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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 Friday, October eighteen,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 Gospels and themes in the Gospel of John,

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and of course this preparation day. Our caption is the

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Everlasting Crist, the Everlasting Christ. We'll get into that in

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

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to you and ask you to please go over to

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of 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 new day,

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and for protecting us all throughout the week and bringing

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us to the point of preparation so that tomorrow, if

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you spare our lives, we will experience you in a

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new way in corporate worship. For whatever the experience we

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will have on your holy Sabbath day, I pray that today,

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though we will respect you, we will look forward to

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seeing you in our connection with Christ and Jesus name.

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I pray Amen and Amen again the Everlasting Christ. I

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want to continue to drill the point that Jesus was

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no ordinary man, because sometimes we take the humanity part

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of Christ so far that we forget about the divinity

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of Christ. Jesus was not created. And what makes this

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so important is that sometimes when people are diminishing who

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Christ is they also diminish the gift, the gift of salvation.

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You see, if it were not God in the flesh

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who died on the cross, meaning the humanity of Jesus

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Christ dies on the cross because the divinity of Christ

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allows that humanity to die. I need you to get this,

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then we couldn't be saved, we couldn't be safe. See

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the Bible says that he was obedient unto death, even

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the death of the cross. I don't need to be

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obedient to death. If God forbid, I have a terminal

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disease and I'm about to die like it's only the

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grace of God if I don't. If God forbid, I

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step out into the street at just the wrong time

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and I see a vehicle is coming too quickly, and

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I get run over. It is only the grace of

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God that keeps me. You see where I'm saying. If

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there are assailants, armed, assailants who come in and do

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the unspeakable, I don't have the right, I don't have

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the power. I don't have the ability to be obedient

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to death. It's either God is gonna protect me or

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I'm going to die. But Jesus in his divinity could

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have withstood the death to his humanity, you see. So

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this is so sweet because that means that Jesus yielded

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fully to the process. When he said that he came

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to save his people from our sins, he came to

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seek and to save the lost. Now we know that

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there is a lot of power, a lot of power

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under control. When Jesus gave his life, he told the

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men as they were carting him from mock trial to

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mock trial, you would have no power at all over me,

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if except that the Father hath given it to you,

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you see. And so I want to read here before

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I go off into preaching, from the book of Micah

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Micah chapter five and verse two, where it reads, but

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thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands

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of Judah, Yet out of these shall come forth unto me,

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that is, to be a ruler in Israel, whose goings

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forth been of old from everlasting. This is obviously nobody

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really argues about this. This is obviously about Messiah, Jesus Christ,

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who came out of Bethlehem Ephratha. And so when Jesus

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was born into the human family, it was from this

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vantage point. This perspective. But the Bible says that his

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goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting, the

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same Messiah, this same Jesus, who gave his life for us,

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also was here from before there was a beginning throughout

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eternity past Jesus was with the Father. And I'm thankful.

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And so now we read from the Seventh day Adventists

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Bible Commentary, Volume five, page eleven twenty six. The Lord

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Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, existed from eternity.

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See we saw it in the scriptures. We saw it

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in the scriptures from eternity, a distinct person, yet to

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one with the Father. He was the surpassing glory of heaven.

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He was the commander of the heavenly intelligences, and the

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adoring homage of angels was received by him as his right.

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There was no robbery of God. See it was his

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right when the angels worship and adore him, as seen

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in the Bible Book of Revelation, chapter five. After the

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angels and other beings other creative created beings worship God

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our Father, and Jesus comes. The mighty lion of the

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tribe of Judah comes from the midst of the throne

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and the angels and other heavenly intelligences begin to worship Jesus.

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It wasn't that they were removing some worship from God,

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our Father, because Jesus is worthy, worthy is the lamb

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that was slain. And I'm grateful. We're going to continue

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to drill the point because so many believers, even people

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who say we believe in God, believe in his word,

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have minimized Jesus, have minimized him. Let me continue the quote.

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There are light and glory in the truth that Christ

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was one with the Father before the foundation of the

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world was laid. This is the light shining in a

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dark place, making it resplendent with divine original glory. This

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truth indefinite, infinitely excuse me. Mysterious in itself explains other

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mysterious and otherwise unexplainable truths, while it is enshrined in light,

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unapproachable and incomprehensible. May I just say at the last

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part of that that there are certain things that we humans,

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especially the ones who have studied scripture and theology, sometimes

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we try to explain what God has not revealed in detail.

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I don't know how he could be one hundred percent

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divine and one hundred percent human simultaneously. I have no idea,

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but I know that the Bible writer says, this is

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the mystery of godliness. God became a man, and of

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course he talked about The Bible writer talked about what,

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in fact was the mission of Christ. And so I'm

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thankful about what God has revealed that is for us

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and our children. We are to study this that is

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for us in our children. But the rest, the rest

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remains as a mystery. Continuing, continuing. Jesus has said, I,

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if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw

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all men unto me. Christ must be revealed to the

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sinner as the Savior dying for the sins of the world.

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And as we behold the lamb of God upon the

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cross of Calvary, the mystery of redemption begins to unfold

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to our minds, and the goodness of God leads to repentance.

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Aren't you glad that God did not leave us down

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here to die, to flail about into flounder until we

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just die crazy death in the end. Aren't you glad

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that He decided, in league with Jesus Christ, that he

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would give his only begotten Son, so that whosoever believeth

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in him, that's all we need to do. We believe

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in Him, and that kind of belief transforms us and

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makes us doers of His law and not just hearers,

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people who reflect the character of God. Those who believe

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in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. I'm thankful,

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and today I'm thankful because the everlasting Christ decided to

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yield his life so that I could live forever. Make

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it a wonderful day, Peast.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,