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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 Sabbath, November

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

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David Harris. I am your host, and 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. This

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is Lesson number nine and our caption for today is

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the Source of Life. The Source of Life. We'll get

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into that in just a moment, but first I like

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to say welcome to you and ask you to please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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our online community and let us know where you are

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in the world. At your Daily portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then

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we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for

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giving us this new opportunity to connect with you. Thank

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you for the Sabbath hours and for being our life Father.

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Please help us to always remain connected to you. In

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Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. Okay, So,

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really and truly, what do you believe is the source

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of your life? And I know that that should be

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an easy answer because many of you say that you

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know and love God, so you would say, well, God

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is the source of my life. And if that's the case,

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even for the people who are not yet connected to God.

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And I'm hoping that today is your day, I'm hoping

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that this program will be an impetus for you to

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begin walking with God like become his friend. Right. But

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if that's the case, how do we live? If we

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know intellectually that Jesus is our life, If we know

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intellectually that He is our source, how do we live?

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How do we interact with those around us? How do

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we interact in our business dealings, in our personal relationships?

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How do we interact with the way that we see ourselves?

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You see, if the source of our life is God

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through Christ, how do we live now? The Bible reads

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here in John chapter fourteen and verse six. I am

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the Way. This is Jesus speaking the truth and the life.

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No one comes to the Father except through me. You see,

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when I was a young new believer, I was about

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twenty three years of age and I had just gotten baptized.

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Pastor Henry Wright baptized me in Alexandria, Virginia. It was

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an incredible experience. I also had the privilege of learning

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under John Nixon, Pastor John Nixon and we're talking about

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senior at the Capitol Hill Church in Washington, d C.

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So I had these two men of God teaching, teaching

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me among other people, teaching me the way, the truth,

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and the life. I remember one time Pastor Nixon was

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teaching and he said, there are so many of you

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who say I have the truth. I have the truth.

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And of course he's speaking to people twenty two million

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people around the world who say that we have present truth.

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Give or take a few people, right, And he said, well,

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what is the truth? What is the truth? And of

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course we start sometimes thinking of the truth in terms

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of true words. And he showed us in the Scriptures

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where Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth, and

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the life. No one comes to the Father but by me,

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pastor will Smith, he taught us the same thing in Alexandria.

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And the truth is that Jesus Christ is the Truth.

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God's word is truth, and his commandments are truth. These

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are what the Bible teaches us as truth. Jesus is

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the truth, his word is truth, and the Holy ten

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commandments are truth. Okay. So if that is the case,

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and Jesus himself being the truth, told us the truth

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that He's the source of our life, then how must

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we live? What is it our privilege to do as

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people who believe the truth that God is the source

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of our life? Okay? And so I'm going to give

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a few concepts here. The first is in Acts chapter

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four and verse twelve, and the Bible reads, neither is

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their salvation in any other for there is none other

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name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.

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And so we understand from John chapter one and Hebrews

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chapter one in other places that Jesus Christ created us right,

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He created us. He is our creator. That means he's

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the source of our lives. That is, when Adam and

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Eve were created, the one who breathed into their nostrils

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the breath of life is Jesus Christ himself. So we

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got that. But in twenty twenty four, how do we

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see that? We also see the fact that the reason

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why we can still breathe, the reason why our heart

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is still beating, the reason why our brains are still functional,

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is because we take our lives from Jesus. He is

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giving us our life. He said, I am the resurrection

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and the life. That is clear. But then comes this

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matter of salvation. You see, there are people who are

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breathing right now, people you know, and God forbid it

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may be you. But if it is you, you're in the

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right place. For these few moments. There are people who

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are breathing and borrowing breath from God, not understanding or

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not yet accepting that salvation comes from Christ. That is,

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we have all sinned and comes short of the glory

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of God. And God has given us the antidote. The

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antidote is to submit ourselves to Him through Christ. And

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to receive Christ into our lives is to be quote saved.

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There is no salvation except through Christ. There is no

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name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be

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save except through Jesus Christ. I'm a Christian. That's why

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I'm called a Christian, because I believe that salvation comes

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from the same source that my breath comes from salvation,

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and my breath comes from Jesus Christ. Do you see

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where we're going with this? And then if that's the case,

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that means that we embrace Jesus as the only way

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to God, our Father. He is the pathway. He is

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the pathway. Not all roads lead to God. We may

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learn some things about God through all kinds of different means,

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but the pathway, Jesus is the way, and he's telling

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the truth. Now we tie this together now from John

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chapter one and verse seventeen, where the Bible says, for

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the law was given by Moses. But grace and truth

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there's that word again, came by Jesus Christ. So that

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means we live by it truth, power of God to

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do his will, unmerited favor. That's grace, unmerited favor, power

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to do God's will. The truth about this is that

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it came through Jesus Christ. In John chapter ten and

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verse ten. The Bible reads, I am come that they

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may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

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So we have the breath that we breed. We are

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able to hear, see, speak, and other things. We have

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our five senses. And I understand that there are anomalies,

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and people are missing some of those. But the fact is,

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if we were alive, we are only alive because of

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God through Christ. And he is saying that I can

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give you more than that. I can give you more

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than that, more than just the ability to breathe, more

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than just the ability to think, more than just the

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ability to get wealth, more than just the ability to

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have relationships with people we love and who love us.

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More than just the ability to eat and to drink

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and to be merry in a good way. I'm saying,

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we have the privilege of having life more abundantly, the

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kind of life that knows that we are connected to God.

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And one day we will begin to live in eternity

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with God, where there will be no more sickness, no

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more death, no more crying, pain or any such thing.

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And we're looking forward to the day. So the fact

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is we seek God through Christ and everything that he offers,

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and of course we reflect on our love relationships. We

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rely on him in prayer, and we share about him.

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We witness to others about him. The source of our

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life is Jesus, and so is our salvation.

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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,