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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 Wednesday, November

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twenty seven, 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 in the Gospel of John, and

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our caption for today is rejecting the source of life.

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Rejecting the source of life. 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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your Daily Portion dot com, please join our online community,

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pick up the Your Daily Portion book, and especially please

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go ahead and click that number seven, click the number seven.

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I need one thousand of you, but I prefer ten thousand,

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but one thousand of you to click that number seven

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and subscribe there because this is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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

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in heaven, we thank you for this day and for

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getting us thus far into our work week. And I'm

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asking you to give us the stamina to continue to

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work because the time comes when no one will be

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able to work for you. Father, I'm asking you to

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please help us to embrace you in all ways. In

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Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. You know,

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it is actually silly of any of us, and I'm

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being kind, really complementary almost. It's silly for any of

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us to reject the source of life. Yesterday we were

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talking about believing in the new birth experience, believing and

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having a new birth experience, right, And so I'm thinking

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that if we are reborn because of God, the one

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who created us, then why would we reject him. Why

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would we be rejecting him when new birth is the

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only pathway to eternity with God. Yeah, those who reject

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eternity with God or really rejecting God, rejecting life. It

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doesn't make sense for me to continue to breathe this

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air that I am borrowing from God if I am

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rejecting Him in my spiritual experience. Okay, let me read,

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Let me read from the Lesson, and then we will

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we will jump in to the Bible here and I

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quote the contemporary humanistic way of thinking begins with doubt.

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So we begin naturally with doubt. People question everything in

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order to determine what is truth, that which survives the

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fire of cross examination they accept as rock solid knowledge,

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something on which to place one's faith. Some apply the

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same method to the Bible, calling everything into question from

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a scientific, historical, psychological, philosophical, archaeological, or geological perspective in

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order to determine what truth is in the Bible. The

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very method itself starts with and builds upon doubt in

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the veracity of scripture. Christ asked, when the Son of

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Man comes, will he really find faith on the earth.

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That's from Luke, chapter eighteen and verse eight. And so

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what we want to do now is determine I'm not

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saying that these things in Scripture cannot be held up

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to scrutiny, of course it can. But should we be

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scrutinizing the scriptures? These are the holy words of God?

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Like should we be saying, well, if I cannot understand

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it from archaeology, then it is not. Oh wait a minute.

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So the Holy Spirit has given power to those who

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wrote in the scriptures. They were God's pen men, like

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they heard from God, and based on inspiration they wrote.

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They moved, they were moved by the holy ghosts, and

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they communicated what God wanted us to know. And so

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the mysteries that God reveals or for our learning, but

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the other thing are for him. Okay, let me just

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go ahead and jump into the scriptures here and begin

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with the Bible Book of John in chapter eight John

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chapter eight and verse twelve. What we want to do

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is avoid the pitfalls of rejecting life. Avoid the pitfalls

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of rejecting life. And we begin here. Then spake Jesus

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again unto them, saying, I am the Light of the world.

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This is Jesus speaking. He's in real life. He's right

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there with them. I am the light of the world.

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He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but

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he shall have the light of life. And so your

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tip in that regard is to actively choose to follow Jesus.

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This is a deliberate action. This is something that we

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must decide every day, all day long. Choose actively, deliberately

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to follow Jesus by studying his words and applying his

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teachings to life. You see, when we intellectual life these things,

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and then we begin to scrutinize them, it is less

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likely for us to act. Can I say it just

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another way? There are times that you will learn things

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at work or in university. You may learn things in training,

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and until you actively determine that you are going to

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put some steps into place in order to actually apply them,

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is just theory for you. This is why in psychology

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there is practicum. When you study psychology, there's practicum. You

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have theory and practicum. When you do business, there is

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theory and then there are internships. Right then in medical sciences,

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like if you are a respiratory therapist or a nurse

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or a doctor in medical school, you do the theory

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and then you have clinicals. Why because people who intellectualize

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things and only do so just become philosophers. No disrespect

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to the philosophers. But I'm saying it's just a lot

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of questions. It's a lot of making myself intelligent. But

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if I don't move to clinicals, practicum, internship, then it

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is just something that's in my brain. And so accepting

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the light of the world, accepting Jesus Christs to now

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put his teachings into action, and we have to decide

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deliberately every single day and moments throughout the day that

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we're going to do that. And now, in Hebrews Chapter

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ten and verse thirty five, cast not away therefore your confidence,

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which hath great recompense of reward. And so we want

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to hold fast to the faith that God has given

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to us, hold fast to the faith that we are

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developing over time. You see, we ask God to increase

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our faith. We have experiences that test our faith, and

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our faith muscles get stronger. And therefore we need to

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ask God not to allow us to be confident in

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our own thoughts, confident in our own victories or past victories.

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When we have more faith today than we had yesterday,

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or we have more faith at ten am than we

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had at nine am, then we hold fast to God

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through faith and continue in confidence knowing that in the

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end analysis there is great recompense of reward. I'm thankful.

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I'm thankful. And then, of course, in John chapter one

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and verse twelve, we go back to the baseline of

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our experience with God. We go back to the baseline,

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and that is, but as many as received Him to them,

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gave he power to become the children of God, even

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to them that believe on his name. So we go

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back to basics. On a regular basis, we embrace Jesus,

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not just as a historical figure, not just one that

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could be demonstrated as having lived on planet Earth based

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on some archaeological dig No, we do more than this.

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We embrace him as our personal savior and Lord, not

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only the one who created and saved us, which is immeasurable,

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but also as Lord, the one that I am surrendering

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to every day on a momentary basis, on a momentary basis.

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And so rejecting the source of life is non a

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non starter for us. We don't get to do that.

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We can choose to do that. But why you're listening

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to me today, You're listening to God's word on a

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regular basis. In other spheres, you're reading it for yourselves.

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Why would any of us who are here under the

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sound of my voice ever reject the source of life.

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Just embrace, Embrace God, Embrace life. It's simple. Make it

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a great day. Thanks for joining us listening to friends.

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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.

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Speaker 1: Yeah,