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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 Monday, October fourteen,

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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 the Word made flesh, the word

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mayd flesh. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you and

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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, thank you for giving us this day our

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daily bread. I pray God now that you will transform

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our lives. Help us to be transformative agents in this world,

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looking for people to help and to connect with you

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so they can be saved. In Jesus' name. I pray

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Amen and Amen again. The word became flesh. And I

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do admit, I admit that I preempted a lot of

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this discussion because it's so broad and wide and holy.

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But we're going to, you know, look at some things

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over and over again until we move on to the

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next spiritual subject. Here. One quote that I did not

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read yesterday because we really just ran out of time

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comes from the book The Desire of Ages, page nineteen,

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and it reads from the Days of Eternity, the word, oh,

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excuse me, from the days of Eternity, the Lord Jesus

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Christ was one with the Father. And I need you

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to get that I said it multiple times, multiple different ways.

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But we need to understand that Jesus pre existed the incarnation,

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or he pre existed the time that he came into

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humanity and lived on planet Earth for planet Earth for

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thirty three and a half years. Jesus came from eternity

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past Micah chapter five speaking of Messiah says as much

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I wish I had the time, but continuing the quote

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from the days of Eternity, the Lord Jesus Christ was

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one with the Father. He was the image of God,

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the image of his greatness and majesty, the outshining of

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his glory. So if you want and that's, by the way,

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the end of the quote. So if you want to

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know what God is like, then look to Jesus. When

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I say God, I'm talking about God the Father. If

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you want to know what God the Father is like,

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you look to Jesus. You want to know his character,

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look to Jesus. If you want to know his mindset,

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look to Jesus. If you want to understand anything about

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his compassion, look no further than to Jesus. His willingness

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to save and empower people, look to Jesus. I think

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we're starting to get the picture. The author and finisher

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of our faith. He is the fullness of the God

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had bodily. This is Jesus Christ, the one who created you,

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the one who also has made provisions so you can

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be saved, the one who gave his life as he

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lived on planet Earth, so you and I can both

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be saved. Okay, And so we read again from the

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Book of John. We're reading again the first three verses

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and then verse fourteen. In the beginning was the word

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Who was the word? Again? Go ahead and type it

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in the chat, because I want to make sure you're

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getting this. And the word was with God, God the Father,

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and the word was God. So Jesus is the word

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in the beginning, or from before there was a beginning,

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Jesus was there, and Jesus was with God the Father.

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And Jesus is equal to God the Father. The same

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was in the beginning with God. All things were made

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by him. See these things that you can see and

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not see, the planets, the elements. Jesus created that, all

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of the creatures that you've ever heard of or never

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heard of. Jesus created that the universe as we know it.

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Jesus created that all things were made by him, and

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without him was not anything made that was made Verse fourteen.

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And the Word was made flesh. Now this is some

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special miraculous stuff here. The same one who created everything,

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the same one that created you, he also now in

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a miraculous feat a movement of God, he took on

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human flesh for thirty three and one half years, and

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he dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the

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glory as of the only begotten of the Father. Don't

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be confused about that terminology begotten. That means one of

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a kind. That's simply what it means in this context. Jesus,

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this is one of a kind, as of the only

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begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. What

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a mighty God we serve. Why am I so excited

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about this? Because God could have stayed in heaven and

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just watched us live according to the way that we

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chose to live, and then whatever the outcome of the

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result was, well, that's what we paid. That's what we

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paid for. So we're going to get the wages of

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that which is eternal death. But God said Paul actually

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said that Jesus did not consider it robbery to be

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equal with God and then like, for instance, he didn't

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look at the fact that he's equal to God our

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Father and say, well, these humans did what we told

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him not to do. We empowered them to do the

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right thing, but they chose not to, so we're just

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going to leave them there to, you know, suffer their consequences.

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Is cause and effect. He didn't think the fact that

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he is equal to God our Father as something he

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should hold on to and just let us die. No,

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he took on the form of a servant. He took

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on human flesh for thirty three and a half years,

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glorified that flesh. After he overcame temptation and sin as

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he lived in the flesh, he glorified that and took

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that into heaven. So now he's our great high priest

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who was well acquainted with the feelings of all of

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our infirmities. Isn't it good that the same one who

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created us now has come down into our situation so

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he could save or recreate us. There is so much

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we need to say, but we just literally don't have

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the time. We will study this throughout the ceaseless ages

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of eternity, I promise you. And so one thing we're

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going to look at a few lessons in the Let's

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see a few minutes that we have left here, just

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about two or three minutes we have left here. Us

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created all things. That's less than number one. What a

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mighty God we serve. I have to say it over

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and over again, because somebody's gonna knock on your door

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one of these days and tell you that Jesus is

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less than equal to God, our father, and that would

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nullify the plan of salvation. Okay. And so God he

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made through Christ, he made himself accessible to us. He

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made himself accessible to us. He tabernacled with us. He

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dwelt among us so that we one day can dwell

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with him. He dwelt among us in our sin predigament,

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so that one day we can live eternally with Him,

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where there will be no more sin, sickness, death, disease, pain,

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or devil So one day we will experience the full

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manifestation of that. And why did he do that? Number

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three is because he loves us. Because he loved us.

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In First John, chapter four and verse nine, the Bible

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reads in this was manifested the love of God toward us,

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because that God sent his only begotten son into the

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world that we might live through him. This is why

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he did it, because he loves us. Because he loves us,

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The truth is personal number four, not abstract. All that

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I said about lugos and Hebrew terms and Greek terms

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and all of these words that can become confusing at times,

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really it's not in the abstract. It's not philosophical. This

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reality is because God loves us and wants to save us,

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and we can be saved beginning now. Make it a

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great day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Speaker 1: 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. Yeah,