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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 Thursday, December 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 themes in the Gospel of John, and our

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caption for today is the Scriptures and the Truth, The

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Scriptures and the True. I'll get into that in just

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a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you

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for giving us this new Thursday. Thank you for the

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opportunity for us to build and grow and to live

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according to your principles. Help us to espouse, hold on,

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to embrace the truth. Let the truth live in our lives. Lord,

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help us to revere you through your word. In Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. The scriptures and the truth,

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Oh my, oh my, yes. So we're going to the

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Bible Book of John, the Bible Book of John, chapter five,

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and I will read verses thirty eight through forty. We

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have read this before, but let's now focus especially here,

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and the Bible reads and ye have not His word

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abiding in you. So God is not talking to you

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at least I hope he's not. I hope he's not.

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So Jesus was having an encounter with his detractors. There

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were people who were constantly questioning his origins. Well, just

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like the devil did when Jesus was in the wilderness

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being tempted of Satan. The Bible says that the devil

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would say, you know, if thou'll be the son of God,

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then fill in the blank. I need you to behave

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and do this thing. If you're the son of God,

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then do what I say. And so this is what

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is happening here. So his detractors, these are supposedly the

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leaders of God's people. Can you imagine the leaders of

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God's people or the supposed leaders of God's people are

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really detractors and not followers of Christ? How can that be?

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And so, really, if I am a leader among God's people,

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I need to be asking myself and answering. Am I

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a person who really embraces Christ as who he said

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he is? Am I embracing a relationship with him? Does

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my lifestyle is that a manifestation of that relationship with him?

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Or am I just giving lip service? So the Bible.

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The Bible continues, Jesus is having this discussion, and ye

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have not his word abiding in you for whom he

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has sent him. Ye believe not so Jesus is saying, like,

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the way that we know that the word the scriptures

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are not abiding in your life is because you're rejecting me.

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So there are people who claim to be Christians. I said, Christians.

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I'm going to be very specific Christians who minimize and

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diminish who Jesus is. Some of you, I hope nobody

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who's listening or watching. But if that is the case,

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then today is the day that you learn how to

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worship Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: Some people do not worship Christ, even though they name

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themselves after Christ by saying they're Christians. They don't believe

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that Jesus actually existed through eternity past. They don't believe

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that he is actually one with the Father. They don't

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believe that his power is unborrowed underived. They don't believe

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that Jesus Christ has all authority in his hands and

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it wasn't because it was given to him that given

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to him. Concept is based on the plan of salvation.

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The context is Jesus taking on human flesh. But apart

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from that, Jesus is life, unborrowed underrived, equal to our father, God,

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our Father, equal to God, our Father. I need you

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to hear this and so when he gave his life

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for us so that we could be saved, he allowed

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his humanity that adopted humanity, He allowed that to rest

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in the tomb. Because God can't die. Like his godness,

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his divinity cannot go to sleep. He never slumbers, He

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never sleeps. He that keepeth Israel does not slumber, nor

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can he sleep. And so Jesus is wow. He did

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a lot by giving himself to this plan of salvation,

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being obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

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These men did not believe any of what I just

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said to you. They didn't believe any of it. Verse

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thirty nine. Search the scriptures, for in them, ye think

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ye have eternal life. So if I were to read

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it more directly, it would say something like, you search

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the scriptures. This is what you do. I know that

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that's what you do. So you search the scriptures, because

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you think by searching the scriptures, by knowing intellectually the scriptures,

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by being able to quote them, by wearing them on

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your body, you feel like that is eternal life. But

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let me just tell you, this is Jesus still speaking.

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But there are they that testify of me. So all

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of that activity of searching scripture, all of that putting

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scriptures on your body, all of that being able to

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expound scriptures, all of that being on your daily portion,

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every single day for thousands of consecutive days. Dave, if

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you are not embracing and living according to the principles

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of Jesus Christ, actually leaving what he said about himself,

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what the prophets spoke about him, then well, let me

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see what it says here in verse forty, and ye

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will not come to me that ye may have life.

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Oh so I don't have life if I don't believe

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the scriptures about the truth, which is Christ. I don't

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have life if I minimize Jesus. M hmm. That's right.

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And so today is a day of reckoning for some people,

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because the Bible teaches us very clearly who Jesus is.

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He created you, brothers and sisters. He is light, he

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is life. He has come so that we may have

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life and have it more abundantly, to transform our lives

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from hopeless sinners to hopeful saints. Transform our lives so

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that I don't have to be unkind or live according

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to road rage, or to steal from God's treasury. I

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don't have to betray Christ for a couple of pennies.

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When I do business, I don't have to worry about

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abusing our espouses. Ladies, you don't have to abuse your husbands. Husbands,

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you don't have to abuse your wife. Why because you

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embrace the scriptures, and the scriptures testify of Jesus, and

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you therefore are embracing Jesus as the one he said

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he is, so he can save you from your sins,

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and he can make you one with him. He can

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give you the mindset of Christ. Paul said, let this

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mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

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And then he gave some aspects of the character of

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Jesus that we could have in our lifestyles. Beginning at

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this moment, I'm walking slowly because I need somebody to

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get this this morning. Hmm. Okay, and so now I

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am moving to a few clear benefits. A few benefits.

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Number one, having Jesus being the truth in our lifestyles.

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It strengthens our decision making process.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: It helps me to make the right decisions in life.

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I wish I had the time, but let me keep going.

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It enhances, it enhances my life's purpose, like it helps

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me to know why I am here. When Jesus creates me,

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he puts in my bosom a desire for him. And

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if I entertain that by the Holy Ghost, and I

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am transformed by him, and then I begin to understand

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my purpose. I am transformed by the renewing of my mind.

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Now I know what my place is on planet Earth

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and how to glorify Him. Make it a great day.

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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,