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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 Sabbath, November sixteen,

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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 fulfilling Old Testament prophecies. Fulfilling Old

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Testament Prophecies. 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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ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community. Let us know

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where you are in the world. 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, we thank you

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for this new Sabbath morning and for the privilege you've

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entrusted to us to be together in this manner so

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early in the morning, at least where I am. Thank

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you for giving us your word. And I pray now

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that we will receive your Holy Spirit too, and then

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see what you would have us to do in Jesus name.

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, and so fulfilling

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Old Testament prophecies. Let me read beginning at John chapter

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five and verse thirty six. John chapter five and verse

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thirty six reads, But I have a greater witness than

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John's for the works which the Father has given me

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to finish. The very works that I do bear witness

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of me that the Father hath sent me. The Father

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hath sent me. Jesus is on planet Earth, the Bible

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teaches us, for God so loved the world that he

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gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him

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should not perish, but have everlasting life. So Jesus was

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given to us all of heaven in one gift by

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God the Father. And it was it was Paul who

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said in Galatians chapter four and verse four, when the

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fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son,

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made of a woman, made under the law, to fulfill

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the things that are under the law, that we shall

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be called the We shall be called the through the

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option of sons, you see. So through Christ, through Christ,

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we are now adopted into the family of God. We

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are now adopted into the family of God. And this

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was prophesied by so many in the Old Testament we

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now call the Old Testament, you see. And so it's

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no surprise that we can be saved through the Messiah's work.

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It is no surprise that there is forgiveness for those

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who keep covenant with him. It is no surprise that

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we are now the sons and daughters of God. But

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we're looking forward to a day that we will receive

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a name that is greater and better than of sons

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and the daughters. It is a name that will remain forever.

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Why because the prophets of the Old Testament they shared

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this before time, you see. And I'm thankful, I'm thankful,

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and so what we're going to do is look at

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some of these throughout the week. But let me just

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begin by giving a few tips, okay, a few guide

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lines for us. Number One, study the scriptures deeply. Study

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the scriptures deeply, because in the scriptures we find the

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testimony of Jesus Christ. Can I say it this way?

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From John chapter five and verse thirty nine, Jesus speaking

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to the so called people of God who chose to

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be his enemy. Search the scriptures. You do that, that's

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what you do. You search the scriptures because in them

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ye think, ye have eternal life. You think, but by

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your studying, you think, by what you can see in

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the scriptures. You think, by being able to master the

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words and memorize them, put them on your heads, around

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your wrists, wear them on your bodies. You feel like

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this is the way to have eternal life. But let

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me just give you a little tip here, a secret.

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They testify of me. So the scriptures, the prophecies. The

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scriptures and the prophecies all point to Jesus, and so

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we should study. And it is our privilege to study

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the scriptures deeply. But when we're studying the scriptures, we're

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looking for a connection with God through Christ. When we

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study the scriptures, we're looking for a connection with God

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through Christ. Thank God. Now we move to verse thirty

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six of the same chapter John chapter five, and the

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Bible reads, but I have greater witness than that of

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John for the works which the Father hath given me

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to finish. Finish. That means that the work started already. Okay,

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the same works that I do bear witness of me

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that the Father hath sent me. So Jesus pre existed

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the time that he lived on planet Earth. The prophecies

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foretold that Messiah, who is equal to God, our Father,

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who is eternal, that same one will take on human

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flesh in order to save us from our sins. This

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is a fulfillment of so many prophecies, but one would

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be in Micah chapter five and verse two, and in

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Daniel chapter nine. During the seventy weeks of years prophecy.

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So the one who was equal to the Father, he

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volunteered to come on planet Earth in human form, the

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theanthropic one, one hundred percent God, one hundred percent human,

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so that we can be saved. Great, the Bible says,

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is the mystery of godliness that God took on human

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form in the person of Jesus Christ, so that we

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could be saved. And I'm thankful. So we recognize and

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revere the actual works of Jesus Christ. We recognize and

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revere what God did in order to save us. And

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of course, of course, in John chapter one and verse ten,

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the Bible says he Jesus was in the world and

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the world was made by him. Did you get that

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Jesus actually created the world made by him and the

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world knew him not? Can you imagine the one who

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created them, the one who created us, the one who

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created all things animate and inanimate, visible and invisible. Jesus Christ,

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the Son of God and God the Son. He comes

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down to planet Earth and those he created him whom

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he created, many of them did not believe, did not believe.

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So we need the Holy Ghost to open to our

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hearts understanding. Spiritually speaking, we need spiritual understanding that only

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God can give, so that when we are seeing the

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prophecies all fulfilling, that we get what God intended for

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us to get and not make up creepy, scary stuff

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in order to try to frighten people into the kingdom,

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but to embrace and say, like some of the disciples

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like this is the Christ, this is the Messiah, of

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whom the prophets spoke. We found him, aren't you glad

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we found him in these last days of whom the

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prophets spoke. And of course one writer and inspiration, Missus White,

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she said, she said that we have no fear of

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the future, for the future, except that we forget how

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God has led us in the past. And so in

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that vein we read verse forty of John chapter five,

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and ye will not come to me that ye may

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have life. See, there was reluctance from some of the

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people so called people of God prior to this moment

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in time recorded in John chapter five, and based on

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those errors and huge spiritual mistakes, people are still making decisions.

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When when Saul was holding the garments when they were

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stoning Stephen, he believed based on based on what the

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people before him had said, that Jesus was not who

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he said he was. What the Bible is teaching us

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is that we need to learn from our past mistakes.

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You won't come to me because somebody before you didn't

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come to me. You won't come to me because you're

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choosing to doubt rather than to believe what the scriptures

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said about me. You will not come to me because

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you are repeating the errors of the past. And of

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course we have the privilege of embracing humility. And John

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chapter seven and verse seventeen. The Bible says, if anybody

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is willing to do God's will, then he will know

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of the doctrine the Bible teachings, whether they be of

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God or whether I speak Jesus speaking of myself. So

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I'm thankful that the prophecies of the Old Testament pointed

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to the ultimate Son of God.

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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,