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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 you 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 Wednesday, February

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twenty six, twenty twenty five. 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 God's Love and Justice, and our caption

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for today is if you worship Me, If you worship Me.

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion book.

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Remember here, it is there, It is there, it is

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and if and If this is a success because you

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actually desire and need it, then we will do it

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next quarter. But this is the second quarter, and we're

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determining whether it is worth the time based on your needs. Okay.

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pick up a physical copy, okay at your Daily Portion

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dot com. This is one of the ways that we

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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, we

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thank you for giving us the opportunity to come together

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and to open up your word. I pray God now

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that you will give us the fullness of your understanding.

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Give us all of your holy spirit. We need as

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much as we can handle today the fullness, and I

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pray that we will live according to your principles. In

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Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. So I've

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talked to you about my friend Norman, whom I called Jonathan,

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but I didn't ever tell you. I don't think what

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he said to me. Some time ago, it's like twenty eighteen.

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I was preparing to teach a Bible series for the

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next several weeks, and we were in the parking lot

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praying together and he said, Father, we ask you to

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give my brother the Holy Spirit. Right, and then he goes.

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He goes, we are not satisfied with a double portion

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of your Holy Spirit. We're not satisfied with a triple

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portion of your spirit. We want the fullness. And I said, Lord,

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Now that changed my life. That request that my brother

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made of God changed my life. Because sometimes we are satisfied,

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we're satisfied. Elisha wasn't satisfied with the power that God

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had given Elijah, you see. And so it is in

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that vein that I come to you today because Jesus,

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when he went into the wilderness as he lived on

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planet Earth, now he's not about he is thirty years

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of age. He is preparing for his public ministry, and

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in the Jordan River he is being baptized. And the

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Bible says that the Father his voice is heard from

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heavens saying this is my beloved son, and whom I

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am well pleased. And then we see, we see the

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manifestation of the power of God in the person of

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the Holy Ghost coming and pouring out into Jesus's life.

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The Holy Ghost took the form of a dove enlighted

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upon him, and of course now the rest is history.

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But right after that, now Jesus is full of the

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awareness of God, his father's presence and approval. Now he

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is full of the Holy Ghost. And he goes into

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the wilderness, and he is being tempted by the devil.

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And you know what. The devil comes to him after

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he has fasted forty days. He's fasted forty days, and

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while he is at his physical most weakest point, he's hungry.

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I said, physically weak, hungry, And now the devil comes in.

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And this is the story. Now we're going to read

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it from Matthew chapter four, but it can also be

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found in Luke chapter four. And I will begin at

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verse one, and then the Bible reads, then was Jesus

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led up of the spirit, the Holy Spirit? Right we

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were talking about being full. Jesus is full of the

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Holy Ghost into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

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And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights,

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he was afterward and hungered. So God had provided spiritual

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strength to him during those forty days. And now at

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the end of those forty days, his body is sensing

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the hunger. He's finally sensing the hunger verse three. And

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when I bet you somebody just learned something. I don't

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have the time right there. Yeah, somebody just caught that, okay.

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And when the tempter came to him, he said, if

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that'll be the Son of God, command that these stones

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be made bread. Now he's insinuating doubt. He's appearing. The

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tempter is appearing in a way that could be deceptive

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to Jesus if Jesus is not connected to God our father.

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Did you hear what I said? The devil or the

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tempter is appearing in such a way that would deceive

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Jesus if Jesus were not connected to God our Father.

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And so now there's this question, like, look at yourself here,

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look at yourself all emaciated, look at yourself physically weakened,

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look at yourself. If you're the son of God like

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I thought you were the son of God. Like, if

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you're the son of God, then prove it. Prove it now,

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Jesus said verse four. And he answered and said, it

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is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but

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by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

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So Jesus is actually demonstrating that he really in fact,

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is the son of God, because he is implicitly trusting

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God his father, in the power of the Holy Ghost.

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In that moment, then the devil taketh him up to

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a holy city and setteth him on a pinnacle of

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the temple. And then he said unto him, if thou

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be the son of God, cast thyself down from this place.

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For it is written he shall give his angels charge

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concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee

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up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against

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the stone? Can I just pause right here? The devil

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is not impressed by your Bible knowledge. I know that

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some people, as we discuss living in the last days

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and we talk about we should have God's word hidden

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in our hearts. Yes, it's true understanding memorization, being able

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to recall absolutely. But sometimes humans think that that is

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the way to be victorious, That if we can repeat

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God's words and hide ourselves in holy spaces, then that

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is the code, that is the way that we will

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be victorious. That is part of it. It's part of it.

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We have to yield our will to God, not just

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know his words. The Pharisees that didn't believe in Jesus.

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Not all of them were that way. Some of them

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did believe in Jesus. But the Pharisees that did not

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believe in Jesus in those days, the Sadducees that did

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not believe in Jesus, and all of these wise, so

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called wise people, those individuals knew the scriptures inside and out,

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backways and forward, backward and forward, and they still missed him.

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And so we yield our will to God. Because the

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devil is not impressed. You see, the devil took him

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to a holy You like holy stuff, You want to

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repeat scriptures, So he takes him to the holy city.

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You like holy stuff, you want to repeat scriptures, Jesus.

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And then he takes them to the pinnacle of the

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Holy Temple that God has put his presence there, Ha,

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And then he begins to quote holy writ holy scripture.

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He begins to quote from the same scrolls that Jesus

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was quoting. And so again the devil is not impressed

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by your Bible knowledge. He's not impressed by your physical

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presence in some place that is holy. He has to

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flee when we yield ourselves to God. And of course Jesus,

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Jesus demonstrating again he is in fact connected with God

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our Father in the fullest sense. Jesus said, unto him

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in verse seven, it is written, thou shalt not tempt

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the Lord thy God. And then the devil taketh him

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to an exceeding high mountain and showed him all of

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the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them.

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And Luke said, in the moment of time and seth

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unto him, all these things will I give thee. The

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devil can't give him this, but he said he could,

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if thou wilt fall down and worship me. And Jesus said,

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unto him, get thee. Hence Satan, For it is written

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thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only

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shalt thou serve. And the Bible says the devil had

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to flee. You see, this was the devil's intent from

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the time he was in heaven. He wanted worship, and

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Jesus showed him right there. Only God is worthy of worship. 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.