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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 Sunday. It's

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October twenty seven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is

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El David Harris. I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every

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single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing

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in our lessons study series themes in the Gospel of John,

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and our caption for today is the setting of the encounter.

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The setting of the encounter. Remember when Jesus found you?

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Do you remember where you were? Do you remember the

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circumstances surrounding that experience, that encounter. 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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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead

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and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,

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thank you for this day, for starting us off on

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the right foot this week. Thank you for loving us

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and giving us encounters close encounters of a holy kind. Father.

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I pray that we will have multiple encounters every single

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day with You, and that will be transformed by the

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renewing of our minds, so our lives can be transformed

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Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen again. The setting

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of the encounter, and I admit that I had to

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be very much discipline yesterday because I wanted to jump

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into the story. And I'll have to be disciplined day

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by day because we're walking slowly through the story of

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this experience that God gave the woman, we say, the

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woman at the well. And so we begin our discussion

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here in the Bible Book of John John, chapter four.

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And what I need all of us to do is

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to envision ourselves having an encounter with Almighty God, bless

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it be his name, and what we would do if

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he began to speak life into us? Would we accept it? Brother?

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Would you accept it? Would you accept him? Sister? Would

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you accept this life or rejected? Sister? Would you accept

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this life? Life or rejected? And so, beginning at verse one,

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the Bible reads when therefore the Lord knew how the

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Pharisees heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John.

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Everything is always a competition with these people. Oh my goodness,

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Why are humans so fixated with one upsmanship? Why are

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people with the crabs in a barrel mentality? Why are

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they worried about what Jesus is doing versus what John

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the Baptist is doing. It's because they want to start

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a problem. They want to they want to do some

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kind of spiritual incursion, like they want to be rebel

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rousers and cause and create a problem where there is

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no problem. God's people who are working in the field,

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the mission, field of his work have no competition, Like,

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why is there a problem here? Oh? The problem was

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in the in the hearts of the so called leaders

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of God's people Verse two. Though Jesus himself baptized not

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but his disciples. So he left Judea. You see, God

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leaves when we are in that competitive spirit, that spirit

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that says I am better than you in the work

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of God, that spirit that says I am politricking so

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that I can become a certain whatever in God's Church,

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over and against what I know that maybe you should

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be doing. But all I care about is my career.

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I care about my status, I care about my retirement plan,

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I care about my influence. And therefore I will politrick

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and do whatever I have to do to be installed

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into whatever the position is. And so this is what

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these people had. These are the problems that these so

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called leaders had. He left Judea, and he departed again

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into Galilee. Why did he do that? So he could

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go find some people who actually would accept the assistance

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that he was going to give. And then the Bible

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says verse four, and he must needs go through Samaria.

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I love it. Jesus is on his way somewhere, He's

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passing through somewhere, and as he's passing through, he is

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orchestrating an encounter to transform a woman and a community

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of people all at once, and the Bible continues verse five.

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Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is

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called Psychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob

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gave his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore,

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being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the wall,

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and it was about the sixth hour. I need you

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to give keen attention to the timing here. I need

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you to give keen attention to the way that God

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orchestrates even through our necessary needs, even through those ten,

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those ten, that hierarchy of needs that the psychologists have

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been talking about for decades. Right, we all have these

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certain needs, some of which have to do with our

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daily activity, like we need water, we need certain health needs,

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we need transcendent needs like when God is in our presence.

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We're in the presence of God, we have need to

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connect with God. And so Jesus is using that same

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hierarchy in this situation. He needed some water, he needed

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some rest. This woman needed to be transformed. He needed

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and she needed. But what he needed could easily be addressed.

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What she needed was a transformation of internal eternal importance.

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And so he's wearied with his journey. He sat by

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the well, and it was about the sixth hour, and

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cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith

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unto her, give me to drink. Now, you have to

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understand the Samaritans, whereas they were connected and related to

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the Jews, that was not something that people would welcome.

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I think in current society we see where the two

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descendants of the two descendants of Abraham are still having

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these same challenges in a lot of places and in

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a lot of ways. And so Jesus is about to

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level the playing field and say, this is one big, spiritual,

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happy family if you choose to be transformed. And so

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she is like, okay, okay, okay. So verse eight, for

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his disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat.

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Then set the woman of Samaria. How is it that thou,

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being a Jew, askest a drink of me? Which am

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a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings

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with Samaritans. Well, she wasn't completely off base when she

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said that the Jews didn't have dealings with the Samaritans,

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but she was in encountering Jesus Christ, the Messiah who

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came through you could say the Jews bloodline, and was

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showing what he taught really and truly. I should go

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there in Isaiah and Isaiah chapter fifty six. I will

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go there Isaiah chapter fifty six. I didn't intend to

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read from here, but the Holy Ghost is saying, we

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need to go to the book of Isaiah chapter fifty

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six and read beginning at verse one. Read beginning at

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verse one, and the Bible reads, this is what the

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Lord says, promote justice, do what is right for I

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am ready to deliver you. I'm ready to deliver you.

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I'm ready to vindicate you openly. The people who do

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this will be blessed. The people who commit themselves to

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obedience what people, everybody and anybody to observe the Sabbath

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and to not defile it. Who everybody and everybody who

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refrain from doing anything that is wrong. No foreigner meaning gentiles,

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so called meaning Samaritans, or anybody else. No foreigner who

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becomes a follower of the Lord should say that the

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Lord will certainly exclude me from his people. The eunuchs

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should not say, look at me, I am a dried

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up tree. For this is what the Lord says. The

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eunuchs who observe my sabbaths and choose what pleases me,

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and are faithful to my covenant, I will set up

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I will set up a place for them. I will

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give them a name that is greater and I'm not reading,

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I'm paraphrasing now than of sons and of daughters. I

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will give them a name that will remain forever. God's

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House is a house of prayer for all people.

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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,