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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, October two,

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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, and our

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caption for today is hard Hearts, Hard Hearts. We'll get

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

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to say welcome to you and ask you to go

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

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in Heaven, thank you for this new day and for

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the privilege of getting us thus far into our week,

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and thank you for loving us beyond belief. Please give

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us a new heart in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. Hard hearts. Yeah, Sometimes God's people, and

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I'm speaking about God's people in particular, I'm not thinking

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about people who don't know God, who have not had

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the privilege of walking with God. I'm talking of about

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people who have covenanted or at least said that we

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are covenanting with God to live according to His will.

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Sometimes we have hard hearts. So I'm going to give

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you a partial understanding of the cure, because obviously we

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only have a few minutes today, but I'm going to

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share some things that will be helpful regarding a cure

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in just a little while. But let's go ahead and

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begin with the story from John chapter five, beginning at

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verse ten. John chapter five beginning at verse ten, and

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the Bible says, the people of God therefore said, unto

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him that was cured. It is the Sabbath day. Now

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we're talking about clearly the hard hearted people of God here. Aha,

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it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed,

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he answered them, He that made me whole, the same

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set unto me, take up thy bed and walk. I

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like his response, really, I love his response, because this

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is something that we need to carry into our lives. Right,

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whatever the one who makes us whole says, we should do,

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that's what we should do. Did you get what I

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just said there? Whatever Jesus, the one who makes us

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whole says to do, we should do that. You see

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the problem with a lot of people. Why a lot

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of people who are supposedly God's people are hard hearted

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is because, yeah, they have not accepted God's making them whole.

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I'm talking about for themselves. If you look at the

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people who would criticize someone who is being made whole,

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who may not live like a tidy life like they

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think they should like. As you learn, you grow, As

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you grow, you learn more. You see. But there are

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times that people have an intellectual understanding of some things

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in the Bible and take it to the extreme. And

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while people who are genuine hearted, genuine who have genuine

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hearts are learning, they get criticized. And so really one

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of the pathways to success in spiritual development is to

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be made whole, submit your will, submit my will to God,

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and actually be made made whole, made to be made

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whole before God. Okay, And so anyway, he says, the

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one who made me whole, the same said, unto me,

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take up thy bed and walk. Then they asked him,

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what man is this that said that to thee, take

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up thy bed and walk? And he that was healed

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with not who it was, for Jesus had conveyed himself

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away a multitude being in that place. Afterward, Jesus findeth

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him in the temple and said, unto him, behold, thou

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art made whole? Sin No more so, Jesus is activating

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him spirit, he's recreating him. He's making him a new creature.

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And the one who has the power, the authority, the

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compassion to make you a new creature, he is the

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one that gives you the commands. He's the one that

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gives you the command ments, the one that makes you whole,

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the one that sets you free. Is the same one

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that gives you the command mens to do his will. Oh,

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by the way, go and sin no more. That is

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the first command. Now, now that you're made whole, I

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am empowering you. I'm bidding you to go and sin

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no more. And now I am empowering you through what

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I have said. My words, my biddings are enabling go

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and sin no more. Oh, and by the way, less

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the worst thing come unto thee verse fifteen, the man

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departed and told the people of God that it was

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Jesus which had made him whole. And therefore did the

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people of God persecute Jesus. Wait a minute, it sounds

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weird when I keep saying the people of God. That's

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what we're talking about here. We're talking about the people

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that he came unto his own, and his own received him.

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Not we're talking about those same people that should have

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seen and had and should have discerned the prophecies and

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been waiting for the Messiah's appearance. But they were rejecting him,

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the people of God. They said, all right, we're gonna

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persecute Jesus, and sought to kill him, to slay him,

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because he had done these things. On the Sabbath. What

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did he do on the Sabbath? He healed a man,

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He set a man free, He set the man free,

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he made him whole, and then he empowered him to

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go and sin no more in whatever it was that

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caused him to be in this situation lest the worst

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thing happened to him. And the people of God wanted

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to slay Jesus for delivering a man from sin, from

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delivering a man from human socce fring Well for having

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mercy on him because he picked up his bed, He

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picked up his little mat on the Sabbath day and walked.

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He couldn't walk before he was delivered. Now why I

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don't understand, or maybe maybe as a human I actually do.

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We'll come back to that if we have a second

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here verse thirty eight. And ye have not his word

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abiding in you, Jesus is shooting straight now for whom

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he hath sent, whom ye believe, not search the scriptures,

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for in them ye think ye have eternal life. And

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there they which testify of me, And ye will not

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come to me that ye might have life. I receive

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not honor from men, but I know you that ye

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have not the love of God in you. The problem

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was the people of God that were criticizing him did

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not have the love of God in him in them.

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The people who were criticizing Jesus for healing the man

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who did not have enough compassion for themselves to seek

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God's face to heal the man. Those same ones did

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not receive the love of God, which is why their

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hearts were hard. So be honest, and I'm asking us

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all to be honest. Be honest. If you notice your

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tendency of being stubborn and hard hearted, then confess that

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to God. Cultivate number one humility. God is giving us

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all an opportunity. This is a point of critical mass.

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It's a point of transformation, of metamorphosis. God is giving

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us the opportunity now to be transformed number one by

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cultivating humility. Bible reads in James chapter four and verse six.

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But he giveth more grace, wherefore he seeth, God resisteth

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the proud, but giveth grace that is power, that is

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unmerited favor. He giveth grace to the humble. So humble

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yourself before God. If you recognize your heart is heart,

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you recognize that you're stubborn, then then now is the day.

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At this moment, Nuber two, engage in regular self examination.

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Examine yourselves, the Bible writer says, and Second Corinthians, chapter

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thirteen and verse five. Examine yourselves whether you be in

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the faith. Prove your own selves, know ye not know

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ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is

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in you, except ye be reprobates. So assess regularly what

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is your position with God? Are you in agreement with him?

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Are you holy before him? Or are you still hardhearted

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and running away? Make it a great day, peace. Thanks

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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,