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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. It's

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December nineteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El

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

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Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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lesson study series Themes of the Gospel or Themes in

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the Gospel of John, and our caption for today is

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Jesus and Mary. Jesus and Mary. 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. I want you to

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join our online community. Please please please pick up that

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your daily portion companion guide for this quarter's lesson, because

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it is a way to continue to apply to our

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lives these lessons in four key areas. I want you

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to let us know where you are in the world

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and click that number seven. Click that number seven as well,

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and this is one of the ways that we continue

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to build faith and fellowship. You don't have to remember

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any of it. Just go to the web address and

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do what you see on the screen. Okay, 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 giving us this day our

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daily bread and giving us the opportunity to see the

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interactions that you have with humans as dream you draw

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us into a right relationship with you, as you bring

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us in to awareness and holiness. Please help us to

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live according to your principles. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Okay, so we're talking about Jesus

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and Mary, Jesus and Mary from the Bible Book of

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John chapter twenty. But I don't want to get there first.

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I want to start with really the end in mind.

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Recipie Ky for them. Shout to Norman Niles, I call

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him Jonathan that's my giant baby, bro. He always talks

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about starting with the end in view. So what is

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the end in view here? Well, it's found in First Corinthians,

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chapter fifteen, beginning at verse twelve, and the Bible reads, now,

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if Christ be preached, I do this all the time.

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I preach Christ every single day of my life. If

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Christ be preached that he rows from the dead, house,

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say some among you that there is no resurrection of

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the dead. And of course were Sadducees, they were Pharisees.

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Some believed in resurrection, some did not. That's beside the point.

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In twenty twenty four, there are some of you who

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do not believe that Jesus is raised from the dead.

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You're like, come on, Dave, we believe in God. That's

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why we're here, that's why we're watching you. We're listening right. Yeah,

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but sometimes we still look into dead places for the

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living God. So do we really believe that Jesus is

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raised like the way that we exercise our faith. Are

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we thinking that He is powerful and he is alive?

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In my situation, Oh boy, keep listening, keep listening. And

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then the Bible says here in verse fourteen, and if

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Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain and

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your faith is vain. You know what's interesting? Somebody asks me,

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do you believe that you can live? Humans can live

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above sin? Do you believe that we can be victorious?

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Do you believe that we can live holy lives in

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Christ Jesus in this present world. They didn't say it

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that way, but I'm hearing the passage in my mind,

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and I said, you know what, if I didn't believe it,

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I wouldn't be a Christian. I wouldn't be a Christian

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if I didn't believe that God is more powerful to

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save than I am to sin. If I didn't believe

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that God had more power to save me than I

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have to destroy my life, then I wouldn't be a Christian.

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His love is overwhelming, his power is unmatched. Blessed be

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his name. And so I'm grateful because he is a rise,

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he has a risen. Is he going to a rise

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in my life? Well, it's up to me to decide.

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It's up to you to decide in your life. And

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then the Bible continues verse fifteen YA, and we are

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found false witnesses of God because we have testified of

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God that he raised him up. Okay, whom he raised

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not up? If so be that the dead rise not.

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For if the dead rise not, then Christ is not raised.

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I want you to hear the next verse. And if

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Christ be not raised, your faith is vain. Well, I

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don't believe in vain faith. It's illogical to me faith

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in the power of God. I have faith in God.

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My faith lays hold on the power of God. And

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the other end of that faith is connected to my life.

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And I'm supposed to be able to live like God

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promised that I could live. Ye are yet in your sins?

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Then they which are also falling asleep in Christ their parish.

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It doesn't make sense to worry about that verse nineteen.

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If in this life only we have hope in Christ,

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we are above all men, all people, most miserable. But

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now is Christ's risen. Thank God, I'm glad that Paul

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didn't leave us hanging here. But now is Christ risen

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from the dead and become the first fruits of them

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that slept. And so in the same way that Jesus

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came forth from the tomb, we will see our loved

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ones who loved God again. We will see them. They

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will be raised incorruptible at just the right time, around

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the coming of Jesus, at the time of Jesus's return.

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And so now we can go back to where this

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story is set. But Mary John Chapter twenty, verse eleven.

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But Mary stood without at the sepulcher, weeping. Why is

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she weeping? As she wept? She stooped down because maybe

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her faith in that moment was vain, like she thought

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Christ be not raised. What she looked into the sepulcher,

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and she see it two angels in white sitting, one

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at the head and the other at the feet where

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the body of Jesus had lain. That is past tense.

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That is past tense, because now he's alive. He's alive.

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He's not laying there because he is rot He has arisen. Oh, yes, okay.

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And they say, unto her woman, why weepest thou? She said,

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unto them, because they have taken away my lord, and

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I know not where they have laid him. Verse fourteen.

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And when she had said thus, she turned herself back.

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I need you to type right now in the chat.

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She turned type in the chat she turned. She turned.

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She was weeping, But then she turned. She was weeping,

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But then she turned. She turned herself back, and she

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saw Jesus. Are you hearing me clapping? I am applauding Jesus.

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Can we just give Jesus a round of applause right now?

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Because in the time, in her most weakened state, in

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the time that she was feeling rejected, dejected, she was

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desponding even to the degree that she would tell the

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angel that Jesus was gone. They took his body, his

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dead body. Why did they take his body? They didn't

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take his body. Jesus took up his life again. In

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the moment that you need Jesus the most, I need

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you to turn. I think the Bible teaches us that

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repentance is the turning of the shoulder, a one hundred

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and eighty greed turn. As we say here in Jamaica,

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we say right about turn, a right about turn. We

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turn and we see Jesus. Do you see Jesus when

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you turn away from your sins? Do you see Jesus?

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Brothers and sisters, when you turn away from your faithlessness

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and hopelessness? Do you turn and see Jesus? Turn your

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eyes upon Jesus. The songwriter pen look full in his

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wonderful face and the things of this earth will grow

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strangely dim in the light of his Glorian grace. That's

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exactly what she did in reality. And she saw Jesus

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standing and knew not that it was Jesus. But Jesus said,

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unto her. He called her. He called her. He said, woman,

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why are you crying? Why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?

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In supposing him to be a gardener, She said, unto him, Sir,

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if you have borne him, hence, tell me where thou

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hast laid him, and I will take him away. And

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Jesus saith unto her, Mary, he called her by name.

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Jesus is calling you by name. Type in the chat

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your name. Jesus is calling your name. If you're willing

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to turn away from your sin, turning away from your

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faithless ness, turning away from your hopelessness, He's calling you

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by name. Type your name in the chat. Mary, she

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turned herself and said, unto him, Oh, my God, rab

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bon nine, which is to say, master. Jesus said, unto her,

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touch me not. I am not yet ascended unto my father.

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But I'm going to ask you to do me some favor.

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Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend

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to my father and your father, my God and your God.

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See she learned to turn her eyes upon Jesus.

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Speaker 1: And therefore she was saying thanks for joining us. Listening

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to friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with El David Harris,

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make it a great day. Yeah,