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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 Wednesday, November twenty,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name Iselle David Harris. I

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am your host, and this is your Daily Portion where

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we give you God's Word every single day, and today

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is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study

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series themes in the Gospel of John. Our caption for

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today is Old Testament Prophecies about Jesus Part two. Old

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Testament Prophecies about Jesus Part two. We'll get into that

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

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welcome to you and ask you to please go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community.

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So many of you have done so, and I'm thankful,

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and I'm asking you to also hit that number seven.

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Hit the number seven and subscribe there for continual spiritual

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development and fill up the form that says where are

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for where you are in the world, and this is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship at your daily portion dot com. Let's go

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ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father

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and Heaven. Thank you for this new morning and for

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getting us into the middle of our work week and

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getting us soon over the hump. Finally, thank you, Father

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for giving us so much evidence in the scriptures of

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your love and your goodness. Thank you for being reliable

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and constant, and please transform our lives today in Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. I'm grateful that God

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is available, He's willing, able and available to transform our

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minds and transform our lives. And we look into the

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Old Testament scriptures not just for proof texts, not just

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to be able to give some kind of historic evidence

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of filling the blank positive thing here. It is so

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that God can do something new in our lives. That

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he can make us holy, that he can teach us

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how to serve him with all of our hearts, how

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we can be of service to other people. And so

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from the lesson writer it reads, from the Lesson it reads.

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Estimates vary, but some scholars argue that Jesus of Nazareth

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fulfilled hundreds of Old Testament prophecies. Whatever the number, The

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odds against one man fulfilling even a few of them,

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much less all are staggering because all of these prophecies

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pointed to sometimes a certain time, certain locations, certain aspects

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of his ministry, et cetera, et cetera. And so this

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is statistically unlikely, really, and truly, I want to say impossible,

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except that it is exactly who we know that it is,

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Jesus Christ. But let me continue. Imagine filling an area

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the size of Texas in the United States of America

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or the entire land area of Jamaica Land we love, huh,

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with coins two feet high and painting one coin pink,

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and then mixing them all up. Then give a blindfolded

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person one chance to pick the pink coin. What are

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the odds that with one pick he or she get

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the pink one? Yeah, So that is the odds, that is,

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the statistical odds of these prophecies pointing to one man

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and it being other than Jesus. Like it is Jesus.

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There is no way in the world that it is

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not Jesus, these prophecies that all point to one person.

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If it's not Jesus, it's impossible. So it's Jesus. We

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are focusing on Jesus Christ because he is the fulfillment

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of these prophecies. Okay. And so now we go into

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the Bible Book of John and we read along with

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the Old Testament. I'll probably read the Old Testament passages

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and then just cite the New Testament ones. Okay. And

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so from the Book of Psalms, chapter one, eighteen and

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verse twenty six, it reads, blessed is he that cometh

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in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you

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out of the house of the Lord. Of course, this

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is a fulfillment of what happened after Lazarus's resurrection in

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John chapter twelve and verse thirteen. Also, also we want

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to celebrate Jesus's messianic kingship. This is what was happening

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in that scene in John chapter twelve. Jesus was being

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actually seen as the Messiah and becoming king at the

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same time. You see, the prophecy said that David's throne

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would not be left abandoned forever after Zedekiah would have

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vacated the throne. And then later, later, later, later, we're

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looking forward to the king, the king to ascend the throne.

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That king is Jesus Christ. That king is Jesus Christ.

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And of course out of the mouths of babes and

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sucklings come or thou hast perfected praise, the Bible writer says.

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is indeed the one we have been waiting for, not Selassie,

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not some other emperor or king or ruler from somewhere

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in the world. I wish I had the time Jesus

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Christ and Jesus alone, Okay. And so we read also

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from Zachariah, chapter nine and verse nine. Rejoice greatly, O,

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daughter of Zion, shout, oh daughter of Jerusalem. Behold thy

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king cometh unto thee He is just and having salvation lowly,

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and riding upon a donkey, and upon the cult the

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fall of a donkey. We see that is continual manifestation

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of John chapter twelve or fulfillment of John chapter twelve,

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Verses fourteen and fifteen. And so we embrace the humility

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of leadership. Jesus could have announced himself. He could have decided,

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you know what I'm going to do is have a

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retinue of angels. Like in the Bible it talks about

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when he goes back to Heaven. It says that the

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angels cried or lifted up their voices. Lift up your heads,

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o ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors,

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and the King of Glory shall come in. He could

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have chosen that route. But the Bible is teaching us

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that even as Jesus lived on planet Earth, knowing that

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he is the king of the universe and the fulfillment

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of all of these prophecies that he is going to

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save as people from their sins, our sins, we embrace

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the humility and the leadership that Jesus showed while he

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was living on planet Earth, so that he could prepare

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us for eternity. Okay, and now in Psalm chapter forty

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one and verse nine, we read yea mine own familiar

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friend in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread,

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hath lifted up his heel against me in a very

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literal way. In a very literal way, we see in

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John chapter thirteen and verse eighteen that Judas Judas is

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the fulfillment of that aspect of the prophecy where he

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was a betrayer, like he was right there dipping his

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hand in the sop, as Jesus would have said, at

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what we call now the Lord's Last Supper. And we

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see that the prophecy actually foretold even down to what

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the trust would have been, what it would have been

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like at the last supper, which did eat bread with him,

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and he betrayed Jesus. So what God helps us to do,

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if he is revealing things in our lives against people

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like Judas, he prepares us for a response to betrayal.

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There are times that people will do all kinds of

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all manner of evil against us. Right who will teach

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all manner of lies against us falsely? For Jesus' sake?

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He said, In that case, rejoice and be exceeding glad,

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for great is your reward in heaven. For so persecuted

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they the prophets which were before you, especially Jesus Christ.

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And then Finally, we read from Zechariah chapter twelve and

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verse ten. Zechariah twelve and verse ten. And I will

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pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants

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of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications, and

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shall look upon me whom they have peers. And they

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shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his own son,

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and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that

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is in bitterness for his first born. And in John

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chapter nineteen and verse thirty seven, we see that Jesus

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Christ gave himself for us. He sacrificed himself for us,

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and the Bible says that they looked on him who

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they appeared.

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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,