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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 Tuesday, October fifteen,

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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 guns 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 through themes in the Gospel of John and

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our caption for today is hearing or not hearing the word?

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Hearing or not hearing the Word. Before we get into that,

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I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very first time. I

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am asking you for a personal favor. Favor almost said favor.

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That's not a word favor, it's my birthday. It is

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my fifty first birthday, and I'm so grateful that God

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has extended my life. We get to still build together,

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we still get to reach the world for Christ together.

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And I'm going to ask you to do me a

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special favor. Within the next one hour time, I need

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fifty one people to click that number seven at your

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daily Portion dot com and join and join and subscribe

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at that number seven. And by the end of the day,

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I need a thousand people. And that's very easy because

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hundreds of thousands of you are watching me online, television,

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listening on radio, more on radio, and so it's an

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easy feat that by the end of October fifteen, like

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the end of this birthday for me, that I will

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have one thousand people who have clicked that number seven

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and subscribed, where we can continue to build and be

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transformed by God. It's a special space of transformation. This

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ten minutes together is a great start, but we want

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to do something even more. So please do that for me.

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Please do that for me, and we give God thanks.

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Let's pray Father, thank you for this day. Help us

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to live your word in Jesus name. I pray Amen

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and Amen again. Okay, so some people are hard of hearing,

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and some people are hard of doing. I just made

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that last phrase up. Heart of doing, heart of hearing.

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People actually don't do what we're supposed to do. You see,

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when God gives us his word, when God gives us

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his guidance to say this is the way, walk ye

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in it, and then we don't do it. That means

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we're hard of hearing and doing. That's our problem, that's

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human's problem. Now. In the Book of John chapter one,

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it was really even worse because the Bible teaches us

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that Jesus king among his own people, the people of God,

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like the people who should have understood and been expecting

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the prophecies to come true in Christ, and those same people,

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his own people, the people of God, rejected him, many

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of them, not everybody, but enough of them for it

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to make a big deal in the Bible to highlight it.

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And so now we want to make certain that in

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twenty twenty four, on October fifteen, we are making our

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final decision to hear and to actually do God's word,

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to hear and to do to God's ancient people. According

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to the Shamah, that is a terminology for what Deuteronomy

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chapter six, and verse four says and teaches us four

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and five teaches us the Lord. The Lord, our God

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is one Lord, and you shall worship him with everything

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you have and everything that you are. You see to

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God's people, hearing and doing were synonymous. But sometimes people

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are ever learning and failing to come to a knowledge

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of the truth, ever saying that they're hearing, but never doing.

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And so what God wants us to do is to

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hear and to do according to his word. Who is

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his word Jesus Christ, according to the power of his

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word through Christ. Okay, And so we read now in

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John chapter one, beginning of verse nine, that was the

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true light which lighteth every man. Speaking of Christ that

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cometh into the world. He was in the world, and

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the world was made by him, and the world knew him.

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Not even the people who were created by him didn't

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necessarily know him. So few people actually embraced Jesus. Can

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you imagine the creator of the universe, this is coming

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in to human flesh to save us in so few

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of us receive him. Continuing, and by the way, he

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came to his own also, and his own received him not.

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But I like this butt here because now it shows us,

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there is hope. But as many as did receive him. See,

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some people received him. Hopefully you're one of those people,

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to as many as receive him, to them gave he

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the power to become the children of God, even to

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them that believe on his name, which were not born

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of blood, nor of the will of flesh, but nor

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of the will of man, but of God. And so

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the people who receive Jesus are the ones who live.

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The people who hear Jesus reality, not just say that

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we hear him, actually have the power to live. Okay,

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now that I've said that, slowly, let's walk through a

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few steps or a few ways that we can look

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at this, so that we can be among the people

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who actually are transformed, not just intellectually acknowledging that Jesus

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is who he said he is, not just intellectually memorizing

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Bible texts, not just being able to speak Christianese. I

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just made that up like a language that makes us

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sound sanctimonious and holy, but to actually be transformed. Okay,

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So the first one is to acknowledge the true light.

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When I say acknowledge the true light, I'm saying we

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need to confess with our mouths, like believe in our

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hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus Christ is

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actually who the Bible says that he is. He was

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no ordinary man, he was not a mere prophet. He's

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the one who created us. He's the one who redeems us.

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He's the one who is empowering human beings who received

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eve him to live holy lives. Jesus is equal to

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our father. This is critical because the only way that

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we could be saved is the one who was equal

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to or greater than the law of God, who is

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indeed divine himself, could save us from our sins. Number Two,

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we want to believe on his name. Remember in verse twelve,

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it says to as many as believe in him or

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receive him, he gave those individuals power to become his children.

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You see, God's children have power over the rum bottle.

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God's children have power now over pornography, addiction, God's people,

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God's children have power over those evil mindsets that defeat

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us every single day that says we're less than, we're

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not able to that iconize people and say, well, that

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person is super special, this man is special, this woman

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is special. I can't be like that because fill in

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the negative blank, and God is saying no, I give

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you power to be victorious in every single way in

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your relationships. I give you power. This is God speaking

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to us. In your finances and in your way of

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doing business or earning an honest income. I give you

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power to overcome. I give you power to be the

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lender and not the borrower. Like I give you the power.

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It's just a matter of being able to get connected

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with God and trusting Him every single day for all

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of our needs. Of course, understanding the power of new

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birth is key, not just intellectually, but beginning to live

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that power of the new birth. We are spiritually born

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of the Holy Ghost. When we were born to our

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human parents, we were born with all kinds of deficiencies,

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all kinds of tendencies toward evil, all kinds of things

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that seem to defeat us. But when Jesus Christ comes

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into our lives and opens up the endtation that we

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can actually live for him, he empowers us by the

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new birth. Because now we have a new Daddy, HM.

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We have new power to live according to God's power

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and principles. We don't have to be bound by the past.

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We need to experience and give God thanks for the

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new birth. And as we are born anew, then daily

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we accept his lordship over our lives. We speak to

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him daily, we listen for his voice daily, and we

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give him thanks and say, Okay, God, whatever you say,

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that's what I'm going to do as you give me strength.

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So remember you can be transformed today by the word

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of God, and He is expecting you to be. Make

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it a great day. 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,