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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 Sunday, October six,

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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 themes in the Gospel of John, and our

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caption for today is the Feeding of the five thousand.

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I'm going to deal with that in just a moment,

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but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to

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everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very

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first time. I'm asking you to please go over to

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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 day

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and giving us the opportunity to hear from you. Please

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help us to see you, and please, Father, help us

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to know that you see us. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and amen again. Let me just address really quickly

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that big, great, big, pink, hairy elephant in the room

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right now. It says feeding of the five thousand. May

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I just say that God sees all of you, He

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sees all of us, He knows you, He has called

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you from before there was a beginning. So even though

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this is reporting as if there were only five thousand people,

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it's really only men. It's only men. So there were

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women there, there were children there. So God sees and

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feeds all of the men, the women and the children.

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Today God is seeing and feeding all of the men,

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the women and the children, or the children, the women

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and the men as the case may be, And so

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I want you to know that God sees you ladies,

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God sees you children, God sees you all right, and

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He is making provision for you. Okay, let me go

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ahead and read from the Great Controversy before I go

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off on a tangent. It would have been a good one,

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but let me stay focused.

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 2: From the Great Controversy, page five hundred and forty, we read,

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he bore the guilt of transgression. Let me just say,

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he bore the guilt of transgression for all of the

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human family, children, women, men. He bore the guilt of

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transgression and the hiding of his father's face until his

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heart was broken and his life crushed out. Lord help us.

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All this sacrifice was made that sinners might be redeemed.

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Are you a sinner, brothers and sisters like type in

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the chat, I am a sinner saved by grace. I

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didn't want to just leave you there. I'm a sinner

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saved by grace. I know that's a lot of words,

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but I'm a sinner. I want you to confess with

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your mouth that I'm a sinner saved by grace, and

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really and truly if that's the case, and I hope

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it is the case. I hope that you have decided

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today or some time prior to today, that you would

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accept the offer of salvation that comes freely through Jesus Christ.

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But that means simply that you're a saint. So if

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you wanted to shorten the sentence, you could say, I'm

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a saint not because of your own works, not because

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you have done everything just right, but because you are

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saved by the grace of God, by grace through faith.

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And this is the gift of God, not of works,

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lest anyone should boast. And so I'm thankful that God

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has called you, he has called me saints. We are

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children of the light and not darkness, if we are

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choosing to serve God every day. Let me begin now

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by reading from John chapter six. John chapter six, and

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I would read beginning at verse one, and the Bible

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reads after these things. Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee,

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which is also the Sea of Tiberius, and a great

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multitude followed him. What a great multitude of whom of men, women,

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and children. I need you to keep that in your mind,

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of men, women, and children, because they saw his miracles

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which he did on them that were diseased, and Jesus

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went up into a mountain because he wanted to be

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able to reach the people. He wanted the people to

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be able to hear and see him. He went up

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into the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples,

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and the passover, a feast of the people of God,

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was nigh. When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, he

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saw a great company come unto him, and he said,

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unto Philip, where shall we buy bread that these may eat?

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I want you to understand this is a setup. It's

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a setup. Jesus is positioning his closest cohorts. He's positioning

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them to see that God wants to deliver people he wants.

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He wants his closest cohorts, those deciples poles. He wants

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them to see that we have a part to play

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in the provision that God makes for people that he

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wants to save. And so he says, he says, to

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prove him, for he himself knew what he would do.

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Verse seven. Philip answered him, two hundred pennyworth of bread

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is not sufficient for them, that every one of them

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may take a little One of his disciples, Andrew Simon

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Peter's brother seth unto him. There is a lad here.

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See are you thankful that God has manifest the truth

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here that there was a young a young child there,

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a young child there. So when you see that God

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is able to provide for children, he's able to provide

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for women, he is able to provide for men, leaving

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nobody out. How come we don't focus on the fact

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that everybody was present. Huh, here we go, there was

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a young lad there. Okay, well what else? What else?

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What else? Which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes?

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But what are they among so many? I am so glad,

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you asked, and Jesus said, make the men sit down.

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Now there was much grass in the place, And so

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the men sat down, in number of about five thousand,

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and Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks,

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he distributed to the disciples. What did he distribute, He

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distributed what he gave thanks for. He distributed what he

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gave thanks for. Well, what did he give thanks for?

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He gave thanks for the power of God to do

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in a way that no human in human ingenuity could do. Miraculously,

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God is providing in that place in the same way

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that he provided miraculously in the wilderness. Can I just

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say that God is doing what he has always done.

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He is making provision that is not limited by human

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in jauity. In your life and your lifestyle, your relationships,

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your businesses, your work situations, your health, huh, and everything

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that has to do with you. God is providing miraculously

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if you're willing to receive it. And so he said

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to distribute to the disciples, and the disciples to them

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that were set down, and likewise of the fishes, as

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much as they would, and they were all filled. How

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could five thousand men plus the children? How could five

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thousand men plus the children and the women? How could

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God provide for so many people from just five loaves

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and two fish? How could God provide when your month

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is longer than your money? How is it that He

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gives you what you need? How is it that God

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could provide peace when you have lost a loved one.

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How is it that God can provide the kind of

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joy that you need even when there are times that

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you suffer? How is it that God can provide salvation

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to such a broken sinner like me? Because Jesus is

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no ordinary man. Jesus was never an ordinary man. Jesus

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was the theanthropic one. That's a big word. That simply

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means he was one hundred percent God, one hundred percent man.

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And in that divine unity Jesus comes to save us

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from our sins and to give us everything that we need.

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And let me just say, after they had done all

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of that, all of that, the people recognized, Wait a minute,

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this is no ordinary man in our midst This man

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is unusual. Wow, God is no ordinary man. 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,