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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 Thursday, November

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twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle

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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 from the Gospel of John or

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in the Gospel of John. Our caption for today is

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from Beneath, and I would like to put a question

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mark right there. It's not a question, but I'm gonna

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ask you a question in a second. From beneath Hmmm.

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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 please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily

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Portion book, and please please, I'm asking at least one

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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

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then we will get underway. Bother and Heaven. Thank you

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for giving us this new day and for loving us

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so much that you have given us your son so

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we can be saved. Please help us to live like

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people who appreciate you. For this. In Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. I'm going to ask you a

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question that maybe preachers don't ask. Teachers don't ask, but

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I'm going to ask you a question that I need

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to be asking and answering for myself. Are you from

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above or from beneath? Are you from above or from beneath?

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And what I mean is who is your father? Is

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your father Jesus Christ or God our Father? I wish

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I had the time to really deal with that one.

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Don't be afraid of answering that question, are you from God,

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our father? Or are you from beneath the enemy of God?

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And I think if we read the story today, and

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we will from John chapter eight, beginning at verse twelve,

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we all need to come face to face with the

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reality of that answer for ourselves. Am I from above?

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Or am I from beneath? Okay? And so beginning at

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verse twelve, the Bible reads, then Jesus spoke out again.

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I am the light of the world. This is what

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he says. The one who follows me will never be

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in darkness, but will have the light of life. And

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if we follow him and have the light of life,

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then it is an inkling like we can understand now

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that we are from above. I wish I had the time.

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Let's keep going. Let's keep going verse thirteen. So the

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Pharisees objected, Wait a minute, they're from beneath, these particular pharisees,

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not all Pharisees, but these objected. You testify about yourself,

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your testifymony is not true. Jesus answered, Even if I

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testify about myself, my testimony is true because I know

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where I am from, where I am going my where

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did I where I lost it. But you people do

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not know where I came from or where I am going. Remember,

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the Bible says he came to his own, and his

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own him not his own received him, not but to

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as many as received him. To them gave he power

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to be from above or to become his children. That's

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what it says verse fifteen. You people judge by outward appearances.

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I do not judge anyone. But if I do judge,

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my evaluation is accurate because I am not alone when

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I judge. But I and the father who sent me

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do so together. It is written in your law that

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the testimony of two men is true. I testify about myself,

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and the father who sent me he testifies about me.

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Then they began asking him, where's your father. See, they're

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trying to be funny in a in a devious and

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evil way, because they're like, okay, so you say, they

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say that your mother, your mother Mary was a virgin. Yeah,

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or Joseph is really not the father and it's you know,

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And so they are trying to scandalize the birth of

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Jesus by simply asking him. But it's not so simple,

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who or where is your father? Jesus answered, you don't

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know either me or my father. If you knew me,

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you would know my father. Also, Jesus spoke these words

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near the offering box while he was teaching in the

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temple courts. No one seized him because his time was

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not yet come. Then Jesus said, unto them again, I

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am going away, and you will look for me, but

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will die in your sin. Where I am going, you

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cannot come. So some of the so called leaders of

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God's people began to say, perhaps he's going to kill himself,

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because he says, where I am going, you cannot come.

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He said to them, you people are from beneath. I

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am from above. You people are from this world. I

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am not from this world. Thus I told you that

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you will die in your sins, for unless you believe

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that I am He. That is the fulfillment of all

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the prophecies we were talking about for the last two days. Jesus,

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the Savior of the world, the anointed one that Daniel

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saw in that seventy Weeks prophecy in Daniel chapter nine,

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he says, unless you believe that I am He, then

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you're going to die in your sins verse twenty five.

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So they said, unto him, who are you, Jesus replied,

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what I have told you from the beginning. I have

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many things to speak and to judge about you. But

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the one who sent me is truthful, and what I

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have heard from him I tell the world. They did

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not understand that he was telling them about his father.

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So Jesus said, when you lift up the son of Man,

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then you will know that I am he talking about

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crucifying him. And I do nothing of my own initiative.

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But I speak just what the Father taught me. And

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the one who sent me is with me. He has

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not left me alone because I always do the things

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that please him Verse thirty and final. While he was

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saying these things, many people believed in him. You see,

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Jesus did not waste any time. He cut straight through

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to the reality that these people that were supposedly the

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leaders of God's people. I'm talking about the ones that

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were right in front of him, they were from beneath

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They did not believe in God. They said they did.

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They said that Abraham was their father. They said that

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they believed in them in what Moses taught. But they

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were rejecting what the prophets, whom the prophets had prophesied

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had come from God to save us from our sins.

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But thankfully, after all of this exchange, there were some

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people who believed in him. And so we want to

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learn a few lessons from this exchange. Number one, seek

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divine wisdom. Seek divine wisdom. See wisdom is from above

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and it's first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to

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be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality

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and without hypocrisy. That is from James chapter three and

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verse seventeen. When you're having difficulties either understanding or accepting

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something that God has revealed in his word, ah, well,

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we need to ask for wisdom, don't reject it. This

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is what the soul called leaders of God's People did.

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They chose to reject Jesus because they didn't agree with

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what they were seeing, They didn't understand fully what they

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were experiencing, and they had their own prejudices. Seek divine wisdom. Also,

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we need to live, and we have the privilege of

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living by God's Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit is

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in our lives and he begins to teach us all

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truth about God, teach us all truth about ourselves. The

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Holy oulme when we accept This is for us to

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humble ourselves before God. And when we humble ourselves before God,

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he transforms our lives lives and gives us the fruit

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of the Holy Spirit, which is love, and then all

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of the tentacles or the outgrowth of that same love.

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And then finally we have the privilege to set our

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minds on the things from above. Set your affection. The

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Bible says on things above, not on the things of

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this earth, and that is from Colossians chapter three and

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verse two. The more we set our minds toward God

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and godly things, the more receptive we are to His will,

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and we will be transformed. We can be the children

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of God from above. Peace.

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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,