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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 Monday, November eighteen,

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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 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 with our

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caption the Authoritative Role of Scripture. The Authoritative Role of Scripture.

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

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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 and Heaven, thank

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you for giving us this new morning and giving us

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the opportunity to look into the past and see how

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you have led us since. Then help us Father to

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see ourselves in relationship with you, and indeed surrender our

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will in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and a man

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again the authoritative role of scripture. Now I want to

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caution us, just really quickly. I need to throw up

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a word of caution. The goal every time we open

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God's Word, especially when we are looking at historical things,

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is to connect with God. I need to say that

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one more time. The goal is to connect with God.

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The goal is not simply to understand what the words say.

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It's not simply to be able to maybe teach a

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class or give a clinic on what Jesus said. It

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is it is so that we can actually connect with

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God and be transformed. You'll note that often I keep

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talking about being transformed by God, transformed by God, transformed.

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The metamorphosis must take place, or else what we're doing

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doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense for us to

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just be more into actually stimulated here. And so when

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we go into the history of what Jesus is referencing

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in the Old Testament, we need to now put ourselves there.

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What is God saying to me? What was Jesus saying

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that will impact my life and then by extension the

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life of others through me, you see. And so now

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we go into the Bible Book of John chapter five,

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and it's very interesting. We're going to begin at verse

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thirty nine, so we'll do verses thirty nine, forty forty six,

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and forty seven. Okay, And so verse thirty nine search

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the scriptures, And in other translations it says you search

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the scriptures. So Jesus is speaking to a set of

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people who were supposedly leaders in the fellowship of God's people. Right,

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They're supposed to be the elite of the elite and

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the ones who are shepherding people through the scriptures so

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they can connect with God. Okay, And so he said

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you search the scriptures for in them, ye think ye

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have eternal life. And I need you to just pause

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right here and hear what Jesus is saying. Hear what

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he's not saying. What he's not saying is that by

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reading the scriptures you have eternal life. That's what he's

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not saying. And I know, like we are Bible students,

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we are Bible readers, we study God's word, we are

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people of the book. This movement is of people of

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the book, you understand. And so it says here that

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ye think ye have eternal life by what searching the scriptures? See,

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they wore it on their bodies, they wore it on

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their heads, they wore it in different ways and wanted

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people to know that they knew and understood the law.

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And Jesus is saying that is not the purpose of

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searching the scriptures. Well, what is the purpose, Jesus? Okay,

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let me start from the beginning. You search the script

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for in them, ye think ye have eternal life. Now

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let me add a different conjunction. But they are they

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which testify of me? You see. So now there's a contrast,

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it says, and and they are they which testify of me.

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So when you're searching the scriptures. You should be looking

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for Jesus. Jesus is the one that gives eternal life.

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Looking for a relationship with Jesus, looking for a way

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to surrender our will to Jesus, to emulate Jesus, to

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love and embrace Jesus, to see how Jesus points us

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to Ah God, our Father, how Jesus, through the power

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of the Holy Ghost, is transforming our lives. And so

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Jesus emphasizes the importance of the scriptures, pointing out that

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not only do they hold the keys to eternal life, yes,

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but they testify of Jesus. This underscores the validation of

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scriptures as authoritative because the scriptures are pointing to Him,

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authoritative and essential for understanding God's plan of salvation through Christ.

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So it's not just intellectual. It's not just that we

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feel better when we study the scriptures. It's not just

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that we have the right answers like we do when

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we're like doing Bible studies like these and more extensive ones.

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That's not enough. What we're looking for is a connection

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with God. They are they which testify of me, even

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historically verse forty and ye will not come to me.

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See this is how I know that we're on the

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right track. And ye will not come to me that

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ye may have life. So we're saying you have in

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your mind that if you go into the Bible or

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the scriptures, the scrolls, you will have eternal life by

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your actions there, your activity, your assent to the truth.

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But you won't come to me, so you can actually

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have life. Let me say it with another accent. And

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ye will not come to me that you may have life.

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You think by going to the written text that is

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where life is. I'm telling you that the written text

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is about me, and you should be coming to me

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for the life, for the life. And so here Jesus

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is criticizing the listeners for their unwillingness, unwillingness to come

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to him to receive eternal life. Let me ask you

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a question. When you see Jesus in the scriptures, are

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you are you coming closer to him when you see

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that he is teaching corrective things where where our lives

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are concerned. Are you running to him or running away

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from him? That's the question that I have to ask myself.

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Verse forty six, For had ye believed Moses see the scriptures?

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He's talking about the scriptures. The prophetic writ the scriptures,

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ye would have believed me, for he wrote about me.

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He wrote about me. So you say that you believe Moses.

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You say that you are students of the law. You

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say that you and embrace the law Torah. You say this,

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but if you really were about that life, then you

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would be embracing me. You wouldn't be trying to kill me.

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You wouldn't be running around trying to trick me in

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words and cause people to walk away from me. If

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you really believed in Moses, then you would believe in me. Now,

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let me ask you a question. If you really believe

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the New Covenant scriptures, Ah, the New Covenant Scriptures where

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he writes them, writes them, what the laws of God,

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the laws of God, the ten Commandments on our hearts

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and in our minds, Then you would espouse all of

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the ten Commandments. You wouldn't turn away from them if

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you believed Moses. If you believed those scriptures, you believed

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in the New Covenant. Let me just add it to today,

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then you would embrace the truth that Jesus has manifest

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concerning his law, love for God, love for humans, all ten,

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not five, not six, not three, not the ones you

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like all ten verse forty seven. But if ye believe

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not his writings, ye shall how shall ye believe my words?

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And so when Jesus is teaching, and he is teaching

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in so many places in Luke chapter eight, Luke chapter four,

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he is speaking of a prophecy in Isaiah chapter sixty one,

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where he delivers the captives and he gives he preaches

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the gospel to the poor, and he's sent to the

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broken hearted. You're not going to believe that from Isaiah

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chapter sixty one, because I'm right in front of you

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and you're disrespecting me. You won't believe that I'm the

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good shepherd, hearkening back to Ezekiel chapter thirty four and

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so many other places. What I'm saying is that the

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authoritative role of scripture is to say that this is

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the way.

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Speaker 1: Walk in it.

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Speaker 2: 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,