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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 Tuesday, October

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twenty two, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host den 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 themes in the Gospel of John, and

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our caption for today is the Two Disciples of John.

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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. Especially, I want you to click

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We are trying to change the world and this is

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power of God in a special way. And also please

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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 and Heaven, thank you for this new day and

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for not disappointing us. You do not disappoint us when

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we are on the same page with you. Father, I

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pray that you will give us the fullness of your

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holy spirit, that you will teach us how to hear

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your voice. And then when people follow us, help us

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to lead them to you in Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Now, there are a good number

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of us who are normal everyday people, but I am

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not naive. I know that there are influencers and preachers

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and other business people who are watching every day, others

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who are responsible for the safety of the public where

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you are domiciled. Like I understand all of that, and

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this is why I'm asking you this question. When people

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follow you, where do you lead them? I said, when

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people follow you to where are you leading them? And

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when I say that, I mean in social media. Say

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you have whatever the social media accounts are, and people

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like follow and share, they like follow and share? What

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are they sharing? What are they following? What are they liking?

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And is the spirit of God on the content that

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you have in social media? It could be business content,

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It doesn't need to be, you know, overt witnessing style content.

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But when people are sharing your businesses that are hosted online,

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are they getting the same kind of ethical treatment that

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would make God happy? And when it comes to your

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personal content, to where are we leading them? When it

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comes to your other content that is maybe related to

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God's message, are we leading them to God or to us?

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Is it hey, come see me? Or is it come

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see a man that has transformed my life and he

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will transform your life too, you see. So Two Disciples

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of John is really just about that, because, as we

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have already highlighted, John had a particular mission, much like

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the people living in the Last days, God's people living

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in the Last days, to guide people into a right

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relationship in that day with Jesus, the Lamb of God,

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the one who was about to sacrifice himself. He was

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going to sacrifice himself, And you're like, sacrifice himself? Yes,

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he said he would lay down his life and then

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take it up again so that we could be saved. Right,

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He came to save his people from their sins, and

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so I am grateful that. In twenty twenty four it

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is the same case. So John the Baptist is doing this,

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and he has followers, people who are dedicated to the

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mission that John is dedicated to. And so when the

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opportunity arises and John starts to decrease, he begins to digress,

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to divest himself of himself and then direct people to

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the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, the Messiah that the

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world has been waiting for. What do the disciples do?

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Do they say no? The people who followed John, do

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they say no, we want to follow you in ste

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Did John make up his own Christian community? Okay, maybe

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there was no Christian community at all. Did he make

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up his own spiritual community where people would follow him

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instead of God through Christ. Let's go to John chapter one,

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verses thirty five to thirty nine, and it reads and

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again the next day, after John stood and two of

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his disciples, and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith,

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behold the Lamb of God. You see, I can anticipate

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and feel and sense the joy that was in John's

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heart his mission. His mission was now coming to a head.

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He finally got to do in a clear way, with

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full awareness and being able to see who Jesus is.

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He is able to now point at a man who

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is actually walking on planet Earth and say, yes, this

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is the moment we've all been waiting for. He's the

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one that will baptize you, not just with water, but

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baptize you with the Holy ghosts. He's the one that

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will actually do something special. Well, what is it that

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he will do? He will behold the Lamb of God.

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It doesn't say it in this passage. Who taketh away

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the sins of the world? Like who can forgive sins?

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But the Lamb of God? Like who can forgive sins?

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But God? Only? You see? And so John, with joy

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and anticipation, looking he seth behold the Lamb of God

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Verse thirty seven. And his two disciples heard him speak,

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and they followed, Jesus, did you hear that? The Bible

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says that the two disciples of John heard John speak,

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and they followed Jesus. They were poised and positioned for

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a metamorphosis, for a transformation. They had gone as far

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as they could go in their spiritual journey while following John.

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And John now is saying, I will lift up Jesus

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so that Jesus will draw all people unto himself. I

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will lift up Jesus so that he can actually transform

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their lives. I will lift up Jesus because he's the

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one who can save them. I can point and Jesus

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can save. I can direct people, can save can Jesus

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can save. Jesus can do what I cannot do. When

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you come here to your daily portion every single day

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and you've been doing it for years and years and years,

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hundreds of thousands of people online, who knows how many

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people on those two hundred radio stations are listening, and

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then on television and we're talking. If it doesn't direct

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people to Jesus, then we're wasting time. And it's worse

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than that, really. And so God is saying, when you're

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at work and people see you, are they interested based

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on your witness in following God? And I know people

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can make their own decisions. But do we give people

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the best opportunity possible when they see us to say,

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you know, whatever, whomever they serve, we want to serve

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as well well. The Bible continues, and the two disciples

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heard him speak, They follow Jesus verse thirty eight. Then

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Jesus turned and saw them following, and seth unto them?

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What seek ye? What do you want when you're following Jesus?

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What do you want? What is on your mind? What

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are you after? I want you to have a clear

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answer to that question. Is it salvation? Is it a

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right relationship with people that you've not been able to

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have a good relationship with because your character needs to

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be transformed? Ah? Is it something else? Be clear in

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your mind? And they set unto him Rabbi, which is

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being interpreted Master, where dwells now? He seth unto them?

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Come and see? They came and saw where he dwelt,

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and abode with him that day or it was about

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the tenth hour. What are you seeking? When you see

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Jesus follow him and dwell with him? And whatever you

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are asking and seeking and knocking, as long as you

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are yielding to him, actually following him, the door will

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be opened, and so they recognized his divine authority Verse

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thirty six, the lamb of God. We know that Jesus

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was no ordinary man. Yes, they recognize now the spiritual

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truth that is in his bosom, and therefore they followed him.

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His dude, John's two disciples followed Jesus because John followed Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Listening to friends, always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with El David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,