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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, October three,

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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 themes in the Gospel of John and our

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caption for today is Jesus's Claims. Jesus's Claims. We'll get

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into that in just a moment, but first I'd like

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to say welcome to you and ask you to please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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Spiritually your connection with God. It's unusual and I'm looking

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

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go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.

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Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this day.

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Thank you for Jesus being more than someone who claimed claimed.

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Jesus always came through. Jesus comes through You, always come through, Father,

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and we're thankful for the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Please help us to live for you in Jesus name.

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I pray Amen and a men again. You know I

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am troubled by the idea that Jesus could claim anything.

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Jesus doesn't have to claim anything. He is the King

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of kings and Lord of lords. Can we just hurry

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up and get right there now? Like Jesus is everything

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that the prophets said that he is, and more like,

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Jesus created the heavens and the earth according to John

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chapter one and Hebrews chapter one and other places. But

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Jesus is eternal, just like God, our father could. Chapter

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five talks about the Messiah who was to come, who's

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also everlasting. You see, so Jesus didn't need to claim anything.

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I take issue with the idea that Jesus needed to

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claim anything, and I understand why we use that language

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considering the context of the story. But I'm just saying

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I want to say that right here and right now,

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Jesus doesn't need to claim anything. One day we will

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see him as king of kings and Lord of lords,

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on the throne of the universe, just like he promised.

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He said to the people who were his detractors that

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you will not see me again until you say, blessed

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is he that cometh in the name of the Lord,

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like you will see me on the throne when I

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come in the clouds of glory. I'm going to wake

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you up just so you can see that, Okay. And

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so we're going to continue the story now that I

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got that out, Like, let's get that out of the way.

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From the Book of John, chapter five, beginning at verse sixteen,

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and the Bible reads and therefore did the people of

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God persecute Jesus and sought to slay him because he

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had done these things on the sabbath. Of course, we're

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talking about healing on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them,

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my father worketh hitherto and I work. So Jesus is

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now attaching himself, associating himself with the royalty of the universe.

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He is saying that he and his father will see

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in about five chapters in the future in chapter ten

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of John, that he and his father are one, they

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are equal. Right. Therefore the people of God sought the

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more to kill him. Does it bother you that I

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keep saying the people of God? It bothers me. These

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people were supposed to be the people who taught the truth,

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the ones who guided people into all truth, like with

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the power of the Holy Ghost.

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Speaker 1: Like.

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Speaker 2: These people were supposed to be the greatest testimony to

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demonstrate that Jesus is exactly who he said that he is,

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and so and so, the Bible continues. Then, therefore the

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people of God sought the more to kill him because

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not only had he according to them, let me just

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say that here, let's get that language cleared up. Not

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only according to them, had he broken the Sabbath, but

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seth also that God was his father, making himself what

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equal with God. So they were very clear that Jesus

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was saying that God our father, is his father, but

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that meant equality with the Father, not like how God

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is my father, not like God is your father. But

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Jesus in John chapter seventeen, and I know I'm running,

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I'm fast forwarding. But in John chapter seventeen, Jesus said, please,

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I can't wait until you restore me like we get

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back to the way things were when we were, when

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we were completely. I don't want to say the wrong language,

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but one like I want to be like it was

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before I came down here and had to go through

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the human predicament in order to save these people, your people,

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my people, from their sins. Put me back like that.

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He was looking forward to that time. And then the

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Bible continues in verse nineteen. Then answered Jesus and said,

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unto them, verily, very I say unto you. The son

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can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the

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Father do. For what things soever he doeth, these also

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doe with the son. Likewise, for the Father loveth the

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son and showeth him all things that himself doeth. And

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he will show him greater works than these, that ye

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may marvel for and listen. One of the greater works

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is when Jesus laid down his life and he took

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it up again. He promised that I nobody can take

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my life. I lay it down. I volunteered for this thing.

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I'm becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

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Like nobody can take my life. I am giving my

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life willingly. And so this is a greater work. This

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is a greater work that ye may marvel for. As

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the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them, even

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so the son quickeneth whom he will see. Jesus raised

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people from the dead because he had that power in him.

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He has that power in him when he raised Lazarus

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from the dead. He didn't need permission. I just need

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to say that right here. Don't be confused by the

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fact that Jesus, while he was living on planet Earth,

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was bound to some earthly things, like he was hungry.

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At times, he was thirsty, he needed to rest, He

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needed to rely on his father to overcome temptations to sin.

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You see, definitely, Jesus was bound to a body, a

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physical body like you have a body. You understand, when

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he was fasting. When he was fasting, there came a

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point where he the Bible says, was hungry, and so

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the angels ministered unto him at the end of that

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battery of temptations. But there were times that Jesus did

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some things that you and I cannot do. But it

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wasn't flesh that was doing that. It was in his

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authority as the one who created us. And so when

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he forgave sins, he forgave sins in his godness. Who

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can forgive sins but God alone. Jesus was able to

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raise the dead, not because he was given power, but

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because he is the resurrection and the life. You understand.

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And so the Bible continues here and verse twenty two.

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For the Father judgeth no man, but he committeth judgment

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unto the son. He and then all all that all

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men should honor the son, even as they honor the Father.

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He that honoreth, not the son, honoreth not the Father

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which hath sent him. Verily, verily, I say unto you

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he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that

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sent me hath everlasting life. You see the connection. If

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you believe in Jesus, you believe in his word, you

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also are believing in God, our Father. If you believe

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truly in God, our Father, and believe in his word.

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You believe truly in Jesus Christ. And everything that Jesus

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has testified of himself. He didn't claim, he testified. He

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told us, he demonstrated, He manifested the reality of who

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he is. Yes, verily I say unto you, the hour

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is coming, and now is when the dead shall hear

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the voice of the Son of God, and they that

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here shall live. And there's so much more. And these

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men that were supposedly God's people continue to accuse Jesus

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of being less than who he is. Who is Jesus

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to you? Who is Jesus to you? Make it a

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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,