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eight and verses nine and ten, and the Bible reads

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whom shall he teach knowledge? So if you want to

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know knowledge, you want to have knowledge, whom will will

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God teach that? Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom

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shall he make to understand doctrine? Which really simply means

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Bible teaching. And then it tells us some more and

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gets to the point where it says, for precept must

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be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, here

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a little and there a little. So we study the

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Bible comprehensively. We don't leave parts of the Bible out.

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We compare scripture with Scripture number two. We look at

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context because that's key. One thing that really drives me nuts.

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And I seldom try to share my personal views, but

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it drives me bananas, especially inside of churches, when the

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Bible teachers and people who are in the pew or

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studying with us in church are just hopping around the Bible,

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like all of these Bible text just hopping around the Bible, no,

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with no regard for the actual context of the scripture.

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And so in two Timothy, chapter two and verse fifteen,

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the Bible says, study to show thyself approved unto God,

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a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing

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the word of truth. In another version, it says, teaching

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the message of truth accurately. Okay, so we want to

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see what God was actually saying, to whom, in what time,

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et cetera. Before we even begin to make sense of

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what we are seeing as we are praying for God

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to give us our wisdom. We have to really see

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to whom it was speaking, for what purpose it was speaking,

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and all of the details surrounding the text. And I

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wish I had the time, but I don't. So here

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are some key study principles. Number one, avoid a fragmented approach.

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Don't isolate Bible texts from one another. See the bigger picture,

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connect related passages, and then consider the entire context and

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the lesson. Writer also identified that we are systematic, like

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a puzzle assembly. Gather all of the pieces, see the connections,

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build progressively, and then view the complete picture. There's so

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much more, and I'd like for you to ask inside

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of our community for my notes on this, because there

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are just too many principles that I'd like to share,

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and we simply do not have the time. And so

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now we go into the Bible Book of Matthew, chapter

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five and verse eighteen. Maybe I was speaking quickly. You

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didn't hear what I just said, Ask for my notes

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for today in you your daily portion community, Okay? And

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so in Matthew chapter five and verse eighteen, the Bible reads,

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for verily I say unto you to heaven and earth,

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pass one jot or one tittle, shall in no wise

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pass from the law. We're going to come back and

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make some sense of these passages based on what the

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lesson writer is teaching us. Okay. In two Timothy chapter three,

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beginning at verse fifteen, the Bible reads, and that from

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a child, thou hast known the holy scriptures which are

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able to make the wise unto salvation. So the scriptures

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are to connect us with God and make us wise

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unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. All

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scripture is God breathed. That's what it really means. All

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scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable

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for doctrine. That's Bible teaching for reproof, for correction, for

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instruction in righteousness, that the Man of God, and of

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course that means people, the people of God, may be perfect,

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truly furnished unto all good works. One more passage and

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then we'll wrap a bow on this. And Jesus when

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he was having an encounter with or people were having

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an encounter with Christ after he was resurrected. The Bible

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reads in Luke chapter twenty four and verse twenty seven,

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and beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded

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unto them, all the scriptures, the things concerning himself. Okay,

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And so here are principles, and I want you to

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take notes here principles for approaching prophecy. Number one, trust scriptures, reliability.

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Every detail matters, God's word endures, and nothing God says fails.

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So we're going to trust the scriptures, reliability. I wish

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I had the time. Number two, we're going to see

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Christ as central to the scriptures and prophecy for that matter,

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All of it points to Jesus. The whole Bible testifies

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of Christ. And there is a unity in the messaging.

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Number three except divine inspiration, God breathed this it's authoritative

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and trustworthy, and then apply everything practically. There's so much more,

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but I said, please ask for my notes in the

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community and I will share them. I'm not saying to

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ask in this chat because I won't be able to

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see that, but in the community, ask and I will share.

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Make it a great day, peace.

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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,